[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#567818: libvirt-bin: Cannot use console with virsh (vshRunConsole:77 : unable to open tty ...)

[Vincent Danjean]

Package: libvirt-bin
Version: 0.7.5-5
Severity: important
Tags: patch

  Hi,

  Trying libvirt-bin 0.7.5-5, I discovered that I cannot use the console
anymore with virsh:
aya:/home/vdanjean# virsh console ran
Connected to domain ran
Escape character is ^]
16:26:58.714: error : vshRunConsole:77 : unable to open tty /dev/pts/1 : Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type


aya:/home/vdanjean# 

  Looking in google, I found this:
http://www.mail-archive.com/libvir-list@redhat.com/msg20230.html
  And indeed:
aya:/home/vdanjean# virsh dumpxml ran | grep console -A 1 | hexdump -C
00000000  20 20 20 20 3c 63 6f 6e  73 6f 6c 65 20 74 79 70  |    <console typ|
00000010  65 3d 27 70 74 79 27 20  74 74 79 3d 27 2f 64 65  |e='pty' tty='/de|
00000020  76 2f 70 74 73 2f 31 0d  27 3e 0a 20 20 20 20 20  |v/pts/1.'>.     |
00000030  20 3c 73 6f 75 72 63 65  20 70 61 74 68 3d 27 2f  | <source path='/|
00000040  64 65 76 2f 70 74 73 2f  31 0d 27 2f 3e 0a 2d 2d  |dev/pts/1.'/>.--|
00000050  0a 20 20 20 20 3c 2f 63  6f 6e 73 6f 6c 65 3e 0a  |.    </console>.|
00000060  20 20 3c 2f 64 65 76 69  63 65 73 3e 0a           |  </devices>.|
0000006d
  Please, backport quickly the patch from upstream cited in the link above
(note: I did not check myself that it fixes the bug in my case but it
really seems to be the same bug)

   Regards,
    Vincent



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on:
ii  adduser           3.112                  add and remove users and groups
ii  hal               0.5.14-1               Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  libavahi-client3  0.6.25-2               Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3  0.6.25-2               Avahi common library
ii  libc6             2.10.2-5               Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcap-ng0        0.6.2-4                An alternate posix capabilities li
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.2.16-2               simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdevmapper1.02. 2:1.02.39-1            The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libgcrypt11       1.4.5-1                LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgnutls26       2.8.5-2                the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libhal1           0.5.14-1               Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libparted1.8-12   1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-5 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libpciaccess0     0.10.9-1               Generic PCI access library for X
ii  libreadline6      6.1-1                  GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsasl2-2        2.1.23.dfsg1-3         Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libudev0          150-2                  libudev shared library
ii  libuuid1          2.16.2-0               Universally Unique ID library
ii  libvirt0          0.7.5-5                library for interfacing with diffe
ii  libxenstore3.0    3.4.2-2                Xenstore communications library fo
ii  libxml2           2.7.6.dfsg-1           GNOME XML library
ii  logrotate         3.7.8-4                Log rotation utility

Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends:
ii  bridge-utils                  1.4-5      Utilities for configuring the Linu
ii  dnsmasq-base                  2.51-1     A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  iptables                      1.4.6-2    administration tools for packet fi
ii  netcat-openbsd                1.89-3     TCP/IP swiss army knife
ii  qemu                          0.11.1-2   fast processor emulator

Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
ii  policykit-1                   0.95-1     framework for managing administrat

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