can Pop! maintain supermin?

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can Pop! maintain supermin?

the maintainer is currently Ubuntu, but they stuck at version 5.2.1, which was released in Jan 2021. would Pop! compile a more updated version (say 5.3.1)?

zstd formated Kernel has conflicts with the 5.2.1, causing issues with libguestfs, but it's fixed upstream on 5.3.1+.

This is related to: https://lemm.ee/post/11764643

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humuhumu

lemm.ee

$ sudo apt show supermin
Package: supermin
Version: 5.2.1-4ubuntu2
Built-Using: musl (= 1.2.2-1)
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers 
Original-Maintainer: Debian Libvirt Maintainers 
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1,596 kB
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), libcom-err2 (>= 1.43.9), libext2fs2 (>= 1.42.7), apt, cpio, e2fsprogs
Recommends: linux-image-amd64
Breaks: libguestfs-tools (&lt;&lt; 1.25.38)
Homepage: http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/supermin/
Download-Size: 441 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: no
APT-Sources: http://apt.pop-os.org/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages
Description: tool for building supermin appliances. Supermin appliances are tiny appliances, similar to virtual machine images, usually arround 100KB in size, which get fully instantiated on-the-fly in a fraction of a second to a filesystem image when they are booted.

Michael Murphy (S76)

lemmy.world

Any instructions for QA to replicate the issue?

humuhumu reply

lemm.ee

Yes @mmstick

https://lemm.ee/comment/5857513

humuhumu reply

lemm.ee

@[email protected], as of kernel 6.6.6, the supermin is working. Just wonder if the kernel is zstd compressed?

humuhumu

lemm.ee

Install latest Pop OS with say kernel 6.5.6..

Install libguestfs-tools

running virt-sparsify gives the following error

Invalid ELF header magic: != \x7fELF insmod: init_module:virtio_snd.ko.zst: Invalid module format  
supermin: waiting another 1024000000 ns for root UUID to appear  
This usually means your kernel doesn't support virtio, or supermin was unable to load some kernel modules (see module loading messages above).

Below is my error from running libguestfs-test-tool (edit: with sudo)

'insmod: init_module: snd-timer.ko.zst: Invalid module format
supermin: internal insmod snd-pcm.ko.zst
[ 0.828428] Invalid ELF header magic: != \x7fELF
insmod: init_module: snd-pcm.ko.zst: Invalid module format
supermin: internal insmod virtio_snd.ko.zst
[ 0.829673] Invalid ELF header magic: != \x7fELF
insmod: init_module: virtio_snd.ko.zst: Invalid module format
supermin: waiting another 1024000000 ns for root UUID to appear
This usually means your kernel doesn't support virtio, or supermin was unable
to load some kernel modules (see module loading messages above).
supermin: waiting another 2048000000 ns for root UUID to appear
supermin: waiting another 4096000000 ns for root UUID to appear

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/71746