[virt-tools-list] Virt-Manager Error Message

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Mon Jun 28 15:19:02 UTC 2010


On 06/28/2010 10:51 AM, Jim wrote:
> FC13/KDE
> 
> Trying to start virt-manager And I get this Error Message below,  What 
> now ??
> 
> The network is running okay on br0 .
> 
> I tried to run  gconf-cleaner, but I get the same Error Message.
> 
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 413, in <module>
> main()
> File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 330, in main
> icon_dir, data_dir)
> File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/config.py", line 89, in __init__
> gconf.CLIENT_PRELOAD_NONE)
> GError: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are 
> that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale 
> NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ 
> for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did 
> not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did 
> not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the 
> reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
> 

Something is screwy with your system. If you google that ORbit error
message you'll see it's pretty common, but can be caused by a variety of
things, so it is not virt-manager specific. I don't know how to solve it.

- Cole




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