[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#925621: virsh: error: internal error: Failed to probe QEMU binary with QMP:\n

[Thorsten Glaser]

Package: libvirt-clients
Version: 5.0.0-1
Severity: important

I cannot start any VM any more:

tglase at tglase:~ $ virsh -c qemu:///system start Netboot
error: Failed to start domain Netboot
error: internal error: Failed to probe QEMU binary with QMP:

1|tglase at tglase:~ $ sudo tail -4 /var/log/libvirt/libvirtd.log
2019-03-27 17:46:06.808+0000: 22362: error : virQEMUCapsNewForBinaryInternal:4681 : internal error: Failed to probe QEMU binary with QMP:
2019-03-27 17:46:06.821+0000: 22362: warning : virQEMUCapsLogProbeFailure:4628 : Failed to probe capabilities for /usr/bin/kvm: internal error: Failed to probe QEMU binary with QMP:
2019-03-27 17:49:44.508+0000: 22362: error : virQEMUCapsNewForBinaryInternal:4681 : internal error: Failed to probe QEMU binary with QMP:
2019-03-27 17:49:44.508+0000: 22362: warning : virQEMUCapsLogProbeFailure:4628 : Failed to probe capabilities for /usr/bin/kvm: internal error: Failed to probe QEMU binary with QMP:


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unreleased
  APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: x32 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, amd64

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages libvirt-clients depends on:
ii  libacl1             2.2.53-4
ii  libapparmor1        2.13.2-9
ii  libaudit1           1:2.8.4-2
ii  libavahi-client3    0.7-4+b1
ii  libavahi-common3    0.7-4+b1
ii  libc6               2.28-8
ii  libcap-ng0          0.7.9-2
ii  libcurl3-gnutls     7.64.0-2
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.12.12-1
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1  2:1.02.155-2
ii  libgcc1             1:8.3.0-3
ii  libgnutls30         3.6.6-3
ii  libnl-3-200         3.4.0-1
ii  libnl-route-3-200   3.4.0-1
ii  libreadline7        7.0-5
ii  libsasl2-2          2.1.27+dfsg-1
ii  libselinux1         2.8-1+b1
ii  libssh2-1           1.8.0-2
ii  libvirt0            5.0.0-1
ii  libxml2             2.9.4+dfsg1-7+b3tarent1
ii  libyajl2            2.1.0-3
ii  sensible-utils      0.0.12

libvirt-clients recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libvirt-clients suggests:
ii  libvirt-daemon  5.0.0-1

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