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fsmithred

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## Re: snapshot

Mon Oct 03, 2011 1:48 am

Yes, I can replicate it. I got

Code:
  `Errors. (cat: can't open '/sys/block/*/removable' : No such file or directory)`

right where you said it would be. Only difference was that I installed live-config and live-config-sysvinit in step 1, when I installed the newer debs for snapshot. That's as far as I got with it.
I also played around with the excludes file and tried the following:
# made bootable iso, but items named "live" were missing
- live
# adding these lines didn't include the items
+ /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/live
+ /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/live
+ /usr/lib/refractasnapshot/iso/live
-------------------
# made bootable iso, but excluded /usr/lib/refractasnapshot/iso/live
# this would also exlcude /var/lib/live and /lib/live (from live-config)
-live/
fsmithred

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## Re: snapshot

Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:13 pm

Follow up:
I did the updates (aptitude full-upgrade) and ran snapshot again. The iso booted fine. If you're feeling ambitious, you could look at the changelogs for all the kernel-related packages that got updated and see if anything between the June build and the September build seem related to the problem. I may or may not have time to do that in the next week.
dzz

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## Re: snapshot

Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:56 pm

I just reinstalled with 6.0.6_beta2 and did a snapshot. No upgrades or new packages were done. It boots and so far all seems to run fine. There is nothing of major importance in the log file.

Code:
  `# find / -type d -name live
  /var/lib/live
  /lib/live
  /usr/lib/refractasnapshot/iso/live`

Code:
  `# find / -type f -name live
  /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/live
  /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/live
  `

Shows up in the installed system. In the original ISO and the snapshot they are also present in addition to stuff in /live directory.
This compares OK with other debian systems here.
Whatever the problem was might be very difficult to track down; it seems all fixed in the new versions anyway.
Great work and perseverence, thanks!
nadir

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## Re: snapshot

Tue Oct 04, 2011 7:33 pm

> dzz wrote:Whatever the problem was might be very difficult to track down;

Tell me about it. I neither read much docs nor use google much, but with live-helper/snapshots i do that a lot. Still no clue....
Otoh: when i started with it it was seldom that it work at all. Now it usually works, and sometimes not.
In case you don't know:
fmsithred and i meet at the weekend in IRC (not everyone likes it, i just tell you).
The server is freenode and the channel is #study-group. For me its the early evening ( Sat 19:00 and Sun 18:00), which should be around 12:00 in USA.
Ups, you are from UK. That ~should~ be 20:00 on Sat and and 19:00 on Sunday. On Sat we meet optional, on Sunday always -more or less always...but more more than less)
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