Bug 921040
| Summary: | "error: external command failed, see earlier error messages" message needs to change | ||
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| Product: | [Community] Virtualization Tools | Reporter: | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones> |
| Component: | libguestfs | Assignee: | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | dyasny, mbooth |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2013-03-13 18:35:45 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description of problem: There are a number of places where external commands are run and on failure you get an error message like this: *stdin*:4: libguestfs: error: external command failed, see earlier error messages This message is confusing because: (a) It doesn't tell you which external command failed. (b) It doesn't say what we were trying to do. (c) If debugging is not enabled, it is inaccurate -- there aren't any "earlier error messages"! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libguestfs 1.20.4 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: On Debian (which has old febootstrap), unpack libguestfs-1.20.4.tar.gz and ./configure && make && make check. It will fail with the line above, and no earlier error messages. If you enable debugging then you'll see it's actually failing when running febootstrap.