From 9268f1487970eb9884ba674ab75dc99f91adc0a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 09:19:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] FAQ: Common problem with Debian is not running update-guestfs-appliance. --- examples/guestfs-faq.pod | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/examples/guestfs-faq.pod b/examples/guestfs-faq.pod index f992c8f51..ce251e6cb 100644 --- a/examples/guestfs-faq.pod +++ b/examples/guestfs-faq.pod @@ -156,6 +156,13 @@ To get further information about the failure, you have to run: If, after using this, you still don't understand the failure, contact us (see previous section). +=head2 libguestfs: error: cannot find any suitable libguestfs supermin, fixed or old-style appliance on LIBGUESTFS_PATH + +If you see this error on Debian/Ubuntu, you need to run the following +command as root: + + update-guestfs-appliance + =head2 Non-ASCII characters don't appear on VFAT filesystems. Typical symptoms of this problem: