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Description of problem: I normally use wireless (via wlan0) and rarely use wired (via eth0). I had a working Fedora 14 VM. When my wired B44 driver started causing panics in the latest kernel I blacklisted the driver because I didn't need it while waiting for the bug to be fixed. I can start virt-manager, but now when I attempt to run the vm python starts looping at 100% virt-manager should be more robust in this case. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virt-manager-0.8.6-2.fc15 Additional info: [Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:18:30 virt-manager 29700] ERROR (connection:1297) Couldn't fetch inactive interface 'eth0' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1294, in _update_interfaces check_obj(name, False) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1266, in check_obj current[key] = vmmInterface(self, obj, key, is_active) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/interface.py", line 44, in __init__ self.refresh_xml() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/libvirtobject.py", line 110, in refresh_xml self._xml = self._XMLDesc(self._active_xml_flags) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/interface.py", line 48, in _XMLDesc return self.interface.XMLDesc(flags) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1036, in XMLDesc if ret is None: raise libvirtError ('virInterfaceGetXMLDesc() failed', net=self) libvirtError: internal error could not get interface XML description (netcf: NETLINK socket operation failed - couldn't find ifindex for interface `eth0`) [Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:18:31 virt-manager 29700] ERROR (connection:1297) Couldn't fetch inactive interface 'eth0' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1294, in _update_interfaces check_obj(name, False) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1266, in check_obj current[key] = vmmInterface(self, obj, key, is_active) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/interface.py", line 44, in __init__ self.refresh_xml() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/libvirtobject.py", line 110, in refresh_xml self._xml = self._XMLDesc(self._active_xml_flags) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/interface.py", line 48, in _XMLDesc return self.interface.XMLDesc(flags) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1036, in XMLDesc if ret is None: raise libvirtError ('virInterfaceGetXMLDesc() failed', net=self) libvirtError: internal error could not get interface XML description (netcf: NETLINK socket operation failed - couldn't find ifindex for interface `eth0`) [Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:18:32 virt-manager 29700] ERROR (connection:1297) Couldn't fetch inactive interface 'eth0' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1294, in _update_interfaces check_obj(name, False) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1266, in check_obj current[key] = vmmInterface(self, obj, key, is_active) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/interface.py", line 44, in __init__ self.refresh_xml() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/libvirtobject.py", line 110, in refresh_xml self._xml = self._XMLDesc(self._active_xml_flags) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/interface.py", line 48, in _XMLDesc return self.interface.XMLDesc(flags) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1036, in XMLDesc if ret is None: raise libvirtError ('virInterfaceGetXMLDesc() failed', net=self) libvirtError: internal error could not get interface XML description (netcf: NETLINK socket operation failed - couldn't find ifindex for interface `eth0`)
This isn't actually causing an endless loop, the error just keeps popping up in virt-manager's polling loop. The root cause here is: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698108 But we shouldn't flood logs in the interim.
Rawhide shouldn't flood the logs in this case anymore.