Bug 1318470 - failure to mount persistent overlay when booting live USB
Summary: failure to mount persistent overlay when booting live USB
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: livecd-tools
Version: 24
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brian Lane
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: AcceptedBlocker
Depends On:
Blocks: F24FinalBlocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-03-17 00:30 UTC by Chris Murphy
Modified: 2016-05-17 15:13 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

Fixed In Version: livecd-tools-23.3-1 livecd-tools-23.3-1.fc24
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-05-17 15:13:25 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
journal (455.03 KB, text/plain)
2016-03-17 00:30 UTC, Chris Murphy
no flags Details
blkid (1.46 KB, text/plain)
2016-03-17 00:30 UTC, Chris Murphy
no flags Details
dmsetup status (77 bytes, text/plain)
2016-03-17 00:32 UTC, Chris Murphy
no flags Details
f24 workstation beta livecd-tools USB with persistence built in f23 (2.51 KB, text/plain)
2016-05-09 17:40 UTC, satellitgo
no flags Details

Description Chris Murphy 2016-03-17 00:30:30 UTC
Created attachment 1137261 [details]
journal

Description of problem:

The overlay fails to mount during boot, and dmsetup status shows the overlay space available is reset between boots (not persistent). I'm not sure if this is a setup problem with livecd-iso-to-disk or a dracut problem or if this feature is in effect deprecated (the live media still works, just no persistent overlay).


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
livecd-tools-23.2-3.fc23
dracut-044-18.git20160108.fc24

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Fedora 23 livecd-tools installed, and Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-24_Alpha-5.iso as source
2.   livecd-iso-to-disk --noverify --format --reset-mbr --efi --overlay-size-mb 100 /brick1/downloads/Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-24_Alpha-5.iso /dev/sdb


Actual results:

[    7.645444] localhost dracut-initqueue[540]: mount: /dev/sdb1 is already mounted or /run/initramfs/overlayfs busy
[    7.656169] localhost dracut-initqueue[540]: umount: /run/initramfs/overlayfs: not mounted


Expected results:

Should mount.


Additional info:

The grub.cfg boot param includes:
root=live:UUID=D486-BF04 rd.live.image rd.live.overlay=UUID=D486-BF04

The path+name of the overlay file is
/LiveOS/overlay-LIVE-D486-BF04


Snippets from the journal:

[    7.323769] localhost dracut-initqueue[540]: /sbin/dmsquash-live-root@80(main): mount -n -t auto -o ro /dev/disk/by-uuid/D486-BF04 /run/initramfs/live

This is /dev/sdb1 mounted at /run/initramfs/live




    7.625907] localhost dracut-initqueue[540]: /sbin/dmsquash-live-root@111(do_live_overlay): '[' -n UUID=D486-BF04 -a -n /LiveOS/overlay-LIVE-D486-BF04 -a -n UUID=D486-BF04 ']'
[    7.627756] localhost dracut-initqueue[540]: /sbin/dmsquash-live-root@112(do_live_overlay): mkdir -m 0755 /run/initramfs/overlayfs
[    7.629497] localhost dracut-initqueue[540]: /sbin/dmsquash-live-root@113(do_live_overlay): mount -n -t auto UUID=D486-BF04 /run/initramfs/overlayfs
[    7.645444] localhost dracut-initqueue[540]: mount: /dev/sdb1 is already mounted or /run/initramfs/overlayfs busy
[    7.647222] localhost dracut-initqueue[540]:        /dev/sdb1 is already mounted on /run/initramfs/live

Since /dev/sdb1 is already mounted, it fails to mount again at /run/initramfs/overlayfs (different location).


[    7.648992] localhost dracut-initqueue[540]: /sbin/dmsquash-live-root@113(do_live_overlay): :
[    7.652435] localhost dracut-initqueue[540]: /sbin/dmsquash-live-root@114(do_live_overlay): '[' -f /run/initramfs/overlayfs/LiveOS/overlay-LIVE-D486-BF04 -a -w /run/initramfs/overlayfs/LiveOS/overlay-LIVE-D486-BF04 ']'
[    7.654336] localhost dracut-initqueue[540]: /sbin/dmsquash-live-root@121(do_live_overlay): umount -l /run/initramfs/overlayfs
[    7.656169] localhost dracut-initqueue[540]: umount: /run/initramfs/overlayfs: not mounted

Because it's looking for the overlay file only at /run/initramfs/overlayfs and not at /run/initramfs/live it fails to setup the overlay.


[    7.657983] localhost dracut-initqueue[540]: /sbin/dmsquash-live-root@121(do_live_overlay): :
[    7.659821] localhost dracut-initqueue[540]: /sbin/dmsquash-live-root@124(do_live_overlay): '[' -z '' -o -n '' ']'
[    7.661657] localhost dracut-initqueue[540]: /sbin/dmsquash-live-root@125(do_live_overlay): '[' -n '' ']'
[    7.663528] localhost dracut-initqueue[540]: /sbin/dmsquash-live-root@127(do_live_overlay): '[' -n UUID=D486-BF04 -a -n /LiveOS/overlay-LIVE-D486-BF04 ']'
[    7.665357] localhost dracut-initqueue[540]: /sbin/dmsquash-live-root@128(do_live_overlay): warn 'Unable to find persistent overlay; using temporary'
[    7.667159] localhost dracut-initqueue[540]: /lib/dracut-lib.sh@72(warn): echo 'Warning: Unable to find persistent overlay; using temporary'
[    7.668969] localhost dracut-initqueue[540]: Warning: Unable to find persistent overlay; using temporary

Comment 1 Chris Murphy 2016-03-17 00:30:54 UTC
Created attachment 1137262 [details]
blkid

Comment 2 Chris Murphy 2016-03-17 00:32:19 UTC
Created attachment 1137263 [details]
dmsetup status

The value of live-rw is always 32008 for each boot. It goes up as the live environ is used but goes back to 32008 at boot so yeah definitely not persistent.

Comment 3 Chris Murphy 2016-04-18 17:53:26 UTC
Since the failure is happening in dracut, is it possible the right component here is lorax? livemedia-creator may be naming things on the LiveISO differently than dracut is expecting is my current best guess.

Comment 4 Fedora Blocker Bugs Application 2016-04-23 18:25:56 UTC
Proposed as a Blocker for 24-final by Fedora user chrismurphy using the blocker tracking app because:

 The release-blocking live images must properly support mounting and using a persistent storage overlay for the entire system and/or one for the /home partition.

Comment 5 Tim Flink 2016-05-02 22:06:07 UTC
Discussed during the 2016-05-02 blocker review meeting.

This is accepted per the current criterion which it definitely seems to violate but we note that this whole area has changed a lot with F24 and it may be that persistence is no longer supported. Need to check with developers for clarification

Comment 6 Brian Lane 2016-05-05 15:49:20 UTC
crap. modified wrong bug, sorry for the noise.

Comment 7 Brian Lane 2016-05-05 17:17:18 UTC
This should be fixed in the next build by this patch:

https://github.com/rhinstaller/livecd-tools/commit/f2496cf4602f2e54f26422d13c40a036c697f6ab

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2016-05-06 00:00:59 UTC
livecd-tools-23.3-1.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-16c46e44e1

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2016-05-06 00:04:59 UTC
livecd-tools-23.3-1.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-edcdaedcc0

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2016-05-06 11:26:29 UTC
livecd-tools-23.3-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-16c46e44e1

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2016-05-06 20:54:50 UTC
livecd-tools-23.3-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-edcdaedcc0

Comment 12 satellitgo 2016-05-09 17:40:12 UTC
Created attachment 1155407 [details]
f24 workstation beta livecd-tools USB with persistence built in f23

Comment 13 satellitgo 2016-05-09 17:44:40 UTC
Comment on attachment 1155407 [details]
f24 workstation beta livecd-tools USB with persistence built in f23

no changes on reboot not persistent

Comment 14 satellitgo 2016-05-09 20:19:19 UTC
Package: 1:livecd-tools-23.3-1.fc23.x86_64 (/livecd-tools-23.3-1.fc23.x86_64-2)
    Requires: python-imgcreate = 1:23.3-1.fc23
    Installed: 1:python-imgcreate-23.2-3.fc23.x86_64 (installed)
        python-imgcreate = 1:23.2-3.fc23

error message so not tested correctly  (used yumex package installer in cinnamon f23)

Comment 15 satellitgo 2016-05-09 23:07:04 UTC
(In reply to Fedora Update System from comment #8)
> livecd-tools-23.3-1.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24.
> https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-16c46e44e1

livecd-tools-23.3-1.fc24

worked in f24 workstation  got persistent file:  stored wifi/ favorites/ power settings
no error msgs from workstation installer "software"
* satellit  livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 2000 --home-size-mb 2000 --delete-home --unencrypted-home Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-24_Beta-1.4.iso /dev/sdb

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2016-05-12 07:29:14 UTC
livecd-tools-23.3-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 17 Kamil Páral 2016-05-16 17:37:24 UTC
verified per bodhi comments

Comment 18 Fedora Update System 2016-05-17 15:13:21 UTC
livecd-tools-23.3-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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