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After upgrading from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, I can no more start Virtual Machine Manager. It was running okay when I was using Ubuntu 16.04 and I didn't face any problems but after the upgrade, everything broke. I even installed Windows 10 on it. Running it from the Applications Launcher just don't show anything. I tried running it from the terminal but I always get this error:

/usr/bin/virt-manager: 3: exec: /usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager: not found

I tried several times on the terminal but it always throw that same error message, which I don't seem to understand. I thought KVM wasn't installed but running kvm-ok gives the following message that KVM is installed and acceleration can be used:

% kvm-ok INFO: /dev/kvm exists KVM acceleration can be used

Also, the Windows 10 image file still exists in /var/lib/libvirt/images, plus other directories in the images parent directory.

How can I do to make Virtual Machine Manager run again.

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    apt install --reinstall virt-manager Commented Sep 9, 2018 at 21:06
  • Running sudo apt install --reinstall virt-manager gives: /var/lib/dpkg/info/virt-manager.prerm: 6: /var/lib/dpkg/info/virt-manager.prerm: pyclean: not found new virt-manager package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/virt-manager_1%3a1.5.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Commented Sep 9, 2018 at 21:18

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You said the error was, in relevant part:

pyclean: not found

pyclean was provided by python-minimal package, so you should reinstall that first.

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Same issue here, found issue was caused by a python library update after installing awscli. I was forced to restart my system and tried opneing virt-manager and could not open it via GUI, wne to cli and ran:

sudo virt-manager

returned:

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/__init__.py:80: RequestsDependencyWarning: urllib3 (1.24.1) or chardet (3.0.4) doesn't match a supported version! RequestsDependencyWarning)

A Google search found this thread on github: https://github.com/requests/requests/issues/4673. They were all discussing about the urllib3 (1.23.1) breaking a bunch of apps including awscli; which I had just installed 2 days prior. At the end of a thread one of the users explained that he back reved the library to version 1.22 and installed awscli again which fixed his problem. Command:

pip install --upgrade "urllib3==1.22" awscli awsebcli

Welp monkey see it works, monkey follow and it fixed my issue with Virt-Manager, tested awscli and it still works so.

TLDR: if you installed awscli and now Virt-manager broken run

pip install --upgrade "urllib3==1.22" awscli awsebcli
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The issue is that the error message "exec: /usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager: not found" is misleading. Most likely it just can't find the python interpreter. Try running /usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager because you'll find it is most likely there. You will see an error message akin to "bash: /usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager: /usr/bin/python2: bad interpreter: No such file or directory". Make sure you have python 2 installed. After the upgrade you'll likely have /usr/bin/python2.7 in place. Create a symlink to python2 like so: sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python2. After that ./virt-manager should start again just fine.

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  • Indeed, Michael Hampton's (accepted) answer covers exactly the situation where a program was not found. It's always useful, when answering, to consider the existing solutions, particularly ones that have been accepted by the asker. Commented Dec 4, 2020 at 21:12

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