error creating new machine with "Fedora20+" profile

This patch gets me past the error (but to some socket error)

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Hi,

i still get the same error in 14.10 when trying to install from network via HTTP-Url..

 Hello

after revert attached patch ( fetcher -> self.fetcher )

it works

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Same here, with profile „Microsoft Windows 7 (or later)”.
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Unable to complete install: 'global name 'fetcher' is not defined'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 91, in cb_wrapper
    callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 1820, in do_install
    guest.start_install(meter=meter)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py", line 384, in start_install
    self._prepare_install(meter, dry)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py", line 277, in _prepare_install
    util.make_scratchdir(self.conn, self.type))
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/installer.py", line 201, in prepare
    self._prepare(guest, meter, scratchdir)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/distroinstaller.py", line 442, in _prepare
    dev = self._prepare_cdrom_url(guest, fetcher)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/distroinstaller.py", line 341, in _prepare_cdrom_url
    store = urlfetcher.getDistroStore(guest, fetcher)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/urlfetcher.py", line 338, in getDistroStore
    if store.isValidStore():
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/urlfetcher.py", line 960, in isValidStore
    elif fetcher.hasFile("initrd.gz") and fetcher.hasFile("linux"):
NameError: global name 'fetcher' is not defined

I think I got to the bottom of it.

Short version:
If the ".treeinfo" file is missing from the repository, the error "ERROR global name 'fetcher' is not defined" is encountered.

Long version:
I had used wget to download the Centos 7 packages from a website mirror to keep them on my local HTTP server. What it didn't copy were the hidden files.

When I encountered this error I found this bug report and could successfully work around/ solve this problem by applying the above "virt-manager-urlfetcher.patch" patch.

Later then I realized that the PXE installer reports a 404 error for the ".treeinfo" file. I then downloaded the ".treeinfo" from the repository and also reverted the "urlfetcher.py" to its original code line. Now the error was not encountered anymore.

In the light of this, I presume that there is the possiblity that the others encountered this error because of the the missing ".treeinfo" file.

Thanks for the information. That may weed out quite a few of the datapoints, although the 'global name fetcher not defined' error still looks related-but-different.

I upgraded to 15.04beta and face this issue again

virt-manager 1:1.0.1-4ubuntu2

It is just a problem with this single profile. Other profiles do work.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 91, in cb_wrapper
    callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 1819, in do_install
    guest.start_install(meter=meter)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py", line 403, in start_install
    noboot)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py", line 467, in _create_guest
    dom = self.conn.createLinux(start_xml or final_xml, 0)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 3422, in createLinux
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self)
libvirtError: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2015-02-22T11:02:14.744134Z qemu-system-x86_64: -chardev socket,id=charchannel0,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channel/target/fedora20.org.qemu.guest_agent.0,server,nowait: Failed to bind socket: No such file or directory

The path /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channel/target/ seems to be dynamically created, as it does not belong to any packages in vivid. Creating it with proper permissions does not make any difference.

@Christian,

was that comment meant for another bug?

No, meant for this report.

Ok - it seems like a very different bug, as there is no reference to 'fetcher' or urlfetcher.py in the error output.

I am also getting this error with virt-install

When running the following in ubuntu 15.04;

 virt-install -n dummy -r 512 --vcpus=1 --os-type=linux
--os-variant=rhel7 -w bridge:virbr0 --disk
path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/dummy.qcow2,size=8 -l
http://pubmirrors.dal.corespace.com/centos/7/isos/x86_64/ --dry-run

I am given "ERROR global name 'fetcher' is not defined."

Enabling debug shows ( snipped output )

[Thu, 21 May 2015 14:20:07 virt-install 13914] ERROR (cli:235) global
name 'fetcher' is not defined
[Thu, 21 May 2015 14:20:07 virt-install 13914] DEBUG (cli:237)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-install", line 875, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-install", line 860, in main
    guest = build_guest_instance(conn, options, parsermap)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-install", line 470, in
build_guest_instance
    get_install_media(guest, options.location, options.cdrom)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-install", line 233, in
get_install_media
    validate_install_media(guest, location, cdpath, cdinstall)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-install", line 243, in
validate_install_media
    guest.installer.check_location(guest)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/distroinstaller.py", line 471,
in check_location
    urlfetcher.detectMediaDistro(guest, self.location)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/urlfetcher.py", line 360, in
detectMediaDistro
    store = getDistroStore(guest, fetcher)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/urlfetcher.py", line 338, in
getDistroStore
    if store.isValidStore():
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/urlfetcher.py", line 960, in
isValidStore
    elif fetcher.hasFile("initrd.gz") and fetcher.hasFile("linux"):
NameError: global name 'fetcher' is not defined

My python-fu is quite weak and I can't figure this out. I was able to
run
> python setup.py test_urls

Some URLs Errored, 1 failed, many passed.

The packages associated for ubuntu 15.04 are;

ii virt-manager 1:1.0.1-5ubuntu all desktop application for managing virtual mach
ii virtinst 1:1.0.1-5ubuntu all

For what it's worth. I install virt-manager 1.2 from source (required an additional library libosinfo-1.0-0:amd64 (0.2.11-1.1, automatic)) and found other errors trying to verify the source of the .iso, however, I did not get the python global name error that you get from running the ubuntu 15.04 version.

I contacted the owner of the package and was told "

I think this is an ubuntu specific bug, either a botched backport or some
broken custom patch they have, since I don't see code like that in v1.0.1
virt-manager. I'd suggest filing a bug with them"

Sorry - also wanted to say that the patch listed above does not work for me.

This is caused by the debian/patches/virtinst/9004_ubuntu_fix_tree_support.patch patch that is obviously broken.

Attached a fixed version of 9004_ubuntu_fix_tree_support for wily (change "fetcher" to "self.fetcher").
Rebuilding with this patch, I was able to install a Fedora 23 machine, as well as Ubuntu 15.10