[Libguestfs] libguestfs operations failing

[Nikolay Ivanets]

Here is Richard's W.M. Jones answer:

> This is caused by a bug in the way that supermin created symlinks
> which is not compatible with the new kernel:
>
>   291 l bzfgrep          120777 6 0:0 -> \x1c\v
>
> You need to upgrade to the new supermin which fixes this.

> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2017-July/msg00089.html
> https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin/commit/158854e3ba4be7f6b8d81f662ddad98358ede1de
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1470157

or alternatively you can rebuild appliance if you have older kernel
version around.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1470157#c11 on how to do that.
--
    Mykola Ivanets


2018-02-07 22:47 GMT+02:00 George Koenig <george.g.koenig at gmail.com>:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm able to add (>add-ro image) a newly created image (created with
> vmbuilder) using the guestfish shell, but unable to run it.  I appear to be
> getting kernel panics when doing so.  In trying to debug the issue, I
> noticed that libguestfs-test-tool also fails with a kernel panic due to sync
> errors.  I had previously suspected an issue with the kernel file
> permissions but this was resolved by allowing read access.
>
> I've attached output from both running the guestfish shell, and
> libguestfs-test-tool.  I am running Ubuntu Xenial (16.04), and guestfish
> 1.32.2 installed via apt.
>
> Thanks.  Please let me know if there is anything else I can provide that
> will assist.
>
>
> Regards,
> George Koenig
>
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