Error Making Image: 800.528047 CIFS VFS

[Doug Dudenhoeffer]

Hello,
I have been using CloneZilla Live 1.2.1-47 without a problem for awhile now.  Today I ran into an issue trying to make an image of a Lenovo T400 Thinkpad laptop.  I have always created the image to our network via samba server.  Today I got an error part way through making the image.  Details are below...

[   800.528047]     CIFS VFS: server not responding
[800.533188] CIFS VFS: no response to cmd 4 mid 36907
[800.538468] CIFS VFS: Send error in close = -11

It did end up finishing the image.  I don't know yet if the image is any good because I haven't dropped it back to a T400 yet.  I hope it is ok, because we have to drop it to over 100 laptops in less than a week!

I imaged it again and it did the same thing.  I don't know if it did it in the same spot though.

Please let me know what this error means and if there is a way to correct it.

Thanks,
Doug

[Doug Dudenhoeffer]

Ok, here is an update...

I tried a third time and it still did it.  However, it looked to be at a different time, but real close to the other.  It does it around the 35% range.  One was 35% and the other time it was 33%.  Not sure if this helps.

Also, I took the same pc (T400) and made an image to an external HD without a problem... I did NOT get the error.  So, it only creates this error when making the image to the network using a Lenovo T400.  I have made several images to the same network without any problems, but they were different model laptops... Still Lenovo, but different model.

Here is what interesting.  The image I created where the error happened seems to be ok.  I dropped the image to a T400 and the T400 boots up to XP pro without any issues... so far anyway.  So, I would like to know for 100% sure that this image is ok.

Any information anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Doug

[Steven Shiau]

I guess maybe the network card on your T400 is not well supported by the kernel on CloneZilla Live 1.2.1-47. Maybe you can try the 1.2.1-53 or even testing/experimental Clonezilla live.

Steven.

[Doug Dudenhoeffer]

I downloaded -53 and it seemed to address the issue.  It did not throw any errors while making the image.  I saw it pause once for about 10-15 seconds, but then it picked right back up.  So I'm pretty confident this version addressed the issue. 

Thanks!
Doug

Oh yea, on the image I made that DID throw the errors... I dropped that image back to a laptop without an issue.  The laptop boots fine and seems to run fine, so it may be a mute point anyway.  However, I'm more confident with the image I created using -53.