[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#956936: Same issue on bullseye [[Was: Re: Also impacts buster packages]]

[Bernd Schatz]

Hi,

On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 14:51:35 -0600 Joel Johnson <mrjoel at lixil.net> wrote:
> Version: 5.0.0-4+deb10u1
>
> I ran into this same issue on a buster system, with additional
> buster-backports packages installed. After digging through it appears
> that during a recent update the libvirt-daemon-system package was
> uninstalled without me noticing. Reinstalling the package also resolved
> the issue for me.


Because of an other problem with a vagrant box and debian buster
i tried to reproduce that issue on a newly installed debian bullseye.

Now i run into this issue.

sudo debsums --config | grep -v OK
/etc/sudoers        FAILED

id
uid=1004(beschat) gid=1004(beschat)
Gruppen=1004(beschat),1005(libvirtd),64055(libvirt-qemu)


$ echo $VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER
libvirt


Bringing machine 'default' up with 'libvirt' provider...
Error while connecting to Libvirt: Error making a connection to libvirt
URI qemu:///system?no_verify=1&keyfile=/home/beschat/.ssh/id_rsa:
Call to virConnectOpen failed: authentication unavailable: no polkit
agent available to authenticate action 'org.libvirt.unix.manage'


  dpkg -l | grep polkit
ii  gir1.2-polkit-1.0                             0.105-29
               amd64        GObject introspection data for PolicyKit
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0:amd64                     0.105-29
               amd64        PolicyKit Authentication Agent API
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0:amd64                   0.105-29
               amd64        PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libpolkit-qt5-1-1:amd64                       0.113.0-1
               amd64        PolicyKit-qt5-1 library


sudo cat /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/60-libvirt.pkla
[Allow group libvirt management permissions]
Identity=unix-group:libvirt
Action=org.libvirt.unix.manage
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=yes
ResultActive=yes


--
Bernd