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Description of problem: with the guestfish compiled from the most recent git, it just fails to run the 'launch' command. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 3 04:40:41 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ qemu-kvm -version QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.3 (qemu-kvm-0.12.3), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard $ ./fish/guestfish version major: 1 minor: 3 release: 11 extra: How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. enter guestfish, add a image 2. issue launch ><fs> launch Actual results: libguestfs: error: child process died unexpectedly Expected results: the appliance successfully launched Additional info: it seems that the qemu's -net user,net=169.254... option is not working or has problem with the appliance's kernel. the host's network configuration is following, $ ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:21:7F:B6:F3 inet addr:10.66.65.67 Bcast:10.66.65.255 Mask:255.255.254.0 inet6 addr: fe80::224:21ff:fe7f:b6f3/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:608721 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:582515 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:451271073 (430.3 MiB) TX bytes:269846501 (257.3 MiB) Interrupt:18 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:136923 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:136923 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:30661204 (29.2 MiB) TX bytes:30661204 (29.2 MiB) virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 22:12:0E:9F:11:B6 inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:8107 (7.9 KiB) $ netstat -nr Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.122.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 virbr0 10.66.64.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 10.66.65.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
Created attachment 413975 [details] output of libguestfs-test-tool
The problem here is that the 'init' script in the appliance doesn't match the network configuration. This is because you're using the appliance from /usr/lib64/guestfs with your locally compiled library. If you look at the attachment: guestfs_get_path: /usr/lib64/guestfs [...] [00000ms] PATH='/usr/lib64/guestfs':$PATH libguestfs-supermin-helper --verbose '/usr/lib64/guestfs' x86_64 fedora-12 /tmp/libguestfsVQmutr/kernel /tmp/libguestfsVQmutr/initrd [...] Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 10.0.2.2 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 [...] vmchannel: tcp:169.254.2.2:45105 If you want to run libguestfs-test-tool on your local copy it's a bit complex. Please try the following commands: rm -f appliance/make.sh make clean make LD_LIBRARY_PATH=src/.libs \ LIBGUESTFS_PATH=appliance \ test-tool/libguestfs-test-tool --helper test-tool/libguestfs-test-tool-helper
I followed your suggestion and found the test-tool could pass. I have yum installed libguestfs on my host, and configured the git source with --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 . I guess this is what's stopping me from running correctly because it can't be mixed with both path. I'll reconfigure my source without the --libdir and --prefix options, this will not be a problem for me, as make install now could not be used with root. if you do not think this is a bug, please close it.
I think this was just caused by mixing incompatible appliances, so I will close this NOTABUG in accordance with comment 3.