X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=BUGS;h=ced605f9c291bf59fdded9144e85222237fa14c2;hp=2732f5248250e9a6874f90584cc9034e86bed206;hb=215041c7178922341ecbfdb23eb203f2bb8c29c4;hpb=09128ca421f13da9fb6446cd7b09b0ae89c3876f diff --git a/BUGS b/BUGS index 2732f52..ced605f 100644 --- a/BUGS +++ b/BUGS @@ -1,57 +1,16 @@ -[guestfish] Built-in commands like 'alloc' and 'help' don't auto-complete. +Please note: This file used to contain a list of bugs. Bugs in +libguestfs are now tracked in Red Hat's Bugzilla. -[libguestfs] /tmp/libguestfs temporary directory is not cleaned up -sometimes. This appears to happen (only?) if the main program -segfaults. +To get a list of bugs against libguestfs use this link: -[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] +https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools -[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] +To report a new bug against libguestfs use this link: -[java] Java bindings documentation messed up. See: -http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/ +https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools -[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] +When reporting a bug, please check: -[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. - -[perl] Perl bindings cause a segfault when you call any command which -takes a StringList (eg. $g->command). -[should be fixed now] + - That the bug hasn't been reported already. + - That you are testing a recent version. + - Describe the bug accurately, and give a way to reproduce it.