Public bug reported: As of virt-manager included in Ubuntu 11.10, the dependency to "ssh- askpass" is obviously missing. On an connection attempt to a virtual host via ssh I get the following (misleading) error message:
- Unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon. Libvirt URI is: qemu+ssh://user@host/system Verify that: - The 'libvirt-bin' package is installed - The 'libvirtd' daemon has been started - You are member of the 'libvirtd' group cannot recv data: ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Permission denied (publickey). : Connection reset by peer Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1146, in _open_thread self.vmm = self._try_open() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1130, in _try_open flags) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 102, in openAuth if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed') libvirtError: cannot recv data: ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Permission denied (publickey). : Connection reset by peer - Installing libvirt-bin does not help of course, but installing "ssh-askpass" does. ** Affects: virt-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Description changed: As of virt-manager included in Ubuntu 11.10, the dependency to "ssh- askpass" is obviously missing. On an connection attempt to a virtual host via ssh I get the following (misleading) error message: - Unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon. - Libvirt URI is: qemu+ssh://ad3ben@se-stupros/system + Libvirt URI is: qemu+ssh://user@host/system Verify that: - - The 'libvirt-bin' package is installed - - The 'libvirtd' daemon has been started - - You are member of the 'libvirtd' group + - The 'libvirt-bin' package is installed + - The 'libvirtd' daemon has been started + - You are member of the 'libvirtd' group - - cannot recv data: ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory + cannot recv data: ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file + or directory ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Permission denied (publickey). : Connection reset by peer Traceback (most recent call last): - File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1146, in _open_thread - self.vmm = self._try_open() - File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1130, in _try_open - flags) - File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 102, in openAuth - if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed') + File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1146, in _open_thread + self.vmm = self._try_open() + File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1130, in _try_open + flags) + File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 102, in openAuth + if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed') libvirtError: cannot recv data: ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/bin/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Permission denied (publickey). : Connection reset by peer - Installing libvirt-bin does not help of course, but installing "ssh-askpass" does. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/901138 Title: Missing dependency to ssh-askpass To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virt-manager/+bug/901138/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs