[Fedora-livecd-list] Fedora 12 Live CD creation error : Unable to run ['/usr/bin/passwd', '-d', 'root']!

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 19:33:30 +0530,
  Nirmal A <nirmal.npr at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using Fedora 12 and I'm trying to create a liveCD using the following
> command (logged in as root user)
> 
> *livecd-creator -c fedora-live-base.ks*
> 
> Following error is seen.
> 
> Installing: perl-Digest-SHA1             ####################### [88/91]
>   Installing: perl-Pod-Simple              ####################### [89/91]
>   Installing: perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5         ####################### [90/91]
>   Installing: syslinux                     ####################### [91/91]
> 
> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/imgcreate/errors.py:45: DeprecationWarning:
> BaseException.message has been deprecated as of Python 2.6
>   return unicode(self.message)
> *Error creating Live CD : Unable to run ['/usr/bin/passwd', '-d', 'root']!
> 
> *What could be the reason for this error ? Any will help will be
> appreciated.
> I'm attaching the ks file with this mail

It's probably this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538496

I haven't retested this since getting the selinux-policy update that
is supposed to fix it. Do you have selinux-policy-doc-3.6.32-59.fc12
or later installed? It has been in updates since the 24th.