[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#578209: virtinst-0.400.0-7 can't complete a network paravirt install via virt-manager

[IAN DELANEY]

Package: virtinst
Version: 0.400.0-7
Severity: important


Boot into xen environment, invoke virt-manager, select new to invoke the installation wizzards, select a system on the internet, e.g. fedora 10, complete info input, return to begin the install.
.... Verifying install location,
pulls up with error

Unable to complete install: '[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/xen/virtinst-.treeinfo.KNfQ''

Details:

'exceptions.OSError'> [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/xen/virtinst-.treeinfo.KNfQDS'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 728, in do_install
   dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter)
   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/virtinst/Guest.py", line 733, in start_install
   self._prepare_install(meter)
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/virtinst/ParaVirtGuest.py", line 48, in _prepare_install
  self._installer.prepare(guest = self, meter = meter)
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/virtinst/DistroManager.py", line 269, in prepare
  self._prepare_kernel_and_initrd(guest, distro, meter)
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/virtinst/DistroManager.py", line 235, in _prepare_kernel_and_initrd
  arch=arch)
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/virtinst/DistroManager.py", line 109, in acquireKernel
  scratchdir=scratchdir, arch=arch)
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/virtinst/DistroManager.py", line 90, in _storeForDistro
  if store.isValidStore(fetcher, progresscb):
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/virtinst/OSDistro.py", line 200, in isValidStore
  if self._hasTreeinfo(fetcher, progresscb):
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/virtinst/OSDistro.py", line 66, in _hasTreeinfo
  tmptreeinfo = fetcher.acquireFile(".treeinfo", progresscb)
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/virtinst/ImageFetcher.py", line 100, in acquireFile
  tmpname = self.saveTemp(file, prefix=base + ".")
 File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/virtinst/ImageFetcher.py", line 45, in saveTemp
  (fd, fn) = tempfile.mkstemp(prefix="virtinst-" + prefix, dir=self.scratchdir)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/tempfile.py", line 302, in mkstemp
  return _mkstemp_inner(dir, prefix, suffix, flags)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/tempfile.py", line 236, in _mkstemp_inner
  fd = _os.open(file, flags, 0600)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/xen/virtinst-.treeinfo._9njzJ''

That is it. 

virt-manager appears not to have made a log for this action, I suppose it didn't get fat enough.

re /var/lib/xen/virtinst-.treeinfo._9njz ;
we have 

livexen at xenalive:~$  ls /var/lib/xen/
 dump  images  qemu-save.1  save

no such file in var/lib/xen.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-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 virtinst depends on:
ii  python                     2.5.2-3       An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-libvirt             0.4.6-10      libvirt Python bindings
ii  python-libxml2             2.6.32.dfsg-5 Python bindings for the GNOME XML 
ii  python-support             0.8.4         automated rebuilding support for P
ii  python-urlgrabber          3.1.0-4       A high-level cross-protocol url-gr

Versions of packages virtinst recommends:
pn  qemu                          <none>     (no description available)
ii  virt-viewer                   0.0.3-2    Displaying the graphical console o

virtinst suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information