Bootable container ISO installer fails to initialize dbus.socket

[lzap]

Hello, trying the build the following bootc:

FROM quay.io/centos-bootc/centos-bootc-dev:stream9

RUN dnf -y install httpd && \
    systemctl enable httpd && \
    mv /var/www /usr/share/www && \
    sed -ie 's,/var/www,/usr/share/www,' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf && \
    touch /HTTPD_DEMO

RUN rm /usr/share/httpd/noindex -rf
COPY index.html /usr/share/www/html
EXPOSE 80

The resulting ISO can be installed locally via removable media, however, it fails to initialize dbus, thus network manager and the network is offline. That is not a problem for removable media installation, it is for PXE installation.

[mvo5]

Fwiw, I tried to debug this with uay.io/centos-bootc/centos-bootc:stream9 and AFAICT dbus.socket is not failing there, trying -dev now.

[mvo5]

Sorry, I cannot reproduce this, here is what I did:

$ cat Containerfile
FROM quay.io/centos-bootc/centos-bootc-dev:stream9

RUN dnf -y install httpd && \
    systemctl enable httpd && \
    mv /var/www /usr/share/www && \
    sed -ie 's,/var/www,/usr/share/www,' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf && \
    touch /HTTPD_DEMO

RUN rm /usr/share/httpd/noindex -rf
COPY index.html /usr/share/www/html
EXPOSE 80
$ touch index.html
$ sudo podman build -f Containerfile  -t image-issue391
$ mkdir output
$ sudo podman run --rm -it --privileged --pull=newer  --security-opt label=type:unconfined_t -v $(pwd)/output:/output  quay.io/centos-bootc/bootc-image-builder:latest --type iso --local localhost/image-issue391
...
$ cd output/bootiso
$ sudo truncate -s 10G test-disk.img
$ kvm -cpu host -m 1500 -snapshot -cdrom install.iso  -boot d test-disk.img 
...

in the booted image I did "sendkey ctrl-alt-f2" and ran "systemctl --failed" and "systemctl status dbus.socket" and got no errors. When running "nmcli" in the booted iso (while it was installing) I saw that it was connected on the ethernet port.

What am I missing :) ?

[cgwalters]

, however, it fails to initialize dbus

Do you have /var/run as a physical directory? CentOS/centos-bootc#140 (comment)

[lzap]

@mvo5 here is the repo: https://quay.io/repository/lzapletal/fedora-eln-bootc-httpd-test

Are you PXE booting it or do you boot from removable media?

[lzap]

@cgwalters is a symlink to ../run

[lzap]

Correction, dbus.socket is not failing, it does not appear to be enabled.

Trying to start it ends with:

[lzap]

I just noticed I was using -dev trying again with quay.io/centos-bootc/centos-bootc:stream9 instead but getting.

xorriso : FAILURE : Image size 1095584s exceeds free space on media 785896s

[lzap]

So tried to build a clean (base) Fedora ELN, the same result when I PXE boot it.

[lzap]

So uay.io/centos-bootc/centos-bootc:stream9 does boot up correctly, however hitting something different. Need to figure that one out:

[lzap]

Ok increased VM size to 10GB RAM and it installed, after boot it fails with:

But I am getting there. Now I will try to build my own container of top of the correct base image.

[lzap]

Looks like I was missing this in my KS:

%post
bootc switch --mutate-in-place --transport registry quay.io/lzapletal/fedora-eln-bootc-httpd-test
%end

And it works now. So the root cause was I was using -dev version. I am closing, if you run into this just reopen. Thanks for help.

[achilleas-k]

Looks like I was missing this in my KS:

%post
bootc switch --mutate-in-place --transport registry quay.io/lzapletal/fedora-eln-bootc-httpd-test
%end

This should be added automatically by bootc-image-builder when building an ISO. How was it missing? Were you replacing the ks with your own?

[lzap]

Yeah I am doing PXE installation. Still I am running into an issue when booting the system - bootc is unable to find a commit or something. Not sure why it does not work with my KS: https://gist.github.com/lzap/3ade88a6f8d63ff98af4d0e7cd670059