Zabbix 2.4.6 VHD appliance ask "Want me to fall back..."

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Hi all,

I am trying to get Zabbix up and running using the VHD appliance 2.4.6.
My environment is:
- Cluster Hyper-V Windows 2012 R2
- San Storage and Cluster Shared Volumes

Chronology:
- Download VHD appliance from Zabbix.org
- Unzip and copy to the CSV
- Create a new VM 1024Mo RAM, 1 vCPU, 1 NIC, No CD, connect the VHD as IDE
- Start the VM, get the Suse Logo.
- I log root into the appliance then start yast2
- Set up Keyboard, NIC, NTP, DNS
- Use a browser to test the Zabbix portal and I can login using the admin user account.

Then I restart the VM.
I get the message:
Waiting for device /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-14d....-part1 to appear:..... Could not find /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-14d....-part1
Want me to fall back to /dev/disk/by-id/14d.....-part1? (Y/n)

I tried to press Y or n but nothing appends.
I then restart the VM, Select Advanced options for Zabbix_2.4_x86
Then select the first line Zabbix_2.4_x86_64_13.1 [ VMX ], with Linu

I got the same result.

I then restart the VM, Select Advanced options for Zabbix_2.4_x86
Then select the second line Zabbix_2.4_x86_64_13.1 [ VMX ], with Linu

And it works again, I was able to login on the Zabbix portal (web site).

I have read some resolution using a search engine. The solution is to change some files:

After creating the MASTER computer, we need to change 2 files in order to modify the "by-id" reference in "by-name" reference.
The files are:


/etc/fstab
/boot/grub/menu.lst


in both the files we need to find every instance of names like (example)

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA-MK1246GSX-28FGTI70T-part1

and change in something like:

/dev/sda1

take care about the partition number:
-part1 -> sda1
-part2 -> sda2

http://diggerpage.blogspot.lu/2011/11/cannot-boot-opensuse-12-after-cloning.html

But in this VHD, I didn't find these files. Could you please adapt or solve by another solution this problem? I would like to start the VM without manual operation.

Thank by advance,
Nikky

[ESD]

Same problem

Hey Nikky!

I have the same problem, could you fix it?


Norbert

[SwitchZabbix]

...

Hi Norbert,

Unfortunately, I do not have the time to do it actually because I have no idea how the image is done. I have to reverse engineering this point to be able to resolve this. I didn't find any documentation about it so. Let me know if you find some documentation.

In anyway, this kind of problem should be resolved and applied on the download itself. I am new in Zabbix community and do not have the modus operandi for that.

[SwitchZabbix]

Resolution

Hi guys,

I finally found the trick with a lot of research as I am a noob in Linux...

The image is using grub2 so only 1 line is useful to change. Here find the procedure:

Login as root then execute:

fdisk -l

Output:

Disk /dev/sda: 64.4 GB, 64425615360 bytes, 125831280 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk label type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x42d970e7

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 125829119 62913536 83 Linux

Note the device name: /dev/sda1

Then edit the line 6 of the file /etc/default/grub

nano /etc/default/grub

....
....
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=" root=/dev/sda1 disk=/dev/sda1 resume=swap USE_BY_UUID_DEVICE_NAMES=1 quiet splash=silent"
....
....

Then generate grub2 config file with grup2-mkconfig

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

That's it folks!

Please change the image. I will open a bug report.