Comments on: Creating your own FC6 instance for EC2

By: Sapeksh

Sapeksh — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:14:00 +0000

I've been trying to create an image for CentOS for amamon EC following the steps provided above as well as the script provided by RightScale (http://blog.rightscale.com/2007/04/). In both the cases when I try and do a groupinstall of the Base I get the following below. I'm running the above steps from a machine already running CentOS 5 and version of yum is 3.0.5 as well. Any pointers will be appreciated.

Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "yummain.py", line 94, in main
result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
File "cli.py", line 381, in doCommands
return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds)
File "yumcommands.py", line 228, in doCommand
return base.installGroups(extcmds)
File "cli.py", line 1071, in installGroups
self.doRepoSetup()
File "cli.py", line 109, in doRepoSetup
self.doSackSetup(thisrepo=thisrepo)
File "__init__.py", line 341, in doSackSetup
File "packageSack.py", line 331, in excludeArchs
File "sqlitesack.py", line 589, in excludeArchs
File "sqlitesack.py", line 431, in db2class
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sqlite/main.py", line 97, in __getattr__
raise AttributeError, key
AttributeError: CHECKSUM_VALUE

By: Klaus

Klaus — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:41:54 +0000

I have a vmware image that I'm trying to upload to EC2. Would I just cp -R / /mnt/ all the files in it to a disk image mounted like above? I guess I'll go try and update everybody else…

By: Laurent

Laurent — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:12:38 +0000

How do you debug this distro.
How do you add a stack like the Ruby on Rails stack (Apache/NGINX, Mongrel, Ruby, Rails, mySQL) ?

By: frederic sidler

frederic sidler — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:59:12 +0000

@richard shade if you use the fedora core 4 provided by amazon and try to do a yum groupinstall Base, you will get this error because yum 2.4.1 doesn't support this option. You should install a newer version of yum before trying to install the "Base".
Let's try that first
wget http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/3.0/yum-3.0.5.tar.gz
tar -xvzf yum-3.0.5.tar.gz
cd yum-3.0.5
make DESTDIR=/ install
then you are set to install the base

By: Ram

Ram — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:42:20 +0000

Hi,

I am creating an instance using 'loop back' file, I created my image file – but I'm getting the following error while bundling the Image.

[root@ec2 home]# ec2-bundle-image -i my-image.fs -k /home/.ec2/pk-xxx.pem -c /home/.ec2/cert-yyy.pem -u 1111111 -r i386 -p my-image -d /home/bundle

Splitting /home/bundle/my-image.tar.gz.enc…
Created my-image.part.00
Created my-image.part.01
Created my-image.part.02
Created my-image.part.03
Created my-image.part.04
Created my-image.part.05
Created my-image.part.06
Created my-image.part.07
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Created my-image.part.12
Created my-image.part.13
Created my-image.part.14
Created my-image.part.15
Created my-image.part.16
Created my-image.part.17
Created my-image.part.18
Created my-image.part.19
Created my-image.part.20
Created my-image.part.21
Created my-image.part.22
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Created my-image.part.24
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Created my-image.part.26
Created my-image.part.27
Created my-image.part.28
Created my-image.part.29
Created my-image.part.30
Created my-image.part.31
Created my-image.part.32
Created my-image.part.33
Created my-image.part.34
Created my-image.part.35
Created my-image.part.36
Created my-image.part.37
Created my-image.part.38
Generating digests for each part…
Digests generated.
Creating bundle manifest…
Error: private method `gsub' called for 39:Fixnum
ec2-bundle-image failed.

Any Help – –

Ram

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:53:50 +0000

One thing that seems to have bitten quite a few people in both FC6 and FC7, is kudzu move the ifcfg-eth0 file to ifcfg-eth0.bak if an instance is rebooted. This causes networking not to start up on reboots after the initial launch. kudzu needs to be disabled to avoid this breakage.

Some other niceties would be:
a) disabling IPv6 since EC2 won't route it anycase,
b) disabling zeroconf networking since you'll always be getting an IP from EC2.
c) disabling services such PC Card, Bluetooth, gpm, CUPS, etc that don't really make sense in an EC2 environment.

By: How to create a Fedora 7 Instance for EC2 @ IONCANNON

How to create a Fedora 7 Instance for EC2 @ IONCANNON — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:38:40 +0000

[...] Now that Fedora 7 is out I figured it was time to update the EC2 instance howto. It is almost exactly the same as creating a FC6 instance so if you want to know the details you can reference that article. [...]

By: Richard Shade

Richard Shade — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:03:43 +0000

I get the following error, anyone know the solution?

Failed to add groups file for repository: base
Error: No Groups on which to run command

By: Gregory Perry

Gregory Perry — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:42:02 +0000

You don't need to move the TLS directories out of the way, that error message about nosegneg is an error. FC6 by default includes nosegneg-friendly libraries and that error message within the Xen Hypervisor will be fixed with subsequent versions.

By: G Perry

G Perry — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:18:55 +0000

There are apparently some configuration steps that are included with the groupinstall base. I've tried to selectively add just a few packages (namely httpd and openssh-server), but I can't boot the AMI in Xen or EC2.

In Xen I am getting a "can't mount /dev/sda1" error, although the device was created using MAKEDEV.

Maybe something is screwy with my fstab.