Rear hangs in the initramfs build step, and continues if process cfg3html is killed

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The rear process hangs at the Collecting general system information step:

    ++ Log 'Collecting general system information (cfg2html)'
    ++ test 1 -gt 0
    +++ Stamp
    +++ date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S '
    ++ echo '2020-04-27 11:45:45 Collecting general system information (cfg2html)'
    2020-04-27 11:45:45 Collecting general system information (cfg2html)
    ++ mkdir -p -v -m0750 /var/lib/rear/recovery/cfg2html
    ++ StopIfError 'Could not create '\''/var/lib/rear/recovery/cfg2html'\'' directory'
    ++ ((  0 != 0  ))
    ++ cfg2html -p -o /var/lib/rear/recovery/cfg2html
    
  • We can see with ps that some process are running:

    root     15722 11047  0 13:43 pts/6    00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/sbin/rear -v mkrescue
    root     15726 15722  0 13:43 pts/6    00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/cfg2html-linux -p -o /var/lib/rear/recovery/cfg2html -x -A -P
    root     26109 15726  0 13:43 pts/6    00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/cfg2html-linux -p -o /var/lib/rear/recovery/cfg2html -x -A -P
    root     26110 26109  0 13:43 pts/6    00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/cfg2html-linux -p -o /var/lib/rear/recovery/cfg2html -x -A -P
    

Environment

  • RHEL 6
  • rear

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