[Fedora-livecd-list] livecd-creator, revisor fail to build a CD
Gary Thomas
gary at mlbassoc.com
Thu Jan 31 20:40:39 UTC 2008
Simon Ritchie wrote:
> I have the same problem, using Fedora core 8. While attempting to build
> the minimal livecd, livecd-creator hangs. My Linux box freezes up. If
> I can log in and get a command window (not always possible) the shutdown
> command runs for a while but does not complete, so the only solution is
> to disconnect the power.
>
> Tonight I was luckier and I got some control, so I can post some
> diagnostics.
>
> This is a fairly new and clean installation of Fedora core 8 on a Compaq
> Pentium III box. The only changes I have made is to install
> livecd-creator and the necessary support stuff. The livecd-creator came
> from livecd-tools-013-1.fc8.i386.rpm.
>
> I am using a local repository - stored on a linux file server on my home
> network and exported via NFS. (Not enough disk space on my build machine.)
>
> I run the command as follows:
>
> livecd-creator --config=livecd-fedora-minimal.ks
>
> (The control file is shown below.)
>
> It hangs after about half an hour. The console shows:
>
> 16.22% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:10 2008
> 24.30% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:08 2008
> 32.42% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:10 2008
> 40.50% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:08 2008
> 48.61% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:10 2008
> 56.70% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:09 2008
> 64.81% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:10 2008
> 72.90% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:09 2008
> 81.01% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:10 2008
> 89.09% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:09 2008
> 97.20% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:10 2008
> Total translation table size: 2048
> Total rockridge attributes bytes: 1337
> Total directory bytes: 4096
> Path table size(bytes): 40
> Max brk space used 0
> 61739 extents written (120 MB)
> Inserting md5sum into iso image...
> md5 = c0590991a2439b041651cc4afa0d1e09
> Inserting fragment md5sums into iso image...
> fragmd5 = 1716c77e228d4763bd27981c365f48125e7ea77241f7c2ee64bd32db5fc1
> frags = 20
> Setting supported flag to 0
>
>
> According to ps, the livecd-creator command is no longer running, but a
> few other python scripts are:
>
> [root at l4l ~]# ps -aef | fgrep live
> root 6027 5880 0 20:14 pts/3 00:00:00 fgrep live
>
> [root at l4l ~]# ps -aef | fgrep python
> root 1693 1 0 18:10 ? 00:00:01 /usr/bin/python -E
> /usr/sbin/setroubleshootd
> root 2001 1 0 18:10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python -tt
> /usr/sbin/yum-updatesd
> root 6031 5880 0 20:15 pts/3 00:00:00 fgrep python
>
>
>
> There are the latest error messages in the system log:
>
> Jan 31 19:21:44 l4l kernel: security: invalidating context
> unconfined_u:system_r:setrans_t:s0
> Jan 31 19:21:44 l4l kernel: security: invalidating context
> unconfined_u:system_r:inetd_child_t:s0
> Jan 31 19:21:44 l4l kernel: security: invalidating context
> unconfined_u:object_r:policy_config_t:s0
> Jan 31 19:21:44 l4l kernel: audispd[1502]: segfault at 1fdd8dac eip
> 001b16ad
> esp bfc6c754 error 6
> Jan 31 19:24:13 l4l restorecond: Reset file context /etc/mtab:
> system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0->system_u:object_r:etc_runtime_t:s0
> Jan 31 19:30:13 l4l restorecond:last message repeated 2 times
> Jan 31 19:30:13 l4l kernel: top[2642]: segfault at 0000000c eip 00a3c70c
> esp
> bfa9d120 error 6
>
>
> My control file livecd-fedora-minimal.ks contains
>
> lang en_US.UTF-8
> keyboard uk
> timezone Europe/London
> auth --useshadow --enablemd5
> selinux --enforcing
> firewall --disabled
> part / --size 1024
>
> repo --name=fed8 --baseurl=file:///mnt/fs/livecd.rh8/fedora.rpms
> repo --name=ext --baseurl=file:///mnt/fs/livecd.rh8/extras
>
> %packages
> @core
> bash
> kernel
> passwd
> policycoreutils
> chkconfig
> authconfig
> rootfiles
>
> %end
It looks like you have SELinux running on your build system.
Bottom line: you can't run revisor (or any flavor of liveCD creator)
with SELinux enabled.
n.b. This has been discussed (at great length) recently on the Fedora development list.
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