[Libguestfs] Can't create any VPS using KVM template due to the error with libguestfs

[Thirumalai Nambi]

Awesome dear, Actually I've seen the /tmp conflict before posting the
ticket...But I thought the issue might be different.

Great Support :)

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:16:30AM +0530, Thirumalai Nambi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using SolusVM control panel to create KVM VPS. Suddenly, I can't make
> > any VPS on Host-Node. Their build log says the SolusVM can't read the
> > libguestfs in server.
> >
> > During the debug, I've tried to mount existing VPS using guestmount
> command
> > and  I can't mount the KVM image.
> >
> > Please check here.
> >
> > [root at msv07 /]# guestmount -i -a /dev/msv07data/kvm139_img /mnt
> > libguestfs: error: guestfs_launch failed.
> > See http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#debugging-libguestfs
> > and/or run 'libguestfs-test-tool'.
> > [root at msv07 /]#
> >
> >
> > I've attached libguestfs-test-tool output (untitled document 1) and debug
> > output of guestmount command here(untitled document 2).
>
> The error is certainly an unusual one:
>
> mkdtemp: /tmp/lvm4zeZR5: No such file or directory
>
> caused by this code in the daemon:
>
>
> https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/daemon/lvm-filter.c#L75
>
> It's caused by the peculiar way that you've set up /tmp on your
> host:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root root     8 Aug 27 14:48 tmp -> /backup/
> drwxrwxrwt.   4 root root  4096 Aug 27 14:48 tmp-
>
> If you really want that setup, you might try adding a line:
>
> /backup
>
> to /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/hostfiles.  But really the problem is
> that you shouldn't make /tmp be a symbolic link.
>
> > Please take a look and respond asap, Last time I've opened a ticket, we
> got
> > response after one day..
> >
> > Please make this hurry, I've invested whole day on this issue. But I
> can't
> > solve it.
>
> Heh, you get what you pay for ...
>
> Rich.
>
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