Bug 882417 - libguestfs tools fail with odd error messages if TMPDIR is not an absolute path
Summary: libguestfs tools fail with odd error messages if TMPDIR is not an absolute path
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
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Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: libguestfs
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
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Assignee: Richard W.M. Jones
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Reported: 2012-11-30 22:11 UTC by Richard W.M. Jones
Modified: 2012-12-01 12:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-12-01 12:49:18 UTC
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2012-11-30 22:11:47 UTC 
Description of problem:

$ TMPDIR=. guestfish -a /dev/null run
guestfish: launch-libvirt.c:1172: make_qcow2_overlay: Assertion `path[0] == '/'' failed.
Aborted

TMPDIR isn't supposed to be a relative path.  There are
three possible things we could do here:

(a) When parsing the environment, turn it into an absolute path.

(b) Still fail, but have a better diagnostic.

(c) Document it.

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

libguestfs 1.19.65
Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-12-01 12:49:18 UTC 
Fixed upstream:
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/6b5f9221b4fa5842c428e4258205c39295203127
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