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r0b0t

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Registered: 2009-05-24

Posts: 510

[Solved]libvirt cannot start any interface /sbin/ebtables missing?!

Hi,

virsh --connect qemu:///system net-start default
error: Failed to start network default
error: direct firewall backend requested, but /sbin/ebtables is not available: No such file or directory

while I installed /sbin/ebtables and yet the error is there.
Downgraded different times libvirt (to older versions with no success).

Error starting network 'zone': direct firewall backend requested, but /sbin/ebtables is not available: No such file or directory

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/asyncjob.py", line 127, in tmpcb
    callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/network.py", line 104, in start
    self._backend.create()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 2635, in create
    if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virNetworkCreate() failed', net=self)
libvirtError: direct firewall backend requested, but /sbin/ebtables is not available: No such file or directory

It looks pretty the same issue as here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=141525

Any suggestion? Currently I can't use any virtual machine due to this problem as no interface can be started...

Last edited by r0b0t (2014-05-16 18:31:17)

null

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 398

Re: [Solved]libvirt cannot start any interface /sbin/ebtables missing?!

Did you restart the libvirtd service after installing ebtables? It did help me.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: [Solved]libvirt cannot start any interface /sbin/ebtables missing?!

Sanity check, /sbin is a symlink to /usr/bin, correct?

r0b0t

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From: /tmp

Registered: 2009-05-24

Posts: 510

Re: [Solved]libvirt cannot start any interface /sbin/ebtables missing?!

Did you restart the libvirtd service after installing ebtables? It did help me.

Lol thanks it worked.