Bug 1164732

Summary: The description of 'help append' is not accurately, it add the kernel options to libguestfs appliance not the guest kernel
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Lingfei Kong <lkong>
Component: libguestfsAssignee: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 7.1CC: huzhan, jherrman, leiwang, mbooth, ptoscano, wshi, yuliu
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Improvement
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: libguestfs-1.28.1-1.11.el7 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: ---
Clone Of:
: 1164734 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-03-05 13:47:24 UTC Type: Bug
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:    
Bug Blocks: 1164734    

Description Lingfei Kong 2014-11-17 09:18:16 UTC
Description of problem:
The description of 'help append' is not accurately, it add the kernel options to libguestfs appliance not the guest kernel


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libguestfs-1.28.1-1.10.el7


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Prepare a image file
# dd if=/dev/zero  of=test.img bs=1M count=1 seek=100

2. # guestfish  -a test.img
><fs> set-append test=TEST
><fs> run
><fs> debug sh "cat /proc/cmdline"
panic=1 console=ttyS0 udevtimeout=6000 udev.event-timeout=6000 no_timer_check acpi=off printk.time=1 cgroup_disable=memory root=/dev/sda selinux=0 TERM=xterm-256color test=TEST


Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2014-11-17 10:08:41 UTC
Upstream fix is 6dd371f913332a840b34ad00d52e9fa52711fb0e.

Comment 3 yuliu 2014-11-18 06:33:31 UTC
><fs> help append
NAME
    set-append - add options to kernel command line


Verified as above.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 13:47:24 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-2015-0303.html