virt-manager crashes on startup with undefined symbol: xmlCatalogIsEmpty

[Sander Klous]

Binary package hint: virt-manager

Ubuntu release: 9.04
Source package: virt-manager (0.6.1-1ubuntu4)
Expected result: successful start of virt-manager
Actual result: crash with stack trace listed below

Comment: After a few successful runs of virt-manager, now I run into this problem every time I try to start virt-manager. Looks like a corrupted configuration.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 374, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 315, in main
    from virtManager.engine import vmmEngine
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 30, in <module>
    from virtManager.connect import vmmConnect
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connect.py", line 23, in <module>
    import virtinst
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst/__init__.py", line 27, in <module>
    import util
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst/util.py", line 34, in <module>
    import libxml2
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/libxml2.py", line 1, in <module>
    import libxml2mod
ImportError: /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/libxml2mod.so: undefined symbol: xmlCatalogIsEmpty

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for reporting this issue.

Are you still having it?

Can you please give steps on how to reproduce it?

Thanks.

[Sander Klous (sander-nikhef)]

No, the issue is gone in the latest karmic version

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks.

As per last comment, closing bug.