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MX Linux 19: Clonezilla fails w/ error "syntax error near unexpected token `<"

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k7aay
2020-01-10
2020-01-26
  • k7aay

    k7aay - 2020-01-10

    I've created an MX-Linux 19 LiveUSB with
    Clonezilla ver. 3.27.16-3 installed by Synaptic
    Package Manager from the MX Linux repository, which I then remastered. The
    remastered LiveUSB passed several tests and allowed me to install MX 19 to
    an SSD which itself runs AOK.

    Clonezilla is started from a launcher on the desktop which runs sudo
    /usr/sbin/clonezilla
    . After booting from that MX-Linux LiveUSB completes,
    I then plug in a second USB (not Live) which holds a Clonezilla image, and
    unmounted it after it appeared in Thunar File Manager. The destination to
    install the image on is an erased GPT SSD and appears in Thunar and Gparted
    both.

    I launch gparted, select device-image mode, assign
    the location of the image to read from as local_dev, and when prompted to,
    insert the second USB, the non-Live USB with the Clonezilla image. I then
    open Thunar, and when it automounts the LiveUSB, I unmount it, and close
    Thunar.

    Back into Clonezilla where I tell it to proceed. It shows me sdd1 as
    available to mount as /home/partimage but when I select that, errors scroll
    down the screen and repeats rapidly in a loop.

    https://pastebin.com/6dsvGRbA has the error message which begins with

    Scanning dir
    /tmp/ocsroot_bind_root.............../usr/share/drbl/sbin/ocs-functions:
    eval: line 12703: syntax error near unexpected token `<'

    I found a Clonezila bug in
    https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/d37e37ee/?limit=25
    which suggests updating drbl but there are no instructions to do so for
    Debian 10, the foundation for MX Linux 19.

    How might I resolve this?


    73/Best regards de John Bartley K7AAY CN85oj •|||||||•

     

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