Bug 1500537 - /dev/shm does not exist in the appliance environment
Summary: /dev/shm does not exist in the appliance environment
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: libguestfs
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Richard W.M. Jones
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: 982516 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-10-10 21:31 UTC by Richard W.M. Jones
Modified: 2018-02-08 16:48 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-10-11 17:01:07 UTC
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2017-10-10 21:31:56 UTC 
Description of problem:

(Reported by nhicher on IRC)

/dev/shm does not exist in the appliance environment, eg:

$ virt-rescue --scratch
><rescue> ls /dev/shm
ls: cannot access '/dev/shm': No such file or directory

This causes problems when running ‘ansible’ using
‘virt-customize --run-command’.

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

libguestfs 1.36.6

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See above.
Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2017-10-11 17:01:07 UTC 
Upstream in:
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/4d869035b807d2b6460eab67b2adb495eaea07cd

Fixed in libguestfs >= 1.36.8 and >= 1.37.30 and >= 1.38.
Comment 2 Pino Toscano 2018-02-08 16:48:49 UTC 
*** Bug 982516 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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