Take typical (eg) Linux image, and do: guestfish -i linuximage ><fs> find / The find command will run for quite a while and eventually the qemu process exits. This shouldn't happen ..
This is find / running in verbose mode: find string: /sysroot/bin/ps find string: /sysroot/bin/dbus-send find string: /sysroot/proc guestfsd: failed to encode reply body Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Pid: 1, comm: guestfsd Tainted: G W 2.6.31-0.24.rc0.git18.fc11.x86_64 #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff814eb2d7>] panic+0x89/0x140 [<ffffffff810670b1>] do_exit+0x8a/0x768 [<ffffffff81067822>] do_group_exit+0x93/0xc3 [<ffffffff8106787c>] sys_exit_group+0x2a/0x42 [<ffffffff81012f42>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Rebooting in 1 seconds..sock_read_event: 0x24487f0 g->state = 3, fd = 3, events = 0x1 stdout_event: 0x24487f0: child process died libguestfs: error: guestfs_find reply failed, see earlier error messages It fails in daemon/proto.c which (inexplicably) exits instead of return an error message ...
The following commit should fix this: http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=51d0620ad90f913cb749e641a839876b3ef755f8
libguestfs-1.0.56-1.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.0.56-1.el5
libguestfs-1.0.56-2.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.0.56-2.fc11
libguestfs-1.0.57-2.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.0.57-2.el5
libguestfs-1.0.58-2.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.0.58-2.el5
libguestfs-1.0.60-1.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.0.60-1.el5
libguestfs-1.0.58-2.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
libguestfs-1.0.64-2.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.0.64-2.el5
libguestfs-1.0.64-3.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.0.64-3.el5
libguestfs-1.0.65-2.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.0.65-2.el5
libguestfs-1.0.66-4.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.0.66-4.el5
libguestfs-1.0.67-1.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.0.67-1.el5
libguestfs-1.0.65-2.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
libguestfs-1.0.68-5.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.0.68-5.el5
libguestfs-1.0.68-5.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
In 1.0.88, the error message is faulty. Reopening. ><fs> find / libguestfs: error: find: guestfsd: failed to encode reply body : Success ><fs> ls / .dbus bin boot dev
Fixed the error message: ><fs> find / libguestfs: error: find: guestfsd: failed to encode reply body (maybe the reply exceeds the maximum message size in the protocol?) http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=f826ce4876135a8abb72383aa5a5681f045f5367
libguestfs-1.2.1-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.2.1-1.fc13
libguestfs-1.2.2-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.2.2-1.fc13
libguestfs-1.2.2-1.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.