[Libguestfs] virt-df error, help

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 07:57:06AM +0800, cuimingwen at incito.com.cn wrote:
> Thanks  again,  but  when  I run  the command "sudo update-guestfs-appliance" 
>  
> the  result is "unpacking /tmp/superminef3fb7da4d1971287149691a8361ae0d.tmp/syslinux_3%3a4.05+dfsg-6+deb8u1_amd64.deb ... 
> unpacking /tmp/superminef3fb7da4d1971287149691a8361ae0d.tmp/sysv-rc_2.88dsf-41ubuntu6_all.deb ... 
> unpacking /tmp/superminef3fb7da4d1971287149691a8361ae0d.tmp/sysvinit-utils_2.88dsf-41ubuntu6_amd64.deb ... 
> unpacking /tmp/superminef3fb7da4d1971287149691a8361ae0d.tmp/tar_1.27.1-1_amd64.deb ... 
> unpacking /tmp/superminef3fb7da4d1971287149691a8361ae0d.tmp/tzdata_2014i-0ubuntu0.14.04_all.deb ... 
> unpacking /tmp/superminef3fb7da4d1971287149691a8361ae0d.tmp/ucf_3.0027+nmu1_all.deb ... 
> unpacking /tmp/superminef3fb7da4d1971287149691a8361ae0d.tmp/udev_204-5ubuntu20.9_amd64.deb ... 
> unpacking /tmp/superminef3fb7da4d1971287149691a8361ae0d.tmp/upstart_1.12.1-0ubuntu4.2_amd64.deb ... 
> unpacking /tmp/superminef3fb7da4d1971287149691a8361ae0d.tmp/util-linux_2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20.3_amd64.deb ... 
> unpacking /tmp/superminef3fb7da4d1971287149691a8361ae0d.tmp/vim-common_2%3a7.4.052-1ubuntu3_amd64.deb ... 
> unpacking /tmp/superminef3fb7da4d1971287149691a8361ae0d.tmp/vim-tiny_2%3a7.4.052-1ubuntu3_amd64.deb ... 
> unpacking /tmp/superminef3fb7da4d1971287149691a8361ae0d.tmp/watershed_7_amd64.deb ... 
> unpacking /tmp/superminef3fb7da4d1971287149691a8361ae0d.tmp/xkb-data_2.10.1-1ubuntu1_all.deb ... 
> unpacking /tmp/superminef3fb7da4d1971287149691a8361ae0d.tmp/xz-utils_5.1.1alpha+20120614-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb ... 
> unpacking /tmp/superminef3fb7da4d1971287149691a8361ae0d.tmp/zerofree_1.0.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ... 
> unpacking /tmp/superminef3fb7da4d1971287149691a8361ae0d.tmp/zfs-fuse_0.7.0-10.1_amd64.deb ... 
> unpacking /tmp/superminef3fb7da4d1971287149691a8361ae0d.tmp/zlib1g_1%3a1.2.8.dfsg-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ... 
> 9081 files and directories 
> writing supermin.d/base.img ... 
> writing supermin.d/hostfiles ..."
> 
> but  when I run "virt-df -d `virsh domuuid 5` " 
> the  errors  are  also  still  ,  
> incito at M06MYPY9:~$ virt-df -d `virsh domuuid 5` 
> libguestfs: warning: supermin-helper -f checksum returned a short string 
> libguestfs: error: cannot find any suitable libguestfs supermin, fixed or old-style appliance on LIBGUESTFS_PATH (search path: /usr/lib/guestfs) 
> incito at M06MYPY9:~$ 

Maybe not enough disk space on /tmp or /var/tmp?

What host OS are you using?

Where did you get libguestfs from?

What versions of libguestfs & supermin are installed?

If possible, update to libguestfs >= 1.26.  The appliance building
code was completely rewritten and is far more robust.

Rich.

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