[Fedora-livecd-list] livecd-creator on RHEL5/FC6

[Rahul Sundaram]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>> Hi Rahul,
>>
>> On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 03:48 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>
>>> I had to patch two files for the try finally construct. The patches are
>>>
>>> http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/livecd-creator-try-finally.patch
>>> http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/image-creator-try-finally.patch
>>>
>>> (These patches are pretty simple but I am very much a python newbie 
>>> and might be incorrect but it gets the tools to run)
>>
>>     Thanks, I've folded them into the try-finally patch.
>>
>>>    File "//usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/imgcreate/kickstart.py", 
>>> line 51, in read_kickstart
>>>      os.chdir(dirname)
>>> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ''
>>>
>>> Any idea what's wrong?
>>
>>     As Tim (thanks Tim!) pointed out, it's just a bug, but I fixed it by
>> changing it to:
>>
>>   os.chdir(os.path.abspath(dirname))
> 
> Just hit another error trying to create a live cd from the kickstart 
> file at
> http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/rhel-gnome.ks

Tried commenting out the relevant SELinux configuration lines and that 
fails with the following traceback

----
...
Removing password for user root.
passwd: Success
Building an initramfs at /boot/livecd-initramfs-2.6.18-8.el5.img for 
kernel 2.6.18-8.el5
cat: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/modules.block: No such file or directory
Done; initramfs is 3.7M.

Building an initramfs at /boot/livecd-initramfs-2.6.18-8.el5.img for 
kernel 2.6.18-8.el5
cat: /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/modules.block: No such file or directory
Done; initramfs is 3.7M.

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 133, in ?
     sys.exit(main())
   File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 117, in main
     creator.configure()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/imgcreate/creator.py", line 
626, in configure
     self._create_bootconfig()
   File "//usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/imgcreate/live.py", line 189, 
in _create_bootconfig
     self._configure_bootloader(self.__ensure_isodir())
   File "//usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/imgcreate/live.py", line 518, 
in _configure_bootloader
     cfg += self.__get_image_stanzas(isodir)
   File "//usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/imgcreate/live.py", line 447, 
in __get_image_stanzas
     is_xen = self.__copy_kernel_and_initramfs(isodir, version, index)
   File "//usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/imgcreate/live.py", line 373, 
in __copy_kernel_and_initramfs
     isodir + "/isolinux/initrd" + index + ".img")
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/shutil.py", line 47, in copyfile
     fsrc = open(src, 'rb')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
'/var/tmp/imgcreate-Oty5r5/install_root/boot/livecd-initramfs-2.6.18-8.el5.img'


Rahul