[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#614291: Unable to establish qemu+ssh connection

[Michael Biebl]

Package: virt-manager
Version: 0.8.6-2
Severity: important

Hi,

I have successfully used virt-manager to conntect a libvirt managed KVM
server via SSH in the past.

I'm not sure anymore which upgrade caused the failure, but for the
previously working qemu+ssh://root@host connection I now get the
following error message:

Unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon.

Libvirt URI is: qemu+ssh://root@foo/system

Verify that:
 - The 'libvirtd' daemon has been started

server closed connection: nc: invalid option -- 'U'
nc -h for help


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1022, in _try_open
    None], flags)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 107, in openAuth
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
libvirtError: server closed connection: nc: invalid option -- 'U'
nc -h for help



The client system is Debian unstable, the KVM server runs an up-to-date
Debian squeeze.

Michael

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virt-manager depends on:
ii  gconf2                  2.28.1-6         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  librsvg2-common         2.26.3-1         SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  python                  2.6.6-3+squeeze5 interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-dbus             0.83.1-1         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  python-glade2           2.17.0-4         GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gnome2           2.28.1-1         Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gtk-vnc          0.4.1-4          A VNC viewer widget for GTK+ (Pyth
ii  python-gtk2             2.17.0-4         Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-ipy              1:0.72-1         Python module for handling IPv4 an
ii  python-libvirt          0.8.7-3          libvirt Python bindings
ii  python-support          1.0.11           automated rebuilding support for P
ii  python-urlgrabber       3.9.1-4          A high-level cross-protocol url-gr
ii  python-vte              1:0.24.3-2       Python bindings for the VTE widget
ii  virtinst                0.500.5-1        Programs to create and clone virtu

Versions of packages virt-manager recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme              2.30.3-2   GNOME Desktop icon theme
pn  libvirt-bin                   <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages virt-manager suggests:
ii  gnome-keyring                 2.30.3-5   GNOME keyring services (daemon and
ii  hal                           0.5.14-5   Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  python-gnomekeyring           2.30.0-4   Python bindings for the GNOME keyr
pn  ssh-askpass                   <none>     (no description available)
ii  virt-viewer                   0.2.1-1    Displaying the graphical console o

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