On Tue, Apr 07, 2026 at 08:30:08PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé via Devel wrote: > Hard to say, but I'm pretty sure we've seen bugs with libguestfs > where knowing the XDG_* env vars would have made diagnosis quicker, > so that probably points to including them.
Several times, with the most recent ones being RHEL-70222 and RHEL-105490 (both already mentioned in this thread). Also there is a some similar problem with passt, resolved through documentation: https://passt.top/passt/commit/?id=c54ef9e8358db1a720c849612a32e52340d7a548 In libguestfs-test-tool we log XDG_RUNTIME_DIR: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/a8ff3487bbf6c37b83e1d6eec32659b29a8f65ad/test-tool/test-tool.c#L201 For background reading, this bug (in systemd): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=967509 Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org
