On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Richard W.M. Jones
<rjones@redhat.com> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 08:49:01PM -0700, David Konerding wrote:
[..]
I forgot to add last night that your problem sounds like missing udev.
If you get a process listing (ps ax) is udevd running? On Ubuntu
11.04 in virt-rescue I get:
43 ? S<s 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon
367 ? S< 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon
368 ? S< 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon
udevd is definitely there (I see 1 instance, not three). udevd complains about /dev/null being missing, and /dev is pretty empty (there is only a kmsg file there).
The other big problem I see right now is that virtio-serial isn't working properly (which is the ultimate message I see). I'm trying to debug that a bit by manually starting a simple KVM with the virtio-console flags and seeing if that works.
Dave
> OK. I fixed the /sys problem: no /sys directory exists in the base image,
> so mounting fails. I edited inittab, and added mkdir /sys , this seems to
> help.
> Isn't this normally created by febootstrap?
In Ubuntu 11.04 it's created by the initscripts package.
> I have no fstab, but this doesn't really cause any problems AFAICT.
This is correct in fact. In the Ubuntu 11.04 appliance there is no
/etc/fstab and it doesn't affect anything.
> The next one is eth0. The KVM invocation in test-tools is this; I see no
> -net option to setup a network interface.
eth0 isn't really important. It's only added if you add the --network
option to virt-rescue.
I think there is something far more fundamental broken in your
appliance. Missing udev would be my guess. Is /dev there? What does
it contain?
For my Ubuntu 11.04 appliance:
# ls -l /dev/ | wc -l
175