I just solved a problem like this for myself. It turned out my Ubuntu mysql installation sets mysql to listen to 127.0.0.1 only. When I changed the IP to the actual IP and opened the firewall (main FOG server), it worked as intended.

On Ubuntu, the config file in question is /etc/mysql/my.cnf, the setting is "bind-address = ".

This all makes sense, unfortunately I have already started rebuilding this system. This just gave me a good excuse to do it, but I was already unhappy with the partitioning. Before FOG I was trying MDT and installing onto the third partition of the Dell factory setup, thus the deleting the recovery partition in the middle and the wasted space. I have actually, since the mishap, switched to the latest KitchenSink kernel. So in the end, even if it all works well, there will have been too many variables to say what actually broke last time. Thanks to all for the help.

I chose SLAX just for simplicity and file size. It is just for an personal experiment, but if it works, I intend to deploy all over our lab for different uses in each department. We develop custom apps for internal use in our Photo Lab and if I can deploy a live OS over PXE, then there would be no more need for our Windows XP machines and no Windows will save us money on anti-virus licenses.

I am going to take a guess and say I am missing some sort of required package in CENTOS Minimal. Any idea what that might be? I followed the exact same setup on ubuntu and it worked prefect.

Have a look at my solution to another issue - [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/fog-server-fatal-error-failed-to-mount-nfs-volume.115/#post-3647[/url]

In short, with a share on openfiler the NFS path was mildly different to the path on the FTP share, that meant that although my NFS share was /mnt/raid6/data/FOG the ftp path was published as /raid6/data/FOG. A couple of edits within FOG and all was well again.

things to check…
can you mount the exported dir from localhost?
is portmapper running?
try mount option: -o nolock (on FOG)?

I am obtaining a 2nd HDD so I can just duplicate it as well before performing update. Thanks.

How about this because I am looking for this also and apparently this has been answered…

Can you make a section here to request a thread from the old forum to be brought over to this one? At least then it’s not all but ones with hopefully useful information. The one I am looking for has to do with the Fog Client Service not registering hosts and the link I found doesn’t have a google cache. [url]https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/forums/forum/716419/topic/3727752[/url]

I got an error on my fog.log saying that the host registration exited because there was only 1 MAC address if anyone know about that in particular.

Then I would assume it should be ok once you have gotten to the part where the machine is pulling the Image down.

Nevermind I was able to fix the issue. Basically what had happened was that somehow the connection of “auto eth0” didn’t have the correct ip configuration settings because when I typed in the “gateway” Ip address section, the IP “vanished.” I just figured out that one must hit “enter” after you type in the IP address in the gateway IP address section. How annoying.

Very noobish mistake and now I know for next time.

Check /etc/hosts for your hostname.
Check /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf or other apache conf file for this directive:
ServerName [url=“http://www.example.com:80”]www.example.com:80[/url]
Check /etc/sysconfig/network for the :
HOSTNAME= xxxxxx directive

Somewhere you haven’t defined your machines hostname and apache is saying, “ok fine, we’re ‘localhost’ then . . .”

Here is the Fog.log file
thanks

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/93_fog.log.txt?:”]fog.log.txt[/url]

It could use some cleaning, but this is the jist.

Amazing, I have been working on this thing for a month now and everyday I have to figure out something new.
I’m about to give up.

Thanks anyway.

Bump!
No one can help me ?

Solved!

[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/deployed-images-hang-at-3.576/[/url]

Reloaded FOG onto a Dell OptiPlex 320 with Ubuntu 10.x. Worked like a dream. I was also able to copy my master image to the new load with no issues (just had to rename it to a existing image in the new FOG DB).

Assuming you installed DHCP with FOG…
[COLOR=#000000]/etc/init.d/dhcp3-server start or [COLOR=#000000]/etc/init.d/dhcp3-server restart[/COLOR][/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#000000]Take out the variables and just hook the FOG server to a switch abd the PC(s) you want to test with to it also. [/COLOR][/COLOR]

i figure out the issue
found same issue and answer at [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/unable-to-connect-to-tftp-server.85/[/url]
thanks