Why 'virt-manager' failed to launch with 'server ping error' in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3

Issue

  • Getting Error while launching virt-manager:
 Error starting Virtual Machine Manager: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
  • Detailed Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 383, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 315, in main
    config = virtManager.config.vmmConfig(appname, appversion, glade_dir)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/config.py", line 98, in __init__
    self.conf.add_dir(self.conf_dir, gconf.CLIENT_PRELOAD_NONE)
GError:  Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)

Resolution

1] Restart the messagebus service and access virtmanager:

   # service messagebus restart

2] Access virt-manager with command:

   # dbus-launch --exit-with-session virt-manager

Diagnostic Steps

  • Check uuid from server: 
# dbus-uuidgen --get
# cat /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
  • Take backup of /var/lib/dbus/machine-id file.
  • If the outputs above are not same, recreate Fix:
dbus-uuidgen > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
  • Component
  • kvm

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