XO: Who ate my rpms

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 16:31 -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 16:05 -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> >> Ok... this is probably a dumb question. I booted up snap3. I opened a 
> >> terminal, su -, and then installed ekiga. I selected shutdown from the 
> >> menu, and it seemed to hang (not fully shutting down).
> >>
> >> I reboot, log in, and there is no ekiga.
> >>
> >> so.. who ate my rpms?
> > 
> > As mentioned in my blog (you are reading Fedora Planet and thus my blog,
> > right? :-), 
> 
> Of course I am *cough* now
> 
> the current version of livecd-iso-to-disk is defaulting to
> > doing an overlay reset on every boot.  This is to help reduce the
> > likelihood of problems due to running out of space on the overlay since
> > we now keep /home on the nand and settings have pretty much entirely
> > moved to the homedir.
> > 
> > That said, I'll probably switch the default back so that we don't reset
> > the overlay on every boot for manual livecd-iso-to-disk runs, but I'm at
> > the same time leaning towards having the shipped SD cards with Fedora
> > preloaded set up as such.
> 
> Seems an interesting trade off. If I want to install another program, I 
> have to jump through a view more hoops. Which is easier to debug... out 
> of space or overlay resetting?

Out of space in the overlay manifests itself with weird hangs and
non-obvious problems on boot.  Overlay resetting is at least relatively
straight-forward :)

Jeremy