[Fedora-livecd-list] Is it possible to have an updatable system on a usb stick?

[Richard Shaw]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Monday 04 August 2008 23:06:16 Richard Shaw wrote:
> > > I can't Richard.  It doesn't recognise any commands, and the file
> system
> > > isn't
> > > accessible if I boot from the hard drive.
> > >
> > > Anne
> >
> > You'll have to rezero your overlay file and start over then... You can do
> > it manually from a windows or linux box but the dd command is a little
> > different for each. On a linux box it's something like:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/mount/path/LiveOS/overlay-{LABEL}-{UUID} bs=1M
> > count={size of overlay in MB}
> >
> > Or on windows (the dd.exe is located under tools in the liveusb-creator
> > directory)
> >
> > dd.exe if=/dev/zero of={drive letter}:\LiveOS\overlay-{LABEL}-{UUID}
> bs=1M
> > count={size of overlay in MB}
> >
> > Just look at the current name of your overlay file and overwrite it
> rather
> > than looking up the LABEL and UUID.
> >
> > I, like others, have created an extra entry in my syslinx.cfg without the
> > overlay option just in case I hose my overlay file and still want to be
> > able to use it.
>
> Hi, Richard.  I decided that I might as well start again from the
> beginning :-)
>
> The install seems to go well enough, as does the update, right to the very
> end.  I glanced at the screen when it had about 5 packages still to go in
> the
> cleanup, but the next time I looked it said:
>
> File "usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 597, in
> call_blocking
> message.append(signature=signature, *args)
> TypeError: More items found in D-Bus signature than in Python arguments.
>
> Is this a big problem?


I've never seen that one before.


>
> I had removed /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules, but I see it has
> been
> created again.  This time there is also a 50-udev.nodes.  Do I delete both
> of
> these?
>
> Anything else I need to deal with before attempting a reboot?
>
> Anne


I probably should have chosen my words more carefully. I believe you want
one file called 50-udev-default.rules, but when yum updates the udev package
it chooses to not overwrite the existing file and instead creates a file
called 50-udev-default.rules.rpmnew. Unfortunately, it appears that udev
requests all files called 50-udev-default* or something like that and finds
two matching files. Since it doesn't know which one to choose it choses
neither and dumps you to a bash shell.

This is what I have inferred from it. There are seveal on this list that
know more about udev than I.

Richard
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/livecd/attachments/20080805/1492592e/attachment.html