[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#659770: cannot create new VM: Uncaught error validating install parameters: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'set_parent'

[Cole Robinson]

On 02/13/2012 12:05 PM, Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: virt-manager
> Version: 0.9.1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am running virt-manager on sid while connecting to a squeeze host
> with backported libvirt 0.9.8-2. When trying to create a new VM, I get
> the error message:
> 
> Uncaught error validating install parameters: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'set_parent'
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 1456, in validate
>     return self.validate_install_page(oldguest=oldguest)
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 1603, in validate_install_page
>     self.conn, path)
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/uihelpers.py", line 875, in check_path_search_for_qemu
>     set_error_parent(parent)
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/uihelpers.py", line 49, in set_error_parent
>     err_dial.set_parent(parent)
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'set_parent'
> 
> Greetings
> Marc

Hi Marc,

Can you reproduce reliably? If so, can you provide the full output of
virt-manager --debug from start to finish when reproducing?