DietPi-Login | Failed to load DietPi-Globals

[acostas]

Hello,
After i made some updates today and tried to restart pihole i got this error on login:
I did some research but couldn't find a solution and i am not an expert.

Linux DietPi 4.19.66-v7+ #1253 SMP Thu Aug 15 11:49:46 BST 2019 armv7l

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-bash: /DietPi/dietpi/func/dietpi-globals: No such file or directory
[FAILED] DietPi-Login | Failed to load DietPi-Globals. Skipping DietPi login scripts...
[email protected]:~#

[acostas]

So the DietPi folder is empty as i figured. I have a full backup in /mnt/dietpi-backup
Anyone can tell me how to restore the system from this backup? Should i do manually by copying the files to the DietPi ?

[johnvick]

Did you create the backup with the dietpi-backup utilty?

If so run it again and select restore.

John

[acostas]

Did you create the backup with the dietpi-backup utilty?

If so run it again and select restore.

John

yes i did with dietpi-backup but the problem now is that nothing of dietpi works

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-bash: /DietPi/dietpi/func/dietpi-globals: No such file or directory
[FAILED] DietPi-Login | Failed to load DietPi-Globals. Skipping DietPi login scripts...
[email protected]:~# dietpi-backup
-bash: dietpi-backup: command not found
[email protected]:~#

[johnvick]

I'd clone the card and try copying the files manaully on the copy.

[MichaIng]

@acostas
Note that /DietPi is the RAMdisk mountpoint for some files/dirs in /boot, especially /boot/dietpi which are the DietPi scripts/programs.

In your case mounting the tmpfs or moving the DietPi scripts in place seems to have failed. Please paste:

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systemctl status DietPi.mount
tail /var/tmp/dietpi/logs/dietpi-ramdisk.log

[acostas]

here is what I get:

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[email protected]:~# systemctl status DietPi.mount
● DietPi.mount - /DietPi
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/fstab; generated; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (mounted) since Sat 2019-09-07 16:20:32 EEST; 3min
44s ago
    Where: /DietPi
     What: tmpfs
     Docs: man:fstab(5)
           man:systemd-fstab-generator(8)
  Process: 183 ExecMount=/bin/mount tmpfs /DietPi -t tmpfs -o defaults,size=10m,
noatime,nodev,nosuid,mode=1777 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Tasks: 0 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/DietPi.mount

Sep 07 16:20:32 DietPi systemd[1]: Mounting /DietPi...
Sep 07 16:20:32 DietPi systemd[1]: Mounted /DietPi.

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[email protected]:~# tail /var/tmp/dietpi/logs/dietpi-ramdisk.log
Wed 17 Jul 13:57:40 EEST 2019 | DietPi-RAMdisk: Copying DietPi to RAM...
Wed 17 Jul 13:57:40 EEST 2019 | DietPi-RAMdisk: Copied DietPi to RAM.
Sun  4 Aug 20:17:07 EEST 2019 | DietPi-RAMdisk: Copying DietPi to RAM...
Sun  4 Aug 20:17:10 EEST 2019 | DietPi-RAMdisk: Copied DietPi to RAM.
Sat  7 Sep 15:31:12 EEST 2019 | DietPi-RAMdisk: Storing DietPi to disk...
Sat  7 Sep 15:31:12 EEST 2019 | DietPi-RAMdisk: Stored DietPi to disk.
Sat  7 Sep 15:31:16 EEST 2019 | DietPi-RAMdisk: Copying DietPi to RAM...
Sat  7 Sep 15:31:20 EEST 2019 | DietPi-RAMdisk: Copied DietPi to RAM.
Sat  7 Sep 16:20:31 EEST 2019 | DietPi-RAMdisk: Storing DietPi to disk...
Sat  7 Sep 16:20:32 EEST 2019 | DietPi-RAMdisk: Stored DietPi to disk.

[acostas]

@MichaIng ok it seems that everything on SD card is read-only

Is there a way to fix this or i have to format the card?

[MichaIng]

@acostas
Looks like, last log file entry is about storing scripts to disk on shutdown, but nothing about copying them to RAMdisk on boot, even that the DietPi tmpfs was mounted successfully.

If indeed SDcard is R/O, please check:
- dmesg for any probably helpful error logs.
- Run fsck -f /dev/mmcblk0p2 + fsck /dev/mmcblk0p1 to check for file systems errors and in case fix them. Not sure if fixing is possible, depends on if writing to SDcard is blocked/broken on hardware level or if its just a mount issue, e.g. the system remounts it as R/O automatically due to I/O errors.
- If fsck on the running system does not work, try it on an external Linux system. At best run it multiple times until no errors are found anymore, if fsck is able to fix them at least.
- Generally it is also a hint about how bad/of what kind the error is, if the SDcard can be mounted with R/W access on an external system or not.

If nothing helps, but you don't want to reflash, you could copy/backup the SDcard content, flash the new image, copy/overwrite content from the backup. But it is not the cleanest way and the image must match the same Debian version. If it's currently Stretch, you must use our luckily still available RPi Stretch legacy image: https://dietpi.com/downloads/images/legacy/

[Seferi]

I'm having the same problem after doing 'pihole -up' via ssh. Failed to load dietpi-globals. And I dont have a backup. What should i do?