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PostPosted: Sun Oct 20, 2024 5:42 pm    Post subject: Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock' Reply with quote

I get this error when trying to run virt-manager as my user

Code:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 923, in _do_open
    self._backend.open(cb, data)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/connection.py", line 171, in open
    conn = libvirt.openAuth(self._open_uri,
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 147, in openAuth
    raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
libvirt.libvirtError: Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': Permission denied




But I can run it and connect to the daemon as root. I have added myself to the libvirt group, and emerged virt-manager using policykit. Any advice is appreciated.

I am also unable to start virtbr0, and get an error saying "Package not installed," but I can't figure out what package I am missing.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 20, 2024 5:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What is the output of id; namei -l /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock, as run from the same shell where that error can be reproduced?
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 20, 2024 7:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
uid=1000(julie) gid=1000(julie) groups=1000(julie),10(wheel),18(audio),27(video),79(libvirt),100(users)
f: /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock
drwxr-xr-x root root /
drwxr-xr-x root root var
lrwxrwxrwx root root run -> ../run
drwxr-xr-x root root   ..
drwxrwxrwt root root   run
drwxr-xr-x root root libvirt
srwx------ root root libvirt-sock
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 20, 2024 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The socket is only accessible to root, so membership in the libvirt group will not help you. This seems wrong to me. I would have expected the socket to be accessible by a reasonable group, such as libvirt.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 20, 2024 10:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I see. How do I make it accessible to users? I read that libvirt uses polkit to allow user access, but I wasn't sure if it had to be configured manually.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 20, 2024 10:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hu wrote:
The socket is only accessible to root, so membership in the libvirt group will not help you. This seems wrong to me. I would have expected the socket to be accessible by a reasonable group, such as libvirt.
Indeed, in all contexts.

polkit can (apparently?) override this, but I changed it a long time ago* so it took me a while to locate, but:
/etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf:
#################################################################
#
# UNIX socket access controls
#

# Set the UNIX domain socket group ownership. This can be used to
# allow a 'trusted' set of users access to management capabilities
# without becoming root.
#
# This setting is not required or honoured if using systemd socket
# activation.
#
# This is restricted to 'root' by default.
unix_sock_group = "libvirt"

There is a bunch of other "stuff" you can alter after this section too, including "0775" style socket permissions.

*nano backups say aug 22.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 21, 2024 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Setting the socket to libvirt and permissions at 0775 did the trick, thank you much! However, I am still getting
Code:
error: Failed to start network default
error: Unable to create bridge virbr0: Package not installed
when trying to start the default network device.

Here is emerge --info for libvirt

Code:
app-emulation/libvirt-10.3.0-r3::gentoo was built with the following:
USE="caps libvirtd nls qemu udev virt-network -apparmor -audit -bash-completion -dtrace -firewalld -fuse -glusterfs -iscsi -iscsi-direct -libssh -libssh2 -lvm -lxc -nbd -nfs -numa (-openvz) -parted -pcap -policykit -rbd -sasl (-selinux) -test -verify-sig -virtiofsd -virtualbox -wireshark-plugins -xen -zfs" ABI_X86="(64)"
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 21, 2024 4:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does
Code:
ebuild /var/db/repos/gentoo/app-emulation/libvirt/libvirt-10.3.0-r3.ebuild setup clean
tell you about any missing kernel config?
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 21, 2024 7:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh that's it, I was missing a couple. Thank you!
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2024 5:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Still getting the package error when trying to start virbr0, here is the output of the most recent command you gave me

Code:
 sudo ebuild /var/db/repos/gentoo/app-emulation/libvirt/libvirt-10.3.0-r3.ebuild setup clean                          1 ↵
 * libvirt-10.3.0.tar.xz BLAKE2B SHA512 size ;-) ...                                                                  [ ok ]
 * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ...                                                                                  [ ok ]
 * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ...                                                                                 [ ok ]
 * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...                                                                                [ ok ]
 * Determining the location of the kernel source code
 * Found kernel source directory:
 *     /usr/src/linux
 * Found sources for kernel version:
 *     6.6.52-gentoo
 * Checking for suitable kernel configuration options ...                                                             [ ok ]
 * Checking whether python3_13 is suitable ...
 *   dev-lang/python:3.13 ...                                                                                         [ !! ]
 * Checking whether python3_12 is suitable ...
 *   dev-lang/python:3.12 ...                                                                                         [ ok ]
 *   python_check_deps ...                                                                                            [ ok ]
 * Using python3.12 to build (via PYTHON_COMPAT iteration)


I enabled all of the kernel params I was missing and rebuilt.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2024 5:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

juliedeville wrote:
I enabled all of the kernel params I was missing and rebuilt.
Let's check the simple things first, did you reboot too?
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2024 3:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes. Also, if it matters, I have tried starting it with root and my user
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2024 3:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you change /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Libvirt#User_permissions)? Please read also the comments above the options prior to uncommenting it.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2024 11:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

juliedeville wrote:
Yes. Also, if it matters, I have tried starting it with root and my user

I can't help but think there is some "helper" package that VMM/libvirt is trying to use that has somehow slipped past the ebuild's dependency config.
If you try and follow https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Network_bridge#Installation , mainly the ip link add br0 type bridge and try to make a "single nic bridge", just live, don't mess with any config, you are just running PoC to prove the kernel is up to the task, so shut down /etc/init.d/net.[some interface], and add it to br0 with ip link set dev [some interface] master br0, and bring br0 up/give it an ip/test it.
If that works, it's time to start looking harder at libvirt(d).
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 03, 2024 6:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you. When I try to create a bridge manually, I get "Error: Unknown device type"

Edit: It's fixed now! I think I might have been loading the wrong kernel after I enabled the bridge params
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