[rjones at redhat.com: Re: Suggestions on building VM disks from scratch]

[Dale Amon]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 11:44:22PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 10:13:26PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote:
> > Here's another nasty bug and some pointers from the developers
> > to how to fix it.
> 
> Thanks.  I've requested a sync of febootstrap from unstable to fix this.

Colin: 

As of the -23 kernel the problems are still there. Do you
know if that update happened or not?

Here's some output from just tonight. I did a dselect 
just this afternoon:

root at kdev:/vmpool1# guestfish

Welcome to guestfish, the libguestfs filesystem interactive shell for
editing virtual machine filesystems.

Type: 'help' for help on commands
      'man' to read the manual
      'quit' to quit the shell

><fs> sparse newdisk 30G
><fs> run
warning: Unable to get device geometry for /var/tmp/guestfs.wcyQC2/root
febootstrap-supermin-helper: ext2: parent directory not found: /lib: File not found by ext2_lookup
libguestfs: error: external command failed, see earlier error messages
><fs> 

I've included rjones from the guestfish team just in
case I got something wrong or in case he has useful
suggestions for you.