trouble building F16 ami on meta-appliance

[Marc Savy]

Hi Sean,

I'm taking a look at this issue and shall see if I can discover what is 
going on. I'll get back to you soon :).

Marc

On 12/12/2011 18:39, sean darcy wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion, but no luck. It failed with permissions
> issues. Odd since I'm running as root on the boxgrinder EC2 appliance.
>
> Also, it seems to be grabbing the F15 kernels.
>
> cat f16.appl
> name: f16
> os:
>     name: fedora
>     version: 16
>
>    boxgrinder-build f16.appl -p ec2 -d ebs
> I, [2011-12-12T12:39:34.170950 #19829]  INFO -- : Validating appliance
> definition from f16.appl file...
> I, [2011-12-12T12:39:34.173858 #19829]  INFO -- : Appliance definition
> is valid.
> I, [2011-12-12T12:39:34.219834 #19829]  INFO -- : Building 'f16'
> appliance for i686 architecture.
> I, [2011-12-12T12:39:34.226844 #19829]  INFO -- : Resolving packages
> added to f16 appliance definition file...
> I, [2011-12-12T12:39:41.109246 #19829]  INFO -- : All additional
> packages for f16 appliance successfully resolved.
> I, [2011-12-12T12:39:41.109595 #19829]  INFO -- : Building f16 appliance...
> supermin helper [00000ms] whitelist = (not specified), host_cpu = i686,
> kernel = (null), initrd = (null), appliance = (null)
> supermin helper [00001ms] inputs[0] = /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d
> checking modpath /lib/modules/2.6.38.8-32.fc15.i686.PAE is a directory
> picked vmlinuz-2.6.38.8-32.fc15.i686.PAE because modpath
> /lib/modules/2.6.38.8-32.fc15.i686.PAE exists
> checking modpath /lib/modules/2.6.41.4-1.fc15.i686.PAE is a directory
> picked vmlinuz-2.6.41.4-1.fc15.i686.PAE because modpath
> /lib/modules/2.6.41.4-1.fc15.i686.PAE exists
> supermin helper [00024ms] finished creating kernel
> supermin helper [00025ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d
> supermin helper [00476ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/base.img
> supermin helper [00987ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/daemon.img
> supermin helper [01007ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/hostfiles
> supermin helper [06003ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/init.img
> supermin helper [12993ms] finished creating appliance
> I, [2011-12-12T13:29:30.645307 #19829]  INFO -- : Executing post
> operations after build...
> I, [2011-12-12T13:33:31.819301 #19829]  INFO -- : Base image for f16
> appliance was built successfully.
> F, [2011-12-12T13:33:32.802477 #19829] FATAL -- : Errno::EPERM:
> Operation not permitted -
> /root/build/appliances/i686/fedora/16/fedora-16-i386-ec2/1.0/fedora-plugin/tmp/imgcreate-62qmYe/install_root/proc/sys
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1231:in `chown'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1231:in `chown'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:967:in `chown_R'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1331:in `traverse'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:965:in `chown_R'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:964:in `each'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:964:in `chown_R'
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/boxgrinder-build-0.9.8/lib/boxgrinder-build/appliance.rb:144:in
> `execute_plugin'
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/boxgrinder-build-0.9.8/lib/boxgrinder-build/appliance.rb:105:in
> `execute_plugin_chain'
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/boxgrinder-build-0.9.8/lib/boxgrinder-build/appliance.rb:105:in
> `each'
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/boxgrinder-build-0.9.8/lib/boxgrinder-build/appliance.rb:105:in
> `execute_plugin_chain'
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/boxgrinder-build-0.9.8/lib/boxgrinder-build/appliance.rb:120:in
> `create'
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/boxgrinder-build-0.9.8/bin/boxgrinder-build:189
> /usr/bin/boxgrinder-build:19:in `load'
> /usr/bin/boxgrinder-build:19
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> sean
> On 12/12/2011 11:17 AM, Marek Goldmann wrote:
>> Yes, we should make the page more clear about what process was used to get the official ones vs. what you can do with BoxGrinder.
>>
>> Sean, everything on that page is up to date. You just need to create your own appliance definition. Here you have a sample for Fedora 16 JEOS (save it as f16.appl):
>>
>> name: f16
>> os:
>>     name: fedora
>>     version: 16
>>
>> More details here:
>>
>> 	http://boxgrinder.org/tutorials/appliance-definition/
>>
>> Then build it by executing boxgrinder-build f16.appl -p ec2 -d ebs. If you have troubles, please tell me.
>>
>> --Marek
>>
>> On 12 gru 2011, at 17:03, sean darcy wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the responses. I would suggest that
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG/EC2_Creation be either
>>> corrected or taken down.
>>>
>>> Is there another, more recent, step-by-step description of how to build
>>> a fedora EC2 ebs-backed ami? For instance, are there F16 appl files
>>> available?
>>>
>>> sean
>>>
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