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Improve error reporting on file access

Message ID 20091001144256.GA30845@linuxtx.org
State Superseded
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Commit Message

Justin Forbes Oct. 1, 2009, 2:42 p.m. UTC 
commit 1755cdcf9c6328bdcc8558a38af774e31421a145
Author: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Oct 1 09:34:56 2009 -0500

    Improve error reporting on file access
    
    By making the error reporting include strerror(errno), it gives the user
    a bit more indication as to why qemu failed.  This is particularly
    important for people running qemu as a non root user.
    
    Signed-off-by: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com>

Comments

Mark McLoughlin Oct. 1, 2009, 4:12 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 09:42 -0500, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> Author: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com>
> Date:   Thu Oct 1 09:34:56 2009 -0500
> 
>     Improve error reporting on file access
>     
>     By making the error reporting include strerror(errno), it gives the user
>     a bit more indication as to why qemu failed.  This is particularly
>     important for people running qemu as a non root user.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com>

Certainly looks sensible to me

Not having this is hurting us in Fedora 12 because we've started running
qemu as an unprivileged user and people are having a hard time figuring
out the various errors they're seeing caused by the change. This should
help them.

Only concern is that errno might not be getting propagated correctly by
some of these functions, but we can fix that later if so.

Cheers,
Mark.
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Patch

diff --git a/hw/pc.c b/hw/pc.c
index bc2875e..8e54fa4 100644
--- a/hw/pc.c
+++ b/hw/pc.c
@@ -844,8 +844,8 @@  static void load_linux(void *fw_cfg,
     if (!f || !(kernel_size = get_file_size(f)) ||
 	fread(header, 1, MIN(ARRAY_SIZE(header), kernel_size), f) !=
 	MIN(ARRAY_SIZE(header), kernel_size)) {
-	fprintf(stderr, "qemu: could not load kernel '%s'\n",
-		kernel_filename);
+	fprintf(stderr, "qemu: could not load kernel '%s': %s\n",
+		kernel_filename, strerror(errno));
 	exit(1);
     }

@@ -950,8 +950,8 @@  static void load_linux(void *fw_cfg,

 	fi = fopen(initrd_filename, "rb");
 	if (!fi) {
-	    fprintf(stderr, "qemu: could not load initial ram disk '%s'\n",
-		    initrd_filename);
+	    fprintf(stderr, "qemu: could not load initial ram disk '%s': %s\n",
+		    initrd_filename, strerror(errno));
 	    exit(1);
 	}

@@ -959,8 +959,8 @@  static void load_linux(void *fw_cfg,
 	initrd_addr = (initrd_max-initrd_size) & ~4095;

 	if (!fread_targphys_ok(initrd_addr, initrd_size, fi)) {
-	    fprintf(stderr, "qemu: read error on initial ram disk '%s'\n",
-		    initrd_filename);
+	    fprintf(stderr, "qemu: read error on initial ram disk '%s': %s\n",
+		    initrd_filename, strerror(errno));
 	    exit(1);
 	}
 	fclose(fi);
diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index 7bfd415..70fd2ca 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -2232,8 +2232,8 @@  DriveInfo *drive_init(QemuOpts *opts, void *opaque,
     }

     if (bdrv_open2(dinfo->bdrv, file, bdrv_flags, drv) < 0) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "qemu: could not open disk image %s\n",
-                        file);
+        fprintf(stderr, "qemu: could not open disk image %s: %s\n",
+                        file, strerror(errno));
         return NULL;
     }

@@ -5487,7 +5487,7 @@  int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
             if (len != 1)
                 exit(1);
             else if (status == 1) {
-                fprintf(stderr, "Could not acquire pidfile\n");
+                fprintf(stderr, "Could not acquire pidfile: %s\n", strerror(errno));
                 exit(1);
             } else
                 exit(0);
@@ -5514,7 +5514,7 @@  int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
             uint8_t status = 1;
             write(fds[1], &status, 1);
         } else
-            fprintf(stderr, "Could not acquire pid file\n");
+            fprintf(stderr, "Could not acquire pid file: %s\n", strerror(errno));
         exit(1);
     }
 #endif
@@ -5699,8 +5699,8 @@  int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
             snprintf(label, sizeof(label), "serial%d", i);
             serial_hds[i] = qemu_chr_open(label, devname, NULL);
             if (!serial_hds[i]) {
-                fprintf(stderr, "qemu: could not open serial device '%s'\n",
-                        devname);
+                fprintf(stderr, "qemu: could not open serial device '%s': %s\n",
+                        devname, strerror(errno));
                 exit(1);
             }
         }
@@ -5713,8 +5713,8 @@  int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
             snprintf(label, sizeof(label), "parallel%d", i);
             parallel_hds[i] = qemu_chr_open(label, devname, NULL);
             if (!parallel_hds[i]) {
-                fprintf(stderr, "qemu: could not open parallel device '%s'\n",
-                        devname);
+                fprintf(stderr, "qemu: could not open parallel device '%s': %s\n",
+                        devname, strerror(errno));
                 exit(1);
             }
         }
@@ -5727,8 +5727,8 @@  int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
             snprintf(label, sizeof(label), "virtcon%d", i);
             virtcon_hds[i] = qemu_chr_open(label, devname, NULL);
             if (!virtcon_hds[i]) {
-                fprintf(stderr, "qemu: could not open virtio console '%s'\n",
-                        devname);
+                fprintf(stderr, "qemu: could not open virtio console '%s': %s\n",
+                        devname, strerror(errno));
                 exit(1);
             }
         }