[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#574241: Bug#574241: virtinst: internal error Process exited while reading console log output

[Guido Günther]

reassign 574241 libvirt-bin
found 574241 0.7.7-1
tags 574241 +pending
Thanks,

Hi Cole,
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:20:39AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 03/16/2010 07:27 PM, Anders Boström wrote:
> > Package: virtinst
> > Version: 0.500.2-1
> > Severity: grave
> > 
> > When running virt-install, it always fails with this error message:
> > 
> 
> > Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:03:06 ERROR    internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/5
> > qemu: could not load kernel '/var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-linux.tZUMIz': Permission denied
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 972, in <module>
> >     main()
> >   File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 834, in main
> >     start_time, guest.start_install)
> >   File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 896, in do_install
> >     dom = install_func(conscb, progresscb, wait=(not wait))
> >   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/virtinst/Guest.py", line 795, in start_install
> >     return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait)
> >   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/virtinst/Guest.py", line 896, in _do_install
> >     self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1147, in createLinux
> >     if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self)
> > libvirtError: internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/5
> > qemu: could not load kernel '/var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-linux.tZUMIz': Permission denied
> > 
> 
> This is an issue with root URL installs and running the qemu binary as
> non-root (which is probably the libvirt package default). Fixed in
> upstream libvirt but not released yet:
> 
> http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=3f1aa08af6580c215d973bc6bf57f505dbf8b926
Thanks a lot for the pointer. Will fix this with the next upload!
 -- Guido