ISO Master mischief [Solved]

[cg]

Per Rich's suggestion, I'm starting a new thread for this issue:

I'm running TCL 4.4, and can't convince ISO Master to run.  I downloaded it through the GUI app browser, got the icon on the dock-bar-thing, all that good stuff, but clicking the icon does nothing, and entering 'isomaster' in a terminal returns neither errors nor application. 

Oddly, I deleted ISO Master, rebooted, and reinstalled it, and now it's not showing up on the dock.  I also *think* I saw a "couldn't find ____" message when it was downloading its dependencies, but the window closed before I could double back and check - is there an easy way to keep that window open?


Edit: Disregard that last paragraph; I un- and re-installed it again and watched the log carefully; no "unable-to-whatever" messages.

[Rich]

Hi cg
If you open AppBrowser, click on isomaster.tcz, then click on the Size tab, it will list all the dependencies. Any
file that has a + sign in front of it is not installed.

[cg]

Hi Rich,

Yeah, it's all there.  I modified my top post to cancel that option out.  The tab thing is pretty neat though; thanks for bringing it to my attention!

[Rich]

Hi cg
Well, the lack of error messages is not very helpful. Maybe  strace  is the right tool to figure out what's going on.
I don't have any experience using it though, so I can't offer any advice on the proper way to use it.

[cg]

Fair enough - thanks Rich

[Rich]

Hi cg
You could try booting using the  syslog  boot code. Then after executing isomaster, open a terminal and enter:

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less /var/log/messagesYou can navigate the file using the Page Up, Page Down, Home, and End keys. Hit End and see if isomaster
logged anything in the messages file.

[cg]

You could try booting using the  syslog  boot code.

So, just add 'syslog' to the extlinux.conf file?

[Rich]

Hi cg
You can add it to the  APPEND  line or you could enter  tc syslog  at the boot prompt.

        [EDIT]: Changed append to APPEND

[cg]

I'm running off a hard drive install, so there is no boot prompt.

Oh, hey - could that have something to do with the troubles?

[Rich]

Hi cg
Adding this to your extlinux.conf file should give you a boot prompt for 3 seconds:

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TIMEOUT 30
PROMPT 1If you don't hit any keys for 3 seconds, the boot process will just continue.

Oh, hey - could that have something to do with the troubles?

No.

[cg]

Hi cg
Adding this to your extlinux.conf file should give you a boot prompt for 3 seconds:

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TIMEOUT 30
PROMPT 1If you don't hit any keys for 3 seconds, the boot process will just continue.[/q uote]

Okay, that didn't quite work - it seemed to think I was trying to load a bootloader.  I entered 'syslog' (no quotes/ticks/etc), and it said something about not being able to load it.  I edited the extlinux.conf file to include the 'syslog' flag, though, which seems to work.  If it *is* working, isomaster's not giving any sort of error message.  If not, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

[Rich]

Hi cg

I edited the extlinux.conf file to include the 'syslog' flag, though, which seems to work.  If it *is* working, isomaster's not giving any sort of error message.

If it is working, the  /var/log/messages  file will be full of all sorts of messages from other things too.

[cg]

It was, so I guess ISO Master's just really really quiet.

That, or it's loading and automatically exiting cleanly - only problem there is doing "isomaster;ps | grep isomaster" doesn't show anything, and I'd imagine it'd be alive for that nanosecond, even if it was killed immediately afterwards, y'know?

The funny part of all this is that if I could just figure out why my remastered .iso wasn't working (per the original thread), this wouldn't be a problem for me at all - though I guess the ISO Master thing could also be affecting more users than just myself.

[cg]

A coworker brought up the possibility that it's misbehaving because I installed it as an OnDemand, instead of as OnBoot - might he be on to something?  I'm going to try un- and re-installing (as OnBoot) this time) just to see what happens.

Edit:  The App Browser wouldn't let me install it as "OnBoot", so I tried with the command-line "ab" tool.  It said that ISO Master was already installed (despite the GUI version disagreeing).  Doing a "find / -name isom*" came up with four or five items, which I've nuked all of.  I'll try reinstalling again now.

[Rich]

Hi cg
Yes, that could be the problem. Clicking on the desktop and OnDemand->isomaster should mount the
application so you can run it.