[Libguestfs] another missing link in febootstrap; failing tests for libguestfs

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 12:57:40AM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote:
> After the last round of patches to febootstrap, the image-based test in
> libguestfs still failed. It turned out that this happens because Debian
> started replacing /var/run and /var/lock with symlinks that point to a
> tmpfs mounted to /run. The symlinks were copied to the appliance but
> /run/lock did not exist, so pvcreate refused to run (script
> 'images/guest-aux/make-debian-img.sh').
> 
> After I added the following patch to helper/init.c, the image-based test
> worked. I am not certain whether this is the right approach, though.

I think it's better to push this into libguestfs/appliance/init,
instead of adding hacks to febootstrap.

BTW this works OK for me (without hacks/patches) with Debian.

> The next thing I'll be looking at are the following failed libguestfs
> tests:
> 
> test-getlogin_r.c:42: assertion failed
> /bin/bash: line 5: 18338 Aborted                 EXEEXT='' srcdir='.' LOCALE_FR='fr_FR' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8' LOCALE_JA='ja_JP.EUC-JP' LOCALE_ZH_CN='zh_CN.GB18030' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8' LOCALE_FR='fr_FR' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8' LOCALE_JA='ja_JP.EUC-JP' LOCALE_ZH_CN='zh_CN.GB18030' MAKE='make' ${dir}$tst
> FAIL: test-getlogin_r

This is a bug in gnulib.  It's probably been fixed upstream, but it's
hard to update gnulib in libguestfs without rewriting the ./bootstrap
script.  I started on this a while back but never finished it, with
the result that we haven't updated gnulib in quite a while (almost
exactly 1 year in fact).

In Fedora we added this workaround at build time:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blob;f=libguestfs.spec;h=b9eaeea567c9e494f16ae3c7b5ed9bfb330f5e32;hb=HEAD#l551

> test-readlink.h:41: assertion failed
> /bin/bash: line 5: 18514 Aborted                 EXEEXT='' srcdir='.' LOCALE_FR='fr_FR' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8' LOCALE_JA='ja_JP.EUC-JP' LOCALE_ZH_CN='zh_CN.GB18030' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8' LOCALE_FR='fr_FR' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8' LOCALE_JA='ja_JP.EUC-JP' LOCALE_ZH_CN='zh_CN.GB18030' MAKE='make' ${dir}$tst
> FAIL: test-readlink
> 
> test-readlink.h:41: assertion failed
> /bin/bash: line 5: 18624 Aborted                 EXEEXT='' srcdir='.' LOCALE_FR='fr_FR' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8' LOCALE_JA='ja_JP.EUC-JP' LOCALE_ZH_CN='zh_CN.GB18030' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8' LOCALE_FR='fr_FR' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8' LOCALE_JA='ja_JP.EUC-JP' LOCALE_ZH_CN='zh_CN.GB18030' MAKE='make' ${dir}$tst
> FAIL: test-symlinkat

I've not seen these bugs before, but they are both bugs in gnulib
also.

Rich.

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