On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 07:53:26PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 09:45:18AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > Then I created my blank 'disk' file and tried to > > > run virt-rescue on it. It crashed out with an > > > error from febootstrap. > > > > First of all, debug this properly: > > ===================================================================== > > (1) What is the full error message? > [...] > # virt-rescue -a recovery2.immortaldata.net.raw > febootstrap-supermin-helper: ext2: parent directory not found: /lib: File not found by ext2_lookup This is because you need to run: sudo update-guestfs-appliance > ===================================================================== > > (3) What version of libguestfs & febootstrap are using and where did > > you get them from? > > Updated from official Ubuntu Precise Pangolin server last night. > > Package: libguestfs0 > Architecture: amd64 > Source: libguestfs > Version: 1:1.14.8-1 > > Package: febootstrap > Architecture: amd64 > Version: 3.12-1 Unfortunately we found out today that Ubuntu 12.04's libguestfs package is largely broken. For more information, see: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2012-April/msg00028.html There is no solution to the kernel bug that affects Ubuntu (only). [...] Bit busy now, but I'll have a look at the rest later. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora
