Trouble creating live image in F17

[twchambers]

Hi, I'm currently trying to create a spin for my personal use using the livecd-creator tool and a custom written kickstart file.
Now that I have overcome problems with the image not being created large enough, I am having issues with Plymouth.

After all of the packages show as installed I receive the following message...

'inst' function, try setting PLYMOUTH_POPULATE_SOURCE_FUNCTIONS to a file that defines it

I googled for this but can only find some old bugzilla posts for older versions of Fedora, with the same problem, which suggest that it should be fixed in the current release.

Any help finding solution or workaround would be greatly appreciated.

[AndrewSerk]

Hi twchambers,

Looking through the default F17 kickstarts and only come across plymouth a few times in fedora-live-base.ks . Once for mount Persistent Home:

# if it's encrypted, we need to unlock it
  if [ "\$(/sbin/blkid -s TYPE -o value \$homedev 2>/dev/null)" = "crypto_LUKS" ]; then
    echo
    echo "Setting up encrypted /home device"
    plymouth ask-for-password --command="cryptsetup luksOpen \$homedev EncHome"
    homedev=/dev/mapper/EncHome
  fi

And for the textinst and liveinst:

# if liveinst or textinst is given, start anaconda
if strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" liveinst ; then
   plymouth --quit
   /usr/sbin/liveinst \$ks
fi
if strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" textinst ; then
   plymouth --quit
   /usr/sbin/liveinst --text \$ks
fi

Are you using the fedora-live-base.ks?

[twchambers]

Thanks for the reply. This is the first time I have done this so may not be going about it the right way!
I'm using my own kickstart file to install the programs I want, but I am calling the rpmfusion kickstart file, which along the way somewhere calls the original fedora base kickstart.

My ks file looks something along the lines of...

%include rpmfusion-nonfree-live-desktop.ks

%packages
THINGS I WANT TO INSTALL
%end

[Colors]

You can try my kickstart file and then customise:

lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
timezone Europe/Bucharest
auth --useshadow --enablemd5
selinux --enforcing
firewall --enabled
xconfig --startxonboot
services --enabled=restorecond --disabled=avahi-daemon,dnsmasq,fcoe,ip6tables,lldpad,lvm2-monitor,mdmonitor,mdmonitor-takeover,multipathd,ntpdate,pppoe-server,rdisc,snmpd,snmptrapd,wpa_supplicant,zvbid
part / --fstype=ext4


repo --name=fedora --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-17&arch=i386
repo --name=updates --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f17&arch=i386

repo --name=rpmfusion-free --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-17&arch=i386
repo --name=rpmfusion-free-updates --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-updates-released-17&arch=i386
repo --name=rpmfusion-nonfree --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=nonfree-fedora-17&arch=i386
repo --name=rpmfusion-nonfree-updates --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=nonfree-fedora-updates-released-17&arch=i386

repo --name=livna --baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/repo/17/i386
repo --name=adobe --baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/

######## minimal installation ########

%packages
@core
@romanian-support
anaconda
kernel-PAE

isomd5sum
memtest86+

grub2
grub2-efi
efibootmgr

firstboot
ntp

yum-plugin-fastestmirror
yum-presto

gdm
gnome-panel
plymouth-theme-charge
xorg-x11-drivers

-audit
gnome-shell
nautilus
-sendmail

gnome-packagekit
NetworkManager-gnome
xdg-user-dirs-gtk

######## minimal installation ########

brasero-nautilus
bzip2
cabextract
cheese
dmidecode
dvgrab
eject
ekiga
empathy
eog
file-roller-nautilus
firefox
foomatic
gcalctool
gedit
gnome-backgrounds
gnome-disk-utility
gnome-media
gnome-password-generator
gnome-power-manager
gnome-system-log
gnome-system-monitor
gnome-terminal
gparted
gutenprint-cups
gutenprint-foomatic
gwget
hfsplus-tools
hplip
iwl5000-firmware
libreoffice-calc
libreoffice-impress
libreoffice-langpack-ro
libreoffice-writer
libsane-hpaio
livecd-tools
man-db
man-pages
mc
microcode_ctl
mozilla-adblockplus
mozilla-googlesharing
mozilla-https-everywhere
mozilla-noscript
nautilus-open-terminal
nautilus-search-tool
nautilus-sendto
nautilus-sound-converter
oggconvert
p7zip-plugins
PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin
PackageKit-gtk3-module
pciutils
policycoreutils-gui
policycoreutils-restorecond
preload
rp-pppoe
shotwell
simple-scan
sound-juicer
soundconverter
system-config-firewall
system-config-language
system-config-network
system-config-network-tui
system-config-printer
system-config-printer-udev
systemd-gtk
tar
totem-nautilus
transmission-gtk
usb_modeswitch
usbutils
v4l-utils
wine
xsane-gimp
yum-utils
zip

audacity-freeworld
avidemux-gtk
devede
ffmpeg
ffmpeg2theora
gstreamer-ffmpeg
gstreamer-plugins-bad
gstreamer-plugins-ugly
lame
unrar
vlc

libdvdcss

adobe-release
AdobeReader_enu
flash-plugin

%end

%post
# FIXME: it'd be better to get this installed from a package
cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys << EOF
#!/bin/bash
#
# live: Init script for live image
#
# chkconfig: 345 00 99
# description: Init script for live image.

. /etc/init.d/functions

if ! strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" liveimg || [ "\$1" != "start" ]; then
    exit 0
fi

if [ -e /.liveimg-configured ] ; then
    configdone=1
fi

exists() {
    which \$1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || return
    \$*
}

touch /.liveimg-configured

# Make sure we don't mangle the hardware clock on shutdown
ln -sf /dev/null /etc/systemd/system/hwclock-save.service

livedir="LiveOS"
for arg in \`cat /proc/cmdline\` ; do
  if [ "\${arg##live_dir=}" != "\${arg}" ]; then
    livedir=\${arg##live_dir=}
    return
  fi
done

# enable swaps unless requested otherwise
swaps=\`blkid -t TYPE=swap -o device\`
if ! strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" noswap && [ -n "\$swaps" ] ; then
  for s in \$swaps ; do
    action "Enabling swap partition \$s" swapon \$s
  done
fi
if ! strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" noswap && [ -f /run/initramfs/live/\${livedir}/swap.img ] ; then
  action "Enabling swap file" swapon /run/initramfs/live/\${livedir}/swap.img
fi

mountPersistentHome() {
  # support label/uuid
  if [ "\${homedev##LABEL=}" != "\${homedev}" -o "\${homedev##UUID=}" != "\${homedev}" ]; then
    homedev=\`/sbin/blkid -o device -t "\$homedev"\`
  fi

  # if we're given a file rather than a blockdev, loopback it
  if [ "\${homedev##mtd}" != "\${homedev}" ]; then
    # mtd devs don't have a block device but get magic-mounted with -t jffs2
    mountopts="-t jffs2"
  elif [ ! -b "\$homedev" ]; then
    loopdev=\`losetup -f\`
    if [ "\${homedev##/run/initramfs/live}" != "\${homedev}" ]; then
      action "Remounting live store r/w" mount -o remount,rw /run/initramfs/live
    fi
    losetup \$loopdev \$homedev
    homedev=\$loopdev
  fi

  # if it's encrypted, we need to unlock it
  if [ "\$(/sbin/blkid -s TYPE -o value \$homedev 2>/dev/null)" = "crypto_LUKS" ]; then
    echo
    echo "Setting up encrypted /home device"
    plymouth ask-for-password --command="cryptsetup luksOpen \$homedev EncHome"
    homedev=/dev/mapper/EncHome
  fi

  # and finally do the mount
  mount \$mountopts \$homedev /home
  # if we have /home under what's passed for persistent home, then
  # we should make that the real /home.  useful for mtd device on olpc
  if [ -d /home/home ]; then mount --bind /home/home /home ; fi
  [ -x /sbin/restorecon ] && /sbin/restorecon /home
  if [ -d /home/liveuser ]; then USERADDARGS="-M" ; fi
}

findPersistentHome() {
  for arg in \`cat /proc/cmdline\` ; do
    if [ "\${arg##persistenthome=}" != "\${arg}" ]; then
      homedev=\${arg##persistenthome=}
      return
    fi
  done
}

if strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" persistenthome= ; then
  findPersistentHome
elif [ -e /run/initramfs/live/\${livedir}/home.img ]; then
  homedev=/run/initramfs/live/\${livedir}/home.img
fi

# if we have a persistent /home, then we want to go ahead and mount it
if ! strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" nopersistenthome && [ -n "\$homedev" ] ; then
  action "Mounting persistent /home" mountPersistentHome
fi

# make it so that we don't do writing to the overlay for things which
# are just tmpdirs/caches
mount -t tmpfs -o mode=0755 varcacheyum /var/cache/yum
mount -t tmpfs tmp /tmp
mount -t tmpfs vartmp /var/tmp
[ -x /sbin/restorecon ] && /sbin/restorecon /var/cache/yum /tmp /var/tmp >/dev/null 2>&1

EOF

# bah, hal starts way too late
cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys-late << EOF
#!/bin/bash
#
# live: Late init script for live image
#
# chkconfig: 345 99 01
# description: Late init script for live image.

. /etc/init.d/functions

if ! strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" liveimg || [ "\$1" != "start" ] || [ -e /.liveimg-late-configured ] ; then
    exit 0
fi

exists() {
    which \$1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || return
    \$*
}

# read some variables out of /proc/cmdline
for o in \`cat /proc/cmdline\` ; do
    case \$o in
    ks=*)
        ks="\${o#ks=}"
        ;;
    xdriver=*)
        xdriver="\${o#xdriver=}"
        ;;
    esac
done

# if liveinst or textinst is given, start anaconda
if strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" liveinst ; then
   plymouth --quit
   /usr/sbin/liveinst \$ks
fi
if strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" textinst ; then
   plymouth --quit
   /usr/sbin/liveinst --text \$ks
fi

# configure X, allowing user to override xdriver
if [ -n "\$xdriver" ]; then
   cat > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-xdriver.conf <<FOE
Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Videocard0"
	Driver	"\$xdriver"
EndSection
FOE
fi

touch /.liveimg-late-configured

EOF

chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys
/sbin/restorecon /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys
/sbin/chkconfig --add livesys

chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys-late
/sbin/restorecon /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys-late
/sbin/chkconfig --add livesys-late

%end

%post
cat > /root/chkconfig.sh << EOF
#!/bin/bash
#/sbin/chkconfig --del livesys		#used in usb stick installation
#/sbin/chkconfig --del livesys-late	#used in usb stick installation
/sbin/chkconfig --del netconsole
/sbin/chkconfig --del network

EOF

/bin/chmod u+x /root/chkconfig.sh
/bin/bash /root/chkconfig.sh

%end


%post --nochroot
cp $INSTALL_ROOT/usr/share/doc/*-release-*/GPL $LIVE_ROOT/GPL

# only works on x86, x86_64
if [ "$(uname -i)" = "i386" -o "$(uname -i)" = "x86_64" ]; then
  if [ ! -d $LIVE_ROOT/LiveOS ]; then mkdir -p $LIVE_ROOT/LiveOS ; fi
  cp /usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk $LIVE_ROOT/LiveOS
fi
%end

[AndrewSerk]

Hi twchambers,

The best advice I can offer (the easiest thing to do) is to start with a known working set of kickstarts and edit/add/remove from there.

[twchambers]

Thanks for the help everyone. I tried it again today, and just left it alone while I went to do some other stuff. The same error was still produced, but the process continued after a while. Just tried the image and it all works great. Need a bit of tweaking to get the packages right but that's it. Thanks again for all the help!
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