Fresh Install of FOG 1.3.4 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

[shoong]

Server

• FOG Version: 1.3.4
• OS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Description

• I am at the part where it states to install/update the database schema by opening a web browser and going to http://<ip address>/fog/management. It states that the site can’t be reached.

[george1421]

While this question is off point, why are you installing FOG 1.2.0? I might recommend fog 1.3.x if you need M.2 (NVMe) disk support, gpt format, uefi firmware, or win10 support.

But back on to your question. Did you remember to disable selinux (or better set it to permissive) and also disable the linux firewall (iptables)?

If you did all of that make sure apache is running.

[shoong]

weird:

I restarted the server. still couldn’t hit it
I then did apt-get update/upgrade, restarted, and it worked.

[Wayne Workman]

@shoong Don’t use FOG 1.2.0, and don’t build a new server using Ubuntu 14.

Use the latest stuff. Ubuntu 16.04 and FOG 1.3.x

Because - when 1.2.0 doesn’t do this and doesn’t work for that and all the other things that can go wrong with it and just not work with new hardware - all of us here are going to tell you to go to the latest FOG Version.

[shoong]

@Wayne-Workman so I went ahead and upgraded everything (Fog 1.3.x, Ubuntu 16.04) fresh install. I’m receiving a 500 error.

[Tom Elliott]

@shoong What’s the error?

Error 500 doesn’t tell us a single thing.

The error 500 (regardless of version installed) will nearly always correlate to a message being thrown in the apache error log.

Please get the last few lines of this file: /var/log/apache2/error.log

[shoong]

@Tom-Elliott
[Fri Feb 10 14:02:29.753796 2017] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 21285] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Fri Feb 10 14:03:01.802281 2017] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 910] AH00163: Apache/2.4.25 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.0.2j configured – resuming normal operations
[Fri Feb 10 14:03:01.803317 2017] [core:notice] [pid 910] AH00094: Command line: ‘/usr/sbin/apache2’
[Fri Feb 10 14:05:11.558730 2017] [php7:error] [pid 911] [client 10.120.52.124:50692] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function errorCode() on null in /var/www/fog/lib/db/pdodb.class.php:412\nStack trace:\n#0 /var/www/fog/lib/db/pdodb.class.php(227): PDODB->sqlerror()\n#1 /var/www/fog/lib/db/pdodb.class.php(168): PDODB::currentDb(Object(PDODB))\n#2 /var/www/fog/lib/db/pdodb.class.php(177): PDODB->_connect(false)\n#3 /var/www/fog/lib/db/pdodb.class.php(100): PDODB->_connect()\n#4 /var/www/fog/lib/db/databasemanager.class.php(43): PDODB->__construct()\n#5 /var/www/fog/lib/fog/loadglobals.class.php(42): DatabaseManager->establish()\n#6 /var/www/fog/lib/fog/loadglobals.class.php(79): LoadGlobals::_init()\n#7 /var/www/fog/commons/base.inc.php(49): LoadGlobals->__construct()\n#8 /var/www/fog/management/index.php(22): require(‘/var/www/fog/co…’)\n#9 {main}\n thrown in /var/www/fog/lib/db/pdodb.class.php on line 412

[Tom Elliott]

@shoong Can you please install the dev-branch?

git checkout dev-branch
cd bin
./installfog.sh -y

[shoong]

@Tom-Elliott this is what i get when i run the git command

els-fogserver:/$ git checkout dev-branch
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

[Tom Elliott]

@shoong I don’t know where your repository is.

[shoong]

@Tom-Elliott sorry i’m a linux noob. what is that command supposed to run? or is it supposed to reinstall fog? if so, i placed it in a the tmp folder and it deleted after a restart

[Tom Elliott]

git clone https://github.com/fogproject/fogproject.git
cd fogproject
git checkout dev-branch
cd bin
./installfog.sh -y

[shoong]

@Tom-Elliott i’m in business! what was the issue?

[Tom Elliott]

@shoong I don’t know. I just know there’s been more work for 1.3.5 than my focusing on 1.3.4.

[shoong]

@Tom-Elliott thanks for the quick resolution

[philmills]

I have the exact same issue, but I can’t understand this thread and how it was resolved.
Idiot guide please ?

[george1421]

@philmills In a nut shell, there was/is an issue with 1.3.4 (stable). The developers have fixed this issue with one of the beta releases (1.3.5-rc6 I believe).

You can either wait until 1.3.5 (stable) is released or upgrade to the dev-branch and install/upgrade to 1.3.5-rc6.

Tom provided instructions on how to connect to the dev-branch using git.

git clone https://github.com/fogproject/fogproject.git
cd <path_to_your_install_files_root>/fogproject
git checkout dev-branch
cd bin
./installfog.sh -y

The instructions above will update your installer files to the latest dev branch. Normally we wouldn’t suggest upgrading to a dev-branch (beta) but it appears you may be at a road block where the dev-branch will address your issues. Once your files are sync’d with the dev-branch then you can just run the installer again.

[philmills]

@george1421 I 'm in process of installing from dev-branch as you suggested. Its stuck at “Downloading inits, kernels, and the fog client”
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7471/build-7705-downloading-inits-kernels-and-the-fog-client-stuck/3

I’m on gigabit connection, so it shouldn’t be a network issue, unless a crab is chewing on a wire at the bottom of the Atlantic…

[philmills]

@philmills bmon shows that there’s next to no traffic on eth0. Makes no sense…

[george1421]

@philmills Does your computer have direct access to the internet or is it proxied?