ReaR: recovery prints a WARNING !!! message when trying to rebuild the initramfs

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • rear recover prints the following message after backup recovery happened

    Restore the Mountpoints (with permissions) from /var/lib/rear/recovery/mountpoint_permissions
    Running mkinitrd...
    WARNING !!!
    initramfs creation for Kernel version '<KERNEL_VERS>' failed,
    please check '/var/log/rear/rear-<HOSTNAME>.log' to see the error messages in detail
    and decide yourself, whether the system will boot or not.
    
    Running mkinitrd...
    WARNING !!!
    initramfs creation for Kernel version '3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64' failed,
    please check '/var/log/rear/rear-vm-rhel7.log' to see the error messages in detail
    and decide yourself, whether the system will boot or not.
    
    Installing GRUB2 boot loader
    Finished recovering your system. You can explore it under '/mnt/local'.
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7
  • rear 1.17, 2.00 and 2.4

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