livecd February 2007

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Intenet access with LiveCD?
by Jim Dever 11 May '07

11 May '07

Hi, I was excited to see the release of the Fedora LiveCD as I'm looking around at different distributions but for some reason I can't get it to see my internet connection at all. If anyone could point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it. NIC: Cnet PRO200WL PCI (not wireless) Router: Linksys RTP300 Output of ifconfig: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:AD:79:95:90 inet addr: 192.168.15.102 Bcast: 192.168.15.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::280:adiff:fe79:9590/64 Scope: Link UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric: 1 RX packets: 13 errors: 170 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 frame: 0 TX packets: 0 errors: 10 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 carrier: 10 collisions: 0 txqueuelen: 1000 RX bytes: 2597 (2.5 KiB) TX bytes: 0 (0.0 b) Interrupt: 201 Base address: 0xec00 ----- I noticed that it says UP but not RUNNING. The Ubuntu LiveCD access the internet just fine so I know it's possible to MAKE it work. I just like to see it work before making room for a full install. I've used Linux before but it's been ages ago and before I had a NIC so I'm pretty new to this part. Any help would be appreciated! -- Jim

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livecd-creator complaining about older version of kernel rpm
by William Cohen 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Hi All, I was attempting to make a livecd the required pieces of software for systemtap. I was following the instructions on: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo Earlier I was successful in building a live CD. Given the amount of time required to download stuff I was trying to use the existing CD as starting point. The following command was run: livecd-creator \ --repo=c6,http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/ \ --repo=c6di,http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/debug/ \ --repo=c6_upd,http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/ \ --repo=c6_updi,http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/debug/ \ --repo=lcd6,http://people.redhat.com/davidz/livecd/i386/ \ --repo=e6,http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/i386/ \ --package=fedora-livecd-gnome \ --package=kernel-debuginfo \ --package=systemtap \ --package=systemtap-runtime \ --package=elfutils-devel \ --package=elfutils \ --package=gcc \ --fslabel=Fedora-6-Zod-LiveCD-1-stap0 \ --base-on=/home/wcohen/Fedora-6-Zod-LiveCD-1-woot.iso I saw the following error message during the process: Transaction Check Error: package kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 (which is newer than kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6) is already installed There are multiple kernel rpm in the updates directory. Shouldn't the older one be ignored and no error occur? Or is there something that is forcing it to be pulled in? I am tryed adding the following option to the command line, but got the same result: --exclude-package=kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 The previously created Fedora-6-Zod-LiveCD-1-woot.iso has a 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 kernel in it. -Will

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livecd-tools, rawhide and no /dev/root
by Sebastian Vahl 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Hi. Yesterday I've started to create a live-cd with the livecd-tools based on rawhide. I encountered the same problem with f7test1-live: no /dev/root: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227734 In vmware and qemu the cd boots fine but show some errors: Both found a fault with a deprecated device link in 00-cdlabel.rules and 00-livecd.rules: http://img461.imageshack.us/my.php?image=erroryy2.png http://img365.imageshack.us/my.php?image=error1yv0.png When I saved /etc/udev/rules.d/00-livecd.rules to my fc6 and f7 boxes, put the cd into the cd-drive and restart udev with "/sbin/udev_start/" the link /dev/livecd was correctly created. I've also tried to insert some modules into the initramfs (pata_via, ata_generic) but this don't help. I've tried two ways: 1. Added them to /usr/bin/livecd-creator: mayflowerconf.write('MODULES+="cdrom pata_via ata_generic ide-cd ahci loop dm_snapshot squashfs ext3 ehci_hcd uhci_hcd ohci_hcd usb_storage sd_mod sr_mod usbhid ata_piix"\n') 2. Extracted the content of livecd-initramfs.img, copied the modules into the directory lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2947.fc7, recreated the initramfs and mastered the cd. But still the only modules loaded before the error are: ehci_hcd and uhci_hcd. On my normal rawhide installation an "lsmod | grep ata" shows: pata_via 15557 7 ata_generic 11973 0 libata 112741 2 pata_via,ata_generic scsi_mod 140717 4 sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod My question here is: Where is the error? :) I assume it is in the creation of the initramfs in correlation with libata (I have no sata). But I don't know a way to create a working one. Is there a newer version of the livecd-tools? I still use this one: http://people.redhat.com/davidz/livecd/i386/livecd-tools-001-1.i386.rpm And livecds based on fc6 works fine. Sebastian My hardware: http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?UUID=e689326b-2c7d-4fbc-969e-f6293086ab… http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?UUID=2e386ff4-8c36-4017-bae0-deab54df7e…

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[PATCH] Specify full path to utilities
by Jeremy Katz 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Instead of depending on the path to contain /sbin, let's just be pedantic and specify paths for everything. Applies on top of my previous patches. Jeremy

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Possible OK Button (A11y) Bug
by Janina Sajka 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

I booted into FC7T1 LiveCD the other day for the first time. Fortunately, I had someone looking over my shoulder! <grin> Please read on. Part way through the boot an error came up about accessibility support. It's enabled by default, the error said, but the AT-SPI module required for a11y support was missing. "Press OK to continue," the message said. 1.) I am particularly delighted to see a11y on by default, of course. I would be. I do recall this was a testing decision for Gnome 2.17. But that raises another point: If not on after release, is there thought on how would handle this need on the fly? 2.) The real problem I encountered may be much more than missing AT-SPI. The OK button was not keyboardable, meaning I could not press enter to dismiss it. I had to get my sighted colleague to put the mouse cursor on it and click it away. Here's my concern: Is this possibly only this dialog? Or any similar "missing something or other" dialog? If the latter, do I Bugzilla this in Gnome? On Fedora? Or, was my laptop keyboard just not working yesterday and the button dismisses perfectly well with the enter key? Thanks for all guidance on this. It's a major issue for a11y support. PS: Did I say how thrilled I am to see a11y listed in the LiveCD feature set? Janina -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina@a11y.org Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility janina(a)a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org

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Message to Chitlesh about Kadischi
by J. Hartline 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Hello. Chitlesh can I remove the GUI bits from kadischi and strip it back down to be CLI so we can work on another front side UI for it? Thanks. J. Hartline

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Change default keyboard layout in Gnome
by Sebastian Vahl 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

Hi. Does anybody know how to change the default keyboard layout when building a livecd? I`ve tried to change the value in 10-fedora-livecd-base.conf but that seems not to work: cat <<EOF > /etc/sysconfig/keyboard KEYBOARDTYPE="pc" KEYTABLE="de-latin1-nodeadkeys" In Gnome the default layout is still "us" (I think). Is there a gconf string that could do this? I exspected /desktop/gnome/periphals/keyboard/kdb/layouts, but this is normally empty (also on my normal fc6 box with german layout). Or I just don't know how to put the right string in it. Sebastian

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missing command mksquash and others from root PATH?
by Luke - 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

It took me a while to figure this out, so I'll post it in case anyone else has the same problems. My builds were failing with errors saying "mksquash" and "chkconfig" not found (this was with livecd-tools-001-2, with 001-3 it didn't say this but failed anyway). Also, "pwconv" was failing. The following worked for me: once root type PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin export PATH Using livecd-tools-001-3 and the provided configuration RPMs (6.91-2), I got a working livecd. Though there were still some error messages (see below), and I could not mount either a USB drive or a CD with the livecd. I don't know if this was because I'm still missing some further commands. The mount error pop-up said "Cannot mount volume Error org.freedesktop.Hal.PermissionDenied Details Permission denied: Not in active session" The build errors were: warning: libmng-1.0.9-5.1: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 897da07a warning: vpnc-0.3.3-15.fc7: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 1ac70ce6 warning: system-config-network-1.3.96-1.fc6: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2 cp: cannot set setfscreatecon `system_u:object_r:sbin_t:s0': Permission denied cp: cannot set setfscreatecon `system_u:object_r:insmod_exec_t:s0': Permission denied cp: cannot set setfscreatecon `system_u:object_r:modules_object_t:s0': Permission denied cp: cannot set setfscreatecon `system_u:object_r:modules_object_t:s0': Permission denied cp: cannot set setfscreatecon `system_u:object_r:modules_object_t:s0': Permission denied cp: cannot set setfscreatecon `system_u:object_r:modules_object_t:s0': Permission denied cp: cannot set setfscreatecon `system_u:object_r:modules_object_t:s0': Permission denied cp: cannot set setfscreatecon `system_u:object_r:modules_object_t:s0': Permission denied error: %post(policycoreutils-2.0.2-3.fc7.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 -- snip -- Building an initramfs at /boot/livecd-initramfs.img for kernel 2.6.20-1.2942.fc7 FATAL: Module ide_cd not found. FATAL: Module usbhid not found. /sbin/mayflower: line 664: popd: /home/user/livecd: No such file or directory Done; initramfs is 3.1M. thanks Luke

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how do I build a local repository?
by Luke - 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

Hi, I downloaded the f7test1 livecd and it looks great! I think this has the potential to really help the spread of Fedora. On the control panel I could only find an option to select the default printer, not actually set-up a printer (I'm aware of lpadmin but a GUI would be nice). Maybe the response to my questions below will be that I need to spend much more time reading about how repositories work, but I'll ask anyhow. On the LiveCDHowTo page the following example command is given: livecd-creator \ --repo=c6,http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/\ --repo=c6_upd, http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/ \ --repo=lcd6,http://people.redhat.com/davidz/livecd/i386/ \ --repo=e6,http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/i386/\ --package=fedora-livecd-desktop \ --fslabel=Fedora-6-Zod-LiveCD-1-foo2 If I want to use f7, do I replace "/6/" with "/development/", and remove the extras repo (which doesn't appear to exist for development). Should I also change "repo=c6" etc. to "repo=c7" or does this not make any difference? I notice if I run the modified command above that RPM header files are downloaded into "/var/tmp/livecd-creator/build-tmp...../yum-cache/[lcdr_c6|lcdr_e6|lcdr_lcd6]/headers". Is there a simpler way to build a local repository rather than using these to download the required RPM's? I think it'd be good to have the option to keep downloaded RPM's after a build, and for the next build, only download any addition ones needed. Finally, I see that the RPM's do not sit inside the folder given to livecd-creator " http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/os/", but inside the subfolder "Fedora/RPMS/". Is this how I should structure my local repository? Do I need anything other than RPM's in my local repository? many thanks Luke

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what mainly required for a lightweight livecd??
by Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

I'm stuck ... lol ... I'm trying to create a lightweight liveCD ... but failed miserably due to perhaps poor package selection (and lots of my carelessness) ... anyway .. I want to know what packages are minimum for a distro that have X, a login manager, a desktop , a web browser .. firefox have lots of dependency .. and elinks is too geeky ... the target for this liveCD are old systems with around 192-256MB RAM ... and btw .. do i need to shrink the kernel to reduce memory consumption? -- ----------------------------------------------- regards Hikaru ----------------------------------------------- Mohd Izhar Firdaus Bin Ismail Amano Hikaru 天野晃「あまのひかる」 Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS ICT 2nd Year 1st Semester mohd.izhar.firdaus(a)gmail.com ----------------------------------------------- kagesenshi.87(a)gmail.com GPG: http://www.rootshell.be/~kagesens/public-key.asc Blog: http://kagesenshi.blogspot.com -----------------------------------------------

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