[Libguestfs] Kernel panic on Ubuntu 10.04

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 03:12:46AM +0400, Syndicut wrote:
> 02.01.2012 03:05, Richard W.M. Jones пишет:
> > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 06:43:55PM +0400, Syndicut wrote:
> >> execl: /init: No such file or directory
> > This error means that /init or /bin/bash or some library needed by
> > /bin/bash doesn't exist in the appliance.  You can try running ldd on
> > /bin/bash (in the host) and see if the libraries it needs are all
> > present in the appliance, using the debug information which was
> > printed.
> >
> > Also make sure your apt configuration reflects what is in your host
> > filesystem.  Supermin appliances as used by the default build don't
> > work unless the host filesystem and the appliance built by
> > apt/febootstrap are very similar.  Thus you can't mix and match apt
> > configuration with a different host configuration - they have to be
> > the same and the host has to be up to date (ie. apt-get dist-upgrade).
> >
> > http://libguestfs.org/febootstrap.8.html#supermin_appliances
> >
> > Rich.
> >
> Thanks for the help, I've already fixed all the issues and succesfully
> built and installed libguestfs package.
> There were two problems:
> 1) Default distribution set to "lucid" in apt config, which prevented
> aptitude from downloading the kernel (as it is in lucid-updates)
> 2) Mentioned symlink to /etc/alternatives/sh, which had to be changed to
> /bin/bash

Good ... building libguestfs on these old versions of Ubuntu
is really quite hard, so full marks to you :-)

Rich.

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