#1775 Issue closed: Rear Disk Layout script failing On Centos7

Labels: support / question, fixed / solved / done

cksmith3 opened issue at 2018-04-13 12:07:

  • ReaR version ("/usr/sbin/rear -V"):
    Relax-and-Recover 2.3 / 2017-12-20

  • OS version ("cat /etc/rear/os.conf" or "lsb_release -a" or "cat /etc/os-release"):
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo)
    OS_VENDOR=Fedora
    OS_VERSION=28

  • ReaR configuration files ("cat /etc/rear/site.conf" or "cat /etc/rear/local.conf"):

OUTPUT=ISO
(the only line change/ added to the conf file)

  • System architecture (x86 compatible or POWER and/or what kind of virtual machine):
    x86
    Dl380 hp server

  • Are you using BIOS or UEFI or another way to boot?
    UEFI

  • Brief description of the issue:
    The disk set up script is failing. The error after reading the log is Error: Expecting a file system type. The drive is one logical drive made by combining 3 physical drives on a server. I have attached the log file from the error.
    df.txt
    rear-localhost.log

  • Work-around, if any:
    None found yet

gozora commented at 2018-04-13 12:27:

Check my https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/1770#issuecomment-379541958, for solution, it is same problem as yours.

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jsmeix commented at 2018-04-13 12:29:

In your rear-localhost.log there is

2018-04-13 00:34:42.141982548 Start system layout restoration.
...
+++ parted -s /dev/sda mkpart 'EFI System Partition' 786432B 209977343B
parted: invalid token: System
Error: Expecting a file system type.

which makes this issue a duplicate of
https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/1770
therein see in particular
https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/1770#issuecomment-379541958

Regarding "downloading latest ReaR upstream code".

To use our current ReaR upstream GitHub master code
do the following:

Basically "git clone" it into a separated directory and then
configure and run ReaR from within that directory like:

# git clone https://github.com/rear/rear.git

# mv rear rear.github.master

# cd rear.github.master

# vi etc/rear/local.conf

# usr/sbin/rear -D mkbackup

Note the relative paths "etc/rear/" and "usr/sbin/".

I recommend to use our current ReaR upstream GitHub master code
because that is the only place where we fix bugs - i.e. bugs in older
ReaR versions are not fixed by us (i.e. by ReaR upstream).
Bugs in older ReaR versions that got fixed in current ReaR upstream
GitHub master code might be fixed (if the fix can be backported)
by the Linux distributor wherefrom you got your older ReaR version.

jsmeix commented at 2018-04-13 12:31:

@gozora
o.k. o.k. you won but it's not a fair race
when you write so little text ;-)
Have a nice weekend!

jsmeix commented at 2018-04-13 12:32:

And even with a typo!

cksmith3 commented at 2018-04-13 12:33:

thank you for the quick and thorough answers.
and LOL the race to answer

gozora commented at 2018-04-13 12:43:

@jsmeix
:-) what typo ?

when you write so little text ;-)

As mister Da Vinci said "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" ;-)

@cksmith3

thank you for the quick and thorough answers.
and LOL the race to answer

You are welcome, we try to do our best ;-).

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jsmeix commented at 2018-04-13 12:53:

or https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1925 item (12)

... perfection has been reached
not when there is nothing left to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away

so that ultimate perfection has been reached
when the empty set is reached ;-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_set

gozora commented at 2018-04-13 13:21:

hmm, that would mean that perfect answer is no answer :-)

jsmeix commented at 2018-04-14 19:04:

True! ;-)

"si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(S)

[Export of Github issue for rear/rear.]