Authentication ERROR: Could not authenticate : Value cannot be null.

[ttbm]

Server

• FOG Version: 1.4.4
• OS: Linux

Client

• Service Version: 0.11.12
• OS: Linux / Debian 8

Description

Hello,
I have an error after installing the fog client on my debian machine, here are the logs related:

 13/09/2017 10:26 Main Overriding exception handling
 13/09/2017 10:26 Main Bootstrapping Zazzles
 13/09/2017 10:26 Controller Initialize
 13/09/2017 10:26 Controller Start

 13/09/2017 10:26 Service Starting service
 13/09/2017 10:26 Bus Became bus server
 13/09/2017 10:26 Bus Emmiting message on channel: Status
 13/09/2017 10:26 Service Invoking early JIT compilation on needed binaries

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--------------------------------Authentication--------------------------------
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 13/09/2017 10:26 Client-Info Version: 0.11.12
 13/09/2017 10:26 Client-Info OS:      Linux
 13/09/2017 10:26 Middleware::Authentication Waiting for authentication timeout to pass
 13/09/2017 10:26 Middleware::Communication Download: http://192.168.0.10/fog/management/other/ssl/srvpublic.crt
 13/09/2017 10:26 Middleware::Authentication ERROR: Could not authenticate
 13/09/2017 10:26 Middleware::Authentication ERROR: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: authority

I’ve tried to resetting the encryption, reinstall the client, I can also download the certificate manually with a wget command, … but still the same problem.

A little help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks in advance.

[ttbm]

I have tried the solutions present here : https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/10168/linux-client-could-not-authenticate
but nothing changes

[Sebastian Roth]

@ttbm said:

… Middleware::Authentication ERROR: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: authority

This means that the fog-client does not find the certificate on the client itself. This is usually due to a broken keystore in the mono installation. Can you try using older mono versions on your debian client?

[ttbm]

Thanks for your reply, I tried with 2 different versions of mono but still the same, except that now the file “fog.log” remains empty, however this is what we can find in the file SmartInstaller.log :

14/09/2017 11:21 Middleware::Communication Download: http://192.168.0.10/fog/management/other/ca.cert.der
14/09/2017 11:21 Data::RSA Injecting root CA:

[Sebastian Roth]

@ttbm I’ve just tried the fog-client on Debian 8 and it worked nicely. Here is a mono package list (including the versions) from that test system:

dpkg -l | grep "ii  mono"
ii  mono-4.0-gac                                                3.2.8+dfsg-10                        all          Mono GAC tool (for CLI 4.0)
ii  mono-4.0-service                                            3.2.8+dfsg-10                        all          Mono service manager for CLI 4.0
ii  mono-csharp-shell                                           3.2.8+dfsg-10                        all          interactive C# shell
ii  mono-devel                                                  3.2.8+dfsg-10                        all          Mono development tools
ii  mono-gac                                                    3.2.8+dfsg-10                        all          Mono GAC tool
ii  mono-mcs                                                    3.2.8+dfsg-10                        all          Mono C# 2.0 / 3.0 / 4.0 / 5.0  compiler for CLI 2.0 / 4.0 / 4.5
ii  mono-runtime                                                3.2.8+dfsg-10                        amd64        Mono runtime - default version
ii  mono-runtime-common                                         3.2.8+dfsg-10                        amd64        Mono runtime - common files
ii  mono-runtime-sgen                                           3.2.8+dfsg-10                        amd64        Mono runtime - SGen
ii  mono-xbuild                                                 3.2.8+dfsg-10                        all          MSBuild-compatible build system for Mono
ii  monodevelop                                                 4.0.12+dfsg-6                        all          Development Environment for GNOME
ii  monodoc-base                                                3.2.8+dfsg-10                        all          shared MonoDoc binaries
ii  monodoc-manual                                              3.2.8+dfsg-10                        all          compiled XML documentation from the Mono project

If you don’t see anything in fog.log then run journalctl -u FOGService -f -n 50 while doing a stop/start (service FOGService stop; service FOGService start) in another terminal window.

Post output here for us to check. I suspect you see something like mono-service: command not found. In case you see this, install debian package mono-4.0-service and you should be up and running.

[ttbm]

It worked with the following versions : mono 3.10 and fog client 0.11.12 on a debian 7 system.
Thanks !