[Fedora-livecd-list] Getting around the anaconda bug

[James Heather]

> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:32 PM, James Heather
> <j.heather at surrey.ac.uk> wrote:
>         >Nice--didn't know you could exclude packages on a per repo
>         basis.
>         
>         >In that case, it's even easier. If you
>         --excludepkgs=NetworkManager*
>         >from the updates repo line, it'll presumably just pick the
>         packages up
>         >from the release repo, and everything in the garden will be
>         lovely.
> 
> I excluded NetworkManager from updates repo, NetworkManager* stuff
> from release repo got installed. I tried to test the live-DVD with
> virtualbox
> 
> while loading gnome the virtualbox crashes and the guest os goes to
> aborted mode. Tried with runlevel 3 , everything worked fine, switched
> to root and started X server, it showed the regular root user warning,
> on closing the warning message again guest os crashes and goes to
> aborted mode. Is it possible to get the log messages from a live-cd
> that crashes completely? 
> 
> 
> Tried the ISO with virt-manager i am getting same old "No root device
> found" error .
> 
> Here is the kick start file
> http://psgkriya.org/saga/misc/msec-fedora-remix.ks

I think you're hitting an unrelated bug (that is new to me).

Are you really saying that it crashes when X starts if you
--excludepkgs=NetworkManager*, but if you delete that flag, then X
starts fine? That is very weird.

James