Bug#503007: [Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#503007: virtinst tries to create a temporal file in inexistent directory /var/lib/xen and dies

[Guido Günther]

tags 503007 +patch
thanks

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:32:15PM -0200, Nahuel Greco wrote:
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> '/var/lib/xen/virtinstmnt.mpUlvF'
> morron:~/virtual_machines#
> morron:~/virtual_machines# ls -d /var/lib/xen*
Here's a patch for 0.300.0 that should fix the problem. Can you try it?
Cheers,
 -- Guido

diff --git a/virtinst/Guest.py b/virtinst/Guest.py
index c94c186..fc87b70 100644
--- a/virtinst/Guest.py
+++ b/virtinst/Guest.py
@@ -477,7 +477,8 @@ class Installer(object):
 
     def get_scratchdir(self):
         if self.type == "xen":
-            return "/var/lib/xen"
+            if os.path.exists("/var/lib/xen"):
+                return "/var/lib/xen"
         return "/var/tmp"
     scratchdir = property(get_scratchdir)