REFInd-Initializing - hangs

[Trev-lchs]

@sebastian-roth Hi Sebastian, , Permission denied.
Error code: 3
Error message from server: Permission denied

this when attempting to copy from local PC to server using winscp
I am obviously doing something wrong, any advice would be truly welcome.

[Sebastian Roth]

@Trev-lchs Which Linux OS do you use?

Run chown apache:apache /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/refind.efi for RedHat/CentOS systems or chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/refind.efi on Debian/Ubuntu Linux.

[Sebastian Roth]

@Trev-lchs Ahhh, I miss-read your message. You get the error when trying to upload the file to the server?! Which user do you use to upload the file? Maybe just upload the file to /tmp and then run the following commands on the console:

sudo -i
mv /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/refind.efi /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/refind.efi.orig
mv /tmp/refind.efi /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/
chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/refind.efi

(For Debian/Ubuntu - if you have CentOS/RHEL, then use the other chown ... command posted a minute ago.

[Trev-lchs]

@sebastian-rothHi Sebastian I thought id take your advise and upgrade to the latest version of fog, I think the gods are against me today any advice on the below would be most welcome

  The current *fogstorage* database password does not meet high
   security standards. We will generate a new password and update
   all the settings on this FOG server for you. Please take note
   of the following credentials that you need to manually update
   on all your storage nodes' /opt/fog/.fogsettings configuration
   files and re-run (!) the FOG installer:
   
   Press [Enter] to proceed after you noted down the credentials.

OK
 * Backing up user reports.....................................Done
 * Stopping web service........................................OK
 * Setting up Apache and PHP files.............................Failed
   ###########################################
   #                                         #
   #      PHP Failed to install properly     #
   #                                         #
   ###########################################

   Could not find /etc/php/7.1/fpm/php.ini!

[Trev-lchs]

@trev-lchs rerunning the installer in a vain hope, pray for me

[Sebastian Roth]

@Trev-lchs Which Linux OS and version do you have? Kind of looks like Ubuntu 16.04?!?!?!

[Trev-lchs]

@sebastian-roth Yes I do believe that’s correct Sabastian
NAME=“Ubuntu”
VERSION=“16.04.7 LTS (Xenial Xerus)”
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME=“Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS”
VERSION_ID=“16.04”
HOME_URL=“http://www.ubuntu.com/”
SUPPORT_URL=“http://help.ubuntu.com/”
BUG_REPORT_URL=“http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/”
VERSION_CODENAME=xenial
UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial

[Trev-lchs]

@sebastian-roth Hi Sabastian, installer fails at the same place. fog a bit dead now

[Trev-lchs]

@sebastian-roth Hi Sabastian, thank you so much for the save with fog, it is now back up and I am happy to say we still have the refind issue, happy I can be at that point. On testing it is just saying Chainloading failed , hit S. Should I still rename the file refind_x64.efi to refind.efi and copy that over. I am using the user I would normal use to log into the server with, then I run sudo -s to allow me to do things, the Winscp has the user details that I would normally log into the server with but I guess without sudo -s bit, it wont be able to do anything?

[Trev-lchs]

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[Trev-lchs]

@sebastian-roth I have now carried out everything you have listed and still have the same error with refind Chain loading failed hit s. As this is a new version of fog I will check all the other exit types, you never know!

[Trev-lchs]

@sebastian-roth Not sure if you get any of the donations but if you do, have a beer on me

[Trev-lchs]

@sebastian-roth having now tried all the various options of exit in the latest version of FOG I have had no luck, this is with the rEFInd.efi renamed and the latest X64 REFInd file copied over it (0132) and named rEFInd.efi. Should I now revert everything back to standard? Any advice as always gratefully accepted. To note, once it was using the REFInd exit version (the 0132 one) it still hung at initializing

[Trev-lchs]

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[Sebastian Roth]

@trev-lchs said in REFInd-Initializing - hangs:

having now tried all the various options of exit in the latest version of FOG I have had no luck, this is with the rEFInd.efi renamed and the latest X64 REFInd file copied over it (0132) and named rEFInd.efi.

The case of the filenames do actually matter on Linux systems!! Not sure but that could be the problem now.

Beside that it’s very hard to help without knowing what exactly has been done. Maybe run the following commands and post output here so we know what it looks like at the moment:

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

[Trev-lchs]

@sebastian-roth HI Sabastian
please see below

root@fog-03:~# ls -al /var/www/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x  4 root     root     4096 Jul 23 14:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 root     root     4096 Dec  1  2016 ..
drwxr-xr-x 10 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 23 14:25 fog
drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root     4096 Jul 23 10:00 html
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   52 Jul 23 14:23 index.php

root@fog-03:~# ls -al /var/www/html/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jul 23 10:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root  4096 Jul 23 14:23 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    13 Dec  1  2016 fog -> /var/www/fog/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11321 Jul 23 10:00 index.html

root@fog-03:~# ls -al /var/www/html//fog/service/ipxe/
total 59412
drwxr-xr-x 3 fogproject www-data       4096 Jul 23 16:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data   www-data       4096 Jul 23 14:23 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data       1966 Jul 23 14:23 advanced.php
drwxr-xr-x 2 fogproject fogproject     4096 Jul 23 16:09 backup
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data      16272 Jul 23 14:23 bgdark.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data      21280 Jul 23 14:23 bg.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data       1139 Jul 23 14:23 boot.php
-rwxr-xr-x 1 fogproject fogproject  8950400 Jul 23 16:09 bzImage
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data    8398784 Jul 23 14:24 bzImage32
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data     234697 Jul 23 14:23 grub.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data        592 Jul 23 14:23 index.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data   20591048 Jul 23 14:24 init_32.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data   21178512 Jul 23 14:24 init.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data      25340 Jul 23 14:23 memdisk
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data    1839104 Jul 23 14:23 memtest.bin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data   www-data     254216 Jul 23 07:46 refind2.efi
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data     202624 Jul 23 14:23 refind_aa64.efi
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data      29719 Jul 23 14:23 refind.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data     262592 Jul 23 14:23 refind.efi
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data     201600 Jul 23 14:23 refind_ia32.efi
-rw-r--r-- 1 fogproject www-data     208776 Jul 23 14:23 refind_x64.efi

Hope this is what you wanted, as always thanks for your help.

[Trev-lchs]

@sebastian-roth I am running about getting PCs ready to go before the next lot arrive, this is still important to us, but I am juggling things now, just so you don’t think I am not keen to get it fixed.

[Sebastian Roth]

@Trev-lchs Ok, filesnames and paths all seem fine. Not sure what else you can try. As I said, some hardware does play with rEFInd and some don’t.

[Trev-lchs]

@sebastian-roth Thats a shame, I can capture from the PC and also write the Image to the PC, so I will just have to turn off boot from network until a refind file comes along that works I guess. Unless there are any other suggestions out there.

Sebastian thank you for all your time with this, if you should hear of anything or find out from another user what the fix might be, please do drop me a line if you can. Are you able to see the email address of members?

[Sebastian Roth]

@Trev-lchs Have you played with the mentioned refind.conf yet? Search the forum for more hints in this topic.

Which versions of rEFInd have you tried? All of them?