[Libguestfs] libguestfs failure "mkdir: command not found ..."
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Mon Oct 23 15:59:38 UTC 2023
On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 03:53:37PM +0000, Maximilian Kirschner wrote:
> Is it possible that this error occcurs because my root partition is encryped
> with LUKS. If the virtual file system tries to mount the /root of my host
> system, this will not work.
> Is this the case? Does libguestfs mount the /root of the host system?
> And if so, do you know a workaround for systems with encrypted disks?
It's not to do with LUKS. Just about everyone uses LUKS and
libguestfs works fine. It's a bug in the Ubuntu package, try:
>
> I'm afraid looks like however libguestfs was built, it is
> severly broken. You might want to file an Ubuntu bug if it's
> the official package, or else try rebuilding the dpkg from
> source and see if that works.
Rich.
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