[Libguestfs] guestmount fails after linux kernel update 01/10/2018

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 09:16:17AM -0500, Pasquale Rinaldi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I had been using guestmount to mount a raw image and it has been working
> great until I updated the kernel on 01/10/2018. I am running ubuntu 16.04
> LTS, and have changed the read permissions to the vmlinuz as I have done
> with previous kernels. The only change to my system between working and not
> working is the kernel update from this morning. I am concerned this might
> be related to the intel issues and the patch, which is probably in the
> kernel update I just applied.

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

I don't know if Ubuntu has this fix, if not you will need to add it.

Rich.

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