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crash: CloneZilla 2.4.2-10 DL:12Jun15 "mktemp: failed . . ."

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pbea
2015-06-14
2015-08-01
  • pbea

    pbea - 2015-06-14

    If this is the wrong area for bug reports Please let me know where I can post this. Thank You.

    This is my first time using this version / disk. Opened up the option below Clonezilla at the beginning of the boot process to get to the CLI.

    used fsck -f on all disks involved - mounted all disks involved - used rsync to copy and delete files sudo umounted all mounted partitions and exited.

    The next screen showed the following,

    "
    mktemp: failed to create file via template
    '/tmp/cmdtemp.xxxxxx: Read-only file system
    /usr/share/drbl/sbin/drbl-functions:
    line 2424: $parse_tmp: ambiguous redirect
    -i used with no filenames on the command line,
    reading from STDIN.
    "

    Then nothing - dead!

    Rebooted - went directly into CloneZilla and no apparent problems backing up two partitions.

    Hope this helps.

    Anything else let me know.

    Thanks

     
    • pbea

      pbea - 2015-07-09

      Sorry for the delay but I was unable to find where I lodged this issue.

      This issue is 100% reproducible. I have about 12mb of memory and I have never used more than 1/3 of it.

      What I do is (fsck -f) a number of ext4 partitions, (mount) them, use (rsync -auv) to update the filelist, (umount -a) them and (EXIT).

      Upon exit the issue pops up as stated 100% of the time.

      Hope this late message helps.

       
  • pbea

    pbea - 2015-06-14

    some help

    the initial step was I got in was 'enter shell > cmd'

    I tried just entering the shell and back out and everything was normal

    I tried it again but with mkdir and mounting a partition then umounting then the same error message.

    Hope this helps

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2015-06-20

    I have never encounter this issue here.
    How about your RAM size? Is it too small? Or I can not find any possibilities which will cause Clonezilla to crash like that.

    Steven.

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2015-07-10

    "12mb of memory"?
    The basic requirements for Clonezilla live is 196 MB, as described here:
    http://clonezilla.org/

    Steven.

     
  • pbea

    pbea - 2015-07-10

    I wrote down where this was lodged so now I can read the replies.

    Typo!

    should be "12gb of memory"

    Does anyone have 12mb of memory?

    The issue is persistent.

    Hope this helps.

     
  • pbea

    pbea - 2015-07-12

    Sorry to bother you again but I have isolated the problem and it is a change that 'you' have made recently.

    I use the shell to do some file copying prior to a backup. I sudo mount 8 partitions prior to copying. When I am finished I sudo umount -a before EXITing.

    This is the cause of the crash. Up until now sudo umount -a has done its job and I continue to clone but not with Clonezila 2.4.2-10 downloaded on 15 June. After EXIT I crash.

    After a number of different trial scenarios I found that sudo umount -a causes a crash but
    sudo umount part1 part2 part3 part4 part5 . . .
    doesn't.

    Apparently you have mounted a filesystem probably /tmp somewhere where a user can umount it in the shell.

    Anyway, I hope this helps.

    Thanks.

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2015-08-01

    Got it. Yes, due to the live system limitation, sometimes we have to use the dir in /tmp/ as the mount point.
    Thanks for sharing that.

    Steven.

     

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