On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:56:26PM +0100, Hilko Bengen wrote:
* Steve Loranz:
> Here's the output of libguestfs-test-tool:
>
> ===== Test starts here =====
> TMPDIR=(not set)
> library version: 1.18.5
> [...]
> Launching appliance, timeout set to 600 seconds.
> libguestfs: error: cannot find any suitable libguestfs supermin, fixed
> or old-style appliance on LIBGUESTFS_PATH (search path:
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guestfs)
> libguestfs-test-tool: failed to launch appliance
> libguestfs: closing guestfs handle 0x1543160 (state 0)
The simple answer is that
(1) I screwed up paths in 1.18.5-2. Sorry about that, the problem got
fixed within half a week back in July.
(2) Someone put that version into some Ubuntu repository, without
bothering to do any testing, whatsoever.
You're not the first to experience this problem. As usual, a Launchpad
bug has been filed, but not much seems to have happened.
Please use libguestfs 1:1.18.1-1+deb7u1 which is going to be released
with wheezy (the upcoming stable Debian release) or whatever is current
in sid (unstable).
Thanks Hilko, as ever brilliant.
Very soon (in the next few days -- it would have been yesterday) I'm
going to have a Debian wheezy baremetal machine installed which I'll
use to test all libguestfs releases.
Rich.
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