Bug 1164734

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 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, virt-bugs, wshi
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Improvement
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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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:	---
Clone Of:	1164732	Environment:
Last Closed:	2015-07-22 05:56:19 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1164732
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Description Lingfei Kong 2014-11-17 09:19:24 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1164732 +++

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 10:08:35 UTC

Upstream fix is 6dd371f913332a840b34ad00d52e9fa52711fb0e.

Comment 3 Chao Zhang 2014-12-11 09:11:08 UTC

Verify with libguestfs-1.20.11-12.el6

Steps:

#guestfish
><fs> help append
NAME
    set-append - add options to kernel command line

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-22 05:56:19 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