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

[Gratien D'haese]

Try to get more information out of your system about the processes doing
the wrong thing by: 

journalctl _PID=318
journalctl _PID=288 

Curious to see what that gives?

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Gratien D'haese
IT3 Consultants bv
Vennestraat 15, B-2560 Nijlen
E-mail: gratien.dhaese at it3.be 

On 2021-03-31 00:16, SHarbich at t-online.de wrote:

> Hello, 
> 
> i have a very big problem. After installing in REAR on my Debian server and performing a backup, my Debian server only starts without a network. This is not good!
> Okay my versions:
> Debian Buster Server, REAR Version 2.4 + dfsg-1. 
> 
> ... 
> 
> root at ldap:~# cat /etc/rear/local.conf 
> OUTPUT=USB
> BACKUP=NETFS
> BACKUP_URL="usb:///dev/sdc2"
> GRUB_RESCUE=1
> 
> ... 
> 
> I executed the following commands to save a backup on a USB hard drive. 
> 
> ... 
> 
> 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
> Mär 30 23:32:22 ldap systemd-udevd[288]: sdc2: Worker [318] processing SEQNUM=1928 is taking a long time
> Mär 30 23:33:19 ldap systemd[1]: ifupdown-pre.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> Mär 30 23:33:19 ldap systemd[1]: ifupdown-pre.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
> Mär 30 23:33:19 ldap systemd[1]: Failed to start Helper to synchronize boot up for ifupdown.
> Mär 30 23:33:19 ldap systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Raise network interfaces.
> Mär 30 23:33:19 ldap systemd[1]: networking.service: Job networking.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
> Mär 30 23:33:19 ldap systemd[1]: Reached target Network. 
> 
> ... 
> 
> help, help
> What can I do to get my Debian server to start correctly again? REAR seems to be checking something during the boot process, which means that my network interfaces no longer come up. These are configured as bonding (eth0 and eth1) and everything worked until the REAR installation. 
> 
> I need support. 
> 
> Greetings from Stefan Harbich 
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