Erasing current MBR/GPT tables.... taking about 5-10 minutes
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We had the same issue on kernel 14.16.6. Reverting back to 4.15.2 fixed this for us as well.
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Anybody mind downloading the latest 4.17.0 kernels?
I’ve added back patch that I haven’t had to do in a while, hopefully it can help fix the slowness?
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@tom-elliott I’m going to upgrade right now. I can try it and check back.
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Looks like formatting is much faster now using kernel 4.17.0 vs previous kernel. Thank you @Tom-Elliott I hope others have same experience. I must also add that I’m on Ubuntu Server 16.04 and FOG 1.5.4
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@tom-elliott I try to download it but… I’ve got this error : Error: Download Failed: Failed - filesize
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@lemeunier that’s a totally separate error, can you please open a new thread, or search for the similar error and see if those suggestions help.
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@tom-elliott At this point I stayed on 1.5.3 and I ran tests with three different kernels. 4.16.6 and 4.17.0 behaved similarly. They both took over 4 min to finish Erasing MBR/GPT. With kernel 4.15.2 the Erasing MBR/GPT took about 1 sec.
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I had the same problem with a fresh install on unbuntu18.04 running fog 1.5.3
as suggested i downloaded the kernels from a previous version, i used 4.14.4 (both 64 & 32bit) and this fixed the issue too -
I want to add to the above.
You need to chmod 777 rights to /var/www/fog/service/ipxe , for succesvol installing (overwrite) another kernel.
Can confirm 4.15.2 (32 + 64) kernels are instantly doing ‘Erasing current MBR/GPT tables’ !FTP incorrect error, check:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshoot_FTPCredentials / Passwords
There are a few places where all the credentials (on a standard install) should match exactly.
Web Interface -> Storage Management -> [Your storage node] -> Management Username & Management Password
Web Interface -> FOG Configuration -> FOG Settings -> TFTP Server -> FOG_TFTP_FTP_USERNAME & FOG_TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD
All of those should match (again, on a standard installation).
/opt/fog/.fogsettings (password in plain, should match)FTP upload class fix:
chown fog -R /images
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Please forgive my ignorance, but could someone point me to a guide on how to change kernels? I’m pretty sure I understand at least at a basic level what the kernel is and what it does, but I’ve never done this before and the googling I’ve done on installing new kernels has only confused me. In my case the step where FOG erases the MBR/GPT tables is taking 6+ minutes which is longer than the actual imaging process takes. As soon as I get past this current batch of laptops that must be imaged ASAP, I’ll be starting from scratch with a new hard drive in one of my fog servers and probably starting with Ubuntu Server 14 and not going any higher. So far, in my experience, upgrading one thing breaks other things and it just snowballs from there. Sorry for the long post but this has been a very difficult day.
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@benc Its under fog settings -> kernels. Roll back your current kernel to 4.15.2 until the developers can get the issues with the current linux releases sorted out. You will need both the 64 bit and 32 bit kernels when you download them.
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@george1421 Thanks, I will give that a try later today.
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This issue is still there in 1.5.4. It isn’t a real problem as much as it is an annoyance.
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@andreiv Use kernel 4.15.2 for now.
A lot of work has gone into tracking down the source of the problem, which we believe we have found. Now it’s just a matter of formulating a fix for it and getting it pushed.
People are quite busy though, so unsure when that’s going to be, but it is being worked on still.
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@Quazz Sure, I understand. Thanks for the solution. I replaced the kernel and it works perfectly.
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@Lemeunier @andreiv @benc @matijn @dbettens @MCSDFog @JGallo @jclumbo33 @luco60 Good news to all of you, we have figured out what is causing the slowness and fixed it. It’s been a longer story [ref] - thanks again to @Quazz for doing lots of testing and finding very helpful stuff to figure this out!
As we have not had enough time to push for a new release yet you can simply update to the latest kernel and inits like this:
sudo -i cd /var/www/fog/service/ipxe mv bzImage bzImage.orig wget https://fogproject.org/kernels/bzImage mv bzImage32 bzImage32.orig wget https://fogproject.org/kernels/bzImage32 mv init.xz init.xz.orig wget https://fogproject.org/inits/init.xz mv init_32.xz init_32.xz.orig wget https://fogproject.org/inits/init_32.xz -
@Sebastian-Roth Hi! I am aware that it is an old post above mine, i was just curious if the state of this issue was finally “merged into patches”. I mean that i used the kernel of it since this post, and I somehow missed the mention of it in a later release.
Well, I wanted to know if the current release (1.5.5) contains the proper kernel, or should i use the one i already have downloaded.
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@Foglalt It’s slated for 1.5.6 I believe, but you can manually download them for the time being.
It’s just the init files you need I think.
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@Quazz ok, then i keep my already downloaded kernels/inits, and wait for next release for further tests.
