[Libguestfs] "ext2: parent directory not found" with Ubuntu 12.04

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 03:05:10PM +0200, Sebastien Douche wrote:
> Hi all,
> On the most libguestfs commands (guestfish, virt-*), I have always the
> same message:
> 
> "febootstrap-supermin-helper: ext2: parent directory not found: /lib:
> File not found by ext2_lookup"
> 
> I'm aware of a similar bug with the old package [1]:
> 
> "Note on febootstrap (may not be directly related to this bug):
> You need 3.14 to work around that. I would recommend using at least 3.14.
> 
> https://github.com/libguestfs/febootstrap/commit/6987ad1529dd67e7e1c990fe5b011c51e8625837
> Furthermore, febootstrap <= 3.14 reveals a bug in e2fsprogs, which
> needs to be worked around with another patch:
> 
> https://github.com/libguestfs/febootstrap/commit/386b5985098fedf7bcd111553b8b6b73599df6c9"
> 
> But I use last packages of Seabios / libguestfs-bin which contain all
> the patchs.

To be clear, are you using febootstrap 3.14-2 from here?
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/febootstrap

Please run libguestfs-test-tool and post the *complete* output.

Rich.

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