Upgrade Debian 9 to Debian 10 FOG 1.5.7 and FOG 1.5.8

[mousepl]

Hello,

I was struggling with Debian OS upgrade on FOG server. After distro upgrade FOG have a problems with displaying some stuff on website, like Storage stats, network stats and after adding new task to Host there was HTTP 500 error.
I was running:

• Debian 9
• FOG 1.5.7
• php7.0

After upgrade i want to run:

• Debian 10
• FOG 1.5.8
• php7.3

Here is a list what should be done to upgrade to Debian 10 and FOG 1.5.8:

1. Update FOG to 1.5.8 by running ./installfog.sh script
2. Upgrade Debian 9 to Debian 10
3. Modify FOG configuration file:
   nano /opt/fog/.fogsettings
   and replace lines

php_ver='7.0'
php_verAdds='-7.0'

with

php_ver='7.3'
php_verAdds='-7.3'

also in

packages

variable please change

libcurl3

to

libcurl4

4- Run ./installfog.sh once again to install proper packages and proceed with below steps if result of installation will be

Starting and checking status of web services................Failed!

4a- Kill php process:

ps aux |grep php
root       417  0.0  0.9 216032 14608 ?        Ss   13:57   0:00 php-fpm: master process (/etc/php/7.0/fpm/php-fpm.conf)

by running “kill -9 process_number”, like

kill -9 417

4b- Run service php7.3-fpm restart
5- Enjoy, now everything is working fine!

[Sebastian Roth]

@mousepl Thanks for bringing this up. We might be able to consider some of those things within the install script. It’s not easy to cover for all situations but we do our best to make the installer work in most situations.

[Sebastian Roth]

For anyone running into this. We’ve just pushed some changes to dev-branch and working-1.6 to make updating from Debian 9 to 10 easier. You should not be able to do this following the steps outlined here:

sudo -i
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
reboot
sed -i 's/stretch/buster/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
reboot
apt-get --purge autoremove
cat /etc/debian_release

cd fogproject
git checkout dev-branch
git pull
cd bin
./installfog.sh