1 NOTE: This file is automatically generated from "update-bugs.sh".
2 Last updated: 2011-04-09 22:25:42
4 This contains a local list of the bugs that are open against
5 libguestfs. Bugs are tracked in the Red Hat Bugzilla database
6 at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ and to report a new bug you
7 should follow this link:
9 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
11 When reporting a new bug, please check:
13 - That the bug has not been reported already.
14 - That you are testing a recent version.
15 - Describe the bug accurately, and give a way to reproduce it.
16 - Include the version of libguestfs, distro version and any other
18 - Attach the complete output of "libguestfs-test-tool".
20 --------------------------------------------------
21 Bugs in NEW or ASSIGNED state are open and waiting for someone to fix.
23 676020 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676020
24 After using virt-resize with an ntfs partition windows is not booting
26 684486 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684486
27 Guest fails to boot after virt-resize
29 684980 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684980
30 calling guestfs_kill_subprocess() then guestfs_close() causes a lockup in some applications
32 685009 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=685009
33 Got error when expanding ntfs filesystem
35 688978 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688978
36 guestfish: double free or corruption if TMPDIR points to a non-existent directory
38 691659 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691659
39 libguestfs fails to run under JRuby 1.6.0
41 693064 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693064
42 Symbolic links on ntfs-3g are not followed correctly by some commands
44 693359 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693359
45 virt-cat and virt-edit don't handle case sensitive NTFS paths properly
47 563450 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563450
48 list-devices returns devices of different types out of order
50 547488 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547488
51 guestfish cannot tab complete filenames that contain spaces
53 643991 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643991
54 CVE-2010-3851 libguestfs: missing disk format specifier when adding a disk [fedora-all]
56 670942 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=670942
57 libguestfs does not work with kernel-rt (MRG)
59 671082 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=671082
60 libguestfs does not work with kernel-rt
62 672485 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672485
63 [RFE] virt-edit/tar/inspector do not support encrypted system
65 678231 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678231
66 virt-inspector resports unknown filesystem UUID
68 679737 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679737
69 zerofree is unavailable
71 690358 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690358
72 Better to point out in manual page that fullvirt query doesn't support Windows guest
74 692394 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692394
75 inspect-list-applications fails to detect 32 bit apps installed under WOW64 emulator on 64 bit Windows
77 693306 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693306
78 sfdisk's python interface only accepts lists of type 'list' for the lines parameter
80 501884 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501884
81 virt-inspector still configured, even if there are missing deps
83 501886 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501886
84 exec: chroot not found
86 507278 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507278
87 libguestfs fails to build on Fedora sparc64
89 547479 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547479
90 NTFS partitions sometimes fail to mount if mounted read/write
92 554829 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554829
93 SELinux handling could be done better.
95 555803 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555803
96 virt-tar error: tgz_out error in chunked encoding
98 572337 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572337
99 libguestfs should support gptsync
101 578103 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578103
102 [RFE] Tool to Compare Windows Registry Entries
104 592910 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592910
105 'guestfish --remote run' hangs in a shell command substitution context
107 593511 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593511
108 [RFE] function to get partition name
110 596354 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596354
111 guestfish.1.html and guestfs.3.html declared "XHTML 1.0 Strict" but are not in fact well-formed XML
113 596761 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596761
114 Ctrl- causes guestfish to abort
116 598772 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598772
117 guestfish 'help' command should indicate error in exit status with an unknown command
119 602997 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602997
120 part-get-bootable gives wrong result with an unordered part layout
122 603000 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603000
123 part-get-bootable gives wrong result with an unordered part layout
125 604041 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604041
126 guestmount absolute symlinks don't work
128 617436 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617436
129 guestfish: fails to tilde expand '~' when the $HOME env is unset
131 619345 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619345
132 RFE: Enable coredump capture in the appliance
134 624035 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624035
135 guestfish "upload /file foo" command hangs or gives a protocol error
137 624334 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624334
138 blockdev-setbsz succeeds, but does not affect blockdev-getbsz
140 624335 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624335
141 blockdev-setbsz succeeds, but does not affect blockdev-getbsz
143 627675 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627675
144 libguestfs inspector code cannot handle /dev/disk/by-id/* paths
146 634649 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634649
147 [RFE] Align a NTFS partition within qcow2 over LVM to start at offset which is a multiple of 8
149 635971 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635971
150 glob mkfs ext2 /dev/vd[b-t]1 does not expand
152 637251 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637251
153 virt-inspector fails to recognize data-only NTFS disk image
155 637252 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637252
156 virt-resize has no 32-bit support
158 642821 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642821
159 virt-resize falls over on a disk image with a logical swap partition
161 646036 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646036
162 libguestfs fails to launch
164 660687 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660687
165 guestmount: "touch" command fails: touch: setting times of `timestamp': Invalid argument
167 677286 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677286
168 libguestfs incorrectly detects Red Hat desktop as 'redhat-based' instead of 'redhat'
170 677870 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677870
171 [RFE] virt-v2v show the warning info after convert rhel4u8 guest if comment a line of swap in the fstab
173 682980 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682980
174 libguestfs incorrectly detects Red Hat desktop as 'redhat-based' instead of 'redhat'
176 688062 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688062
177 fish: add luks-open mapped device to tab completion list
179 672491 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672491
180 RFE: guestfs_last_errno should be exposed in perl bindings
182 583974 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583974
183 mount hangs there when you lack proper permission to guest image
185 627835 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627835
186 libguestfs protocol loses synchronization if you 'upload' before mounting disks
188 502074 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502074
189 running commands segfault randomly, with 32 bit host and guest, when host is a Xen or VMWare guest
191 539746 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539746
192 launch fails when run inside a Xen guest, when no non-PV kernels are installed
194 503134 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503134
195 guestfish's list splitting does not recognize internal quoting
197 541618 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541618
198 guestfish not able to mount freebsd ufs2 partitions automatically
200 666578 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666578
201 libguestfs: unknown filesystem label SWAP-sda2
203 --------------------------------------------------
204 Bugs in MODIFIED, POST or ON_QA state are fixed.
205 You can help by testing the fixes.
207 691389 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691389
208 Extended attributes don't work over guestmount (FUSE)
210 501882 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501882
211 /tmp/libguestfs temporary directory is not cleaned up
213 507810 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507810
214 guestfish -i / virt-inspector cannot handle spaces in filenames
216 576879 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576879
217 libguestfs protocol loses synchronization if you 'upload' before mounting disks
219 584228 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584228
220 tgz-in/tar-in command hang when run with a vfat img
222 585221 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585221
223 resize2fs should support shrinking filesystems
225 585222 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585222
226 pvresize should support shrinking PVs
228 585223 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585223
229 ntfsresize should support shrinking filesystems
231 591142 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591142
232 virt-inspector should give an error for unrecognized disk images
234 591155 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591155
235 virt-tar prints "tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory" if a disk image is not writable
237 591250 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591250
238 virt-tar prints "tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory" if the archive is compressed or not in the right format
240 592883 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592883
241 can not edit files on images mounted with guestmount cmd
243 501889 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501889
244 write-file does not support strings containing ASCII NUL
246 582484 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582484
247 some guestfish sub commands can not handle special files properly
249 588651 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=588651
250 guestfish 'strings-e' cmd does not give proper error message or hint
252 657499 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657499
253 checksum: wrong check sum type causes umount to fail
255 501893 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501893
256 String parameters should be checked for != NULL
258 501894 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501894
259 Some String parameters should be OptString
261 521674 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521674
262 Perl modules are unversioned, but should carry version numbers
264 597118 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597118
265 A warning should be given in the help of mke2journal-L for the length of label
267 597135 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597135
268 guestfish write-file cmd does not check "size" parameter
270 597145 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597145
271 guestfish 'help' command should indicate error in exit status with an unknown command
273 599464 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599464
274 mkfs-b does not support vfat/ntfs
276 599503 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599503
277 document that mkmountpoint and umount-all cannot be mixed
279 602592 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602592
280 [RFE] expose guestfs_close in perl bindings
282 619334 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619334
283 RFE: Enable coredump capture in the appliance
285 633096 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633096
286 virt-resize calculates block device size incorrectly, doesn't work with qcow2 target
288 633766 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633766
289 virt-resize --shrink fails
291 634246 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634246
292 guestfs_part_get_parttype returns "loop" when run against a partition, LV or filesystem
294 635969 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635969
295 glob echo mkfs ext2 /dev/vd[b-t]1 prints garbage
297 638899 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638899
298 /dev/mapper paths should not be returned from C inspection APIs
300 638901 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638901
301 Appliance filename should not contain repository name
303 639405 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639405
304 Interrupted cached appliance creation leaves libguestfs unusable
306 639986 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639986
307 virt-df --csv does not properly quote " in libvirt domain names
309 640961 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=640961
310 Document that grub-install might be needed for old Linux guests after virt-resize
312 642826 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642826
313 virt-resize converts any other image format to raw without notifying user, instructions do not account for this
315 642929 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642929
316 C inspection code should ignore /dev/fd* in /etc/fstab
318 642930 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642930
319 virt-inspector (Sys::Guestfs::Lib) should use C inspection APIs
321 642932 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642932
322 guestmount options should match guestfish options
324 642933 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642933
325 guestfs_list_filesystems should be used in all possible places
327 642934 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642934
328 No way to specify disk format when adding a disk to libguestfs
330 643624 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643624
331 libguestfs tools documentation should describe how to quote guest domain names from shell
333 646432 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646432
334 /dev/mapper paths should not be returned from guestfs_mountpoints
336 646821 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646821
337 virt-df should have --uuid option
339 646822 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646822
340 libguestfs trace mode should not print long binary strings
342 652796 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652796
343 ruby bindings not installed by 'make install', hence omitted from the binary distribution
345 655554 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655554
346 Whole disk paths are not made canonical by virt-inspector
348 661280 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661280
349 virt-rescue: panic when shutting down: "/sbin/reboot: No such file or directory"
351 663407 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663407
352 readlink and readlinklist returns /sysroot/ in some paths
354 --------------------------------------------------
355 These bugs are in the VERIFIED state.
357 673477 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673477
358 Add a grep-friendly string to LIBGUESTFS_TRACE output
360 677616 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677616
361 appliance doesn't include augeas device_map lens
363 627833 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627833
364 get-e2uuid should use blkid instead of "tune2fs -l" to get filesystem UUID
366 633174 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633174
367 some guestfish sub commands can not handle special files properly
369 657472 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657472
370 checksum: wrong check sum type causes umount to fail
372 657502 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657502
373 virt-inspector depends on EPEL package perl-String-ShellQuote but does not require it
375 676788 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676788
376 libguestfs trace segfaults when list-filesystems returns error
378 691724 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691724
379 virt-inspector reports unknown filesystem /dev/vda1
381 579664 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579664
382 guestfish doesn't report error when there is not enough space for image allocation
384 600144 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=600144
385 document that mkmountpoint and umount-all cannot be mixed
387 612308 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=612308
388 qemu -net / vlan option deprecated. Use -netdev instead.
390 613593 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613593
391 Rebase libguestfs in RHEL 6.1
393 615223 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615223
394 vfs-type could not read just-created filesystem
396 617440 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617440
397 guestfish: fails to tilde expand '~' when the $HOME env is unset
399 627468 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627468
400 [RFE]It's better to emphasize "libguestfs-winsupport" in V2V manpage or error output
402 627832 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627832
403 [RFE] guestfish should print outputs in a suitable base (eg. octal for modes)
405 639601 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639601
406 "virt-ls" command failed to parse domain name "#"
408 639602 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639602
409 ""virt-list-filesystems" fails to parse the command line argument if the domain name is "#".
411 666577 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666577
412 libguestfs: unknown filesystem /dev/fd0
414 666579 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666579
415 libguestfs: unknown filesystem /dev/hd{x} (cdrom)
417 668115 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668115
418 virt-filesystems command fails on guest with corrupt filesystem label
420 668611 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668611
421 guestfish -i is trying to mount all mounts from /etc/fstab and fails with an error when device doesn't exists
423 673721 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673721
424 Typo in virt-make-fs manual page