Is this on a USB stick with persistent /home? If so, then you'll also hit problems if the file is too big to fit into there.
But the most likely is that the in-memory overlay is being exhausted. Fedora will create a temporary overlay in memory to handle writes to the filesystem.
James
Bruno Wolff III bruno@wolff.to wrote:
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 07:49:55 -0400, john selmys@lotuspond.ca wrote:
Hello
I noticed that when I copy a large file into /etc/skel during %post my ISO is created correctly but crashes on boot up. The crash happens when liveuser is being created and the large file in /etc/skel is copied to /home/liveuser. If I boot into single user mode first and delete the large file from /etc/skel and then "telinit 5", liveuser is created and everything works correctly. I tried to rebuild the ISO using a larger root partition but still got the same problem. If I copy the large file to /usr/local there is no problem. Does anyone know if there is some sort of size restrictions on files added to /etc/skel ?
If the file is so large that copying it runs you out of memory, that could potentially be your problem. -- livecd mailing list livecd@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd