NOTE: This file is automatically generated from "update-bugs.sh". Last updated: 2010-12-16 23:16:38 This contains a local list of the bugs that are open against libguestfs. Bugs are tracked in the Red Hat Bugzilla database at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ and to report a new bug you should follow this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools When reporting a new bug, please check: - That the bug has not been reported already. - That you are testing a recent version. - Describe the bug accurately, and give a way to reproduce it. - Include the version of libguestfs, distro version and any other relevant information. - Attach the complete output of "libguestfs-test-tool". -------------------------------------------------- Bugs in NEW or ASSIGNED state are open and waiting for someone to fix. 563450 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563450 list-devices returns devices of different types out of order 627835 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627835 libguestfs protocol loses synchronization if you 'upload' before mounting disks 547488 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547488 guestfish cannot tab complete filenames that contain spaces 627833 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627833 get-e2uuid should use blkid instead of "tune2fs -l" to get filesystem UUID 633174 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633174 some guestfish sub commands can not handle special files properly 643991 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643991 CVE-2010-3851 libguestfs: missing disk format specifier when adding a disk [fedora-all] 657472 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657472 checksum: wrong check sum type causes umount to fail 501884 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501884 virt-inspector still configured, even if there are missing deps 501886 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501886 exec: chroot not found 507278 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507278 libguestfs fails to build on Fedora sparc64 547479 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547479 NTFS partitions sometimes fail to mount if mounted read/write 554829 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554829 SELinux handling could be done better. 555803 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555803 virt-tar error: tgz_out error in chunked encoding 572337 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572337 libguestfs should support gptsync 578103 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578103 [RFE] Tool to Compare Windows Registry Entries 592910 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592910 'guestfish --remote run' hangs in a shell command substitution context 593511 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593511 [RFE] function to get partition name 596354 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596354 guestfish.1.html and guestfs.3.html declared "XHTML 1.0 Strict" but are not in fact well-formed XML 596761 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596761 Ctrl- causes guestfish to abort 598772 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598772 guestfish 'help' command should indicate error in exit status with an unknown command 600144 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=600144 document that mkmountpoint and umount-all cannot be mixed 602997 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602997 part-get-bootable gives wrong result with an unordered part layout 603000 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603000 part-get-bootable gives wrong result with an unordered part layout 604041 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604041 guestmount absolute symlinks don't work 612308 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=612308 qemu -net / vlan option deprecated. Use -netdev instead. 615223 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615223 vfs-type could not read just-created filesystem 617436 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617436 guestfish: fails to tilde expand '~' when the $HOME env is unset 617440 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617440 guestfish: fails to tilde expand '~' when the $HOME env is unset 619345 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619345 RFE: Enable coredump capture in the appliance 624035 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624035 guestfish "upload /file foo" command hangs or gives a protocol error 624334 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624334 blockdev-setbsz succeeds, but does not affect blockdev-getbsz 624335 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624335 blockdev-setbsz succeeds, but does not affect blockdev-getbsz 627468 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627468 [RFE]It's better to emphasize "libguestfs-winsupport" in V2V manpage or error output 627675 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627675 libguestfs inspector code cannot handle /dev/disk/by-id/* paths 627832 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627832 [RFE] guestfish should print outputs in a suitable base (eg. octal for modes) 634649 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634649 [RFE] Align a NTFS partition within qcow2 over LVM to start at offset which is a multiple of 8 635971 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635971 glob mkfs ext2 /dev/vd[b-t]1 does not expand 637251 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637251 virt-inspector fails to recognize data-only NTFS disk image 637252 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637252 virt-resize has no 32-bit support 642821 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642821 virt-resize falls over on a disk image with a logical swap partition 646036 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646036 libguestfs fails to launch 660687 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660687 guestmount: "touch" command fails: touch: setting times of `timestamp': Invalid argument 661280 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661280 virt-rescue: panic when shutting down: "/sbin/reboot: No such file or directory" 663407 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663407 readlink and readlinklist returns /sysroot/ in some paths 576879 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576879 libguestfs protocol loses synchronization if you 'upload' before mounting disks 583974 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583974 mount hangs there when you lack proper permission to guest image 584228 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584228 tgz-in/tar-in command hang when run with a vfat img 502074 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502074 running commands segfault randomly, with 32 bit host and guest, when host is a Xen or VMWare guest 539746 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539746 launch fails when run inside a Xen guest, when no non-PV kernels are installed 503134 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503134 guestfish's list splitting does not recognize internal quoting 541618 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541618 guestfish not able to mount freebsd ufs2 partitions automatically 639601 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639601 "virt-ls" command failed to parse domain name "#" 639602 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639602 ""virt-list-filesystems" fails to parse the command line argument if the domain name is "#". -------------------------------------------------- Bugs in MODIFIED, POST or ON_QA state are fixed. You can help by testing the fixes. 501882 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501882 /tmp/libguestfs temporary directory is not cleaned up 507810 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507810 guestfish -i / virt-inspector cannot handle spaces in filenames 585221 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585221 resize2fs should support shrinking filesystems 585222 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585222 pvresize should support shrinking PVs 585223 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585223 ntfsresize should support shrinking filesystems 591142 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591142 virt-inspector should give an error for unrecognized disk images 591155 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591155 virt-tar prints "tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory" if a disk image is not writable 591250 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591250 virt-tar prints "tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory" if the archive is compressed or not in the right format 592883 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592883 can not edit files on images mounted with guestmount cmd 501889 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501889 write-file does not support strings containing ASCII NUL 582484 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582484 some guestfish sub commands can not handle special files properly 588651 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=588651 guestfish 'strings-e' cmd does not give proper error message or hint 657499 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657499 checksum: wrong check sum type causes umount to fail 657502 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657502 virt-inspector depends on EPEL package perl-String-ShellQuote but does not require it 501893 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501893 String parameters should be checked for != NULL 501894 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501894 Some String parameters should be OptString 521674 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521674 Perl modules are unversioned, but should carry version numbers 597118 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597118 A warning should be given in the help of mke2journal-L for the length of label 597135 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597135 guestfish write-file cmd does not check "size" parameter 597145 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597145 guestfish 'help' command should indicate error in exit status with an unknown command 599464 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599464 mkfs-b does not support vfat/ntfs 599503 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599503 document that mkmountpoint and umount-all cannot be mixed 602592 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602592 [RFE] expose guestfs_close in perl bindings 613593 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613593 Rebase libguestfs in RHEL 6.1 619334 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619334 RFE: Enable coredump capture in the appliance 633096 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633096 virt-resize calculates block device size incorrectly, doesn't work with qcow2 target 633766 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633766 virt-resize --shrink fails 634246 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634246 guestfs_part_get_parttype returns "loop" when run against a partition, LV or filesystem 635969 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635969 glob echo mkfs ext2 /dev/vd[b-t]1 prints garbage 638899 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638899 /dev/mapper paths should not be returned from C inspection APIs 638901 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638901 Appliance filename should not contain repository name 639405 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639405 Interrupted cached appliance creation leaves libguestfs unusable 639986 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639986 virt-df --csv does not properly quote " in libvirt domain names 640961 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=640961 Document that grub-install might be needed for old Linux guests after virt-resize 642826 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642826 virt-resize converts any other image format to raw without notifying user, instructions do not account for this 642929 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642929 C inspection code should ignore /dev/fd* in /etc/fstab 642930 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642930 virt-inspector (Sys::Guestfs::Lib) should use C inspection APIs 642932 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642932 guestmount options should match guestfish options 642933 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642933 guestfs_list_filesystems should be used in all possible places 642934 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642934 No way to specify disk format when adding a disk to libguestfs 643624 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643624 libguestfs tools documentation should describe how to quote guest domain names from shell 646432 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646432 /dev/mapper paths should not be returned from guestfs_mountpoints 646821 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646821 virt-df should have --uuid option 646822 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646822 libguestfs trace mode should not print long binary strings 652796 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652796 ruby bindings not installed by 'make install', hence omitted from the binary distribution 655554 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655554 Whole disk paths are not made canonical by virt-inspector -------------------------------------------------- These bugs are in the VERIFIED state. 579664 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579664 guestfish doesn't report error when there is not enough space for image allocation 636454 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=636454 [RFE] Need a way to determine if a particular block device is a logical volume End of BUGS file.