FOG Multicast Problems / Partclone fails to finish

[Tom Elliott]

@Joe-Gill Well the storage configuration you have says your storage node IS the master, which is not the log files you’re presenting us.

[Tom Elliott]

Trying to contact via chat also.

[Joe Gill]

@Tom-Elliott
I’m here still

[Tom Elliott]

Remoted in. The .22 was correct. The 17 was the “central server” but .22 is where the images are stored.

The issue(s):

1. DB was being connected to via the user fog and it’s associated password, but the user was not given privileges on the fog database.
2. The Main server (.17) had bind-address enabled.

Once I updated the DB to allow the ‘fog’ user to access the fog database AND disabled the bind-address, the node (.22) was able to startup the FOG Services (which was failing as it couldn’t contact the database). I watched the multicast log in particular after setting up a multicast task and saw 3 of the 4 clients in that tasking link into the Multicast side. (Still waiting to hear if partclone will work and if the 4th client worked properly).

I suspect this issue will be resolved, but please keep us posted.

[Joe Gill]

Hi guys,

Tom, thanks again for all the help! Everything is happy. The multi-cast we setup finished just fine. I’m making a new image today and imaging another lab. I doubt they’ll be any more issues with multicasting.

I’ll re-post if more issues arise.

Thanks!!

Cheers,

Joe Gill

[Joe Gill]

@Tom-Elliott

I spoke too soon!! I had a batch fail on me again…

/var/log/fog/multicast.log

[06-22-16 6:02:36 pm]  | Sleep time has changed to 10 seconds

:~$ ps aux | grep FOGMulti
lcarr     3670  0.0  0.0  15944  2284 pts/3    S+   14:50   0:00 grep --color=auto FOGMulti

Let me know if there are any steps you’d like me to try. I’ll be around until 5:30 MST this evening if you’d like to try and remote in. Thanks!!

Joe Gill

[Tom Elliott]

@Joe-Gill Seeing s FOGMulticastManager doesn’t appear to be running, what happens if you restart the service?

service FOGMulticastManager stop; sleep 5; service FOGMulticastManager start

[Joe Gill]

lcarr@Fog:~$ ps ax | grep udp
 3686 pts/3    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto udp

[Joe Gill]

@Tom-Elliott

lcarr@Fog:~$ service FOGMulticastManager stop; sleep 5; service FOGMulticastManager start
 * Stopping FOG Computer Imaging Solution: FOGMulticastManager                  start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 1362: No such process

And hangs.

[Tom Elliott]

That’s what I suspected. It should be running now. If you wanna check?

[Joe Gill]

Thanks for checking things out Tom!

Looks like stopping and starting the service on both the Server and Fog Storage Node solved the problem. The hosts are happy and the task is going!

Cheers,

Joe Gill

[Joe Gill]

@Tom-Elliott

My problem is back again. I tried shutting down and re-starting service but I’m hanging up again at the Particlone screen.

Ran this on both Storage Node and Server…

root@Fog:/# ps ax | grep udp
12432 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto udp
root@Fog:/# service FOGMulticastManager stop; sleep 5; service FOGMulticastManager start
 * Stopping FOG Computer Imaging Solution: FOGMulticastManager           [ OK ]
 * Starting FOG Computer Imaging Solution: FOGMulticastManager           [ OK ]

Also…

Tailed the Multicast Log File on Storage Node below…

[06-29-16 4:31:48 pm]
        ___           ___           ___
       /\  \         /\  \         /\  \
      /::\  \       /::\  \       /::\  \
     /:/\:\  \     /:/\:\  \     /:/\:\  \
    /::\-\:\  \   /:/  \:\  \   /:/  \:\  \
   /:/\:\ \:\__\ /:/__/ \:\__\ /:/__/_\:\__\
   \/__\:\ \/__/ \:\  \ /:/  / \:\  /\ \/__/
        \:\__\    \:\  /:/  /   \:\ \:\__\
         \/__/     \:\/:/  /     \:\/:/  /
                    \::/  /       \::/  /
                     \/__/         \/__/

  ###########################################
  #     Free Computer Imaging Solution      #
  #     Credits:                            #
  #     http://fogproject.org/credits       #
  #     GNU GPL Version 3                   #
  ###########################################

[06-29-16 4:32:07 pm] Interface Ready with IP Address: 172.16.1.22
[06-29-16 4:32:07 pm]  * Starting MulticastManager Service
[06-29-16 4:32:07 pm]  * Checking for new items every 10 seconds
[06-29-16 4:32:07 pm]  * Starting service loop
[06-29-16 4:32:07 pm]  | Sleeping for 10 seconds to ensure tasks are properly su                                                                                        bmitted
[06-29-16 4:32:17 pm]  | 0 tasks to be cleaned
[06-29-16 4:32:17 pm]  | 1 task found
[06-29-16 4:32:27 pm]  | 0 tasks to be cleaned
[06-29-16 4:32:27 pm]  | 1 task found
[06-29-16 4:32:37 pm]  | 0 tasks to be cleaned

I’ll be here all day. I’m working on imaging a lab. Thanks!!

Any suggestions are helpful!

Cheers,

Joe

[Joe Gill]

@Developers
.
Any thoughts here?

[Tom Elliott]

Re-update and see if it is working?

[Joe Gill]

@Tom-Elliott

K

[Joe Gill]

@Tom-Elliott

Wed Jun 29, 2016 12:17 pm
Running Version: 8140
SVN Revision: 5698

Is that current? I don’t see any options under …

Fog Configuration > Kernel Update >> Published Kernel

[Tom Elliott]

@Joe-Gill not even close. We’re not trying to update kernels. You need to update FOG as a whole.

[Joe Gill]

@Tom-Elliott

So what’s the easiest method to update FOG?

[Wayne Workman]

@Joe-Gill https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Upgrade_to_trunk

[Joe Gill]

@Tom-Elliott @Wayne-Workman

Well I updated via SVN. Still have the issue. I’m also experiencing an issue reading the Dashboard disk usage. I can send you a screenshot of that if you’d like.

You cannot delete members of existing groups…

Also cannot add members to new groups…

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!