Fog Upgrade Problems

[Tom Elliott]

I will work on that portion of the installer too, just because I know most of the instructions in the WIKI still recommend working from /opt.

[george1421]

@Tom-Elliott That is a bogus message. I ALWAYS setup the fogproject folder under /opt and that message the OP posted has never been displayed. Granted I use RHEL, but still what is causing that error??

The OP is logged in as root, I assume that sudo ./installfog.sh is being used to invoke the setup.

… thinking a bit more, could there be something in the .fogsettings causing this message?

[Tom Elliott]

@garysaxon How, exactly, are you running the installer?

The only time that message get’s displayed is if the webdirdest is used (/var/www/fog) or tftpdirdest locations (usually /tftpboot), but the “Answer not recognized” might be not allowing the rest of the system to even make it that far (making webdirdest and tftpdirdest blank). Essentially making the check look at ‘|’)

Please run as root, and ensure your installer is set with ./installfog.sh -y

[garysaxon]

@Tom-Elliott

I get the same error message

[Tom Elliott]

@garysaxon Then something is not right with your setup.

Can you show us exactly what you’re doing?

The “Answer not recognized” is likely a part of the problem.

How are you running the installer?

[george1421]

@Tom-Elliott would posting the .fogsettings file be of any help (of course with the passwords removed)? Maybe the sins of the OP’s past are coming back to haunt him.

[Tom Elliott]

@george1421 It’d be worth while sure. But from what I can tell, it’s not even making it that far, currently.

[garysaxon]

@george1421

Where is that file located?

[Tom Elliott]

@garysaxon Can you PLEASE tell us exactly how you’re running the installer first?

The location of the file is /opt/fog/.fogsettings

[george1421]

@garysaxon I know its probably much, but can we get a screen shot or image of the command line you are using before you press the enter key? We have to rule out the obvious stuff before going to dig under the hood.

[garysaxon]

@george1421

I have tried several diffent waysbut all come back with same error: Here are the commands I tried first

cd /opt
sudo wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/freeghost/fog_1.3.5.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvzf fog_1.3.5.tar.gz
cd fog_1.3.5/
cd bin
sudo ./installfog.sh

[garysaxon]

@garysaxon

I also tried :

sudo -i
git clone https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject.git /opt/fogproject
cd /opt/fogproject
git checkout dev-branch
cd bin
./installfog.sh

[Tom Elliott]

@garysaxon Please run the git form.

sudo -i
cd /opt/fogproject
git pull
git checkout dev-branch
git pull
cd bin
./installfog.sh -y

[george1421]

@garysaxon Taking this a slightly different direction: What operating system is the FOG server using?

The commands you are using ARE the right ones. So the error message is not easy to understand. We need to look about for another reason.

Once you try Tom’s commands the next step is seeing what is in the .fogsettings file.

[garysaxon]

@Tom-Elliott

Same error with those commands

[Tom Elliott]

@garysaxon
What’s output of:

cat /opt/fog/.fogsettings | grep 'osid='

[garysaxon]

@george1421

I am using ubuntu 14.04

[george1421]

@Tom-Elliott OK, I think we got it going now.

We first tried to get it installed before lunch. The install was running super slow and the OP had to leave for a bit so we just let it run. When he came back the install failed and the fog installer failed to write the .fogsettings file.

So I deleted the installer logs and reran the installer. This time the installer ran to completion and the db schema was updated. We were able to log into the web console and I confirmed that the storage node was configured with the same password as we gave the installer. At this time fog appears to be installed and running correctly with all of the expected services up and running.

You may need to see if you can trap what was going on with the .fogsettings file. The file existed but was empty ( 0 ) bytes. That empty byte file is where I suspect the “Sorry, answer not recognized” message was coming from (nothing to parse).

[Tom Elliott]

I don’t know why .fogsettings file was 0, but this is certainly the problem. There’s 2 points where the “Sorry, answer not recognized” pops up.

First, if the OSID of the installer system is not available it will print the message and exit out as you saw.

Second, If the (Yes, No) wasn’t answered it would give the same thing.

[garysaxon]

@george1421 Hey George, this is Hamilton, on behalf of Gary, I work with him at this site. Although the management console comes up and you can log into it, we are having trouble pulling down images. We can register the host to the server and select an image, but the pc just reboots again. The last message it gives is “Attempting to deploy image, using partclone”

Thanks in advance,

-Hamilton