Installing packages requiring mysql or another common service

2011-06-01 Thread Axel
Hello I m using debian live to build a live system with a mysql server instance. I d like to install at build time some packages which require an online mysql instance to install their database (with dbconfig). It seems that services cannot be started (due to /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d) in chroot

Re: Installing packages requiring mysql or another common service

2011-06-08 Thread Axel
Le 03/06/2011 09:51, Daniel Baumann a écrit : On 06/01/2011 03:41 PM, Axel wrote: So, have you some advices to install this type of packages at build time ? Is the hook script the only way to achieve this (in the current state of debian live) ? currently, yes :( your problem is a very

Preseeding database settings for dbconfig-based packages

2011-06-09 Thread Axel
cessary to clear previously installed databases and re-install the one with the good configuration from /etc/dbconfig-common configuration files. Axel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

chroot local includes with RCS files

2011-06-09 Thread Axel
a .gitignore file in these directories. This .gitignore files are added in the live system, so, could lb_chroot_local-includes skip those kind of files ? Axel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Known problem with named pipe in live systems or with nagios ?

2011-07-01 Thread Axel
atoverride commands to allow the named pipe to be written by www-data user. When processing these instructions on a Debian Squeeze system (2.6.32-5-686), it works flawlessly : root@axel-squeeze:/home/axel# dpkg-statoverride --update --add nagios www-data 2710 /var/lib/nagios3/rw root@axel-squ

Re: Known problem with named pipe in live systems or with nagios ?

2011-07-04 Thread Axel
Le 01/07/2011 15:06, Ronny Standtke a écrit : Hi Axel Nagios uses a named pipe to receive commands from external processes. ... So I wonder if this problem could be related to the AUFS mount, and how I could debug it. Really interesting! This sounds very similar to the problem I just run

Bug#637183: live-build: Building tar target fails when using grub as bootloader

2011-08-09 Thread Axel
time components for the Univers pn win32-loader (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:/

Bug#637183: live-build: Building tar target fails when using grub as bootloader

2011-08-09 Thread Axel
Le 09/08/2011 11:24, Daniel Baumann a écrit : severity 637183 normal retitle 637183 building tar target fails when using grub as bootloader thanks On 08/09/2011 10:48 AM, Axel wrote: When builidng a "tar" target, the process stops at the grub install. Maybe this step could instal

remount boot media with RW flag

2011-09-01 Thread Axel
Hello I m using a Debian Live system on flash devices (compactflash and USB drives). I m using persistence with hard disks partitions. I d like to save some files on the flash device, which is mounted as read-only. My idea is to remount the device as read-write in a hook at boot time, by inclu

Re: remount boot media with RW flag

2011-09-01 Thread Axel
Le 1 sept. 2011 à 18:15, Daniel Baumann a écrit : > On 09/01/2011 05:35 PM, Axel wrote: >> I d like to save some files on the flash device, which is mounted as >> read-only. > > what flash device is that? and who mounts it in the first place? rather than > a hook, i&#x

Re: remount boot media with RW flag

2011-09-02 Thread Axel
Le 02/09/2011 03:35, Ed Dixon a écrit : This may help, Daniel dropped a hint about using ext formatted files as persistent storage in the 2.0 documentation and for me it has worked like a charm. I can create an image file to use with persistence on anything but NTFS so the 4G limitation applies b

Re: remount boot media with RW flag

2011-09-02 Thread Axel
It works : - full persistence on a hard drive partition (which hold a given label) - cpio snapshot persistence on a second partition on the live media, with a restricted list of files due to /etc/live-snapshot.list configuration file. (at first boot the snapshot has to be created manually with

building squeeze on wheezy (using live 3.x)

2011-09-05 Thread Axel
Hello Who wants to build a Squeeze live image by using live 3.x (the current version on wheezy) will triggers this bug : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=622838 A workaround is to using apt pinning to use wheezy packages by adding a config/chroot_apt/preferences file : Expl

/etc/network/interfaces and snapshot persistence

2011-10-12 Thread Axel
it of the snapshot-based persistence ? I think I ll write a hook to force another snapshot restoration to get the real /etc/network/interfaces file. Is there a better solution ? Thanks Axel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: /etc/network/interfaces and snapshot persistence

2011-10-13 Thread Axel
olv.conf in the squashfs are empty except if they were provided at build time. What do you think about this process : If no ip is defined in boot arguments, use the configuration file from live media/persistency. If the file is empty, fall back to dhcp. Axel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: /etc/network/interfaces and snapshot persistence

2011-10-14 Thread Axel
Le 13/10/2011 15:40, Daniel Baumann a écrit : On 10/13/2011 03:26 PM, Axel wrote: If no ip is defined in boot arguments, use the configuration file from live media/persistency. If the file is empty, fall back to dhcp. sounds good. Patch against the current git "upstream" branch

Bug#651520: live-build: booting a custom image fails because of missing /live/vmlinuz and /live/initrd symlinks

2011-12-25 Thread Axel
Le 23 déc. 2011 à 02:21, slo.sle...@gmail.com a écrit : > I attempted to follow the guidelines: > > > You need a hook to fix this. Create a file named renamekernel.binary. Place > this in the hook dir. The file should have the following contents: > > mv binary/live/initrd.img-* binary/live/in

persistence image file on root partition

2013-06-25 Thread Axel
Hello Is it possible to use a persistence image file in the same partition than the live system , alongside /live, /syslinux directories or another partition is required ? I used tarball persistence with previous version of live-build and this behaviour allowed a simplier setup of the storage devic

Re: create full persistent live hdd wheezy for cups printing

2013-07-10 Thread Axel
The cups subsystem stores its printer list in some configuration files. I assume they are in /etc/cups. You should first be sure about this configuration files. Maybe some files in /var are used too, I don't know. When installing your live image you need to create a partition and filesystem on the

persistence bug and tar image in latest version

2013-07-10 Thread Axel
Hello 1. I was using live-build 3.0.5-1 from Debian Wheezy. I try to use link persistence and have a problem at boot. The directory (or symbolic link I assume) /live/persistence is not created so my persistent and linked file targets a missing file). Manually creating /live/persistence according t

Bug#837298: live-manual-html: The www references in the manual and in the reportbug hint are invalid

2016-09-10 Thread Axel
Package: live-manual-html Version: 1:4.0.1-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, In the manual as installed it says under the heading ‘1. About this manual’ (paragraph 6): “An up-to-date version can always be found at ‹http://live-systems.org/›” but this is not true, especially not always. What is

Re: Completely overriding the stock isolinux configuration

2013-07-11 Thread axel . azerty
uot;bootloaders" directory. Update the live.cfg.in file to your needs and rebuild your live system. Check in binary/isolinux/ that the live.cfg has been created as expected. Here is my live example : axel@cortex:~/live$ cat config/bootloaders/isolinux/live.cfg.in # This is a custom bo

patch for binary_tar and initrd compression

2014-11-19 Thread axel . azerty
Hello This is a patch for the binary_tar bug (reported by punky earlier) and for a bug with initramfs custom compression in live-build 4.0.3. You may apply them in /usr/lib/live/build/. Regards Axel --- chroot_hacks.orig 2014-11-19 10:05:10.288667885 +0100 +++ chroot_hacks 2014-11-19 10