test days live image creation guide

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 19:37:14 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:25:51AM -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> ----- "Rob Healey" <robhealey1 at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > Greetings: 
> > 
> > Hello. I am more than available and ready to help out, but something has gone wrong somewhere for me. I followed your guide down to the exact letter for letter, so that I would not make mistakes of my own. Here is what I received on my screen... 
> > 
> > Traceback (most recent call last): 
> > File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 140, in <module> 
> > sys.exit(main()) 
> > File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 122, in main 
> > creator.mount(options.base_on, options.cachedir) 
> > File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/imgcreate/creator.py", line 524, in mount 
> > self.__create_selinuxfs() 
> > File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/imgcreate/creator.py", line 456, in __create_selinuxfs 
> > for (file, value) in files + self.__getbooleans(): 
> > File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/imgcreate/creator.py", line 438, in __getbooleans 
> > for i in selinux.security_get_boolean_names()[1]: 
> > OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory 
> > [root at donkeyandshrek testday]# 
> > 
> > 
> > Can you help me debug it, so thay I can see what went wrong? 
> 
> Seems to me to be some sort of problem with SELinux. Maybe it's blocking access to some files. 
> You can try to switch it to permissive mode. Or have you uninstalled it? 
> 
> Another way is to edit the fedora-livecd-testday.ks and after %include line add a directive
> selinux --permissive
> or
> selinux --disabled
> not to use SELinux on livecd. You will see if that helps.
> 
> I will try to look at it, but today I'm leaving on a holiday for a week, so only after that.

Indeed, I think it's usually recommended to run 'setenforce 0' before
you run the livecd-creator process.  I don't have the URL from which
the OP was working, but if someone else does, could he or she please
insert that step?  Thank you!

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