[et-mgmt-tools] prompt bug

John Levon levon at movementarian.org
Wed Dec 3 16:35:45 UTC 2008


On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:35:55AM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:

> > RuntimeError: Prompting disabled, but yes/no was requested. Try --force
> > to force 'yes' for such prompts. Prompt was: Disk
> > /export/guests/2008.11/root.img is already in use by another guest!
> 
> You're trying to use a disk in use by another guest. We disabled
> prompting by default with the last release because it made automating
> installs a pain, but the result is we take a conservative approach to
> ambiguous situations, such as the above (also 'this sparse file, if
> fully allocated, will hose your disk. is that what you want?').

OK, then the code needs to be fixed to just give an error, not some
obscure backtrace, right?

regards
john




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