[Spice-devel] Spice client terminated (exitcode = 13)

[Uri Lublin]

On 05/13/2013 02:12 PM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure anyone answered that, so here's my take on this ;)
>
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 02:50:13AM -0400, John/Amy Frye wrote:
>> Dear Spice Developers:
>>
>> When I run spicec to connect securely to a virtual machine, it exits
>> leaving me only with the info "exitcode = 13." I am unable to find what
>> this means.
>>
>> The hypervisor log shows no errors. I checked other places for info or
>> problems: /var/log/audit/audit.log, /var/log/messages, dmesg output,
>> virsh dumpxml output, qemu.conf, ss output, and iptables.
>>
>> The virtual machine is Fedora 18 running on the same.
>>
>> As far as I know, spicec is talking to the hypervisor, as shown in the
>> latter's log via warnings from prior, failed attempts to connect.
>>
>> Everything works fine when done unsecurely.
>>
>> Thank you in advance for any help you may provide.
> I think there's a spicec.log file somewhere. However, these days we highly
> recommend using remote-viewer (part of virt-viewer) as a spice client,
> maybe you'd haveb etter luck with it.

Thanks Christophe for bringing this up.

Error 13 is SPICEC_ERROR_CODE_INVALID_ARG
What is your spicec command line ?
Look at stdout/stderr for messages explaining what went wrong.
Give remote-viewer a try !