[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#506120: Bug#506120: virtinst: fails with "libvirtError: virConnectListDefinedDomains() failed"

[Guido Günther]

severity 506120 normal
thanks

Hi,
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 09:03:32AM -0500, existentialhero7 wrote:
> Package: virtinst
> Version: 0.300.3-6
> Severity: important
Please try the versions from experimental. The version in unstable has
plenty of bugs.

> When I run virt-install to build a KVM image using either command-line
> options or the dialog interface, it fails when attempting to load the
> block device, which in this case is a cryptsetup partition sitting on LVM:
The type of device shouldn't matter here. Does it work with a simple
sparse file?

> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:20:53 ERROR    virConnectListDefinedDomains() failed
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 497, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 407, in main
>     guest, hvm, conn)
>   File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 114, in get_disks
>     get_disk(disk, size, sparse, guest, hvm, conn)
>   File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 82, in get_disk
>     if d.is_conflict_disk(conn) is True:
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/virtinst/Guest.py", line
> 204, in is_conflict_disk
>     names = conn.listDefinedDomains()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1109, in
> listDefinedDomains
>     if ret is None: raise libvirtError
> ('virConnectListDefinedDomains() failed', conn=self)
> libvirtError: virConnectListDefinedDomains() failed
Please attach the command you run and please run the command with -d and
attach the full output.
Cheers,
 -- Guido