[Fedora-livecd-list] livecd-creator, revisor fail to build a CD

Simon Ritchie Simon.Ritchie at merrowinternet.com
Thu Jan 31 20:24:15 UTC 2008


I have the same problem, using Fedora core 8.  While attempting to build 
the minimal livecd, livecd-creator hangs.  My Linux box freezes up.  If 
I can log in and get a command window (not always possible) the shutdown 
command runs for a while but does not complete, so the only solution is 
to disconnect the power.

Tonight I was luckier and I got some control, so I can post some 
diagnostics.

This is a fairly new and clean installation of Fedora core 8 on a Compaq 
Pentium III box.  The only changes I have made is to install 
livecd-creator and the necessary support stuff.  The livecd-creator came 
from  livecd-tools-013-1.fc8.i386.rpm.

I am using a local repository - stored on a linux file server on my home 
network and exported via NFS.  (Not enough disk space on my build machine.)

I run the command as follows:

    livecd-creator --config=livecd-fedora-minimal.ks

(The control file is shown below.)

It hangs after about half an hour.  The console shows:

16.22% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:10 2008
 24.30% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:08 2008
 32.42% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:10 2008
 40.50% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:08 2008
 48.61% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:10 2008
 56.70% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:09 2008
 64.81% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:10 2008
 72.90% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:09 2008
 81.01% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:10 2008
 89.09% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:09 2008
 97.20% done, estimate finish Thu Jan 31 19:30:10 2008
Total translation table size: 2048
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 1337
Total directory bytes: 4096
Path table size(bytes): 40
Max brk space used 0
61739 extents written (120 MB)
Inserting md5sum into iso image...
md5 = c0590991a2439b041651cc4afa0d1e09
Inserting fragment md5sums into iso image...
fragmd5 = 1716c77e228d4763bd27981c365f48125e7ea77241f7c2ee64bd32db5fc1
frags = 20
Setting supported flag to 0


According to ps, the livecd-creator command is no longer running, but a 
few other python scripts are:

[root at l4l ~]# ps -aef | fgrep live
root      6027  5880  0 20:14 pts/3    00:00:00 fgrep live

[root at l4l ~]# ps -aef | fgrep python
root      1693     1  0 18:10 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/python -E 
/usr/sbin/setroubleshootd
root      2001     1  0 18:10 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/python -tt 
/usr/sbin/yum-updatesd
root      6031  5880  0 20:15 pts/3    00:00:00 fgrep python



There are the latest error messages in the system log:

Jan 31 19:21:44 l4l kernel: security:  invalidating context
unconfined_u:system_r:setrans_t:s0
Jan 31 19:21:44 l4l kernel: security:  invalidating context
unconfined_u:system_r:inetd_child_t:s0
Jan 31 19:21:44 l4l kernel: security:  invalidating context
unconfined_u:object_r:policy_config_t:s0
Jan 31 19:21:44 l4l kernel: audispd[1502]: segfault at 1fdd8dac eip 001b16ad
esp bfc6c754 error 6
Jan 31 19:24:13 l4l restorecond: Reset file context /etc/mtab:
system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0->system_u:object_r:etc_runtime_t:s0
Jan 31 19:30:13 l4l restorecond:last message repeated 2 times
Jan 31 19:30:13 l4l kernel: top[2642]: segfault at 0000000c eip 00a3c70c esp
bfa9d120 error 6


My control file livecd-fedora-minimal.ks contains

lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard uk
timezone Europe/London
auth --useshadow --enablemd5
selinux --enforcing
firewall --disabled
part / --size 1024

repo --name=fed8 --baseurl=file:///mnt/fs/livecd.rh8/fedora.rpms
repo --name=ext --baseurl=file:///mnt/fs/livecd.rh8/extras

%packages
@core
bash
kernel
passwd
policycoreutils
chkconfig
authconfig
rootfiles

%end



 




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