Client system will not load pxe image
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@rbasart I just sent you an IM. (little talk bubble on the forum tool tray at the top).
IM should give us a quicker turn around for the Q&A session.
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@george1421 Choosing the Client System Information (Compatibility) option produces the same result. bzImage… OK and init.xz… OK
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Per a suggestion here, I updated to version 1.3.4 to see if that would solve the problem, but now I’m stuck with a whole new issue.
Database Schema Installer / Updater
Your database connection appears to be invalid. FOG is unable to communicate with the database. There are many reasons why this could be the case. Please check your credentials in /var/www/html/fog/lib/fog/config.class.php. Also confirm that the database is indeed running. If credentials are correct, and if the Database service is running, check to ensure your filesystem has enough space.To top it off, when I try to restart mysql, it comes back as an unrecognized service.
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@rbasart https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/9405/cannot-see-web-interface-i-have-apache-errors/13#
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@Tom-Elliott Tom thanks for the pointer, but it’s still not flying. At the end of the install, where it’s updating the database it fails. Everything else is okay. I did do a “service mysqld status” command and it comes back running, but I still get the “Your database connection appears to be invalid.” page.
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@rbasart Can you check for me what you have under /opt/fog/.fogsettings
I’m most interested if your sql user fog password matches
snmysqluser=‘fog’
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@kibade There is no .fogsettings there for me.
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@rbasart The normal reason you don’t have this is the fog installed failed before it finished installing. .fogsettings is the last thing it does. Can you re-run ./install.sh and see if anything says “failed” please?
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So, thanks to Tom, we’re getting closer anyway. After a fresh install and a few tweaks, we are back to where this thread started but, it did work on a Lenovo laptop. Still not the Dell that I’m really shooting for.
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Another twist to the mystery. I tried to boot an HP EliteBook to Fog and got to the menu, but when I choose either the Full or the Quick, it starts to go, but then restarts the laptop. Any ideas?
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I just love coming to work at a company where the previous IT guy had his head firmly implanted in his sphincter!!! Because of his poor documentation or lack thereof in some cases, I had assigned the same IP as a switch on the network to the Linux box. I don’t know how Fog was working at all but it was getting by just enough to screw with a lot of people! Once I found out the duplicate IP situation and changed the IP of the switch, everything started working exactly as it should! Thanks to everyone for their help, especially Tom!
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@rbasart Well, that certainly could do it I suppose.
As far as it “partially” working, the switch IS the IP address, and FOG had “listeners” on that IP.
As the switch received the data, the FOG Server would perk up as well.
Glad you figured it out for sure there. Sorry I didn’t recognize this, but hey one more thing to “look” for.
