ENGL imaging process fails due to inaccessible ZISD

  • 7014857
  • 07-Apr-2014
  • 30-May-2014

Environment

Novell ZENworks Configuration Management 11.3
Novell ZENworks Configuration Management 11.3 Imaging

Situation

The ENGL Imaging Toolkit will fail in combination with ZENworks 11 SP3.
The process will hang and does not finish

Resolution

A fix for this issue is intended to be included in a future update to the product: however, in the interim, Novell has made a Patch available for testing, as part of an FTF Roll Up patches collection: it can be obtained at https://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=6c6917CRv6U~ as "FTF Roll Up 1 for ZENworks (11 SP3)". This update should only be applied if the symptoms above are being experienced, and are causing problems.

Please report any problems encountered when using this Patch, by using the feedback link on this TID.

Additionally the following individual FTFs have been made available:
This issue has been addressed with the following FTF ZCM 11.3 Patch 866736, applicable to 11.3.0a
Available at https://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=8iRDxfR8C40~

This issue has been addressed with the following FTF ZCM 11.3.0 WIN8.1 Patch 866736, applicable to 11.3.0a with ZENworks_11.3.0a_Windows8.1_Update applied.
Available at https://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=OvBLs9qZhrU~

Cause

The ENGL Imaging Toolkit will fail to finish due to an error reading the ZENworks Image Safe Data (ZISD).

In the ENGL log the following entries are written:

ztoolkit.log:
"[12-Mar-14 09:30:31] [Zmainrun-Phase2] [Debug] CEnglImageSafeZENworks::Read() BEGIN
[12-Mar-14 09:30:31] [Zmainrun-Phase2] Error! DiskOpen() failed to create disk handle.
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
[12-Mar-14 09:30:31] [Zmainrun-Phase2] Error! Unable to read sector."