problems creating official spins locally
by John Poelstra
At last week's meeting I volunteered to create a simple wiki page to
help anyone build one of the official spins and also build some of the
spins for testing.
I ran into several problems doing this last week. Some were
self-inflicted (running out of disk space in the root partition), but
others were more mysterious. Like kicking off the livecd-creator,
watching it download all the needed packages and start to yum install
them, only to watch it hang on several occasions after installing 400 or
500 packages.
1) Is building live CDs on Fedora 10 for Fedora 11 a bad idea?
2) Where can I collect troubleshooting information on why the yum
install process hangs? Nothing obvious in /var/log/messages
3) What is the best way to cleanly abort a failed/hung live CD creation?
I ended up having to reboot my system to unmount the loop devices and
clean up all the space taking in /var/tmp because killing the process or
trying to force unmount the loop device didn't work.
Thanks,
John
15 years, 1 month
Re: [Fedora-spins] Some recent change broke livecd-creator for large images
by Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 01:58:11 -0500,
Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> wrote:
>
> The problem is related to the latest pykickstart update. Comments suggest
> that the format of the partition command changed and either it was broken
> or the spin kickstart files needed to be updated to use the new format.
Things should be OK shortly.
pykickstart was updated previously.
An update to e2fsprogs is available from koji.
An update to yum is due out shortly.
This should resolve all of the issues that have been causing problems for
me in building livedvd spins.
15 years, 1 month
Using our ticketing system a little better
by Jeroen van Meeuwen
I wanted to start using our ticketing system a little better...
For one, I wanted all current spins to have a ticket to be completed at
Fedora 11 GA, that states, maybe:
=======================================================================
== Page ==
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AOS_Spin
== TODO ==
1. At the top of the page, add a link to the current revision of wiki
page https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AOS_Spin (Above Summary, Use
"Previous Releases" as a header)
1. Add category Incomplete_Spins to
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AOS_Spin
=======================================================================
So they start all fresh for Fedora 12. Am I forgetting anything? Ideas
more then welcome!
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip
15 years, 1 month
Size differences since yesterdays rawhide push
by Sebastian Vahl
Hi,
I just want to ask if this is also affecting other spins: Since
yesterdays rawhide push (rawhide report: 20090513 changes) the size of
my images increased 5M in size. There are different sizes in some rpms
but they are not this much (at least I could identify; and for
clarifiing this: there are no new packages).
@Jeroen: I'm preparing a new kickstart atm and will upload it soon.
Sebastian
15 years, 1 month
[spin-kickstarts] #27: need to exclude btanks
by fedora-badges
#27: need to exclude btanks
----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
Reporter: notting | Owner: kanarip
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: Fedora 11 GA
Component: kickstart pool | Keywords:
----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
{{{
From fb00808f0496eee98ceec1747f4ab31070749d8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 17:06:00 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Exclude btanks (#500715)
---
fedora-install-fedora.ks | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fedora-install-fedora.ks b/fedora-install-fedora.ks
index ffea5da..35a19ba 100644
--- a/fedora-install-fedora.ks
+++ b/fedora-install-fedora.ks
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
#part iso --size=4998
# Add the repos you wish to use to compose here. At least one of them
needs group data.
-repo --name=rawhide
--mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=$basearch
--exclude kernel*debug* --exclude kernel-kdump* --exclude syslog-ng
--exclude java-1.5.0-gcj-devel --exclude astronomy-bookmarks --exclude
generic* --exclude java-1.5.0-gcj-javadoc
+repo --name=rawhide
--mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=$basearch
--exclude kernel*debug* --exclude kernel-kdump* --exclude syslog-ng
--exclude java-1.5.0-gcj-devel --exclude astronomy-bookmarks --exclude
generic* --exclude java-1.5.0-gcj-javadoc --exclude btanks
repo --name=rawhide-source
--mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide-
source&arch=$basearch
# Package manifest for the compose. Uses repo group metadata to
translate groups.
--
1.6.2.2
}}}
Needs to be on the F-11 branch.
--
Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts/ticket/27>
spin-kickstarts <https://fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts/>
Kickstarts that the Spin SIG reviews, tests, maintains and releases (as a package).
15 years, 1 month
