[virt-tools-list] fail to start virt-manager

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Thu Feb 24 14:56:35 UTC 2011


On 02/24/2011 04:43 AM, Jijun Gao wrote:
> hi, all!
> 
> I am new here and got a problem with virt-manager.
> 
> when I start virt-manager, I got the error below:
> 
> Error starting Virtual Machine Manager: /lib64/libncurses.so.5: 
> undefined symbol: _nc_set_no_padding
> 
> Details:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 404, in <module>
>      main()
>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 345, in main
>      from virtManager.engine import vmmEngine
>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 39, in 
> <module>
>      from virtManager.details import vmmDetails
>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/details.py", line 35, in 
> <module>
>      from virtManager.serialcon import vmmSerialConsole
>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/serialcon.py", line 22, in 
> <module>
>      import vte
> ImportError: /lib64/libncurses.so.5: undefined symbol: _nc_set_no_padding
> 
> It was once OK, and seemed that I installed something incorrectly, which 
> lead the problem.
> I tried reinstall virt-manager with yum: #yum reinstall virt-manager,  
> which didn't help.
> 
> btw, my machine:
> [gao at MF ~]$ uname -a
> Linux MF.localdomain 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Nov 7 21:11:14 
> EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 

Somethings either busted with the ncurses or vte package I assume. Not
sure what the solution is though.

- Cole




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