In my case 1 had 4 drives (sd[a-d]):

• sda and sdb are 250G c and d are 160G
• sda1 and sdb1 (200m each) as raid1 md0 for /boot
• sd[ab]2 and sd[cd]1 as raid5 md1 for LVM providing root and else.

The problem was that sd[ab]2 were both ~250G regardless the uselessness regarding the other members of the array. So I decided to take out sda2, delete the partition, create a 160G sized and an sda3 for the rest, put sda2 it back to md1, leave it to rebuild. Then do the same with sdb so I get sd[ab]3 to form a raid1 array.

Everything went well, except for I disregarded the notifications of partprobe (after altering sda and sdb with fdisk) and even the alternation was complete, after reboot the startup failed to find the root device.

Booting up with a livecd it turned out that both sda2 and sdb2 were kicked out of the array. After a short panic I found this post, and tried to collect some information.

mdadm -E /dev/sd{a2,b2,c1,d1} | grep Event

It turned out, that sda2 were completely faulty but the rest were ok, though mdadm denied to add it to the array.

Long story short, this was the solution:

mdadm --create -l5 -n4 --assume-clean /dev/md1 missing /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1

It showed clean,degraded,. I was half relieved this point, because I could not mount it! Anyway I continued, zeroed sda2, added to the array and left it to rebuild. It worked!

Although since create changed the uuid of the array I had to reconfigure some other things, such as mdadm.conf, grub.conf, fstab, but that’s an other story …

Thanks again!

I did try the 3 scripts, for the same result, unfortunately.

The -g switch turns debugging on, and a snx.elg file is filled with different kind of informations.
At a certain point, it says :

CkpRegDir: Environment variable CPDIR is not set.
GenerateGlobalEntry: Unable to get registry path

This missing CPDIR variable is mentionned here and there on the net, for instance at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread?t=1221196&page=2

This is why I was asking you about CPDIR and FWDIR.

Reading your article, I understand it’s been working right out of the box, but it doesn’t for many…

BTW, what is your java distro (Sun/Oracle ?) and version ? The reason why I’m asking is the mention at https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&solutionid=sk36681#5 :
All Linux OSs require Oracle JRE to install.

Thanks for your help !

$ tar xvzf ./SNX_for_VPN1_Win7.tgz
(...)
$ md5sum *
5e1ec2eb18dc42f5217a67b50799052d  cashell_ver.txt
381dd25826c43f97e3f36308368fa8e6  cpextender.msi
a705310db23ba28115eb13949b9eb63d  CShell.cab
da237199d2e6fbfc0d1b73af9417e461  CShell.jar
a6472bb9ed86849b6a29d2c6d52ff64b  extender.cab
1ed18a7c9c02e1c2517c59305d0a0c2a  slim_ver.txt
97456b093c7f8bebaaae2492b8c36a8d  SNX4LINUX30.jar
2d02ad5819dcd4e9678dce58a33f1ce6  SNX4LINUX.jar
c8b79a1e2896ef72ff17759dd67bdffd  SNX4TIGER.jar
7d4bc06526a0ec13287417e58ffe9d65  SNX.cab
fcd3d5925eb4dc2a01c8e10e30eb58ab  SNX_for_VPN1_Win7.tgz
99ac347c5e53126b0df2ac00fbba1c4c  snx_install_linux22.sh
5061fdf75b0c760adb2cb8b4a274aba1  snx_install_linux30.sh
e43492296fdd577bc2650785c254a0b5  snx_install_osx.sh
5061fdf75b0c760adb2cb8b4a274aba1  snx_install.sh
8ad9dc1b11be2c2d2974616566eae7f2  SNX.jar

As for the CPDIR and FWDIR variables, I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about !

I would add that the installation needs to be sudoed, since files are created on /etc/snx, etc.
So, after :

chmod +x snx_install*.sh

run :

sudo ./snx_install.sh

I didn’t understand why there are other Linux22 or 30 shell scripts. No documentation found in the zip nor on the Check Point site…

BTW, do you have a CPDIR variable initialised ? And, in this case, what is its value ?
Same for a FWDIR ?

Thank you Kevin.