#1905 Issue closed: mktemp: cannot make temp dir /rear_backup/rear.sgXDqOJPhle9322: Value too large for defined data type

Labels: support / question, not ReaR / invalid

nieberad opened issue at 2018-08-24 10:28:

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  • ReaR version ("/usr/sbin/rear -V"): Relax-and-Recover 2.00 / Git

  • OS version ("cat /etc/rear/os.conf" or "lsb_release -a" or "cat /etc/os-release"): Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.9 (Tikanga)

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

OUTPUT=ISO
BACKUP=NETFS
OUTPUT_URL=null
BACKUP_URL="iso:///backup"
BACKUP_PROG_EXCLUDE=("${BACKUP_PROG_EXCLUDE[@]}" '/u01' '/u02' '/u03' '/u04' '/u05' '/u06' '/media' '/var/tmp' '/var/crash' '/rear_backup' '/tmp' '/hana')
ISO_DIR="/rear_backup"

  • Hardware (PC or PowerNV BareMetal or ARM) or virtual machine (KVM guest or PoverVM LPAR):

HP DL360

  • System architecture (x86 compatible or PPC64/PPC64LE or what exact ARM device):

x86

  • Firmware (BIOS or UEFI or Open Firmware) and bootloader (GRUB or ELILO or Petitboot):

  • Storage (lokal disk or SSD) and/or SAN (FC or iSCSI or FCoE) and/or multipath (DM or NVMe):

NFS

  • Description of the issue (ideally so that others can reproduce it):

mktemp: cannot make temp dir /rear_backup/rear.sgXDqOJPhle9322: Value too large for defined data type

  • Work-around, if any:

nieberad commented at 2018-08-24 10:30:

2018-08-24 06:20:46.628653574 Relax-and-Recover 2.00 / Git
2018-08-24 06:20:46.629670323 Command line options: /usr/sbin/rear -d -v mkbackup
2018-08-24 06:20:46.630571865 Using log file: /var/log/rear/rear-m500355.log
2018-08-24 06:20:46.631622280 Current set of flags is 'hB'
2018-08-24 06:20:46.632579553 The debugscripts flags are 'x'
2018-08-24 06:20:46.633550593 Combining configuration files
2018-08-24 06:20:46.634523065 Including /etc/rear/os.conf
2018-08-24 06:20:46.635703809 Including conf/Linux-i386.conf
2018-08-24 06:20:46.636776594 Including conf/GNU/Linux.conf
2018-08-24 06:20:46.640472593 Including /etc/rear/local.conf
2018-08-24 06:20:46.642536405 Running 'init' stage
2018-08-24 06:20:46.645655404 Including init/default/010_set_drlm_env.sh
2018-08-24 06:20:46.646674087 Including init/default/030_update_recovery_system.sh
2018-08-24 06:20:46.647713379 Including init/default/050_check_rear-recover_mode.sh
2018-08-24 06:20:46.648691968 Finished running 'init' stage in 0 seconds
mktemp: cannot make temp dir /rear_backup/rear.sgXDqOJPhle9322: Value too large for defined data type
2018-08-24 06:20:46.652851400 ERROR: Could not create build area ''
==== Stack trace ====
Trace 0: /usr/sbin/rear:490 main
Message: Could not create build area ''
== End stack trace ==
2018-08-24 06:20:46.656070327 Running exit tasks.
2018-08-24 06:20:46.657322053 Exit task 'exec 8>&-'
2018-08-24 06:20:46.658252254 Exit task 'exec 7>&-'
2018-08-24 06:20:46.659234506 Exit task ''

gdha commented at 2018-08-25 09:05:

@nieberad Is your Linux distribution 32-bits or 64-bits? The error is not caused by ReaR itself, but it is coming from the underlying OS. See http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Value-too-large-for-defined-data-type
Please contact RedHat if you have a support contract with them.

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