[CentOS-virt] libvirt errors after applying RPMS from 2015:X002

Tue Feb 3 08:26:50 UTC 2015
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 08:24:59PM -0700, rgritzo wrote:
>    Thanks for the info.
>    I am trying to connect to the Xen hypervisor, via a localhost connection
>    defined in the virt-manager configuration.
>    here is the detail provided in the error dialog:
>    *********
>    Unable to open a connection to the Xen hypervisor/daemon.
>    Verify that:
>     - A Xen host kernel was booted
>     - The Xen service has been started
>    internal error: DBus support not compiled into this binary
>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>      File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1168, in
>    _open_thread
>        self.vmm = self._try_open()
>      File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1152, in
>    _try_open
>        flags)
>      File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 105, in
>    openAuth
>        if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
>    libvirtError: internal error: DBus support not compiled into this binary
>    **********
>    The hypervisor and VM*s work.  If i start and manage VMs with virsh, the
>    work fine.  it just is the virt-manager that seems broken, but that is
>    important for my operation.
>    i just applied the patches to a second machine - just in case it was
>    something about the first one - and the same results.
>    i am not as versed in python debugging as i would like to be, so this will
>    be a challenge.  it sure seems like the issue is in the libvirtd library
>    from the error messages -
>    but i will keep poking at it as time permits and post here if i have any
>    answers...
>

What does "virsh version" command say ? 

Do you have selinux in enforcing mode? Try "getenforce" command.


-- Pasi


>    thanks.
>    r.
> 
>  On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 09:54:54PM -0700, rgritzo wrote:
>  > folks:
>  >
>  > after applying the updated rpms from advisory 2015:X002 i am having problems with libvirtd, and with virt-manager.
>  >
>  > if i run libvirtd in the foreground and look at the error messages, the  error i see is
>  > 2015-01-29 04:45:27.342+0000: 6477: error : virDBusGetSystemBus:1742 : internal error: DBus support not compiled into this binary
>  >
> 
>  Hmm, weird, it works OK for me..
> 
>  > and virt-manager is unable to connect to the hypervisor.  this started after i applied the subject patches.
>  >
>  > is this an issue with the recent versions of libvirt?
>  > anybody else seeing this behavior?
>  >
> 
>  What hypervisor are you trying to use? Xen? KVM ?
> 
>  > btw - system is centos 6.6, kernel 3.10.63-11.el6.centos.alt.x86_64
>  >
> 
>  I'm using the same kernel with Xen 4.4.1 rpms.
> 
> 
>  > thanks in advance.
>  >
>  > --
>  > [1]rgritzo at gmail.com
>  >
> 
> 
>  * Pasi
> 
>    *
>    r.
> 
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