I'm trying to use ovftool to automate OVA deployments to vCloud Director 5.1. I have installed ovftool 3.0.1 on Ubuntu and tested out some operations. Everything seems to work except that I always get a segmentation fault when I invoke a vcloud target.
Here is the logging output:
2013-04-12T09:38:22.261-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] [SSL_DB] Using /home/evan/.ovftool.ssldb as SSL DB
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 2 (SIGINT)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 4 (SIGILL)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 6 (SIGABRT)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 8 (SIGFPE)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 15 (SIGTERM)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 1 (SIGHUP)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 3 (SIGQUIT)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 5 (SIGTRAP)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 9 (SIGKILL)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Subscribing to signal: 13 (SIGPIPE)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] OvfTool Version: VMware ovftool 3.0.1 (build-801290)
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Using home directory: /home/evan/.ovftool
2013-04-12T09:38:22.263-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] OvfTool Environment:
--> /X:httpTimeout = "0"
--> /X:imageReadSize = "262144"
--> /X:logToConsole = "true"
--> /X:maxNumberOfTermSignals = "5"
--> /X:maxRedirects = "256"
--> /X:maximalDeltaConfSize = "8"
--> /X:maximalDeltaTreeSize = "6"
--> /X:progressSmoothing = "60"
--> /X:useMacNaming = "false"
--> /X:vCloudEnableGuestCustomization = "false"
--> /X:vCloudKeepTemplate = "true"
--> /X:vCloudTimeout = "3600"
--> /X:vimSessionTimeout = "600"
--> /authdPortSource = "902"
--> /authdPortTarget = "902"
--> /fencedMode = "bridged"
--> /prgPath = "/usr/lib/vmware-ovftool"
--> /source = "vcloud://vclouddirector.intapp.net/"
--> /vCloudTemplate = "false"
-->
2013-04-12T09:38:22.270-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Done initializing libs
2013-04-12T09:38:22.270-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Determining source
2013-04-12T09:38:22.270-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] Determining target
2013-04-12T09:38:22.302-07:00 [7F986BFFF700 verbose 'Default'] CURL: header data removed
2013-04-12T09:38:22.617-07:00 [7F986BFFF700 verbose 'Default'] CURL: header data removed
2013-04-12T09:38:22.617-07:00 [7F986BFFF700 verbose 'Default'] CURL: header data removed
2013-04-12T09:38:22.617-07:00 [7F986BFFF700 verbose 'Default'] CURL: header data removed
2013-04-12T09:38:22.617-07:00 [7F986BFFF700 verbose 'Default'] CURL: header data removed
2013-04-12T09:38:22.617-07:00 [7F986BFFF700 verbose 'Default'] CURL: header data removed
2013-04-12T09:38:22.617-07:00 [7F986BFFF700 verbose 'Default'] CURL: header data removed
2013-04-12T09:38:22.619-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] VCloud request body:
-->
2013-04-12T09:38:22.641-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] VCloud response body:
--> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
--> <SupportedVersions xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/versions" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/versionshttp://vclouddirector/api/versions/schema/versions.xsd">
--> <VersionInfo>
--> <Version>1.5</Version>
--> <LoginUrl>https://vclouddirector.intapp.net/api/sessions</LoginUrl>
... schema output snipped ...
-->
2013-04-12T09:38:22.648-07:00 [7F987B01E740 verbose 'Default'] VCloud version used: 5.1
The end of the strace output:
[pid 15407] munmap(0x7f8b32f7c000, 135168) = 0
[pid 15407] munmap(0x7f8b32f9d000, 135168) = 0
[pid 15407] munmap(0x7f8b3cadb000, 135168) = 0
[pid 15407] write(6, "\25\3\1\0\30B& 2\7\30\3259W0n~(4\216\375\"\35\310c\211{+\350", 29) = 29
[pid 15407] close(6) = 0
[pid 15407] brk(0x2c17000) = 0x2c17000
[pid 15407] brk(0x2c38000) = 0x2c38000
[pid 15407] write(1, "2013-04-12T09:40:54.198-07:00 [7"..., 882013-04-12T09:40:54.198-07:00 [7F8B3CB7F740 verbose 'Default'] VCloud version used: 5.1
) = 88
[pid 15407] --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
Process 15404 resumed
Process 15407 detached
[pid 15410] +++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++
[pid 15409] +++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++
[pid 15408] +++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++
[pid 15411] +++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++
<... wait4 resumed> [{WIFSIGNALED(s) && WTERMSIG(s) == SIGSEGV && WCOREDUMP(s)}], 0, NULL) = 15407
write(2, "/usr/bin/ovftool: line 23: 15407"..., 91/usr/bin/ovftool: line 23: 15407 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$OVFTOOL_BIN" "$@"
) = 91
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
wait4(-1, 0x7fff27453e98, WNOHANG, NULL) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes)
rt_sigreturn(0xffffffffffffffff) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7f70fceb44a0}, {0x43f140, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7f70fceb44a0}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0
read(255, "", 409) = 0
exit_group(139) = ?