errors instaling virt-manager on 11.10

[Phil Dobbin]

On 12/12/2012 09:26 AM, Tapas Mishra wrote:

> Hi,
> I am trying to install virt-manager on 11.10 on 64 bit machine
>  sudo aptitude install virt-manager
> 
> here is where it stopped the install 
> 
> Processing triggers for python-support ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  libvirt-bin
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
> Setting up libvirt-bin (0.9.2-4ubuntu15) ...
> useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.
> adduser: `/usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/lib/libvirt -g kvm -s /bin/false -u
> 118 libvirt-qemu' returned error code 1. Exiting.
> dpkg: error processing libvirt-bin (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  libvirt-bin
>                     
> 
> What should be done in this case to resolve it?

Complete shot in the dark but try running this in a terminal:

$ egrep '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

If you get nothing returned, your cpu isn't VT enabled & you can't use
kvm (whether xen is in the repos for 11.10, I've no idea).

Cheers,

  Phil...

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