errors instaling virt-manager on 11.10

[Tapas Mishra]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Abhishek Dixit <abhidixit87 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On 12/12/2012 09:26 AM, Tapas Mishra wrote:
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>> > 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:
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>> $ egrep '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
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>> 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.
>
>
Correct...
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