[libvirt-users] Error connecting to hypervisor

[Michal Privoznik]

On 4/29/19 2:48 PM, Sukrit Bhatnagar wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 at 12:53, Michal Prívozník <mprivozn at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 4/23/19 11:56 PM, Sukrit Bhatnagar wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have compiled and installed libvirt from git checkout
>>> and started libvirtd service. The version is 5.3.0 and
>>> I have done system-wide installation.
>>>
>>> When I do a `virsh list`, I get the following error:
>>> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
>>> error: Unable to encode message header
>>
>> This is very suspicious. The error is reported because the function that
>> is generated by rpcgen and supposed to encode messages failed. Looks
>> like rpcgen generated some unusable code? What's your rpcgen? I have
>>
>> glibc-rpcgen-2.26.9000-41.fc28.x86_64
>>
>> and everything's working for me. BTW if you try compiling from 5.2.0
>> tarball the error should go away because we ship generated sources in there.
> 
> I am using Fedora 29 and glibc-rpcgen is not available.
> I have these packages installed for rpc:
> rpcgen-1.4-1.fc29.x86_64 (rpcsvc-proto)
> libtirpc-1.1.4-2.rc2.fc29.x86_64
> libtirpc-devel-1.1.4-2.rc2.fc29.x86_64

Ah, looks like libtirpc bug then. Can you please get a stack trace and 
open a bug?

Michal