Public bug reported: After an upgrade to 12.04 I am unable to start virt-manager. When I fire up virt manager, it displays an error message like this: Error starting Virtual Machine Manager: virtinst version 0.600.0 is too old.
virt-manager requires the python-virtinst library version 0.600.1 or greater. This can be downloaded at: http://virt-manager.org/download.html And in the details section: Error starting Virtual Machine Manager: virtinst version 0.600.0 is too old. virt-manager requires the python-virtinst library version 0.600.1 or greater. This can be downloaded at: http://virt-manager.org/download.html Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 381, in <module> main() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 304, in main cli.check_virtinst_version(virtinst_str) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/cli.py", line 116, in check_virtinst_version "\n\n" + msg) RuntimeError: virtinst version 0.600.0 is too old. virt-manager requires the python-virtinst library version 0.600.1 or greater. This can be downloaded at: http://virt-manager.org/download.html Checking virtinst shows # dpkg -l virtinst Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii virtinst 0.600.1-1ubunt Programs to create and clone virtual machine I already tried to reinstall the virtualization environment, but the only result was that I lost the virtual machine definitions. System Info: # lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Release: 12.04 # apt-cache policy virt-manager virt-manager: Installed: 0.9.1-1ubuntu5.1 Candidate: 0.9.1-1ubuntu5.1 Version table: *** 0.9.1-1ubuntu5.1 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.9.1-1ubuntu5 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages and # apt-cache policy virtinst virtinst: Installed: 0.600.1-1ubuntu3.1 Candidate: 0.600.1-1ubuntu3.1 Version table: *** 0.600.1-1ubuntu3.1 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.600.1-1ubuntu3 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages Thanks Imre ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: virt-manager 0.9.1-1ubuntu5.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic 3.2.19 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Jul 4 11:26:53 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64+mac (20110426) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: virt-manager UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-06-13 (20 days ago) ** Affects: virt-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1020883 Title: virt-manager would not start To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virt-manager/+bug/1020883/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
