On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:58:39 -0600, C Anthony Risinger <anth...@xtfx.me> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V > <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:20:21 -0600, C Anthony Risinger <anth...@xtfx.me> > > wrote: > >> a) mapped FS security policy (xattrs) causes `ldconfig` to abort()? > >> root or normal user ... > >> > >> somehow `ldconfig` gets a duplicate inode while constructing the > >> cache, even though it already de-duped (confirmed via gdb and grep -- > >> only a single abort() in the source) > >>
I will try to reproduce this to get more info. > >> b) unable to run `locale-gen` on *any* virtfs configuration? (strace) > >> > >> [...] > >> mmap(NULL, 536870912, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = > >> 0x7fb3aac63000 > >> mmap(0x7fb3aac63000, 103860, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, > >> MAP_SHARED|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) > >> cannot map archive header: Invalid argument > >> For writable mmap to work you need to mount with -o cache=loose. Did you try local-gen with that mount option ? > >> c) package files containing device nodes fail (maybe this is expected > >> ...); specifically `/lib/udev/devices/loop0` > >> > > Does this mean mknod fails for you. Or is something else in package manager causing the failure ? > > Is this with 9p2000.L ?. What is the guest kernel version ? > > (not sure if list will accept this ... too much traffic! had to remove myself) > > yes this is with 9p2000.L, both host and guests run kernel 3.2.5. i'm > happy to provide/try additional information/tests if useful. > One quick thing you could do is to try latest linus kernel as the guest kernel. > ... is there really no chance of upping the max path? seems like > config space will be a big constraint, forever :-( > > and i'm very much willing to do additional testing for the other > issues as well (i had to revert to qemu-as-root to get passthru > working 100% on rootfs ... ldconfig is kind of critical :-). are > these known issues? > I don't have much suggestion on what could be going wrong there. I will try to reproduce the ldconfig issue here. -aneesh