desktop manager death via livecd-creator

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Dec 31 00:17:19 UTC 2007


Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I didn't have the greatest first experience with livecd-creator.
> I had 1.5 GB of diskspace available and I wrongly figured that was
> enough to make a livecd. That got filled up while trying to make an
> XFCE livecd using a modified (fixed repo name) ks file from
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram/XfceLive and the command:
> livecd-creator --config=./ks_from_above_site
> --fslabel=Fedora-livecd-xfce .

Uh, oh. That's completely untested. You probably should wait till I put 
out a new version for testing. I have been working on that today.
> There should be over 1 GB free but it is not showing up.
> Anyone have an idea what broke?

livecd-creator uses a folder under /var/tmp. If the process gets 
interrupted it doesn't get cleaned up. Check that up.

Rahul




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