LiveCDCustomizationFromScratch page needs an update

[Mélodie]

The following page:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomizationFromScratch

mentions a problem with initctl in chroot, and points to the following bug report page:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/430224

The bug has been solved with the Upstart package version 1.3, as said in the comment #44:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/430224/comments/44

The Upstart version which is now available in Precise is the version number 1.5-0ubuntu7, so I can only suppose the bug is now very much fixed.

I am sorry I could not edit that one page to correct it, but I can't access to it. I identified with my Launchpad ID, but then I was brought to the main documentation page, and when I followed the links from there up to the LiveCDCustomizationFromScratch page I was again facing a "login to edit" invite. I tried with Firefox, with Midori, with Firefox again in "safe-mode" (no plugins activated) but faced the same behavior each time.

So thanks for finding a way to edit that one page, where we can still read:

"There is a current (for Karmic, Lynx, Maverick and any future versions of Ubuntu that use Upstart) issue with services running in a chroot: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/430224.

A workaround is to link /sbin/initctl to /bin/true.

ln -s /bin/true /sbin/initctl"

which is the part I would have wanted to update.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Hi Mélodie, and thanks for your report!

Please note that the page in question is a wiki page which anybody can edit - including you. ;-)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiGuide
Since you seem to know how it should be changed, it would be great if you could fix it.

Due to the nature of the community help wiki, you can't request changes to it in the form of bug reports.

[Mélodie (meets)]

Hi Gunnar,

It would be with great pleasure, but it has been some time since I wrote that bug report and I'm not in anymore. I mean, I am not keen enough with this tech part and I don't have now the time to dive in it again, and to go ask advice to the people who do have the know-how currently.

This page needs review by someone who knows how to create a Live CD Ubuntu From Scratch and has already done it successfully a few times.

Sorry I can't do more!

Regards,
Mélodie

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

No problem, Mélodie, and sorry for not responding in due time.