On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 01:02:50PM +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > Package: libvirt-bin > Version: 1.2.9-2 > Severity: important > > Hello, > > ever since upgrading libvirt* to 1.2.9* I am running into the following error > when trying to connect: > > $ virsh connect qemu:///system > error: Failed to connect to the hypervisor > error: authentication failed: no agent is available to authenticate > > This is, presumably, due to the changes introduced to the authentication > system > introduced in da11813 [0], but I am not sure how to ensure that an agent is > started properly. My user is, naturally, a member of the expected groups: > > $ groups > [...] libvirt [...]
Which is used in /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/60-libvirt.rules > and polkitd is running properly: > > $ ps aux|grep polkitd > root 2072 0.1 0.0 280140 7640 ? Ssl 12:49 0:00 > /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd --no-debug > > I can reproduce this error under both i3 and Gnome and therefore don't > necessarily think that it is due to the way my session is being loaded, but > could very well be due to me not having installed all necessary packages to > ensure that libvirt is able to properly authenticate via polkit. > > Would you, dear maintainer, be aware of anything that I might like to try to > get > libvirt 1.2.9 running on sid? > > [0] Use polkit instead of socket permissions. As before membership > in the libvirt group gives r/w access to all VMs What version of polkit is running on your system? What's the output of pkaction? Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
