Can't login to management after saving FOG settings
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New FOG 1.2 install on Ubuntu workstation 12.04. Have successfully created and deployed images to a test machine.
After entering my active directory information in the FOG configuration page and saving the changes I was immediately taken back to the sign in page. I re-entered my credentials but the page just refreshed back to the sign in page - no error message or anything. If I intentionally enter wrong credentials it gives me the “Invalid Login” message.
This happened to me once before when I first setup this FOG server a couple of weeks ago. That time I was changing DNS settings in the FOG configuration pages IIRC. I searched for a solution but was never able to fix it. Since I wasn’t very far along at that time I ended up re-installing.
I’ve got a lot more invested in it this time and don’t want to re-install. Any ideas?
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Just noticed that my FOG management login page has several lines of gibberish at the bottom (see attached image). Don’t think that was there when things were working.
[ATTACH=full]1743[/ATTACH]
[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/1/1743_management-login-page.png?:”]management-login-page.png[/url]
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they probably weren’t but I don’t think that’s what’s causing the issue.
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So, I’m going to assume that since you’re asking for help here, you don’t have this FOG server virtualized, and don’t have a snapshot of it when it was working?
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Unfortunately, no. It’s on a real server.
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Apache error and access logs attached.
[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/1/1744_error.txt?:”]error.txt[/url][url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/1/1745_access(tail).txt?:”]access(tail).txt[/url]
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Well, when you say you’ve “got a lot more invested in it this time and don’t want to re-install”, what do you mean?
Do you have your database backed up? Can you just log into the FOG server and back it up manually? Can you copy your images from it to a different location?
You could do a rebuild if you could get your database & images backed up. I believe that importing a database is straight forward. After that’s done, you’d just place the images where they should go.
I’ve found this in the WiKi: [url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Restoring_FOG_from_Backup[/url]
If you’re confident with it, it might be the way to go. Esp. since it seems like only the Web login is broken.
Also, for the record, I would advise anyone to virtualize their FOG server. Mine’s running in Hyper-V, and I take snap shots before any major change. It’s a safety net.
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I can still WebMin into the box so I could definitely back up everything. Plus I’ve got Samba running so I can easily grab the images. However, this is the second time this has happened. I’d rather find the root cause instead of re-installing (or going back to a snapshot if I virtualize) if this happens again.
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First,
what’s in the error logs?
As you’re running 12.04 and Ubuntu, can you check if there’s a permissions error in the /var/lib/php5/sessions folder?
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Not sure what I’m looking for but I’ve attached a screenshot.
[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 43222, member: 7271”]First,
what’s in the error logs?
As you’re running 12.04 and Ubuntu, can you check if there’s a permissions error in the /var/lib/php5/sessions folder?[/quote]
[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/1/1749_varlibphp5.png?:”]varlibphp5.png[/url]
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[quote=“Mark Pickard, post: 43224, member: 609”]Not sure what I’m looking for but I’ve attached a screenshot.[/quote]
Look at Tom’s signature. It says where everything is.
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I attached both my Apache error and access logs in a previous post. Do you see anything in them that would indicate a problem?
As you can see from the screen shot in my last post there isn’t a sessions folder in /var/lib/php5/, only a bunch of files (session files?). Is that a problem?
[quote=“Wayne Workman, post: 43228, member: 28155”]Look at Tom’s signature. It says where everything is.[/quote]
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Session filenames look alright I’d say. But why are there three files owned by root I wonder AND why are all these files of zero size? Is that really the case? Please run ‘ls -al /var/lib/php5’ on the console on the FOG server. Check the permissions.
Can’t see any related error in the log files you posted (doesn’t mean much)!
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Also,
Check the file space:
[code]df -h[/code]
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Here’s the results of ‘ls -al /var/lib/php5’ from a copy of those files I made before cleaning out the /var/lib/php5 directory and restarting Apache.
-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 0 Mar 4 16:15 sess_0969m10k5egnck11q07jkb3uq5
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 24 14:32 sess_e2i1ddhl3g3vppt4gv5kh5am16
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 24 14:32 sess_e6pvp88q6vhdnide6b5f94gll3
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 24 14:32 sess_gm47ulnsrhe19nr4q6petondv0
[quote=“Uncle Frank, post: 43260, member: 28116”]Session filenames look alright I’d say. But why are there three files owned by root I wonder AND why are all these files of zero size? Is that really the case? Please run ‘ls -al /var/lib/php5’ on the console on the FOG server. Check the permissions.Can’t see any related error in the log files you posted (doesn’t mean much)![/quote]
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[code]
root@FOG:/var/lib/php5# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 145G 31G 107G 23% /
udev 991M 4.0K 991M 1% /dev
tmpfs 201M 1.4M 199M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 1001M 148K 1001M 1% /run/shm
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[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 43262, member: 7271”]Also,Check the file space:
[code]df -h[/code][/quote]
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can you restart the apache services?
[code]sudo service apache2 restart[/code] -
Tried that once from Webmin; just did it again from the terminal. Still seeing the same behavior.
The restart command returned the following:
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root@FOG:/var/lib/php5# sudo service apache2 restart- Restarting web server apache2 [Thu Mar 05 07:34:27 2015] [warn] The Alias directive in /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf at line 3 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
… waiting [Thu Mar 05 07:34:28 2015] [warn] The Alias directive in /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf at line 3 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
[ OK ]
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Any issues with that?
[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 43280, member: 7271”]can you restart the apache services?
[code]sudo service apache2 restart[/code][/quote]
- Restarting web server apache2 [Thu Mar 05 07:34:27 2015] [warn] The Alias directive in /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf at line 3 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
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What’s the alias you’ve got?
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[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 43284, member: 7271”]What’s the alias you’ve got?[/quote]
Line 3 of /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf is:
[COLOR=#000000][code]Alias /phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin[/code][/COLOR]
