Bug 504418

Summary: In virt-inspector: "download: guestfs_download reply failed, see earlier error messages"
Product: [Community] Virtualization Tools Reporter: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component: libguestfsAssignee: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2009-06-06 16:36:23 UTC
This error happens rarely in virt-inspector:

download: guestfs_download reply failed, see earlier error messages at [...]

when downloading the /boot/initrd*.img.  There are no
'earlier error messages'.

Possibly an instance of bug 501888 (although there is
no 'internal error: reply callback called twice' which
we would expect to see).

Also possible that this is a bug or untested corner in
the Perl bindings.

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2009-06-29 14:35:14 UTC
This changeset should ease the problem although it is
only a workaround:
http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=4dff42aa13dd726fb6b02843d0f4db4b4b330fe3

Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2009-09-14 18:40:59 UTC
We think the following patch should fix this error
comprehensively:

http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=0a0d743ba80e33e676084f2a254c63d4188857b0

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-09-15 11:00:21 UTC
libguestfs-1.0.70-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.0.70-1.fc11

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2009-09-15 11:34:37 UTC
libguestfs-1.0.70-1.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.0.70-1.el5

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2009-10-03 19:03:06 UTC
libguestfs-1.0.70-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Richard W.M. Jones 2010-03-27 10:16:20 UTC
As noted in comment 2, the communications code was
extensively rewritten which should obsolete this bug.