F13 excluding packages doesn't work?
by Philip Rhoades
People,
I have been experimenting with building isos from minimal up to a base
version and when it is going completely I want to start with F14 and
then there are some customisations I want to do. During all the builds
and problems (which have been solved with help from people on this
list!) I have quite frequently tried to exclude packages when the
(qemu-kvm) booted iso hangs at that particular package. After having a
working ks that produced a base iso with base X stuff that died after
running startx, I restored:
xconfig --startxonboot
to the ks file and remade the iso - but now it hangs again after:
Generating exim certificate
Starting exim
even though I have:
-exim*
in the ks file. This was happening at various times before (with this
and other packages) with my more minimal ks versions but other changes
allowed me to keep going somehow . .
I just commented out "xconfig --startxonboot" again and now the new iso
gets all the way to a login again - however it still crashes after
startx [(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or dir; error setting MTRR] but
I will worry about that later . .
Why does exim NOT get excluded when all the other packages listed are
successfully excluded?
Thanks,
Phil.
--
Philip Rhoades
GPO Box 3411
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
13 years, 7 months
F13 starting X problem
by Philip Rhoades
People,
For X windows, if I only have:
@base-x
in my ks file and also:
xconfig --startxonboot
uncommented, the qemu-kvm booted system hangs during booting. If I
comment out "xconfig --startxonboot" the system gets all the way to a
login - however it still crashes after startx with:
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or dir
error setting MTRR
.
.
waiting for X server to shut down .error setting MTRR (base =
0xf0000000, size = 0x00400000, type = 1) Inappropriate icotl for device (25)
If I put:
@xfce-desktop
into the ks file, startx gets all the way to the blue, swirly screen and
then hangs.
My ks file looks almost like a standard Fedora "base" ks file - how to
debug?
Thanks,
Phil.
--
Philip Rhoades
GPO Box 3411
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
13 years, 7 months
/var/tmp/imgcreate-* : Can't umount
by Philip Rhoades
People,
If the livecd script is interrupted or crashes it leaves the img file
system in /var/tmp and I can't unmount it except by rebooting the
computer which is a real pain of course - is there some trick to
umounting this?
Thanks,
Phil.
--
Philip Rhoades
GPO Box 3411
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
13 years, 7 months
Can't log in
by Philip Rhoades
People,
After many attempts of building permutations I still can't get a login
to work (the message that flashes up before the screen redraws is too
quick) using qemu-kvm. My ks file hereunder - can anyone see anything
that would cause the problem? Thanks:
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
timezone US/Eastern
auth --useshadow --enablemd5
part / --size 5120
/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=i686
repo --name=released
--mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-13&arch=i386
repo --name=updates
--mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f13&arch=i386
rootpw --iscrypted $1$GRwvp$HcYuBdNae5mlPyXwVUc1E0
%packages
@base
@core
@input-methods
@admin-tools
@dial-up
@hardware-support
kernel
system-config-firewall-base
memtest86+
-exim*
-sendmail
%end
%post
# FIXME: it'd be better to get this installed from a package
cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys << EOF
#!/bin/bash
#
# live: Init script for live image
#
# chkconfig: 345 00 99
# description: Init script for live image.
. /etc/init.d/functions
if ! strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" liveimg || [ "\$1" != "start" ]; then
exit 0
fi
if [ -e /.liveimg-configured ] ; then
configdone=1
fi
exists() {
which \$1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || return
\$*
}
touch /.liveimg-configured
# mount live image
if [ -b \`readlink -f /dev/live\` ]; then
mkdir -p /mnt/live
mount -o ro /dev/live /mnt/live 2>/dev/null || mount /dev/live /mnt/live
fi
livedir="LiveOS"
for arg in \`cat /proc/cmdline\` ; do
if [ "\${arg##live_dir=}" != "\${arg}" ]; then
livedir=\${arg##live_dir=}
return
fi
done
# enable swaps unless requested otherwise
swaps=\`blkid -t TYPE=swap -o device\`
if ! strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" noswap && [ -n "\$swaps" ] ; then
for s in \$swaps ; do
action "Enabling swap partition \$s" swapon \$s
done
fi
if ! strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" noswap && [ -f
/mnt/live/\${livedir}/swap.img ] ; then
action "Enabling swap file" swapon /mnt/live/\${livedir}/swap.img
fi
mountPersistentHome() {
# support label/uuid
if [ "\${homedev##LABEL=}" != "\${homedev}" -o "\${homedev##UUID=}"
!= "\${homedev}" ]; then
homedev=\`/sbin/blkid -o device -t "\$homedev"\`
fi
# if we're given a file rather than a blockdev, loopback it
if [ "\${homedev##mtd}" != "\${homedev}" ]; then
# mtd devs don't have a block device but get magic-mounted with -t
jffs2
mountopts="-t jffs2"
elif [ ! -b "\$homedev" ]; then
loopdev=\`losetup -f\`
if [ "\${homedev##/mnt/live}" != "\${homedev}" ]; then
action "Remounting live store r/w" mount -o remount,rw /mnt/live
fi
losetup \$loopdev \$homedev
homedev=\$loopdev
fi
# if it's encrypted, we need to unlock it
if [ "\$(/sbin/blkid -s TYPE -o value \$homedev 2>/dev/null)" =
"crypto_LUKS" ]; then
echo
echo "Setting up encrypted /home device"
plymouth ask-for-password --command="cryptsetup luksOpen \$homedev
EncHome"
homedev=/dev/mapper/EncHome
fi
# and finally do the mount
mount \$mountopts \$homedev /home
# if we have /home under what's passed for persistent home, then
# we should make that the real /home. useful for mtd device on olpc
if [ -d /home/home ]; then mount --bind /home/home /home ; fi
[ -x /sbin/restorecon ] && /sbin/restorecon /home
if [ -d /home/liveuser ]; then USERADDARGS="-M" ; fi
}
findPersistentHome() {
for arg in \`cat /proc/cmdline\` ; do
if [ "\${arg##persistenthome=}" != "\${arg}" ]; then
homedev=\${arg##persistenthome=}
return
fi
done
}
if strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" persistenthome= ; then
findPersistentHome
elif [ -e /mnt/live/\${livedir}/home.img ]; then
homedev=/mnt/live/\${livedir}/home.img
fi
# if we have a persistent /home, then we want to go ahead and mount it
if ! strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" nopersistenthome && [ -n "\$homedev"
] ; then
action "Mounting persistent /home" mountPersistentHome
fi
# make it so that we don't do writing to the overlay for things which
# are just tmpdirs/caches
mount -t tmpfs -o mode=0755 varcacheyum /var/cache/yum
mount -t tmpfs tmp /tmp
mount -t tmpfs vartmp /var/tmp
[ -x /sbin/restorecon ] && /sbin/restorecon /var/cache/yum /tmp /var/tmp
>/dev/null 2>&1
if [ -n "\$configdone" ]; then
exit 0
fi
# add fedora user with no passwd
action "Adding live user" useradd \$USERADDARGS -c "liveuser Albers"
liveuser
passwd -d liveuser > /dev/null
# turn off firstboot for livecd boots
chkconfig --level 345 firstboot off 2>/dev/null
# don't start yum-updatesd for livecd boots
chkconfig --level 345 yum-updatesd off 2>/dev/null
# turn off mdmonitor by default
chkconfig --level 345 mdmonitor off 2>/dev/null
# turn off setroubleshoot on the live image to preserve resources
chkconfig --level 345 setroubleshoot off 2>/dev/null
# don't do packagekit checking by default
gconftool-2 --direct
--config-source=xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults -s -t string
/apps/gnome-packagekit/frequency_get_updates never >/dev/null
gconftool-2 --direct
--config-source=xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults -s -t string
/apps/gnome-packagekit/frequency_get_upgrades never >/dev/null
gconftool-2 --direct
--config-source=xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults -s -t string
/apps/gnome-packagekit/frequency_refresh_cache never >/dev/null
gconftool-2 --direct
--config-source=xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults -s -t bool
/apps/gnome-packagekit/notify_available false >/dev/null
gconftool-2 --direct
--config-source=xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults -s -t bool
/apps/gnome-packagekit/notify_distro_upgrades false >/dev/null
gconftool-2 --direct
--config-source=xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults -s -t bool
/apps/gnome-packagekit/enable_check_firmware false >/dev/null
gconftool-2 --direct
--config-source=xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults -s -t bool
/apps/gnome-packagekit/enable_check_hardware false >/dev/null
gconftool-2 --direct
--config-source=xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults -s -t bool
/apps/gnome-packagekit/enable_codec_helper false >/dev/null
gconftool-2 --direct
--config-source=xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults -s -t bool
/apps/gnome-packagekit/enable_font_helper false >/dev/null
gconftool-2 --direct
--config-source=xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults -s -t bool
/apps/gnome-packagekit/enable_mime_type_helper false >/dev/null
# don't start cron/at as they tend to spawn things which are
# disk intensive that are painful on a live image
chkconfig --level 345 crond off 2>/dev/null
chkconfig --level 345 atd off 2>/dev/null
chkconfig --level 345 anacron off 2>/dev/null
chkconfig --level 345 readahead_early off 2>/dev/null
chkconfig --level 345 readahead_later off 2>/dev/null
# Stopgap fix for RH #217966; should be fixed in HAL instead
touch /media/.hal-mtab
# workaround clock syncing on shutdown that we don't want (#297421)
sed -i -e 's/hwclock/no-such-hwclock/g' /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt
# and hack so that we eject the cd on shutdown if we're using a CD...
if strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" CDLABEL= ; then
cat >> /sbin/halt.local << FOE
#!/bin/bash
# XXX: This often gets stuck during shutdown because /etc/init.d/halt
# (or something else still running) wants to read files from the block\
# device that was ejected. Disable for now. Bug #531924
# we want to eject the cd on halt, but let's also try to avoid
# io errors due to not being able to get files...
#cat /sbin/halt > /dev/null
#cat /sbin/reboot > /dev/null
#/usr/sbin/eject -p -m \$(readlink -f /dev/live) >/dev/null 2>&1
#echo "Please remove the CD from your drive and press Enter to finish
restarting"
#read -t 30 < /dev/console
FOE
chmod +x /sbin/halt.local
fi
EOF
# bah, hal starts way too late
cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys-late << EOF
#!/bin/bash
#
# live: Late init script for live image
#
# chkconfig: 345 99 01
# description: Late init script for live image.
. /etc/init.d/functions
if ! strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" liveimg || [ "\$1" != "start" ] || [
-e /.liveimg-late-configured ] ; then
exit 0
fi
exists() {
which \$1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || return
\$*
}
touch /.liveimg-late-configured
# read some variables out of /proc/cmdline
for o in \`cat /proc/cmdline\` ; do
case \$o in
ks=*)
ks="--kickstart=\${o#ks=}"
;;
xdriver=*)
xdriver="--set-driver=\${o#xdriver=}"
;;
esac
done
# if liveinst or textinst is given, start anaconda
if strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" liveinst ; then
plymouth --quit
/usr/sbin/liveinst \$ks
fi
if strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" textinst ; then
plymouth --quit
/usr/sbin/liveinst --text \$ks
fi
EOF
chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys
/sbin/restorecon /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys
/sbin/chkconfig --add livesys
chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys-late
/sbin/restorecon /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys-late
/sbin/chkconfig --add livesys-late
# work around for poor key import UI in PackageKit
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
echo "Packages within this LiveCD"
rpm -qa
# go ahead and pre-make the man -k cache (#455968)
/usr/sbin/makewhatis -w
# save a little bit of space at least...
rm -f /boot/initramfs*
# make sure there aren't core files lying around
rm -f /core*
%end
%post --nochroot
cp $INSTALL_ROOT/usr/share/doc/*-release-*/GPL $LIVE_ROOT/GPL
cp
$INSTALL_ROOT/usr/share/doc/HTML/readme-live-image/en_US/readme-live-image-en_US.txt
$LIVE_ROOT/README
sed -i -e '/ *append / { s/quiet// ; s/rhgb//; }'
"${LIVE_ROOT}"/isolinux/isolinux.cfg
# only works on x86, x86_64
if [ "$(uname -i)" = "i386" -o "$(uname -i)" = "x86_64" ]; then
if [ ! -d $LIVE_ROOT/LiveOS ]; then mkdir -p $LIVE_ROOT/LiveOS ; fi
cp /usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk $LIVE_ROOT/LiveOS
fi
%end
%post --nochroot
sed -i -e '/ *append / { s/quiet// ; s/rhgb//; }'
"${LIVE_ROOT}"/isolinux/isolinux.cfg
%end
--
Philip Rhoades
GPO Box 3411
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
13 years, 7 months
livecd-iso-to-disk ignores persistent home
by Johan Vromans
Hi,
I have such a trivial problem that I'm almost, but not quite, sure it's
me doing something wrong.
I'm using Fedora 13 with all updates as of today, SELinux is disabled,
and I have installed livecd-tools 034-10 (built from the fc14.src.rpm).
I have a 4GB USB stick available as /dev/sdk, and issue the command:
livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --format \
--overlay-size-mb 1000 \
--home-size-mb 2000 --unencrypted-home \
/mirror/fc13/releases/Live/i686/Fedora-13-i686-Live.iso /dev/sdk1
After a while this completes, and I try to boot the newly created medium
using QEMU or VirtualBox.
When the boot and automatic login is completed, there's no sign of the
persistent /home. It has not been identified and mounted during bootup.
If the persistent home was created encryoted, i.e. without
--unencrypted-home, no password unlocking questions are asked during
bootup.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for your time and patience,
-- Johan
13 years, 7 months
imgcreate/kickstart.py
by Bruno Wolff III
imgcreate/kickstart.py | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
New commits:
commit 38329161626c5451bbe671786ebf006d9d83bf78
Author: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to>
Date: Sun Sep 26 22:54:36 2010 -0500
setfiles parameter list fix for relabelling.
The patch to handle labelling on a live image when the compose host has
selinux disabled had the context spec file in the wrong place. It should
be after options.
diff --git a/imgcreate/kickstart.py b/imgcreate/kickstart.py
index aa2cff0..9a2145a 100644
--- a/imgcreate/kickstart.py
+++ b/imgcreate/kickstart.py
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ class SelinuxConfig(KickstartConfig):
if not os.path.exists(self.path("/sbin/setfiles")):
return
- self.call(["/sbin/setfiles", "/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts", "-e", "/proc", "-e", "/sys", "-e", "/dev", "-e", "/selinux", "/"])
+ self.call(["/sbin/setfiles", "-e", "/proc", "-e", "/sys", "-e", "/dev", "-e", "/selinux", "/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts", "/"])
def apply(self, ksselinux):
if os.path.exists(self.path("/usr/sbin/lokkit")):
13 years, 7 months
livecd-iso-to-disk produces unusable sticks
by Johan Vromans
Hi,
I have such a trivial problem that I'm almost, but not quite, sure it's
me doing something wrong.
I'm using Fedora 13 with all updates as of today, SELinux is disabled,
and I have installed livecd-tools 034-10 (built from the fc14.src.rpm).
I spin a live CD (using the directions in
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_a_Live_CD) and put
it on a 4GB USB stick with the command:
livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --format \
--overlay-size-mb 1000 \
Fedora-13-i686-Live-20100924.iso /dev/sdk1
After a while this completes, and I try to boot the newly created medium
using QEMU or VirtualBox.
When the boot is completed, the automatic login screen is shown. When I
press the button (or wait until the times expires) the screen disappears
and the automatic login screen is redisplayed.
After experimenting with single-user non-quiet boots it turns out that
the resultant system has SELinux enabled in enforcing mode but the files
are labeled incorrectly as file_t. Disabling SELinux on the LiveCD makes
it possible to boot and login normally.
Could this be caused by my setup (with SELinux disabled)?
Thanks for your time and patience,
-- Johan
13 years, 7 months
tools/edit-livecd
by Alan Pevec
tools/edit-livecd | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
New commits:
commit 7eff03177f1e36a8e4f425ac768843eab87fc93a
Author: Alan Pevec <apevec(a)redhat.com>
Date: Fri Sep 24 00:55:58 2010 +0200
edit-livecd: add new attribute compress_type
to avoid:
AttributeError: 'LiveImageEditor' object has no attribute 'compress_type'
LiveImageEditor is a special subclass of LiveImageCreator
which does not use parent's initializer so we must set all attributes.
Signed-off-by: Alan Pevec <apevec(a)redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/edit-livecd b/tools/edit-livecd
index 809b015..c98e652 100755
--- a/tools/edit-livecd
+++ b/tools/edit-livecd
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ class LiveImageEditor(LiveImageCreator):
self.tmpdir = "/var/tmp"
"""The directory in which all temporary files will be created."""
+ self.compress_type = "gzip"
+ """mksquashfs compressor to use."""
+
self.skip_compression = False
"""Controls whether to use squashfs to compress the image."""
13 years, 7 months
Debugging - turning off progress bar
by Philip Rhoades
People,
I am having some issues building isos. I can build a minimal iso that
boots to a prompt but only have a base iso getting to the end of the
progress bar and then hanging - is there some way of turning off quiet
mode and the progress bar so I can what the problem is?
Thanks,
Phil.
--
Philip Rhoades
GPO Box 3411
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
13 years, 7 months
docs/livecd-creator.pod tools/livecd-creator
by Bruno Wolff III
docs/livecd-creator.pod | 2 +-
tools/livecd-creator | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
New commits:
commit e22f4b776f5630752b78ca32f9d46d94953fe871
Author: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to>
Date: Tue Sep 21 01:04:02 2010 -0500
Note that lzo can be used as a compressor.
diff --git a/docs/livecd-creator.pod b/docs/livecd-creator.pod
index e80a119..2c78892 100644
--- a/docs/livecd-creator.pod
+++ b/docs/livecd-creator.pod
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Defines the file system label. The default is based on the configuration name.
=item --compression-type=COMPRESSOR
Specify a compressor recognized by mksquashfs. The default is gzip. lzma
-currently requires a custom kernel to produce a functional image. If gzip
+currently requires a custom kernel to produce a functional image. lzo works with 2.6.36+ kernels, but will generally take up more space than using gzip. If gzip
is used, the -comp option is not passed to mksquashfs to allow the use of
older versions of mksquashfs.
diff --git a/tools/livecd-creator b/tools/livecd-creator
index d1727c5..d352d74 100755
--- a/tools/livecd-creator
+++ b/tools/livecd-creator
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def parse_options(args):
imgopt.add_option("-f", "--fslabel", type="string", dest="fs_label",
help="File system label (default based on config name)")
imgopt.add_option("", "--compression-type", type="string", dest="compress_type",
- help="Compression type recognized by mksquashfs (default gzip, lzma needs custom kernel)",
+ help="Compression type recognized by mksquashfs (default gzip, lzma needs custom kernel, lzo needs a 2.6.36+ kernel)",
default="gzip")
parser.add_option_group(imgopt)
13 years, 7 months
