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Hi, |
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After not using catalyst for a while, I attempted to generate a livecd. |
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I've stumbled on an error I haven't seen before: catalyst cannot |
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generate an ISO, because the image.squashfs was too large ("...is larger |
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than 4GiB-1"). |
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I've looked into livecd-stage2 dir, and found usr/portage/distfiles to |
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contain ~5.6 gigs. Catalyst took it from my hosting root file system. |
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I then proceeded to attempt to use "livecd/empty" in stage-2.spec to |
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remove redundant content from the livecd. I took the boilerplate from |
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livecd-stage2_template.spec. I then get this error: |
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<shell> |
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!!! catalyst: Error encountered during run of target livecd-stage2 |
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Catalyst aborting.... |
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Traceback (most recent call last): |
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File "/usr/lib64/catalyst/catalyst", line 397, in <module> |
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build_target(addlargs, targetmap) |
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File "/usr/lib64/catalyst/catalyst", line 212, in build_target |
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mytarget.run() |
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File "modules/generic_stage_target.py", line 1301, in run |
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apply(getattr(self,x)) |
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File "modules/generic_stage_target.py", line 1174, in empty |
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shutil.rmtree(myemp) |
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File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/shutil.py", line 216, in rmtree |
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rmtree(fullname, ignore_errors, onerror) |
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File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/shutil.py", line 225, in rmtree |
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onerror(os.rmdir, path, sys.exc_info()) |
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File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/shutil.py", line 223, in rmtree |
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os.rmdir(path) |
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OSError: [Errno 16] Device or resource busy: |
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'/var/tmp/catalyst/tmp/disk_replace/livecd-stage2-amd64-102//usr/portage/distfiles' |
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</shell> |
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I got the same error prior to that w/tmp folder, which I've removed from |
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"livecd/empty" on a/m attempt. |
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1. The fact that I haven't seen this issue before might suggest I'm |
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doing something wrong this time, though can't see what. Pls. |
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advise. Is the list of dirs in the stage2 example valid? how could |
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I resolve the issue and not have the livecd bloated with |
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unnecessary files such as distfiles? |
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2. The use of livecd/empty tells catalyst to remove dirs from the |
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image. It doesn't actually tell catalyst to ignore them, right? |
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even the fact that catalyst has to remove those dirs means it has |
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to acknowledge those dirs, and spend effort on handling them. Also |
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it prolongs the making of stage2 (e.g. rsyncing to it). Is there a |
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method of totally ignoring files that shouldn't be part of the livecd? |
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thanks, |
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Amit |
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