[Fedora-livecd-list] livecd-creator arbitrary fsck errors

[James Heather]

I'm having exactly the same trouble on Fedora 16. I have no idea what's
up.

James

On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 14:01 +0100, Ls Wol wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have a huge problem building a RHEL6 LiveCD/DVD.
> This happend on two different virtual machines I used to build a
> LiveCD, thats why I'm writing to this list.
> 
> Setup: Clean RHEL6.2 Install, >30GB free space available.
> Aim: RHEL6 LiveCD with some extra packages.
> 
> After a few successfull builds (3 - 4, sometimes after 1)
> livecd-creator stops working. 
> If I try to build a LiveCD I always get the following error:
> 
> Error creating Live CD : fsck after resize returned an error!  image
> to debug at /tmp/resize-image-ZJgv1q
> 
> I try to build the LiveCD with the following line:
> 
> livecd-creator -c fedora-livecd-desktop.ks -f rhel6-live
> -t /var/tmp/rhel6-live/ --cache /var/cache/rhel6-live/ -d -v
> --logfile=/root/spin-kickstarts-kundrak/rhel6-live.log
> 
> I run the commandline within a simple shellscript which exports LANG=C
> prior to starting livecd-creator as I read on an old post on this
> list, that this could be an issue.
> 
> Because it drove me nuts, I (manually) logged the configuration (added
> packages, changed settings) of my runs on the second machine. I
> thought this would be a good idea because then I'm able to revert my
> steps and always have a working base-configuration. But even when I'm
> reverting my last step after it stopped working, it still doesn't work
> and breaks with the same error.
> Between the runs, I cleaned the cache & tmp dir and even did reboots.
> But still no luck.
> 
> It can't be the repo configuration or other stuff like the part size
> etc., because when it runs without an error, I cant boot the livecd
> and all extra packages I included are available.
> 
> Why is it sometimes working and why not?
> 
> 
> Do you have any suggestions? I really appreciate any help!
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Here is the error from livecd-creator:
> 
> umount: /var/tmp/rhel6-live/imgcreate-lIbnh_/install_root: device is
> busy.
>         (In some cases useful info about processes that use
>          the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))
> Unmounting directory /var/tmp/rhel6-live/imgcreate-lIbnh_/install_root
> failed, using lazy umount
> lazy umount succeeded
> on /var/tmp/rhel6-live/imgcreate-lIbnh_/install_root
> loop: can't delete device /dev/loop2: Device or resource busy
> e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
> _rhel6-live: recovering journal
> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
> Pass 2: Checking directory structure
> Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
> Pass 4: Checking reference counts
> Pass 5: Checking group summary information
> 
> _rhel6-live: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
> _rhel6-live: 97630/196608 files (0.1% non-contiguous), 611369/786432
> blocks
> e2image 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
> resize2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
> Resizing the filesystem
> on /var/tmp/rhel6-live/imgcreate-lIbnh_/tmp-bUcK4E/ext3fs.img to
> 617874 (4k) blocks.
> The filesystem
> on /var/tmp/rhel6-live/imgcreate-lIbnh_/tmp-bUcK4E/ext3fs.img is now
> 617874 blocks long.
> 
> e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
> _rhel6-live: recovering journal
> The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 786432 blocks
> The physical size of the device is 617874 blocks
> Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!
> Abort? yes
> 
> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/imgcreate/errors.py:45:
> DeprecationWarning: BaseException.message has been deprecated as of
> Python 2.6
>   return unicode(self.message)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Here is the full output of my (debug enabled) log:
> 
> Extending sparse
> file /var/tmp/rhel6-live/imgcreate-lIbnh_/tmp-bUcK4E/ext3fs.img to
> 3221225472
> Mounting /dev/loop2
> at /var/tmp/rhel6-live/imgcreate-lIbnh_/install_root
> No such package java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin to remove
> No such package mpage to remove
> No such package ibus-pinyin-open-phrase to remove
> No such package constantine-backgrounds-extras to remove
> No such package specspo to remove
> No such package system-config-rootpassword to remove
> No such package evolution-help to remove
> No such package gnome-games-help to remove
> No such package desktop-backgrounds-basic to remove
> No such package system-config-boot to remove
> No such package system-config-network to remove
> Unmounting directory /var/tmp/rhel6-live/imgcreate-lIbnh_/install_root
> Unmounting directory /var/tmp/rhel6-live/imgcreate-lIbnh_/install_root
> failed, using lazy umount
> lazy umount succeeded
> on /var/tmp/rhel6-live/imgcreate-lIbnh_/install_root
> Losetup remove /dev/loop2
> Checking
> filesystem /var/tmp/rhel6-live/imgcreate-lIbnh_/tmp-bUcK4E/ext3fs.img
> Checking
> filesystem /var/tmp/rhel6-live/imgcreate-lIbnh_/tmp-bUcK4E/ext3fs.img
> Error creating Live CD : fsck after resize returned an error!  image
> to debug at /tmp/resize-image-TxijRK

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