Libguestfs - Jul 2013 - Re: W/ commit 4d2c63a9bc3accd7b852b1c8b2089c6296fee156: supermin fails to create temporary dir

That's the current commit head I am at (on 'master' branch):

    $ git log | head -2
    commit 4d2c63a9bc3accd7b852b1c8b2089c6296fee156
    Author: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>


I invoked:

    $ git pull ; ./autogen.sh && make clean && make -j 7 \
      && time make -k extra-tests LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1 LIBGUESTFS_TRACE=1
\
    | tee /var/tmp/make-extra-check-libguestfs-24-may.log

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extracting /usr/lib64/gconv/gconv-modules from glibc-2.17-11.fc19.x86_64.rpm ...
Fatal error: exception Unix.Unix_error(8, "mkdir",
"/tmp/supermin66a2e1c4c95a0e7fb53c3122f449b299.tmp/root//var/run")
make[2]: *** [stamp-supermin] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kashyap/src/libguestfs/appliance'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kashyap/src/libguestfs'
make: *** [all] Error 2


Hints?


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On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 06:15:32PM +0530, Kashyap Chamarthy
wrote:
> That's the current commit head I am at (on 'master' branch):
> 
>     $ git log | head -2
>     commit 4d2c63a9bc3accd7b852b1c8b2089c6296fee156
>     Author: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
> 
> 
> I invoked:
> 
>     $ git pull ; ./autogen.sh && make clean && make -j 7 \
>       && time make -k extra-tests LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1
LIBGUESTFS_TRACE=1 \
>     | tee /var/tmp/make-extra-check-libguestfs-24-may.log
> 
> .
> .
> .
> .
> extracting /usr/lib64/gconv/gconv-modules from
glibc-2.17-11.fc19.x86_64.rpm n...
> Fatal error: exception Unix.Unix_error(8, "mkdir",
>
"/tmp/supermin66a2e1c4c95a0e7fb53c3122f449b299.tmp/root//var/run")
> make[2]: *** [stamp-supermin] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kashyap/src/libguestfs/appliance'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kashyap/src/libguestfs'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
This is actually a supermin bug, fixed by the following commit (in
supermin.git):

commit ee7eec04fe5be5387168e43e546ec05f1c4372fe
Author: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 26 21:40:26 2013 +0100

    Ignore ghost non-regular files.
    
    RPMs in Fedora 20 contain /var/run and /var/lock, as symlinks, marked
    %ghost.  The old code would create these as regular files which would
    then cause a failure if something was created inside them.
    
    You would see an error like this:
    
    Fatal error: exception Unix.Unix_error(8, "mkdir",
"/tmp/supermineab65b098ad

It's fixed in Fedora >= 18 if you have the supermin >= 4.1.1-2.

Rich.

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>> .
>> .
>> .
>> extracting /usr/lib64/gconv/gconv-modules from
glibc-2.17-11.fc19.x86_64.rpm n...
>> Fatal error: exception Unix.Unix_error(8, "mkdir",
>>
"/tmp/supermin66a2e1c4c95a0e7fb53c3122f449b299.tmp/root//var/run")
>> make[2]: *** [stamp-supermin] Error 2
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kashyap/src/libguestfs/appliance'
>> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kashyap/src/libguestfs'
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> This is actually a supermin bug, fixed by the following commit (in
> supermin.git):
> 
> commit ee7eec04fe5be5387168e43e546ec05f1c4372fe
> Author: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
> Date:   Wed Jun 26 21:40:26 2013 +0100
> 
>     Ignore ghost non-regular files.
>     
>     RPMs in Fedora 20 contain /var/run and /var/lock, as symlinks, marked
>     %ghost.  The old code would create these as regular files which would
>     then cause a failure if something was created inside them.
>     
>     You would see an error like this:
>     
>     Fatal error: exception Unix.Unix_error(8, "mkdir",
"/tmp/supermineab65b098ad
> 
> It's fixed in Fedora >= 18 if you have the supermin >= 4.1.1-2.
Thanks, I had the below version

  supermin-4.1.1-1.fc19.x86_64

Updated and re-invoked the tests.

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/kashyap