FOG 33b - installation - HP Elite 8300 SFF

[Alistair]

I’m so tired and stressed out about this that I didn’t think of the obvious Jaymes that you did think of.
I did what you said.
fogserver, win server 2012, my PC and 2 clients (I used the win server because it was quicker - it had DHCP)

Same result, waiting for image… BUT.

Rebooted fogserver
TFTP …
Restarted tftpd-hpa

Then multitasking worked to the new PCs!!!
Have to go home now. Thanks Jaymes.

[Alistair]

Probably need to implement the delayed startup of TFTP that’s been mentioned earlier.
Obviously that will solve the TFTP … (waiting) on the clients.

But could there also be a connection between this and the image not being multicasted?

I hope a delayed startup of tftpd-hpa will also solve the multicast problem and eliminate the need to reboot fogserver.

When it comes to computers, I just seem to attract bugs and issues.
Computers are not impressed with my natural charm and charisma

[Alistair]

Tom I just read your comment from last year:
[I]Has anyone in this thread found this issue with 0.33b? Maybe I can append/sed the command into the installation so nobody has to worry about this! [/I]

Sounds like a good idea[I].[/I]

[Jaymes Driver]

For now I would do as you suggested, run a delayed start up of the command, or just restart the service on each reboot. You are welcome for the the suggestion, don’t feel bad when I get stressed about a fog issue someone else normally comes up with an easy test for me too, just paying it forward

[Alistair]

TFTP is still not running despite the mod to /etc/rc.local

Here is a copy of the file. Is there anything wrong?

#!/bin/sh -e

rc.local

This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.

Make sure that the script will “exit 0” on success or any other

value on error.

In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution

bits.

By default this script does nothing.

/bin/sleep30 && /etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa restart
exit 0

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution

bits. (no idea what this means. Do I need to enable this script?)

[Alistair]

Multicast does not work again.

[Alistair]

Now it is working (multicast to the same 3 new PCs)

Trying to understand the sequence of events that leads to it not working and then working.

This time I rebooted fogserver, logged in, waited 2 minutes,
sudo stop tftpd-hpa
sudo start tftpd-hpa

From my PC - multicast to 3 PCs which worked

[Jaymes Driver]

I guess you will need to run the script yourself to stop and start the service, it’s not like it is a long command.

[Alistair]

I suspect Firefox or LibreOffice may be the culprits.
I know it is not good practise to use other programs on a dedicated server, but it makes it so much easier to to get this fog stuff done and sorted by using Firefox and LibreOffice on fogserver.

OK I am going to work through this systematically.
I am not touching the fogserver desktop. (remember I only logged in and then stopped and started tftpd-hpa.)
I am now multicasting again for a 2nd time succesfully to the 3 clients. To prove that it wasn’t a one off fluke. It can be repeated.

[Tom Elliott]

Shouldn’t the proper commands to restart the service be:
[code]sudo service tftpd-hpa restart[/code]

[Alistair]

Have now multicast the Ubuntu-12 image to the same classroom of old HPs - as expected did not work.
Then for the 3rd time I multicast Win 8.1 successfully to the 3 same new HPs.

3 successful multicasts of Win 8.1
1 failed multicast of Ubuntu to old HPs.

[Alistair]

Tom you wrote:

Shouldn’t the proper commands to restart the service be:
Code:
sudo service tftpd-hpa restart
I just realized that you are probably referring to the script used in rc.local? I thought you were commenting on when I wrote:

This time I rebooted fogserver, logged in, waited 2 minutes,
sudo stop tftpd-hpa
sudo start tftpd-hpa

I have now used the following line in rc.local, including sudo:

/bin/sleep30 && sudo /etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa restart

[Alistair]

Reboot
Log in window appears
Have not logged in.
Wait 1 minute.
Multicast to 3 PCs
TFTP… waiting
Cancel fog tasks
Log in to fogserver
Wait 1 minute
Multicast to 3 Pcs
TFTP…
Cancel fog tasks
sudo service tftpd-hpa restart
Multicast to 3 PCs
TFTP works
Multicast failed - same white window with blue frame
Cancel fog tasks

Reboot fogserver
Log in
wait 1 minute
sudo service tftpd-hpa restart
Multicast to 3 PCs
Multicast failed !!! (strange, I thought this would work now)
Cancel fog tasks

Reboot fogserver
Log in
wait 1 minute
sudo service tftpd-hpa restart
Multicast to 3 PCs
Multicast failed again !!!
Cancel fog tasks

Reboot fogserver
Log in
wait 1 minute
sudo stop tftpd-hpa
sudo start tftpd-hpa
Multicast to 3 PCs
Multicast Worked (note that this time I stopped tftp first and then started it 10 seconds later)

I am now going to reboot fogserver and repeat the above procedure 2 more times to confirm working with stop and then start.

[Jaymes Driver]

[code]
sudo service tftpd-hpa stop
sudo service tftpd-hpa start
[/code]

Is what you should be using.

You are lucky "sudo stop tftpd-hpa " even works at all, this is not how you syntax a service restart.

You have confirmed that there is a bug in the tftpd-hpa up start service, this is a known issue where the service is started before an ip address is even assigned to the machine.

[B]If I were you I would manually type the commands at the restart of the server.[/B]

This is not a problem of fog, your fog server is working as expected. If you want help in resolving the issue, please try an Ubuntu forum, the people there are very nice and will help you to better understand the problem you are facing and how to fix it!

[Alistair]

I repeated the above procedure only one time and multicast failed to my horror.

This failure of multicast is totally unpredictable.

Jaymes, the syntax sudo stop tftpd-hpa does in fact work. It is confirmed on the following line that tftpd is not running.
But I will use the syntax you recommend from now on.

You wrote: [B]If I were you I would manually type the commands at the restart of the server.[/B]
A have done that [U]everytime[/U] as I listed above. Multicast works sometimes and not others.
This is crazy. I had the TFTP problem with the old fogserver and old HP clients. But that was easily fixed with the start stop syntax.
Never had a problem with multicast, if that is in fact the real problem here.

[Jaymes Driver]

Why multicast then? Try unicast to multiple hosts, I personally hate using multicast because if a host drops out in the middle of imaging, your whole group is hosed. I set up a group of members and push a unicast to each of those machines at once. only 10 will image at a time but they will wait in que until a spot opens up and then image.

Try unicast imaging, it uses the tftp-hda service to push to single units too, try it before you multicast.

So reboot, try single unit image, is it successful?
If not, and it is because of the service, restart it and push image again, was it successful?

after successful unicast, try multicast, did it fail? Try unicast again, did it succeed?

what I’m trying to do here is figure out if it is the tftpd-hpa service, or if it is just the multicasting ability.

Sorry to give you so much to do, but I want to get some direction going here. Is the multicast only failing for these units? Are you still working on a test switch setup like I suggested? Try these troubleshooting steps I recommended OFF of the network, so we can make sure the FOG server is working.

We want to get multicast for SURE working before you put it in the production environment because some switch gear causes issues.

[Tom Elliott]

[quote=“Alistair, post: 25671, member: 1830”]TFTP is still not running despite the mod to /etc/rc.local

Here is a copy of the file. Is there anything wrong?

#!/bin/sh -e

rc.local

This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.

Make sure that the script will “exit 0” on success or any other

value on error.

In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution

bits.

By default this script does nothing.

/bin/sleep30 && /etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa restart
exit 0

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution

bits. (no idea what this means. Do I need to enable this script?)[/quote]

I believe your script has a typo:

I should read as:
[code]
#!/bin/sh -e

rc.local

This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.

Make sure that the script will “exit 0” on success or any other

value on error.

In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution

bits.

By default this script does nothing.

/bin/sleep 30 && /etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa restart
exit 0[/code]

Major difference is that there was no space between sleep and 30 originally so it read: sleep30, I made it read sleep 30.

[Alistair]

[U]I am back on the simple one 4port router network with:[/U]
Server 2012 (for DHCP)
fogserver (I am running management console here)
2 clients
I pinged router and server - both respond.

Rebooted fogserver
stop start tftpd
Multicast to 2 PCs
Multicast not work
Cancel tasks
Unicast to 1 PC
Worked.
Multicast to 2 PCs
Multicast not work

Thanks Tom for the typo correction - To avoid a typo I copied the syntax directly from:
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/ubuntu-11-04-distro-that-just-works-heres-how.4378/#post-12571[/url]
I just cannot win here.

[Tom Elliott]

Just because you have multiple systems, does not mean you have to Multicast to get a job to work. You can schedule both systems as Unicast tasks, even if they have the same image and information.

Beyond that, what kind of router are you using? My home network goes completely dead if I try to multicast to two systems at the same time as the Router I have at home is a typical Consumer router.

I imagine it’s the same issue being experienced here.

[Jaymes Driver]

[quote=“Alistair, post: 25686, member: 1830”]
Thanks Tom for the typo correction - To avoid a typo I copied the syntax directly from:
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/ubuntu-11-04-distro-that-just-works-heres-how.4378/#post-12571[/url]
I just cannot win here.[/quote]

That one was my fault there was no space between sleep and 30, I have fixed the post so the problem shouldn’t be present in the future.

Alright so now we have determined the problem to be with the multicast directly. So here’s something for you to ponder, it is NOT the tftpd-hpa service, if it were, unicast would fail, and any attempts to use a command to communicate with the tftp server would fail.

WITHOUT REBOOTING OR DOING ANYTHING ELSE, while your unicast works and multicast doesn’t, use the tftp get command on a windows machine on the 4 port switch.

use this command
[code]
tftp IPADDRESSOFFOG get undionly.kpxe
[/code]

If the command succeeds. It is not a problem of the tftpd-hpa service, it may be the hardware you are using. If you are successful, and you can image the machines via unicast, please try a unicast group to see if you are able to achieve imaging multiple machines. If successful, look into a business class switch or hub and try multicasting again.

Multicast is not supported by all hardware.

I don’t want to sound pompous, but this may not be an issue of FOG, this may be an issue of the gear you are using.