Re: [Libguestfs] appliance VM won't start, can't find /init, but /init is in the image.

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 09:34:38AM -0700, David Konerding wrote: > Gotcha. I can confirm that > $ apt-cache depends --recurse -i bash libc6 | grep -v '^[<[:space:]]' | grep > libc > is empty, while > > $ apt-cache depends --recurse -i libc6 | grep -v '^[<[:space:]]' | grep libc > lists libc6. > > Just to explore a bit more: > $ apt-cache depends --recurse -i bash libc6 > bash > Depends: base-files > Depends: debianutils > PreDepends: dash > PreDepends: libc6 > PreDepends: libncurses5 > > I'm going to check with our local distribution developers and see what's > going on. Simplest workaround is to add any packages that are missing directly to: appliance/packagelist.in then rebuild the appliance (make -C appliance clean all). Possibly febootstrap should include PreDepends dependencies? For some reason this issue doesn't affect us on Debian / Ubuntu later versions.

Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v