On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 03:38:55AM +0000, Leon Blakey wrote: > Host has various /etc directories symlinked to a config git repo. Running > "virt-filesystems -a ./somevm.qcow2" fails with parent directory not found. > Commands ran as root. Filesystem is ZFS and /etc is same dataset as /. > > Can Workaround by replacing symlink with regular copied directory.
You may also be able to workaround it by adding a file /usr/lib/x86_64-linux gnu/guestfs/supermin.d/00-udev (does that path really contain a space?) containing something like this: /holo /holo/hosts /holo/hosts/lyoko /holo/hosts/lyoko/etc /holo/hosts/lyoko/etc/udev /holo/hosts/lyoko/etc/ssh /etc /etc/udev It should ensure that the directories exist early on so there's no missing parent directory. > supermin: *** parent directory not found *** > supermin: When reporting this error: > supermin: please include ALL the debugging information below > supermin: AND tell us what system you are running this on. > src=/var/tmp/superminaa2b2a.tmpdir/base.d/etc/udev/udev.conf > dest=/etc/udev/udev.conf > dirname=/holo/hosts/lyoko/etc/udev > basename=udev.conf > supermin: ext2fs_namei: parent directory not found: > /holo/hosts/lyoko/etc/udev: File not found by ext2_lookup > supermin: failure: ext2fs_namei: parent directory not found > > Did workaround with udev, next SSH fails. Logs are the same up to this point > > supermin: ext2: creating empty ext2 filesystem > '/var/tmp/.guestfs-0/appliance.d.3zru7brm/root' > supermin: ext2: populating from base image > supermin: *** parent directory not found *** > supermin: When reporting this error: > supermin: please include ALL the debugging information below > supermin: AND tell us what system you are running this on. > src=/var/tmp/superminb70190.tmpdir/base.d/etc/ssh/ssh_config > dest=/etc/ssh/ssh_config > dirname=/holo/hosts/lyoko/etc/ssh > basename=ssh_config > supermin: ext2fs_namei: parent directory not found: > /holo/hosts/lyoko/etc/ssh: File not found by ext2_lookup > supermin: failure: ext2fs_namei: parent directory not found This is basically a bug in supermin which we've never bothered to fix as it affects us rarely enough, and fixing it requires changing how supermin models the filesystem internally to use a tree rather than a dumb list of strings, which is a bunch of work. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com nbdkit - Flexible, fast NBD server with plugins https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list -- guestfs@lists.libguestfs.org To unsubscribe send an email to guestfs-le...@lists.libguestfs.org
