Coolo, I can now report that the Gnome Live CD also builds and boots. Both KDE and Gnome both will boot from a USB stick written with imagewriter; however, both fail when booted using the iso with qemu-kvm. At the point of failure, /var/lob/kiwi.boot shows the following: =========================================================================== + echo /dev/ram1 + return + ramOnly=1 + '[' 1 = 1 ']' ++ cat /proc/meminfo ++ cut -f1 -dk ++ grep MemFree ++ cut -f2 -d: + haveKByte=' 405108 ' ++ expr 405108 / 1024 + haveMByte= ++ expr '*' 7 / 10 expr: syntax error + haveMByte= + clic_cmd='clicfs -m ' + '[' '!' -z '' ']' + '[' -z /livecd/openSUSE-12.1-livecd-gnome-read-only.x86_64-2.8.0 ']' + clicfs -m /livecd/openSUSE-12.1-livecd-gnome-read-only.x86_64-2.8.0 /read-only can't read from packfile : Is a directory read_pack: Invalid argument + Echo 'Failed to mount clic filesystem' + '[' 0 = 0 ']' + set +x + echo '[ 9.208387] Failed to mount clic filesystem' + '[' 0 = 0 ']' + set +x + return 1 + retval=1 + '[' no = no ']' + '[' '!' clean = fine ']' + '[' 1 = 0 ']' + resetMountCounter + local curtype=auto + local command + FSTYPE=auto + IFS=' ' + return 1 + systemException 'Failed to mount root filesystem' reboot + set +x + echo '[ 9.270200] Failed to mount root filesystem' =========================================================================== At first, I thought the differences might be that the USB boot had used the swap partition on the real disk; however, when I boot using a VirtualBox VM and the iso file, it works whether the attached vdi has a swap partition or not. The problem is not due to too little memory in the qemu-kvm VM. It fails with the "-m 512" option. I think that should be enough. The failure seems to start with a blank value for haveMByte. I have noticed a couple of small bugs with the KDE image. (1) When one does the media check, it asks for "any key" to continue. In fact, the key must be "Enter". (2) If one selects the "Boot from hard disk" option when using the USB stick, the system reboots from the stick. This situation may arise because the USB disk is first in the boot selection. It works correctly when running from the VB VM. In any case, the Live CDs are a lot closer to release than they have been for a while. Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org