On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com wrote:
On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 08:34 -0400, Richard Shaw wrote:
This has not been my experience. I was actually able to update the kernel without problem but several other packages have caused problems, most notably udev which had an issue during reboot with an error about loading the 50-udev-default.rules.
This got filed relatively recently and fixed up. For F9-based images, though, you'll have to do a workaround of removing the /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules.rpm* (or at least, move them out of the way)
I did rename it but forgot that the * gets it anyway...
I've also had problems with updating xorg. X tried and failed to load, but instead of only trying 3 times it went into an infinite loop.
That sounds like something more general and not live image specific. It'd be worth getting a ctrl-alt-delete in there to reboot and then boot into runlevel 3 so you could grab some logs to file against X
I'll do that. I remember one of the errors I saw while it flashed by was something about AIGLX.
Also, after reading a previous post on this list, I would keep updates to only things you care about since the overlay file records block changes and you will eventually run out of overlay.
This is the case and unfortunately, with things currently in the kernel, I don't really see any way around it. Modulo writing some tool to (likely offline) analyze and rewrite the snapshot file. But relatively deep dark voodoo required to write such a tool
Jeremy
I don't know if this would be easier, but what about a tool that would incorporate the changes back into the image file and then re-zero the overlay?
Richard