[Libguestfs] libguestfs error: need help troubleshooting

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 08:32:52PM -0400, Deepti Navale wrote:
> Hi Rich, 
> 
> I'm not sure how far this helps as it mostly says 'No space left on device', but here's the output of the command you asked me to run:
> 
> ➜  tmp  /usr/bin/supermin --build -v -v -v --copy-kernel -f ext2 --host-cpu x86_64 /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d  -o /tmp/appliance.d
> supermin: version: 5.1.9
> supermin: rpm: detected RPM version 4.11
> supermin: package handler: fedora/rpm
> supermin: build: /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d
> supermin: build: visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/base.tar.gz type gzip base image (tar)
> tar: ./etc/aliases: Cannot write: No space left on device

Duh.  I should have spotted this before ...  Do you have enough free
space on your host /tmp filesystem?  (Or wherever $TMPDIR points to?)

[...]
> > There is a bug about this somewhere, and I cannot find it at the
> > moment.  It was fixed in newer versions of Fedora.

It's not the bug I was thinking about.

Rich.

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