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Bug 869179 - libguestfs fail to startup on latest rhel7 tree
Summary: libguestfs fail to startup on latest rhel7 tree
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libguestfs
Version: 7.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
high
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Richard W.M. Jones
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-10-23 08:20 UTC by Mohua Li
Modified: 2014-06-18 01:58 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libguestfs-1.22.2-1.el7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-06-13 12:57:09 UTC
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Description Mohua Li 2012-10-23 08:20:19 UTC 
Description of problem:
libguestfs-1.18.1-1.2.el7.x86_64 fail to work on RHEL7 latest tree( RHEL-7.
0-20121012.1), error as below,=20

# guestfish -N fs
guestfish: error while loading shared libraries: libpcre.so.0: cannot open 
shared object file: No such file or directory

manually create a link to libpcre.so.0 could fix this problem, but libguestfs still stuck at  creating the appliance, not sure if it's "-machine" break libguestfs, at least libguestfs-1.18.1-1.2.el7.x86_64 could work on earlier rhel7 tree, 

[root@intel-i7-12-4 tmp]# guestfish -x -v -N fs
libguestfs: trace: set_verbose true
libguestfs: trace: set_verbose = 0
libguestfs: trace: is_config
libguestfs: trace: is_config = 1
libguestfs: trace: set_pgroup true
libguestfs: trace: set_pgroup = 0
libguestfs: trace: add_drive "test1.img"
libguestfs: trace: add_drive = 0
libguestfs: trace: is_config
libguestfs: trace: is_config = 1
libguestfs: trace: launch
libguestfs: [00000ms] febootstrap-supermin-helper --verbose -f checksum '/usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d' x86_64
supermin helper [00000ms] whitelist = (not specified), host_cpu = x86_64, kernel = (null), initrd = (null), appliance = (null)
supermin helper [00000ms] inputs[0] = /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d
checking modpath /lib/modules/3.6.0-0.28.el7.x86_64 is a directory
picked vmlinuz-3.6.0-0.28.el7.x86_64 because modpath /lib/modules/3.6.0-0.28.el7.x86_64 exists
supermin helper [00000ms] finished creating kernel
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/base.img
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/daemon.img
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/hostfiles
supermin helper [00024ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/init.img
supermin helper [00024ms] adding kernel modules
supermin helper [00097ms] finished creating appliance
libguestfs: [00101ms] begin testing qemu features
libguestfs: [00126ms] finished testing qemu features
libguestfs: accept_from_daemon: 0x1fadf30 g->state = 1
[00127ms] /usr/bin/qemu-kvm \
    -global virtio-blk-pci.scsi=off \
    -nodefconfig \
    -nodefaults \
    -nographic \
    -drive file=test1.img,if=virtio \
    -machine accel=kvm:tcg \
    -m 500 \
    -no-reboot \
    -no-hpet \
    -device virtio-serial \
    -serial stdio \
    -chardev socket,path=/tmp/libguestfsBA3yRE/guestfsd.sock,id=channel0 \
    -device virtserialport,chardev=channel0,name=org.libguestfs.channel.0 \
    -kernel /var/tmp/.guestfs-0/kernel.16720 \
    -initrd /var/tmp/.guestfs-0/initrd.16720 \
    -append 'panic=1 console=ttyS0 udevtimeout=300 no_timer_check acpi=off printk.time=1 cgroup_disable=memory selinux=0 guestfs_verbose=1 TERM=screen ' \
    -drive file=/var/tmp/.guestfs-0/root.16720,snapshot=on,if=virtio,cache=unsafe


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
qemu-kvm-1.2-0.6.20120806git3e430569.1.el7.x86_64
kernel-3.6.0-0.28.el7.x86_64
libguestfs-1.18.1-1.2.el7.x86_64


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. guestfish -x -v -N fs ( you must have qemu-kvm-system installed on rhel7 system) 
2.
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-10-23 08:38:54 UTC 
What is libguestfs-1.18.1-1.2.el7?

Anyway, yes, libguestfs is broken in RHEL 7.  We're still
rapidly developing the features for RHEL 7 in Fedora 18 at
the moment, and don't expect to finish that before the end
of this year.
Comment 11 Richard W.M. Jones 2013-07-18 16:54:32 UTC 
Works for me in 1.22.2, with SELinux enforcing.
Comment 13 bfan 2014-01-09 02:57:57 UTC 
Verified with libguestfs-1.22.6-17.el7.x86_64

# guestfish -N fs

Welcome to guestfish, the guest filesystem shell for
editing virtual machine filesystems and disk images.

Type: 'help' for help on commands
      'man' to read the manual
      'quit' to quit the shell

><fs>
Comment 14 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 12:57:09 UTC 
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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