Problem with build after udev update

[Scott Dowdle]

Greetings,

I've noticed that my most recent remix builds will not boot.  I get the following
error:

- - - -

No root device found

Boot has failed, sleeping forever.

- - - -

I think it is because of a change made to udev causing the need for a change in dracut. 
Can anyone duplicate this problem?  See bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627364

TYL,
-- 
Scott Dowdle
704 Church Street
Belgrade, MT 59714
[phone] [home]
[phone] [work]

[Jasper Hartline]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Scott Dowdle <dowdle(a)montanalinux.org&gt; wrote:
>  Greetings,
>
>  I've noticed that my most recent remix builds will not boot.  I get the following
> error:
>
>  - - - -
>
>  No root device found
>
>  Boot has failed, sleeping forever.
>
>  - - - -
>
>  I think it is because of a change made to udev causing the need for a change in dracut.
>  Can anyone duplicate this problem?  See bug: 
I have not seen a problem except with udev and Qemu.
No root device found could be any number of underlying bugs though.
You might want to specify what repository source you were using and
any versions of livecd-tools you used.

[Arun SAG]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Scott Dowdle <dowdle(a)montanalinux.org&gt;wrote:

>  >I think it is because of a change made to udev causing the need for a
>  change in dracut.  Can anyone duplicate this >problem?  See bug:
>
>
> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627364<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627364>
>
>  
I can duplicate this problem when using virt-manager (qemu-kvm) , however
the live cd boots successfully in Virtualbox. But can't install from live cd
because of another bug mentioned in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626780 .

The bug report for this problem is here
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624028
-- 
Arun S.A.G

[Jasper Hartline]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Arun SAG <sagarun(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  I can duplicate this problem when using virt-manager (qemu-kvm) ,
> however
>  the live cd boots successfully in Virtualbox. But can't install from live cd
>  because of another bug mentioned in
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626780 . 
You have still not mentioned what repository you were building Live CD
images from.

[Scott Dowdle]

Greetings,

----- Original Message -----
>  On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Arun SAG <sagarun(a)gmail.com&gt;
> wrote:
>  
>  > I can duplicate this problem when using virt-manager (qemu-kvm) ,
>  > however
>  > the live cd boots successfully in Virtualbox. But can't install from
>  > live cd
>  > because of another bug mentioned in
>  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626780 .
>  
>  You have still not mentioned what repository you were building Live CD
>  images from. 
I think you were talking to him but I'll respond.

Build system is Fedora 13, both i686 and x86_64 systems, fully updated.  I have not gone
out of stock repos except for some multimedia add-ons from RPMFusion.  I'm not
dragging anything from Fedora 14 back.  I'm not using updates-testing.

The repos I'm using for the iso build are the same.  Stock Fedora 13 with updates...
and a few multimedia packages from RPMFusion.  No Fedora 14 packages and no
updates-testing.

I build the remixes every time there is a big set of Fedora 13 updates... so that they are
current.  So far for Fedora 13, I've done 47 builds.  They all worked fine... would
boot (on KVM where I do my testing) and install... until about 2-3 weeks ago.  I happened
to go on vacation and was doing builds remotely but not able to test them. The current
livecd-tools (livecd-tools-031-1.fc12) has a build date from Nov. 2009... but I guess some
packages have gotten updated that expose bugs in some of the systems/tools that
livecd-creator uses.

It appears some fixes are available in some Fedora 14 packages and we are hoping those
fixes will flow down to Fedora 13.  As an alternative, it would be nice to know what
package updates broke things and perhaps roll those back on my build system and/or the
local mirror I have of the package repos that the isos are built from.

Between these two bugs:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626780
And the anaconda/NetworkManager bug that makes the install from live-iso die in the middle
- which I can't find the bugzilla reference for at the moment... 

...the suspect packages include udev, squashfs-tools, NetworkManager, anaconda, and kvm. 
Man, this has devolved into a complicated mess. :(

TYL,
-- 
Scott Dowdle
704 Church Street
Belgrade, MT 59714
[phone] [home]
[phone] [work]

[Scott Dowdle]

Greetings,

----- Original Message -----
>  Between these two bugs:
>  
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626780
>  And the anaconda/NetworkManager bug that makes the install from
>  live-iso die in the middle - which I can't find the bugzilla reference
>  for at the moment...
>  
>  ...the suspect packages include udev, squashfs-tools, NetworkManager,
>  anaconda, and kvm. Man, this has devolved into a complicated mess. :( 
Ok, wait.  I just updated to the kernel that came out as an update for Fedora 13
yesterday.  Updated my build system and rebooted to that new kernel.  Now the
livecd-creator is failing to build the .iso.  It gets all the way to the end where it is
counting down the percent of the iso it is done writing.  I tried twice.  The first time
got to 48% done before it failed.  The second time got to 89% then failed.  The error
message is:

genisoimage: No space left on device.  cannot write 32768*1
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/imgcreate.py:45: DeprecationWarning:
BaseException.message has been deprecated as of Python 2.6
 return unicode(self.message)
Error creating Live CD : ISO creation failed!

I appear to have plenty of free space on the build systems hard drive and the image size
I'm using for the build is "part / --size 8072 --fstype ext4" and I
don't think I'm running out of space there either.

So, if you can get it to build, and if you can get it to boot (not on KVM), it won't
install.  Ouch.

TYL,
-- 
Scott Dowdle
704 Church Street
Belgrade, MT 59714
[phone] [home]
[phone] [work]

[Jasper Hartline]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Scott Dowdle <dowdle(a)montanalinux.org&gt; wrote:

>  I appear to have plenty of free space on the build systems hard drive and the image size
> I'm using for the build is "part / --size 8072 --fstype ext4" and I
> don't think I'm running out of space there either.
>
>  So, if you can get it to build, and if you can get it to boot (not on KVM), it won't
> install.  Ouch. 
You can try livecd-tools from git, or 033-3 which is an update in
Fedora 13.
Other than that you're not giving enough information to consider this
a bug of any one component
other than your disk is out of space.

[Arun SAG]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Jasper Hartline
<jasper.hartline(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote:

>  On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Arun SAG <sagarun(a)gmail.com&gt;
> wrote:
>
>  >You have still not mentioned what repository you were building Live CD
>  >images from.
>
>  
Here is the kick start file
http://psgkriya.org/saga/misc/msec-fedora-remix.ks

[James Heather]

Did you realise you're missing the '%end' to close your '%post'?

I don't know what happens if you do that, but conceivably that's where
your umount errors were coming from (if some shell doesn't get killed).

You're not using any akmod packages, so I suspect it's the '%end'
that's
doing it.

On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 14:00 +0100, Arun SAG wrote:
>  
>  
>  On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Jasper Hartline
>  <jasper.hartline(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>          On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Arun SAG <sagarun(a)gmail.com&gt;
>          wrote:
>          
>          
>          >You have still not mentioned what repository you were
>          building Live CD
>          >images from.
>          
>  
>  Here is the kick start file
>  http://psgkriya.org/saga/misc/msec-fedora-remix.ks 
>