unable to build - mksquashfs: Read failed because Invalid argument

[mfrederickson]

I'm following your directions to do the build, using debian 7.2.0 i386. Using the master branch with no tweaks. When I get to the make_bootable... step, it gets to 5% and then mksquashfs spouts a lot of Read failed because Invalid argument errors...

[mfrederickson]

It appears that the chroot directory is in use by the dbus-daemon (as reported by lsof chroot) and therefore mksquashfs fails with the error mentioned above. If I reboot the machine before I run the make_bootable... script then it works just fine. If I just log out and back in, it is still being held by the dbus-daemon. If I run fuser -k chroot then it works fine without a reboot. Maybe we need to add that line to the make_bootable... script?

[augustf]

I built a fresh image from the current source on Debian 7.2 (on VirtualBox) and can't reproduce this.

[mfrederickson]

Can someone else try this on a new debian 7.2 vm and let me know if it works for you? Otherwise I might need to bug @augustf for his vm settings and debian configuration.

[mfrederickson]

@augustf when you built it on Debian 7.2 was it a new install of Debian or an existing one? I did it on a new install of Debian 7.2. I can do a screencast of the whole process, but what's the point? Can we go ahead and add the fuser command since it alleviates the problem that I'm seeing?

[augustf]

Sure-go ahead and add it - though I'm not really sure how or why it's helping. I'll be building the image again sometime this week, an as long as it doesn't break that, it should be fine.