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Dave
Asked: 2017-06-19 06:24:26 +0800 CST

Gnome-boxes won't start on one account but will on another

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Gnome-boxes begins to start then crashes on my account. However, I created another account and boxes loaded fine. I tried to delete the files in ~/.config and ~/.share but no luck.

When I launch from the CL I get the following error:

(gnome-boxes:13410): Libvirt.GObject-CRITICAL **: gvir_storage_vol_get_info: assertion 'GVIR_IS_STORAGE_VOL(vol)' failed
Segmentation fault (core dumped)\

Update: gnome-boxes --checks results in:

(gnome-boxes:2803): Boxes-WARNING **: util-app.vala:270: Failed to execute child process ?virsh? (No such file or directory)

(gnome-boxes:2803): Boxes-WARNING **: util-app.vala:250: Failed to execute child process ?restorecon? (No such file or directory)
• The CPU is capable of virtualization: yes
• The KVM module is loaded: yes
• Libvirt KVM guest available: no
• Boxes storage pool available: no
    Could not get “gnome-boxes” storage pool information from libvirt. Make sure “virsh -c qemu:///session pool-dumpxml gnome-boxes” is working.
• The SELinux context is default: no

Report bugs to <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnome-boxes>.
Boxes home page: <https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Boxes>.`

Thanks in advance for any advice how to correct this problem.

gnome-boxes

4 Answers

  1. I was just having this issue as well-- gnome-boxes would crash with that seg fault whenever I tried to open it. Here's what I did to fix it.

    After uninstalling gnome-boxes (sudo apt remove gnome-boxes && sudo apt autoremove), I ran sudo grep -rlI "gnome-boxes" ~ to get a list of files in my home directory that had the phrase "gnome-boxes" in it. It found several files, and I specifically deleted these:

    ./.config/libvirt/qemu/boxes-unknown.xml
./.config/libvirt/qemu/boxes-unknown-2.xml
./.cache/libvirt/qemu/log/boxes-unknown.log
./.cache/libvirt/qemu/log/boxes-unknown-2.log
./.cache/libvirt/qemu/log/boxes-unknown-3.log

    (I am guessing that really all you need to delete will be the xml files).

    After re-installing gnome-boxes (sudo apt install gnome-boxes), all is well and gnome-boxes is no longer crashing with the seg fault.

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  2. For me it was clearing the *.xml Files in ~/.config/libvirt/qemu. There are different .xml files depending on your virtual machines.

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  3. The fix for me was to do find | grep boxes from my home directory, and remove all the directories I found boxes stuff in, including ~/.config/libvirt.

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  4. The fix for me was:

    $find | grep boxes then $rm -rf ./.config/libvirt/storage/autostart/gnome-boxes.xml

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