Re: [Clonezilla-live] sshfs failing in recent builds

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Hi Bill,

On 04/01/2011 07:56 PM, Bill Gurley wrote:
> I was having the same behavior this very week!  But I was using version 
> 1.2.6-59.
> 
> Like you, this is something that I do all the time, and I was quite 
> puzzled.  In my situation, I was wanting to perform a restore, 
> overwriting the existing NTFS partition.  I tried this repeatedly, 
> always resulting in the same failure that you described.  I even put a 
> different NIC in the machine, and that didn't matter.
> 
> I began to think that the error itself might be masking a completely 
> different problem that the onscreen clonezilla errors did not mention.
> 
> I booted the machine to a mini-XP CD and ran 'chkdsk c: /f' on the 
> target partition.  After that, I was able to restore my image.  I don't 
> know if this was actually the issue, or if I just got lucky.
This is weird... sshfs should not have something to do with local file
system...
Could you please boot Clonezilla live 1.2.6-59 or 1.2.8-23, then:
1. sudo -i
2. prep-ocsroot
to mount your sshfs server.
See if you can reproduce the problem.
Thanks.

Steven.
> 
> 
> 
> On 03/31/2011 09:22 PM, Greg Trounson wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> We typically use Clonezilla via sshfs to a central disk-image server.
>> This has worked well until recently, when we upgraded the server from
>> Debian Lenny (5.0) to Debian Squeeze (6.0).  Upon further testing,
>> recent builds of Clonezilla were found to successfully connect to all
>> Lenny and Fedora boxes but no Squeeze boxes.
>>
>> When it fails, the error is always the same.  When booting up a live CD
>> I navigate the menus thusly: English Language ->  Don't touch keymap ->
>> Start Clonezilla ->  device-image ->  ssh_server ->  dhcp ->  (server details)
>>
>> After that I get the following:
>>
>> Mounting sshfs by:
>> sshfs -o nonempty -p 22 root@myserver:"/lab" /home/partimag
>> The authenticity of host 'myserver (x.x.x.x)' can't be established.
>> RSA key fingerprint is x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x...
>> Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
>> root@myserver's password:
>> remote host has disconnected
>> Clonezilla image home directory /home/partimag is not a mounting point!
>> Failed to mount other device as /home/partimag!
>>
>> The server gives the following errors:
>> /var/log/auth.log
>> Mar 30 15:47:51 myserver sshd[11424]: Accepted password for root from
>> <IPADDR>  port 39518 ssh2
>> Mar 30 15:47:51 myserver sshd[11424]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session
>> opened for user root by (uid=0)
>> Mar 30 15:47:51 myserver sshd[11424]: subsystem request for sftp
>> Mar 30 15:47:51 myserver sshd[11424]: Received disconnect from<IPADDR>:
>> 11: disconnected by user
>> Mar 30 15:47:51 myserver sshd[11424]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session
>> closed for user root
>>
>> Strangely if I enter the sshfs command exactly as shown above at a
>> Clonezilla root (sudo -s) prompt then it works and I can run Clonezilla
>> successfully.
>>
>> I have tested this with several different versions of Clonezilla and
>> found the following results when trying to use sshfs to a server running
>> Debian Squeeze:
>>
>> CZ Version	Status
>> 1.2.4-28-686	OK
>> 1.2.5-35-i686	OK
>> 1.2.6-24-i486	OK
>> 1.2.6-24-i686	OK
>> 1.2.6-24-amd64	OK
>> 1.2.6-40-i686	FAIL
>> 1.2.6-40-amd64	FAIL
>> 1.2.8-23-i686	FAIL
>>
>> This suggests that something significant changed in 1.2.6-40.  The
>> problem is not limited to one particular server, since I get consistent
>> results when trying to connect to other Debian Squeeze boxes.
>>
>> Can anyone shed light on what the problem might be?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Greg
>>
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