On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 04:40:26PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
In data mercoledì 3 giugno 2015 18:57:38, Richard W.M. Jones ha scritto:
Currently if /tmp (on the host) is a symlink, then the symlink is copied into the appliance, probably pointing to a non-existent directory, and everything goes downhill from there.
Avoid this by making sure that /tmp and /var/tmp are real directories. --- appliance/init | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/appliance/init b/appliance/init index 3c5ef1b..3973f18 100755 --- a/appliance/init +++ b/appliance/init @@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ RUNLEVEL=S PREVLEVEL=N export RUNLEVEL PREVLEVEL
+# Make sure /tmp /var/tmp are real directories, not symlinks. +rm -f /tmp /var/tmp +mkdir /tmp /var/tmp +chmod 1777 /tmp /var/tmp
Maybe just do that if they are not existing already?
if [ ! -d /tmp ]; then ...
Yup, that's likely to be better. I'll push a modified patch. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v