On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 16:31 -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote: > Jeremy Katz wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 16:05 -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote: > >> Ok... this is probably a dumb question. I booted up snap3. I opened a > >> terminal, su -, and then installed ekiga. I selected shutdown from the > >> menu, and it seemed to hang (not fully shutting down). > >> > >> I reboot, log in, and there is no ekiga. > >> > >> so.. who ate my rpms? > > > > As mentioned in my blog (you are reading Fedora Planet and thus my blog, > > right? :-), > > Of course I am *cough* now > > the current version of livecd-iso-to-disk is defaulting to > > doing an overlay reset on every boot. This is to help reduce the > > likelihood of problems due to running out of space on the overlay since > > we now keep /home on the nand and settings have pretty much entirely > > moved to the homedir. > > > > That said, I'll probably switch the default back so that we don't reset > > the overlay on every boot for manual livecd-iso-to-disk runs, but I'm at > > the same time leaning towards having the shipped SD cards with Fedora > > preloaded set up as such. > > Seems an interesting trade off. If I want to install another program, I > have to jump through a view more hoops. Which is easier to debug... out > of space or overlay resetting? Out of space in the overlay manifests itself with weird hangs and non-obvious problems on boot. Overlay resetting is at least relatively straight-forward :) Jeremy -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
