Comment 0 for bug 292008

Binary package hint: virt-manager

SInce upgrading form hardy o intrepid, virt-manager fails to start, reporting the failure to open libeffi.so.4 in ~/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log [1]. I assume this is related to the libffi 4->5 transition discussed here[2], but that discussion seems to indicate everything should be ok. I don't yet understand the issue well enough to dig deeper. System info below [3].

[1]
[Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:30:54 virt-manager 7551] INFO (virt-manager:128) Application startup
[Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:30:57 virt-manager 7557] ERROR (virt-manager:312) libffi.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/clemens/local/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 310, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/clemens/local/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 252, in main
    from virtManager.engine import vmmEngine
  File "/home/clemens/local/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 33, in <module>
    from virtManager.manager import vmmManager
  File "/home/clemens/local/share/virt-manager/virtManager/manager.py", line 29, in <module>
    import sparkline
ImportError: libffi.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:30:57 virt-manager 7557] ERROR (virt-manager:141) Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/clemens/local/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 310, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/clemens/local/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 252, in main
    from virtManager.engine import vmmEngine
  File "/home/clemens/local/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 33, in <module>
    from virtManager.manager import vmmManager
  File "/home/clemens/local/share/virt-manager/virtManager/manager.py", line 29, in <module>
    import sparkline
ImportError: libffi.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
None

[2]
http://www.nabble.com/libffi4-->-libffi5-transition-td17168998.html

[3]
Ubuntu 8.10
virt-manager 0.5.4-2ubuntu1
libffi5 3.0.5-4