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Bug 2029674 - [qemu-ga-win] Get error 'Failed to execute helper program (No such file or directory)' after executing command 'guest-exec' [rhel-8.6.0]
Summary: [qemu-ga-win] Get error 'Failed to execute helper program (No such file or di...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: mingw-glib2
Version: 8.5
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Windows
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.6
Assignee: Yvugenfi@redhat.com
QA Contact: dehanmeng
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Blocks: 2034959
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-12-07 02:19 UTC by dehanmeng
Modified: 2022-05-16 09:55 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version: mingw-glib2-2.70.1-1.el8
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: 2034959 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2022-05-16 09:53:37 UTC
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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-104935 0 None None None 2021-12-07 02:34:16 UTC

Description dehanmeng 2021-12-07 02:19:35 UTC 
Description of problem:
when I executed qga command "{"execute": "guest-exec", "arguments": {"path": "PING", "arg": [ "www.redhat.com" ],"capture-output": true}}", will get error info {"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Guest agent command failed, error was 'Failed to execute helper program (No such file or directory)'"}}, tested win2022/win11 on RHEL9 btw.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mingw-qemu-ga-win-102.8.0-0.el8_5
qemu-kvm-6.1.0-6.el9.x86_64
kernel-5.14.0-15.el9.x86_64
edk2-ovmf-20210527gite1999b264f1f-7.el9.noarch



How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. bootup win11/win2022 VM with mingw-qemu-ga-win-102.8.0-0.el8_5
2. connect qga to send command
3. execute command {"execute": "guest-exec", "arguments": {"path": "PING", "arg": [ "www.redhat.com" ],"capture-output": true}}

Actual results:
{"execute": "guest-exec", "arguments": {"path": "PING", "arg": [ "www.redhat.com" ],"capture-output": true}}
{"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Guest agent command failed, error was 'Failed to execute helper program (No such file or directory)'"}}

Expected results:
{"execute": "guest-exec", "arguments": {"path": "PING", "arg": [ "www.redhat.com" ],"capture-output": true}}
{"return": {"pid": 6236}}

Additional info:
Test on the same guests with mingw-qemu-ga-win-102.7.0-0.el8 would not hit this issue.
Comment 1 Yvugenfi@redhat.com 2021-12-07 10:19:01 UTC 
Looks like glib but. Unfortunately mingw-glib2 was updated between the mingw-qemu-ga builds: https://brewweb.engineering.redhat.com/brew/buildinfo?buildID=1701423
Comment 2 Kostiantyn Kostiuk 2021-12-07 10:32:53 UTC 
Guest Agent uses Glib to run the child process. On Windows OS Glib uses gspawn helpers for this. For some reason, Glib can't find this helper, but it presents and works.

If you open "C:\Program Files (x86)\Qemu-ga" and run Guest Agent manually everything will work.

Current Guest Agent v102.8 was built with Glib v2.66.7-2
Previous Guest Agent v102.7 was built with Glib v2.56.1-2
Comment 3 dehanmeng 2021-12-08 02:48:15 UTC 
qga command "guest-fstrim" still hit this issue. just update this result here.

{"execute":"guest-fstrim"}
{"return": {"paths": [{"path": "F:\\", "error": "Failed to execute helper program (No such file or directory)"}, {"path": "C:\\", "error": "Failed to execute helper program (No such file or directory)"}]}}
Comment 9 dehanmeng 2022-02-28 08:54:18 UTC 
Hi all, this bug is related with mingw-qemu-ga's build, so actually, we just need to test mingw-qemu-ga-win-102.11.0-0.el8 to verify this issue.

Reproduce:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. bootup win11/win2022 VM with mingw-qemu-ga-win-102.8.0-0.el8_5
2. connect qga to send command
3. execute command {"execute": "guest-exec", "arguments": {"path": "PING", "arg": [ "www.redhat.com" ],"capture-output": true}}

Actual results:
{"execute": "guest-exec", "arguments": {"path": "PING", "arg": [ "www.redhat.com" ],"capture-output": true}}
{"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Guest agent command failed, error was 'Failed to execute helper program (No such file or directory)'"}}

Expected results:
{"execute": "guest-exec", "arguments": {"path": "PING", "arg": [ "www.redhat.com" ],"capture-output": true}}
{"return": {"pid": 1264}}


Verify this issue:
step as above

Actual results is same as expected result:
{"execute": "guest-exec", "arguments": {"path": "PING", "arg": [ "www.redhat.com" ],"capture-output": true}}
{"return": {"pid": 1264}}

and I tested this fixed version of mingw-qemu-ga for whole qga test loop. no further issue were detected. 
so move this bug to VERIFIED. thanks.
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