System will not image after update: mkfifo error related?

[Tom Elliott]

@CBT The error you’re seeing appears because the /tmp/pigz1 file already exists. This, itself, is not a problem at all. What’s interesting, is it doesn’t appear to try imaging. It doesn’t even appear to try mounting anythign?

[Tom Elliott]

@CBT what’s the output of:

cat /images/Windows7EnterpriseDecember2016/d1.{minimum.,}partitions

What’s output of fdisk -l /dev/sda

[CBT]

cat ouput for /images/Windows7EnterpriseDecember2016/d1.{minimum.,}partitions

fdisk -l out for /dev/sda

ls -al /tmp/ produces no results for pigz1

running fog from debug mode shows that the image properly mounts according to what’s outputted. From the host logs on the webgui it’s showing that the regular image and debug image events are successful

[Tom Elliott]

What is “Version 13?”

Did you git checkout working and came up with this?

[Tom Elliott]

For what it’s worth, I think I know why this isn’t working right.

For this image (and possibly others) you should see something in the “Image Manager”.

Based on what I’m seeing (so far) the compression type element is missing from your Image management page?

It should look similar to:

Why is this important when in the past it wasn’t? Because we have zstd, pigz, and uncompressed modes now. In the past, it only assumed partclone with gzip IF the type was not partimage. The check was basically:

case $format in
    1)
        pigz -dc </tmp/pigz1 | partimage restore ${target} stdin -f3 -b 2>/tmp/status.fog
        ;;
    *)
        pigz -dc </tmp/pigz1 | partclone.restore --ignore_crc -O ${target} -N -f 1
        ;;
esac

In the new method, it uses:

case $format in
    [5-6])
         zstdmt -dc </tmp/pigz1 | partclone.restore -n "Storage Location $storage, Image name $img" --ignore_crc -O ${target} -Nf 1
        ;;
    [3-4])
        cat </tmp/pigz1 | partclone.restore -n "Storage Location $storage, Image name $img" --ignore_crc -O ${target} -Nf 1
        ;;
    1)
        pigz -dc </tmp/pigz1 | partimage restore ${target} stdin -f3 -b 2>/tmp/status.
        ;;
    0|2)
        pigz -dc </tmp/pigz1 | partclone.restore -n "Storage Location $storage, Image name $img" --ignore_crc -O ${target} -N -f 1
        ;;
esac

Notice there is no *) line? My guess is the image is not sending the format code when the tasking begins. This should occur automatically if you run an update.

[CBT]

Compression currently set to 9, but there is not Image Manager option with our version it seems,

@apathetic_admin updated to 1.4 RC, commit ae137758eba57b3c8cbbe316142a628020231045 and then we noticed the issue, so he pulled commit 56c296e9ae2af0e0ba34b12a04b0b8db0a2dc423, which did not resolve the issue.

I will see if the update helps, thank you for your assistance.

[Quazz]

@CBT 1.4.0 release is out, it’s newer than the RC versions. I don’t believe there’s a new RC already available, only a working-branch atm.

It would be useful to know why you don’t have this option, though. Anything in the apache error logs?

[CBT]

apache2\error.log produces the following with varied URLs:

PHP Warning: Illegal offset type in /var/www/fog/lib/fog/fogpagemanager.class.php on line 152, referer: http://fog.rmgcom.local/fog/management/index.php?node=*

[apathetic_admin]

@Quazz I changed to the master branch, which is the 1.4.0 release, and we just installed it. @CBT is going to poke around it and he’ll get back with you.

[CBT]

@Quazz

Update to 1.4.0 seems to have fixed the issue with imaging.