Re: Writable partition for D-I ISO images

2024-01-02 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi! On 2023-12-20 08:47, Roland Clobus wrote: > A few months ago another approach was presented on the live-build project: > for computers that are able to boot with EFI (secure or not), preparing a > live USB-stick (based on the ISO file) is nearly trivial [1]. It is called > FST (File System

Bug#1053457: More info needed, cannot reproduce

2023-11-08 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi Roland! On 2023-11-08 06:50, Roland Clobus wrote: > I've run the commands that you have provided, and am unable to reproduce > your case. > > lb config --distribution sid --updates false --archive-areas 'main > non-free-firmware' --bootloaders grub-efi > echo live-task-lxde >

Bug#1053457: live-build: Building live image fails when unmounting /sys: 'target is busy'

2023-11-08 Thread Emanuele Rocca
On 2023-10-04 03:10, Emanuele Rocca wrote: > P: Begin unmounting /sys... > umount: /tmp/sid-image/chroot/sys: target is busy. > E: An unexpected failure occurred, exiting... The reason why /sys is busy is that efivarfs is mounted under /sys/firmware/efi/efivars. It seems that efiv

Bug#1053457: live-build: Building live image fails when unmounting /sys: 'target is busy'

2023-10-04 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Package: live-build Version: 1:20230502 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Building a live image with `lb build` fails towards the end with the following error: P: Begin unmounting /sys... umount: /tmp/sid-image/chroot/sys: target is busy. E: An unexpected failure occurred, exiting... The

Bug#1052693: live-manual-pdf: PDF manual is unreadable

2023-09-26 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Package: live-manual-pdf Version: 2:20151217.2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, All files under /usr/share/doc/live-manual/pdf/ seem to be broken. Screenshot of `evince /usr/share/doc/live-manual/pdf/live-manual.portrait.en.a4.pdf.gz` attached. I've also tried decompressing the file to

Re: Enabling arm64 live image builds

2023-09-25 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi Steve! On 2023-09-25 12:58, Steve McIntyre wrote: > However, do we expect the image to be usable on any real machines > as-is? Ah yes, reality. :-) I've tested a live image on my RPi 3 B+ with Tianocore firmware and it works well (lxde, gnome takes too long to start and I suspect 1G of total

Enabling arm64 live image builds

2023-09-25 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi! Live images are currently only being built for x86 machines as far as I can see on [1] and [2]. I've tried building them on arm64 too, and everything worked perfectly fine. I'm thus wondering whether it would be possible to build official images for arm64 as well? Here's the commands I've