[Libguestfs] How to debug supermin5 issue?

[Chen Hanxiao]

At 2016-07-21 19:04:07, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 06:50:52PM +0800, Chen Hanxiao wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> At 2016-07-21 18:43:04, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 06:36:20PM +0800, Chen Hanxiao wrote:
>> >> the virtio modules in kmods did existed in this machine.
>> >> with -v -v -v, I got:
>> >
>> >Can you attach or pastebin the complete output from this command on
>> >the failing machine please:
>> >
>> >supermin5 --build -f ext2 -v -v -v /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d -o /tmp/appliance.d
>> >
>> 
>> Sure.
>> 
>> Please check the attachments.
>
>I'm not exactly sure what's wrong.  There are two things you
>can try:
>
>(1) Upgrade to a later supermin.  The latest version is 5.1.16, which
>is available here:
>
>https://people.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs-RHEL-7.3-preview/
>
>It is also much faster than 5.1.10.

Hi, Rich:

I download the rpm from
https://people.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs-RHEL-7.3-preview/supermin5-5.1.16-4.el7.x86_64.rpm

and exact it
But 
#supermin -V
supermin 4.1.4

supermin: unknown option `--build'.
supermin - tool for creating supermin appliances
Copyright (C) 2009-2013 Red Hat Inc.

Anything wrong?

Regards,
- Chen

>
>(2) With 5.1.16, if it still doesn't work, strace it, and let us see
>the full strace.log:
>
>strace -o /tmp/strace.log -s 1024 \
>    supermin5 --build -f ext2 -v -v -v /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d \
>        -o /tmp/appliance.d
>
>Rich.
>
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