virt-manager can not start due to missing permissions

[holzkeil]

using LMDE 1204 RC stock sources

trying to start virt-manager
after getting rid of https://bugs.launchpad.net/community.linuxmint.com/+bug/985567

another error window shows

Unable to connect to libvirt.

Verify that the 'libvirtd' daemon is running.

Details
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Unable to connect to libvirt.

Verify that the 'libvirtd' daemon is running.

Libvirt URI is: qemu:///system

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1185, in _open_thread
    self.vmm = self._try_open()
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1167, in _try_open
    flags)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 102, in openAuth
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
libvirtError: Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': Keine Berechtigung
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editing /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf
i relaxed the permissions to "0777"
i did not change anything with policykit (/etc/polkit-1)

# Set the UNIX socket permissions for the R/W socket. This is used
# for full management of VMs
#
# Default allows only root. If PolicyKit is enabled on the socket,
# the default will change to allow everyone (eg, 0777)
#
# If not using PolicyKit and setting group ownership for access
# control then you may want to relax this to:
unix_sock_rw_perms = "0777"
#unix_sock_rw_perms = "0770"

i did not change anything with policykit (/etc/polkit-1)

after that a
/etc/init.d/libvirt-bin restart

and connecting was successful

maybe this isn't the right way, but is has solved the issue for now

[Oskar Wallgren (oskar.wallgren)]

Hi!

I'm glad you could make this run 'but'... This is the bugtracker for the community.linuxmint.com sites software.
I believe yours is a support case and I invite you to bring up those and other questions you might have on the Mint Forum:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/index.php

"after getting rid of https://bugs.launchpad.net/community.linuxmint.com/+bug/985567"
The same is true for this bug. I close both of them as invalid.

:-)