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Description of problem: # engine-setup --generate-answer=~/lol ...snip... [ INFO ] Generating answer file '/var/lib/ovirt-engine/setup/answers/20131218130329-upgrade.conf' [ INFO ] Generating answer file '~/lol' [ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Closing up': [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/root/~/lol' [ INFO ] Stage: Clean up Log file is located at /var/log/ovirt-engine/setup/ovirt-engine-setup-20131218130111.log [ INFO ] Stage: Pre-termination [ INFO ] Stage: Termination [ ERROR ] Execution of upgrade failed # ls -l ~/lol ls: cannot access /root/lol: No such file or directory Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): is27 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. engine-setup --generate-answer=~/lol 2. 3. Actual results: failure Expected results: lol exists Additional info: or maybe engine-setup does not like funny filenames? :)))
fyi, it was ran when rhevm was already fully setup, i mean: engine-setup, engine-setup again...
~ is expanded by the shell, if at all, and is not the job of engine-setup (or most any other program). I now checked and saw that bash (at least my version) expands things like echo a=~/b but does not expand things like echo --a=~/b Not sure why. Other shells differ in this behavior as well (also from bash) - tried dash and posh. engnie-setup fails, in this case, because it tries to write to a file ~/lol, which without tilde expansion is interpreted as the file "lol" inside a directory named "~". If you do mkdir "~" and then run engine-setup as you tried, it will work. Probably not what you wanted, though. You'll get the same error if you do e.g. engine-setup --generate-answer=/tmp/dir1/file1 if /tmp/dir1 does not exist.