Re: [PATCH] Re: [Xen-users] Problems with pygrub: ValueError: unableto open file

["Michael Paesold" <mpaesold@xxxxxx>]

I am sorry, this patches produces a warning if HAVE_EXT2FS_OPEN2 is not 
defined (unused variable) and will break the build with -Werror. I will send 
a new patch.
Best Regards,
Michael Paesold

I wrote:
> Improve pygrub error reporting when opening ext2 fs is not possible
>
> As reported in the thread:
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-03/msg00721.html,
> pygrub does not open ext2 file systems in partitioned images or sub
> partitions on e.g. CentOS/RHEL 4, because e2fsprogs ext2fs_open does not
> support an offset into the file to be opened.
>
> With this patch, the error is correctly reported instead of a generic
> "unable to open file" (and leaving the user searching in the dark).
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Paesold <mpaesold@xxxxxx>
>
> diff -r f0e14b4e535c tools/pygrub/src/fsys/ext2/ext2module.c
> --- a/tools/pygrub/src/fsys/ext2/ext2module.c   Thu Mar 30 14:37:22 2006 
> +0100
> +++ b/tools/pygrub/src/fsys/ext2/ext2module.c   Thu Mar 30 20:52:41 2006 
> +0200
> @@ -225,19 +225,24 @@ ext2_fs_open (Ext2Fs *fs, PyObject *args
>          return NULL;
>      }
>
> +#ifdef HAVE_EXT2FS_OPEN2
>      if (offset != 0) {
>          snprintf(offsetopt, 29, "offset=%d", offset);
>      }
>
> -#ifdef HAVE_EXT2FS_OPEN2
>      err = ext2fs_open2(name, offsetopt, flags, superblock, block_size,
>                         unix_io_manager, &efs);
>  #else
> +    if (offset != 0) {
> +        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "offset argument not 
> supported");
> +        return NULL;
> +    }
> +
>      err = ext2fs_open(name, flags, superblock, block_size,
>                        unix_io_manager, &efs);
>  #endif
>      if (err) {
> -        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "unable to open file");
> +        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "unable to open filesystem");
>          return NULL;
>      }
>
>
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