[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#859088: hundreds of popups: Error polling connection / 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'getInfo'

[Daniel Pocock]

Package: virt-manager
Version: 1:1.0.1-5
Severity: important

After going away from the computer for a few hours and coming back, I
found virt-manager had opened hundreds of popups like this:


Error polling connection 'qemu+ssh://root@foo/system': 'NoneType' object
has no attribute 'getInfo'

The whole desktop (GNOME3) had become slow because so many of these
popups appeared.

Clicking the "Details" showed the same text:

Error polling connection 'qemu+ssh://root@foo/system': 'NoneType' object
has no attribute 'getInfo'

Each popup has a "Close" button, they only close very slowly though.

Locating the virt-manager window and clicking "Quit" made all the popups
go away.

I think the popup should only appear once in this situation.

Regards,

Daniel