Moving to FOG 1.5.10

[Kureebow]

@Sebastian-Roth So I am alittle bit confused as I know fog is installed on this server as we have used it to image for about 2 years now. If I follow your second string of commands what issues will I encounter with what is working now? Just so I can let my supervisors know what is happening.

Thanks

[Kureebow]

@Sebastian-Roth I did get a “No file or directory” return from the first command.

[Sebastian Roth]

@Kureebow Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying FOG is not installed. We just have not found the installer folder that was used. This is not a problem! You can freshly download the installer and go ahead. But on the other hand I find it wise to try and find out if there is an old one sitting somewhere.

There is one more place often used you can check just to see if the FOG installer is there: ls -al /opt/fogproject

The FOG installer usually takes care of everything and things will work fine after running it. BUT I cannot guarantee for that!! There is always a chance of anything breaking as we don’t know all the custom changes someone might have done to the system.

In case anything goes wrong you just post here and we are happy to assist getting it fixed.

[Kureebow]

@Kureebow From the GUI I can see a folder following the file path /home/admin/fogproject-1.5.9 if this is of any value.

The command you listed returned “No such file or directory”

[Sebastian Roth]

@Kureebow Well, that might be it then: ls -al /home/admin/fogproject-1.5.9

[Kureebow]

@Sebastian-Roth
[root@localhost ~]# ls -al /home/admin/fogproject-1.5.9
total 60
drwxrwxr-x. 10 admin admin 255 Jun 3 2022 .
drwx------. 19 admin admin 4096 Mar 27 12:48 …
-rw-rw-r–. 1 admin admin 51 Sep 13 2020 authors.txt
drwxrwxr-x. 3 admin admin 57 Jun 3 2022 bin
-rw-rw-r–. 1 admin admin 45 Sep 13 2020 .gitattributes
-rw-rw-r–. 1 admin admin 908 Sep 13 2020 .gitignore
drwxrwxr-x. 6 admin admin 80 Sep 13 2020 lib
-rw-rw-r–. 1 admin admin 35141 Sep 13 2020 LICENSE
drwxrwxr-x. 8 admin admin 167 Sep 13 2020 packages
-rw-rw-r–. 1 admin admin 2963 Sep 13 2020 README.md
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Jun 3 2022 rpttmp
drwxrwxr-x. 2 admin admin 64 Sep 13 2020 SELinux
drwxrwxr-x. 3 admin admin 26 Sep 13 2020 src
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jun 3 2022 tmp
drwxrwxr-x. 5 admin admin 72 Sep 13 2020 utils
[root@localhost ~]#

[Sebastian Roth]

@Kureebow Ok, this is an installer extracted from a tar archive. I suggest we just leave that for the moment and pull the fresh one via git. Run the following commands as root:

cd /root
git clone https://github.com/FOGproject/fogproject
cd fogproject/bin
./installfog.sh

Make sure there is no task running at the moment beforehand!

[Kureebow]

@Sebastian-Roth Please see failure listed. Getting the error log now

• Setting up fogproject user…Skipped
• Locking fogproject as a system account…OK
• Setting up fogproject password…OK
• Stopping FOGMulticastManager.service Service…OK
• Stopping FOGImageReplicator.service Service…OK
• Stopping FOGSnapinReplicator.service Service…OK
• Stopping FOGScheduler.service Service…OK
• Stopping FOGPingHosts.service Service…OK
• Stopping FOGSnapinHash.service Service…OK
• Stopping FOGImageSize.service Service…OK
• Setting up and starting MySQL…Failed!

!!!
!! The installer was not able to run all the way to the end as !!
!! something has caused it to fail. The following few lines are !!
!! from the error log file which might help us figure out what’s !!
!! wrong. Please add this information when reporting an error. !!
!! As well you might want to take a look at the full error log !!
!! in /root/fogproject/bin/error_logs/fog_error_1.5.10.log !!
!!!

chsh: Shell not changed.
Changing shell for fogproject.
New password: Retype new password: Changing password for user fogproject.
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
Job for mariadb.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See “systemctl status mariadb.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.
[root@localhost bin]#

[Kureebow]

@Sebastian-Roth I may know the issue. I completely looked over your comment about making sure there were no tasks. I have copied the error logs for your confirmation. If that is the case I apologize moving too fast this morning.

fog_error_1.5.10.log

[Sebastian Roth]

@Kureebow I don’t think a running task can cause this issue! Let’s first check the disk is not full: df -h

Then check the DB status and log:

systemctl status mariadb.service
tail -n20 /var/log/mysql/*log*

[Kureebow]

@Sebastian-Roth
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 48G 0 48G 0% /dev
tmpfs 48G 0 48G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 48G 19M 48G 1% /run
tmpfs 48G 0 48G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/centos-root 3.0T 491G 2.5T 17% /
/dev/sda2 1014M 239M 776M 24% /boot
/dev/mapper/centos-home 3.7T 579M 3.7T 1% /home
tmpfs 9.5G 100K 9.5G 1% /run/user/1000

mariadb.service - MariaDB database server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2023-03-28 10:57:12 EDT; 16min ago
Process: 12321 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/mariadb-prepare-db-dir %n (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 1989

Mar 28 10:57:11 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting MariaDB database s…
Mar 28 10:57:11 localhost.localdomain mariadb-prepare-db-dir[12321]: Socket f…
Mar 28 10:57:11 localhost.localdomain mariadb-prepare-db-dir[12321]: Is anoth…
Mar 28 10:57:11 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: mariadb.service: control pr…
Mar 28 10:57:12 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start MariaDB dat…
Mar 28 10:57:12 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit mariadb.service entere…
Mar 28 10:57:12 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: mariadb.service failed.
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.

The second command returned the following

tail: cannot open ‘/var/log/mysql/log’ for reading: No such file

[Sebastian Roth]

@Kureebow You missed the * on the tail command. Well let’s check the log file exists first.

ls - al /var/log/mysql

Disk space is fine.

[Kureebow]

@Sebastian-Roth No such file or directory

[Sebastian Roth]

@Kureebow Try this:

ls -al  /var/lib/mysql/
ls -al /var/log/mysql*
ps ax | grep -i -e mysql -e maria

[Kureebow]

@Sebastian-Roth
root@localhost ~]# ls -al /var/lib/mysql/
total 28716
drwxr-xr-x. 5 mysql mysql 194 Mar 28 10:57 .
drwxr-xr-x. 61 root root 4096 Jun 3 2022 …
-rw-rw----. 1 mysql mysql 16384 Mar 28 10:57 aria_log.00000001
-rw-rw----. 1 mysql mysql 52 Mar 28 10:57 aria_log_control
drwx------. 2 mysql mysql 8192 Jun 3 2022 fog
-rw-rw----. 1 mysql mysql 18874368 Mar 28 10:57 ibdata1
-rw-rw----. 1 mysql mysql 5242880 Mar 28 10:57 ib_logfile0
-rw-rw----. 1 mysql mysql 5242880 Jun 3 2022 ib_logfile1
drwx------. 2 mysql mysql 4096 Jun 3 2022 mysql
drwx------. 2 mysql mysql 4096 Jun 3 2022 performance_schema
[root@localhost ~]#

root@localhost ~]# ls -al /var/log/mysql*
ls: cannot access /var/log/mysql*: No such file or directory
[root@localhost ~]#

root@localhost ~]# ps ax | grep -i -e mysql -e maria
13627 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto -i -e mysql -e maria
[root@localhost ~]#

[Sebastian Roth]

@Kureebow So there is no database running at the moment as seen from the last command, strange thing.

Try starting it: systemctl start mariadb.service

[Kureebow]

@Sebastian-Roth Didn’t get a return from that command but no error. I assume it worked.

root@localhost ~]# systemctl start mariadb.service
[root@localhost ~]#

[Sebastian Roth]

@Kureebow Sounds good. Check with systemctl status mariadb.service again and then re-run the installer ( just the ./installfog.sh from within the right directory, no need to git clone again)

[Kureebow]

@Sebastian-Roth Perfect! We are working now. Now it is asking me to update database from ipaddress/fog/management Where do I go to do this or do I just press enter and move forward?

[Sebastian Roth]

@Kureebow Copy and paste the URL printed by the installer to your webbrowser. If it takes you to the known web UI straight away that means there are no schema updates to do. That’s OK. Then hit ENTER for the installer to finish.