[Voyage-linux] Bug reports

[Gustin Johnson]

I use ddrescue for cloning CF cards.  You sometimes have to be careful
about the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file if your interfaces
do not get names that you expect.

Hth,

2012/3/5 Stanislav Sinyagin <ssinyagin at yahoo.com>

> I'll have spare CF cards by Thursday, and will be able to reproduce the
> issue with vmstat. By the way, "top" also showed some strange results,
> although it did not crash.
>
> In regards to cloning, I just realised, I could do
> dump -f -  /dev/sda1 | restore -f - /dev/hdc1
> and then grub install.
>
> As Voyage root system is in readonly mode, cloning from a live system is a
> safe operation. I was just in a hurry, so thinking was in lower priority :)
>
>
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Kim-man 'Punky' TSE <punkytse at punknix.com>
>
> *To:* Stanislav Sinyagin <ssinyagin at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* "voyage-linux at list.voyage.hk" <voyage-linux at voyage.hk>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:38 AM
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Voyage-linux] Bug reports
>
>  Hi Stanislav,
>
> On 3/6/2012 12:29 AM, Stanislav Sinyagin wrote:
> >
> > With the kernel 3.2.x, "vmstat 1" was running for few seconds, and then
> went off with "floating point error". If some user process is running and
> consuming some CPU, vmstat was running without problem. So, it looks like a
> division by zero or something like that.
> Show me the vmstat output and at a point that it flows "floating point
> error".
> >
> > for the cloning -- I was trying to clone an ALIX board into an
> USB-attached CF card, with the idea to use it in another ALIX. It duidn't
> go well, so I just went the usual installation path.
> Copy "itself" didn't work.  At least I know it won't work so I never try.
> It is better to take your system offline and do a disk image clone on a 3rd
> machine.
> > I used "voyage.update" script with "/" as source distribution path. When
> CF was mounted in /tmp/cf, it even finished successfully, but CF was not
> bootable.
> >
> >
>
>
> -- Regards,
> Kim-man "Punky" Tse
>
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