[Thincrust-devel] Problem creating ec2Appliance

[Bryan Kearney]

On 09/18/2009 08:26 AM, Cameron Ross wrote:
> Hi Marek,
>
> I'm using a fully updated version of Fedora 11 with
> appliance-tools-004.4-2.fc11.noarch.  Output from uname -a is:
>      Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Aug
> 27 21:39:52 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> To summarize, for issue 1 my process outputs:
>      Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... failed (this is
> not fatal)
>      Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... failed (this is
> not fatal)
>
> Whereas your process outputs:
>      Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"...  28 sectors are
> embedded.
>      succeeded
>
> Your process also performs several tasks once the grub setup is
> complete.  Not sure where to do from here?
>
>
> For issue 2, the ec2-convert script calls a thincrust script called
> rpmcheck.py.  It looks like this script checks to see if the
> openssh-server and curl packages are included within the package set for
> the appliance.  If not then the script issues the error I'm seeing.
> So,  it looks like the ec2Appliance kickstart file is missing
> openssh-server which is simple enough to fix.  However, it does raise
> the question as to whether or not an EC2 image generated using the
> ec2Appliance kiskstart file has ever been tested.  Has anyone tried this
> yet?  Should I submit a patch adding openssh-server and possibly curl,
> to ec2Appliance.ks?
>
> Thanks,
> Cameron.
>

Can you send me the ks you are using? Thanks!

-- kb