[Libguestfs] appliance VM won't start, can't find /init, but /init is in the image.
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Thu Aug 11 18:10:21 UTC 2011
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 05:16:13PM -0700, David Konerding wrote:
> Hi,
> Still trying to get libguestfs appliance test to work on Ubuntu Lucid. I
> figured out my umask was causing problems and fixed that. now I'm on to a
> new problem. libguestfs-test-tool reports the following:
>
> febootstrap: mounting new root on /root
> febootstrap: chroot
> /proc/uptime: No such file or directory
> execl: /init: No such file or directory
> febootstrap: debug: listing directory /
> 2 d . 040755 4096 88619:5000
> 2 d .. 040755 4096 88619:5000
> 11 d lost+found 040700 16384 0:0
> 12 d bin 040755 4096 23083:5000
> 13 d boot 040755 4096 23083:5000
> 14 d etc 040755 4096 23083:5000
> 109 d lib 040755 4096 23083:5000
> 156 d sbin 040755 4096 23083:5000
> 157 d usr 040755 4096 23083:5000
> 534 d var 040755 4096 23083:5000
> 3701 - init 100750 3264 23083:5000
>
> Note, init is indeed a file (a shell script). I checked the root and initrd
> images, and they both have init (the initrd has an init binary, the root has
> a shell script that starts udev etc).
The problem is that the kernel gives the same error "execl: /init: No
such file or directory" for a whole variety of reasons. These
include:
- /init missing (obviously not the case here)
- /bin/sh missing
- any library that /bin/sh needs is missing
- ld-linux missing
So you need to make sure /bin/sh is there. If it's a symlink (eg. to
dash) then the destination file is there. Then do 'ldd /bin/sh' and
make sure all of the required libraries and ld-linux are there.
Rich.
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