[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#827178: virsh: Failed to create SASL client context: -7 (invalid parameter supplied)

[Martin Gebhardt]

Package: libvirt-clients
Version: 1.3.5-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I try to connect to a libvirt 1.2.17-13 instance running on CentOS 7. 
Since 1.3.5-1 I'm not able to connect to a 1.2.17-13 libvirtd using sasl authentication. With 1.3.3 it works as expected. 

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
     virsh -c qemu+tcp://kvm01/system sysinfo --

   * What was the outcome of this action?
     error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
     error: authentication failed: Failed to create SASL client context: -7 (invalid parameter supplied)

I can reproduce this with same libvirt verion on Arch-Linux. Are you able to avoid/solve this problem? On CentOS 7, 1.2.17-13 ist the "latest" version.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libvirt-clients depends on:
ii  libapparmor1        2.10-4
ii  libaudit1           1:2.5.2-1
ii  libavahi-client3    0.6.32~rc+dfsg-1
ii  libavahi-common3    0.6.32~rc+dfsg-1
ii  libc6               2.22-11
ii  libcap-ng0          0.7.7-2
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.10.8-1
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1  2:1.02.124-1
ii  libgnutls30         3.4.13-1
ii  libnl-3-200         3.2.27-1
ii  libnl-route-3-200   3.2.27-1
ii  libnuma1            2.0.11-1
ii  libreadline6        6.3-8+b4
ii  libsasl2-2          2.1.26.dfsg1-15
ii  libselinux1         2.5-3
ii  libssh2-1           1.5.0-2.1
ii  libsystemd0         230-2
ii  libvirt0            1.3.5-1
ii  libxen-4.6          4.6.0-1+nmu2
ii  libxml2             2.9.3+dfsg1-1.2
ii  libyajl2            2.1.0-2

libvirt-clients recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libvirt-clients suggests:
ii  libvirt-daemon  1.3.5-1

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