1 NOTE: This file is automatically generated from "update-bugs.sh".
2 Last updated: 2011-04-01 09:55:13
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 563450 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563450
42 list-devices returns devices of different types out of order
44 547488 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547488
45 guestfish cannot tab complete filenames that contain spaces
47 643991 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643991
48 CVE-2010-3851 libguestfs: missing disk format specifier when adding a disk [fedora-all]
50 670942 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=670942
51 libguestfs does not work with kernel-rt (MRG)
53 671082 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=671082
54 libguestfs does not work with kernel-rt
56 672485 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672485
57 [RFE] virt-edit/tar/inspector do not support encrypted system
59 678231 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678231
60 virt-inspector resports unknown filesystem UUID
62 679737 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679737
63 zerofree is unavailable
65 690358 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690358
66 Better to point out in manual page that fullvirt query doesn't support Windows guest
68 692394 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692394
69 inspect-list-applications fails to detect 32 bit apps installed under WOW64 emulator on 64 bit Windows
71 501884 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501884
72 virt-inspector still configured, even if there are missing deps
74 501886 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501886
75 exec: chroot not found
77 507278 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507278
78 libguestfs fails to build on Fedora sparc64
80 547479 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547479
81 NTFS partitions sometimes fail to mount if mounted read/write
83 554829 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554829
84 SELinux handling could be done better.
86 555803 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555803
87 virt-tar error: tgz_out error in chunked encoding
89 572337 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572337
90 libguestfs should support gptsync
92 578103 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578103
93 [RFE] Tool to Compare Windows Registry Entries
95 592910 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592910
96 'guestfish --remote run' hangs in a shell command substitution context
98 593511 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593511
99 [RFE] function to get partition name
101 596354 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596354
102 guestfish.1.html and guestfs.3.html declared "XHTML 1.0 Strict" but are not in fact well-formed XML
104 596761 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596761
105 Ctrl- causes guestfish to abort
107 598772 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598772
108 guestfish 'help' command should indicate error in exit status with an unknown command
110 602997 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602997
111 part-get-bootable gives wrong result with an unordered part layout
113 603000 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603000
114 part-get-bootable gives wrong result with an unordered part layout
116 604041 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604041
117 guestmount absolute symlinks don't work
119 617436 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617436
120 guestfish: fails to tilde expand '~' when the $HOME env is unset
122 619345 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619345
123 RFE: Enable coredump capture in the appliance
125 624035 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624035
126 guestfish "upload /file foo" command hangs or gives a protocol error
128 624334 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624334
129 blockdev-setbsz succeeds, but does not affect blockdev-getbsz
131 624335 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624335
132 blockdev-setbsz succeeds, but does not affect blockdev-getbsz
134 627675 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627675
135 libguestfs inspector code cannot handle /dev/disk/by-id/* paths
137 634649 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634649
138 [RFE] Align a NTFS partition within qcow2 over LVM to start at offset which is a multiple of 8
140 635971 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635971
141 glob mkfs ext2 /dev/vd[b-t]1 does not expand
143 637251 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637251
144 virt-inspector fails to recognize data-only NTFS disk image
146 637252 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637252
147 virt-resize has no 32-bit support
149 642821 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642821
150 virt-resize falls over on a disk image with a logical swap partition
152 646036 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646036
153 libguestfs fails to launch
155 660687 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660687
156 guestmount: "touch" command fails: touch: setting times of `timestamp': Invalid argument
158 677286 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677286
159 libguestfs incorrectly detects Red Hat desktop as 'redhat-based' instead of 'redhat'
161 677870 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677870
162 [RFE] virt-v2v show the warning info after convert rhel4u8 guest if comment a line of swap in the fstab
164 682980 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682980
165 libguestfs incorrectly detects Red Hat desktop as 'redhat-based' instead of 'redhat'
167 688062 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688062
168 fish: add luks-open mapped device to tab completion list
170 672491 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672491
171 RFE: guestfs_last_errno should be exposed in perl bindings
173 583974 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583974
174 mount hangs there when you lack proper permission to guest image
176 627835 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627835
177 libguestfs protocol loses synchronization if you 'upload' before mounting disks
179 502074 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502074
180 running commands segfault randomly, with 32 bit host and guest, when host is a Xen or VMWare guest
182 539746 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539746
183 launch fails when run inside a Xen guest, when no non-PV kernels are installed
185 503134 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503134
186 guestfish's list splitting does not recognize internal quoting
188 541618 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541618
189 guestfish not able to mount freebsd ufs2 partitions automatically
191 666578 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666578
192 libguestfs: unknown filesystem label SWAP-sda2
194 --------------------------------------------------
195 Bugs in MODIFIED, POST or ON_QA state are fixed.
196 You can help by testing the fixes.
198 691389 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691389
199 Extended attributes don't work over guestmount (FUSE)
201 501882 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501882
202 /tmp/libguestfs temporary directory is not cleaned up
204 507810 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507810
205 guestfish -i / virt-inspector cannot handle spaces in filenames
207 576879 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576879
208 libguestfs protocol loses synchronization if you 'upload' before mounting disks
210 584228 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584228
211 tgz-in/tar-in command hang when run with a vfat img
213 585221 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585221
214 resize2fs should support shrinking filesystems
216 585222 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585222
217 pvresize should support shrinking PVs
219 585223 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585223
220 ntfsresize should support shrinking filesystems
222 591142 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591142
223 virt-inspector should give an error for unrecognized disk images
225 591155 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591155
226 virt-tar prints "tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory" if a disk image is not writable
228 591250 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591250
229 virt-tar prints "tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory" if the archive is compressed or not in the right format
231 592883 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592883
232 can not edit files on images mounted with guestmount cmd
234 501889 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501889
235 write-file does not support strings containing ASCII NUL
237 582484 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582484
238 some guestfish sub commands can not handle special files properly
240 588651 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=588651
241 guestfish 'strings-e' cmd does not give proper error message or hint
243 657499 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657499
244 checksum: wrong check sum type causes umount to fail
246 501893 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501893
247 String parameters should be checked for != NULL
249 501894 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501894
250 Some String parameters should be OptString
252 521674 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521674
253 Perl modules are unversioned, but should carry version numbers
255 597118 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597118
256 A warning should be given in the help of mke2journal-L for the length of label
258 597135 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597135
259 guestfish write-file cmd does not check "size" parameter
261 597145 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597145
262 guestfish 'help' command should indicate error in exit status with an unknown command
264 599464 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599464
265 mkfs-b does not support vfat/ntfs
267 599503 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599503
268 document that mkmountpoint and umount-all cannot be mixed
270 602592 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602592
271 [RFE] expose guestfs_close in perl bindings
273 619334 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619334
274 RFE: Enable coredump capture in the appliance
276 633096 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633096
277 virt-resize calculates block device size incorrectly, doesn't work with qcow2 target
279 633766 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633766
280 virt-resize --shrink fails
282 634246 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634246
283 guestfs_part_get_parttype returns "loop" when run against a partition, LV or filesystem
285 635969 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635969
286 glob echo mkfs ext2 /dev/vd[b-t]1 prints garbage
288 638899 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638899
289 /dev/mapper paths should not be returned from C inspection APIs
291 638901 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638901
292 Appliance filename should not contain repository name
294 639405 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639405
295 Interrupted cached appliance creation leaves libguestfs unusable
297 639986 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639986
298 virt-df --csv does not properly quote " in libvirt domain names
300 640961 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=640961
301 Document that grub-install might be needed for old Linux guests after virt-resize
303 642826 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642826
304 virt-resize converts any other image format to raw without notifying user, instructions do not account for this
306 642929 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642929
307 C inspection code should ignore /dev/fd* in /etc/fstab
309 642930 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642930
310 virt-inspector (Sys::Guestfs::Lib) should use C inspection APIs
312 642932 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642932
313 guestmount options should match guestfish options
315 642933 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642933
316 guestfs_list_filesystems should be used in all possible places
318 642934 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642934
319 No way to specify disk format when adding a disk to libguestfs
321 643624 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643624
322 libguestfs tools documentation should describe how to quote guest domain names from shell
324 646432 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646432
325 /dev/mapper paths should not be returned from guestfs_mountpoints
327 646821 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646821
328 virt-df should have --uuid option
330 646822 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646822
331 libguestfs trace mode should not print long binary strings
333 652796 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652796
334 ruby bindings not installed by 'make install', hence omitted from the binary distribution
336 655554 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655554
337 Whole disk paths are not made canonical by virt-inspector
339 661280 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661280
340 virt-rescue: panic when shutting down: "/sbin/reboot: No such file or directory"
342 663407 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663407
343 readlink and readlinklist returns /sysroot/ in some paths
345 --------------------------------------------------
346 These bugs are in the VERIFIED state.
348 673477 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673477
349 Add a grep-friendly string to LIBGUESTFS_TRACE output
351 677616 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677616
352 appliance doesn't include augeas device_map lens
354 627833 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627833
355 get-e2uuid should use blkid instead of "tune2fs -l" to get filesystem UUID
357 633174 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633174
358 some guestfish sub commands can not handle special files properly
360 657472 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657472
361 checksum: wrong check sum type causes umount to fail
363 657502 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657502
364 virt-inspector depends on EPEL package perl-String-ShellQuote but does not require it
366 676788 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676788
367 libguestfs trace segfaults when list-filesystems returns error
369 691724 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691724
370 virt-inspector reports unknown filesystem /dev/vda1
372 579664 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579664
373 guestfish doesn't report error when there is not enough space for image allocation
375 600144 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=600144
376 document that mkmountpoint and umount-all cannot be mixed
378 612308 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=612308
379 qemu -net / vlan option deprecated. Use -netdev instead.
381 613593 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613593
382 Rebase libguestfs in RHEL 6.1
384 615223 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615223
385 vfs-type could not read just-created filesystem
387 617440 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617440
388 guestfish: fails to tilde expand '~' when the $HOME env is unset
390 627468 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627468
391 [RFE]It's better to emphasize "libguestfs-winsupport" in V2V manpage or error output
393 627832 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627832
394 [RFE] guestfish should print outputs in a suitable base (eg. octal for modes)
396 639601 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639601
397 "virt-ls" command failed to parse domain name "#"
399 639602 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639602
400 ""virt-list-filesystems" fails to parse the command line argument if the domain name is "#".
402 666577 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666577
403 libguestfs: unknown filesystem /dev/fd0
405 666579 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666579
406 libguestfs: unknown filesystem /dev/hd{x} (cdrom)
408 668115 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668115
409 virt-filesystems command fails on guest with corrupt filesystem label
411 668611 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668611
412 guestfish -i is trying to mount all mounts from /etc/fstab and fails with an error when device doesn't exists
414 673721 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673721
415 Typo in virt-make-fs manual page