installation failure for virt-manager

[jonathangilpin]

$ brew install virt-manager virt-viewer
Updating Homebrew...
==> Auto-updated Homebrew!
Updated 1 tap (caskroom/cask).
No changes to formulae.

==> Installing virt-manager from jeffreywildman/virt-manager
==> Downloading https://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-manager/virt-manager-1.4.1.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Users/jonathangilpin/Library/Caches/Homebrew/virt-manager-1.4.1.tar.gz
==> Patching
patching file virt-clone
patching file virt-convert
patching file virt-install
patching file virt-manager
patching file virt-xml
==> Downloading https://libvirt.org/sources/python/libvirt-python-3.0.0.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Users/jonathangilpin/Library/Caches/Homebrew/virt-manager--libvirt-python-3.0.0.tar.gz
==> python -c import setuptools... --no-user-cfg install --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/virt-manager/1.4.1/libexec/vendor --single-version-externally-managed --record=installed.txt
Last 15 lines from /Users/jonathangilpin/Library/Logs/Homebrew/virt-manager/01.python:
running install
running build
/usr/local/opt/pkg-config/bin/pkg-config --print-errors --atleast-version=0.9.11 libvirt
/usr/local/opt/python/bin/python2.7 generator.py libvirt /usr/local/Cellar/libvirt/3.4.0/share/libvirt/api/libvirt-api.xml
Found 425 functions in /usr/local/Cellar/libvirt/3.4.0/share/libvirt/api/libvirt-api.xml
Found 0 functions in libvirt-override-api.xml
Generated 348 wrapper functions
Missing type converters:
virStreamSinkFunc:1
long long *:1
virStreamSourceFunc:1
ERROR: failed virStreamRecvHole
ERROR: failed virStreamSparseRecvAll
ERROR: failed virStreamSparseSendAll
error: command '/usr/local/opt/python/bin/python2.7' failed with exit status 1

If reporting this issue please do so at (not Homebrew/brew or Homebrew/core):
https://github.com/jeffreywildman/homebrew-virt-manager/issues

These open issues may also help:
brew install virt-manager issue #58
virt-manager crashing with Python quit unexpectedly while using the libgdk-3.0.dylib #62

[rygjones]

Same issue. Sierra 10.12.4.

[jonathangilpin]

@ vi /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/jeffreywildman/homebrew-virt-manager/virt-manager.rb

change:
url "https://libvirt.org/sources/python/libvirt-python-3.0.0.tar.gz"
to
url "https://libvirt.org/sources/python/libvirt-python-3.4.0.tar.gz"

and
sha256 "94a7c1c57a643afad43f9068c70774e1146ed051ecfca0280d5127011c5e44c1"
to
sha256 "afa77781f518988f164dd5f99d1844034ca807a8e731e07cbae18474d250b511"

and it will then install however it will crash when you run it, unless you run with the argument --debug

[opless]

--debug works, as it implies --no-fork as it spews debugging info to stdout.

[veetow]

My copy of the file /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/jeffreywildman/homebrew-virt-manager/virt-manager.rb already has the updated version, and it still did not install.

  resource "libvirt-python" do
    url "https://libvirt.org/sources/python/libvirt-python-3.4.0.tar.gz"
    sha256 "afa77781f518988f164dd5f99d1844034ca807a8e731e07cbae18474d250b511"
  end

==> Installing jeffreywildman/virt-manager/virt-manager
==> Downloading https://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-manager/virt-manager-1.4.1.tar.gz
==> Downloading from https://releases.pagure.org/virt-manager/virt-manager-1.4.1.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Patching
patching file virt-clone
patching file virt-convert
patching file virt-install
patching file virt-manager
patching file virt-xml
==> Downloading https://libvirt.org/sources/python/libvirt-python-3.4.0.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> python -c import setuptools... --no-user-cfg install --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/virt-manager/1.4.1/libexec/vendor --single-version-externally-managed --record=installed.txt
Last 15 lines from /Users/vlaurenza/Library/Logs/Homebrew/virt-manager/01.python:
--prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/virt-manager/1.4.1/libexec/vendor
--single-version-externally-managed
--record=installed.txt

running install
running build
/usr/local/opt/pkg-config/bin/pkg-config --print-errors --atleast-version=0.9.11 libvirt
/usr/bin/python generator.py libvirt /usr/local/Cellar/libvirt/4.0.0/share/libvirt/api/libvirt-api.xml
Found 429 functions in /usr/local/Cellar/libvirt/4.0.0/share/libvirt/api/libvirt-api.xml
Found 0 functions in libvirt-override-api.xml
Generated 349 wrapper functions
Missing type converters:
unsigned long long *:1
ERROR: failed virDomainMigrateGetMaxDowntime
error: command '/usr/bin/python' failed with exit status 1

If reporting this issue please do so at (not Homebrew/brew or Homebrew/core):
https://github.com/jeffreywildman/homebrew-virt-manager/issues

These open issues may also help:
brew install virt-manager issue https://github.com/jeffreywildman/homebrew-virt-manager/issues/58
installation failure for virt-manager https://github.com/jeffreywildman/homebrew-virt-manager/issues/72
virt-manager silently quits at launch https://github.com/jeffreywildman/homebrew-virt-manager/issues/78
virt-manager crashing with Python quit unexpectedly while using the libgdk-3.0.dylib https://github.com/jeffreywildman/homebrew-virt-manager/issues/62
Error: jeffreywildman/virt-manager/libvirt-glib 1.0.0 did not build https://github.com/jeffreywildman/homebrew-virt-manager/issues/79

[veetow]

I should add:
High Sierra 10.13.2
Python 2.7.10

[knewter]

@veetow what good timing, I just ran into this bug as well :)

(now i want to know what you're using it for)

[dvj]

I've tried updating to virt-manager-1.5.0.tar.gz and libvirt-python-4.0.0.tar.gz, which gets different results, but I haven't gotten everything to work after poking around for a few minutes.

[veetow]

I think the real issue here is that the the install should NOT be using /usr/bin/python in the first place, but should be using the homebrew python install at /usr/local/bin/python2.

[veetow]

FYI, this fixed it for me: #85

[veetow]

Also, this after installing: #73

[jeffreywildman]

Looks like a duplicate of #90 caused by mismatch of libvirt-python and libvirt versions. Should be addressed by pull request #83 and updates in master which now match versions at 4.0.0. Closing for now, but please open a new issue if it persists.

@veetow FYI, homebrew conventions prefer using system Python over a homebrewed Python. The updated virt-manager formula in master now uses a virtualenv to better keep the version used to build and run virt-manager separate from the Python version in the user's path. Also, the libvirt formula is provided by homebrew-core but it doesn't appear to provide the associated Python bindings, which necessitates the libvirt-python dependency embedded within the virt-manager formula. When the libvirt version gets updated in homebrew, we have to play catch up and update the associated module in virt-manager. A proper fix would probably involve incorporating the python bindings to be built/installed with the libvirt formula.