Bug 915215 - Virt-convert prints incorrect error message while using a nonexistent path
Summary: Virt-convert prints incorrect error message while using a nonexistent path
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: virtinst
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Kletzander
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-02-25 08:59 UTC by Geyang Kong
Modified: 2013-08-05 03:45 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-03-07 09:52:18 UTC
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Description Geyang Kong 2013-02-25 08:59:07 UTC 
Description of problem:
  Virt-convert on RHEL7 printed incorrect error message while using a nonexistent path.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python-virtinst-0.600.3-2.el7.noarch

Reproduce steps:
1. Have prepared an image file such as this:
[root@dhcp-66-71-159 vmware]# ls
esx5.0-rhel6.3-i386-flat.vmdk  esx5.0-rhel6.3-i386.vmx
esx5.0-rhel6.3-i386.vmdk       esx5.0-rhel6.3-i386.vmxf

2. Run: virt-convert -i vmx -o virt-image /tmp/vmware/ /root/asdfzxcv/tyuiopjkl/

Actual results:
1. Got: ERROR    Could not create directory %s: %s

Expected results:
1. Got: ERROR    Could not create directory /root/asdfzxcv/tyuiopjkl/: No such file or directory.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Martin Kletzander 2013-03-06 15:47:57 UTC 
Fixed upstream in following commit, but we have to wait for the merge (added into "Depends on") to be done.

commit 7a18b874388e23bda9972b267937309626664059
Author: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan>
Date:   Wed Mar 6 13:18:50 2013 +0100

    Fix error message
Comment 2 Martin Kletzander 2013-03-07 09:52:18 UTC 
Don't mind the "merge" part of previous comment, changing to upstream and closing as NEXTRELEASE.
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