Public bug reported: Guestmount does not work. Symptoms are identical to bug #930634, but that bug says it is fixed in the versions I have. Presumably either it's a different underlying bug, or the fix doesn't work on 32-bit kernels.
user@host:/scratch$ aptitude show seabios | grep Ver Version: 0.6.2-0ubuntu2.1 user@host:/scratch$ aptitude show febootstrap | grep Ver Version: 3.14-2 user@host:/scratch$ aptitude show libguestfs0 | grep Ver Version: 1:1.14.8-1 user@host:/scratch$ uname -a Linux host 3.2.0-43-generic-pae #68-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 15 03:55:10 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux The command and error message are: user@host:/scratch/qemubuilder$ guestmount -a base-i386.qemu -i /run/shm/qemu.3430/warning: Unable to get device geometry for /var/tmp/guestfs.3JKtKZ/root febootstrap-supermin-helper: ext2: parent directory not found: /lib: File not found by ext2_lookup libguestfs: error: external command failed, see earlier error messages The test tool output is: user@host:/scratch/qemubuilder$ libguestfs-test-tool ===== Test starts here ===== LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1 TMPDIR=(not set) libguestfs: new guestfs handle 0x9467df0 library version: 1.14.8 guestfs_get_append: (null) guestfs_get_attach_method: appliance guestfs_get_autosync: 1 guestfs_get_direct: 0 guestfs_get_memsize: 500 guestfs_get_network: 0 guestfs_get_path: /usr/lib/guestfs guestfs_get_pgroup: 0 guestfs_get_qemu: /usr/bin/kvm guestfs_get_recovery_proc: 1 guestfs_get_selinux: 0 guestfs_get_smp: 1 guestfs_get_trace: 0 guestfs_get_verbose: 1 host_cpu: i686 Launching appliance, timeout set to 600 seconds. libguestfs: [00000ms] febootstrap-supermin-helper --verbose -f checksum '/usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d' i686 supermin helper [00000ms] whitelist = (not specified), host_cpu = i686, kernel = (null), initrd = (null), appliance = (null) supermin helper [00000ms] inputs[0] = /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d checking modpath /lib/modules/3.2.0-44-generic-pae is a directory picked vmlinuz-3.2.0-44-generic-pae because modpath /lib/modules/3.2.0-44-generic-pae exists checking modpath /lib/modules/3.2.0-43-generic-pae is a directory picked vmlinuz-3.2.0-43-generic-pae because modpath /lib/modules/3.2.0-43-generic-pae exists supermin helper [00000ms] finished creating kernel supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/daemon.img supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/init.img supermin helper [00000ms] adding kernel modules supermin helper [00139ms] finished creating appliance libguestfs: [00141ms] begin building supermin appliance libguestfs: [00142ms] run febootstrap-supermin-helper libguestfs: [00142ms] febootstrap-supermin-helper --verbose -f ext2 /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d i686 /var/tmp/guestfs.t3yS8p/kernel /var/tmp/guestfs.t3yS8p/initrd /var/tmp/guestfs.t3yS8p/root supermin helper [00000ms] whitelist = (not specified), host_cpu = i686, kernel = /var/tmp/guestfs.t3yS8p/kernel, initrd = /var/tmp/guestfs.t3yS8p/initrd, appliance = /var/tmp/guestfs.t3yS8p/root supermin helper [00000ms] inputs[0] = /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d checking modpath /lib/modules/3.2.0-44-generic-pae is a directory picked vmlinuz-3.2.0-44-generic-pae because modpath /lib/modules/3.2.0-44-generic-pae exists checking modpath /lib/modules/3.2.0-43-generic-pae is a directory picked vmlinuz-3.2.0-43-generic-pae because modpath /lib/modules/3.2.0-43-generic-pae exists supermin helper [00000ms] finished creating kernel warning: Unable to get device geometry for /var/tmp/guestfs.t3yS8p/root supermin helper [00563ms] finished mke2fs supermin helper [00564ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d supermin helper [00564ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/daemon.img supermin helper [00568ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/init.img febootstrap-supermin-helper: ext2: parent directory not found: /lib: File not found by ext2_lookup libguestfs: error: external command failed, see earlier error messages libguestfs-test-tool: failed to launch appliance libguestfs: closing guestfs handle 0x9467df0 (state 0) First asked on Ask Ubuntu: http://askubuntu.com/questions/302289/error- mounting-disk-image-using-guestmount ** Affects: libguestfs (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: seabios (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: precise ** Also affects: seabios (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1186228 Title: guestmount does not work To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libguestfs/+bug/1186228/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
