My quest to make OSCAR work at all Fedora 8 has hit some amusing bugs.
When using the OSCAR_VERBOSE=3 switch, OSCAR occasionally - for no reason
discernable to me - decides to drop a space in one of the exceedingly large
image creation commands [mksiimage] and fucks up --verbose --force and makes
it --verbose--force which confuses the wizard and makes it cry at the image
build step. The problem goes away when I don't use OSCAR_VERBOSE - it
happens on both 3 and 1 from what I've seen. I haven't tried any others.
It seems to only happen when I try to overwrite a previous image. Why? Who
knows. I'm still working on cause-and-effect in OSCAR - the relationships
are subtle.
When your head node doesn't have the space to create the image, it errors
out at the package install point saying <package> needs <more> space, where
<more> starts out at around 15MB and increments anywhere between 1 and 10 MB
through the ~400 packages. It's pretty funny to see OSCAR demanding 140GB of
space.
The first problem made tracking the 2nd problem frustrating since the image
creation process takes a solid half hour or so because yum /insists/ on
downloading ~250mb of packages every time while ignoring the local cache
I've tried so hard to setup.
The second problem does handily explain why the image creation process
failed intermittently. I have been fiddling with caches and wasn't paying
attention to disk space. I'm doing this in VMware, where I can make
snapshots and create known good states so I can rebuild/track broken shit
more easily.
Also, it seems that while FC8 treats everything as if it were SCSI, that
does not mean a SCSI format system will work on an IDE disk. Worth a shot.
I'm building an IDE-specific image now.
I have spent way too much goddamn time on this.
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