[Fedora-spins] problems creating official spins locally

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, 18 May 2009 07:02:27 -0700
John Poelstra <poelstra at redhat.com> wrote:

> At last week's meeting I volunteered to create a simple wiki page to 
> help anyone build one of the official spins and also build some of
> the spins for testing.

Thanks. ;) 
> 
> I ran into several problems doing this last week.  Some were 
> self-inflicted (running out of disk space in the root partition), but 
> others were more mysterious.  Like kicking off the livecd-creator, 
> watching it download all the needed packages and start to yum install 
> them, only to watch it hang on several occasions after installing 400
> or 500 packages.
> 
> 1) Is building live CDs on Fedora 10 for Fedora 11 a bad idea?

I think it is. At least I think you need the livecd-creator from f11. 
Possibly other things. ;( 
I do all my test composes on rawhide machines. 

> 2) Where can I collect troubleshooting information on why the yum 
> install process hangs?  Nothing obvious in /var/log/messages

It would normally be in the livecd-creator output I would think. 
Try -d or -v to it?

> 3) What is the best way to cleanly abort a failed/hung live CD
> creation? I ended up having to reboot my system to unmount the loop
> devices and clean up all the space taking in /var/tmp because killing
> the process or trying to force unmount the loop device didn't work.

Yeah, if the mount gets stuck thats your only option. It should
normally clean up after itself once the process dies. ;( 

> Thanks,
> John

kevin
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