virsh consoleでVMのコンソールひらいたら

virsh consoleでUbuntuのVMのコンソールひらいて、ログインしてシェルにコマンド打とうと思ったら、いきなりこんなの出てきてビビるなど。

Unhandled exception in thread started by <bound method MetaReleaseCore.download of <UpdateManager.Core.MetaRelease.MetaReleaseCore object at 0x7f58ff88fb50>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/UpdateManager/Core/MetaRelease.py", line 261, in download
    uri=urllib2.urlopen(req, timeout=20)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 394, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 412, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 372, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1201, in http_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1174, in do_open
    r = h.getresponse(buffering=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1027, in getresponse
    response.begin()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 407, in begin
    version, status, reason = self._read_status()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 365, in _read_status
    line = self.fp.readline()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 447, in readline
    data = self._sock.recv(self._rbufsize)
socket.timeout: timed out

アップデートマネージャーが外の世界につながらなくてエラーしてる？
コンソールにガッツリ出てるのは、syslogの設定が不味いか、あるいはsyslogdが落ちてるか、かな？