This commit broke launching SSH askpass from virt-manager: http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=c1b226447781ba8367606f76... Using upstream virt-manager, running python src/virt-manager.py and trying to connect to a remote SSH connection without SSH keys causes a segfault: #0 virNetSocketRead (sock=0xc, buf=0x7f746c006458 "", len=4) at rpc/virnetsocket.c:969 #1 0x00007f7477ea7374 in virNetClientIOReadMessage (client=0x7f746c006400) at rpc/virnetclient.c:712 #2 virNetClientIOHandleInput (client=0x7f746c006400) at rpc/virnetclient.c:731 #3 0x00007f7477ea7ae0 in virNetClientIncomingEvent (sock=0x7f746c002040, events=<value optimized out>, opaque=0x7f746c006400) at rpc/virnetclient.c:1120 #4 0x00007f74782332ce in libvirt_virEventInvokeHandleCallback ( self=<value optimized out>, args=<value optimized out>) at libvirt-override.c:2997 #5 0x0000003075ee965b in call_function (f=<value optimized out>, throwflag=<value optimized out>) at /usr/src/debug/Python-2.7/Python/ceval.c:4071 #6 PyEval_EvalFrameEx (f=<value optimized out>, throwflag=<value optimized out>) at /usr/src/debug/Python-2.7/Python/ceval.c:2721 ... If you apply the following patch to virt-manager: $ cat a diff --git a/src/virt-manager.py.in b/src/virt-manager.py.in index cf0a20e..4d3f1c6 100755 --- a/src/virt-manager.py.in +++ b/src/virt-manager.py.in @@ -357,8 +357,8 @@ def main(): "disabling DBus service") # Hook libvirt events into glib main loop - import virtManager.libvirtglib - virtManager.libvirtglib.register_event_impl() + #import virtManager.libvirtglib + #virtManager.libvirtglib.register_event_impl() # At this point we're either starting a brand new controlling instance, # or the dbus comms to existing instance has failed rerun make, and reproduce the error, libvirt raises an exception from virConnectOpenAuth: libvirtError: Cannot recv data: Permission denied, please try again. Permission denied, please try again. Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password). : Connection reset by peer I haven't poked at it yet, putting it here incase anyone else has ideas. - Cole