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Till,

- remove the existing RPMs (rpm --erase)
- install the new RPMs (rpm -i)

I'm going to assume your English is bad & you're _not_ trying to be a
smartass. :)

-Hugo


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mon...@li...
> [mailto:mon...@li...]On Behalf Of
> Till Dörges
> Sent: 31 July 2003 10:14
> To: mon...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Mondo-devel] Booting from Recovery-CD fails
>
>
> Hugo Rabson wrote:
> > Mondo Archive v1.65_cvs_20030611
> >
> > 6/11 = 6th June
> >
> > What's today's date?
> >
> > www.mondorescue.org/download/contribute.html <--- download page :)
>
> Guess you are right. Usually I've got no problems doing
> updates, but not
> with (formerly) working software that's mission critical. And your
> software is. ;-)
>
> It's likely that the updated solved the problem, because the mindi
> rootfs seemed to contain a weird file by the name '['. But
> I've no idea
> how it got there. :-?
>
> --- snip ---
> tekener:~ # rpm -Uhv m*rpm
> mindi             ##################################################
> Öffnen von /usr/local/share/mindi/rootfs/usr/bin/[
> fehlgeschlagen: Datei
> oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> Öffnen von /usr/local/share/mindi/rootfs/bin/[ fehlgeschlagen: Datei
> oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> mondo             ##################################################
> --- snap ---
>
> Thanks -- Till
> --
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>
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 09:57:09PM +0100 or thereabouts, Bob Reid wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anybody on the list know if it possible to compile Xmondo 
> statically. I've tried using
> 
> configure --with-x11 (which works perfectly but uses shared libraries)

Yay, some feedback on XMondo!

(Why do you want static libs?)

> 
> and
> 
> configure --with-x11 --disable-shared
> configure --with-x11 --disable-shared --enable-static

That's not enough to get a static XMondo binary. It is enough
to get a static libXmondo support library, though.

For the static binary, you want:
LDFLAGS=-static ./configure --with-x11 --disable-shared --enable-static

Note that this requires a statically-linked qt library, which you probably
don't have (I didn't).

> 
> both of which give the following errors: -
> 
> g++ -g -O2 -o xmondo xmondobackup.o xmondo.o main.o xmondo.moc.o 
> xmondobackup.moc.o  -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql 
> -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib -L/usr/lib 
> ../common/.libs/libXmondo.a -lnewt -ldl -lpthread -lnewt -ldl -lpthread 
> /usr/lib/libkdeui.so -ldl -lresolv -lpthread /usr/lib/libkdecore.so 
> /usr/lib/libDCOP.so -ldl -lresolv -lXinerama -lart_lgpl_2 
> /usr/lib/libkdefx.so -lqt-mt -lpthread -lXrender -lstdc++ -lc -lgcc_s 
> -lqt -lpng -lz -lm -lXext -lX11 -lresolv -lSM -lICE -lresolv -lnewt -ldl 
> -lpthread -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib 
> -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/X11R6/lib
> ../common/.libs/libXmondo.a(libXmondo_la-libmondo-files.o)(.data+0x0): 
> In function `calc_checksum_of_file':
> /usr/local/src/mondo-1.74/mondo/common/libmondo-files.c:87: multiple 
> definition of `crc16tab'
> main.o(.data+0x0):/usr/local/src/mondo-1.74/mondo/xmondo/main.cpp:47: 
> first defined here
> ../common/.libs/libXmondo.a(libXmondo_la-libmondo-files.o)(.data+0x400): 
> In function `exclude_nonexistent_files':
> /usr/local/src/mondo-1.74/mondo/common/libmondo-files.c:288: multiple 
> definition of `crctttab'
> main.o(.data+0x400): first defined here
> ../common/.libs/libXmondo.a(libXmondo_la-libmondo-fork.o)(.text+0x25f): 
> In function `eval_call_to_make_ISO':
> /usr/local/src/mondo-1.74/mondo/common/libmondo-fork.c:181: the use of 
> `mktemp' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** [xmondo] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/mondo-1.74/mondo/xmondo'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/mondo-1.74/mondo'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/mondo-1.74'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> My apologies, but my C++ isn't good enough to work out if there is 
> actually an error, and if I may just be doing something silly. If 
> anybody has any advice/workarounds/fixes I'd be very grateful to learn.

'Tis a one liner. Look in mondo/xmondo/main.cpp.

Replace line 26 (used to be #include <libmondo-files.h>) with #include
<libmondo-files-EXT.h>.

(I committed this to CVS, btw).

When it works, tell me how you think it looks :-)

A warning of two known bugs:

There's a semi-known bug that XMondo will "hang around" when you close the
window after a successful backup. Soulution: killall xmondo back at your shell.

Bug #2: if XMondo seems to hang, it's a "fatal error". Check /var/log/mondo-archive.log.
The problem would take a long time to explain. I'll fix this someday :-)

-- Josh

> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Bob Reid
> 
> 
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Hi,

Does anybody on the list know if it possible to compile Xmondo 
statically. I've tried using

configure --with-x11 (which works perfectly but uses shared libraries)

and

configure --with-x11 --disable-shared
configure --with-x11 --disable-shared --enable-static

both of which give the following errors: -

g++ -g -O2 -o xmondo xmondobackup.o xmondo.o main.o xmondo.moc.o 
xmondobackup.moc.o  -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql 
-L/usr/local/ssl/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib -L/usr/lib 
../common/.libs/libXmondo.a -lnewt -ldl -lpthread -lnewt -ldl -lpthread 
/usr/lib/libkdeui.so -ldl -lresolv -lpthread /usr/lib/libkdecore.so 
/usr/lib/libDCOP.so -ldl -lresolv -lXinerama -lart_lgpl_2 
/usr/lib/libkdefx.so -lqt-mt -lpthread -lXrender -lstdc++ -lc -lgcc_s 
-lqt -lpng -lz -lm -lXext -lX11 -lresolv -lSM -lICE -lresolv -lnewt -ldl 
-lpthread -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib 
-Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/X11R6/lib
../common/.libs/libXmondo.a(libXmondo_la-libmondo-files.o)(.data+0x0): 
In function `calc_checksum_of_file':
/usr/local/src/mondo-1.74/mondo/common/libmondo-files.c:87: multiple 
definition of `crc16tab'
main.o(.data+0x0):/usr/local/src/mondo-1.74/mondo/xmondo/main.cpp:47: 
first defined here
../common/.libs/libXmondo.a(libXmondo_la-libmondo-files.o)(.data+0x400): 
In function `exclude_nonexistent_files':
/usr/local/src/mondo-1.74/mondo/common/libmondo-files.c:288: multiple 
definition of `crctttab'
main.o(.data+0x400): first defined here
../common/.libs/libXmondo.a(libXmondo_la-libmondo-fork.o)(.text+0x25f): 
In function `eval_call_to_make_ISO':
/usr/local/src/mondo-1.74/mondo/common/libmondo-fork.c:181: the use of 
`mktemp' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [xmondo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/mondo-1.74/mondo/xmondo'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/mondo-1.74/mondo'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/mondo-1.74'
make: *** [all] Error 2

My apologies, but my C++ isn't good enough to work out if there is 
actually an error, and if I may just be doing something silly. If 
anybody has any advice/workarounds/fixes I'd be very grateful to learn.

Many thanks

Bob Reid

A quick google search revealed this:
http://www.chem.vu.nl/~stol/Mondo-Rescue-Mindi-Linux-HOWTO.pdf

-----Original Message-----
From: mon...@li...
[mailto:mon...@li...]On Behalf Of Paolo
Cavallini
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 1:03 AM
To: mon...@li...
Subject: [Mondo-devel] pdf manual


Hi all.
I am new to Mondo (I have just done my first bkp). I believe it would be
easier if one could download a pdf of the html manual, just to have it =
at
hand (printed or otherwise) in case of serious trouble. Having it on the =
web
site is not very useful if your system has crashed.
It would be great if someone could print the manual on pdf (or give me =
the
directions to do it). Then we could ask Hugo to put it on the site.
Many thanks.
Paolo
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On Thursday 31 July 2003 09:29, Michael Cortes wrote:
> I may not have mentioned that I am running RedHat 7.3/kernel 2.4 and
> that I suspected that I need isolinux.   I searched the web and
> couldn't find anything.  I didn't know about looking for syslinux
> though.
>
> I checked the RH website and the latest version of syslinux for RH7.3
> is 1.52-2 and it does not have isolinux.  However, syslinux-1.75-3
> for RH8 and syslinux-2.00-4 for RH9 do have isolinux.

This is why I provide a syslinux rpm for 7.3.

http://geek.j2solutions.net/rpms/syslinux/

-- 
Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE
http://geek.j2solutions.net
Mondo DevTeam (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/)

Was I helpful?  Let others know:
 http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating

I may not have mentioned that I am running RedHat 7.3/kernel 2.4 and that=
 I=20
suspected that I need isolinux.   I searched the web and couldn't find=20
anything.  I didn't know about looking for syslinux though.

I checked the RH website and the latest version of syslinux for RH7.3 is=20
1.52-2 and it does not have isolinux.  However, syslinux-1.75-3 for RH8 a=
nd=20
syslinux-2.00-4 for RH9 do have isolinux.

Any ideas?

On Thursday 31 July 2003 11:52 am, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thursday 31 July 2003 08:29, Michael Cortes wrote:
> > Fatal error. Please install isolinux first. If your syslinux RPM
> > doesn't include isolinux, you may download an isolinux RPM from
> > Mondo's website - go to http://www.mondorescue.com and click on
> > 'Download'
>
> Here is your problem.  You need isolinux installed.  Check w/ your
> distro provider for a "syslinux" package that is relatively new, as
> they will include isolinux.

--=20

Michael Cortes
Fort LeBoeuf School District
34 East Ninth Street
PO Box 810
Waterford PA 16441-0810
814.796.4795

On Thursday 31 July 2003 08:29, Michael Cortes wrote:
> Fatal error. Please install isolinux first. If your syslinux RPM
> doesn't include isolinux, you may download an isolinux RPM from
> Mondo's website - go to http://www.mondorescue.com and click on
> 'Download'

Here is your problem.  You need isolinux installed.  Check w/ your 
distro provider for a "syslinux" package that is relatively new, as 
they will include isolinux.

-- 
Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE
http://geek.j2solutions.net
Mondo DevTeam (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/)

Was I helpful?  Let others know:
 http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating

I can't get mondo working on my system.  This is the first time I have tr=
ied=20
this.  Looking for a backup solution and heard good things about mondo.  =
Can=20
anyone help.

Hopefully too much info is better than not enough, so here goes....




I have mindi Ver 0.85 Rel 1 and mondo ver 1.65 rel 1rht73 installed.

I ran "mondoarchive" as root.

I got the following at the prompt:

Initializing...
See /var/log/mondo-archive.log for details of backup run.
root is mounted at /dev/hda
I believe I am running on a live filesystem.
root is mounted at /dev/hda
I believe I am running on a live filesystem.
Checking sanity of your Linux distribution
Mindi --makemountlist failed for some reason. Bad fstab file?
Failed.
---FATALERROR--- Failed to pre-param initialize
Please contact the mailing list. See http://www.mondorescue.com
for more information on how to do that.
Enclose your compressed logfile or we CANNOT HELP.
Log file: /var/log/mondo-archive.log
FYI, I have gzipped the log and saved it to /tmp/MA.log.gz
Mondo has aborted.



Then I have the following in /var/log/mondo-archive.log....

-------------------- mount | grep cdrom | grep super --------------------
--------------------------------end of output----------------------------=
--
=2E..ran with errors.
------------------- mount | grep floppy | grep super -------------------
--------------------------------end of output----------------------------=
--
=2E..ran with errors.
/boot is at LABEL=3D/boot according to /etc/fstab
=2E..ignored cos it's a label :-)
Unmounting old ramdisks if necessary
-------- umount `mount | grep shm | grep mondo | cut -d' ' -f3` --------
Usage: umount [-hV]
umount -a [-f] [-r] [-n] [-v] [-t vfstypes] [-O opts]
umount [-f] [-r] [-n] [-v] special | node...
--------------------------------end of output----------------------------=
--
=2E..ran with errors.
Mondo Archive v1.65 --- http://www.mondorescue.com
root is mounted at /dev/hda
I believe I am running on a live filesystem.
root is mounted at /dev/hda
I believe I am running on a live filesystem.
Checking sanity of your Linux distribution
Free space on given partition =3D 4952 MB
-------- umount `mount | grep cdr | cut -d' ' -f3 | tr '
' ' '` --------
Usage: umount [-hV]
umount -a [-f] [-r] [-n] [-v] [-t vfstypes] [-O opts]
umount [-f] [-r] [-n] [-v] special | node...
--------------------------------end of output----------------------------=
--
=2E..ran with errors.
---------------------------- cat /etc/fstab ----------------------------
LABEL=3D/                 /                       ext3    defaults       =
 1 1
LABEL=3D/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults       =
 1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=3D5,mode=3D62=
0  0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0=
 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0=
 0
/dev/hda6               swap                    swap    defaults        0=
 0
/dev/hda7  /home   ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda2  /mnt/xp  ntfs  ro,owner,noauto  0  0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,owner,kudz=
u,ro=20
0 0
--------------------------------end of output----------------------------=
--
=2E..ran just fine. :-)
--------------------------- cat /etc/raidtab ---------------------------
cat: /etc/raidtab: No such file or directory
--------------------------------end of output----------------------------=
--
=2E..ran with errors.
------------- mindi --makemountlist /tmp/mountlist.txt.test -------------
Fatal error. Please install isolinux first. If your syslinux RPM doesn't=20
include isolinux, you may download an isolinux RPM from Mondo's website -=
 go=20
to http://www.mondorescue.com and click on 'Download'
Please e-mail a copy of /tmp/mindi.err.14803.tgz to the mailing list.
See http://www.mondorescue.com for more information.
WE CANNOT HELP unless you enclose that file.
--------------------------------end of output----------------------------=
--
=2E..ran with errors.
Mindi --makemountlist failed for some reason. Bad fstab file?
Failed.
Your distribution did not pass Mondo's sanity test.
-------------------------------- umount  --------------------------------
Usage: umount [-hV]
umount -a [-f] [-r] [-n] [-v] [-t vfstypes] [-O opts]
umount [-f] [-r] [-n] [-v] special | node...
--------------------------------end of output----------------------------=
--
=2E..ran with errors.
---FATALERROR--- Failed to pre-param initialize
Unregistering PID
Error unregistering PID




--=20

Michael Cortes
Fort LeBoeuf School District
34 East Ninth Street
PO Box 810
Waterford PA 16441-0810
814.796.4795

Hugo Rabson wrote:
> Mondo Archive v1.65_cvs_20030611
>=20
> 6/11 =3D 6th June
>=20
> What's today's date?
>=20
> www.mondorescue.org/download/contribute.html <--- download page :)

Guess you are right. Usually I've got no problems doing updates, but not
with (formerly) working software that's mission critical. And your
software is. ;-)

It's likely that the updated solved the problem, because the mindi
rootfs seemed to contain a weird file by the name '['. But I've no idea
how it got there. :-?

--- snip ---
tekener:~ # rpm -Uhv m*rpm
mindi             ##################################################
=D6ffnen von /usr/local/share/mindi/rootfs/usr/bin/[ fehlgeschlagen: Date=
i
oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
=D6ffnen von /usr/local/share/mindi/rootfs/bin/[ fehlgeschlagen: Datei
oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
mondo             ##################################################
--- snap ---

Thanks -- Till
--=20
Dipl.-Inform. Till D=F6rges                  PRESECURE (R)
Researcher                               Consulting GmbH
Phone: +49 (0)700 / PRESECURE           td...@pr...

       Course licensed from the CERT Coordination Center
      Managing Computer Security Incident Response Teams
                          https://www.pre-secure.de/ms12
                              Muenster, Nov. 26-28, 2003

>Here is the log for my 'Backup Media not specified' error. Ought to small 
>enough now :)
Thanks,
-Caroline Hardin

Mondo Archive v1.65_cvs_20030611

6/11 = 6th June

What's today's date?

www.mondorescue.org/download/contribute.html <--- download page :)

-Hugo


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mon...@li...
> [mailto:mon...@li...]On Behalf Of
> Till Dörges
> Sent: 30 July 2003 17:41
> To: mon...@li...
> Subject: [Mondo-devel] Booting from Recovery-CD fails
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been using mondo for a few months now, and so far
> everything seemed
> fine.
>
> Unfortunately my latest backup-attempts fail. The CD-RWs seem to be
> burned okay, and when calling 'mondorestore' directly from the system,
> that was used for the backup, I can read the media etc.
>
> When trying to boot from one of my CDs, however, I get a *strange*
> error, that I can't really debug or at least locate because
> the console
> is filled with errors. The most common one is:
>
> --- snip ---
> [: No such file or directory
> --- snap ---
>
> And every few seconds I get:
>
> --- snip ---
> VM: killing process LogIt
> Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
> --- snap ---
>
>
> I'm guesing that the VM- and the __alloc-errors come directly from the
> kernel. The 'Unable to identify'-error could be from mondo
> (is it?) and
> the '[: No such' looks like an error in a script.
>
>
> I've been using my setup successfully to produce working recovery CDs.
> The hardware hasn't changed at all. The things that have changed (at
> least those that I can think of) since the last successful
> backup are a
> new kernel (but mindi does take the correct kernel), some additions to
> the mindi/deplist.txt-file and the fact that I started using CD-RW.
>
>
> Any hints to resolve this problem would be _really_ welcome. :-/
>
> Thanks -- Till
> --
> Dipl.-Inform. Till Dörges                  PRESECURE (R)
> Researcher                               Consulting GmbH
> Phone: +49 (0)700 / PRESECURE           td...@pr...
>
>        Course licensed from the CERT Coordination Center
>       Managing Computer Security Incident Response Teams
>                           https://www.pre-secure.de/ms12
>                               Muenster, Nov. 26-28, 2003
>

Hi all.
I am new to Mondo (I have just done my first bkp). I believe it would be
easier if one could download a pdf of the html manual, just to have it at
hand (printed or otherwise) in case of serious trouble. Having it on the web
site is not very useful if your system has crashed.
It would be great if someone could print the manual on pdf (or give me the
directions to do it). Then we could ask Hugo to put it on the site.
Many thanks.
Paolo
--
Paolo Cavallini

cav...@fa...
www.faunalia.it

GPG signature/firma digitale @:
http://www.faunalia.it/Public_key_Paolo.asc

Piazza Garibaldi 5
56025 Pontedera (PI)
Italy

Tel: (+39)348-3801953
---------------------
We support the use of free software:
www.linux.org

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It would be great if someone could print the manual on pdf (or give me the=
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directions to do it). Then we could ask Hugo to put it on the site.
Many thanks.
Paolo
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cav...@fa...
www.faunalia.it

GPG signature/firma digitale @:
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Piazza Garibaldi 5
56025 Pontedera (PI)
Italy

Tel: (+39)348-3801953
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Till D=F6rges wrote:

> When trying to boot from one of my CDs, however, I get a *strange*
> error, that I can't really debug or at least locate because the console
> is filled with errors. The most common one is:
>=20
> --- snip ---
> [: No such file or directory
> --- snap ---
>=20
> And every few seconds I get:
>=20
> --- snip ---
> VM: killing process LogIt
> Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
> __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=3D0x1d2/0)
> --- snap ---

I just tried the CD on a completely different machine and got exactly
the same behaviour. After the boot menu (no matter which kernel I
choose) the initrd is loaded, the kernel is unpacked and starts itself.
The harddisks are identified and shortly after I read something about
'tar' doing something, but the following errors just are too fast.

If the bug persists, I'll have to setup a serial console... :-(

Thanks -- Till
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Hi,

I've been using mondo for a few months now, and so far everything seemed
fine.

Unfortunately my latest backup-attempts fail. The CD-RWs seem to be
burned okay, and when calling 'mondorestore' directly from the system,
that was used for the backup, I can read the media etc.

When trying to boot from one of my CDs, however, I get a *strange*
error, that I can't really debug or at least locate because the console
is filled with errors. The most common one is:

--- snip ---
[: No such file or directory
--- snap ---

And every few seconds I get:

--- snip ---
VM: killing process LogIt
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=3D0x1d2/0)
--- snap ---


I'm guesing that the VM- and the __alloc-errors come directly from the
kernel. The 'Unable to identify'-error could be from mondo (is it?) and
the '[: No such' looks like an error in a script.


I've been using my setup successfully to produce working recovery CDs.
The hardware hasn't changed at all. The things that have changed (at
least those that I can think of) since the last successful backup are a
new kernel (but mindi does take the correct kernel), some additions to
the mindi/deplist.txt-file and the fact that I started using CD-RW.


Any hints to resolve this problem would be _really_ welcome. :-/

Thanks -- Till
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On Tuesday, July 29, 2003 at 20:10:21 +0100, Hugo Rabson wrote:
>Log it in Bugzilla, please. We'll get to it when we can.

OK, done.

Maurice

Log it in Bugzilla, please. We'll get to it when we can.

-Hugo


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mon...@li...
> [mailto:mon...@li...]On Behalf Of Maurice
> Janssen
> Sent: 29 July 2003 18:31
> To: mon...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Mondo-devel] mindi-0.86 fails at Creating 
> /dev/boot_device
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, July 29, 2003 at 07:39:36 -0700, Joshua Oreman wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 09:31:14AM +0200 or thereabouts, 
> Maurice Janssen wrote:
> >> Assembling dependency 
> files.......................................Backing up /dev/md's MBR
> >> Creating /dev/boot_device (/dev/md)
> >> cp: cannot stat `/dev/md': No such file or directory
> >> Fatal error. Unable to create /dev/boot_device on ramdisk
> >
> >Use -f /dev/md0 in your call to Mondo.
> 
> Same result.  Logfile is identical (apart from obvious differences in
> names of tmp and scratch directories and the list of command line
> switches) except for this line:
> resolved /dev/md0 to /dev/md0
> (only when -f /dev/md0 is used)
> 
> BTW: the man page says
>        -f device    Specify the drive on which your  Master  Boot
>                     Record  lives.  Usually,  this  is discovered
>                     automatically.
> Which should be /dev/sda in my case.  However, this also fails at the
> same point.
> 
> Logfiles are attached.
> 
> Maurice
> 

I have just made a backup with Mondo 1.65 Mindi 0.85_cvs_20030724_1 on a 
Quantum DLT4000 tape drive on a Linux RH 7.3 system, and everything 
verified. When I boot with the boot disk however, and try to run compare I get
"Fatal Error - Backup media not specified".
I have also tried # compare -d /dev/st0 but got the same error. Any ideas?
My log file is not attached because it seems to be too big for the list 
even ziped.
Thanks!!!
-Caroline Hardin
Programmer, CDHA

On Tuesday, July 29, 2003 at 10:43:37 -0700, Joshua Oreman wrote:
>Hmm. This looks like a bug.
>
>Could you please try the unstable 1.74 and see if that fixes it?

For some reason, the 1.74 rpm doesn't work:
# rpm -i mindi-0.94-1.i386.rpm mondo-1.74-1rht73.i386.rpm 
mondo-1.74-1rht73.i386.rpm: read manifest failed: Success
# rpm -qa |egrep "(mindi|mondo)"
# ls -l
<snip>
-rw-------    1 maurice  maurice    940273 Jul 29 19:50 mindi-0.94-1.i386.rpm
-rw-------    1 maurice  maurice    986494 Jul 29 19:50 mondo-1.74-1rht73.i386.rpm

Maurice

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:31:21PM +0200 or thereabouts, Maurice Janssen wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 29, 2003 at 07:39:36 -0700, Joshua Oreman wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 09:31:14AM +0200 or thereabouts, Maurice Janssen wrote:
> >> Assembling dependency files.......................................Backing up /dev/md's MBR
> >> Creating /dev/boot_device (/dev/md)
> >> cp: cannot stat `/dev/md': No such file or directory
> >> Fatal error. Unable to create /dev/boot_device on ramdisk
> >
> >Use -f /dev/md0 in your call to Mondo.
> 
> Same result.  Logfile is identical (apart from obvious differences in
> names of tmp and scratch directories and the list of command line
> switches) except for this line:
> resolved /dev/md0 to /dev/md0
> (only when -f /dev/md0 is used)
> 
> BTW: the man page says
>        -f device    Specify the drive on which your  Master  Boot
>                     Record  lives.  Usually,  this  is discovered
>                     automatically.
> Which should be /dev/sda in my case.  However, this also fails at the
> same point.
> 
> Logfiles are attached.

Hmm. This looks like a bug.

Could you please try the unstable 1.74 and see if that fixes it?

-- Josh

> 
> Maurice

On Tuesday, July 29, 2003 at 07:39:36 -0700, Joshua Oreman wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 09:31:14AM +0200 or thereabouts, Maurice Janssen wrote:
>> Assembling dependency files.......................................Backing up /dev/md's MBR
>> Creating /dev/boot_device (/dev/md)
>> cp: cannot stat `/dev/md': No such file or directory
>> Fatal error. Unable to create /dev/boot_device on ramdisk
>
>Use -f /dev/md0 in your call to Mondo.

Same result.  Logfile is identical (apart from obvious differences in
names of tmp and scratch directories and the list of command line
switches) except for this line:
resolved /dev/md0 to /dev/md0
(only when -f /dev/md0 is used)

BTW: the man page says
       -f device    Specify the drive on which your  Master  Boot
                    Record  lives.  Usually,  this  is discovered
                    automatically.
Which should be /dev/sda in my case.  However, this also fails at the
same point.

Logfiles are attached.

Maurice

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 09:31:14AM +0200 or thereabouts, Maurice Janssen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just downloaded and tried mondo-1.66-1rht73.rpm and mindi-0.86-1.rpm.
> Mindo failed to generate boot+data disks, apparantly because it picked
> the wrong boot device.
> I have a raid-1 mirror on /dev/md0 (/dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1) and a /boot
> partition on /dev/sda1.  My / partition is mounted on /dev/md0.
> 
[ ... ]
> 
> Assembling dependency files.......................................Backing up /dev/md's MBR
> Creating /dev/boot_device (/dev/md)
> cp: cannot stat `/dev/md': No such file or directory
> Fatal error. Unable to create /dev/boot_device on ramdisk
> 
> Please e-mail a copy of /tmp/mindi.err.10141.tgz to the mailing list.
> 
> 
> Please refer to the attached MA.log.gz for more information.

Use -f /dev/md0 in your call to Mondo.

> 
> Maurice
> 
> BTW: why does it pick /var/spool/news as tmp and scratch directory?
> Is is because that partition has lots of free space?

Yep.

-- Josh

Hi,

I just downloaded and tried mondo-1.66-1rht73.rpm and mindi-0.86-1.rpm.
Mindo failed to generate boot+data disks, apparantly because it picked
the wrong boot device.
I have a raid-1 mirror on /dev/md0 (/dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1) and a /boot
partition on /dev/sda1.  My / partition is mounted on /dev/md0.

lilo.conf looks like this:

boot=/dev/sda
disk=/dev/sda
  bios=0x80
map=/boot/System.map
prompt
timeout=50
default=linux

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-4
        label=linux
        read-only
        root=/dev/md0
        vga=5
<snip: some other kernel images>

When I run the following command line:
# mondoarchive -Ot -0 -d /dev/st0 -I '/home/maurice/files/hardware' -g
it fails with:

Assembling dependency files.......................................Backing up /dev/md's MBR
Creating /dev/boot_device (/dev/md)
cp: cannot stat `/dev/md': No such file or directory
Fatal error. Unable to create /dev/boot_device on ramdisk

Please e-mail a copy of /tmp/mindi.err.10141.tgz to the mailing list.


Please refer to the attached MA.log.gz for more information.

Maurice

BTW: why does it pick /var/spool/news as tmp and scratch directory?
Is is because that partition has lots of free space?

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 03:43:52PM -0700 or thereabouts, Net Llama! wrote:
> What is monitas?

Client/server backup thingy using Mondo as its internal engine that got
put on a shelf a while back. I'm trying to make a new one in C++.

Hugo can probably provide more details, if you ask nicely :-)

-- Josh

What is monitas?

On 07/28/03 15:15, Joshua Oreman wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Monitas is currently in a state of flux. I'm migrating it from C to C++, to get
> rid of a bunch of weird bugs. Anyone interested in the current state of development
> can browse my working directory at
> 	http://www.get-linux.org/monitas-code/
> 
> (The C++/ directory is where all the work being done is).
> 
> Note that this really is a symlink to my working directory, so it's always up
> to date. It also will probably not compile.



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