What's the status of your apparmor? Do you have it active?
I'm not certain it was the mount options on /dev/pts that was the
problem, but it could be.
Does it work if you remount the directory?
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chardev: opening backend "pty" failed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607636
You received this bug
Problem solved, I think.
/dev/pts was wrongly mounted as:
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=620,mode=620)
... when it should be:
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
This could now be an initramfs issue - I installed dropbear recently and
it starts up udev and vari
Public bug reported:
I'm unable to start qemu virtual machine because of the following error:
error: Failed to start domain test
error: internal error unable to start guest: chardev: opening backend "pty"
failed
The reason I'm posting this on libvirtd, is because I'm able to run the
exact same