errors instaling virt-manager on 11.10

[Abhishek Dixit]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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).
>
This has nothing to do with problem of OP, you still can install
virt-manager and
use an ssh connection to control a machine which is in network one can
install virt-manager at
his end and connect to a machine remotely.
The problem OP faces is packages not installing.
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