[Libguestfs] missing mount cmd confuses guestfish

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 02:40:27PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 18, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I think calling "sh" before "mount" should not confuse guestfish like
> > that:
> > 
> > # guestfish (1.20.4 on sles11sp3)
> 
> Doing the same, by accident, with 1.22.5 causes a crash:
> 
> 
> # guestfish -r -v --network
> ><fs> add-drive /work/kvm/images/opensuse12.3/disk0.raw
> ><fs> launch
> 
> ><fs> sh "ip a"
> guestfsd: main_loop: new request, len 0x30
> guestfsd: error: do_command: you must call 'mount' first to mount the root filesystem
> *** glibc detected *** guestfsd: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00007fffd8425ba0 ***
> libguestfs: error: sh: do_command: you must call 'mount' first to mount the root filesystem
> ><fs> mount /de======= Backtrace: =========
> /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x733b6)[0x7f4994ae83b6]
> /lib64/libc.so.6(cfree+0x6c)[0x7f4994aed2dc]
> guestfsd[0x409e6f]
> guestfsd[0x40a01b]
> guestfsd[0x43e9a1]
> guestfsd[0x422bd7]
> guestfsd[0x41606c]
> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd)[0x7f4994a93bfd]
> uestfsd[0x405189]

Yup, that's a bug :-(

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1000121

Rich.

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