Re: [Libguestfs] libguestfs-tools failure that I can't figure out

On Monday, 25 May 2020 04:15:23 CEST Ben Wellborn wrote: This looks fine. Also, looking at the libpcap-and-rebuild-testing.txt you provided previously, it looked like there is a package, pfring, that installs libpcap in /usr/local/lib: supermin: rpm: multiple providers: requirement libpcap.so.1()(64bit): providers: libpcap pfring supermin: rpm: multiple providers: picked pfring At least according to a quick search, it seems that this is the case: https://centos.pkgs.org/7/forensics-x86_64/pfring-7.6.0-2990.x86_64.rpm.html This is... bad: a package that: - installs a library in /usr/local - may override a system-critical library - even RPM-provides the system library (!) This is a scholar example of things that can go wrong when packaging local stuff :-/ Do you still have that package installed? Can you please try by temporarly removing it? Try to clean the cached libguestfs appliance before, using $ rm -rf /var/tmp/.guestfs-$(id -u) -- Pino Toscano