[Fedora-xen] Red Hat 5.1, Xen and virt-manager crashes

[Daniel P. Berrange]

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.
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