Add a new optional boolean argument 'keepdirlink' to tar_in that passes
--keep-directory-symlink to tar. This preserves existing symlinks to
directories when extracting, which is important for usrmerge systems
where /lib is a symlink to /usr/lib.
Without this option, extracting a tarball containing lib/modules/...
to / would replace the /lib symlink with a real directory, breaking
the system.
Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
When checking for QMP properties, we run a qemu command and interact
with the QMP console. However we also start the guest running (there
is no actual guest in this situation). This occasionally causes this
line to be printed:
libguestfs: generic_qmp_test: 3: {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1768823946, "microseconds": 898287}, "event": "GUEST_PANICKED", "data": {"action": "poweroff", "info": {"core": 0, "psw-addr": 0, "reason": "disabled-wait", "psw-mask": 562956395872256, "type": "s390"}}}\r\n
which confuses our parser.
As there is no reason to start the non-existent guest, add the -S
option which causes qemu to start up in a paused state.
For some reason this only happens on s390x but I think it could happen
on all architectures, so it may be a timing issue or something
particular about s390x firmware.
Commit 669eda1e24 ("lib/launch-direct.c: Simplify test for KVM, remove
qemu caching") made it so that failure of generic_qmp_test() will
cause launch to fail. However we still used debug messages to print
the error, so unless you have debugging enabled you wouldn't see any
error message if this function fails.
Updates: commit 669eda1e24
Devices associated with btrfs volumes are not reverse-translated
(e.g., btrfsvol:/dev/sdX to sdY).
Forward translation occurs, creating a path mismatch. This causes
errors in subsequent btrfs commands.
Thanks: Arye Yurkovsky
lvm returns logical volumes even if they're broken, for instance when a
physical volume is missing in their volume group.
In such cases, stat would fail to resolve the provided path.
Handle such cases by skipping such failures when finding the matching
lvm device.
In C23, strchr or strrchr on a const parameter now returns a const
pointer. We saw this error:
destpaths.c: In function ‘complete_dest_paths_generator’:
destpaths.c:165:9: error: assignment discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror=discarded-qualifiers]
165 | p = strrchr (text, '/');
| ^
The existing code had a bug which you can demonstrate by doing:
$ guestfish -N fs:btrfs:10G -m /dev/sda1 \
btrfs-subvolume-create /sub :
btrfs-subvolume-snapshot /sub /snap1 : \
btrfs-subvolume-snapshot /sub /snap123 : \
btrfs-subvolume-snapshot /sub /snap123456 : \
btrfs-subvolume-show /sub
...
libguestfs: error: appliance closed the connection unexpectedly.
This usually means the libguestfs appliance crashed.
As the code for parsing the output and creating the comma-separated
list of snapshots was unncessarily complicated in the first place,
simplify it. This also fixes the bug.
This also adds a regression test.
Thanks: Arye Yurkovsky
Link: https://lists.libguestfs.org/archives/list/guestfs@lists.libguestfs.org/thread/QV5VDHIH7WRUNAE54K6OEOKJMWL6M7EM/
