Bug 785556

Summary:	qemu-nbd dies with nbd.c:nbd_receive_request():L460: read failed
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Robin Green <greenrd>
Component:	qemu	Assignee:	Fedora Virtualization Maintainers <virt-maint>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	16	CC:	amit.shah, berrange, cfergeau, crobinso, dougsland, dwmw2, gcosta, itamar, jaswinder, jforbes, knoel, scottt.tw, virt-maint
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Description Robin Green 2012-01-29 14:46:29 UTC

Description of problem:
qemu-nbd dies when trying to e.g. copy an entire filesystem off an LVM partition inside a disk image. This bug has been reported before against previous Fedora releases, and closed when they got EOLed, but what's new here is (a) this is on the latest Fedora, and (b) a reproducable test case.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
qemu-common-0.15.1-3.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
0. Obtain or create some Linux disk image, which below I've called rawhide.img because it contains a rawhide image
1. modprobe nbd max-part=63
2. qemu-nbd -t -v -c /dev/nbd0 rawhide.img
Open a new terminal
3. vgchange -ay
4. mkdir /mnt/rawhide
5. mount -o noatime /dev/mapper/vg-lv_root /mnt/rawhide/
6. /bin/cp -af /mnt/rawhide .
  
Actual results:
after about a minute:
... lots of lines like
/bin/cp: `/mnt/rawhide': Input/output error

and in the qemu-nbd terminal:
connect(unix:/var/lock/qemu-nbd-nbd0): No such file or directory
NBD device /dev/nbd0 is now connected to file rawhide.img
nbd.c:nbd_receive_request():L460: read failed

Expected results:
No qemu-nbd crash

Comment 1 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2012-03-15 17:56:41 UTC

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

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Comment 3 Cole Robinson 2013-02-11 22:01:21 UTC

Hi Robin, sorry this never got a response. Since F16 is going unsupported, closing as WONTFIX.

If you can still reproduce against F18, please reopen. Thankfully though qemu-nbd went from barely maintained to very actively maintained between F16 and F18 qemu versions, so things should be better these days.