On a fresh install where no previous connection has been made a
non-root user starting virt-manager won't find the installed libvirtd
because the location is not in the user path.
Signed-off-by: Charles Arnold <carnold@xxxxxxxx>
---
virtManager/lib/connectauth.py | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/virtManager/lib/connectauth.py b/virtManager/lib/connectauth.py
index cc83e469..71e1b21f 100644
--- a/virtManager/lib/connectauth.py
+++ b/virtManager/lib/connectauth.py
@@ -204,7 +204,8 @@ def connect_error(conn, errmsg, tb, warnconsole):
##################################
def setup_first_uri(config, tryuri):
- libvirtd_installed = bool(shutil.which("libvirtd"))
+ # Add /usr/sbin to the path in case non-root user launches virt-manager
+ libvirtd_installed = bool(shutil.which("libvirtd", path=os.environ['PATH'] + os.pathsep + "/usr/sbin"))
if config.CLITestOptions.fake_no_libvirtd:
libvirtd_installed = False
--
2.26.2
