Post-first appliance queries

[amitsaha]

Hello: This is my first post here and comes shortly after I built my first appliance with BoxGrinder - and hopefully an useful one too - an ownCloud appliance. I have detailed the steps in my blog post here. I faced a couple of issues while at it and those are ones I would like expert opinion on: (My appliance definition file is here)

1. I ran into random unmounting problems, and James Martin's post < a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/BGBUILD-343?focusedCommentId=12662863&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-12662863">here helped me overcome it.
2. When I had a command like '/sbin/chkconfig httpd' in the 'post' section of my appliance definition, I ran into these errors:

/sbin/chkconfig httpd on
T, [2012-02-26T17:39:54.945490 #27749] TRACE -- : GFS: SETARCH_EOF
T, [2012-02-26T17:39:56.341999 #27749] TRACE -- : GFS: Note: Forwarding request to 'systemctl enable httpd.service'.
T, [2012-02-26T17:39:56.660481 #27749] TRACE -- : GFS: ln -s '/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/httpd.service'
T, [2012-02-26T17:39:56.697719 #27749] TRACE -- : GFS: umount /sysroot/sys
T, [2012-02-26T17:39:56.980919 #27749] TRACE -- : GFS: umount /sysroot/proc
T, [2012-02-26T17:39:57.242118 #27749] TRACE -- : GFS: umount /sysroot/dev
T, [2012-02-26T17:39:57.490490 #27749] TRACE -- : GFS: guestfsd: error: Note: Forwarding request to 'systemctl enable httpd.service'.
ln -s '/li
T, [2012-02-26T17:39:57.491995 #27749] TRACE -- : GFS: b/systemd/system/httpd.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/httpd.service'
D, [2012-02-26T17:39:57.493935 #27749] DEBUG -- : GFS: sh = NULL (error)

Any ideas what might be going wrong here? Many thanks in advance.

[goldmann]

Hi Amit,

Instead of relying on systemctl for enabling services on boot, just symlink the required files on your own:

post:
  base:
    - "ln -s '/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/httpd.service'"

I'm still unsure why systemctl is failing, but I saw this earlier too.

--Marek

[amitsaha]

Thanks a lot Marek for your reply. I will give this a shot!