Bug 83128 – catalyst-1.1.6 - livecd-stage2 and netboot targets fail

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects

[Description Omkhar Arasaratnam (RETIRED) 2005-02-23 19:22:03 UTC]

Netboot target fails with this after genkernel:

copy_file: File '' not found
readelf: Error: Unable to read in 0x6e6f bytes of section headers
readelf: Error: Not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start
strip: /tmp/image/lib/xfs_check: File format not recognized
genext2fs: couldn't allocate a block (no free space)


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Omkhar Arasaratnam (RETIRED) 2005-02-23 19:25:33 UTC]

Created attachment 52011 [details]
busy-config

busybox config file (note: it's not completely silent)

[Comment 2 Omkhar Arasaratnam (RETIRED) 2005-02-23 19:26:09 UTC]

Created attachment 52012 [details]
catalyst.conf

catalyst config file

[Comment 3 Omkhar Arasaratnam (RETIRED) 2005-02-23 19:26:47 UTC]

Created attachment 52013 [details]
catalyst-env.sh

script to set env's for catalyst build

[Comment 4 Omkhar Arasaratnam (RETIRED) 2005-02-23 19:27:27 UTC]

Created attachment 52014 [details]
kernel-config-smp

kernel config for netboot (gentoo-dev-kernel)

[Comment 5 Omkhar Arasaratnam (RETIRED) 2005-02-23 19:27:56 UTC]

Created attachment 52015 [details]
netboot_template.spec

catalyst input file for netboot target

[Comment 6 Omkhar Arasaratnam (RETIRED) 2005-02-23 19:29:30 UTC]

Created attachment 52017 [details]
netboot_template.spec

catalyst input file for netboot target

[Comment 7 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-02-24 15:43:36 UTC]

Try using one of the newer catalyst versions.  I've removed 1.1.0 from portage quite a while ago and have no plans on supporting older versions.  If this is still a problem with 1.1.5, then REOPEN.

[Comment 8 Omkhar Arasaratnam (RETIRED) 2005-02-24 18:47:47 UTC]

Breaks on catalyst-1.1.5 as well (incidentally which is still masked) Error occurs right after genkernel finishes work:


 * GNU info directory index is up-to-date.

genext2fs: couldn't allocate a block (no free space)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "modules/netboot.py", line 127, in run_local
    cmd("/bin/bash "+self.settings["sharedir"]+\
  File "/usr/lib/catalyst/modules/catalyst_support.py", line 98, in cmd
    raise CatalystError,myexc
CatalystError: <unprintable instance object>
None

!!! catalyst: netboot build aborting due to error.

[Comment 9 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-02-26 09:47:37 UTC]

*** Bug 83335 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 10 Omkhar Arasaratnam (RETIRED) 2005-03-06 15:40:38 UTC]

Breaks on 1.1.6 with latest 2005.0 stage3 snapshots as well - any further suggestions?

[Comment 11 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-06 15:56:42 UTC]

Don't use the netboot target?  ;P

I really don't know.  The netboot target stuff isn't complete, and none of it was coded by me, so I can't even begin to tell you what would be required to fix it.

I'm almost to the point of making catalyst error when you try to use the target until someone comes up with patches to fix it.  Also, it has never worked on x86.

[Comment 12 Omkhar Arasaratnam (RETIRED) 2005-03-06 17:51:13 UTC]

I attempted a livecd-stage2 target and it is failing at the same point post kernel install. This leads me to believe that it is not a netboot issue - further ideas?

[Comment 13 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-07 05:42:21 UTC]

Post your livecd-stage2.spec as an attachment...  I am positive it is something on your end, since we're building a release right now, and everybody is using catalyst 1.1.6 to build, so it works on all arches.

[Comment 14 Omkhar Arasaratnam (RETIRED) 2005-04-06 06:33:06 UTC]

works now - my bad