Unable to connect to libvirt qemu:///system

Question

Running Ubuntu 20.04.

sudo virt-manager

Unable to connect to libvirt qemu:///system.

Verify that the 'libvirtd' daemon is running.

Googled ‘Verify that the 'libvirtd' daemon is running.’

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2480264 mentions KVM.

kvm --version

sudo systemctl start libvirtd

Failed to start libvirtd.service: Unit libvirtd.service is masked.

systemctl status libvirtd

● libvirtd.service Loaded: masked (Reason: Unit libvirtd.service is masked.) Active: inactive (dead)

systemctl, how to unmask

sudo systemctl unmask libvirtd.service

Removed /etc/systemd/system/libvirtd.service.

sudo systemctl status libvirtd.service

Unit libvirtd.service could not be found.

sudo apt install qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon-system

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies. libvirt-daemon-system : Depends: libvirt-clients (= 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.20) but 10.0.0-2ubuntu8.3~backport20.04.202408270202~ubuntu20.04.1 is to be installed Depends: libvirt-daemon (= 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.20) but it is not going to be installed qemu-kvm : Depends: qemu-system-x86 (= 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.29) but 1:8.0.4+dfsg-1ubuntu3.23.10.5~backport20.04.202407120432~ubuntu20.04.1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

sudo apt-get install libvirt-clients

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done libvirt-clients is already the newest version (10.0.0-2ubuntu8.3~backport20.04.202408270202~ubuntu20.04.1). 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.

sudo apt-get install libvirt-daemon

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done libvirt-daemon is already the newest version (10.0.0-2ubuntu8.3~backport20.04.202408270202~ubuntu20.04.1). 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.

Unsure how to fix broken packages.

Thank you.

sudo synaptic
Highlight All
Edit -> Fix Broken Packages
Clicked Reload
0 broken appears at bottom of window.
sudo apt install qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon-system

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies. libvirt-daemon-system : Depends: libvirt-clients (= 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.20) but 10.0.0-2ubuntu8.3~backport20.04.202408270202~ubuntu20.04.1 is to be installed Depends: libvirt-daemon (= 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.20) but it is not going to be installed qemu-kvm : Depends: qemu-system-x86 (= 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.29) but 1:8.0.4+dfsg-1ubuntu3.23.10.5~backport20.04.202407120432~ubuntu20.04.1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

So, same issue.

Unable to connect to libvirt qemu:///system

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