remastersys iso installation fails

[darkblueb]

install completes but results in flawed system (see screenshots, taken soon after install and reboot)

[kalxas]

Just tested with beta7-backup iso and there is a mounting issue after rebooting.

[kalxas]

I tested with all iso creation methods, dist, backup, dist without autologin. All produce the above errors

[kalxas]

ok the errors in remastersys and chroot method are different after testing both. Mounting /run and / problem is not present in chroot method.

So after all this must be a remastersys error.

[kalxas]

I have contacted remastersys here: ​http://www.remastersys.com/forums/index.php?topic=2508.0

[kalxas]

The problem with the alternate iso seems to be fixed now: ​http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/dev/osgeo-live-mini-build8638.iso ​http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/dev/osgeo-live-build8638.log

Just be careful NOT to create a "user" account during installation because that breaks lightdm (user is created during setup to help our current installation scripts).

Angelos

[kalxas]

confirmed to be fixed in beta8-alternate. We can now actually ship a working iso.

[kalxas]

This only applies to remastersys method now

[kalxas]

Since we are now planning releasing through chroot method this is not a blocker anymore.

[hamish]

Hi,

remastersys is just a couple of bash scripts.

to view/compare them, download (install) the .deb in the VM, then:

 mkdir remastersys
 cd remastersys
 ar x /var/cache/apt/archives/remastersys_3.0.3-1_all.deb
 tar xzf data.tar.gz
 tar xzf control.tar.gz

copy of that here: ​http://bambi.otago.ac.nz/hamish/livedvd/remastersys_deb_3.0.3-1_all.tgz

contains:

remastersys/
remastersys/data.tar.gz
remastersys/control
remastersys/etc/
remastersys/etc/remastersys.conf
remastersys/etc/remastersys/
remastersys/etc/remastersys/customisolinux/
remastersys/etc/remastersys/remastersys.version
remastersys/etc/remastersys/isolinux/
remastersys/etc/remastersys/isolinux/splash.png
remastersys/etc/remastersys/isolinux/isolinux.cfg.vesamenu
remastersys/etc/remastersys/preseed/
remastersys/etc/remastersys/preseed/custom.seed
remastersys/etc/remastersys/plymouth/
remastersys/etc/remastersys/plymouth/remastersys-theme/
remastersys/etc/remastersys/plymouth/remastersys-theme/remastersys-theme.script
remastersys/etc/remastersys/plymouth/remastersys-theme/progress_box.png
remastersys/etc/remastersys/plymouth/remastersys-theme/remastersys-theme.plymouth
remastersys/etc/remastersys/plymouth/remastersys-theme/progress_bar.png
remastersys/etc/remastersys/plymouth/remastersys-theme/remastersys.png
remastersys/control.tar.gz
remastersys/_gpgbuilder0
remastersys/_gpgbuilder
remastersys/debian-binary
remastersys/usr/
remastersys/usr/bin/
remastersys/usr/bin/remastersys-skelcopy
remastersys/usr/bin/remastersys
remastersys/usr/share/
remastersys/usr/share/applications/
remastersys/usr/share/doc/
remastersys/usr/share/doc/remastersys/
remastersys/usr/share/doc/remastersys/copyright
remastersys/usr/share/doc/remastersys/changelog.Debian.gz
remastersys/usr/share/doc/remastersys/README
remastersys/usr/share/man/
remastersys/usr/share/man/man1/
remastersys/usr/share/man/man1/remastersys.1.gz

Hamish

[camerons]

After being unable to get the remastersys build script working in time for our 6.0 release, we have switched to using the chroot method. As such, I'm changing the milestone for this issue to 6.5.