Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] A note about /etc/skel

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  wrote:

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 07:49:55 -0400,
   john  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.
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A note about /etc/skel

[john]

Yes, sounds like a memory problem. I'll stick with /usr/local for my 
large files.

John
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[e-mail] wrote:
> 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  wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 07:49:55 -0400,
>     john  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.
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