Bug 1153974

Summary:	guestfish prints '\n' in error message
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Lingfei Kong <lkong>
Component:	libguestfs	Assignee:	Pino Toscano <ptoscano>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	6.6	CC:	huzhan, jherrman, leiwang, mbooth, ptoscano, rjones, wshi
Target Milestone:	rc
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Fixed In Version:	libguestfs-1.20.11-12.el6	Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:	Minor fixes and improvements have been done to the help message of the "set-append" command, an error message of the "guestfish umount" command, and to the guestfish(1) and virt-edit(1) man pages.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2015-07-22 05:56:09 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Depends On:	923355
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Description Lingfei Kong 2014-10-17 08:29:07 UTC

Description of problem:
guestfish do not escape the'\n' in the error message


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libguestfs-tools-c-1.20.11-11.el6.x86_64


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
#guestfish umount /
libguestfs: error: umount: call launch before using this function\n(in guestfish, don't forget to use the 'run' command)


Actual results:
guestfish do not escape the'\n' in the error message


Expected results:
#guestfish umount /
libguestfs: error: umount: call launch before using this function
(in guestfish, don't forget to use the 'run' command)


Additional info:

Comment 1 Pino Toscano 2014-10-17 08:38:00 UTC

(In reply to Lingfei Kong from comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> guestfish do not escape the'\n' in the error message

No, it has nothing to do with escaping, it is just a typo in the error message; see bug #923355 which was the upstream version of this.

Comment 3 Chao Zhang 2014-12-11 01:49:16 UTC

Verify with libguestfs-tools-c-1.20.11-12.el6.x86_64

Steps to verify:

#guestfish umount /
libguestfs: error: umount: call launch before using this function
(in guestfish, don't forget to use the 'run' command)

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-22 05:56:09 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-1444.html