X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=BUGS;h=8214004c161bedd5fede1a8c6401dc9a3dcba8ba;hp=ba72ad285dbd6fae22c201478f9a8100bd026175;hb=2729421d176e1194537b499911a5eeb5e32a8b09;hpb=bd7c8ee043dd02e2cfa3eba2ac5875fc34990610 diff --git a/BUGS b/BUGS index ba72ad2..8214004 100644 --- a/BUGS +++ b/BUGS @@ -1,53 +1,321 @@ -[guestfish] Built-in commands like 'alloc' and 'help' don't auto-complete. - -[libguestfs] /tmp/libguestfs temporary directory is not cleaned up -sometimes. This appears to happen (only?) if the main program -segfaults. - -[libguestfs] qemu process not cleaned up occasionally. This appears -to happen only if the main program or library segfaults, in which case -the atexit handler which would normally perform cleanup is not run. -sometimes. This appears to happen (only?) if the main program -segfaults. -[testing a hacky fix to this] - -[kernel?] Kernel boot times are significantly slower for Fedora 11/12 -than for Fedora 10, like 2-3 times slower. This greatly affects the -time it takes to launch the subprocess (although it does still work). -[fixed - was a KVM bug] - -[java] Java bindings documentation messed up. See: -http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/ - -[libguestfs] If qemu process is a shell script, then it is not cleaned -up correctly, even on "good" exit. This is because we need to set up -a new process group (see commented code for doing setpgid). -[fixed? - added documentation in the manual page that you have to -do 'exec qemu' in the wrapper. However I still notice that the -recovery process kills qemu, instead of it being killed by the -parent process, or at least that's what I think is happening] - -[libguestfs] Some occasional data corruption, certainly on tgz-out. -Try using tgz-out on a very large directory. -[we think this is fixed by 64a6a828bd318622420cf3018899392fd80c14e7] - -[libguestfs] futimens (do_touch) not available in glibc 2.5 -(reported by Charles Duffy) -[fixed] - -[ocaml] Does not compile with OCaml 3.09.3 from RHEL 5 -(reported by Charles Duffy) -[fixed] - -[inspector] If there are missing Perl module deps, it still -configures the inspector. (eg. if perl-Sys-Virt is missing). - -[build] "exec: chroot not found" -Setting PATH to include /usr/sbin solves this temporarily. - -[libguestfs] FileOut parameters can cause -"internal error: reply callback called twice" -This bug is rare but well-understood. Unfortunately it's also -quite hard to fix cleanly. - -[libguestfs] write-file does not support strings containing ASCII NUL. +NOTE: This file is automatically generated from "update-bugs". +Last updated: 2010-11-15 09:54:43 + +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] + +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. + +613593 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613593 + Rebase libguestfs in RHEL 6.1 + +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 + +637244 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637244 + virt-inspector has noisy start when inspecting 64-bit disk image from 32-bit host + +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 + +646361 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646361 + Fix appliance building Fedora-on-Debian (on systems with default library search paths differing from the appliance's) + +652587 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652587 + perl-libguestfs is incorrect sub-package + +501882 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501882 + /tmp/libguestfs temporary directory is not cleaned up + +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. + +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 + +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 + +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 + +-------------------------------------------------- +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.