Problems with DB setup during upgrade to 1.5.8

[Hanz]

Server running Fedora 30 on Hyper-V VM and after being prompted to enter root passwordand hitting ENTER I get the following error…

The current fogstorage database password does not meet high
   security standards. We will generate a new password and update
   all the settings on this FOG server for you. Please take note
   of the following credentials that you need to manually update
   on all your storage nodes' /opt/fog/.fogsettings configuration
   files and re-run (!) the FOG installer:
   snmysqluser='fogstorage'
   snmysqlpass='fIQ03SoTJxHjKD@0D0xL'

   Press [Enter] to proceed after you noted down the credentials.

 * Setting up MySQL user and database..........................Failed!
[root@fog-server bin]#

I’ve read that there are workarounds for blank passwords, but I can access mysql -u root -p correctly with password. Before and after attempted installation. Any suggestions ?

[Sebastian Roth]

@Hanz Would you please try the latest from dev-branch? https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/archive/dev-branch.zip

[Hanz]

@Sebastian-Roth

 To improve the overall security the installer will create an
   unpriviledged database user account for FOG's database access.
   Please provide the database *root* user password. Be asured
   that this password will only be used while the FOG installer
   is running and won't be stored anywhere:

   Failed! Terminating installer now.
[root@fog-server bin]#

GNU nano 4.2 fog_error_1.5.8.19.log
xinetd-2.3.15-28.fc30.x86_64
xz-devel-5.2.4-5.fc30.x86_64
chsh: Shell not changed.
Changing shell for fogproject.
New password: Retype new password: Changing password for user fogproject.
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

error log posted above

[Sebastian Roth]

@Hanz But you are able to login to the DB using mysql -u root -p??

[Hanz]

@Sebastian-Roth yessir, but not with blank password mysql -u root…

Does this look strange or anything ? this is under fog database

MariaDB [fog]> select user, password, host from mysql.user;
+------------+-------------------------------------------+------------+
| user       | password                                  | host       |
+------------+-------------------------------------------+------------+
| root       | (I removed)                               | localhost  |
| root       |                                           | fog-server |
| root       |                                           | 127.0.0.1  |
| root       |                                           | ::1        |
|            |                                           | localhost  |
|            |                                           | fog-server |
| fogstorage | (I removed)           t                   | %          |
+------------+-------------------------------------------+------------+
7 rows in set (0.000 sec)

MariaDB [fog]>

[Sebastian Roth]

@Hanz When asked to type in the DB root password by the installer, do you copy&paste it or type it on the keyboard? I can imagine that copy&paste on some terminals doesn’t work. Not sure if it’s the case here but I have seen strange characters being added when copy&pasting text to some consoles, like 0~pastetext~1 or something similar.

[Hanz]

@Sebastian-Roth typed

[Sebastian Roth]

@Hanz Reaching out to you via chat.

[Sebastian Roth]

This is solved in latest dev-branch.

[Hanz]

@Sebastian-Roth Error looks very similar, but doesn’t even get to the Setting up MySQL user and database

I know there isn’t the whole log, but all other options either skipped or ok to this point.

Foginstall.log

The current *fogstorage* database password does not meet high
   security standards. We will generate a new password and update
   all the settings on this FOG server for you. Please take note
   of the following credentials that you need to manually update
   on all your storage nodes' /opt/fog/.fogsettings configuration
   files and re-run (!) the FOG installer:
   snmysqluser='fogstorage'
   snmysqlpass='5dpy!GfbeoTr3EPFmLVl'

   Press [Enter] to proceed after you noted down the credentials.

Failed!

Fog_Error_1.5.9-RC2.8.log

chsh: Shell not changed.
Changing shell for fogproject.
New password: Retype new password: Changing password for user fogproject.
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
ERROR 1558 (HY000) at line 8: Column count of mysql.proc is wrong. Expected 21,>

[Sebastian Roth]

After digging through the logs Hanz found that mysql_upgrade needed to be called to fix this issue. It’s very interesting we have not had too many people running into this but I am sure this is valuable information for others seeing this.