[Libguestfs] Ubuntu packages problems

Evangelos Angelou eangelou at cslab.ntua.gr
Fri May 6 12:50:18 UTC 2011


Hi,

Indeed, works like a charm now. I've tried only the "old" version of the
solution on the bug report.

Thanks,
Vangelis

On 05/06/2011 02:52 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 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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