Hi Pallavi.
Here are a few more release notes for Distribution Constructor.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Jack
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4528 DC's usb image does not have accessibility grub menu items
Title:
USB images generated by Distribution Constructor are missing
accessibility selections in boot menu
Description:
While live-CD images generated by the Distribution Constructor have boot
menu selections for booting with accessibility features enabled (screen
reader or magnifier), these selections are missing from the USB image
boot menu.
Workaround:
If you want to boot a USB image with accessibility features enabled, do
the following:
1) Highlight the top boot menu item.
2) Type the "e" key twice to edit the first line of the menu item's grub
entry.
3) Type
" -B assistive_tech=magnifier"
followed by the return key , to enable the magnifier, or
" -B assistive_tech=reader"
followed by the return key, to enable the screen reader
4) Type "b" to boot the system.
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4589 Unhandled exception in thread started by Error in sys.excepthook:
Title:
Occasional innocuous exception message generated by Distribution
Constructor upon successful termination
Description:
Sometimes the Distribution Constructor will display the following error
message after successfully performing its function:
Unhandled exception in thread started by
Error in sys.excepthook:
Original exception was:
This error message, always occurring just before termination, has no
meaning and can be ignored.
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3947 DC doesn't recognize ZFS subdirs as ZFS
Title:
Distribution Constructor does not recognize ZFS mountpoints for build
areas as ZFS
Description:
If a system has a ZFS file system, and a new (uncreated) sub-directory
of it is specified as a build_area or if the build area specified
already exists as a ZFS file system but the mountpoint is specified
instead of the zpool, the Distribution Constructor does not recognize
and treat that build_area as a ZFS file system. For example, given the
following zpool:
$zfs list | grep "disk2_pool/ib/pia"
disk2_pool/ib/pia 1.90G 355G 18K /export/home/ib/pia
Specifying the command:
#distro_const build -p 1 slim_cd.xml
where slim_cd.xml has the build area specified as:
<build_area>/export/home/ib/pia</build_area>
results in the following message:
Checkpointing is not available
Rerun the build without -p
Workaround:
In the manifest, specify the zpool instead. In the above example, this
would be:
<build_area>disk2_pool/ib/pia</build_area>
