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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Topic started by: coreplayer2 on April 13, 2012, 02:53:44 PM

Title: ezremaster quit unexpectantly (but quick resolution)
Post by: coreplayer2 on April 13, 2012, 02:53:44 PM

Likely nothing but I have a log so figured I'd post result from this rare failed remaster

Latest ezeremaster on tc4.4

+ temp_dir=/tmp/ezremaster
+ mkdir -p /tmp/ezremaster/image
+ mkdir -p /tmp/ezremaster/extract
+ mkdir -p /tmp/ezremaster/mnt
+ mkdir -p /tmp/ezremaster/app_dep
+ [ ! -d /tmp/ezremaster/image ]
+ package
+ uname -r
+ sudo depmod -a -b /tmp/ezremaster/extract 3.0.21-tinycore
depmod: ./kernel.tclocal: No such file or directory
+ sudo ldconfig -r /tmp/ezremaster/extract
+ cd /tmp/ezremaster/extract
+ umount /tmp/ezremaster/extract/proc
+ sudo sh -c find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -2 > /tmp/ezremaster/image/boot/core.gz
+ sudo advdef -z4 /tmp/ezremaster/image/boot/core.gz
Killed
+ exit 23


Am going to attempt a repeat exercise..  see what happens

Well a repeated attempt resulted in same error..

1st attempt using TinyCore-current.iso
2nd attempt using Core-current.iso 

Title: Re: ezremaster error
Post by: curaga on April 13, 2012, 03:54:18 PM

You ran out of RAM, is my guess.

Title: Re: ezremaster error
Post by: coreplayer2 on April 13, 2012, 06:49:40 PM

lol  well I never though to check for that thanks, always assuming there was ample memory..   All my work is done in VM's so this is very possible,  will check and brb..

Title: Re: ezremaster error
Post by: coreplayer2 on April 13, 2012, 07:06:59 PM

curaga,  that was a good guess :)       Just read the limitations of advdef which would have been a clue...   

Thanks again for the heads up on lack of memory.   I must of forgot this was a relocated VM with resources set to a minimum. 

As always ezremaster performs flawlessly, operator error,  my bad :(

Title: Re: ezremaster quit unexpectantly (but quick resolution)
Post by: ixbrian on April 14, 2012, 12:12:36 AM

advdef can take a lot of memory if you are doing a large remaster.   One option to free up some memory is to create a temporary directory on a harddrive (i.e. /mnt/sda1/ezremastertemp/ or something similar) and point the first page ezremaster to that temp directory rather than using the default RAM based /tmp/ezremaster

Title: Re: ezremaster quit unexpectantly (but quick resolution)
Post by: coreplayer2 on April 14, 2012, 12:29:42 AM

 8)  thanks

looks like advdef -z4 can use up to twice the amount..    interesting  and thanks for the handy tip