[Libguestfs] not able to 'make quickcheck'

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 11:19:10PM -0800, amita4581 wrote:
> Hi
> i am trying to install libguestfs on linux distro (ubuntu 15.10). and following the below link
> http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-building.1.html
> - at make stage it suggest below command and retry 'make'
> rm po-docs/podfiles; make -C po-docs update-po  
> - i run above command and re 'make' successfully. however i am not able to get ' make quickcheck' through. the error output is attached with this query.
> 
>  any help will be appreciated.

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supermin: kernel: picked kernel vmlinuz-4.2.0-42-generic
cp: cannot open '/boot/vmlinuz-4.2.0-42-generic' for reading: Permission denied
supermin: cp -p '/boot/vmlinuz-4.2.0-42-generic' '/home/mnit/libguestfs/tmp/.guestfs-1000/appliance.d.60xjvo2z/kernel': command failed, see earlier errors
libguestfs: error: /usr/bin/supermin exited with error status 1, see debug messages above
]

This is a bug in Ubuntu, please read:

  http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#where-can-i-get-the-latest-binaries-for

Rich.

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