[et-mgmt-tools] prompt bug

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Wed Dec 3 16:43:45 UTC 2008


John Levon wrote:
> 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

Oh, yes, that's fair. Fixed now:

http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virtinst--devel?cs=9eb684039e4e

Thanks,
Cole




More information about the et-mgmt-tools mailing list