Remastering question

[jerrymp]

With a properly setup (to my tastes) xfce phoenix install in vbox, I ran mylivecd to get an iso and it fails with this comment:

FATAL: Execution of 'umount /tmp/mylivecd.12869/initrd.mnt' failed

Ran Bleachbit and cleaned up the system before running mylivecd,  have a 5 gig swap partition, 5.2 gig root partition with 9.5 gigs left on root, 1 gig home with 4.5 gigs left on home

did umount -a before running the script.

Any ideas

[Old-Polack]

With a properly setup (to my tastes) xfce phoenix install in vbox, I ran mylivecd to get an iso and it fails with this comment:

FATAL: Execution of 'umount /tmp/mylivecd.12869/initrd.mnt' failed

Ran Bleachbit and cleaned up the system before running mylivecd,  have a 5 gig swap partition, 5.2 gig root partition with 9.5 gigs left on root, 1 gig home with 4.5 gigs left on home

did umount -a before running the script.

Any ideas

How, might I ask, can you have a 5.2 GB root partition with 9.5 GB free? Similarly, how can you have a 1 GB /home partition with 4.5 GB free? Free space on each exceeds the total capacity reported. 

Whatever you're smoking... send me some... 

[jerrymp]

Thought it was obvious.  5.2 plus 9.5 equals 14.7 (root) and 1 plus 4.5 equals 6.5.  (home)

Still lookin for help.

[johnmart]

You better check the math in your original post.

have a 5 gig swap partition, == ok
5.2 gig root partition with
9.5 gigs left on root, == math don't work
1 gig home with
4.5 gigs left on home == math don't work

I seem to remember many people having big trouble remastering a virtual install. Actually my memory is that it was reported as un-doable. But if that were the case O-P proby woulda mentioned it here.
Maybe browse the Remastering Section, & maybe the VirtualBox section.

[Old-Polack]

You better check the math in your original post.

have a 5 gig swap partition, == ok
5.2 gig root partition with
9.5 gigs left on root, == math don't work
1 gig home with
4.5 gigs left on home == math don't work

I seem to remember many people having big trouble remastering a virtual install. Actually my memory is that it was reported as un-doable. But if that were the case O-P proby woulda mentioned it here.
Maybe browse the Remastering Section, & maybe the VirtualBox section.

Most of the remasters for the quarterly upgrade images, and new releases, are done from VMs. If it's un-doable, we are in a world of hurt. 

[pinoc]

You better check the math in your original post.

have a 5 gig swap partition, == ok
5.2 gig root partition with
9.5 gigs left on root, == math don't work
1 gig home with
4.5 gigs left on home == math don't work

I seem to remember many people having big trouble remastering a virtual install. Actually my memory is that it was reported as un-doable. But if that were the case O-P proby woulda mentioned it here.
Maybe browse the Remastering Section, & maybe the VirtualBox section.

Most of the remasters for the quarterly upgrade images, and new releases, are done from VMs. If it's un-doable, we are in a world of hurt. 

If X = space to remaster then you need ~ 2 * X of free space under "/". In your example, X = 5.2 + 1 = 6.1 GB to remaster. => Required free space under "/" = 12 GB. Free space available under "/": 9.5 ==> insufficient space to remaster.
 
hope this helps,
-p.

[johnmart]

Most of the remasters for the quarterly upgrade images, and new releases, are done from VMs. If it's un-doable, we are in a world of hurt. 

Dang!I knew there was some reason that seemed to be a distant memory. Non-existent. 

[jerrymp]

Thanks for the help folks, but I think I have figured this out.  I think it has to do with the pae kernel.  When I reverted back to the regular bfs kernel, I was able to make a successful remaster.
Weird.