[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#491660: Bug#491660: virt-manager: fails to connect to DOM0 (libvirtError in openAuth)

[Marco Sinhoreli]

Hello Teodor,

Did you set the 'xend-unix-server' variable to 'yes' in
/etc/xen/xend-config.sxp config file? It is necessary to libvirt
connect to xen.

Cheers,

-- 
Marco Sinhoreli

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Teodor <mteodor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: virt-manager
> Version: 0.5.4-2
> Severity: important
>
> The status at starup is always "Disconnected" (for localhost). When
> trying to connect I'm getting this error message:
> ----
> Unable to open connection to hypervisor URI 'xen:///':
> <class 'libvirt.libvirtError'> virConnectOpenAuth() failed
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 427, in
> _open_thread
>    None], flags)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 94, in
> openAuth
>    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
> libvirtError: virConnectOpenAuth() failed
> ----
>
> Even after manually installing and enabling libvirt-bin I get the same
> result.
>
> Note that with `convirt' the status at startup is "Running". As DOM0 I'm
> running the linux-xen flavour from etch (all the tools are from lenny/sid).
>
> Thanks
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>  APT prefers unstable
>  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-xen-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages virt-manager depends on:
> ii  libatk1.0-0                  1.22.0-1    The ATK accessibility toolkit
> ii  libc6                        2.7-12      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libcairo2                    1.6.4-6     The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
> ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.16.4-2    The GLib library of C routines
> ii  libgtk2.0-0                  2.12.11-2   The GTK+ graphical user interface
> ii  libpango1.0-0                1.20.5-1    Layout and rendering of internatio
> ii  librsvg2-common              2.22.2-2    SAX-based renderer library for SVG
> ii  python-dbus                  0.82.4-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
> ii  python-glade2                2.12.1-6    GTK+ bindings: Glade support
> ii  python-gnome2                2.22.0-1    Python bindings for the GNOME desk
> ii  python-gtk-vnc               0.3.6-2     A VNC viewer widget for GTK+ (Pyth
> ii  python-gtk2                  2.12.1-6    Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
> ii  python-libvirt               0.4.2-6     libvirt Python bindings
> ii  python-urlgrabber            3.1.0-4     A high-level cross-protocol url-gr
> ii  python-vte                   1:0.16.14-1 Python bindings for the VTE widget
> ii  python2.5                    2.5.2-8     An interactive high-level object-o
> ii  virtinst                     0.300.3-4   Programs to create and clone virtu
>
> Versions of packages virt-manager recommends:
> ii  hal                           0.5.11-2   Hardware Abstraction Layer
>
> Versions of packages virt-manager suggests:
> ii  virt-viewer                   0.0.3-2    Displaying the graphical console o
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
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