Installing to a USB stick fails with Device or resource busy

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Installing to a USB stick fails with Device or resource busy #193

Open kaihendry opened 10 years ago

kaihendry commented 10 years ago

Installing to another USB stick used to work: http://webconverger.org/blog/entry/Webconverger_17.0_release/

It looks like issue #68, however I formatted a USB stick under Windows with an arbitrary volume label, to make sure it wasn't mistaken as a Webconverger disk.

Installing to a hard drive still works as intended.

fail2

kaihendry commented 10 years ago

Maybe a delay is needed: http://ix.io/cgB

kaihendry commented 10 years ago

One workaround is to launch install in debug mode, and then re-run the install.

Couple of issues here:

sleep will probably fix this
The install target once finished, should actually restart, not boot into X as it currently does https://github.com/Webconverger/webc/blob/master/lib/systemd/system/install.service

kaihendry commented 10 years ago

Workaround using a build that includes 4d459dc is to retry installation. Installation second time around works.

dittaeva commented 10 years ago

I've run in to this issue too. My workaround has been to insert USB stick after the install screen has appeared and use the reload button to have it discovered. That seems to work out fine.

kaihendry commented 10 years ago

Must be some race condition. I did try a sleep in an opportune place but it didn't work. Anyway, I've corrected the install target so that it can restart. Previously it was buggy and it began X with incorrect settings.