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Systemback Login Issue On Cloned Machine

Asked by Skawt

Hello Sir,

I am new to Systemback and currently using it to clone an Ubuntu 14.04 machine to another computers. I have already saved the iso file of the original machine to the pendrive and is able to boot from it on another machine.

Problem is, whenever I select "boot live image" or "boot from installer", it will redirect me to the login screen of my original machine, asking for username and password. I typed in the password of my original machine but it's not accepting it. It's not even showing an error message as to why I can't log in. I tried the Guest Account, same issue.

Please advise on how to fix the issue.

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Kendek (nemh) said : 		#1

This is not a password issue, but probably X server problem. Please try the CLI login after Ctrl+Alt+F1, and show me the following commands outputs:
ls -l /home
ls -l ~/.Xauthority

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Skawt (h4k-4pose) said : 		#2

Hi Kendek, thank you for the immediate response. I tried logging in via Ctrl+Alt_+F1 but it doesn't work either. It will show an Ubuntu message seems like a confimation message of my login but after 1 - 2 seconds, I will be redirected to the login screen in CLI.

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Skawt (h4k-4pose) said : 		#3

btw, I have modified my original machine so the applications, default sites and permission were modified. I have root user and a standard user. I am not sure what's the problem is. I was able to clone other machines using other original image with different configurations and permissions but this one is not.

Could it be that the reason for the issue is that I modified the settings before trying to clone it to another machine?

TIA

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Skawt (h4k-4pose) said : 		#4

Since I can't login yet to the preferred clone machine, I logged back in on my original machine via CLI and ran the commands:

ls -l /home
total 2698424
drwxrx-rx 17 ntsc-admin ntsc-admin 4096 Apr 8 10:51 ntsc-admin
drwxrx-rx 17 ntsc-user ntsc-admin 4096 Apr 8 10:28 ntsc-user
drwxr-xr-x 2 root ntsc-admin 4096 Apr 6 20:02 Systemback
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1382023168 Apr 7 18:14 systemback_live_2016-04-07.iso
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1381324800 Apr 7 18:12 systemback_live_2016-04-07.sblive

ls -l ~/.Xauthority

-rw------- 1 ntsc-admin ntsc-admin 54 Apr 8 10:51 /home/ntsc-admin/.Xauthority

TIA

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Skawt (h4k-4pose) said : 		#5

Hi, Kendek

I have already fixed the issue. The preferred clone machine has an image of my previous "test cloned image". The pendrive was able to boot by itself but I can't log in using the original machine's username and password. I removed the pendrive and boot the preferred clone machine to boot and to my surprise, I got an error message saying that the /home is not yet ready or not present. I tried this http://askubuntu.com/questions/606161/disk-drive-for-home-is-not-ready-yet-or-not-present-when-loading-ubuntu-server but it didn't help. Since I only got the test image on this machine, I reimage it using the Ubuntu Live CD. Able to install it and successfully cloned my image on the machine.

Thank you for this wonderful software.

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Kendek (nemh) said : 		#6

I think this issue has resolved itself.