Fedora xen - Jan 2008 - Red Hat 5.1, Xen and virt-manager crashes

I''ve been testing Red Hat 5.1''s vm stuff for a couple of weeks
and was
quite happy with the results so far.  But I''ve run into a bit of an
issue
that I hope someone out there can help me solve.

Since late last week, after a "yum upgrade" that included the newest 
kernel (2.6.18-53.1.6.el5xen), virt-manager dies when started from either 
the command line or from the desktop with a segmentation fault.

/var/log/messages gets the following:
kernel: /usr/share/virt[4369] general protection rip:3b4f8401fa 
rsp:7fff40efad50 error:0

Nothing is written to /var/log/xen/xend.log.

Nothing is written to ~/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log, although it is 
touched.

Returning to the old kernel doesn''t help.

The command line utils (xm, virsh, etc) are working fine.

Removing and then reinstalling virt-manager doesn''t resolve anything.

The vm''s are working fine.

Has anyone else seen (and more importantly, resolved) this 
issue?

A few system specs:

New kernel 2.6.18-53.1.6.el5xen
Old kernel 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5xen
virt-manager.x86_64 0.4.0-3.el5

TIA,

bb
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William R. Barker
Computer Systems & Networks Administrator
Department of Biological Structure
University of Washington School of Medicine
(206) 543-7315

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:41:45PM -0800, William R. Barker
wrote:
> 
> I''ve been testing Red Hat 5.1''s vm stuff for a couple of
weeks and was
> quite happy with the results so far.  But I''ve run into a bit of
an issue
> that I hope someone out there can help me solve.
> 
> Since late last week, after a "yum upgrade" that included the
newest
> kernel (2.6.18-53.1.6.el5xen), virt-manager dies when started from either 
> the command line or from the desktop with a segmentation fault.
> 
> /var/log/messages gets the following:
> kernel: /usr/share/virt[4369] general protection rip:3b4f8401fa 
> rsp:7fff40efad50 error:0
There was a broken update to ''pygtk2'' in RHEL-5 which caused
virt-manager
and other python + GTK based apps to crash - there should be a newer version
out to fix it already:

   http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0079.html

Regards,
Dan.
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