If you emerge virt-manager on a system that does not run an Xorg server and virt-manager is started via x11 ssh forwarding, you may end up with a configuration where no setting changes can be saved. It turns out that virt-manager requires dconf to write its configuration changes, however if dbus is not compiled with the X use flag, writing the configuration fails with an error: failed to commit changes to dconf: Error spawning command line “dbus-launch --autolaunch=<some_id> --binary-syntax --close-stderr" in ~/.cache/virt-manager/virt-manager.log app-emulation/virt-manager[gtk] does not have a direct runtime dependency of dbus, however the dependency is inherited from: gnome-base/dconf, which does not seem to ask for X on sys-apps/dbus: RDEPEND=" >=dev-libs/glib-2.44.0:2 sys-apps/dbus " Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Compile current stable app-emulation/virt-manager[gtk] on a system where there is no global X use flag 2. Launch virt-manager via an ssh tunnel with X11 forwarding from another system that runs Xorg server 3. Try to add a connection or make any changes via the UI, observe how they are not saved Actual Results: The settings of the application are not saved Expected Results: The settings of the application to be saved
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=b98d19743eda98438052135a21ce490f972c7648 commit b98d19743eda98438052135a21ce490f972c7648 Author: Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-03-19 16:43:17 +0000 Commit: Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-03-19 16:48:02 +0000 app-emulation/virt-manager: add 4.0.0 - version bump to 4.0.0 - bump to EAPI 8 - Add a more prominent warning about app-emulation/qemu[usbredir,spice] Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/828536 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/793182 Signed-off-by: Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org> app-emulation/virt-manager/Manifest | 1 + .../virt-manager/virt-manager-4.0.0.ebuild | 96 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 97 insertions(+)
