[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#580439: virt-manager: Unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon.

[Gary Dale]

Package: virt-manager
Version: 0.8.4-2
Severity: grave
Tags: squeeze
Justification: renders package unusable

I recently reinstalled Debian/Squeeze from scratch (kept my /home 
partition though). After reinstalling virt-manager, I found that I was 
no longer able to connect to my virtual machine (a Windows XP raw 
virtual disk). When I try to connect to qemu, I get the above error 
which I was not getting before the new Squeeze install. I can't find any 
fix for it via Google (just lots of people experiencing the problem) and 
I'm a bit of newbie at virtualization. Qemu-kvm is able to directly 
launch my virtual machine and it runs fine, but after using virt-manager 
to manage the sessions, I find it preferrable (better mouse handling, 
doesn't kill the KDE screensaver, etc.).

The libvirt daemon is running.


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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virt-manager depends on:
ii  librsvg2-common               2.26.2-1   SAX-based renderer library 
for SVG
ii  python                        2.5.4-9    An interactive high-level 
object-o
ii  python-dbus                   0.83.1-1   simple interprocess 
messaging syst
ii  python-glade2                 2.17.0-2   GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gnome2                 2.28.1-1   Python bindings for the 
GNOME desk
ii  python-gtk-vnc                0.3.10-6   A VNC viewer widget for 
GTK+ (Pyth
ii  python-gtk2                   2.17.0-2   Python bindings for the 
GTK+ widge
ii  python-libvirt                0.8.0-2    libvirt Python bindings
ii  python-support                1.0.8      automated rebuilding 
support for P
ii  python-urlgrabber             3.1.0-5    A high-level cross-protocol 
url-gr
ii  python-vte                    1:0.24.0-3 Python bindings for the VTE 
widget
ii  virtinst                      0.500.3-1  Programs to create and 
clone virtu

Versions of packages virt-manager recommends:
ii  libvirt-bin                   0.8.0-2    the programs for the 
libvirt libra

Versions of packages virt-manager suggests:
ii  virt-viewer                   0.2.1-1    Displaying the graphical 
console o

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