#1478 Issue closed: Rear terminates if the /boot/efi is not mounted

Labels: bug, fixed / solved / done

jmazanek opened issue at 2017-09-08 11:16:

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  • rear version (/usr/sbin/rear -V): rear-2.00
  • OS version (cat /etc/rear/os.conf or lsb_release -a):Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4 (Maipo)
  • rear configuration files (cat /etc/rear/site.conf or cat /etc/rear/local.conf):
    OUTPUT=ISO
    BACKUP=RSYNC
    BACKUP_URL=rsync://192.168.122.43/home/rear_bk
    OUTPUT_URL=rsync://192.168.122.43/home/rear_rcv
    GRUB_RESCUE=y
  • Are you using legacy BIOS or UEFI boot? no
  • Brief description of the issue:
    It has been reported by the users, that rear aborts with "ERROR: Cannot find required programs: efibootmgr" message even if the directory /boot/{efi|EFI} exists ( as that previous problem is described here: https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/1239 and fixed here: https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/1225) , unless the directory is actually mounted.
  • Work-around, if any:
    The following change seems to fix the issue : https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/1477

jsmeix commented at 2017-09-11 12:41:

According to
https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/1477#issuecomment-328515342
my quick attempt
https://github.com/rear/rear/commit/6e05b6f0e51fdfdf02c67edddb117b41a364c6f4
to fix
https://github.com/jsmeix/rear/commit/9bb07357ac7892ad7d82c5438e76e57a44d21113#commitcomment-24177948
broke it for the non-UEFI case and reintroduced this issue here.

jsmeix commented at 2017-09-11 12:49:

Meanwhile I think my
https://github.com/rear/rear/commit/6e05b6f0e51fdfdf02c67edddb117b41a364c6f4
did not make anything worse that it was before because
https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/1477#issuecomment-328518336

jsmeix commented at 2017-09-12 12:32:

This issue is fixed with
https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/1481
cf.
https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/1481#issuecomment-328791603

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