Error running Virtual Machine Manager

[suvayu ali]

Hi Sanjay,

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Sanjay Arora <sanjay.k.arora at gmail.com> wrote:
> Running VMM as normal user still not connecting to libvirtd....not showing
> messagebox for password to enable correct permissions....tested login from
> root cli...works fine...so its a permissions issue...due to gui not getting
> pass from user...
> libvirtd output:
> [root at acct] Wed, 05 October, 2011. 04:51:37 PM, IST.
> [~]   ps aux |grep -e "libvirtd"
> root      3248  0.0  0.1 710752  7552 ?        Sl   16:25   0:00 libvirtd
> --daemon
> root      5429  0.0  0.0 109108   836 pts/2    S+   16:51   0:00 grep
> --color=auto -e libvirtd
> [root at acct] Wed, 05 October, 2011. 04:51:43 PM, IST.
> [~]   systemctl is-active libvirtd
> unknown

This seems fishy. Have you tried restarting libvirtd using systemctl
after your earlier attempt with service and chkconfig? What does
systemctl with the status and stop|start commands say?

[...]

> To check if any Selinux issues:
> [root at acct] Wed, 05 October, 2011. 04:52:04 PM, IST.
> [~]   cat /etc/sysconfig/selinux
>
> # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
> # SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
> #     enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.
> #     permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
> #     disabled - No SELinux policy is loaded.
> SELINUX=permissive
> # SELINUXTYPE= can take one of these two values:
> #     targeted - Targeted processes are protected,
> #     mls - Multi Level Security protection.
> SELINUXTYPE=targeted

This doesn't seem like an SELinux issue to me. You would be receiving
sealerts otherwise.

I'm sorry I can't give more hints, I don't have access to an F15
machine at the moment. That said, if all else fails running virsh
instead of the gui as root should be fine. Have you tried that? When I
used it the last time (about a year back) virsh seemed like a very
powerful cli frontend to libvirt.

> With best regards.
> Sanjay.
>

GL

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Suvayu

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