Failure in livecd-creator

[Randy Prakken]

Here is information regarding a failure of livecd-creator. I'd be happy
to test fixes as well.

Environment: F16 LXDE 32b spin totally updated (a VM running in VMware
Player).

Goal: Build more up to date ISO of F16 LXDE

How:

- Used standard process, including standard
fedora-live-minimization.ks, fedora-live-base.ks, fedora-livecd-lxde.ks.

- Modified to remove office tools and sound but nothing important

- Always run as root, plenty of disk space

This worked perfectly until about 2 weeks ago when an F16 update broke it.
It crashed out of Python at the end of the process.  Sorry, I didn't save
one of those.

So, I got the most recent livecd-tools (16.11) from git and installed (make
install). That installation seemed to be successful.

Now it fails in Python, but with a different error:

...
  Installing: vconfig                      ##################### [919/919]
6872 blocks

Removing password for user root.
passwd: Success
Note: Forwarding request to 'systemctl enable NetworkManager.service'.
Note: Forwarding request to 'systemctl disable sshd.service'.
rm '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/sshd.service'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 210, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 194, in main
    creator.configure()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/imgcreate/creator.py", line 724,
in configure
    self._create_bootconfig()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/imgcreate/live.py", line 242, in
_create_bootconfig
    self._generate_efiboot(self.__ensure_isodir())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/imgcreate/live.py", line 235, in
_generate_efiboot
    isodir + "/isolinux/efiboot.img"])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 493, in call
    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1228, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[Scott Dowdle]

Greetings,

----- Original Message -----
>  Goal: Build more up to date ISO of F16 LXDE
>  
>  This worked perfectly until about 2 weeks ago when an F16 update
>  broke it. 
I have not run into that particular bug myself (haven't built LXDE respin/remix) but
the general attitude of the livecd-creator folks is if you encounter a bug that was caused
by some package update down the line... they want to know if you encounter the bug with
the updates repo turned off using the stock release packages.  If not, they don't
really care... because they can't maintain compatibility with all of the updates that
happen after that.

If it is some obvious and easy to fix bug with livecd-creator then they would probably be
interested.

I know this because I reported a bug similiar bug with the KDE build and an KDE update
that breaks livecd-creator... and that's what they told me... disable updates... and
they closed it with WONTFIX as the outcome... if I remember correctly.

I guess I can't really blame them.  They already have enough work to do getting Fedora
17 going.

I have switched to building my remix against Fedora 17... which will be out in a month and
a half... or so.  Just did the first build yesterday and so far it is working pretty well.
 The Fedora 17 Beta should be out next Tuesday (I think) barring another show-stopper
bug.

Maybe you'll have better luck.

TYL,
-- 
Scott Dowdle
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[Brian C. Lane]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 09:21:15AM -0700, Randy Prakken wrote:
>  Here is information regarding a failure of livecd-creator. I'd be
> happy
>  to test fixes as well. 
[snip]

>  
>  So, I got the most recent livecd-tools (16.11) from git and installed (make
>  install). That installation seemed to be successful. 
You probably don't have the latest version of lorax installed. We now
use mkefiboot from lorax to make EFI bootable images. Try installing the
testing version of livecd-tools (16.11) instead of installing from
source and it will pull in the needed dependencies.


-- 
Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)

[Randy Prakken]

>  You probably don't have the latest version of lorax installed. We now
>  use mkefiboot from lorax to make EFI bootable images. Try installing the
>  testing version of livecd-tools (16.11) instead of installing from
>  source and it will pull in the needed dependencies.
>  
Sorry, that seems obvious in retrospect.  I'm used to working further back
in the chain, using Centos/RHEL.

yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing livecd-tools

brought in lorax and a few other things.  I rebooted and ran the build
again.

It ran almost without error:

..........
Updating index cache for path `/usr/local/share/man/man8x'. Wait...done.
Checking for stray cats under /usr/local/share/man...
Checking for stray cats under /var/cache/man/local...
93 man subdirectories contained newer manual pages.
3872 manual pages were added.
0 stray cats were added.
0 old database entries were purged.
*****************************************************************************
Error creating Live CD : fsck after resize returned an error (1)!

And no .ISO was created.


Randy

[Randy Prakken]

Interesting.

I created a new totally standard F16-32b VM to create the iso on.
Then installed the testing version of livecd.
Used the same LXDE *.ks files as before to create the iso

It worked fine.