[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#650551: Bug#650551: virt-manager: cannot connect to any hypervisor (kernel variant 486) - PyError: self.hostinfo = self.vmm.getInfo()

[Guido Günther]

Hi Marcus,
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 09:05:30PM +0100, Marcus Osdoba wrote:
> Am 30.11.2011 20:49, schrieb Guido Günther:
> >>Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 440, in _tick
> >>     conn.tick()
> >>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1410, in tick
> >>     self.hostinfo = self.vmm.getInfo()
> >>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 2824, in getInfo
> >>     if ret is None: raise libvirtError ('virNodeGetInfo() failed', conn=self)
> >>libvirtError: An error occurred, but the cause is unknown
> >Please check why libvirt is failing here. Using "virsh nodeinfo" and
> >running libvirt in debug mode should provide some useful output.
> Hi, sorry for the late answer.
> Please find attached my protocol of libvirtd with log_level=1.
> 
> When running:
> 
> root at debian:/home/test# virsh nodeinfo
> error: failed to get node information
> error: An error occurred, but the cause is unknown
> 
> the output attached was created.
> 
> One need to know, that I tried to use the 486 variant (which is the
> only option for non-PAE systems beyond squeeze).
You mean you're running the 486 kernel flavour? If so I'll try to
reproduce this once I have more than GPRS to download the kernel.
Cheers,
 -- Guido