Black screen when attempting to Perform full registration and inventory on Dell Latitude 5580

george1421

@lukebarone said in Black screen when attempting to Perform full registration and inventory on Dell Latitude 5580:

GIT version downloaded

The context of this confuses me. Does your FOG server have internet access either direct or indirect via a proxy server?

george1421

@george1421 If your fog server does have internet access I would prefer if you use this route to install FOG

sudo -i
git clone https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject.git /root/fogproject
cd /root/fogproject
cd bin
./installfog.sh

Sebastian Roth

@lukebarone Interesting turning point in this thread I see. Just want to add another thing to look at. Please run

ls -al /var/www/
ls -al /var/www/fog/
ls -al /var/www/html/

Possibly there is some old link pointing a wrong direction which causes the issue?!?

lukebarone

@sebastian-roth

~# ls -al /var/www/
total 32
drwxr-xr-x  6 root     root     4096 Feb  8  2017 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root     root     4096 Oct 31  2014 ..
drwxr-xr-x 12 www-data www-data 4096 May 31  2016 fog
drwxr-xr-x 12 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 22  2013 fog_orig
drwxr-xr-x 12 www-data www-data 4096 Jul  3  2014 fog.prev
drwxr-xr-x  4 root     root     4096 Jan 15 10:58 html
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root      177 Dec  4  2012 index.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root       45 Jul  3  2014 index.php
~# ls -al /var/www/fog/
total 56
drwxr-xr-x 12 www-data www-data 4096 May 31  2016 .
drwxr-xr-x  6 root     root     4096 Feb  8  2017 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 www-data root     4096 May 31  2016 av
drwxr-xr-x  2 www-data www-data 4096 May 31  2016 client
drwxr-xr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 May 31  2016 commons
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data 1406 May 31  2016 favicon.ico
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   50 May 31  2016 index.php
drwxr-xr-x  7 www-data www-data 4096 May 31  2016 lib
drwxr-xr-x 12 www-data www-data 4096 May 31  2016 management
drwxr-xr-x  4 www-data www-data 4096 May 31  2016 mobile
drwxr-xr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 May 31  2016 public
drwxr-xr-x  3 www-data www-data 4096 May 31  2016 service
drwxr-xr-x  2 www-data www-data 4096 May 31  2016 status
drwxr-xr-x  2 www-data www-data 4096 May 31  2016 wol
~# ls -al /var/www/html/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x  4 root     root     4096 Jan 15 10:58 .
drwxr-xr-x  6 root     root     4096 Feb  8  2017 ..
drwxr-xr-x 11 www-data www-data 4096 Jan 15 11:00 fog
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root       45 May 31  2016 index.php
drwxr-xr-x  3 root     root     4096 Feb  9  2017 ISO

lukebarone

@george1421 Yes, that is the method I download with GIT.

I followed the instructions, and now have the latest trunk version, SVN Revision 6077. Do you want me to try the Full Registration again?

george1421

@lukebarone Lets make sure your kernels are current first, please.

george1421

@george1421 lets also confirm that the correct path is /var/www/ html/ fog/service/ipxe

lukebarone

@george1421 From FOG’s Configuration page:

bzImage Version: 4.13.4
bzImage32 Version: 4.13.4

george1421

@lukebarone well that is much more consistent than what you had before. I was thinking that ~~4.13.6~~ was the very latest, but lets see how well this one works with the 5580s.

Never mind I was thinking 4.11.6 which I had to install on my production server to make the surface books to work. Your version is much later.

lukebarone

@george1421 Restarted the computer, boot via UEFI PXE. Select Full Host Registration and Inventory, and it’s still just sitting there

Tom Elliott

@lukebarone based on what I’m seeing you have 2 installations of fog on your machine. I don’t know which is the default for your setup.

george1421

Well let me say, this is CRAZY!!

I have a 7280 on my desk for another project, lets make sure I can perform a full registration in FOG.

george1421

@george1421 I was able to register the 7080 just fine. I did have to turn off secure boot, and switch the hard disk mode to achi to get FOS to see it. Understand that what I see is not exactly what you are seeing. Your version of the kernels are much newer than mine (I’m running 1.4.4 too) and your hardware is different. I did see where you say the cursor just flashes and nothing, mine did that but then the kernel booted and continued.

I’m going to reinstall FOG 1.4.4 on mine to see if its picks up the newer kernels. But just to confirm you didn’t do anything other than install fog? You didn’t update anything beyond installing FOG?

lukebarone

@george1421 said in Black screen when attempting to Perform full registration and inventory on Dell Latitude 5580:

I was able to register the 7080 just fine. I did have to turn off secure boot, and switch the hard disk mode to achi to get FOS to see it. Understand that what I see is not exactly what you are seeing. Your version of the kernels are much newer than mine (I’m running 1.4.4 too) and your hardware is different. I did see where you say the cursor just flashes and nothing, mine did that but then the kernel booted and continued.
I’m going to reinstall FOG 1.4.4 on mine to see if its picks up the newer kernels. But just to confirm you didn’t do anything other than install fog? You didn’t update anything beyond installing FOG?

Yes, I went to the Kernel Update page and selected the newest kernel… It’s a habit I picked up a while ago, but if it’s not recommended, I can run through the install again and let it keep the version that comes with the install script…?

And Secure Boot is still disabled; I never enabled it, and it was disabled by default out of the box

lukebarone

@tom-elliott Hopefully this helps:

/var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe# file bzImage32
bzImage32: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 4.13.4 (root@debian64) #2 SMP Wed Oct 18 15:27:21 EDT 2017, RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x7, Normal VGA
root@fog-bak:/var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe# ls -lah
total 53M
drwxr-xr-x 3 fog      www-data 4.0K Jan 23 09:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4.0K Jan 23 09:06 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 fog      www-data 2.0K Jan 23 09:06 advanced.php
drwxr-xr-x 2 fog      fog      4.0K Jan 23 09:51 backup
-rw-r--r-- 1 fog      www-data  16K Jan 23 09:06 bgdark.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 fog      www-data  21K Jan 23 09:06 bg.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 fog      www-data  922 Jan 23 09:06 boot.php
-rwxr-xr-x 1 fog      fog      7.7M Jan 23 09:51 bzImage
-rwxr-xr-x 1 fog      fog      7.5M Jan 23 09:51 bzImage32
-rw-r--r-- 1 fog      www-data 230K Jan 23 09:06 grub.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 fog      www-data  592 Jan 23 09:06 index.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 fog      www-data  18M Jan 23 09:06 init_32.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 fog      www-data  19M Jan 23 09:06 init.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 fog      www-data  25K Jan 23 09:06 memdisk
-rw-r--r-- 1 fog      www-data 1.8M Jan 23 09:06 memtest.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 fog      www-data  21K Jan 23 09:06 refind.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 fog      www-data 201K Jan 23 09:06 refind.efi

/var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe# cat /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/001-fog.conf
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
    KeepAlive Off
    ServerName 192.168.0.4
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/
    <Directory /var/www/html/fog/>
        DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
    </Directory>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /fog/api/index.php [QSA,L]
</VirtualHost>

/var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe# ls /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 23 09:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 25 13:35 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   31 Jan 23 09:06 001-fog.conf -> ../sites-available/001-fog.conf

I only see the single site configuration in Apache’s sites-enabled directory, so I assume this is the correct directory that it’s using.

george1421

Well I managed to get my fog serever/kernel updated to 4.13.4 thinking that the newest kernel had a bug, but that also boots on the 7280 into full registration.

… wait a second. You said you had 0.30 not too long ago. What exactly do you have configured for dhcp option 67 {boot-file}?

lukebarone

@george1421

if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 15, 5) = "00000" {
        # BIOS client
            filename "undionly.kpxe";
        }
#    elsif substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 15, 5) = "00006" {
#        # EFI client 32 bit
#        filename   "ipxe32.efi";
#    }
        else {
            # default to EFI 64 bit
            filename   "ipxe.efi";
        }

I do not have any 32-bit UEFI machines, so I disabled that one section. I think that since I see the menu, it is grabbing one of those two files successfully…?

george1421

@lukebarone Well nuts, we typically see that people when the upgrade from 0.30 to 1.30+ they leave the boot file to pxelinux.0 That file will cause an issue between bzImage and init.zx

We are wHittling down the list of suspects to either 1. That workstation is crap 2. Your fog server needs to be junked and rebuilt from the ground up. I’m leading toward #1.

I’m not sure this next suggestion is going to help any. But I wonder if there is another bad actor involved with the pxe booting process? Like a proxydhcp server. At this point I am running out of ideas. We could capture a pcap of the pxe booting process but I’m not sure if that will give us any additional information we don’t already have.

lukebarone

@george1421 Just for S&G’s, I went into the Fog Debug menu. Running an ls on the /bin/ folder, I see a bunch of fog scripts. Do you want me to manually try running the fog.man.reg script from the shell? Would that help with what works and what doesn’t?

EDIT: I tried executing fog.man.reg from the Debug menu. Entered the information, selected the image / group / snapins / other configurations, and then rebooted. It grabbed the image automatically, as expected.

So it seems there is a disconnect between the boot menu option for “Full Host Registration” vs going into Debug, and manually executing the script.

Sebastian Roth

@lukebarone As Tom said it looks like your web directory has at least two different versions of FOG running. This can cause an issue I reckon.

To see which kernel version you really have when booting up a client please schedule a debug task and run uname -a when you get to the shell.

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