Loraserver-pi-gen failing to build image

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Hello,

I’m trying to use the pi image generator but it is failing and I’m not sure why. It ends with the below. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

"losetup: /pi-gen/work/2018-09-24-raspbian/export-image/2018-09-24-raspbian-LoRaPi.img: failed to set up loop device: No such file or directory"

[23:45:15] Begin /pi-gen/export-image
[23:45:15] Begin /pi-gen/export-image/prerun.sh

Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.29.2).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.

Device does not contain a recognized partition table.
Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x56409a2c.

Command (m for help): Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xccf8f6d2.

Command (m for help): Partition type
   p   primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
   e   extended (container for logical partitions)
Select (default p): 
Using default response p.
Partition number (1-4, default 1): First sector (2048-3588095, default 2048): Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G,T,P} (8192-3588095, default 3588095): 
Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux' and of size 43.8 MiB.

Command (m for help): Disk /pi-gen/work/2018-09-24-raspbian/export-image/2018-09-24-raspbian-LoRaPi.img: 1.7 GiB, 1837105152 bytes, 3588096 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xccf8f6d2

Device                                                                        Boot Start   End Sectors  Size Id Type
/pi-gen/work/2018-09-24-raspbian/export-image/2018-09-24-raspbian-LoRaPi.img1       8192 97906   89715 43.8M 83 Linux

Command (m for help): Selected partition 1
Partition type (type L to list all types): Changed type of partition 'Linux' to 'W95 FAT32 (LBA)'.

Command (m for help): Partition type
   p   primary (1 primary, 0 extended, 3 free)
   e   extended (container for logical partitions)
Select (default p): 
Using default response p.
Partition number (2-4, default 2): First sector (2048-3588095, default 2048): Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G,T,P} (98304-3588095, default 3588095): 
Created a new partition 2 of type 'Linux' and of size 1.7 GiB.

Command (m for help): 

Command (m for help): 
Disk /pi-gen/work/2018-09-24-raspbian/export-image/2018-09-24-raspbian-LoRaPi.img: 1.7 GiB, 1837105152 bytes, 3588096 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xccf8f6d2

Device                                                                        Boot Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
/pi-gen/work/2018-09-24-raspbian/export-image/2018-09-24-raspbian-LoRaPi.img1       8192   97906   89715 43.8M  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/pi-gen/work/2018-09-24-raspbian/export-image/2018-09-24-raspbian-LoRaPi.img2      98304 3588095 3489792  1.7G 83 Linux

Command (m for help): The partition table has been altered.
Syncing disks.

losetup: /pi-gen/work/2018-09-24-raspbian/export-image/2018-09-24-raspbian-LoRaPi.img: failed to set up loop device: No such file or directory
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Finally… after trying numerous times and researching possible causes as a noob in this area, I finally got it to work. Weird, though… just adding a debug line made it work.

in

loraserver-pi-gen/export-image/prerun.sh

Added

LOOPDEV_DEBUG=all

in lines 51 and 52

BOOT_DEV=$(LOOPDEV_DEBUG=all losetup --show -f -o "${BOOT_OFFSET}" --sizelimit "${BOOT_LENGTH}" "${IMG_FILE}")
ROOT_DEV=$(LOOPDEV_DEBUG=all losetup --show -f -o "${ROOT_OFFSET}" --sizelimit "${ROOT_LENGTH}" "${IMG_FILE}")

Then ran again

CONTINUE=1 ./build-docker.sh

And it worked! “Done! Your image(s) should be in deploy/”