This bug was fixed in the package libguestfs - 1:1.18.5-2ubuntu1
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libguestfs (1:1.18.5-2ubuntu1) quantal-proposed; urgency=low
* Install libguestfs supermin in the correct location. (LP: #1086974)
-- Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@ubuntu.com Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:35:55
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libguestfs-test-tool
= TEST FINISHED OK =
Thanks everyone who has helped out on this one :)
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Oh, and just to dot the 'I's and cross the 'T's .. it is version
1:1.18.5-2ubuntu1 that I installed after enabling proposed.
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Title:
libguestfs:
Hello Phill, or anyone else affected,
Accepted libguestfs into quantal-proposed. The package will build now
and be available at
http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libguestfs/1:1.18.5-2ubuntu1 in a
few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See
** Description changed:
[Impact]
attempting to use:
virt-copy-out -d l-raring /var/log .
Results in:
libguestfs: error: cannot find any suitable libguestfs supermin, fixed or
old-style appliance on LIBGUESTFS_PATH (search path:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guestfs)
Running:
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The problem is that libguestfs searches in the wrong place to find the
appliance. If you run libguestfs-test-tool like this:
$ env LIBGUESTFS_PATH=/usr/lib/guestfs libguestfs-test-tool
It will work
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This doesn't only affect libguestfs-test-tool and virt-*. This bug makes
the library unusable unless someone defines the proper LIBGUESTFS_PATH
variable. When using the python bindings, you get the same error.
This is fixed in debian 's 1.18.5-3 package:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-
* Nikos Skalkotos:
This doesn't only affect libguestfs-test-tool and virt-*. This bug makes
the library unusable unless someone defines the proper LIBGUESTFS_PATH
variable. When using the python bindings, you get the same error.
It has been about six weeks since I pointed to the fixed version
As a workaround for Quantal you can create a symlink:
$ sudo ln --symbolic /usr/lib/guestfs /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guestfs
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** Description changed:
[Impact]
attempting to use:
virt-copy-out -d l-raring /var/log .
Results in:
libguestfs: error: cannot find any suitable libguestfs supermin, fixed or
old-style appliance on LIBGUESTFS_PATH (search path:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guestfs)
Running:
** Also affects: libguestfs (Ubuntu Quantal)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: libguestfs (Ubuntu Quantal)
Assignee: (unassigned) = Dmitrijs Ledkovs (xnox)
** Changed in: libguestfs (Ubuntu Quantal)
Status: New = Confirmed
** Changed in: libguestfs (Ubuntu
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed
in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Raring Ringtail.
This is a significant bug in Ubuntu. If you need a fix for the bug in
previous versions of
[Impact]
attempting to use:
virt-copy-out -d l-raring /var/log .
Results in:
libguestfs: error: cannot find any suitable libguestfs supermin, fixed or
old-style appliance on LIBGUESTFS_PATH (search path:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guestfs)
Running:
libguestfs-test-tool
results in the same error.
Description modified to account for SRU template. Nominated for
Quantal series at the request of phillw (for SRUing)
** Description changed:
+ [Impact]
+ attempting to use:
+ virt-copy-out -d l-raring /var/log .
+
+ Results in:
+ libguestfs: error: cannot find any suitable libguestfs supermin,
Note that for this to be fixed for quantal, someone will need to
identify the targeted fix and prepare an SRU of the quantal version
including that fix. Nominating it for SRU does not by itself result in
anything happening here.
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(Given that the Debian maintainer has identified the version of the
package which fixed this for unstable, presumably it should be
straightforward to cherry-pick that fix; still needs someone to do the
work though)
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Re #8, I did originally ask about how to obtain the fix suggested in #2.
I'm quite happy to do that, but need some help on getting something from
debian/unstable It would be in a VM as my system now works and it would
appear very few people use guestfish, but with some help I'd be happy to
check
Having chatted to ubuntu-devel, I was informed that a newer suite is available
(1:1.18.10-1ubuntu2 ) for Raring. The list of apps to be updated was given by
carrying out:
dpkg -l \*guestf\* | awk '/^i/ {print $2}
Which gave me the list:
guestfish
libguestfs-perl
libguestfs-tools
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