Bug 598309

Summary:	part-list and several other cmd failed on libguestfs on RHEL5
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Pengzhen Cao <pcao>
Component:	libguestfs	Assignee:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	5.5	CC:	hbrock, jzheng, llim, mbooth, rjones
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	libguestfs-1.2.7-1.el5.6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2010-07-27 19:48:01 UTC	Type:	---
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Comment 1 Jinxin Zheng 2010-06-01 05:36:08 UTC

This also happen on my RHEL 5.4 system, 

><fs> verbose 1
><fs> part-list /dev/vda
send_to_daemon: 0x125f8050 g->state = 3, n = 40
recv_from_daemon: 0x125f8050 g->state = 3, size_rtn = 0x7fff4368090c, buf_rtn = 0x7fff43680900
parted -m -- /dev/vda unit b print
parted: invalid option -- m
guestfsd: error: unknown signature, expected "BYT;" as first line of the output: 
libguestfs: error: part_list: unknown signature, expected "BYT;" as first line of the output: 

><fs> verbose 0
><fs> debug sh 'parted --version'
GNU Parted 1.8.1

the 1.8.1 version of parted does not support the -m option. but the daemon hard coded the -m.

Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2010-06-01 09:29:16 UTC

Yes, this is a real bug.  It's one that we were already discovering and
avoiding in our EL-5 build.  See:

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/EL-5/libguestfs/libguestfs.spec?view=markup

482	# Parted in EPEL 5 doesn't support -m (machine-friendly) option, and
483	# (not being very machine-friendly) doesn't make it easy to detect
484	# this fact.  You would see errors like this:
485	#
486	#   /sbin/parted -m -- /dev/vda unit b print
487	#   /sbin/parted: invalid option -- m
488	#   guestfsd: error: unknown signature, expected "BYT;" [...]
489	export SKIP_TEST_PART_GET_PARTTYPE=1
490	export SKIP_TEST_PART_GET_BOOTABLE=1

But it's one which we need to fix by emulating parted.

Comment 3 Richard W.M. Jones 2010-06-02 14:47:31 UTC

Patch posted upstream:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-June/msg00026.html

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2010-06-02 21:12:20 UTC

libguestfs-1.2.9-1.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.2.9-1.el5

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-06-02 21:26:06 UTC

libguestfs-1.2.9-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.2.9-1.fc13

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2010-06-03 08:48:44 UTC

libguestfs-1.2.9-1.el5.1 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.2.9-1.el5.1

Comment 8 Richard W.M. Jones 2010-07-06 13:40:29 UTC

Full build here (not finished as I write this):

http://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=2576284

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2010-07-27 19:48:01 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0566.html