[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#772920: Bug#772920: virt-manager: ImportError: No module named virtinst

[Guido Günther]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 02:33:23PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Guido G�nther dixit:
> 
> >The module is shipped by the virtinst package. Can you check
> >/usr/share/virt-manager for that:
> >
> > ls -l   /usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/
> 
> ls: cannot access /usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/: No such file or directory
> 
> But:
> 
> ii  virtinst              1:1.0.1-4       all             Programs to create and clone virtual machines
> 
> Huh?
> 
> After “sudo apt-get install --reinstall virtinst”, virt-manager works.
> 
> Maybe /usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst was a symlink once,
> or something else did a symlink/directory change, which is
> not supported by dpkg? This is the only way I can explain
> this…

Not that I could remember. Since it's not reproducible I'm tagging as
such. If nobody else chimes in I'm inclinde to close this. The changes
where we merged virtinst into virt-manager happened back in 2013 and
I've not seen a similar report so far.
Cheers,
 -- Guido