On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 03:11:56PM -0500, Laine Stump wrote: > On 2/17/25 5:28 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 02:14:49AM -0500, Laine Stump wrote: > > > But sometimes XDG_RUNTIME_DIR isn't set in the user's environment. > > > > Do you have examples of scenarios in which this happens, and > > yet the /run/user/NNNN directory is still being created, as > > that rather sounds like something is broken outside of libvirt. > > After seeing the bug report, I replicated the situation by ssh'ing in as a > user that hadn't previously logged in, and then unsetting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. I > hadn't thought there might be some other case where the user could be logged > in but XDG_RUNTIME_DIR had never been set. > > But after seeing your question I tried running > > sudo $someuser virsh list NB, that is the classic sudo usage trapdoor, because they didn't make "-i" (aka --login) the default, so your environment is not populated correctly. I'd hope that when passing sudo -i ... it will do the right thing With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
