Fatal error... Failed to generate boot+data disks

[Larry Havemann]

About 2 weeks ago this system was restored from mondo. It's regular schedule backup failed a few days ago with the following errors. The first version of mondo was 2.2.7, I updated it today to 2.2.9-1 and receive the same errors. The section about kernel being invalid did not start until the failure started. Kernel is default from RHEL 5.3.

---promptdialogYN---1--- Kernel not found or invalid. Choose another? ---promptdialogYN---Q--- [yes] [no] --- --> yes ---promptstring---1--- Kernel path ---promptstring---2--- What is the full path and filename of your kernel, please? ---promptstring---Q--- --> /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5 Calling MINDI to create boot+data disks Your boot loader is GRUB and it boots from /dev/sda Waiting for external binary to start Mindi failed to create your boot+data disks. Fatal error... Failed to generate boot+data disks ---FATALERROR--- Failed to generate boot+data disks If you require technical support, please contact the mailing list. See ​http://www.mondorescue.org for details. The list's members can help you, if you attach that file to your e-mail. Log file: /var/log/mondoarchive.log Mondo has aborted. Execution run ended; result=254

[Bruno Cornec]

The error seems to be this one:

...od: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5: read error: Input/output error
444 	FATAL ERROR. gzip magic not found in file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5. Terminating.

Try this please:

file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5

I guess it's the std RH kernel right ?

[Larry Havemann]

It is indeed the std RH kernel. What I find most odd about this issue is we just restored this system using mondo, and post restore the backups started failing. Here's the output from the file command:

[root@jpldbmysqls1 ~]# file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5: GLS_BINARY_LSB_FIRST

[Bruno Cornec]

Looking for that file type in google I found:

# GLS is OpenGL stream encoding; GLS is the successor of GLF 0 string glsBeginGLS( GLS_TEXT 4 belong 0x10000000 GLS_BINARY_LSB_FIRST 4 belong 0x00000010 GLS_BINARY_MSB_FIRST

Notsure how an OpenGL file is related to the kernel. Can you check your kernel package with rpm -V kernel-... to see if no problem arrived to your file ?

[saito]

$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.35-27-generic # 48-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 22 20:25:29 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=maverick
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.10"
$

$ sudo mondoarchive -Oi -L -N -s 4200m -d /tmp/backup -E /tmp/backup ...

Your backup will probably occupy a single ISO. Maybe two.
Done.
Copying Mondo's core files to the scratch directory
Done.
Calling MINDI to create boot+data disks
Your boot loader is GRUB and it boots from /dev/sda
Waiting for 'echo hi > mondo.tmp.rzhMcj/mojo-jojo.bla.bla ; mindi --custom /
Mindi failed to create your boot+data disks.
Fatal error... Failed to generate boot+data disks
---FATALERROR--- Failed to generate boot+data disks
If you require technical support, please contact the mailing list.
See ​http://www.mondorescue.org for details.
The list's members can help you, if you attach that file to your e-mail.
Log file: /var/log/mondoarchive.log
Mondo has aborted.
Execution run ended; result=254
Type 'less /var/log/mondoarchive.log' to see the output log
rm: cannot remove `mondo.tmp.2IJm3r/mnt1': Device or resource busy

[Bruno Cornec]

Your problem is different from the first author: in your case, your mindi version is obsolete compared to your mondo version. Update mindi to 2.0.7.x from ​ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/ubuntu/10.10