Bug#380703: mondo: Mondo/Mindi detects my serial ATA hard disk as an IDE.

2006-10-02 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Hi Robert,

Thanks a lot for your response. And, yes, your bug report is important
to me. ;-)

I've gone back now to the usefulFiles.tar.bz2 file you sent through on
14 Aug 06.

/UsefulFiles/MySystem/bootupMessages says you are running your custom
kernel on your system. It is really important that you run the stock
Debian kernel while you are doing a mondoarchive run. We really need to
minimise the differences between the normal and the restore environment
and make everything as close to standard as possible.

Secondly, /UsefulFiles/Mondo/2.6.16-2-686-smp/bootup.messages starts
midway through which is because the kernel ring buffer is too small to
hold all the info. It would be great if you could proceed as described
here: http://www.mondorescue.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/AndreesStuff - at
the bottom under 'Getting the entire kernel log on restore media'.

If you were in a position to rerun with the above two changes, i.e. use
stock Debian kernel whilst using mondoarchive and read entire kernel
ring buffer whilst restoring, and send your helpful files again, that
would be really great.

Other than that, you could indeed try to change all references from sda
to hda in your mountlist for the restore and then answer no at the end
when the system asks you whether you changed the mountlist.

Best regards,
Andree

PS: It would be great if you could always cc the bug under
[EMAIL PROTECTED] so that we have all information captured in
Debian's bug tracking system.

On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 18:05 -0700, Robert Jeffrey Miesen wrote: 
 Hi Andree.
 
   I executed both suggestions you gave me and unfortunately neither of 
 them 
 worked. I am curious about something, though. I noticed that in the 
 interactive restoration process, you have the option of modifying the 
 partition list (i.e.---by changing the mount location, the device to map a 
 certain device to, the size of the new partition, etc.). How would changing 
 the mountpoint of a certain partition from an IDE disk to a SCSI disk affect 
 the restore? This might be a way to work around this bug until the bug is 
 caught and exterminated.
 
   I'm sorry if my language seems a bit inaccurate and confusing, but I am 
 still 
 getting over a bug myself (albeit a different kind of bug). Please let me 
 know if I can be of any further help in tracking this bug down.
 
 On Thursday 28 September 2006 07:15, you wrote:
  Hi Jeffrey,
 
  I was just wondering whether you may have had a chance to try any of my
  suggestions. It would be great if we could move forward with this bug,
  particularly because I'd like to have things cleaned up for the etch
  freeze which is coming up soon.
 
  Thanks a lot  best regards,
  Andree
 
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@ Debian Developer
Sydney - Australia



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Bug#380703: mondo: Mondo/Mindi detects my serial ATA hard disk as an IDE.

2006-09-28 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Hi Jeffrey,

I was just wondering whether you may have had a chance to try any of my
suggestions. It would be great if we could move forward with this bug,
particularly because I'd like to have things cleaned up for the etch
freeze which is coming up soon.

Thanks a lot  best regards,
Andree
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@ Debian Developer
Sydney - Australia



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Bug#380703: mondo: Mondo/Mindi detects my serial ATA hard disk as an IDE.

2006-08-30 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Hi Jeffrey,

I had just another idea occurring to me: Could you provide the following
kernel boot prompt parameter when restoring:

hda=noprobe

so, for example:

nuke hda=noprobe

This might make it so that the IDE subsystem ignores your disk and the
sata driver get a chance to pick it up (and make it /dev/sda).

Would be great if you could let me know how you go (also with the other
suggestions I made before - not that I would want to put pressure on
you ;-) ).

Cheers,
Andree
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Bug#380703: mondo: Mondo/Mindi detects my serial ATA hard disk as an IDE.

2006-08-15 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Hi Robert,

Thank you for the update and for running things with a stock kernel!

It would be great if for all future tests you could keep using that
kernel.

Now the next step: Looking at bootupMessages makes me wonder whether
this is an issue related to the order in which modules are loaded when
the rescue kernel boots. Therefore, in /usr/sbin/mindi, could you find
the first appearance of IDE_MODS and change it to:

IDE_MODS=libata ata_piix ide ide-generic ide-detect ide-mod ide-disk
ide-cd ide_cd ide-cs ide-core ide_core edd paride

and do another run? (This would basically make it so that libata and
ata_piix would get loaded first.)

Cheers,
Andree

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 22:02 -0700, Robert Jeffrey Miesen wrote:
 Hi Andree.
 
   I ran mondoarcive with the latest stock version of debian 2.6.16-smp (I 
 think 
 that it is 2.6.16-2-686-smp) and it still persisted in detecting my SATA 
 drives as IDEs. 
 
   Attached is a tarball containing various useful files that should help 
 you 
 further diagnose the problem. The information includes:
 
 --  the results of running fdisk -l on both /dev/hda and /dev/sda
 --  a copy of /var/log/messages
 --  a copy of /var/log/mondo-archive.log
 --  the result of running 'uname -r'
 --  a copy of the bootup messages (dmesg)
 
 The information is separated into to different folders: the information for 
 Mondo and the information for my system (running 2.6.17, though the results 
 shouldn't vary too greatly for any 2.6.17 kernel).
 
 On Monday 14 August 2006 02:46, you wrote:
  Hi Robert,
 
  No worries!
 
  Could you try with the latest stock Debian 2.6.16 kernel? You can use
  optimised for your system, i.e. i686 and SMP at your convenience. (I am
  having issues with 2.6.17 and NFS because mkisofs hangs, don't know
  whether there are other problems, that's why I suggest to stick with
  2.6.16.)
 
  Cheers,
  Andree
 
  On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 22:22 -0700, Robert Jeffrey Miesen wrote:
   Sorry about being so slow about responding to your email.
  
 I'll go ahead and try using a standardized debian kernel. Could you tell
   me what kernel you used? That would be of much help to me.
  
 Thanks in advance.
  
   On Sunday 13 August 2006 05:42, you wrote:
Hi Robert,
   
I've bought a pair of SATA disks and done some testing using the
onboard Via SATA controller on my ASUS A8V Deluxe motherboard using an
amd64 etch system running kernel 2.6.16-2-amd64-k8-smp (2.6.16-17).
   
The result is that things worked fine for the restore, the disk was
recognised correctly as sda.
   
Which brings me back to my earlier point about the self-compiled
kernel. Could you try a stock Debian kernel and run with this?
   
Cheers,
Andree
 
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Bug#380703: mondo: Mondo/Mindi detects my serial ATA hard disk as an IDE.

2006-08-14 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Hi Robert,

No worries!

Could you try with the latest stock Debian 2.6.16 kernel? You can use
optimised for your system, i.e. i686 and SMP at your convenience. (I am
having issues with 2.6.17 and NFS because mkisofs hangs, don't know
whether there are other problems, that's why I suggest to stick with
2.6.16.)

Cheers,
Andree

On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 22:22 -0700, Robert Jeffrey Miesen wrote:
 Sorry about being so slow about responding to your email.
 
   I'll go ahead and try using a standardized debian kernel. Could you 
 tell me 
 what kernel you used? That would be of much help to me.
 
   Thanks in advance.
 
 
 On Sunday 13 August 2006 05:42, you wrote:
  Hi Robert,
 
  I've bought a pair of SATA disks and done some testing using the onboard
  Via SATA controller on my ASUS A8V Deluxe motherboard using an amd64
  etch system running kernel 2.6.16-2-amd64-k8-smp (2.6.16-17).
 
  The result is that things worked fine for the restore, the disk was
  recognised correctly as sda.
 
  Which brings me back to my earlier point about the self-compiled kernel.
  Could you try a stock Debian kernel and run with this?
 
  Cheers,
  Andree
 
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Bug#380703: mondo: Mondo/Mindi detects my serial ATA hard disk as an IDE.

2006-08-14 Thread Robert Jeffrey Miesen
Hi Andree.

I ran mondoarcive with the latest stock version of debian 2.6.16-smp (I 
think 
that it is 2.6.16-2-686-smp) and it still persisted in detecting my SATA 
drives as IDEs. 

Attached is a tarball containing various useful files that should help 
you 
further diagnose the problem. The information includes:

--  the results of running fdisk -l on both /dev/hda and /dev/sda
--  a copy of /var/log/messages
--  a copy of /var/log/mondo-archive.log
--  the result of running 'uname -r'
--  a copy of the bootup messages (dmesg)

The information is separated into to different folders: the information for 
Mondo and the information for my system (running 2.6.17, though the results 
shouldn't vary too greatly for any 2.6.17 kernel).

On Monday 14 August 2006 02:46, you wrote:
 Hi Robert,

 No worries!

 Could you try with the latest stock Debian 2.6.16 kernel? You can use
 optimised for your system, i.e. i686 and SMP at your convenience. (I am
 having issues with 2.6.17 and NFS because mkisofs hangs, don't know
 whether there are other problems, that's why I suggest to stick with
 2.6.16.)

 Cheers,
 Andree

 On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 22:22 -0700, Robert Jeffrey Miesen wrote:
  Sorry about being so slow about responding to your email.
 
  I'll go ahead and try using a standardized debian kernel. Could you tell
  me what kernel you used? That would be of much help to me.
 
  Thanks in advance.
 
  On Sunday 13 August 2006 05:42, you wrote:
   Hi Robert,
  
   I've bought a pair of SATA disks and done some testing using the
   onboard Via SATA controller on my ASUS A8V Deluxe motherboard using an
   amd64 etch system running kernel 2.6.16-2-amd64-k8-smp (2.6.16-17).
  
   The result is that things worked fine for the restore, the disk was
   recognised correctly as sda.
  
   Which brings me back to my earlier point about the self-compiled
   kernel. Could you try a stock Debian kernel and run with this?
  
   Cheers,
   Andree

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Bug#380703: mondo: Mondo/Mindi detects my serial ATA hard disk as an IDE.

2006-08-13 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Hi Robert,

I've bought a pair of SATA disks and done some testing using the onboard
Via SATA controller on my ASUS A8V Deluxe motherboard using an amd64
etch system running kernel 2.6.16-2-amd64-k8-smp (2.6.16-17).

The result is that things worked fine for the restore, the disk was
recognised correctly as sda.

Which brings me back to my earlier point about the self-compiled kernel.
Could you try a stock Debian kernel and run with this?

Cheers,
Andree
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Bug#380703: mondo: Mondo/Mindi detects my serial ATA hard disk as an IDE.

2006-08-04 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Hi Robert,

Thanks a lot for your extensive response!

From the fdisk* files you sent I'm now convinced that indeed your SATA
harddisk is recognised as a PATA disk in the restore system. Weird. (So
no need for a photo of the screen.)

I do not understand why MainSystemFiles/kernel-mainSystem says '2.6.17'.
Can you explain?

Why is it that you use a custom kernel? What's the issue with standard
kernels on your system (it's a laptop, right)? What happens if you boot
your normal system into say the kernel image in package
linux-image-2.6.16-2-486 (2.6.16-17)? Does this work? If so, could you
run mondoarchive with this kernel running and try to restore from the
rescue media created in that run? If not, what is the problem?

Also, looking at your lsmod output, I am wondering whether changing the
order in which IDE modules are loaded makes a difference. Therefore,
in /usr/sbin/mindi, could you find the first appearance of IDE_MODS and
change it to:

IDE_MODS=libata ata_piix ide ide-generic ide-detect ide-mod ide-disk
ide-cd ide_cd ide-cs ide-core ide_core edd paride

and try your original run again?

Finally, would you be able to send me a diff of the original
kernel .config before you modified it and the modified one? (Or just
send the original .config as I have the modified one laready and can
diff myself.)

Best regards  thanks for your help in trying to track this one down!
Andree


On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 11:12 -0700, Robert Jeffrey Miesen wrote:
 On Tuesday 01 August 2006 15:00, you wrote:
  Hi Robert,
 
  Thank you for reporting this bug.
 
  On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 18:02 -0700, Robert Jeffrey Miesen wrote:
   Package: mondo
   Version: 2.08-2-3
   Severity: critical
   Justification: breaks the whole system
 
  I am afraid that this is not a critical bug. Rather it is an important
  bug as it makes mondo completely unusable for some people, i.e. you in
  this case, but it certainly doesn't effect your _running_ system at all.
  (I have just completed a full archive and restore run using a PATA-only
  setup with no problem to confirm that their is no general problem.)
 
 
 OK, I understand your reasoning. Thank you for clarifying to me the nature of 
 critical bugs.
 
   Upon booting from a DVD image of my entire system, mondo/mindi detects
   my SATA (Serial ATA) hard disk as an IDE drive.
 
  (I do not currently have a SATA disk unfortunately, so I can't try this
  myself at the moment.)
 
  Am I getting this right that you are saying that your SATA disk which is
  sda in your system appears as hda when restoring to that very same
  system?
 
 
 Yes, you are correctly understanding me.
 
  Could you describe how you perform the restore? This would include any
  changes that you make to  the hardware like replacing or turning-off
  disks and such. Also, could you take a photo of the monitor to
  illustrate the problem.
 
 This is roughly how I do a restore on my new system:
 
 1.  Boot up computer from internal DVD drive.
 2.  Type in interactive from the command prompt and wait for Mindi to 
 boot up.
 3.  Select the Interactively option at the first curses prompt.
 4.  Select the DVD Disks option at the second curses prompt.
 5.  Verify that the mountlist is to my liking (I usually end up deleting 
 sdb and sdc from this list, since they are jump disks and I don't restore 
 jump disks).
 6.  Rip my hair out when I find that Mondo/Mindi detected my SATA as hda 
 instead of sda.
 7.  Eject disk, reboot system.
 
 
 I don't turn off any hardware, though I have an external cdrom listed 
 in /etc/fstab which I leave disconnected from my system when doing restores 
 (this external DVD burner is detected as  /dev/scd0 or /dev/scd1 device, 
 depending on the state of /dev/ at the time of mounting.
 
 I don't know how to take screenshots of the screen while in Mindi, so I 
 cannot 
 include a picture to illustrate the problem (and I also lack a digital camera 
 as well).
 
 
  Further to that, could you boot into expert mode by entering 'expert' at
  the rescue media boot prompt and hitting enter. Once the system has
  booted could you do:
  fdisk -l /dev/hda
  and
  fdisk -l /dev/sda
  and send post the output. Could you do the same in your normal system?
 
 Done. See the tarred and bzipped file attached to this email and check the 
 appropriately named folders for the information you are looking for. Let me 
 know if for some reason my naming scheme is less intuitive than I think it is 
 and you need help deciphering it.
 
 
  If you have sda as your disk, then hda would quite likely be your
  optical drive (maybe in your case your DVD writer). 
 
 Actually, in this case my DVD writer is detected as hdc (it should have been 
 detected as scd0, since it too is a serial device of some sort).
 
  Maybe what really 
  happens is that the SATA disk is not recognised at all and hda is the
  optical drive. 
 
 My hard disk is detected as hda. See the output for fdisk -l /dev/hda for 
 mondo 

Bug#380703: Fwd: Re: Bug#380703: mondo: Mondo/Mindi detects my serial ATA hard disk as an IDE.

2006-08-03 Thread Robert Jeffrey Miesen


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Subject: Re: Bug#380703: mondo: Mondo/Mindi detects my serial ATA hard disk as 
an IDE.
Date: Thursday 03 August 2006 11:19
From: Robert Jeffrey Miesen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Bruno Cornec [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 16:40, you wrote:
 Andree Leidenfrost said on Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:00:47AM +1000:
   Upon booting from a DVD image of my entire system, mondo/mindi detects
   my SATA (Serial ATA) hard disk as an IDE drive.

 Without any log file, I have problems understanding that.
 Please Could you provide /tmp/mondo-restore.log when restoring, as well
 as /var/log/mondo-archive.log when backuping to help in diags.

Sure. They are attached to this email.

 Do you mean that your sda (if that's the way your SATA drive is seen) is
 now seen as hda ?

Yes. When I boot my main system, my SATA is detected as a serial device
(designated by the sd prefix) and when I boot Mondo/Mindi, my SATA is
detected as an IDE (designated by the hd prefix).

   This makes my backup virtually worthless in the event of a
   catastrophic failure of my system (whether from me messing it up or my
   hard disk failing). That is why I called this bug a critical bug,
   because it does break the whole system when you can't restore your
   system.

 Well afio format is ALWAYS readable, if you need access to your data.

 Bruno.

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Bug#380703: mondo: Mondo/Mindi detects my serial ATA hard disk as an IDE.

2006-08-03 Thread Robert Jeffrey Miesen
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 15:00, you wrote:
 Hi Robert,

 Thank you for reporting this bug.

 On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 18:02 -0700, Robert Jeffrey Miesen wrote:
  Package: mondo
  Version: 2.08-2-3
  Severity: critical
  Justification: breaks the whole system

 I am afraid that this is not a critical bug. Rather it is an important
 bug as it makes mondo completely unusable for some people, i.e. you in
 this case, but it certainly doesn't effect your _running_ system at all.
 (I have just completed a full archive and restore run using a PATA-only
 setup with no problem to confirm that their is no general problem.)


OK, I understand your reasoning. Thank you for clarifying to me the nature of 
critical bugs.

  Upon booting from a DVD image of my entire system, mondo/mindi detects
  my SATA (Serial ATA) hard disk as an IDE drive.

 (I do not currently have a SATA disk unfortunately, so I can't try this
 myself at the moment.)

 Am I getting this right that you are saying that your SATA disk which is
 sda in your system appears as hda when restoring to that very same
 system?


Yes, you are correctly understanding me.

 Could you describe how you perform the restore? This would include any
 changes that you make to  the hardware like replacing or turning-off
 disks and such. Also, could you take a photo of the monitor to
 illustrate the problem.

This is roughly how I do a restore on my new system:

1.  Boot up computer from internal DVD drive.
2.  Type in interactive from the command prompt and wait for Mindi to 
boot up.
3.  Select the Interactively option at the first curses prompt.
4.  Select the DVD Disks option at the second curses prompt.
5.  Verify that the mountlist is to my liking (I usually end up deleting 
sdb and sdc from this list, since they are jump disks and I don't restore 
jump disks).
6.  Rip my hair out when I find that Mondo/Mindi detected my SATA as hda 
instead of sda.
7.  Eject disk, reboot system.


I don't turn off any hardware, though I have an external cdrom listed 
in /etc/fstab which I leave disconnected from my system when doing restores 
(this external DVD burner is detected as  /dev/scd0 or /dev/scd1 device, 
depending on the state of /dev/ at the time of mounting.

I don't know how to take screenshots of the screen while in Mindi, so I cannot 
include a picture to illustrate the problem (and I also lack a digital camera 
as well).


 Further to that, could you boot into expert mode by entering 'expert' at
 the rescue media boot prompt and hitting enter. Once the system has
 booted could you do:
 fdisk -l /dev/hda
 and
 fdisk -l /dev/sda
 and send post the output. Could you do the same in your normal system?

Done. See the tarred and bzipped file attached to this email and check the 
appropriately named folders for the information you are looking for. Let me 
know if for some reason my naming scheme is less intuitive than I think it is 
and you need help deciphering it.


 If you have sda as your disk, then hda would quite likely be your
 optical drive (maybe in your case your DVD writer). 

Actually, in this case my DVD writer is detected as hdc (it should have been 
detected as scd0, since it too is a serial device of some sort).

 Maybe what really 
 happens is that the SATA disk is not recognised at all and hda is the
 optical drive. 

My hard disk is detected as hda. See the output for fdisk -l /dev/hda for 
mondo and compare that to the output for fdisk -l /dev/sda on my system to 
see what I mean. Again, my DVD writer is detected as hdc (I 
checked /tmp/CDROM-LIVES-HERE and found that out in Mindi).

 Again, it would be helpful to understand better how you 
 are restoring. As an example you wouldn't just overwrite your SATA disk
 I presume. So, do you change disks or do you turn them off? (It's that
 sort of things that I really need to understand better.)

Well, it depends on what the situation is. If my system gets completely hosed, 
then I will likely just overwrite my SATA disk by typing in the 
magical nuke option at the Mondo/Mindi boot prompt and watch my system come 
back to life (I hope).

The only disks I turn off are my external DVD writer and my jump disks, 
since none of them are backed up.


 Could you also send me the output of lsmod when in your normal system
 and when booted into the restore system in expert mode as described
 above.

Done. See the tarred and bzipped file attached to this email and check the 
appropriately named folders for the information you are looking for. Let me 
know if for some reason my naming scheme is less intuitive than I think it is 
and you need help deciphering it.


  This makes my backup virtually worthless in the event of a
  catastrophic failure of my system (whether from me messing it up or my
  hard disk failing). That is why I called this bug a critical bug,
  because it does break the whole system when you can't restore your
  system.

 Please see the top of my response. I can understand 

Bug#380703: mondo: Mondo/Mindi detects my serial ATA hard disk as an IDE.

2006-08-02 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Hi Bruno,

Thanks a lot for looking into this!

On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 01:40 +0200, Bruno Cornec wrote:
 Andree Leidenfrost said on Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:00:47AM +1000:
 
   Upon booting from a DVD image of my entire system, mondo/mindi detects
   my SATA (Serial ATA) hard disk as an IDE drive.
 
 Without any log file, I have problems understanding that.
 Please Could you provide /tmp/mondo-restore.log when restoring, as well
 as /var/log/mondo-archive.log when backuping to help in diags.

Note that the original message has the mondo-archive.log and mindi.log
inline: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=380703

I couldn't find anything suspicious - maybe you can.

mondo-restore.log would certainly be good, though.

 Do you mean that your sda (if that's the way your SATA drive is seen) is
 now seen as hda ?
 
   This makes my backup virtually worthless in the event of a
   catastrophic failure of my system (whether from me messing it up or my
   hard disk failing). That is why I called this bug a critical bug,
   because it does break the whole system when you can't restore your
   system.
 
 Well afio format is ALWAYS readable, if you need access to your data.
 
 Bruno.

Cheers,
Andree
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@ Debian Developer
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Bug#380703: mondo: Mondo/Mindi detects my serial ATA hard disk as an IDE.

2006-08-02 Thread Bruno Cornec
Andree Leidenfrost said on Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:58:06PM +1000:

 Note that the original message has the mondo-archive.log and mindi.log
 inline: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=380703

Yes sorry. Mistake on my side.

 I couldn't find anything suspicious - maybe you can.

Well, I don't think we have a full system backup here with the options
used. That may be a problem. But without knowing what is tried during
restore (screenshot and logfile) I can't comment more.

 mondo-restore.log would certainly be good, though.

Indeed.

Bruno.
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Bug#380703: mondo: Mondo/Mindi detects my serial ATA hard disk as an IDE.

2006-08-01 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Hi Robert,

Thank you for reporting this bug.

On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 18:02 -0700, Robert Jeffrey Miesen wrote:
 Package: mondo
 Version: 2.08-2-3
 Severity: critical
 Justification: breaks the whole system

I am afraid that this is not a critical bug. Rather it is an important
bug as it makes mondo completely unusable for some people, i.e. you in
this case, but it certainly doesn't effect your _running_ system at all.
(I have just completed a full archive and restore run using a PATA-only
setup with no problem to confirm that their is no general problem.)

 Upon booting from a DVD image of my entire system, mondo/mindi detects
 my SATA (Serial ATA) hard disk as an IDE drive.

(I do not currently have a SATA disk unfortunately, so I can't try this
myself at the moment.)

Am I getting this right that you are saying that your SATA disk which is
sda in your system appears as hda when restoring to that very same
system?

Could you describe how you perform the restore? This would include any
changes that you make to  the hardware like replacing or turning-off
disks and such. Also, could you take a photo of the monitor to
illustrate the problem.

Further to that, could you boot into expert mode by entering 'expert' at
the rescue media boot prompt and hitting enter. Once the system has
booted could you do:
fdisk -l /dev/hda
and
fdisk -l /dev/sda
and send post the output. Could you do the same in your normal system?

If you have sda as your disk, then hda would quite likely be your
optical drive (maybe in your case your DVD writer). Maybe what really
happens is that the SATA disk is not recognised at all and hda is the
optical drive. Again, it would be helpful to understand better how you
are restoring. As an example you wouldn't just overwrite your SATA disk
I presume. So, do you change disks or do you turn them off? (It's that
sort of things that I really need to understand better.)

Could you also send me the output of lsmod when in your normal system
and when booted into the restore system in expert mode as described
above.

 This makes my backup virtually worthless in the event of a
 catastrophic failure of my system (whether from me messing it up or my
 hard disk failing). That is why I called this bug a critical bug,
 because it does break the whole system when you can't restore your
 system.

Please see the top of my response. I can understand that you consider
this serious and for you it likely is. For Debian as a whole, however,
it is not. Note that this does not influence my commitment to fixing the
problem - I do definitely find this important.

If there is anything else that you can think of that could be related,
please mention it! The more information we have the more likely we can
fix this.

Best regards,
Andree
-- 
Andree Leidenfrost
@ Debian Developer
Sydney - Australia



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Bug#380703: mondo: Mondo/Mindi detects my serial ATA hard disk as an IDE.

2006-08-01 Thread Bruno Cornec
Andree Leidenfrost said on Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:00:47AM +1000:

  Upon booting from a DVD image of my entire system, mondo/mindi detects
  my SATA (Serial ATA) hard disk as an IDE drive.

Without any log file, I have problems understanding that.
Please Could you provide /tmp/mondo-restore.log when restoring, as well
as /var/log/mondo-archive.log when backuping to help in diags.

Do you mean that your sda (if that's the way your SATA drive is seen) is
now seen as hda ?

  This makes my backup virtually worthless in the event of a
  catastrophic failure of my system (whether from me messing it up or my
  hard disk failing). That is why I called this bug a critical bug,
  because it does break the whole system when you can't restore your
  system.

Well afio format is ALWAYS readable, if you need access to your data.

Bruno.
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