[Fedora-livecd-list] umount: device is busy / cannot unlink ks-script

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 13:10 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 20:11 -0600, orion at cora.nwra.com wrote:
> >>> I'm trying to build a livecd with a custom ks file and getting:
> > [snip]
> >>> ioctl: LOOP_CLR_FD: Device or resource busy
> >> Retried with no %pre/%post and it works, so I guess I need to poke around
> >> there...
> > 
> > Yeah, usually this is caused by running something in your %post that
> > leaves files open.  The most common things are starting a service and
> > not stopping it or starting some other long-running thing and not having
> > it finish before the %post exists.  
> 
> Okay, this appears to be caused by:
> 
> mount -t tmpfs varcacheyum /var/cache/yum
> mount -t tmpfs tmp /tmp
> mount -t tmpfs vartmp /var/tmp
> 
> Which I took from /usr/share/fedora-release/fedora-live-base.ks.  Is 
> there a newer version of this file somewhere?  Looking at 
> fedora-release.spec there's not much of a clue if the sources are 
> maintained anywhere else.

They used to be in the livecd-tools package/repo itself and just copied
into fedora-release for some convenience.  Now they are in the
spin-kickstarts repo on fedorahosted

Jeremy