<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjones@redhat.com">rjones@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5">On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 07:10:21PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:<br> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 05:16:13PM -0700, David Konerding wrote:<br> > > Hi,<br> > > Still trying to get libguestfs appliance test to work on Ubuntu Lucid. I<br> > > figured out my umask was causing problems and fixed that. now I'm on to a<br> > > new problem. libguestfs-test-tool reports the following:<br> > ><br> > > febootstrap: mounting new root on /root<br> > > febootstrap: chroot<br> > > /proc/uptime: No such file or directory<br> > > execl: /init: No such file or directory<br> > > febootstrap: debug: listing directory /<br> > > 2 d . 040755 4096 88619:5000<br> > > 2 d .. 040755 4096 88619:5000<br> > > 11 d lost+found 040700 16384 0:0<br> > > 12 d bin 040755 4096 23083:5000<br> > > 13 d boot 040755 4096 23083:5000<br> > > 14 d etc 040755 4096 23083:5000<br> > > 109 d lib 040755 4096 23083:5000<br> > > 156 d sbin 040755 4096 23083:5000<br> > > 157 d usr 040755 4096 23083:5000<br> > > 534 d var 040755 4096 23083:5000<br> > > 3701 - init 100750 3264 23083:5000<br> > ><br> > > Note, init is indeed a file (a shell script). I checked the root and initrd<br> > > images, and they both have init (the initrd has an init binary, the root has<br> > > a shell script that starts udev etc).<br> ><br> > The problem is that the kernel gives the same error "execl: /init: No<br> > such file or directory" for a whole variety of reasons. These<br> > include:<br> ><br> > - /init missing (obviously not the case here)<br> ><br> > - /bin/sh missing<br> ><br> > - any library that /bin/sh needs is missing<br> ><br> > - ld-linux missing<br> ><br> > So you need to make sure /bin/sh is there. If it's a symlink (eg. to<br> > dash) then the destination file is there. Then do 'ldd /bin/sh' and<br> > make sure all of the required libraries and ld-linux are there.<br> <br></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Additionally, these files are pulled at runtime from the host.<br> <br> So say that /bin/sh needs /lib/libc.so.6 which is a symlink to<br> /lib/<a href="http://libc-2.14.90.so" target="_blank">libc-2.14.90.so</a>, then you would need to check:<br> <br> - /lib/libc.so.6 listed in appliance/supermin.d/hostfiles<br> <br> - /lib/libc-*.so listed in appliance/supermin.d/hostfiles<br> <br> - /lib/libc.so.6 exists on the host filesystem and is readable<br> by non-root.<br> <br> - File(s) matching /lib/libc-*.so exist on the host filesystem and<br> are readable by non-root.<br> <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So: /bin/sh is a link to /bin/bash, it dynamic links to libc.so.6, but it appears libc.so.6 is missing from appliance/supermin.d/hostfiles; it looks to me like the libc debian package isn't downloaded during the febootstrap. There is in libc.so.6 file in the VM image.</div> <div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> You may need to force the cached appliance to be rebuilt between tests<br> by doing:<br> <br> rm -rf {/tmp,/var/tmp}/.guestfs-*<br> <div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Is there a similar way to clear out the files in appliance/supermin.d so i can re-do the package download/unpack/build img process? I have been making clean, then make, then make install in src/libguestfs-1.12.3.</div> <div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"> Rich.<br> <br> --<br> Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat <a href="http://people.redhat.com/~rjones" target="_blank">http://people.redhat.com/~rjones</a><br> </div>virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any<br> software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows.<br> <a href="http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/" target="_blank">http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/</a><br> </blockquote></div><br>