Debian is also doing a UsrMove/UsrMerge: https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge However it is not finalized that Debian will actually make this change. Since some Debian systems have /sbin as a symlink and other have /sbin as a real directory, and we should avoid choosing a symlinked directory for the daemon, the easiest fix is simply to probe /usr/sbin before /sbin since under all scenarios (and Fedora too) /usr/sbin is a real directory. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=838995 --- m4/guestfs_daemon.m4 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/m4/guestfs_daemon.m4 b/m4/guestfs_daemon.m4 index 192583b..12123df 100644 --- a/m4/guestfs_daemon.m4 +++ b/m4/guestfs_daemon.m4 @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ if test "x$enable_daemon" = "xyes"; then dnl install directory for libguestfs live. Since Fedora 17 dnl /sbin is a symlink to /usr/sbin. We have to put the dnl daemon into a real (non-symlink) directory. - dirs="/sbin /usr/sbin /bin /usr/bin" + dirs="/usr/sbin /sbin /usr/bin /bin" AC_MSG_CHECKING([which of $dirs is a real directory]) for dir in $dirs; do parent=`dirname $dir` -- 2.9.3