[Fedora-livecd-list] Looking for help isolating a problem

[Jonathan Steffan]

The log (/var/log/revisor.log) when running with revisor in --debug mode
would help a lot. If this is a specific problem to revisor, the
revisor-devel or revisor-users mailing list might be a better place to
diagnose the issue.

Jonathan Steffan


On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 23:00 -0600, Tim Wood wrote:
> Not all of this may be related... but this is strange enough I'm  
> going to be overly verbose
> 
> * I haven't had time to play with revisor in about 3 weeks
> * The kickstart I was starting with was a version of one that had  
> been working successfully in the past.  The main change was to remove  
> some of the packages.
> 
> * A day or two ago I built an RPM from git and installed it to verify  
> that the bug I reported had been solved
> 
> * I tried to build a CD image and failed repeatedly ... usually with  
> Revisor reporting a connectivity issue
> ** Note: my revisor build "machine" is (and has been) a vmware image  
> running on the repository machine
> ** I tried various basics up to and including rebooting both the vm  
> (build machine) and the repository machine (vmware host)
> ** I stripped out the post stanza and various other non-core items  
> from the kickstart.
> 
> * I uninstalled the RPM I build from git and the related RPMs and  
> then reinstalled the latest release (2.0.4.2 I believe)
> * I continue to received errors almost everytime.  Sometimes it  
> reports it can't connect to a repository, sometimes it complains  
> about connectivity
> * It will sometimes succeed if I do something idiotically simple (the  
> simplest sample.ks)
> * I've tried, flushing all the Revisor temp files (/srv/revisor, /var/ 
> tmp/revsior, /var/tmp/yum... and even /var/log/revisor)
> * I've tried all sorts of tricks on the repository machine (run a  
> full update, rebuild all the repodata stuff, etc)
> 
> My next step has been to build an entirely new revisor build  
> machine.  That's not as bad as rebuilding a real machine but I'd  
> rather avoid it if I can; especially since I'm not sure that'll solve  
> the problem.  Does anyone have any suggestions on either strange  
> problems I've stumbled into (e.g. the git files from two days ago  
> bulldozed my dog) or thoughts about how to properly narrow down the  
> problem?
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> On Jul 25, 2007, at 2:36 PM, Douglas McClendon wrote:
> 
> > Douglas McClendon wrote:
> >> C S wrote:
> >>> All references I can find for spinning have a running
> >>> host(with rpm, yum, etc) as a requirement to build
> >>> live's upon.  But is it possible to have
> >>> livecd-creator spin a new CD off of F7's Live itself? I assume  
> >>> Revisor would only build upon this.
> >> Wow.  Must be the collective unconsciousness.  I was just thinking  
> >> about this today.
> >> Of course, what you described, I think can be done pretty  
> >> trivially.  I.e. just get the livecd-tools /usr/bin/livecd-iso-to- 
> >> disk (either by spinning your own livecd with the livecd-tools  
> >> rpm, or wget/urlgrabbing a copy of the script from somewhere,  
> >> etc...)  and then doing
> >> livecd-iso-to-disk /dev/root /dev/<your usb device partition here>
> >
> > err...  make that /dev/live instead of /dev/root
> >
> >
> >> That is F7-LiveCD-Itself-to-LiveUSB.  For F7-LiveCD-Itself-to-spin- 
> >> new-cd you would do something like livecd-creator --base-on=/dev/root
> >
> > /dev/live here as well.  Though you will need to get livecd-creator  
> > and dependencies installed.  (yum install livecd-creator from the  
> > livecd will work if you have enough ram and a net connection).  And  
> > you'll no doubt want to use --tmpdir pointing to some place with  
> > lots of space mounted (i.e. not use the default tmpdir of /var/tmp  
> > which would be in ram usually on a livecd)
> >
> > -dmc
> >
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