F12-Snap3-x86_64-Live

[Richard Ryniker]

Booted successfully from USB flash drive created by the
livecd-iso-to-disk script, but the console log contains some
peculiarities.  The entire log is as:

  http://ryniker.ods.org/errors/vista_snap3_console

First, a kernal fault:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1003 ftrace_bug+0x198/0x27e() (Not tainted)
  Hardware name: GT5426E
  Modules linked in: usb_storage(+)
  Pid: 84, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.31-23.fc12.x86_64 #1
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff81064244>] warn_slowpath_common+0x95/0xc3
   [<ffffffffa0003b68>] ? usb_usual_ignore_device+0x8/0x90 [usb_storage]
   [<ffffffff81064299>] warn_slowpath_null+0x27/0x3d
   [<ffffffff810d4a0e>] ftrace_bug+0x198/0x27e
   [<ffffffffa0003b68>] ? usb_usual_ignore_device+0x8/0x90 [usb_storage]
   [<ffffffff810d5c66>] ftrace_convert_nops+0x201/0x2b9
   [<ffffffffa0003b68>] ? usb_usual_ignore_device+0x8/0x90 [usb_storage]
   [<ffffffff810d5d6a>] ftrace_module_notify+0x4c/0x7f
   [<ffffffff815099c5>] notifier_call_chain+0x72/0xba
   [<ffffffff81086db1>] ? __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x4c/0x8e
  usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
   [<ffffffff81086dc8>] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x63/0x8e
   [<ffffffff81086e1a>] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x27/0x3d
   [<ffffffff810a466a>] sys_init_module+0xb7/0x249
   [<ffffffff81011f42>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  ---[ end trace 3cbbc5618e6ce794 ]---
  ftrace faulted on writing [<ffffffffa0003b68>] usb_usual_ignore_device+0x8/0x90 [usb_storage]

Second, some pieces are missing, or perhaps not in the right place:

  squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
  /sbin/dmsquash-live-root: 121: umount: not found
  /sbin/dmsquash-live-root: 166: umount: not found
  /sbin/dmsquash-live-root: 166: umount: not found
  /sbin/dmsquash-live-root: 166: grep: not found
  /sbin/dmsquash-live-root: 166: umount: not found

Third, status 1 usually denotes an error, but I do not know about this case:

  init: readahead-collector.event main process (423) terminated with status 1

Fourth:

  WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d/.

This causes no problem, and one can spend all day (week, month...)
running around fixing "deprecation warnings" and the like, when these
will be fixed upstream in time.  The problem here is what creates this
empty (length=0) file, something not "upstream" but in Fedora's build
process, I guess.  That is something that might be fixed, especially as
this message occurs five times.

Bottom line, however, is the F12-Snap3-x86_64-Live system worked well for
me.