[arch-releng] automated iso builds

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

On 02/10/2010 05:08 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
> On 02/10/2010 04:49 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
>> On 02/10/2010 09:35 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
>>> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:58:14 -0300
>>> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi<vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good!, the only problem for doing automatic builds is that in
>>>> _random_ cases squashfs image of "overlay" is created corrupted (from
>>>> the same data) :(
>>>> I experimented this many times, and the way to test if all is good
>>>> is: or doing a boot, or mounting the squashfs image on read some
>>>> files. I can remember that also tested if the problem persiste with
>>>> mksquashfs -processors 1 but the problem still persist.
>>> that's odd. can you investigate? maybe this is a bug in the squashfs
>>> tools?
>>> in the worst case scenario i add a bit of code to the buildscripts that
>>> mounts the image and tests it.
>>>
>> I can remember an email from GerBra, which these errors [#1]. But 
>> this is unrelated to errors messages about ioctl.
>> The bug is on mksqashfs. I will look how can report it to devs ;)
>> The bad image is created with lots of \x00 just after the header.
>>
>> On mksquashfs the error is detected, but the program always return 0, 
>> the only difference is you can see this message:
>> Lseek on destination failed because Bad file descriptor
>> or:
>> Write failed because Bad file descriptor
>> Write on destination failed because Bad file descriptor
>>
>> mksquashfs work/overlay lolcat.sqfs -noappend
>>
>> adding one file inside (about ~100k), I can not reproduce the error. 
>> (I tried with different block sizes but is the same)
> Applying this patch solves the issue :)
>
> http://squashfs.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squashfs/squashfs/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c?r1=1.141&r2=1.142 
>
>
> Opening a bug report in FS ;)
>
>
Done: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18277

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