[Libguestfs] LVM flakey failures

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 03:51:22PM +0300, Sam Eiderman wrote:
> Forgive my ignorance but I am not sure how to inject the newer systemd/udev
> into the appliance.

If you're using supermin then it should just happen as soon as you
upgrade it on the host system.

> Debian is always pretty slow on adding the latest code so I'm guessing I need
> to compile systemd/udev from source here (v248).
> 
> However, will supermin use my installed binaries or will it download the
> package from the apt repo?

It copies the installed binaries in, but they must be known to dpkg
(IOW you must build a new systemd_<VERSION>.deb file and install it).

https://libguestfs.org/supermin.1.html#SUPERMIN-APPLIANCES

Rich.

> (Of course I can just copy-in the package to the appliance post creation for
> some basic testing at the moment)
> 
> Sam
> 
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 3:06 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 02:30:03PM +0300, Sam Eiderman wrote:
>     > I think this is exactly the same issue (dmsetup's output is lost by
>     udev):
>     >
>     > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/18190
> 
>     Interesting - the fix is in systemd, does upgrading systemd (or udev)
>     help?
> 
>     Rich.
> 
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