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kapqa

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how to make customized Devuan .iso

Hello ,

i would like to ask you professionals what the best way is to create an

customized

Devuan Beowulf .installer

that can become .iso

that is possibly installable from iso then to harddrive or usb.

the task is that i would like to include quite some packages that i normally use and then facilitate the install on other computers.

this refractainstaller tool is the right one?
is this feasible?

Thank you!

fsmithred

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

Yes, you can create your own live-iso with refractasnapshot, and then install from the live media with refractainstaller.

Documentation is here:
https://refracta.org/documents.html

kapqa

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

Hello

i tried this

sudo refractasnapshot

1. Create a snapshot (uefi enabled)

yielded

sent 9,252,418,803 bytes  received 3,037,547 bytes  108,250,951.46 bytes/sec
total size is 9,239,018,468  speedup is 1.00
/tmp/extracted /home/work
Archive is cpio archive...
Decompression error

then i tried

2. Re-squash and make iso (no-copy)

which yielded

Squashing the filesystem...
Parallel mksquashfs: Using 12 processors
Creating 4.0 filesystem on iso/live/filesystem.squashfs, block size 131072.
[=========================================================|] 210854/210854 100%

Exportable Squashfs 4.0 filesystem, gzip compressed, data block size 131072
	compressed data, compressed metadata, compressed fragments, compressed xattrs
	duplicates are removed
Filesystem size 3995482.37 Kbytes (3901.84 Mbytes)
	44.22% of uncompressed filesystem size (9034620.15 Kbytes)
Inode table size 1924071 bytes (1878.98 Kbytes)
	29.57% of uncompressed inode table size (6507056 bytes)
Directory table size 1788326 bytes (1746.41 Kbytes)
	38.81% of uncompressed directory table size (4608394 bytes)
Number of duplicate files found 15518
Number of inodes 187909
Number of files 154378
Number of fragments 12073
Number of symbolic links  17760
Number of device nodes 0
Number of fifo nodes 0
Number of socket nodes 0
Number of directories 15771
Number of ids (unique uids + gids) 26
Number of uids 12
	root (0)
	lp (7)
	speech-dispatcher (105)
	rich (1000)
	unknown (501)
	unknown (502)
	unknown (1001)
	unknown (197608)
	colord (108)
	_apt (100)
	man (6)
	geoclue (110)
Number of gids 20
	root (0)
	lp (7)
	shadow (42)
	ssl-cert (105)
	rich (1000)
	staff (50)
	unknown (1001)
	unknown (197121)
	tty (5)
	crontab (102)
	mail (8)
	ssh (106)
	games (60)
	messagebus (104)
	utmp (43)
	lpadmin (108)
	man (12)
	colord (114)
	geoclue (115)
	adm (4)
Creating CD/DVD image file...

	All finished!

but no .iso is created just a 0byte file

snapshot-20200320_1926.iso.sha256

Last edited by kapqa (2020-03-20 18:45:41)

fsmithred

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

I'd like to see /var/log/refractasnapshot.log. Send it to me in email or paste it somewhere and give me the link. Or read it and see if there's something obvious. I wouldn't expect the decompression error on the initrd to cause a 0-byte iso to be created.

Edit: I just realized you ran the non-gui version, which doesn't make much of a log file unless you run it with the debug option. (That happens automatically with the gui version.)   Run sudo refractasnapshot -d

Make sure you didn't run out of hard drive space. You might need to exclude some things to make the system copy and the squashfs smaller. (3.9G is pretty big.)

golinux

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

This might be a useful post:

HOWTO: Bypass the 4GB filesize limit in Refractasnapshot

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fsmithred

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

This might be a useful post:

HOWTO: Bypass the 4GB filesize limit in Refractasnapshot

That's the default setting now.

golinux

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

Oh, I didn't know.  Nice . . .

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kapqa

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

I'd like to see /var/log/refractasnapshot.log. Send it to me in email or paste it somewhere and give me the link. Or read it and see if there's something obvious. I wouldn't expect the decompression error on the initrd to cause a 0-byte iso to be created.

Edit: I just realized you ran the non-gui version, which doesn't make much of a log file unless you run it with the debug option. (That happens automatically with the gui version.)   Run sudo refractasnapshot -d

Make sure you didn't run out of hard drive space. You might need to exclude some things to make the system copy and the squashfs smaller. (3.9G is pretty big.)

Thanks,

the /var/log/refractasnapshot.log is ndeed 0bytes.

sudo refractasnapshot -d

also gives

sent 9,741,744,729 bytes  received 3,377,899 bytes  341,934,127.30 bytes/sec
total size is 9,727,112,962  speedup is 1.00
/tmp/extracted /home/work
Archive is cpio archive...
Decompression error

kapqa

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

sudo refractasnapshot-gui -d

sent 10,420,671,375 bytes  received 3,378,028 bytes  341,772,111.57 bytes/sec
total size is 10,299,317,781  speedup is 0.99
/tmp/extracted /home/work
Archive is cpio archive...
Decompression error

refractasnapshot.log is a very big file. it is still growing as i type.?

kapqa

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

please see how this refractasnapshot.log grows (it still grows)

https://www.asuswebstorage.com/navigate … E50587CAAW

Last edited by kapqa (2020-03-20 21:45:19)

fsmithred

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

That site isn't working for me. If I turn off noscript and allow all cookies, I see the name of a video file. I don't see a text file.

kapqa

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

please do "download", tick box, and then select "download"

Last edited by kapqa (2020-03-21 09:38:05)

kapqa

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

https://imgur.com/a/kZuTYua

fsmithred

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

A video of your file manager showing /var/log is not helpful.

Run
nc termbin.com 9999 < /var/log/refractainstaller.log
and then give me the link.

or send the log to me in email. (my screen name at gmail dot com)

kapqa

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

hello ,
please watch the "status bar" that shows the increase in filesize

fsmithred

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

I have no idea how you managed to get an 18GB log file. Try this...

head -n 1000 /var/log/refractasnapshot.log > beginning.txt
tail -n 1000 /var/log/refractasnapshot.log > end.txt

That will put the first 1000 lines and last 1000 lines into text files.
Then try opening them with a text editor and see what's there.

kapqa

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

the .log settled down eventually after shutdown and reboot (several)
at

21.3 GiB (22,898,887,727 bytes)

beginning.txt is

485.2 MiB (508,755,677 bytes)

end.txt is

73.2 KiB (75,000 bytes)

and all lines @end.txt are like

/usr/bin/refractasnapshot: line 479: echo: write error: Input/output error

Last edited by kapqa (2020-03-21 14:07:39)

fsmithred

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

Check your hard disk health.

As root:
smartctl -a /dev/sda

(you may need to install smartmontools)

kapqa

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

beginning.txt

[ -f /usr/bin/yad ]]
+ DIALOG=yad
+ INFO=image=gtk-dialog-info
+ QUESTION=image=gtk-dialog-question
+ WARNING=image=gtk-dialog-warning
+ ERROR=image=gtk-dialog-error
+ BUTTON0=button
+ BUTTON1=button
+ BUTTON0NUM=:0
+ BUTTON1NUM=:1
+ CENTER=--center
+ [[ -n :0.0 ]]
++ id -u
+ [[ 0 -eq 0 ]]
+ PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
+ check_grub
+ [[ yes = \y\e\s ]]
+ dpkg -l
+ grep '^ii'
+ grep grub-efi-amd64
+ grep -v bin
+ [[ ! -e /var/lib/dpkg/info/dosfstools.list ]]
+ choose_task
+ [[ yes = \y\e\s ]]
+ uefi_message='uefi enabled'
++ yad '--title=Refracta Snapshot 10.2.10 (20191218)' --center --borders=10 --height 400 --width 426 '--text=This utility wil$[/c]

[c]Choose the first option to create a snapshot.[/c]

[c]This is free software that comes with no warranty or guarantee of any type, including but not limited to express, implied, me$
' --button=OK:0 --button=Help:1 --list --column Num --column 'Choose a task' 01 'Create a snapshot (uefi enabled)' 02 'Re-squ$
+ task='01|Create a snapshot (uefi enabled)|'
+ exit_code=0
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
+ [[ 01|Create a snapshot (uefi enabled)| =~ 01 ]]
+ please_wait
+ yad --image=gtk-dialog-info '--title=Refracta Snapshot' --center '--text=This may take a moment while the program checks fo$
++ pgrep yad
+ wait_pid=2303
+ check_copies
+ [[ -d /home/snapshot ]]
+ ls '/home/snapshot/*.iso'
ls: cannot access '/home/snapshot/*.iso': No such file or directory
+ snapshot_count=0
++ du -sh /home/snapshot
++ awk '{print $1}'
+ snapshot_size=4.0K
+ [[ -z 4.0K ]]
+ [[ -d /home/work/myfs ]]
++ du -sh /home/work/myfs
++ awk '{ print $1 }'
+ saved_size=9.7G
+ saved_copy='* You have a saved copy of the system using 9.7G of space
  located at /home/work/myfs.'
+ [[ no = \y\e\s ]]
+ save_message='* The temporary copy of the filesystem will be created
at /home/work/myfs and removed when this program finishes.'
+ check_directories
++ echo /home/snapshot
++ awk -F / '{ print "/" $2 "/" $3 }'
++ grep /media/
+ snapdir_is_remote=
++ echo /home/work
++ awk -F / '{ print "/" $2 "/" $3 }'
++ grep /media/
+ workdir_is_remote=
+ '[' -n '' ']'
+ '[' -n '' ']'
+ '[' -n '' ']'
+ '[' -n '' ']'
+ [[ -d /home/snapshot ]]
+ [[ no = \n\o ]]
+ [[ -d /home/work ]]
+ rm -rf /home/work
+ mkdir -p /home/work/iso
+ mkdir -p /home/work/myfs
+ check_space
++ df -h -x tmpfs -x devtmpfs -x iso9660 -x udf -x aufs -x squashfs
++ sed 's/Mounted on/Mountpoint/'
++ awk '{ print  $2 "  \t" $3 "  \t" $4 "  \t" $5 "   \t" $6 "   \t\t\t" $1 }'
+ disk_space='Size      Used    Avail   Use%    Mountpoint                      Filesystem
188G    11G     168G    6%      /                       /dev/sda2
511M    5.3M    506M    2%      /boot/efi                       /dev/sda1'
+ check_initrd
+ echo 'Checking initrd.'
+ lsinitramfs /initrd.img
+ grep -q conf.d/cryptroot
+ lsinitramfs /initrd.img
+ grep -q cryptroot/crypttab
+ remove_cryptroot=yes
+ cryptroot_message='The snapshot initrd will be modified to allow booting the unencrypted snapshot.'
+ lsinitramfs /initrd.img
+ egrep -q 'conf.d/resume|conf.d/zz-resume-auto'
+ remove_resume=yes
+ swap_message='The snapshot initrd will be modified to allow booting without the host'\''s swap partition.'
+ '[' '' = yes ']'
+ kill 2303
+ report_space
++ mktemp /tmp/snapshot-report.XXXX
+ tempfile=/tmp/snapshot-report.RXju
+ echo '
You will need plenty of free space. It is recommended that free space (Avail) in the partition that
holds the work directory (probably "/") should be two times the total installed system size (Used).
(Note: You can deduct the space taken up by previous snapshots and any saved copies of the system from the Used amount.)[/c]

[c]Please CLOSE any running applications NOW.
Turn off NUM LOCK for some laptops.[/c]

[c]* You have 0 snapshots taking up 4.0K of disk space.
* You have a saved copy of the system using 9.7G of space
  located at /home/work/myfs.
* The temporary copy of the filesystem will be created
at /home/work/myfs and removed when this program finishes.
* The snapshot directory is currently set to /home/snapshot[/c]

[c]You can change these and other settings by editing
/etc/refractasnapshot.conf.[/c]

[c]The snapshot initrd will be modified to allow booting the unencrypted snapshot.
The snapshot initrd will be modified to allow booting without the host'\''s swap partition.
Current disk usage:
(For complete listing, exit and run '\''df -h'\'')[/c]

[c]Size    Used    Avail   Use%    Mountpoint                      Filesystem
188G    11G     168G    6%      /                       /dev/sda2
511M    5.3M    506M    2%      /boot/efi                       /dev/sda1'
+ yad --text-info '--title=Status Report' --center --height 400 --width 700 --button=OK:0 --button=Exit:1
+ exit_code=0
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
+ rm -f /tmp/snapshot-report.RXju
+ set_distro_name
+ [[ /usr/lib/refractasnapshot/iso = \/\u\s\r\/\l\i\b\/\r\e\f\r\a\c\t\a\s\n\a\p\s\h\o\t\/\i\s\o ]]
+ [[ live.cfg = \l\i\v\e\.\c\f\g ]]
++ lsb_release -i -s
+ DISTRO=Debian
++ grep -q Refracta /etc/issue
++ yad --entry '--title=Linux Distribution' --center '--text=This is the distribution name that will appear in the boot menu
for the live image. If it'\''s blank, the menu entries will just say
"GNU/Linux (kernel-version)" ' --entry-text=Debian --width=500 --button=OK:0
+ DISTRO=Debian
+ [[ -z Debian ]]
+ housekeeping
+ [[ '' = \y\e\s ]]
+ [[ -n '' ]]
++ awk -F: '/1000:1000/ { print $1 }' /etc/passwd
+ username=rich
+ [[ rich != user ]]
+ username_opt=username=rich
+ [[ no = \y\e\s ]]
+ [[ -e /vmlinuz ]]
+ [[ -e /initrd.img ]]
+ [[ -n '' ]]
+ [[ -n '' ]]
+ [[ yes = \y\e\s ]]
+ updatedb
/usr/bin/refractasnapshot-gui: line 795: updatedb: command not found
+ tee /dev/fd/63
++ yad '--title=Running updatedb...' --center --progress --pulsate --auto-close --width 300
+ [[ '' = \y\e\s ]]
+ cd /home/work
+ copy_isolinux
+ [[ -f /usr/lib/ISOLINUX/isolinux.bin ]]
+ isolinuxbin=/usr/lib/ISOLINUX/isolinux.bin
+ [[ -f /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/vesamenu.c32 ]]
+ vesamenu=/usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/vesamenu.c32
+ rsync -a /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/chain.c32 /usr/lib/refractasnapshot/iso/isolinux/
+ rsync -a /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/ldlinux.c32 /usr/lib/refractasnapshot/iso/isolinux/
+ rsync -a /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/libcom32.c32 /usr/lib/refractasnapshot/iso/isolinux/
+ rsync -a /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/libutil.c32 /usr/lib/refractasnapshot/iso/isolinux/
+ rsync -a /usr/lib/ISOLINUX/isolinux.bin /usr/lib/refractasnapshot/iso/isolinux/
+ rsync -a /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/vesamenu.c32 /usr/lib/refractasnapshot/iso/isolinux/
+ [[ '' = \y\e\s ]]
+ copy_kernel
+ rsync -a /usr/lib/refractasnapshot/iso/ /home/work/iso/
+ cp /vmlinuz /home/work/iso/live/
+ cp /initrd.img /home/work/iso/live/
+ copy_filesystem
+ [[ no = \y\e\s ]]
+ rsync -av / myfs/ --delete-before --delete-excluded --exclude=/home/work --exclude=/home/snapshot --exclude=/home/work/efi-$
+ tee /dev/fd/63
++ yad '--title=Copying filesystem...' --center --progress --pulsate --auto-close --width 300[/c]

[c](yad:3885): GLib-CRITICAL **: 21:15:24.515: g_source_remove: assertion 'tag > 0' failed
+ [[ -n '' ]]
+ '[' yes = yes ']'
+ clean_initrd
+ extract_initrd
+ mkdir /tmp/extracted
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/tmp/extracted’: File exists
+ pushd /tmp/extracted
++ file -L /initrd.img
++ egrep -o 'gzip compressed|XZ compressed|cpio archive'
+ COMPRESSION='cpio archive'
+ '[' 'cpio archive' = 'gzip compressed' ']'
+ '[' 'cpio archive' = 'XZ compressed' ']'
+ '[' 'cpio archive' = 'cpio archive' ']'
+ echo 'Archive is cpio archive...'
+ cpio -i
cpio: kernel/x86/microcode/AuthenticAMD.bin not created: newer or same age version exists
62 blocks
+ zcat

Last edited by kapqa (2020-03-21 14:17:35)

kapqa

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb
smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [x86_64-linux-4.19.0-8-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     KINGSTON SM2280S3G2240G
Serial Number:    50026B7282070FB6
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0026b7 282070fb6
Firmware Version: SAFM01.W
User Capacity:    240,057,409,536 bytes [240 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device
Form Factor:      M.2
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Sat Mar 21 15:16:42 2020 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
See vendor-specific Attribute list for marginal Attributes.

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00)	Offline data collection activity
					was never started.
					Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0)	The previous self-test routine completed
					without error or no self-test has ever 
					been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection: 		(   30) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: 			 (0x79) SMART execute Offline immediate.
					No Auto Offline data collection support.
					Suspend Offline collection upon new
					command.
					Offline surface scan supported.
					Self-test supported.
					Conveyance Self-test supported.
					Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)	Saves SMART data before entering
					power-saving mode.
					Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01)	Error logging supported.
					General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time: 	 (   1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 (   2) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 (   3) minutes.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000b   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  2 Throughput_Performance  0x0005   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Offline      -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0013   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Unknown_SSD_Attribute   0x000b   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  8 Unknown_SSD_Attribute   0x0005   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Offline      -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1531
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       569
168 Unknown_Attribute       0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
170 Unknown_Attribute       0x0003   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       260
173 Unknown_Attribute       0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1048596
175 Program_Fail_Count_Chip 0x0013   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       58
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0023   061   028   030    Pre-fail  Always   In_the_past 39 (Min/Max 16/72)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0002   100   100   010    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000b   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
218 Unknown_Attribute       0x000b   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
231 Temperature_Celsius     0x0013   100   100   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       100
233 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x000b   100   100   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       2081
240 Unknown_SSD_Attribute   0x0013   100   100   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       3815
242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       3251
244 Unknown_Attribute       0x0002   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       16
245 Unknown_Attribute       0x0002   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       20
246 Unknown_Attribute       0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1107968

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

fsmithred

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

I don't see any problems with the hard disk.

Run the head command again, but try '-n 2000'

See if you can get a few lines beyond the point where xorriso runs. (about 20 lines past it should be enough) Look for something like this to find it:

xorriso : UPDATE :  0.23% done
xorriso : UPDATE :  3.28% done
xorriso : UPDATE :  11.45% done
xorriso : UPDATE :  19.93% done, estimate finish Wed Dec 25 22:11:41 2019
xorriso : UPDATE :  28.85% done, estimate finish Wed Dec 25 22:11:40 2019
xorriso : UPDATE :  34.11% done, estimate finish Wed Dec 25 22:11:41 2019
xorriso : UPDATE :  36.97% done, estimate finish Wed Dec 25 22:11:42 2019
xorriso : UPDATE :  40.51% done, estimate finish Wed Dec 25 22:11:44 2019

kapqa

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

sorry, i deleted the .refractalog.

fsmithred

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Re: how to make customized Devuan .iso

After doing some test runs, I think I know why you got a zero byte iso - if you use any of the build tasks other than "1. Create a snapshot" you have to edit the config file to set save_work=yes. Otherwise, there's nothing to re-squash or re-pack into an iso file.

These two lines from the log suggest that you stopped it in the middle of a previous run, and /tmp/extracted didn't get deleted. I was able to reproduce these errors, but I did not get any input/output errors, and I did get a normal sized iso.

mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/tmp/extracted’: File exists

cpio: kernel/x86/microcode/AuthenticAMD.bin not created: newer or same age version exists
62 blocks

(Note to self: add /tmp/extracted to the cleanup function.)