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

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 07:10:21PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 05:16:13PM -0700, David Konerding wrote: > > Hi, > > Still trying to get libguestfs appliance test to work on Ubuntu Lucid. I > > figured out my umask was causing problems and fixed that. now I'm on to a > > new problem. libguestfs-test-tool reports the following: > > > > febootstrap: mounting new root on /root > > febootstrap: chroot > > /proc/uptime: No such file or directory > > execl: /init: No such file or directory > > febootstrap: debug: listing directory / > > 2 d . 040755 4096 88619:5000 > > 2 d .. 040755 4096 88619:5000 > > 11 d lost+found 040700 16384 0:0 > > 12 d bin 040755 4096 23083:5000 > > 13 d boot 040755 4096 23083:5000 > > 14 d etc 040755 4096 23083:5000 > > 109 d lib 040755 4096 23083:5000 > > 156 d sbin 040755 4096 23083:5000 > > 157 d usr 040755 4096 23083:5000 > > 534 d var 040755 4096 23083:5000 > > 3701 - init 100750 3264 23083:5000 > > > > Note, init is indeed a file (a shell script). I checked the root and initrd > > images, and they both have init (the initrd has an init binary, the root has > > a shell script that starts udev etc). > > The problem is that the kernel gives the same error "execl: /init: No > such file or directory" for a whole variety of reasons. These > include: > > - /init missing (obviously not the case here) > > - /bin/sh missing > > - any library that /bin/sh needs is missing > > - ld-linux missing > > So you need to make sure /bin/sh is there. If it's a symlink (eg. to > dash) then the destination file is there. Then do 'ldd /bin/sh' and > make sure all of the required libraries and ld-linux are there. Additionally, these files are pulled at runtime from the host. So say that /bin/sh needs /lib/libc.so.6 which is a symlink to /lib/libc-2.14.90.so, then you would need to check: - /lib/libc.so.6 listed in appliance/supermin.d/hostfiles - /lib/libc-*.so listed in appliance/supermin.d/hostfiles - /lib/libc.so.6 exists on the host filesystem and is readable by non-root. - File(s) matching /lib/libc-*.so exist on the host filesystem and are readable by non-root.

by doing: rm -rf {/tmp,/var/tmp}/.guestfs-*

Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/