Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 141346
qmkbootdisk fails without adequate error reporting
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:56 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 Description of problem: Tried FC2 qmkbootdisk-1.0.1-12. Fails to make a working boot disk (as might be expected due to size of kernel) but does not generate obvious warning of failure. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): qmkbootdisk-1.0.1-12 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run qmkbootdisk as root from konsole. 2. Run qmkbootdisk from KDE menu as a user. 3. Actual Results: Runs with output to the terminal when run from the command line as root, but writes the disk anyway: # qmkbootdisk cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.m20429/initrd.img': No space left on device cat: write error: No space left on device cat: write error: No space left on device 20+0 records in 20+0 records out When run from the KDE menu, allows user to select output device and kernel version, immediately goes to 100% and terminates, without prompting for root password, with no error. Expected Results: Should warn the user that the kernel is too big for the output device in a GUI window, and should request root password if required. [An option to generate an ISO image would be useful, as mkbootdisk can do that, but that's an RFE.] Additional info: If not fixed, this component should be removed. The naive user could believe [s]he has generated a boot disk when none was produced.
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
As qmkbootdisk seems to have disappeared from Fedora, NOTABUG seems to be the appropriate status.