Bug 768121 - boxgrinder fails to create an appliance when the location of the build has a very very very long path
Summary: boxgrinder fails to create an appliance when the location of the build has a ...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: appliance-tools
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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Assignee: David Huff
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-12-15 19:57 UTC by Bruno Mahé
Modified: 2012-08-07 16:08 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-08-07 16:08:15 UTC
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Description Bruno Mahé 2011-12-15 19:57:12 UTC
Description of problem:
When building an appliance deep in the filesystem in location as deep as "/mnt/jenkins/workspace/workspace/Bigtop-VM-matrix/SVN_BRANCH/branches/hadoop-0.22/VM_KIND/virtualbox/label/fedora15/build/build/appliances/x86_64/centos/6/bigtop_hadoop/2.0/centos-plugin/", boxgrinder would fail when calling grub.

When talking about it on irc with Marek Goldmann, it was determined grub could not handle such long paths and I was asked to open a ticket for making grub being called from the chroot.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Latest boxgrinder version on fedora 15

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a long path
2. Build an appliance from within that long path
3. boxgrinder would fail when trying to call grub
  
Actual results:

No appliance built

Expected results:

Appliance built

Additional info:

Here is an example of a failing build:
http://bigtop01.cloudera.org:8080/job/Bigtop-VM-matrix/10/SVN_BRANCH=branches%2Fhadoop-0.23,VM_KIND=kvm,label=fedora15/console

For now the workaround has been to reduce the length of the build path

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