From: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>

When no URI is set we try to guess what daemon to connect to by looking
for any listening sockets. If there are no listening sockets, however,
we don't even know what daemon the user expected to connect to. The
error message in this case is not especially clear

This tweaks the error message to try to make the problem easier to
understand.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
---
 src/remote/remote_sockets.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/remote/remote_sockets.c b/src/remote/remote_sockets.c
index 8d403b6f01..4e6d19098c 100644
--- a/src/remote/remote_sockets.c
+++ b/src/remote/remote_sockets.c
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ remoteGetUNIXSocket(remoteDriverTransport transport,
 
         if (!direct_sock_name) {
             virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_UNSUPPORTED, "%s",
-                           _("Cannot use direct socket mode if no URI is set. For more information see https://libvirt.org/kbase/failed_connection_after_install.html"));
+                           _("No URI is provided and cannot identify any listening daemon socket path to attempt to connect to. Please ensure the expected daemon sockets are active and/or provide an explicit URI. For more information see https://libvirt.org/kbase/failed_connection_after_install.html"));
             return NULL;
         }
 
-- 
2.48.1

On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 06:11:56PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> From: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> 
> When no URI is set we try to guess what daemon to connect to by looking
> for any listening sockets. If there are no listening sockets, however,
> we don't even know what daemon the user expected to connect to. The
> error message in this case is not especially clear
> 
> This tweaks the error message to try to make the problem easier to
> understand.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>

Sorry, one thing: Do you need to add a link to Ming's bug report?  eg:

Fixes: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-87177

Rich.

> ---
>  src/remote/remote_sockets.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/remote/remote_sockets.c b/src/remote/remote_sockets.c
> index 8d403b6f01..4e6d19098c 100644
> --- a/src/remote/remote_sockets.c
> +++ b/src/remote/remote_sockets.c
> @@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ remoteGetUNIXSocket(remoteDriverTransport transport,
>  
>          if (!direct_sock_name) {
>              virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_UNSUPPORTED, "%s",
> -                           _("Cannot use direct socket mode if no URI is set. For more information see https://libvirt.org/kbase/failed_connection_after_install.html"));
> +                           _("No URI is provided and cannot identify any listening daemon socket path to attempt to connect to. Please ensure the expected daemon sockets are active and/or provide an explicit URI. For more information see https://libvirt.org/kbase/failed_connection_after_install.html"));
>              return NULL;
>          }
>  
> -- 
> 2.48.1

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