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    Fresh install of 1.2.0 on Ubuntu 15.04 - Imaging suddenly "broken"

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    • Wayne WorkmanW
      Wayne Workman
      last edited by

      What version of windows are you imaging? and is the disk MBR or GPT ?

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        theterminator93
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        All Windows 7; standard Windows 7 partition setup with the hidden system partition and main data partition. FOG set to multi partition, single disk.

        I read a few things about potentially corrupted images, but that still doesn’t explain (to me) why imaging broke after successfully deploying an image to a client; would it be worthwhile if I downgraded to 14.04? My other FOG servers are running this OS without issues…

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        • Wayne WorkmanW
          Wayne Workman @theterminator93
          last edited by Wayne Workman

          @theterminator93 Well, you’re lucky because there is known instability with using 1.2.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.04 as well.

          Are you positive that a size is showing for size on client and not for size on server??

          Can you post the output of this command ran on this particular FOG box - it’ll be a lot of output, use a code box:

          ls -lahRt /images
          

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            theterminator93
            last edited by theterminator93

            Here is the output of the command…

            /images:
            total 32K
            drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4.0K Jul 23 14:39 ..
            drwxrwxrwx  8 root root 4.0K Jul 23 14:31 .
            drwxrwxrwx  2 root root 4.0K Jul 23 14:31 dev
            drwxrwxrwx  2 root root 4.0K Jul 23 13:50 StudentOpti380
            drwxrwxrwx  2 root root 4.0K Jul 23 13:09 StudentDC7700
            drwxrwxrwx  2 root root 4.0K Jul 23 12:14 StudentIBM
            drwxrwxrwx  2 root root 4.0K Jul 23 11:23 LabOpti380
            drwxrwxrwx  2 root root 4.0K Jul 23 10:36 postdownloadscripts
            -rwxrwxrwx  1 root root    0 Jul 23 10:36 .mntcheck
            
            /images/dev:
            total 8.0K
            drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4.0K Jul 23 14:31 .
            drwxrwxrwx 8 root root 4.0K Jul 23 14:31 ..
            -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Jul 23 10:36 .mntcheck
            
            /images/StudentOpti380:
            total 12G
            drwxrwxrwx 8 root root 4.0K Jul 23 14:31 ..
            -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  12G Jul 23 14:31 d1p2.img
            drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4.0K Jul 23 13:50 .
            -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8.3M Jul 23 13:50 d1p1.img
            -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  512 Jul 23 13:50 d1.mbr
            
            /images/StudentDC7700:
            total 13G
            drwxrwxrwx 8 root root 4.0K Jul 23 14:31 ..
            -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  13G Jul 23 14:13 d1p2.img
            drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4.0K Jul 23 13:09 .
            -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8.2M Jul 23 13:09 d1p1.img
            -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  512 Jul 23 13:09 d1.mbr
            
            /images/StudentIBM:
            total 7.3G
            drwxrwxrwx 8 root root 4.0K Jul 23 14:31 ..
            -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7.3G Jul 23 13:29 d1p2.img
            drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4.0K Jul 23 12:14 .
            -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8.2M Jul 23 12:13 d1p1.img
            -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  512 Jul 23 12:13 d1.mbr
            
            /images/LabOpti380:
            total 11G
            drwxrwxrwx 8 root root 4.0K Jul 23 14:31 ..
            -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  11G Jul 23 11:58 d1p2.img
            drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4.0K Jul 23 11:23 .
            -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8.3M Jul 23 11:23 d1p1.img
            -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  512 Jul 23 11:23 d1.mbr
            
            /images/postdownloadscripts:
            total 12K
            drwxrwxrwx 8 root root 4.0K Jul 23 14:31 ..
            drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4.0K Jul 23 10:36 .
            -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  233 Jul 23 10:36 fog.postdownload
            
            

            The interesting this is immediately after I uploaded the images, the image page in the console told me the hard disk size required by the image in the image size “on client” field. The image size “on server” is always reported as 2.01 GB for some reason. The images I’ve tried to deploy now say the image size on the client is 0 GB…

            Here is what the image management area looks like…

            Image Management
            All Images
            Lab-Opti380
            default:Windows 7
            Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk (Not Resizable) 0.00 iB 2.01 GiB Yesterday, 3:58 pm Staff-Opti380
            default:Windows 7
            Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk (Not Resizable) 0.00 iB 0.00 iB 01-01-1970 12:00am Staff-Opti980
            default:Windows 7
            Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk (Not Resizable) 0.00 iB 0.00 iB 01-01-1970 12:00am Student-DC7700
            default:Windows 7
            Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk (Not Resizable) 74.33 GiB 2.01 GiB Yesterday, 6:13 pm Student-IBM
            default:Windows 7
            Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk (Not Resizable) 0.00 iB 2.01 GiB Yesterday, 5:29 pm Student-Opti380
            default:Windows 7
            Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk (Not Resizable) 0.00 iB 2.01 GiB Yesterday, 6:31 pm Student-Opti755
            default:Windows 7
            Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk (Not Resizable) 0.00 iB 0.00 iB 01-01-1970 12:00am ```
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              theterminator93
              last edited by theterminator93

              Additional development.

              I flipped our DHCP settings to use one of the other “tried and true” FOG servers we’ve been using for a bit over a year, and I uploaded a couple images to it. As soon as we tried to deploy one of the images (the IBM image), the workstation finishes the PXE init, loads the FOG kernel and starts to image normally, gets to the point where it tries to start PartClone to download it, then the image file appears to go corrupt (e.g. image size-on client value goes from the HDD size to 0 GB) on the server and everything fails. I’m thinking less a server issue and more a client or hardware issue now, but why would it have successfully deployed once, then failed every other time? And why is it corrupting the image on the server (at least in the regard of wiping out the deployed size definition)?

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              • Wayne WorkmanW
                Wayne Workman
                last edited by Wayne Workman

                @theterminator93 I actually have two Optiplex 380s at my home (I have a fog server at home and at work) and I can confidently say that FOG Trunk can image this model with an MBR setup using Win7 without an issue.

                Given that you’re reliable FOG server failed to image this model, I’d recommend that you move to FOG Trunk and then retry with this model. Upload and then download.

                https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Upgrade_to_trunk

                Please use the Git method, as SVN is currently unavailable.

                You may update an existing FOG server - or build one from scratch and use the Git method when it comes time to put FOG on it.

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                  theterminator93
                  last edited by theterminator93

                  I’ll try the new trunk release and see what happens on Monday. I actually replaced the HDD in the PC that was running in the FOG server at this site and was in the process of uploading updated images from the various PCs there. They had all been imaged without issue on the old server, which was also running 1.2.0 (although it was Ubuntu 11). Strangely though, we’ve never had any issues in the last 3 years with the various releases of FOG imaging the PCs in this setting (I estimate the number of images pushed down to be well in the 2000+ range), all with the same hardware. Especially considering I got one successful deploy on a machine before it stopped working on all hardware. That’s why I’m so baffled as to why it stopped working all of a sudden. 😖

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                    theterminator93
                    last edited by

                    No luck. Re-uploaded the image on a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 with FOG 1.2.0 and attempted to deploy - same problem. Upgrade to FOG Trunk and attempted to deploy, same problem. An error message would be helpful but none are seen…

                    I’ve just about given up. I’ve had my techs start imaging these machines with Acronis so we don’t keep falling behind on our timetables. If anyone has any other ideas or things to try, I’m all ears.

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                    • Wayne WorkmanW
                      Wayne Workman @theterminator93
                      last edited by Wayne Workman

                      @theterminator93 said:

                      If anyone has any other ideas or things to try, I’m all ears.

                      Might sound harsh but - ditch Ubuntu, install Fedora 21 or 22 Server (or CentOS) - Follow this guide: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Fedora_21_Server

                      And if you have any questions at all about Fedora or that guide, just message me.

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                        theterminator93
                        last edited by

                        I will give that a try later this week and report back. I’ve got nothing to lose at this point.

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