[Libguestfs] appliance VM won't start, can't find /init, but /init is in the image.

[David Konerding]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:19:56AM -0700, David Konerding wrote:
> > Are you sure this should work?  I see that libc6 makes it into
> packagelist,
> > and the febootstrap invocation includes libc6, but it never downloads
> libc6.
> >
> > I did a few verification steps:
> > 1) aptitude download libc6 works
> > 2) extracting the deb works
> >
> > so it seems like there is some step between listing a package in
> > packagelist, and febootstrap actually invoking the aptitutde download
> > command for the package.  I've skimmed the febootstrap code, it doesn't
> seem
> > like it would actively filter anything not in the exclude list (which I
> > verified doesn't list libc6).
>
> Actually you're right, this isn't direct.
>
> It will pass libc6 as an argument to apt-cache depends [...], which
> then presumably is ignoring it or not printing it in the output for
> whatever reason.
>
> There's not an especially easy way to do this without modifying
> febootstrap sources:
>
>
> http://git.annexia.org/?p=febootstrap.git;a=blob;f=febootstrap_debian.ml;h=4aa7389657aedf281a6aa908984a02891de801be;hb=HEAD#l35
>
> Then recompiling febootstrap and adding /path/to/febootstrap and
> /path/to/febootstrap/helper to $PATH.
>
>
I see, so you're suggesting I just manually add a package to pkgs right
after
http://git.annexia.org/?p=febootstrap.git;a=blob;f=febootstrap_debian.ml;h=4aa7389657aedf281a6aa908984a02891de801be;hb=HEAD#l47


Rich.
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