[Fedora-livecd-list] umount: /var/tmp/imgcreate-cCEUw_/install_root: device is busy ?

Ed Sutton ESutton at fescorp.com
Thu Aug 11 13:41:17 UTC 2011


On Aug 10, 2011, at 4:29 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 16:35:23 -0500,
>  Ed Sutton <ESutton at fescorp.com> wrote:
>> After every livecd-creator build I must restart and reboot my CentOS 5.2 machine using the fsck option to fix disk issues I do not understand.  I tried a work-around without success for a similar sounding problem:
>> 
>> Bug 509427 - livecd-creator fails to unmount
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509427
>> 
>> Any suggestions on troubleshooting are much appreciated.
> 
> The devices get umount'd in the wrong order. In later versions of
> livecd-creator we changed things so that lazy umounts are used.
> I think there is still a place where an exception can occur where things
> don't get cleaned up nicely, but for the most part exceptions don't
> leave lots of stuff mounted these days.
> 
> I am not sure how well livecd-creator for recent Fedoras will work on CentOS
> 5.



Could I build a CentOS 5.x LiveCD on a build machine running a recent Fedora?  I assume the answer is no as the isolinux stuff automatically match the build machine rather than the desired CentOS 5.x.


-Ed



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