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From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@gmail.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 584153] Re: no useful error message when tap device open fails
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:24:29 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100602172429.14606.14511.malone@wampee.canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20100522095537.15293.25862.malonedeb@gandwana.canonical.com

Michael's fix is good, but it got forgotten, probably because he has
submitted it in the middle of a thread.

I'm going resubmit it again.

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: Incomplete => In Progress

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no useful error message when tap device open fails
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584153
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Status in QEMU: In Progress
Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Debian: Fix Released

Bug description:
When using tap network devices and it fails, qemu gives no information about what the problem is (permission denied, device busy or other), making debugging of such situations, especially for newbies, very difficult.  The proposed patch just adds strerror() around the place, making it more friendly.

See also Debian bug#578154, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578154 and a discussion on qemu-devel at http://marc.info/?t=127192875200003 .

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-02 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-22  9:55 [Qemu-devel] [Bug 584153] [NEW] no useful error message when tap device open fails Michael Tokarev
2010-05-22  9:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [Bug 584153] " Michael Tokarev
2010-05-22 16:27 ` Loïc Minier
2010-05-22 17:28 ` Bug Watch Updater
2010-06-02 17:02 ` Joel Schopp
2010-06-02 17:24 ` Luiz Capitulino [this message]
2011-01-16 14:24 ` Aurelien Jarno
2011-02-20 17:13 ` Aurelien Jarno

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