Re: [Libguestfs] Would this be considered a ubuntu or libguestfs issue?

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 09:57:41AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: Yup, this is a bug .. in something. What is happening is that the Ubuntu libpam-systemd package has a post-install script that tries to communicate with the init system (which it expects to be running, but isn't running inside the libguestfs appliance). The obvious way to fix this would be to use a firstboot script instead (assuming that is working - didn't you say you had a problem with that?). Something like: $ virt-builder ... --firstboot-command 'apt-get -y update ; apt-get -y upgrade' It may be there is some other method based on persuading the systemd post script not to run, or not to try talking to the init process ... Note that --update is just a convenient shorthand for: --run-command ' export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt_opts="-q -y -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confnew" apt-get $apt_opts update apt-get $apt_opts upgrade ' You can play around with that command until you get something that works better. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org