Description of problem: After the latest updates I can no longer run virt-manager as non-root user on the local system: Dialog text: Unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon. Libvirt URI is: qemu:///system Verify that: - The 'libvirtd' daemon has been started Details: authentication failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 983, in _try_open None], flags) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 111, in openAuth if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed') libvirtError: authentication failed /var/log/messages: Jan 19 09:55:08 XXXXXX libvirtd: 09:55:08.410: error : remoteDispatchAuthPolkit:3843 : Policy kit denied action org.libvirt.unix.manage from pid 5966, uid YYYYY, result: 512 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libvirt-0.8.3-2.fc14.x86_64 polkit-0.98-4.fc14.x86_64 polkit-desktop-policy-0.98-4.fc14.noarch polkit-gnome-0.97-4.fc14.x86_64 polkit-kde-0.95.1-6.fc14.x86_64 polkit-qt-0.96.1-4.fc14.x86_64 selinux-policy-3.9.7-19.fc14.noarch selinux-policy-targeted-3.9.7-19.fc14.noarch virt-manager-0.8.5-1.fc14.noarch How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start virt-manager as non-root Actual results: Error Dialog Expected results: virt-manager asks for root password and then connects to qemu:///system Additional info: - virt-manager works OK for root - not SELinux-related, i.e. after a "setenforce 0" the problems still occurs
Another update and reboot this morning: it started to work again. I.e. virt-manager asks for the root password before connecting to qemu:///system. libvirt-0.8.3-2.fc14.x86_64 polkit-0.98-4.fc14.x86_64 polkit-desktop-policy-0.98-4.fc14.noarch polkit-gnome-0.97-4.fc14.x86_64 polkit-kde-0.95.1-6.fc14.x86_64 polkit-qt-0.96.1-4.fc14.x86_64 selinux-policy-3.9.7-20.fc14.noarch selinux-policy-targeted-3.9.7-20.fc14.noarch From the list only the SELinux policy was updated, but that wasn't preventing virt-manager to work in the first place??? I'm marking this down as a fluke. Closing.