#125 Issue closed: Unable to boot after recovery

Labels: waiting for info, support / question

towster opened issue at 2012-07-13 21:11:

I basically have the same problem as issue #50 https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/50

I was able to bypass the issue by doing the following:

  1. booting on my USB drive to recovery
  2. copied /usr/share/rear/finalize/Fedora/i386/17_rebuild_initramfs.sh /usr/share/rear/finalize/Linux-i386/
  3. rear recover

My OS installed is Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6 (very similar to RHEL 5.6).

Here is output from dump:

Relax-and-Recover 1.13.0-git201207121301-git201207121301 / 2012-07-12
Using log file: /var/log/rear/rear-hhidberpt02.log.lockless
Dumping out configuration and system information
This is a 'Linux-x86_64' system, compatible with 'Linux-i386'.
System definition:
                                    ARCH = Linux-i386
                                      OS = GNU/Linux
                        OS_MASTER_VENDOR = 
                       OS_MASTER_VERSION = 
                   OS_MASTER_VENDOR_ARCH = 
                OS_MASTER_VENDOR_VERSION = 
           OS_MASTER_VENDOR_VERSION_ARCH = 
                               OS_VENDOR = EnterpriseEnterpriseServer
                              OS_VERSION = 5.6
                          OS_VENDOR_ARCH = EnterpriseEnterpriseServer/i386
                       OS_VENDOR_VERSION = EnterpriseEnterpriseServer/5.6
                  OS_VENDOR_VERSION_ARCH = EnterpriseEnterpriseServer/5.6/i386
Configuration tree:
                         Linux-i386.conf : OK
                          GNU/Linux.conf : OK
         EnterpriseEnterpriseServer.conf : missing/empty
    EnterpriseEnterpriseServer/i386.conf : missing/empty
     EnterpriseEnterpriseServer/5.6.conf : missing/empty
EnterpriseEnterpriseServer/5.6/i386.conf : missing/empty
                               site.conf : missing/empty
                              local.conf : OK

gdha commented at 2012-07-14 08:24:

Dag,
could it be that our lsb replacement code did not recognised this correctly?

dagwieers commented at 2012-07-20 21:53:

@gdha What lsb replacement code ? The snapshot RPM packages (and those from RPMforge) drop in an /etc/rear/os.conf file to stuff the required information so that the lsb-release package is no longer necessary. But it does not seem that this package in fact was using an /etc/rear/os.conf at all. And I think the lsb code has not been changed for a long time (or at least I was not aware).

PS I see two issues:

  • Relax-and-Recover 1.13.0-git201207121301-git201207121301
  • OS_VENDOR = EnterpriseEnterpriseServer

Not sure where both are coming from :-/

dagwieers commented at 2012-08-23 14:03:

Any feedback for this issue ? Can we get more information from this installation ?

dagwieers commented at 2012-08-28 22:16:

@towster I am going to close this issue because we lack the necessary information to support you. Please reopen if this issue still affects you with the most recent master branch.

[Export of Github issue for rear/rear.]