[virt-tools-list] VirtInstall - error validating install location / global name 'virGetLastError' is not defined

Bogdan Rădulescu bogdan.radulescu99 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 1 14:24:52 UTC 2013


Hi,

I compiled libvirt form the latest git right now and I still see the same
problem.

Thanks,
Bogdan


On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 11:12:28AM +0000, Bogdan Rădulescu wrote:
> > [Vi, 01 mar 2013 13:07:34 virt-install 16102] ERROR (cli:438) global name
> > 'virGetLastError' is not defined
> > [Vi, 01 mar 2013 13:07:34 virt-install 16102] DEBUG (cli:441)
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 1015, in <module>
> >     sys.exit(main())
> >   File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 1000, in main
> >     guest = build_guest_instance(conn, options)
> >   File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 529, in build_guest_instance
> >     options.disksize, options.sparse, need_storage)
> >   File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 164, in get_disks
> >     get_disk(disklist[idx], sizelist[idx], sparse, guest, is_file_path)
> >   File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 137, in get_disk
> >     dev, size = cli.parse_disk(guest, diskopts)
> >   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/virtinst/cli.py", line 1610,
> in
> > parse_disk
> >     format=fmt)
> >   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/virtinst/VirtualDisk.py", line
> > 659, in __init__
> >     self.vol_install)
> >   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/virtinst/VirtualDisk.py", line
> > 974, in __change_storage
> >     path)
> >   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/virtinst/VirtualDisk.py", line
> > 182, in _check_if_path_managed
> >     vol = lookup_vol_by_path()[0]
> >   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/virtinst/VirtualDisk.py", line
> > 164, in lookup_vol_by_path
> >     vol = conn.storageVolLookupByPath(path)
> >   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 3387, in
> > storageVolLookupByPath
> >     if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virStorageVolLookupByPath()
> failed',
> > conn=self)
> >   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 35, in
> __init__
> >     err = virGetLastError()
> > NameError: global name 'virGetLastError' is not
> > defined
> >
> > ERROR    global name 'virGetLastError' is not defined
>
> This is a bug in the 1.0.2 version of libvirt. I guess the slackware
> maintainers deployed that version without backporting the bug fix for
> it :-( File a bug with slackware asking them to apply the following
> two patches from upstream
>
> commit 25ea8e47e74def560bf89cd94dd54b75ca5ff4d6
> Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
> Date:   Tue Feb 5 12:55:09 2013 +0000
>
>     Fix missing error constants in libvirt python module
>
>     The previous change to the generator, changed too much - only
>     the functions are in 'virerror.c', the constants remained in
>     'virerror.h' which could not be renamed for API compat reasons.
>
>     Add a test case to sanity check the generated python bindings
>
>     Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
>
> commit a6b8bae5a6a4752926eba409202ec061d81c6c8a
> Author: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at canonical.com>
> Date:   Wed Jan 30 21:05:45 2013 -0600
>
>     complete virterror->virerror name change
>
>     Without these two string changes in generator.py, the
>     virGetLastError wrapper does not get created in
>     /usr/share/pyshared/libvirt.py.  Noticed when running
>     tests with virt-install.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com>
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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