could not mount images folder (/bin/fog.upload)

Trev-lchs

@Sebastian-Roth this one https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/10006/ubuntu-is-fog-s-enemy/22?lang=en-US&page=2

I think i would have followed those instructions, could this be the issue?

george1421

@Trev-lchs Its probably not the ubuntu enemy post. That would deal with database issues. This appears to be an nfs issue.

What is the output of showmount -e 127.0.0.1 also ip addr show

Edit: OK looking at previous posts I see the showmount command being issued. So lets try something else (in next post)

Trev-lchs

@george1421

root@fog-03:~# showmount -e 127.0.0.1
Export list for 127.0.0.1:
/images/dev *
/images     *

root@fog-03:~#
root@fog-03:~# ip addr show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:21:5a:d1:d2:20 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 10.10.1.26/16 brd 10.10.255.255 scope global enp3s0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::221:5aff:fed1:d220/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: enp5s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:21:5a:d1:d2:1e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

george1421

Is the target (pxe booting) computer on the same IP subnet as the fog server? The question is around if there are any screening routers or firewalls between the two devices.

We may need to setup a debug deploy test. This is where you schedule a capture but before hitting the schedule task button you tick the debug checkbox. Then schedule the task. PXE boot the target computer and it will boot into the debug console. You will have several screens of text you need to clear by pressing the enter key. Eventually you will be dropped to a linux command prompt. This is the FOS Linux debug environment. At this point we need to key in a few commands.

The first will be a ping to see if the target computer and ping the fog server by its IP address.

These next steps are optional but will help with copy and pasting into the debug console. These next few steps will allow you to connect to the target computer using putty or ssh. From putty or ssh you can paste in the mount command exactly without having to key it in. These commands need to be executed on the target computer not the FOG server.

Setting up a remote debugging session to FOS Linux.

At the FOS Linux command prompt key in ip addr show and get the IP address of the target computer.
Give the root user a known password with passwd This will be a one time password so make it simple like hello
From a putty or ssh session connect to the target computer using the IP address collected in step 1.
Login as root with the password you set in step 2

From there lets issue these two commands. The first will create the /images directory on the target computer and the second will map the share on the fog server to the target computer’s mount point.

mkdir /images
mount -o nolock,proto=tcp,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,intr,noatime "10.10.1.26:/images/dev" /images

That should connect the directory. If it connects without error issue this command and post the results (note you can copy and paste from putty)

ls -la /images

Trev-lchs

yes the PC is on the same subnet as fog.

george1421

@Trev-lchs I’ve added some additional comments to my previous post.

Trev-lchs

@george1421 Thanks George, just going though everything, I will be a while with the results as i have to be in a meeting at 13:00

Trev-lchs

@george1421 login as: root
root@10.10.11.160’s password:
[Thu Dec 19 root@fogclient ~]# mkdir /images
[Thu Dec 19 root@fogclient ~]# mount -o nolock,proto=tcp,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,intr,noatime “10.10.1.26:/images/dev” /images
mount: mounting 10.10.1.26:/images/dev on /images failed: No such file or directory
[Thu Dec 19 root@fogclient ~]#

Sebastian Roth

@Trev-lchs On your FOG server console please run these commands and post output here:

ls -al /images
mount

george1421

@Trev-lchs Ok on the fog server ls -la /images

Trev-lchs

@george1421

root@fog-03:~# ls -la /images
total 40
drwxrwxrwx 10 fogproject root 4096 Nov  5 12:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 root       root 4096 Nov 14 06:49 ..
drwxrwxrwx  2 fogproject root 4096 Dec  9  2016 5730Exams
drwxrwxrwx  2 fogproject root 4096 Aug  2  2018 8300Win10SW
drwxrwxrwx  2 root       root 4096 Nov  5 10:38 EliteDesk800G2
drwxrwxrwx  2 root       root 4096 Oct 17 08:53 HPProDeskG400G5
drwxrwxrwx  2 fogproject root 4096 Dec  9  2016 Kitchen
drwxrwxrwx  2 root       root 4096 Nov  4 12:16 LenovoV130-15IKB
-rwxrwxrwx  1 fogproject root    0 Dec  1  2016 .mntcheck
drwxrwxrwx  2 fogproject root 4096 Dec  9  2016 PresLaptops
drwxrwxrwx  2 root       root 4096 Oct 16 14:36 winbasic-testws

george1421

@Trev-lchs Well right there is your problem. Your /images directory isn’t complete on the fog server. You are missing the /images/dev and its files. How did you install the FOG server? Did you do something special when creating the /images directory?

Trev-lchs

no not at all, it used to work brilliantly, those images were all uploaded before with no issues, the only thing that has happened is the updates and the work around that i have already posted?

george1421

@Trev-lchs ok lets rerun the fog installer to see if it rebuilds the /images/dev directory.

Trev-lchs

@george1421

Trev-lchs

@Trev-lchs Hi George do you think that might reset other things that we had to change since the install?

Trev-lchs

@Trev-lchs what would be the best way to rerun the installer?

george1421

@Trev-lchs There is a fog settings file that the installer references. So all of those questions the installer asks in the beginning it remembers in that file. If you haven’t “tweaked” the install any the installer won’t change any options you selected in the beginning. If you have changed IP addresses or network adapters after the install the fog installer will reset them to what you originally selected.

to rerun the installer (depending on how you installed it [git or tarball]) change to the fogproject/bin directory and key in ./installfog.sh to restart the installer. The installer will fix the directory structure that is missing.

Trev-lchs

@george1421 said in could not mount images folder (/bin/fog.upload):

./installfog.sh

Hi George i have a feeling it was using git

Trev-lchs

root@fog-03:~# ls
Desktop Downloads Music Public Videos
Documents jcameron-key.asc Pictures Templates

tried cd downloads but no joy

could not mount images folder (/bin/fog.upload)

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