<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Once you get it to work, you'll find that you can't log in to the minimal livecd. That's just the way it's designed. So, I'd suggest switching to another one. It probably has a bunch of SELinux packages specified. I've found that (if I don't want SELinux), I have to do this to the kickstart. It looks like a lot of your failures are because certain commands arn't available: sed, getent, etc. Make sure they're installed. Then make sure your PATH variable includes their directories. Also, make sure /var/tmp is on a local drive. Pretty much any directory that livecd-creator uses needs to be on a local drive or you run the risk of strange build failures. Until you get it to build without these errors it's not going to boot under qemu. Tim Fulko Hew wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:8204a4fe0805240821t385c6344i210e7ff8dd5cb67a@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> I'm failing at my first attempt at creating (or recreating) a live CD - I'm using Fedora 8 (because I don't find KDE in F9 usable yet) - I have SELinux disabled. Following the process described in the LiveCDHowTo, well, actually the step: livecd-creator --config=/usr/share/livecd-tools/livecd-fedora-minimal.ks resulted in a complaint about SELinux not being enabled on the host system... Right, so I edited the '.ks' file and set selinux=--disabled This let it proceed through the build stage with the following errors: Installing: info ##################### [ 29/129] /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.42253: line 2: sed: command not found error: %post(info-4.12-1.fc10.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 127 ... Installing: cracklib ##################### [ 45/129] /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.50225: line 2: getent: command not found /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.50225: line 3: getent: command not found ... Installing: kernel ##################### [124/129] device-mapper: table ioctl failed: No such device or address Command failed ... Installing: selinux-policy-targeted ##################### [129/129] libsemanage.dbase_llist_query: could not query record value libsepol.sepol_user_modify: MLS is enabled, but no MLS default level was defined for user guest_u libsepol.sepol_user_modify: could not load (null) into policy libsemanage.dbase_policydb_modify: could not modify record value libsemanage.semanage_base_merge_components: could not merge local modifications into policy /usr/sbin/semanage: Could not add SELinux user guest_u libsepol.sepol_user_modify: MLS is enabled, but no MLS default level was defined for user xguest_u libsepol.sepol_user_modify: could not load (null) into policy libsemanage.dbase_policydb_modify: could not modify record value libsemanage.semanage_base_merge_components: could not merge local modifications into policy /usr/sbin/semanage: Could not add SELinux user xguest_u Removing password for user root. passwd: Success Then I used the specified command to execute the ISO image: qemu -m 512 -cdrom livecd-fulko-200805241043.iso The first time I followed the procedure (a few days ago) to build the ISO and execute it, it wouldn't even boot. Today I retried the same procedure, and today it boots, but after it get to the point of starting udev, something flashes by on the screen (qemu window) and then the window goes black, and I can't see anything after that. I seems hung. So then I tried recreating the 'livecd-fedora-desktop.ks' version as per instructions and it dies with: Installing: tzdata ################### [ 21/1019] umount: /var/tmp/livecd-creator-PxlU8W/install_root: device is busy umount: /var/tmp/livecd-creator-PxlU8W/install_root: device is busy ioctl: LOOP_CLR_FD: Device or resource busy Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 1603, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 1575, in main target.install() File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 948, in install self.installPackages() File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 591, in installPackages self.ayum.runInstall() File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 330, in runInstall return self.runTransaction(cb) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 591, in runTransaction errors = self.ts.run(cb.callback, '') File "/usr/share/yum-cli/callback.py", line 124, in callback fd = os.open(rpmloc, os.O_RDONLY) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/tmp/livecd-creator-PxlU8W/install_root/var/cache/yum/development/packages/texlive-texmf-errata-fonts-2007-4.fc9.noarch.rpm' So I'm at a loss as to how to proceed to start testing this process even before I add my own customizations. Any help would be appreciated. TIA Fulko <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com">Fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- _________________________________ Tim Wood, CLP, RHCT 719.338.7484 (tel) The Data Wranglers Web, Database & more since since 1994 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.datawranglers.com">www.datawranglers.com</a> </pre> </body> </html>