dhclient depends on fstab 16.04LTS

[Chris Puttick]

As noted here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libguestfs/+bug/1632405

dhclient-script attempts to read fstab and if not available is unable to continue; while a workaround has been provided in the upstream for the dependent (and fairly critical) package, which will hopefully make it into the 16.04 repos soon, the bug does seem to be in dhclient-script, and presumably is easily fixable.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[autostatic (autostatic)]

A workaround could be to recreate /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guestfs/supermin.d/init.tar.gz. So untar it, apply https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/fd60be95091a1923e108f72caf251f5549eeccd0 onto the untarred init file, compress it again and copy it back to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guestfs/supermin.d/init.tar.gz.

[felix (felix-wolfsteller)]

autostatic: Unfortunately that did not work for me - or do I oversee some caches?

[felix (felix-wolfsteller)]

My bad, I did `cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guestfs/supermin.d/init.tar.gz{,.orig}` and patched the original archive. However, the *orig file will still be picked up. Along the way, I cleaned everything *.img and .guest* from /var/tmp - not sure if this was necessary.

So, with only /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guestfs/supermin.d/init.tar.gz in place (and not a backup version in the same directory) and cleaned caches, virt-builder does stuff and exits with 0. Thanks autostatic.