Bug#837681: diffoscope: 'ERROR guestfs can't be launched' when trying to compare to qubes ISOs

[Holger Levsen]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 04:22:29PM +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> I wanted to quickly try myself, but you already deleted the files.
> Could you please save them somewhere (I suppose they are too big to be
> attached to the bug?)

they are in /home/holger/q(1|2) on pb3, please help yourself! :-)

> guestfs is not called directly, but through 
> ISTR the consensuos was in diffoscope printing an
> error but continuing nonetheless (proposing an e.g. binary diff).
> 
> And reading the code suggest that it should do (it's catching
> RuntimeError and returning back safely), but it is doing that only in
> open_archive, not in e.g. close_archive which seems to be where the
> actual crash is:
[...]
> If you want to compare it right now you might want to uninstall
> python3-guestfs so it falls back to binary comparison, but that's
> probably not that much helpful..

thanks but no thanks.

:)


-- 
cheers,
	Holger, who still prefers old fashioned error messages over 50
		lines of traceback in the users face
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