[rear-users] After installing REAR, my Debian server starts without a network

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On 2021-03-31 00:16, SHarbich at t-online.de wrote (excerpts):
> Debian Buster Server, REAR Version 2.4 + dfsg-1.
...
> rear -v format -- --efi --force /dev/sdc1
> rear -v mkbackup
...
> When my server starts, I see the following note in the boot journal.
> ...
> Mär 30 23:32:22 ldap systemd-udevd[318]: Spawned process
> '/usr/sbin/rear udev' [365] is taking longer than 59s to complete

I am not a Debian user so I cannot reproduce issues
with ReaR on Debian or with Debian's ReaR software package.

I think your issue is same as
https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/2180

Furthermore the ReaR software you have from Debian is rather old
(ReaR 2.4 is from June 2018, current one is ReaR 2.6 from June 2020)
cf. "Testing current ReaR upstream GitHub master code" in
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Disaster_Recovery

I guess the ReaR software you have from Debian contains a udev rule
file for ReaR like /etc/udev/rules.d/62-rear-usb.rules
or similar like /lib/udev/rules.d/60-rear.rules
that calls '/usr/sbin/rear udev' during boot, cf.
https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/master/etc/udev/rules.d/62-rear-usb.rules

See also the somewhat related issue
https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/840
which is about '/usr/sbin/rear udev' in general


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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