On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:12:01PM +0100, Matthew Booth wrote:
 launch() expects guestfsd to start, which it never does in
virt-rescue, so it
 always returns an error about the appliance shutting down unexpectedly.
 ---
  tools/virt-rescue |    3 ++-
  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 
 diff --git a/tools/virt-rescue b/tools/virt-rescue
 index 1f292f6..f466b43 100755
 --- a/tools/virt-rescue
 +++ b/tools/virt-rescue
 @@ -214,7 +214,8 @@ $g->set_append ($str);
  
  # Run the appliance.  This won't return until the user quite the
  # appliance.
 -$g->launch ();
 +# This will definitely return an error because we don't run the daemon
 +eval { $g->launch (); }; 
It seems a shame to lose the error message here, for example in the
cause where launch really doesn't work, eg. it can't find the
appliance.  How about:
eval { $g->launch (); };
print $@ if $@;
Rich.
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