New Install of FOG 1.1.2 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

[Tom Elliott]

Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP

(Don’t choose webserver, mysql server, or what have you)

I always do minimal install.

[NDNtech]

So how would I do a minimal install, I don’t think I’m following you. (Sorry, it’s been a long day in this tiny room in front of this server)

[ianabc]

I think I agree with Tom about the install, you would probably be able to fix the install but a reinstall might be less of a headache. When you are running the ubuntu install DVD just tell it you don’t need a webserver installed - the fog installer will do that for you later.

[ianabc]

I’d be interested to see the contents of the /etc/init.d/apache2 file if you have it before you reinstall though.

[NDNtech]

Okay. I had issues with my install too. I couldn’t do a regular install for some reason. I had to boot into the live OS and install from there. In the normal install I kept seeing messages in the command area saying it didn’t have permissions to do things, and then it would error out and say it didn’t know where to install GRUB.

I had a feeling that maybe it’s because I’m using RAID, but I couldn’t find any supporting info on that. I’m using RAID5 on a Dell PowerEdge R610 if that makes any difference. lol

[NDNtech]

[quote=“ianabc, post: 32844, member: 24548”]I’d be interested to see the contents of the /etc/init.d/apache2 file if you have it before you reinstall though.[/quote]

[CODE]#!/bin/sh

BEGIN INIT INFO

Provides: apache2

Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog $named

Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog $named

Default-Start: 2 3 4 5

Default-Stop: 0 1 6

X-Interactive: true

Short-Description: Start/stop apache2 web server

END INIT INFO

set -e

SCRIPTNAME=“${0##*/}”
SCRIPTNAME=“${SCRIPTNAME##[KS][0-9][0-9]}”
if [ -n “$APACHE_CONFDIR” ] ; then
if [ “${APACHE_CONFDIR##/etc/apache2-}” != “${APACHE_CONFDIR}” ] ; then
DIR_SUFFIX=“${APACHE_CONFDIR##/etc/apache2-}”
else
DIR_SUFFIX=
fi
elif [ “${SCRIPTNAME##apache2-}” != “$SCRIPTNAME” ] ; then
DIR_SUFFIX=“-${SCRIPTNAME##apache2-}”
APACHE_CONFDIR=/etc/apache2$DIR_SUFFIX
else
DIR_SUFFIX=
APACHE_CONFDIR=/etc/apache2
fi
if [ -z “$APACHE_ENVVARS” ] ; then
APACHE_ENVVARS=$APACHE_CONFDIR/envvars
fi
export APACHE_CONFDIR APACHE_ENVVARS

ENV=“env -i LANG=C PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin”
if [ “$APACHE_CONFDIR” != /etc/apache2 ] ; then
ENV=“$ENV APACHE_CONFDIR=$APACHE_CONFDIR”
fi
if [ “$APACHE_ENVVARS” != “$APACHE_CONFDIR/envvars” ] ; then
ENV=“$ENV APACHE_ENVVARS=$APACHE_ENVVARS”
fi

#edit /etc/default/apache2 to change this.
HTCACHECLEAN_RUN=auto
HTCACHECLEAN_MODE=daemon
HTCACHECLEAN_SIZE=300M
HTCACHECLEAN_DAEMON_INTERVAL=120
HTCACHECLEAN_PATH=/var/cache/apache2$DIR_SUFFIX/mod_disk_cache
HTCACHECLEAN_OPTIONS=“”

APACHE_HTTPD=$(. $APACHE_ENVVARS && echo $APACHE_HTTPD)
if [ -z “$APACHE_HTTPD” ] ; then
APACHE_HTTPD=/usr/sbin/apache2
fi
if [ ! -x $APACHE_HTTPD ] ; then
echo “No apache MPM package installed”
exit 0
fi

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

test -f /etc/default/rcS && . /etc/default/rcS

if [ -f /etc/default/apache2$DIR_SUFFIX ] ; then
. /etc/default/apache2$DIR_SUFFIX
elif [ -f /etc/default/apache2 ] ; then
. /etc/default/apache2
fi

APACHE2CTL=“$ENV /usr/sbin/apache2ctl”
HTCACHECLEAN=“$ENV /usr/sbin/htcacheclean”

PIDFILE=$(. $APACHE_ENVVARS && echo $APACHE_PID_FILE)
if [ -z “$PIDFILE” ] ; then
echo ERROR: APACHE_PID_FILE needs to be defined in $APACHE_ENVVARS >&2
exit 2
fi

check_htcacheclean() {
[ “$HTCACHECLEAN_MODE” = “daemon” ] || return 1

[ "$HTCACHECLEAN_RUN"  = "yes"    ] && return 0

MODSDIR=$(. $APACHE_ENVVARS && echo $APACHE_MODS_ENABLED)
[ "$HTCACHECLEAN_RUN"  = "auto" \
  -a -e ${MODSDIR:-$APACHE_CONFDIR/mods-enabled}/disk_cache.load ] && \
    return 0

return 1

}

start_htcacheclean() {
if [ ! -d “$HTCACHECLEAN_PATH” ] ; then
echo “… directory $HTCACHECLEAN_PATH does not exist!” >&2
return 1
fi
$HTCACHECLEAN $HTCACHECLEAN_OPTIONS -d$HTCACHECLEAN_DAEMON_INTERVAL
-i -p$HTCACHECLEAN_PATH -l$HTCACHECLEAN_SIZE
}

stop_htcacheclean() {
pkill -P 1 -f "htcacheclean.* -p$HTCACHECLEAN_PATH " 2> /dev/null || echo …not running
}

pidof_apache() {
# if there is actually an apache2 process whose pid is in PIDFILE,
# print it and return 0.
if [ -e “$PIDFILE” ]; then
if pidof apache2 | tr ’ ’ ‘\n’ | grep -w $(cat $PIDFILE); then
return 0
fi
fi
return 1
}

apache_stop() {
if $APACHE2CTL configtest > /dev/null 2>&1; then
# if the config is ok than we just stop normaly
$APACHE2CTL stop 2>&1 | grep -v ‘not running’ >&2 || true
else
# if we are here something is broken and we need to try
# to exit as nice and clean as possible
PID=$(pidof_apache) || true

    if [ "${PID}" ]; then
        # in this case it is everything nice and dandy and we kill apache2
        echo
        log_warning_msg "The apache2$DIR_SUFFIX configtest failed, so we are trying to kill it manually. This is almost certainly suboptimal, so please make sure your system is working as you'd expect now!"
                    kill $PID
    elif [ "$(pidof apache2)" ]; then
        if [ "$VERBOSE" != no ]; then
                            echo " ... failed!"
                echo "You may still have some apache2 processes running.  There are"
                echo "processes named 'apache2' which do not match your pid file,"
                echo "and in the name of safety, we've left them alone.  Please review"
                echo "the situation by hand."
                    fi
                    return 1
    fi
fi

}

apache_wait_stop() {
# running ?
PIDTMP=$(pidof_apache) || true
if kill -0 “${PIDTMP:-}” 2> /dev/null; then
PID=$PIDTMP
fi

apache_stop

# wait until really stopped
if [ -n "${PID:-}" ]; then
    i=0
    while kill -0 "${PID:-}" 2> /dev/null;  do
            if [ $i = '60' ]; then
                break;
            else
                if [ $i = '0' ]; then
                        echo -n " ... waiting "
                else
                              echo -n "."
                fi
                i=$(($i+1))
                sleep 1
              fi
    done
fi

}

case $1 in
start)
log_daemon_msg “Starting web server” “apache2”
if $APACHE2CTL start; then
if check_htcacheclean ; then
log_progress_msg htcacheclean
start_htcacheclean || log_end_msg 1
fi
log_end_msg 0
else
log_end_msg 1
fi
;;
stop)
if check_htcacheclean ; then
log_daemon_msg “Stopping web server” “htcacheclean”
stop_htcacheclean
log_progress_msg “apache2”
else
log_daemon_msg “Stopping web server” “apache2”
fi
if apache_wait_stop; then
log_end_msg 0
else
log_end_msg 1
fi
;;
graceful-stop)
if check_htcacheclean ; then
log_daemon_msg “Stopping web server” “htcacheclean”
stop_htcacheclean
log_progress_msg “apache2”
else
log_daemon_msg “Stopping web server” “apache2”
fi
if $APACHE2CTL graceful-stop; then
log_end_msg 0
else
log_end_msg 1
fi
;;
reload | force-reload | graceful)
if ! $APACHE2CTL configtest > /dev/null 2>&1; then
$APACHE2CTL configtest || true
log_end_msg 1
exit 1
fi
log_daemon_msg “Reloading web server config” “apache2”
if pidof_apache > /dev/null ; then
if $APACHE2CTL graceful $2 ; then
log_end_msg 0
else
log_end_msg 1
fi
fi
;;
restart)
if ! $APACHE2CTL configtest > /dev/null 2>&1; then
$APACHE2CTL configtest || true
log_end_msg 1
exit 1
fi
if check_htcacheclean ; then
log_daemon_msg “Restarting web server” “htcacheclean”
stop_htcacheclean
log_progress_msg apache2
else
log_daemon_msg “Restarting web server” “apache2”
fi
PID=$(pidof_apache) || true
if ! apache_wait_stop; then
log_end_msg 1 || true
fi
if $APACHE2CTL start; then
if check_htcacheclean ; then
start_htcacheclean || log_end_msg 1
fi
log_end_msg 0
else
log_end_msg 1
fi
;;
start-htcacheclean)
log_daemon_msg “Starting htcacheclean”
start_htcacheclean || log_end_msg 1
log_end_msg 0
;;
stop-htcacheclean)
log_daemon_msg “Stopping htcacheclean”
stop_htcacheclean
log_end_msg 0
;;
status)
PID=$(pidof_apache) || true
if [ -n “$PID” ]; then
echo “Apache2$DIR_SUFFIX is running (pid $PID).”
exit 0
else
echo “Apache2$DIR_SUFFIX is NOT running.”
if [ -e “$PIDFILE” ]; then
exit 1
else
exit 3
fi
fi
;;
*)
log_success_msg “Usage: /etc/init.d/apache2$DIR_SUFFIX {start|stop|graceful-stop|restart|reload|force-reload|start-htcacheclean|stop-htcacheclean|status}”
exit 1
;;
esac[/CODE]

[ianabc]

[quote=“NDNtech, post: 32845, member: 23658”]Okay. I had issues with my install too. I couldn’t do a regular install for some reason. I had to boot into the live OS and install from there. In the normal install I kept seeing messages in the command area saying it didn’t have permissions to do things, and then it would error out and say it didn’t know where to install GRUB.

I had a feeling that maybe it’s because I’m using RAID, but I couldn’t find any supporting info on that. I’m using RAID5 on a Dell PowerEdge R610 if that makes any difference. lol[/quote]

I have similar hardware but I’m using CentOS instead of Ubuntu. If you configure the RAID5 in hardware then I think you can just pretend like it’s a simple SATA disk in the installer (i.e. Don’t tell it about the RAID configuration - let the hardware manage that). The installer messages sound weird, what do you mean by the “normal install”?

[NDNtech]

I’m in the Ubuntu installer and I don’t see that option, It just goes through the steps until it gets to the screen to select a partition

[NDNtech]

By normal install, I mean just the wizard. I don’t know how to explain it. It’s the one that’s not the live boot of ubuntu

[ianabc]

You should do a full reinstall from the CD or DVD, running the wizard will usually try to preserve some of your configuration files which seems to be causing the problems. Make sure you backup anything that is on there you want to keep then boot from a CD or DVD. Ubuntu has a server image which might be a better fit than the live CD.

[url]http://releases.ubuntu.com/12.04[/url]

[url]http://releases.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-12.04.4-server-amd64.iso[/url]

I can’t remember the install process in detail but if you are asked what software you want to install just make sure you don’t install a web server or mysql or anything like that. There might even be a “minimal” option.

Once it is installed give the fog installer a go again.

[NDNtech]

So I should be using Ubuntu Server instead of desktop?

[ianabc]

That is just my personal recommendation, not a Fog recommendation! The desktop installer generally installs a bunch of stuff I’ll never use on a fog server. I actually use CentOS for my fog servers but most people seem to choose Ubuntu and both should work.

I’m struggling to remember now but I think that even when you install from liveCD it might as you if you want to “upgrade” rather than reinstall. You definitely want to avoid that! As I said above, you want treat the system as a completely new install.

[NDNtech]

Yeah, I always do the clean install, it does have the upgrade option pre-selected as if it’s an amazing idea. Well I’m downloading the server version ISO right now and will reinstall it tomorrow. I have a feeling my boss want me off the clock lol

[ianabc]

Good luck!