#2330 Issue `closed`: rear dump fails and says "ERROR: EFI_STUB="" is incorrect option value pair."¶

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kingpoop opened issue at 2020-02-06 21:46:¶

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ReaR version ("/usr/sbin/rear -V"):
Relax-and-Recover 2.2 / 2017-07-20
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Archiving:/Backup:/Rear/xUbuntu_14.04/rear_2.2.orig.tar.gz
OS version ("cat /etc/rear/os.conf" or "lsb_release -a" or "cat /etc/os-release"):
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
ReaR configuration files ("cat /etc/rear/site.conf" and/or "cat /etc/rear/local.conf"):
None, fresh install with no entries in local.conf
Hardware (PC or PowerNV BareMetal or ARM) or virtual machine (KVM guest or PoverVM LPAR):
Dell PowerEdge 2950
System architecture (x86 compatible or PPC64/PPC64LE or what exact ARM device):
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Firmware (BIOS or UEFI or Open Firmware) and bootloader (GRUB or ELILO or Petitboot):
Storage (local disk or SSD) and/or SAN (FC or iSCSI or FCoE) and/or multipath (DM or NVMe):
Storage layout ("lsblk -ipo NAME,KNAME,PKNAME,TRAN,TYPE,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT" or "lsblk" as makeshift):
Description of the issue (ideally so that others can reproduce it):
Installed rear on the following linux server:

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release:        14.04
Codename:       trusty

DOWNLOADED THE BITS FROM THE FOLLOWING LOCATION:

sudo wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Archiving:/Backup:/Rear/xUbuntu_14.04/rear_2.2.orig.tar.gz

UNTAR:

sudo tar xzvf rear_2.2.orig.tar.gz

LASTLY BUILT AND INSTALLED IT:

sudo make install
== Validating scripts and configuration ==
find etc/ usr/share/rear/conf/ -name '*.conf' | xargs -n 1 bash -n
bash -n usr/sbin/rear
find . -name '*.sh' | xargs -n 1 bash -n
find usr/share/rear -name '*.sh' | grep -v -E '(lib|skel|conf)' | while read FILE ; do \
                num=$(echo ${FILE##*/} | cut -c1-3); \
                if [[ "$num" = "000" || "$num" = "999" ]] ; then \
                        echo "ERROR: script $FILE may not start with $num"; \
                        exit 1; \
                else \
                        if $( grep '[_[:alpha:]]' <<< $num >/dev/null 2>&1 ) ; then \
                                echo "ERROR: script $FILE must start with 3 digits"; \
                                exit 1; \
                        fi; \
                fi; \
        done
== Prepare manual ==
make -C doc man
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/rear/rear-2.2/doc'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `man'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rear/rear-2.2/doc'
== Installing configuration ==
install -d -m0700 /etc/rear/
install -d -m0700 /etc/rear/cert/
[[ ! -e /etc/rear/local.conf ]] && \
                install -Dp -m0600 etc/rear/local.conf /etc/rear/local.conf
make: [install-config] Error 1 (ignored)
[[ ! -e /etc/rear/os.conf && -e etc/rear/os.conf ]] && \
                install -Dp -m0600 etc/rear/os.conf /etc/rear/os.conf
make: [install-config] Error 1 (ignored)
find /etc/rear/ -name '.gitignore' -exec rm -rf {} \; &>/dev/null
== Installing binary ==
install -Dp -m0755 usr/sbin/rear /usr/sbin/rear
sed -i -e 's,^CONFIG_DIR=.*,CONFIG_DIR="/etc/rear",' \
                -e 's,^SHARE_DIR=.*,SHARE_DIR="/usr/share/rear",' \
                -e 's,^VAR_DIR=.*,VAR_DIR="/var/lib/rear",' \
                /usr/sbin/rear
== Installing scripts ==
install -d -m0755 /usr/share/rear/
cp -a usr/share/rear/. /usr/share/rear/
find /usr/share/rear/ -name '.gitignore' -exec rm -rf {} \; &>/dev/null
== Installing working directory ==
install -d -m0755 /var/lib/rear/
install -d -m0755 /var/log/rear/
== Installing documentation ==
make -C doc install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/rear/rear-2.2/doc'
install -Dp -m0644 rear.8 /usr/share/man/man8/rear.8
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rear/rear-2.2/doc'
sed -i -e 's,/etc,/etc,' \
                -e 's,/usr/sbin,/usr/sbin,' \
                -e 's,/usr/share,/usr/share,' \
                -e 's,/usr/share/doc/packages,/usr/share/doc,' \
                /usr/share/man/man8/rear.8

VERIFIED VERSION:

rear --version
Relax-and-Recover 2.2 / 2017-07-20

ISSUE IS THAT WHEN I EXECUTE A rear dump command i get the following error:

sudo rear dump
Relax-and-Recover 2.2 / 2017-07-20
Using log file: /var/log/rear/rear-gitlab.log.lockless
**ERROR: EFI_STUB="" is incorrect option value pair.**
Aborting due to an error, check /var/log/rear/rear-gitlab.log.lockless for details

AND THE LOG FILE DOESN'T SHOW MUCH AS YOU CAN SEE:

sudo cat /var/log/rear/rear-gitlab.log.lockless

2020-02-06 13:32:02.681536255 Relax-and-Recover 2.2 / 2017-07-20
2020-02-06 13:32:02.683035461 Command line options: /usr/sbin/rear dump
2020-02-06 13:32:02.684207239 Using log file: /var/log/rear/rear-gitlab.log.lockless
2020-02-06 13:32:02.685783554 Including /etc/rear/os.conf
2020-02-06 13:32:02.687440260 Including conf/Linux-i386.conf
2020-02-06 13:32:02.689014550 Including conf/GNU/Linux.conf
2020-02-06 13:32:02.698201718 Including conf/Ubuntu.conf
2020-02-06 13:32:02.700722677 Including /etc/rear/local.conf
2020-02-06 13:32:02.704175285 ======================
2020-02-06 13:32:02.705457415 Running 'init' stage
2020-02-06 13:32:02.706756517 ======================
2020-02-06 13:32:02.712420956 Including init/default/005_verify_os_conf.sh
2020-02-06 13:32:02.714087720 Including init/default/010_EFISTUB_check.sh
2020-02-06 13:32:02.716085961 ERROR: EFI_STUB="" is incorrect option value pair.
==== Stack trace ====
Trace 0: /usr/sbin/rear:496 main
Trace 1: /usr/share/rear/lib/framework-functions.sh:95 SourceStage
Trace 2: /usr/share/rear/lib/framework-functions.sh:49 Source
Trace 3: /usr/share/rear/init/default/010_EFISTUB_check.sh:6 source
Message: EFI_STUB="" is incorrect option value pair.
== End stack trace ==
2020-02-06 13:32:02.722219122 Running exit tasks.

IF ANYONE CAN SHED SOME LIGHT ON HELPING ME RESOLVE I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE YOUR HELP.
THANKS,

Workaround, if any:
Have not found a workaround.
Attachments, as applicable ("rear -D mkrescue/mkbackup/recover" debug log files):
None yet, fresh install.

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gozora commented at 2020-02-07 08:00:¶

Hello @kingpoop

I'm pretty sure that EFI_STUB configuration variable is not present in ReaR 2.2 (if fist appeared in ReaR 2.5) so I'm just guessing that something went wrong during your installation...

V.

jsmeix commented at 2020-02-07 09:57:¶

I am not an Ubuntu user so I cannot tell how to
manually install things from source on Ubuntu.

Perhaps
"Testing current ReaR upstream GitHub master code" in
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Disaster_Recovery
could also help to get a clean ReaR installation.

kingpoop commented at 2020-02-07 19:06:¶

Thank you for the comments. I fixed the issue by

Removing all rear references on the filesystem
performing a clean install from /home/rear/rear-2.2/sudo make install
reran rear dump
got the following error: ERROR: Cannot find required programs: bc
installing bc with sudo apt-get install bc
reruning rear dump
everything worked as expected.

Cheers.

jsmeix commented at 2020-02-10 13:02:¶

@kingpoop
thank you for your feedback that you got things working for you.

[Export of Github issue for rear/rear.]

#2330 Issue closed: rear dump fails and says "ERROR: EFI_STUB="" is incorrect option value pair."¶