Bug 12176 - wic ls myimage.wic:1 fails on ubuntu 16.04 using host mtools
Summary: wic ls myimage.wic:1 fails on ubuntu 16.04 using host mtools
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: OE-Core
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: Scripts and Tools (show other bugs)
Version: 2.4
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Medium normal
Target Milestone: 4.99
Assignee: Unassigned
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Depends on: 12173
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Reported: 2017-10-03 22:23 UTC by brian avery
Modified: 2020-06-25 08:13 UTC (History)
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Description brian avery 2017-10-03 22:23:55 UTC 
If you try to ls a fat partition using wic on Ubuntu 16.04 with host mtools installed you get the following error:
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ERROR: _exec_cmd: /usr/bin/mdir -i /tmp/wic-part7q2ppk8i ::/ returned '1' instead of 0
output: Total number of sectors (47824) not a multiple of sectors per track (32)!
Add mtools_skip_check=1 to your .mtoolsrc file to skip this test
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if you create a ~/.mtoolsrc with 
mtools_skip_check=1 
in it; then the command proceeds fine. 

I will put a depends on Bug 12173 since this may go away when we use mtools-native correctly instead of host mtools. or it may not.
Comment 1 brian avery 2017-10-03 22:24:27 UTC 
using our own mtools-native may allow us to make this bug obsolete...
Comment 2 brian avery 2017-10-04 21:56:08 UTC 
Turns out that wic ls has an optional argument to pass in the native sysroot containing mtools-native

wic ls -n (pwd)/tmp/sysroots-components/x86_64/mtools-native   /tmp/core-image-base-qemux86-64.wic:1  

^^^
The above works fine without the ~/.mtoolsrc file.
Comment 3 Randy MacLeod 2020-06-25 08:13:41 UTC 
We only support using our own mtools.