[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#650711: Bug#650711: virt-manager gets stuck

[Guido Günther]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 04:40:09PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> On 01/02/12 15:58, Guido Günther wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for reporting back!
> >
> >>
> >> This is virt-manager version 0.9.0-3~bpo60+1 and
> >> libvirt0 version 0.9.8-2~bpo60+2.
> >
> > These versions were never uploaded, is this self compiled? Could you
> > check with the versions in sid/wheezy?
> 
> These are the versions from Wheezy. I just built them for
> Squeeze. To install virt-manager on Squeeze I had to move
> the spice gtk GUI to Recommends, the rest is unchanged AFAIR.
> 
> Unfortunately I do not have the option to update my
> KVM servers to Wheezy.
> 
> > Are the remote libvirt versions also based on 0.9.8 or are these older
> > ones? Can you strace/debug the remote libvirt daemons to check where the
> > broken pipe comes from?
> 
> Using "localhost" the libvirt daemon is not remote anymore.
> All machines are running Squeeze with the given versions.
> 
> Attached you can find the strace output. This is a live
> system, so I have attached strace to libvirtd using
> "strace -p". Hopefully this is OK?
> 
> I started strace, then I started virt-manager on the same
> host and tried to connect to localhost. When it came back
> with "Not connected" I interrupted strace with ^C.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps. Please mail.

Could that be the same as 663931? I've attached a possible workaround.
Cheers,
 -- Guido