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#14 Fails at end of image deployement

Milestone: v1.0_(example)

Status: open

Owner: Steven Shiau

Labels: /tmp missing (1)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2015-09-17

Created: 2015-09-09

Creator: YvanM

Private: No

Hi,

First, thanks for this really great and usefull software. I don't know if this bug report should go to DRBL or Clonezilla.

I am running DRBL Live in a virtual machine, to deploy a disk image to 4 computers. Using previous release (2.2.2-19-i686-pae), it works perfectly, but with the last one (2.3.1-6-i686-pae) it fails at the end.

The settings are basic and exactly the same in both cases. The deployement is set using the "beginner" option. The disk image is available on a Samba share. Targets are told to shutdown after deployement. The disk image is a basic "/ (EXT4) and swap" .

On all my failure attempts, one or two computers seem to go to the end and sutdown but are never able to reboot (probably a problem with the MBR as Grub never appears). The server also notifies that they ended. For the others, they hang with different messages, but this one happened to times :

mktemp: failed to create file via template /tmp/parttable-ocs.XXXXXX: Read-only file system
/usr/share/drbl/sbin/ocs-functions: line 483: $partition_table: ambiguous redirect

Feel free to ask if I can provide more informations. Regards,
Yvan

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Steven Shiau - 2015-09-10

labels: --> /tmp missing

assigned_to: Steven Shiau
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Steven Shiau - 2015-09-10

Thanks for this bug report. We are working on solving this issue, hower, so far it's not fixed yet.
This seems to be about systemd-udevd, and we have reported to upsteram:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-September/034175.html
Please keep using the previous version (2.2.2-19).

Steven.

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Steven Shiau - 2015-09-10

BTW, if for some reasons you have to use newer version, you can try this workaround (you need internet connection):

Boot the latest DRBL live, e.g. 2.3.x

Start the Clonezilla SE by clicking the icon, and follow its step to finish the steps

Before booting clients, run:
drbl-ocs-live-prep -b alternative
This will download clonezilla live and use that as client's OS when doing clonezilla jobs. You can use "stable" Clonezilla live by running, e.g.
drbl-ocs-live-prep -a i686-pae -b stable

Run "dcs" or click the Clonezilla SE icon on the desktop again to set the image.

You can boot your clients now to deploy the system.

Steven.

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Steven Shiau - 2015-09-17

Please give DRBL live 2.4.3-8 a try:
http://drbl.org/download/download-sf.php?branch=testing
Some improvements have be done so this issue should be gone.
Please let us know the results.
Thanks.

Steven.

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