upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS

[Boyan Biandov]

@Wayne-Workman Great link Wayne, I am actually going to do this myself very soon, one point of clarification if I may: section “Arranging Images”. Is it really necessary to copy the images to a folder, other than /images on the new fog server and then once they are copied there “rearrange” them by moving them again into the final destination of /images (assuming fog defaults)?

Is there a problem by simply mounting /images at the old fog server and then copying the image files straight to their final destination on the new fog sever (which would be /images by default)?

Thanks

[Wayne Workman]

@Boyan-Biandov said in upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS:

Is it really necessary to copy the images to a folder, other than /images on the new fog server and then once they are copied there “rearrange” them by moving them again into the final destination of /images (assuming fog defaults)?

Yes, because FOG’s NFS configuration does not allow writing to /images, it’s a read-only share. /images/dev is read+write. I kept the walkthrough as simple as possible, leveraging things already setup on the servers. If you wanted to use something like SCP, you could put the images directly where they need to go.

[Quazz]

@Boyan-Biandov said in upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS:

@Wayne-Workman Great link Wayne, I am actually going to do this myself very soon, one point of clarification if I may: section “Arranging Images”. Is it really necessary to copy the images to a folder, other than /images on the new fog server and then once they are copied there “rearrange” them by moving them again into the final destination of /images (assuming fog defaults)?

Imagine scenario A: You are busy capturing a new version of your image and someone attempts to deploy that image. They will get an incomplete and broken image and the install has failed.

Imagine scenario B: You are busy capturing a new version of your image but something goes wrong! The image is now in an incomplete/broken state and you have no way of knowing for how long that will be the case! Not very practical.

So yeah, there are legitimate reasons for using a ‘temporary directory’ if you will.

[bsalogga]

@Wayne-Workman

I did a new install on different machine and am having trouble with
Installing package: php-mysqlnd…Failed! (Will try later)
Started with Ubuntu 18.04.1 and fog 1.5.4.
I tried going back to ubunutu 16 and then 14 with fog 1.5.4 and 1.4.4 in all combinations. Still get the php-mysqulnd error. I currently have 18.04.1 back on the machine and am trying to install 1.5.4.
I am stuck.

[bsalogga]

@bsalogga 0_1540480145345_fog_error_1.5.4.log

[Quazz]

@bsalogga Is this a clean FOG install attempt? just read the other posts, it’s an upgrade so below advice should work afaik

Afaik, FOG should try to install php-mysql before php-mysqlnd which should make it return that it’s installed as a virtual package.

Instead there is no attempt to install php-mysql at all.

Does /opt/fog/.fogsettings exist? If so, delete the packages= line (in .fogsettings) and rerun the installer

[Boyan Biandov]

@bsalogga Just to be sure, this is NOT a brand new install of Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS but rather there was a previous “clean” install of some older version and then it was UPGRADED to the current LTS of Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS? Yes?

[bsalogga]

@Boyan-Biandov

clean install

[bsalogga]

@Quazz
no .fogsettings, but tried removing packages= from installfog.sh. Same error.

[Sebastian Roth]

@bsalogga Try sudo apt-get purge sysv-rc-conf and then run the installer again.

[Wayne Workman]

@bsalogga Are you using desktop or server Ubuntu 18.04.1 ? My daily tests use server edition, no GUI, 18.04

[bsalogga]

@Sebastian-Roth
Still not working. Error for the php-mysqlnd.

[Sebastian Roth]

@bsalogga said in upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS:

I did a new install on different machine

Just for everyone to notice. Initially this was a question about an upgraded Ubuntu installation but a fresh install was done now.

Please run sudo add-apt-repository universe and then re-run the FOG installer.

If that still does not work you want to try out the latest working branch of FOG (either directly using git or ZIP download). We have addressed Ubuntu 18.04 issues there.

[Boyan Biandov]

I agree with @Sebastian-Roth - a new install runs, in fact just recently I asked the same exact question just to be sure before I undertake a move since I’ve seen some prior issues but the discussion put that to rest, Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS installs just fine:

[Sebastian Roth]

@Boyan-Biandov Ubuntu 18.04 is not exactly like 18.04.1 - see my comment here https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/issues/261

I just figured what the difference is Ubuntu 18.04 server comes in two different flavors. One is the normal server ISO and the other one is the LIVE server. For 18.04 straight you could still download both versions. But seems like since 18.04.1 is out there is only the LIVE server image available anymore. I just installed 18.04.0 plain server and it has the mentioned universe section in sources.list
Here is a link for the non-live ISOs
http://www.cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/releases/18.04/release/

[bsalogga]

@Wayne-Workman
Using desktop. Since you mentioned server version, I gave it a try, but added gnome desktop. Same error.

[Sebastian Roth]

@bsalogga said in upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS:

Using desktop. Since you mentioned server version, I gave it a try, but added gnome desktop. Same error.

Was this a fresh clean install? Please provide the full logs again so we can have a look. It’s not helpful to just say “same error”.