Backing up database Failed on install

[Rogsninja]

Everything thing else seems to be working fine during the install however it always fails at the step of backing up the database. Is there anyway to skip this step?

[Tom Elliott]

Did you disable selinux and firewall?

What version of FOG are you installing?

What version of CentOS are you running off of?

[Rogsninja]

This time I didn’t disable the firewall however I have before and got this same error. I’m running CentOS 8.0 and I’m using the most recent version of fog I downloaded it using git so i’m not sure of the exact version. If you want I can run the install again with the firewall off.

[Tom Elliott]

@Rogsninja What is the “latest version of fog”?

Did you pull from master? If so then you’re running a version that isn’t going to install properly on CentOS 8 as it was released before CentOS 8 was released, and some things changed between CentOS 7 and 8 that required changes.

As you are installing from git, you can change the branch to dev-branch by running:

cd /your/path/to/git/fogproject
git checkout dev-branch
git pull
cd bin
./installfog.sh -y

[Rogsninja]

@Tom-Elliott this is what I have been using.
sudo -i
cd /root
git clone https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject.git
cd /root/fogproject/bin
./installfog.sh
however I just checked and it says the firewall is off but it when I just installed it was still detected as on. Can you tell me how to disable selinux because I think I missed that one.

[Sebastian Roth]

@Tom-Elliott said in Backing up database Failed on install:

git checkout dev-branch

@Rogsninja As Tom said, you need to use the latest dev-branch version as there were issues due to the CentOS 8 release that came out after we had published 1.5.7 (latest official FOG version).

About install errors in general: The installer creates logs. Please take a look at /root/fogproject/bin/error_logs/fog_error_1.5.7.log and post the full content or a least the last 10 lines of that file here in the forums.