Cannot use virt-manager

[chriscowleysoun]

When I try and run virt-manager I get the following error:

authentication failed: Authorization requires authentication but no agent is available.

Libvirt URI is: qemu:///system

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1185, in _open_thread
    self.vmm = self._try_open()
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1167, in _try_open
    flags)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 102, in openAuth
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
libvirtError: authentication failed: Authorization requires authentication but no agent is available.

I can run

sudo virt-manager

in a terminal and it works. However, I would would like to know what is going on.

Obviously, I if I run virsh connect qemu:///system then I get the same error. Ideally I would like my user to be able to just click the virt-manager icon and have it run and connect automatically. However, it is not even popping a window to ask for my root password.

[nonamedotc]

Are you using gnome? If yes, is polkit-gnome installed?

---------- Post added at 03:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:34 PM ----------

Actually, why not take a look at this bug report? This might contain the solution to your problem.

[chriscowleysoun]

yes I am, yes it is

[nonamedotc]

Do look at the bug report in my post. I suspect therein lies the solution to your problem ...

[chriscowleysoun]

I have not got anything vdsm related installed. At least rpm -qa | grep 'vdsm' does not give anything

---------- Post added at 09:59 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:57 AM ----------

My libvirt.conf file is (effectively) empty. From some googling I suspect that it is trying to do SASL auth, but I do not know for sure.