Deploy Image results in Invalid MAC Address

[Rivybeast]

Server
FOG Version: 1.5.9
OS: Ubuntu Server 20.04 (With GUI)

Client
Microsoft Surface 7 Pro (using a dock to connect to the network)

Description
I set up a new FOG server to quick deploy images. These machines will be seen once and never again. A client can successfully PXE boot to the server and I am able to capture the image without issues.

When I attach a new computer (unregistered) and attempt to deploy the image I am presented with the following errors:

* Checking Mounted File System.................................Failed
#####################
#   An error has been detected!
#####################
Init Version: 20200906
Error during failure notification: Invalid MAC Address! (/bin/fog.download)
   Args passed:

Kernel variables and settings:
bzImage loglevel=4 initrd=init.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=275000 web=http://192.168.0.1/fog/ consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 shutdown=1 nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 mac= ftp=192.168.0.1 storage ...
imgFormat=0 mcastrdv=192.168.0.1 capone=1 type=down shutdown=1

(I just typed the error on the client instead of messing with a picture - let me know if you’d rather have a picture)

[Sebastian Roth]

@rivybeast said in Deploy Image results in Invalid MAC Address:

Checking Mounted File System.................................Failed

At first when reading this I got tangled up with the “Invalid MAC” error. But digging through the code I think the above error is actually what we need to look at. Seems like your image directory wasn’t setup correctly when installing FOG. I kind of wonder you don’t have issue capturing an image. Please run the following commands and post full output here:

mount
ls -al /images/
ls -al /images/dev/

[Rivybeast]

The image path could very well be the issue. I did have to tangle with permissions on the mount because I am using a secondary hard drive for the /images directory. I went full on and set chmod 777 on the directories. I changed the ownership as well.

Here’s the output:
mount

sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=8104388k,nr_inodes=2026097,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=1630148k,mode=755)
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv on / type ext4 (rw,relatime)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup2 on /sys/fs/cgroup/unified type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,name=systemd)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
none on /sys/fs/bpf type bpf (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/pids type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,rdma)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=28,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=1866)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tracefs on /sys/kernel/tracing type tracefs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime,pagesize=2M)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sunrpc on /run/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw,relatime)
/dev/sdb on /images type ext4 (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda2 on /boot type ext4 (rw,relatime)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/core18_1932.snap on /snap/core18/1932 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/dev/sda1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/snapd_9721.snap on /snap/snapd/9721 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/core18_1880.snap on /snap/core18/1880 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/snapd_8542.snap on /snap/snapd/8542 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/lxd_16099.snap on /snap/lxd/16099 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/lxd_18150.snap on /snap/lxd/18150 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
tmpfs on /run/snapd/ns type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=1630148k,mode=755)
nsfs on /run/snapd/ns/lxd.mnt type nsfs (rw)
tmpfs on /run/user/128 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=1630144k,mode=700,uid=128,gid=132)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/128/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=128,group_id=132)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=1630144k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)

ls -al /images/

drwxrwxrwx  5 fogproject fogproject  4096 Nov 17 16:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root       root        4096 Nov 17 12:30 ..
drwxrwxrwx  2 root       root        4096 Nov 17 16:04 Surface_Pro_7_AGM_1709
drwxrwxrwx  2 fogproject fogproject  4096 Nov 17 16:04 dev
drwxrwxrwx  2 fogproject fogproject 16384 Nov 17 10:08 lost+found

ls -al /images/dev/

drwxrwxrwx 2 fogproject fogproject 4096 Nov 17 16:04 .
drwxrwxrwx 5 fogproject fogproject 4096 Nov 17 16:04 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject fogproject    0 Nov 17 13:32 .mntcheck

[Sebastian Roth]

@rivybeast said in Deploy Image results in Invalid MAC Address:

dev/sdb on /images type ext4 (rw,relatime)

Ok, you moved your images to a secondary disk. That’s all fine but you simply missed one file we use to check. Run this command to recreate it: touch /images/.mntcheck

After that just do your deployments.

[Rivybeast]

Well now, I’m quite the knucklehead. I created the .mntcheck file in the /images/dev directory but I never did for the /images directory.

It works perfectly now.

Thank you so much for your time with this.

[Marcus.Anderson]

I know that this is an old thread but please can a moderator link this to?

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/12838/change-the-default-images-location

I found the former by Google and this fixed my installation.

Please feel free to delete my comment. I wont be offended!

Thanks.