I'm slightly surprised that libguestfs ever worked on MIPS. We've certainly never tested it upstream.
The error is a hang in the appliance, which eventually causes libguestfs-test-tool to hit its default timeout (600 seconds). It's not really possible to tell what is causing the hang. We'd need to have access to MIPS hardware to debug this further. However it happens just after starting udev, which may or may not be related. Here is the code: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/appliance/init#L50 Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org