I've been testing Red Hat 5.1's vm stuff for a couple of weeks and was quite happy with the results so far. But I've run into a bit of an issue that I hope someone out there can help me solve.
Since late last week, after a "yum upgrade" that included the newest kernel (2.6.18-53.1.6.el5xen), virt-manager dies when started from either the command line or from the desktop with a segmentation fault.
/var/log/messages gets the following: kernel: /usr/share/virt[4369] general protection rip:3b4f8401fa rsp:7fff40efad50 error:0
Nothing is written to /var/log/xen/xend.log.
Nothing is written to ~/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log, although it is touched.
Returning to the old kernel doesn't help.
The command line utils (xm, virsh, etc) are working fine.
Removing and then reinstalling virt-manager doesn't resolve anything.
The vm's are working fine.
Has anyone else seen (and more importantly, resolved) this issue?
A few system specs:
New kernel 2.6.18-53.1.6.el5xen Old kernel 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5xen virt-manager.x86_64 0.4.0-3.el5
TIA,
bb ------ William R. Barker Computer Systems & Networks Administrator Department of Biological Structure University of Washington School of Medicine (206) 543-7315
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:41:45PM -0800, William R. Barker wrote:
I've been testing Red Hat 5.1's vm stuff for a couple of weeks and was quite happy with the results so far. But I've run into a bit of an issue that I hope someone out there can help me solve.
Since late last week, after a "yum upgrade" that included the newest kernel (2.6.18-53.1.6.el5xen), virt-manager dies when started from either the command line or from the desktop with a segmentation fault.
/var/log/messages gets the following: kernel: /usr/share/virt[4369] general protection rip:3b4f8401fa rsp:7fff40efad50 error:0
There was a broken update to 'pygtk2' in RHEL-5 which caused virt-manager and other python + GTK based apps to crash - there should be a newer version out to fix it already:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0079.html
Regards, Dan.