fixparts missing in 1.6.0-beta.5540 and also in 1.5.10

[delacroix]

I’m trying to capture a windows 10 laptop. At the very beginning of the process it shows:

Attempting fixparts....failed
Could not fix partition layout (runFixparts)

I startet a debug task on the laptop, and running fixparts manually gives “file not found”, and it is not found in /usr/bin nor /usr/sbin. I also decompressed and mounted the current EXP_20261021-160109 init.xz but fixparts was nowhere to be found.

Do i look in the wrong file?

[Tom Elliott]

@delacroix fixparts went missing from FOS during a Buildroot update. The fix (fos#195) landed yesterday, and the first build with it is EXP_20261021-160109. I checked that release: /usr/sbin/fixparts is present in init.xz, init_32.xz, and arm_init.cpio.gz.

Your debug task boots the init that your FOG server serves, not the one you downloaded. Put the new file in place on the server:

cd /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe
mv init.xz init.xz.old
wget https://github.com/FOGProject/fos/releases/download/EXP_20261021-160109/init.xz
sha256sum init.xz

The hash must match the init.xz.sha256 on the release page (it starts 8e3457ad4268add5). To check the content without a boot:

xz -dc init.xz > /tmp/init.img
debugfs -R "ls -l /usr/sbin" /tmp/init.img | grep fixparts

Then run the capture again. If fixparts is in that listing and the capture still fails, please post the output of fixparts /dev/sdX (or /dev/nvme0n1) from a debug task.