[Libguestfs] Help, it’s not working!

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Sat May 8 15:57:18 UTC 2021


On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 06:50:54PM +0000, Adrien wrote:
> supermin: root UUID is longer than 16 bytes

This is a bug in the "file" command:

https://www.mail-archive.com/libguestfs@redhat.com/msg21721.html
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=265321

You can either downgrade "file" to < 5.40, add the upstream patch to
file which fixes this, or apply this patch to libguestfs:

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/278d0d3226f4bdb7c6586986ca46d0a25c976fe4

Rich.

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