Installing fog on Rocky Linux 9.6
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Dear Developers,
So I am installing FOG 1.5.10 on a server with Rocky Linux 9, from stable using git. This uses php8 by default, with a caveat that the package php-json is now included as a module in php-common. I checked and there is a module named json listed in php, just not a package. The installer is checking for this package and it seems to fail.
I can’t seem to find any rpm for “php-json” in any repo or rpm search and the core installer called “common” has a module for json. what is the correct work around for this? I can find it for php7 (which I used the last time I installed FOG, on a rocky linux 8 system), or php5 (on an old centOS 7 system).
in any event - the remi repo also seems to have cache issues at the moment going through firewalls so I can manually go to a rpmfind and download the rpms. I don’t see one for php-json.
Anyway. I also had to manually install mysql, tftp, tftp-server, lftp, gcc, genisoimage and about 7 other packages “not found” by the installer, which are available in the bae repos… anyway. am I using a untested OS?
Regards,
Matt
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@mrowand I just created a Rocky 9.6 VM and installed FOG stable and didn’t have any issues. The install skipped php-json since it didn’t find that package. I didn’t need to install anything else manually.
Can you post an image of the error that you are getting?
Few things to check:
Is this a new Rocky Linux server? (I ask because if you are reusing a Linux install, it may have had some settings that could give you this issue)
Are you behind a proxy?
Is the Rocky install pulling the packages from the BaseOS/AppStream of the install ISO or from the web? (I ask this because this happened to me once) -
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mrowand
5 minutes agoThank you for your return on my post. I don’t have a photo of this when it happened as I did a work around and manually installed these packages since. The logs from that attempt don’t seem to be in the /fogproject/bin directory anymore. When looking at ti, It looks like mainly an issue with the “remi-modular” repo. Which is probably my end actually. even when I had to install these manually with dnf, I had to disable that repo. so TFTP-SERVER, PHP and MYSQL and are from appstream repos from base rocky repos.
I am giving the logs of my past two attempts. I deleted IP addresses from it for security.
fog_error_1.5.10.1698.log foginstall2.logAnyway, since it skips it as not needed and still works I can ignore it. which is what I thought anyway. I did end up modifying a different script and deleted out “php-json” which you can see with the foglinstall2log. The first log also seems truncated sorry.
I am getting a bug with the init.zx, bzimage files downloading, which happened to me the last time I installed fog. the last time I manually downloaded these files and placed them where they go and re-ran the script I think with a --skip-broken flag, or something like this… Not sure why that’s happening - I think it is firewall related.
I usually update these anyway for newer computers.
I am able to do work-arounds and get it to work, I just thought it odd.
Sorry if not helpful.
Regards, Matt
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@mrowand I consider Rocky (and other RHEL derivatives) a bit of an advanced distro. SELinux and the firewall are on by default and that makes things a bit more complicated.
In the FOG installer there is a check if SELinux is enabled and it’s recommended and the default option is to set it to permissive. There is also a check if the firewall is enabled but by default we don’t disable it, this means that you then have to go and modify the firewall rules for everything to work correctly.I just re-created the VM and installed FOG, this time I didn’t set SELinux to permissive and didn’t disable the firewall and I am having some issues like you. This is not something that we need to/will “fix” since there are checks and recommend to set SELinux to permissive and disable the firewall.
If you have everything working now, we can set this post as resolved.
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Thank you for your time and answer.
This is a fresh install of rocky on a bare metal server - I did have to install it first on a SATA drive, then copy everything and then install with chroot to manually add a raid controller driver for the ancient 3ware 9750 RAID controller on it. In any event I am up to the point where I downloaded everything now and just need to let the FOG installer set it all up. Unfortunately I don’t have a photo - but I can tell you the error was in the log file I sent you in my last post, which I am adding here.
There is an post I did about a year ago on downloading the FOS binaries. I tried using curl and would time out. I ended up downloading more current FOS binaries (bzimage, init.xz, etc) from github that I have running on a current production server as this works for the newish computers we have. I figured this is not the issue this time but I also solved that by running the installed with a --nofail Exit flag which would keep going if it failed to download it with the installer (as I manually put them in the location anyway)
The server is on a connection that is firewalled and some things work and some things not, which remi is one of them although I can browse the site, I think the caching on that repo is the issue -maybe they should add a few mirrors. I can download the rpms manually from that repo - but that is a very painful and troublesome way to install things on linux.
On the apptream question, this is installed off of the web, not the iso - i ran "sudo dnf php --disable-repo=remi --disable-repo=remi-safe --disable-repo=remi-modular and it would install php and the repo shown was “appstream” - maybe from centOS stream sources? IDK but php and the various modular files and so one installed in this fashion as did tftp-server, mysql and mysql-server, and several others I forgot now.
yeah I have used FOG for about 10 years now and we love this project here as once we have it working it’s stable as a rock. The first install I did was on a fedora box back wheN it was version 20, then CentOS 7, recently about a year ago we set it up with rocky linux 8.9 (as CentOS died) to include newer features and bzimage files in order to use the newer model computers we need to image.
Once I have this base install working, which at this point i
Matt
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@ rodluz,
Sorry I missed your newer post.
Yeah I checked and it is enabled . I will disable it once I have this in production and off of the web as yes selinux will block aspects of FOG
Just as a datum, I found FOG to work very well with redhat distros. I am not a fan of debian based distros due to package management and stablility - debian I can get working, ubuntu though…
You can set this as resolved.
Matt
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R rodluz has marked this topic as solved
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@ rodluz
Okay - So I got FOG working on my rocky 9.6 set up with a few caveats.
- I had to do some work to get tftp and pxe to work correctly.
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created a symlink from /var/lib/tftpboot > /tftpboot
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enabled and started the tftp service manually - systemctl enable tftp & systemctl start tftp
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then created a file in /etc/systemd/system/tftp.socket.d/override.conf (after making a director /tftp.socket.d and giving that file permissions) with the following code:
[Socket]
ListenDatagram=69[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/sbn/in.tftpf --foreground --secure /tftpboot- reloading the systemd service daemon - “systemctl daemon-reload” & “systemctl restart tftp.socket”
The server would then pxeboot at least BIOS at this point.
The Web UI currently seems to have php conflicts. I installed php-8.0.30-3 and the modules connected to this when installing the server. The web UI has a quirk on the FOG configuration page when you have a button for DefaultMember FOG Version: () it is not printing the version of FOG or the versions of bzimage or init.xz files and in checking using curl http://ip-address-of-server/fog/service/getversion.php - i ony see - 1.5.10.1698
here is a picture of the error
