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      salted_cashews @Junkhacker
      last edited by salted_cashews

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      Am I reading this wrong? This is weirding me out. Is there a reason I don’t have a partclone log?

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        Junkhacker Developer @salted_cashews
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        @salted_cashews the log that’s gets generated during the imaging process is on the client booted to FOS. it’s gone as soon as the computer reboots.

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          salted_cashews @Junkhacker
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          @Junkhacker Oh I see, is FOS the preboot environment?

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            Junkhacker Developer @salted_cashews
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            @salted_cashews yes. it’s the minimal Linux OS that loads over the network to do the imaging tasks

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              salted_cashews @Junkhacker
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              @Junkhacker Thanks for the info!

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                george1421 Moderator @salted_cashews
                last edited by george1421

                @salted_cashews FOS is the Fog Operating System that runs on the target computer. It is linux based and is built from bzImage (kernel) and init.xz (virtual HD) .

                If you run a debug capture/deployment you can access this log file. It only exists on the virtual ram drive that FOS uses.

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                  salted_cashews @george1421
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                  @george1421 This is really interesting, is this why I’m able to almost-ssh into the box during an image/network boot?

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                    george1421 Moderator @salted_cashews
                    last edited by george1421

                    @salted_cashews Yes. It IS an operating linux OS. If you boot into debug mode and then give root a password you can ssh into the box as root and run the debug deployment/capture remotely. I use this method when debugging/developing post install scripts.

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                      Sebastian Roth Moderator
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                      @salted_cashews Are you sure the image was captured with Zstd as well? If you change that option in the image setting you need to re-capture it!

                      Running a debug deploy task and ssh into it (you need to set a root password within the booted FOS environment on your client machine using passwd command) to look at the partclone.log is definitely a good idea.

                      Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                        salted_cashews @Sebastian Roth
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                        @Sebastian-Roth I’m 100% positive it was captured using Zstd, the only thing I can think of is something we did on the image before capture or a network issue during.

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                          Sebastian Roth Moderator
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                          @salted_cashews See if you can grad the partclone.log file and hope we get some more information from that.

                          Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                            Sebastian Roth Moderator
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                            @salted_cashews I find it really strange that the filesystem does not seem to be clean. Are you sure the filesystem was clean when you initially captured the image? Sure the machine was not in some kind of hibernation when it was PXE booted to be captured?

                            Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                              salted_cashews @Sebastian Roth
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                              @Sebastian-Roth Indeed, the image was a CentOS 7 image that had been rebooted (hibernation on the OS is disabled via the GUI). This had happened with one other image as well, and I remember us running some basic “clean up” tasks beforehand. It’s possible these mucked up the file system or something. Let me see if I can trace back exactly what we did.

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                                Sebastian Roth Moderator
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                                @salted_cashews said in Deployment stuck in a loop, never finishes imaging?:

                                Let me see if I can trace back exactly what we did.

                                Maybe .bash_history…?

                                Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                                  salted_cashews @Sebastian Roth
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                                  @Sebastian-Roth To my dismay the host was just “nuked” this morning. On the bright side I’m testing another deploy debug and I’m SSHd into the guy. Is it possible to have the root password set via passwd by default on a deploy/capture? I’d love to just be able to jump in like this at-will.

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                                    Sebastian Roth Moderator
                                    last edited by Sebastian Roth

                                    @salted_cashews Take a look at Tom’s post here: https://forums.fogproject.org/post/88286

                                    Though I have not tested this myself lately it should still work I reckon.

                                    Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                                      salted_cashews @Sebastian Roth
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                                      @Sebastian-Roth Thank you sir, as far as the logs are concerned this is what they report:

                                      Partclone v0.2.89 http://partclone.org
                                      Starting to restore image (-) to device (/dev/sda3)
                                      note: Storage Location 10.10.100.252:/images/, Image name PPS_v9.0R2-dev_CentOS
                                      we need memory: 208468 bytes
                                      image head 4160, bitmap 200208, crc 4100 bytes
                                      Calculating bitmap... Please wait... get device size 53687091200 by ioctl BLKGETSIZE64,
                                      done!
                                      File system:  EXTFS
                                      Device size:    6.6 GB = 1601624 Blocks
                                      Space in use:   4.5 GB = 1097323 Blocks
                                      Free Space:     2.1 GB = 504301 Blocks
                                      Block size:   4096 Byte
                                      read ERROR:No such file or directory
                                      

                                      Following this I get a bunch of errors about “inode” something or other, and then the eventual reboot.

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                                        Sebastian Roth Moderator
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                                        @salted_cashews Please run the following command on your FOG server: file /images/PPS_v9.0R2-dev_CentOS/d1p3.img

                                        Post output here.

                                        Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                                          salted_cashews @Sebastian Roth
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                                          @Sebastian-Roth

                                          /images/PPS_v9.0R2-dev_CentOS/d1p3.img: data
                                          
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                                            Sebastian Roth Moderator
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                                            @salted_cashews Please run the same for all image files in that directory: file /images/PPS_v9.0R2-dev_CentOS/d1p*

                                            Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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