Comment 4 for bug 996789

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Axel Beckert (xtaran) wrote : Re: [Bug 996789] Re: 70-install-ssh does not prevent sshd from starting up

Hi,

gmoore777 wrote:
> Looking at the code of xen-create-image, --keep would only matter if somewhere along the lines FAIL was set to 1and that
> "exit" was not called at the point of the error.
> The failure occurs during a `umount` of a busy device. (it's still busy cause `sshd` is running.)
> The perl program just exits at that point which at this point is inside the routine, runCommand()
> at the last 2 lines:
> $FAIL = 1;
> exit 127;

The next release will contain quite some fixes at that point
(consistent $FAIL usage instead just die and such), so this may be
already fixed in git, but I'll have closer look at that concrete
example.

Thanks for alle the details. I suspect the fix for the initially
reported issue (and not this side issue with --keep) is given in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen-tools/+bug/997063

  Regards, Axel
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