After the last round of patches to febootstrap, the image-based test in libguestfs still failed. It turned out that this happens because Debian started replacing /var/run and /var/lock with symlinks that point to a tmpfs mounted to /run. The symlinks were copied to the appliance but /run/lock did not exist, so pvcreate refused to run (script 'images/guest-aux/make-debian-img.sh'). After I added the following patch to helper/init.c, the image-based test worked. I am not certain whether this is the right approach, though. The next thing I'll be looking at are the following failed libguestfs tests: test-getlogin_r.c:42: assertion failed /bin/bash: line 5: 18338 Aborted EXEEXT='' srcdir='.' LOCALE_FR='fr_FR' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8' LOCALE_JA='ja_JP.EUC-JP' LOCALE_ZH_CN='zh_CN.GB18030' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8' LOCALE_FR='fr_FR' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8' LOCALE_JA='ja_JP.EUC-JP' LOCALE_ZH_CN='zh_CN.GB18030' MAKE='make' ${dir}$tst FAIL: test-getlogin_r test-readlink.h:41: assertion failed /bin/bash: line 5: 18514 Aborted EXEEXT='' srcdir='.' LOCALE_FR='fr_FR' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8' LOCALE_JA='ja_JP.EUC-JP' LOCALE_ZH_CN='zh_CN.GB18030' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8' LOCALE_FR='fr_FR' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8' LOCALE_JA='ja_JP.EUC-JP' LOCALE_ZH_CN='zh_CN.GB18030' MAKE='make' ${dir}$tst FAIL: test-readlink test-readlink.h:41: assertion failed /bin/bash: line 5: 18624 Aborted EXEEXT='' srcdir='.' LOCALE_FR='fr_FR' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8' LOCALE_JA='ja_JP.EUC-JP' LOCALE_ZH_CN='zh_CN.GB18030' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8' LOCALE_FR='fr_FR' LOCALE_FR_UTF8='fr_FR.UTF-8' LOCALE_JA='ja_JP.EUC-JP' LOCALE_ZH_CN='zh_CN.GB18030' MAKE='make' ${dir}$tst FAIL: test-symlinkat -Hilko diff --git a/helper/init.c b/helper/init.c index 50ed19e..8f3834f 100644 --- a/helper/init.c +++ b/helper/init.c @@ -181,6 +181,12 @@ main () chdir ("/"); mount_proc (); + if (mount ("tmpfs", "/run", "tmpfs", + MS_NOEXEC|MS_NOSUID, "size=10%,mode=0755") == -1) { + perror ("mount: /run"); + exit (EXIT_FAILURE); + } +y mkdir ("/run/lock", 01777); print_uptime (); /* Run /init from ext2 filesystem. */