1 NOTE: This file is automatically generated from "update-bugs.sh".
2 Last updated: 2011-04-11 11:35:55
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 695138 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695138
51 Remove dependency on gfs2-utils
53 547488 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547488
54 guestfish cannot tab complete filenames that contain spaces
56 643991 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643991
57 CVE-2010-3851 libguestfs: missing disk format specifier when adding a disk [fedora-all]
59 670942 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=670942
60 libguestfs does not work with kernel-rt (MRG)
62 671082 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=671082
63 libguestfs does not work with kernel-rt
65 672485 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672485
66 [RFE] virt-edit/tar/inspector do not support encrypted system
68 678231 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678231
69 virt-inspector resports unknown filesystem UUID
71 679737 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679737
72 zerofree is unavailable
74 690358 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690358
75 Better to point out in manual page that fullvirt query doesn't support Windows guest
77 692394 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692394
78 inspect-list-applications fails to detect 32 bit apps installed under WOW64 emulator on 64 bit Windows
80 693306 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693306
81 sfdisk's python interface only accepts lists of type 'list' for the lines parameter
83 501884 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501884
84 virt-inspector still configured, even if there are missing deps
86 501886 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501886
87 exec: chroot not found
89 507278 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507278
90 libguestfs fails to build on Fedora sparc64
92 547479 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547479
93 NTFS partitions sometimes fail to mount if mounted read/write
95 554829 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554829
96 SELinux handling could be done better.
98 555803 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555803
99 virt-tar error: tgz_out error in chunked encoding
101 572337 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572337
102 libguestfs should support gptsync
104 578103 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578103
105 [RFE] Tool to Compare Windows Registry Entries
107 592910 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592910
108 'guestfish --remote run' hangs in a shell command substitution context
110 593511 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593511
111 [RFE] function to get partition name
113 596354 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596354
114 guestfish.1.html and guestfs.3.html declared "XHTML 1.0 Strict" but are not in fact well-formed XML
116 596761 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596761
117 Ctrl- causes guestfish to abort
119 598772 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598772
120 guestfish 'help' command should indicate error in exit status with an unknown command
122 602997 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602997
123 part-get-bootable gives wrong result with an unordered part layout
125 603000 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603000
126 part-get-bootable gives wrong result with an unordered part layout
128 604041 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604041
129 guestmount absolute symlinks don't work
131 617436 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617436
132 guestfish: fails to tilde expand '~' when the $HOME env is unset
134 619345 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619345
135 RFE: Enable coredump capture in the appliance
137 624035 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624035
138 guestfish "upload /file foo" command hangs or gives a protocol error
140 624334 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624334
141 blockdev-setbsz succeeds, but does not affect blockdev-getbsz
143 624335 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624335
144 blockdev-setbsz succeeds, but does not affect blockdev-getbsz
146 627675 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627675
147 libguestfs inspector code cannot handle /dev/disk/by-id/* paths
149 634649 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634649
150 [RFE] Align a NTFS partition within qcow2 over LVM to start at offset which is a multiple of 8
152 635971 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635971
153 glob mkfs ext2 /dev/vd[b-t]1 does not expand
155 637251 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637251
156 virt-inspector fails to recognize data-only NTFS disk image
158 637252 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637252
159 virt-resize has no 32-bit support
161 642821 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642821
162 virt-resize falls over on a disk image with a logical swap partition
164 646036 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646036
165 libguestfs fails to launch
167 660687 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660687
168 guestmount: "touch" command fails: touch: setting times of `timestamp': Invalid argument
170 677286 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677286
171 libguestfs incorrectly detects Red Hat desktop as 'redhat-based' instead of 'redhat'
173 677870 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677870
174 [RFE] virt-v2v show the warning info after convert rhel4u8 guest if comment a line of swap in the fstab
176 682980 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682980
177 libguestfs incorrectly detects Red Hat desktop as 'redhat-based' instead of 'redhat'
179 688062 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688062
180 fish: add luks-open mapped device to tab completion list
182 672491 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672491
183 RFE: guestfs_last_errno should be exposed in perl bindings
185 583974 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583974
186 mount hangs there when you lack proper permission to guest image
188 627835 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627835
189 libguestfs protocol loses synchronization if you 'upload' before mounting disks
191 502074 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502074
192 running commands segfault randomly, with 32 bit host and guest, when host is a Xen or VMWare guest
194 539746 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539746
195 launch fails when run inside a Xen guest, when no non-PV kernels are installed
197 503134 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503134
198 guestfish's list splitting does not recognize internal quoting
200 541618 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541618
201 guestfish not able to mount freebsd ufs2 partitions automatically
203 666578 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666578
204 libguestfs: unknown filesystem label SWAP-sda2
206 --------------------------------------------------
207 Bugs in MODIFIED, POST or ON_QA state are fixed.
208 You can help by testing the fixes.
210 691389 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691389
211 Extended attributes don't work over guestmount (FUSE)
213 501882 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501882
214 /tmp/libguestfs temporary directory is not cleaned up
216 507810 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507810
217 guestfish -i / virt-inspector cannot handle spaces in filenames
219 576879 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576879
220 libguestfs protocol loses synchronization if you 'upload' before mounting disks
222 584228 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584228
223 tgz-in/tar-in command hang when run with a vfat img
225 585221 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585221
226 resize2fs should support shrinking filesystems
228 585222 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585222
229 pvresize should support shrinking PVs
231 585223 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585223
232 ntfsresize should support shrinking filesystems
234 591142 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591142
235 virt-inspector should give an error for unrecognized disk images
237 591155 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591155
238 virt-tar prints "tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory" if a disk image is not writable
240 591250 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591250
241 virt-tar prints "tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory" if the archive is compressed or not in the right format
243 592883 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592883
244 can not edit files on images mounted with guestmount cmd
246 501889 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501889
247 write-file does not support strings containing ASCII NUL
249 582484 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582484
250 some guestfish sub commands can not handle special files properly
252 588651 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=588651
253 guestfish 'strings-e' cmd does not give proper error message or hint
255 657499 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657499
256 checksum: wrong check sum type causes umount to fail
258 501893 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501893
259 String parameters should be checked for != NULL
261 501894 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501894
262 Some String parameters should be OptString
264 521674 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521674
265 Perl modules are unversioned, but should carry version numbers
267 597118 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597118
268 A warning should be given in the help of mke2journal-L for the length of label
270 597135 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597135
271 guestfish write-file cmd does not check "size" parameter
273 597145 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597145
274 guestfish 'help' command should indicate error in exit status with an unknown command
276 599464 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599464
277 mkfs-b does not support vfat/ntfs
279 599503 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599503
280 document that mkmountpoint and umount-all cannot be mixed
282 602592 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602592
283 [RFE] expose guestfs_close in perl bindings
285 619334 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619334
286 RFE: Enable coredump capture in the appliance
288 633096 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633096
289 virt-resize calculates block device size incorrectly, doesn't work with qcow2 target
291 633766 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633766
292 virt-resize --shrink fails
294 634246 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634246
295 guestfs_part_get_parttype returns "loop" when run against a partition, LV or filesystem
297 635969 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635969
298 glob echo mkfs ext2 /dev/vd[b-t]1 prints garbage
300 638899 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638899
301 /dev/mapper paths should not be returned from C inspection APIs
303 638901 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638901
304 Appliance filename should not contain repository name
306 639405 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639405
307 Interrupted cached appliance creation leaves libguestfs unusable
309 639986 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639986
310 virt-df --csv does not properly quote " in libvirt domain names
312 640961 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=640961
313 Document that grub-install might be needed for old Linux guests after virt-resize
315 642826 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642826
316 virt-resize converts any other image format to raw without notifying user, instructions do not account for this
318 642929 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642929
319 C inspection code should ignore /dev/fd* in /etc/fstab
321 642930 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642930
322 virt-inspector (Sys::Guestfs::Lib) should use C inspection APIs
324 642932 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642932
325 guestmount options should match guestfish options
327 642933 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642933
328 guestfs_list_filesystems should be used in all possible places
330 642934 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642934
331 No way to specify disk format when adding a disk to libguestfs
333 643624 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643624
334 libguestfs tools documentation should describe how to quote guest domain names from shell
336 646432 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646432
337 /dev/mapper paths should not be returned from guestfs_mountpoints
339 646821 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646821
340 virt-df should have --uuid option
342 646822 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646822
343 libguestfs trace mode should not print long binary strings
345 652796 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652796
346 ruby bindings not installed by 'make install', hence omitted from the binary distribution
348 655554 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655554
349 Whole disk paths are not made canonical by virt-inspector
351 661280 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661280
352 virt-rescue: panic when shutting down: "/sbin/reboot: No such file or directory"
354 663407 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663407
355 readlink and readlinklist returns /sysroot/ in some paths
357 --------------------------------------------------
358 These bugs are in the VERIFIED state.
360 673477 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673477
361 Add a grep-friendly string to LIBGUESTFS_TRACE output
363 677616 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677616
364 appliance doesn't include augeas device_map lens
366 627833 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627833
367 get-e2uuid should use blkid instead of "tune2fs -l" to get filesystem UUID
369 633174 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633174
370 some guestfish sub commands can not handle special files properly
372 657472 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657472
373 checksum: wrong check sum type causes umount to fail
375 657502 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657502
376 virt-inspector depends on EPEL package perl-String-ShellQuote but does not require it
378 676788 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676788
379 libguestfs trace segfaults when list-filesystems returns error
381 691724 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691724
382 virt-inspector reports unknown filesystem /dev/vda1
384 579664 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579664
385 guestfish doesn't report error when there is not enough space for image allocation
387 600144 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=600144
388 document that mkmountpoint and umount-all cannot be mixed
390 612308 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=612308
391 qemu -net / vlan option deprecated. Use -netdev instead.
393 613593 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613593
394 Rebase libguestfs in RHEL 6.1
396 615223 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615223
397 vfs-type could not read just-created filesystem
399 617440 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617440
400 guestfish: fails to tilde expand '~' when the $HOME env is unset
402 627468 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627468
403 [RFE]It's better to emphasize "libguestfs-winsupport" in V2V manpage or error output
405 627832 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627832
406 [RFE] guestfish should print outputs in a suitable base (eg. octal for modes)
408 639601 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639601
409 "virt-ls" command failed to parse domain name "#"
411 639602 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639602
412 ""virt-list-filesystems" fails to parse the command line argument if the domain name is "#".
414 666577 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666577
415 libguestfs: unknown filesystem /dev/fd0
417 666579 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666579
418 libguestfs: unknown filesystem /dev/hd{x} (cdrom)
420 668115 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668115
421 virt-filesystems command fails on guest with corrupt filesystem label
423 668611 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668611
424 guestfish -i is trying to mount all mounts from /etc/fstab and fails with an error when device doesn't exists
426 673721 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673721
427 Typo in virt-make-fs manual page