Clonezilla Live hangs when trying to detect USB devices after "Press 'Enter' to continue..."

[Robert Cohen]

I am new to this software. I did succesfully do a backup to USB device on a test server, but when I tried it on the actual server I want to backup, clonezilla seems to hang right after the part where it asks you to insert USB devices and wait 5 seconds. The USB device is already plugged in when I boot the machine, boot to CD works fine and all, but for some reason it seems to get stuck when trying to detect USB.. just get a blinking cursor until I hard reboot.

[Arthur Tromp]

Normally you would get something like the following after pressing Enter:

Available disk(s) on this machine:
===================================
Excluding busy partition or disk...
/dev/sdb: WDC_WD2500AAKX-6 WDC_WD2500AAKX-603CA0_WD-WCAYV0179657 250GB
===================================
Update periodically. Press Ctrl-C to exit this window.

With indeed a blinking cursor. You could try to just press Ctrl-C when you get the blinking cursor to see if the process continues.

What version of Clonezilla Live do you use?

[Robert Cohen]

Thanks. I am using version 2.5.2-31-amd64
ctrl-C does indeed get me to the next screen, where it says mounting local dev as /home/partimag...
excluding busy partition or disk...
finding partitions.

Then nothing happens. ctrl c just prints ^c at this point. I did manage to get back out to restart by pressing enter I think.

I also am trying device-device instead of device-image and then it gets stuck on "shutting down the logical volume manager". If I ctrl-c after that, I get "ocs-live-general" finished with error!

[Arthur Tromp]

You might want to try the alternative stable or alternative testing version of Clonezilla Live. They normally come with a newer kernel which might support your hardware better.