[Libguestfs] File not found by ext2_lookup

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 03:00:54PM +0300, Gleb Voronich wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been trying to clone one disk image (LVM) to another using virt-resize.
> Unfortunately I get the following error:
> 
> # virt-resize /dev/vm/vm6 /dev/vm/vm7
> 
> supermin helper [00004ms] finished creating kernel
> supermin helper [00251ms] finished mke2fs
> <domain type='kvm'>
> supermin helper [00252ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d
> supermin helper [00252ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/base.img.gz
> supermin helper [03505ms] visiting
> /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/daemon.img.gz
> supermin helper [03527ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/hostfiles
> libguestfs: trace: launch = -1 (error)
> Fatal error: exception Guestfs.Error("supermin-helper exited with
> error status 1, see debug messages above")
> libguestfs: trace: close
> 
> Is there any known issue that could cause this?
> I have CentOS 7.0.1406 at the host node at CentOS 6.5 at the guest.

Yes, sorry, this is a known bug in the CentOS 7 libguestfs package.

See:

  https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2014-July/msg00036.html

for a couple of workarounds.

Karanbir, should I file a bug about this?

Rich.

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