Can't get trunk to install

[Bob Henderson]

I think I’m going nuts over here. Attempting to install the trunk version on a Ubuntu 12.04 box hosted in ESXI.

I’ve currently got a 1.2.0 up and running, and first tried that as a base. Everything goes fine until I get to the part about updating the MySQL database. When I browse to http://fog-ip/fog/management I simply get a white screen. The faveico is there, so it’s at least loading, but not providing content.

I then made an entirely new VM, Ubuntu 12.04, and pulled the trunk from GIT and it did the same exact thing.

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Does it require 14.04 or something now? I just want me some sweet sweet speed increase in our deployments!

[Sebastian Roth]

FOG (1.2.0 and trunk) are working fine on Ubuntu 12.04 AFAIK.

Do you see anything in the apache log files when you get a white screen? Sounds a bit like this issue: https://github.com/fogproject/fogproject/issues/1

[Wayne Workman]

Are you following these instructions? https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Upgrade_to_trunk

[Bob Henderson]

@Wayne-Workman Yes, following those exactly for both Wget and Git, since I attempted it twice.

@Uncle-Frank , I’l take a look in the logs when I have time to snapshot my current install and test it again. Should be tomm at the earliest.

It’s odd. Everything seems to go fine, and I did the same exact thing on a fog server in another site that was running on KVM with no issues. It just doesn’t like this one for some reason.

[Tom Elliott]

My guess to your problem is 12.04 is no longer in the mainline for Ubuntu. So technically yes installing 14.04 should fix the issue you’re seeing. It’s not required but would work.

[Bob Henderson]

@Tom-Elliott Works for me! I just remember when 14.04 came out, 1.2 had some issues installing on it, so I kept with 12.04. I just looked at my server that did work, and it is 14.04. Time to try that out!

[Bob Henderson]

Installing on 14.04 fixed this problem.

[Tom Elliott]

For future reference, and if I wasn’t on the phone when I got to respond yesterday, a supposed fix for 12.xx and lower (maybe 13 as well now?) is to change the /etc/apt/sources.list file

Edit the file so all the us.archive and security links are updated to old-releases.

Rerun apt-get update, then run the installer.

[Wayne Workman]

@Tom-Elliott said:

change the /etc/apt/sources.list file
Edit the file so all the us.archive and security links are updated to old-releases.

An example?