What were you trying to do that didn't work?

# livemedia-creator --make-disk --iso /var/lib/libvirt/images/RHEL-10.0-20250313.2-x86_64-boot.iso --ks minimal.ks --nomacboot

The process hangs. After connecting to the VM there are dbus-broker-launch related errors. We saw such a problem in the past, it was caused by missing the exec permissions in the CPIO archive attached to the original installation initrd. (See RHEL-11128). And indeed, changing the permissions fixes the problem here as well. Tested with the following change:

diff --git a/installer.py b/installer.py
index bf1d8aa..b6cda01 100644
--- a/installer.py
+++ b/installer.py
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ def append_initrd(initrd, files):
     qemu_initrd = tempfile.mktemp(prefix="lmc-initrd-", suffix=".img")
     shutil.copy2(initrd, qemu_initrd)
     ks_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="lmc-ksdir-")
+    os.chmod(ks_dir, 0o755)
     for ks in files:
         shutil.copy2(ks, ks_dir)
     ks_initrd = tempfile.mktemp(prefix="lmc-ks-", suffix=".img")

What is the impact of this issue to you?

Unable to build images using livemedia-creator.

Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:

RHEL-10.0-20250313.2
lorax-40.5.11-1.el10

How reproducible is this bug?:

Always

Steps to reproduce

1.  Update /usr/share/doc/lorax/minimal.ks with URLs to BaseOS/AppStream repos
2.  Download boot.iso from the tested compose
3.  # livemedia-creator --make-disk --iso /var/lib/libvirt/images/RHEL-10.0-20250313.2-x86_64-boot.iso --ks minimal.ks --nomacboot

Expected results

livemedia-creator finishes successfully.

Actual results

The process hangs. After connecting to the VM there are dbus-broker-launch related errors.