Persistent Live CD 20060112.2 issues

[Matt Galvin]

Hi All,

I tried using the 20060112.2 Live CD to try out the new persistance
stuff. It failed but seemed to work half way.

I created an ext3 fs labeled "casper-cow" on my 128MB USB Stick,
rebooted, live cd starts up, set "persistent" arg at very end of the
args list, live cd starts up, login sound plays, but the desktop never
shows up, it just hangs there. After 10 min, I just rebooted back into
my regular system to see if I could see what happened. Here is what I
found (not knowing where things are quite yet)

while the live cd was still seemingly hung, i switched over to vt/8
and saw the various startup messages but they did not seem to all
complete. The last messages are...

* Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald [OK]
Enabling laptop mode: enabled, not active

and it stops there. (not sure if that is indicative of a problem or not)

After I rebooted back into my regular system, i mounted the usb stick
to see what is on it... I don't know if this will be helpful but this
is what made it on to the usb stick...

--- snip ---
.
./lost+found
./rofs
./rofs/.wh.__dir_opaque
./var
./var/cache
./var/cache/debconf
./var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat
./var/cache/debconf/config.dat
./var/cache/debconf/templates.dat
./var/cache/debconf/config.dat-old
./var/cache/debconf/templates.dat-old
./var/cache/cups
./var/cache/cups/ppd
./var/log
./var/log/faillog
./var/log/lastlog
./var/log/wtmp
./var/log/evms-engine.3.log
./var/log/evms-engine.1.log
./var/log/evms-engine.4.log
./var/log/evms-engine.2.log
./var/log/dmesg
./var/log/news
./var/log/news/news.crit
./var/log/news/news.err
./var/log/news/news.notice
./var/log/evms-engine.log
./var/log/acpid
./var/log/auth.log
./var/log/syslog
./var/log/daemon.log
./var/log/kern.log
./var/log/lpr.log
./var/log/mail.log
./var/log/user.log
./var/log/uucp.log
./var/log/mail.info
./var/log/mail.warn
./var/log/mail.err
./var/log/debug
./var/log/messages
./var/log/gdm
./var/log/gdm/:0.log
./var/log/Xorg.0.log
./var/log/cups
./var/log/cups/error_log
./var/lib
./var/lib/locales
./var/lib/locales/supported.d
./var/lib/locales/supported.d/local
./var/lib/xfree86
./var/lib/xfree86/xorg.conf.md5sum
./var/lib/urandom
./var/lib/urandom/random-seed
./var/lib/gdm
./var/lib/gdm/.gdmfifo
./var/lib/gdm/.cookie
./var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth
./var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers
./var/lib/xkb
./var/run
./var/run/utmp
./var/spool
./var/spool/cups
./var/spool/cups/tmp
./tmp
./tmp/.wh.dexconf-tmp-3099
./etc
./etc/passwd
./etc/.pwd.lock
./etc/group
./etc/passwd-
./etc/group-
./etc/gshadow-
./etc/gdm
./etc/gdm/gdm.conf
./etc/shadow
./etc/shadow-
./etc/gshadow
./etc/sudoers
./etc/aliases
./etc/environment
./etc/fstab
./etc/hostname
./etc/hosts
./etc/X11
./etc/X11/xorg.conf
./etc/rc2.d
./etc/rc2.d/.wh.S89anacron
./etc/inittab
./etc/rc3.d
./etc/rc3.d/.wh.S89anacron
./etc/rc4.d
./etc/rc4.d/.wh.S89anacron
./etc/rc5.d
./etc/rc5.d/.wh.S89anacron
./etc/rc0.d
./etc/rc0.d/.wh.K25hwclock.sh
./etc/rc0.d/S89casper
./etc/rc6.d
./etc/rc6.d/.wh.K25hwclock.sh
./etc/mtab
./etc/lvm
./etc/lvm/.cache
./etc/cups
./etc/cups/ppd
./etc/cups/ssl
./etc/cups/passwd.md5
./etc/motd
./home
./home/ubuntu
./home/ubuntu/.wh.__dir_opaque
./home/ubuntu/.bash_profile
./home/ubuntu/.bashrc
./home/ubuntu/.Xauthority
./home/ubuntu/.xsession-errors
./home/ubuntu/.gconf
./home/ubuntu/.gconf/.wh.__dir_opaque
./home/ubuntu/.gconf/%gconf-tree.xml
./home/ubuntu/.gconfd
./home/ubuntu/.gconfd/.wh.__dir_opaque
./home/ubuntu/.gconfd/saved_state
./home/ubuntu/.gnome2
./home/ubuntu/.gnome2/.wh.__dir_opaque
./home/ubuntu/.gnome2/accels
./home/ubuntu/.gnome2/accels/.wh.__dir_opaque
./home/ubuntu/.gnome2/keyrings
./home/ubuntu/.gnome2/keyrings/.wh.__dir_opaque
./home/ubuntu/.gnome2_private
./home/ubuntu/.gnome2_private/.wh.__dir_opaque
./home/ubuntu/.esd_auth
./home/ubuntu/.ICEauthority
./lib
./lib/modules
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/input
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/input/evdev.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/input/misc
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/input/misc/pcspkr.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/input/serio
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/input/serio/serio_raw.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/input/mouse
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/pci
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/pci/hotplug
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/char
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/char/agp
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/char/rtc.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/parport
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/parport/parport.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/parport/parport_pc.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/ieee1394
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/block
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/net
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/net/e1000
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/scsi
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/scsi/sr_mod.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/scsi/sg.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/cdrom
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/md
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/md/md-mod.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/acpi
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/acpi/battery.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/acpi/button.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/acpi/container.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/acpi/dev_acpi.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/acpi/hotkey.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/acpi/ibm_acpi.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/acpi/pcc_acpi.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/acpi/sony_acpi.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/acpi/tc1100-wmi.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/drivers/acpi/video.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/sound
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/sound/core
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/sound/core/snd-page-alloc.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/sound/core/snd.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/sound/core/snd-timer.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/sound/core/snd-pcm.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/sound/core/oss
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/sound/core/oss/snd-mixer-oss.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/sound/core/oss/snd-pcm-oss.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/sound/soundcore.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/sound/pci
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/sound/pci/ac97
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/sound/pci/ac97/snd-ac97-bus.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/sound/pci/ac97/snd-ac97-codec.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/sound/pci/snd-intel8x0.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/arch
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/arch/i386
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/arch/i386/kernel
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.ko
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/net
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/net/ipv6
./lib/modules/2.6.15-11-386/kernel/net/ipv6/ipv6.ko
./usr
./usr/share
./usr/share/cups
./usr/share/cups/model
--- snip ---

I only tried the one time... I only tried once so that I could keep
the files on the USB safe in the state it was in when the live cd
failed. I still have it so if there is any info that may be useful on
it please let me know.

Hope this helps,

Matt

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