Bug 882417

Summary:	libguestfs tools fail with odd error messages if TMPDIR is not an absolute path
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component:	libguestfs	Assignee:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2012-11-30 22:11:47 UTC

Description of problem:

$ TMPDIR=. guestfish -a /dev/null run
guestfish: launch-libvirt.c:1172: make_qcow2_overlay: Assertion `path[0] == '/'' failed.
Aborted

TMPDIR isn't supposed to be a relative path.  There are
three possible things we could do here:

(a) When parsing the environment, turn it into an absolute path.

(b) Still fail, but have a better diagnostic.

(c) Document it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

libguestfs 1.19.65

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-12-01 12:49:18 UTC

Fixed upstream:
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/6b5f9221b4fa5842c428e4258205c39295203127