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authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2012-05-23 11:19:34 +0100
committerRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2012-05-23 11:19:34 +0100
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FAQ: Add a note about "child process died unexpectedly".
This is a common search term on the main website, and there is no good information provided by Google at present.
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@@ -125,6 +125,18 @@ Include as much detail as you can and a way to reproduce the problem.
Include the full output of L<libguestfs-test-tool(1)>.
+=head1 COMMON ERRORS
+
+=head2 "child process died unexpectedly"
+
+This error indicates that qemu failed or the host kernel could not boot.
+To get further information about the failure, you have to run:
+
+ libguestfs-test-tool
+
+If, after using this, you still don't understand the failure, contact
+us (see previous section).
+
=head1 DOWNLOADING, INSTALLING, COMPILING LIBGUESTFS
=begin html