Bug 720017 - virt-manager failed when opened
Summary: virt-manager failed when opened
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: virt-manager
Version: 15
Hardware: i686
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Cole Robinson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-07-08 17:48 UTC by Jason Ma
Modified: 2011-07-11 16:20 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-07-11 16:20:37 UTC
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Description Jason Ma 2011-07-08 17:48:15 UTC
Description of problem:
When I opened the virtual machine manager, it raised a error: Virtual machine manager connection failure. The error message details as below:

unable to connect to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock', libvirtd may need to be started: No such file or directory

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1055, in _try_open
    None], flags)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 107, in openAuth
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
libvirtError: unable to connect to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock', libvirtd may need to be started: No such file or directory

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virtual machine manager 0.87

How reproducible:
Opened again

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open the virt-manger.
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
Can't use the whole function of the software.

Expected results:

no error.
Additional info:

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2011-07-11 16:20:37 UTC
It says in the error message that you need to start libvirtd. That should fix your problem. If it isn't installed, yum install libvirt.


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