Unable to multicast; FOGMulticastManager fails to start

[Wayne Workman]

It’s not necessary to type in all caps. We also need the exact errors to help. You can copy/paste them or screenshot or take a photo. The Multicast log would also be helpful, found in fog configuration -> log viewer -> multicast.

[ryanxplosion]

@Wayne-Workman Not entirely sure how the all caps happened. I didn’t type it that way. I do not have multicast listed in the log viewer. I only see apache logs in the drop down.

[Wayne Workman]

@ryanxplosion I suppose it could be the log’s permissions are messed up…

What is the output of:
ls -lahRt /opt/fog/log

[ryanxplosion]

@Wayne-Workman

[Wayne Workman]

@ryanxplosion That’s it?

[ryanxplosion]

@Wayne-Workman Yes. That’s all that showed up.

[Wayne Workman]

@ryanxplosion Try this:

touch /opt/fog/log/multicast.log
touch /opt/fog/log/fogscheduler.log
touch /opt/fog/log/pinghost.log
touch /opt/fog/log/fogsnapinrep.log
touch /opt/fog/log/groupmanager.log
touch /opt/fog/log/fogreplicator.log
touch /opt/fog/log/servicemaster.log
chown -R root:root /opt/fog/log
chmod -R 744 /opt/fog/log

[Tom Elliott]

@Wayne-Workman won’t work if the services aren’t seeing the db.

[Wayne Workman]

What is the output of ls -la /

[ryanxplosion]

@Wayne-Workman said in Unable to multicast; FOGMulticastManager fails to start:

ls -la /

[Wayne Workman]

@ryanxplosion Both Tom and I are thinking you have a DB issue. From CLI, try to connect to the db with these two commands. Does one or both fail?

mysql -D fog -h localhost

mysql -D fog -h 127.0.0.1

[ryanxplosion]

@Wayne-Workman said in Unable to multicast; FOGMulticastManager fails to start:

mysql -D fog -h 127.0.0.1

Is this what it is supposed to do?

[Wayne Workman]

@ryanxplosion Yes, and the other?

[ryanxplosion]

@Wayne-Workman Same thing.

[Tom Elliott]

I’m just going to guess here but php-fpm is unavailable?

[ryanxplosion]

@Tom-Elliott said in Unable to multicast; FOGMulticastManager fails to start:

php-fpm

It appears to be running. Is this what you wanted me to check?

[ryanxplosion]

I just reinstalled Ubuntu and FOG again. The only thing I have done is import my hosts, groups, and images. FOGMulticastManager is still not running.

[THEMCV]

@ryanxplosion Is it a big deal since you just reinstalled to try Debian?

I’ve had far fewer issues with it.

[ryanxplosion]

@THEMCV The server I’m having issues with is my functioning server. I originally reinstalled Ubuntu on it because I had messed with so many things trying to get it to work that I felt more comfortable with a fresh install. I currently have no way of multicasting which isn’t a big deal right now since all of our labs have been recently updated, but it is still a feature we use often. I am also having issues with uploading new images now. Fails trying to update the database.

[THEMCV]

@ryanxplosion Honestly, try Debian 8 out and install FOG on it. Ubuntu I’ve had to tweak a lot and had multiple issues getting it to work right. Debian is good out of the box.

I would just try that and see if it works.