[Libguestfs] Ubuntu packages problems

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 12:22:05PM +0300, Evangelos Angelou wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to run guestfish on Ubuntu Natty, but although I followed
> the README and tried the kernel permissions workaround from here (
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/759725 ), I am
> still having problems when running libguestfs-test-tool as root (see
> attached). Am I doing something wrong?

[...]

> insmod: execl: Permission denied

I thought I'd fixed this one ...

Anyhow it appears to be this bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666880

A simple fix is:

  chmod +x /sbin/insmod.static
  rm -rf {/tmp,/var/tmp}/.guestfs-*

Rich.

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