PXE Freezes

[eddieduce]

I have setup FOG on a Ubuntu 12.04 server and PXE boot freezes giving many random characters such as
" [2.670399] <co 00 01 00 c0"

The server seems be running correctly, the image has been created and task started. The only thing I noticed was that homepage dashboard does not show Disk Information. It says "failed to connect to DefaultMember.’

I have double checked that all redirects are set correctly to the secondary drive, “/media/ImageDisk/” yet it does not detect it either.

[need2]

What FOG version and kernel are you using?

[eddieduce]

FOG .32 default Kernel. The PC is a HP Copaq G1 600.

The display that it shows is many lines such as this one:

[2.625149] call trace:
[2.625149] [,c0428a5a.] ? vsnprintf+ 0x2da/ox430

[Tom Elliott]

eddieduce,

Have you tried creating a link to /images from /media/ImageDisk?

Also,

Did something happen that has created all this havoc with your system? Possible a bad disk, rebuild, etc…

It sounds to me like either the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file may be corrupt, or the pxelinux.0 file.

[eddieduce]

@Tom- Ubuntu is Server 12.04 server, clean install. PC Desktop GUI was added. There were problems getting the server to take a static IP. That was finally resolved.

I followed the Change NFS location instruction from the FOG wiki. Reviewing that again, it does not seem to show a link creation section. I’ll try that.

[Tom Elliott]

Try my kernel, it looks like your kernel is in panic/freeze mode.

To get my kernel, open a terminal on the FOG Server. Login as root or, as you’re using ubuntu, make sure your user has sudo permissions.

To test sudo try:
[code]sudo touch /tmp/someTestFileIAmMakingUp[/code]

It should ask for your password, enter it. If you get no errors, you should be set.

Then cd into the tftpboot/fog/kernel folder.

[code]cd /tftpboot/fog/kernel[/code]

Copy your old kernel just as a backup.
[code]sudo mv bzImage bzImage.orig-29JAN2014[/code]

Then get my kernel and try again:

[code]sudo wget --no-check-certificate https://mastacontrola.com/fogboot/kernel/bzImage[/code]

Hopefully all will work again.

[eddieduce]

I got a ‘unrecognized option’ message for ‘–no-get-certificate’.

[Tom Elliott]

I just updated it, sorry thinking of wget where I wanted a check

[eddieduce]

message ‘failed. Name or service unknown.’

[Tom Elliott]

try prepending with sudo, I updated the code.

The next thing, make sure wget is actually install.
[code]sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wget[/code]

[eddieduce]

‘sudo apt-get update’ failed. with many file not found messages.

‘sudo apt-get install wget’ is updating but is barely on 9%.

Would you recommend just re-installing FOG. This is the production server. The downtime has extended too far now. Would you recommend circling back to .29?

[Tom Elliott]

How did you upgrade your system?

Did you just upgrade or create a new “Fresh” install?

[eddieduce]

Fresh install. What I mean to say is,

is it a FOG .32 issue or more a kernel corruption issue?

The original system is giving problems and I decided to rebuild a new one (the one we are discussing).

[Tom Elliott]

And you’re behind a very slow internet connection?

I don’t have the fastest of upload speeds, but they are 5MB, plenty enough that a normal download of my kernel should take about 5 minutes (max). It’s only just shy of 6 MB

[eddieduce]

no, I am installing wget. …28% at the moment.

Correction, I am updating packages, and it is barely at 42%.

[eddieduce]

The process finished. W-get for the kernel was unable to resolve host address for your site .

[Tom Elliott]

Try again, dns for somereason was lost, fixed now.

[eddieduce]

No go. ‘Name or service not known. Unable to resolve host address <… >’

[Tom Elliott]

Okay, try again.

I had to reboot both of my routers. I was testing multicast and it brought down my network.

[eddieduce]

Still unable to resolve.