why did this appliance build fail in koji?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 12 October 2012 15:03, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 October 2012 14:39, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4568545
>>
>> The appliance log is:
>>
>> Adding disk sda as /var/tmp/imgcreate-l4uR5m/tmp-mYGLa0/Fedora-18-Beta-ec2-20121007-x86_64-sda.raw
>> Extending sparse file /var/tmp/imgcreate-l4uR5m/tmp-mYGLa0/Fedora-18-Beta-ec2-20121007-x86_64-sda.raw to 10485760000
>> Losetup add /dev/loop0 mapping to /var/tmp/imgcreate-l4uR5m/tmp-mYGLa0/Fedora-18-Beta-ec2-20121007-x86_64-sda.raw
>> Formatting disks
>> Initializing partition table for /dev/loop0 with msdos layout
>> Unable to create appliance : Failed mount disks : Error writing partition table on /dev/loop0
>> Losetup remove /dev/loop0
>>
>> Can we get any deeper insight into what went wrong?
>
> I can't find anything for that build... but I may not be looking in
> all the right places. Do you have anything newer?

This is all it logs on the builder.



012-10-07 14:22:21,916 [INFO] koji.build.buildroot: /usr/bin/mock -r
koji/f18-build-1476336-245536 --cwd /tmp --chroot --
/usr/bin/appliance-creator -c /tmp/koji-image-f18-build-4568545.ks -d
-v --logfile /tmp/appliance.log --cache /tmp/koji-appliance -o
app-output --version 1 --name Fedora-18-Beta-ec2-20121007-x86_64
--release 18 --vmem 1024 --vcpu 2 --format raw
2012-10-07 14:22:21,919 [INFO] koji.build.buildroot: Running mock as kojibuilder
2012-10-07 14:22:26,296 [WARNING] koji.TaskManager: TRACEBACK:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/koji/daemon.py", line 1122, in runTask
    response = (handler.run(),)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/koji/tasks.py", line 147, in run
    return koji.util.call_with_argcheck(self.handler, self.params, self.opts)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/koji/util.py", line 138, in
call_with_argcheck
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/sbin/kojid", line 1962, in handler
    "Could not create appliance: %s" % parseStatus(rv,
'appliance-creator') + "; see root.log or appliance.log for more
information"
ApplianceError: Could not create appliance: appliance-creator exited
with status 1; see root.log or appliance.log for more information


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