Anyway I'd suggest: - Check that you can ping localhost I could ping the localhost - Check there's a localhost entry in /etc/hosts associated with 127.0.0.1 (and not with ::1) I have two entries one with 127.0.0.1 and ::1. I went ahead and commented out ::1 entry - Run "netstat -antp" to see what ports programs are listening on I see various services on IP address of the local host 172.xx.xx.xx and 127.0.0.1 and ::22 and ::1 and 0.0.0.0 I see sshd, cupsd and hpiod running with local address as ::22, ::1 and 0.0.0.0. Regards Shobha Ranganathan "The significant challenges we face cannot be resolved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein -----Original Message----- From: fedora-xen-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-xen-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Daniel P. Berrange Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 5:28 PM To: Robert Thiem Cc: fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: virt-manager gives "The console is currentlyunavailable" in FC6 On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:23:20AM +1000, Robert Thiem wrote: > When first setting up FC6 I had an issue where I could start an FC6 Xen > guest install but couldn't connect with VNC. > > I don't know if it's the same (I can't remember the exact messages I was > getting), but it ended up being that "localhost" wouldn't resolve to an > IPv4 address. This was due to a nasty combination of anaconda putting IPv4 > and v6 entries in /etc/hosts and system-config-network trimming the > "extra" v4 entry when run. > > Anyway I'd suggest: > - Check that you can ping localhost > - Check there's a localhost entry in /etc/hosts associated with 127.0.0.1 > (and not with ::1) > - Run "netstat -antp" to see what ports programs are listening on Ahhh, that would certainly make sense - virt-manager explicitly connects to 'localhost' when opening the VNC connection. Since the VNC server doesn't support IPv6, I think it'd be fairly safe for me to switch virt-manager to explicitly use '127.0.0.1' which would eliminate this particularly /etc/hosts issue. Thanks for the info about the issue. Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
