Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH] added ntfscat_i api

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 09:55:32PM +0200, noxdafox wrote: > On 27/02/16 11:23, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> [...] >>>>> md_create: feature 'mdadm' is not available in this >>>>> build of libguestfs. Read 'AVAILABILITY' in the guestfs(3) man page for >>>>> how to check for the availability of features. at /home/noxdafox/development/libguestfs/test-data/phony-guests/make-fedora-img.pl >>>>> line 103. >>> All the other packages were already installed. Most of these >>> packages seem to be available to other Debian branches but not on >>> Stretch. >> The Debian package 'mdadm' is installed on the machine or not? > $ dpkg -l | grep mdadm > ii mdadm 3.4-1 amd64 tool to > administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID) >> Assuming it is installed, what is the output of: >> >> rm -rf tmp/.guestfs-* >> ./run guestfish run : supported >> >> ? > That precise command fails with the following message: > > libguestfs: error: you must call guestfs_add_drive before guestfs_launch Ah right, that's because the default backend is 'direct', but on my machine I have it set to 'libvirt', which supports hotplugging and thus doesn't require you to specify any drives. > mdadm no OK this is strange, and wrong. Can you try: ./run virt-rescue --scratch In the virt-rescue shell: ls -l {/bin,/sbin,/usr/bin,/usr/sbin}/mdadm <rescue> ls -l {/bin,/sbin,/usr/bin,/usr/sbin}/mdadm

That should show the mdadm binary copied into the appliance, but likely it does not, because the test here is failing: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/daemon/md.c#L45 https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/daemon/guestfsd.c#L1076 It could be that mdadm is something odd, like a dead symlink?

Anyway, I'll fire up a Debian box in my cloud and see if I can reproduce this also.

Rich.