Bug 11572

Summary: mondoarchive says "Mindi failed to create your boot+data disks"
Product: Mageia Reporter: Mark Dawson Butterworth <mageia>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Bruno Cornec <bruno>
Status: RESOLVED OLD QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: Normal Keywords: Triaged
Version: 3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: Linux   
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Source RPM: mindi CVE:
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Description Mark Dawson Butterworth 2013-10-31 23:44:28 CET
It appears that there may be a problem with mindi and the new symlink between /lib and /usr/lib in Mageia 3.

mondoarchive fails with the following:

Mindi failed to create your boot+data disks.
Fatal error... Failed to generate boot+data disks
---FATALERROR--- Failed to generate boot+data disks

The relevant section of the log file looks like it is as follows:

.........cp: cannot overwrite directory â/tmp/mondo.tmp.aAlxjL/bigdir/libâ with non-directory
tar: lib: Cannot create symlink to `usr/lib': File exists
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
tar: lib: Cannot create symlink to `usr/lib': File exists
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Manuel Hiebel 2013-11-01 16:29:21 CET

Keywords: (none) => Triaged
Assignee: bugsquad => bruno
Source RPM: (none) => mindi

Comment 1 Bruno Cornec 2014-01-26 12:06:22 CET
This should be fixed during the development of mindi 3.0 (a beta is now available at ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/test/mageia/3) As soon as this version is considered stable enough it will be push to mageia 3 and 4.

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED

Comment 2 Mark Dawson Butterworth 2014-01-26 18:25:13 CET
Thanks Bruno. I can confirm that the beta no longer crashes for me - Mondo is now busy spooling tape!
Comment 3 Mark Dawson Butterworth 2014-01-26 18:31:41 CET
Just a minor observation on the beta dated 22/01/2014 from the ftp: Mindi semed to take quite a long time without displaying anything - went from 3% to 99% with more than a minute of no screen update, which is a bit disconcerting:

---evalcall---1--- Calling MINDI to create boot+data disk
---evalcall---2--- TASK:  [*...................]   3% done;  1:04 to go
---evalcall---E---
---evalcall---1--- Calling MINDI to create boot+data disk
---evalcall---2--- TASK:  [********************]  99% done;  0:01 to go
---evalcall---E---
Comment 4 Mark Dawson Butterworth 2014-01-26 22:15:03 CET
Mindi may well be fixed in the beta, but Mondo is broken - it thinks it has finished when it hasn't:

---progress-form---4--- TASK:  [*...................]   1% done; 4652:57 to go
---progress-form---1--- I am now backing up all large files.
---progress-form---2--- Volume 1: 19,408,000 kilobytes archived so far
---progress-form---3--- Please wait. This may take some time.
---progress-form---E---
---progress-form---4--- TASK:  [*...................]   1% done; 4617:42 to go
Done.
Writing any remaining data to media         
Done.
Done.
Backup and/or verify ran to completion. Everything appears to be fine.
/var/cache/mindi/mondorescue.iso, a boot/utility CD, is available if you want it
Data archived OK. 
Mondoarchive ran OK.
See /var/log/mondoarchive.log for details of backup run.
Execution run ended; result=0
Type 'less /var/log/mondoarchive.log' to see the output log
Comment 5 Mark Dawson Butterworth 2014-01-26 23:22:42 CET
Having kept everything else from the beta, but reverted to Mondo 3.03 from Mageia 3, it now seems to be backing up large files properly, and is no longer giving such a large estimate of time to completion:

---progress-form---4--- TASK:  [***.................]  13% done; 127:36 to go
---progress-form---1--- I am now backing up all large files.
---progress-form---2--- Volume 1: 36,073,216 kilobytes archived so far
---progress-form---3--- Please wait. This may take some time.
---progress-form---E---
Comment 6 Bruno Cornec 2015-01-18 01:17:27 CET
Could you try with the latest 3.2.0 version now official available at ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/mageia/3 ?

TIA,
Bruno.
Comment 7 Marja Van Waes 2015-03-31 16:04:32 CEST
Mageia 3 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status 4 months ago.
http://blog.mageia.org/en/2014/11/26/lets-say-goodbye-to-mageia-3/ 

Mageia 3 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Mageia
please feel free to click on "Version" change it against that version of Mageia
and reopen this bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

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Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD