FOG with ubuntu server 14.04 - my experience

[robin-masters]

Greetings,

at first fog is a create bunch of tools and many thanks to the developers and supporters.

For testing i use a dell power edge r710 with a hardware certified ubuntu 14.04 Edition…
I use dnsmasq for pxe delivery no dhcp, dns and so on.
My first problem was the Installation script of the fog 1.2.0 . It seems not install mysql-server correctly because after every reboot of the system the mysql server is down or it dont running correct (dont listen on the internal port) and when i try to login to SQL with mysql -u root -p the message “ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2)” appears.
Web-Interface of Fog don`t work too.

I found the solution here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=804021

It helps to reinstall mysql-server with apt-get:
sudo apt-get remove mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get install mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql

A next Problem was the symlink for the undionly.kpxe
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Using_FOG_with_an_unmodifiable_DHCP_server/_Using_FOG_with_no_DHCP_server

It dont work for me but with cp /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe /tftpboot/undionly.0 it`s okay…

Now it works generally… ^^

improvement suggestions:

• german translation is gruesome (but my english too - but the webinterface is better to understand in english then in german)
• possibility to delete more marked Hosts in the host list.
  (as a workaround and for more comfort i have phpmyadmin installed)

[Tom Elliott]

Ubuntu and mysql is a well known problem.

I even have an issue and a potential solution for fixing it sitting here:

https://github.com/fogproject/fogproject/issues/1

[Tom Elliott]

As you’re using DNSMASQ in a Proxy setup ( I imagine ) you’re absolutely correct that you need to either make a copy or link to undionly.0 (or whatever filename you’ve specified in the dnsmasq.conf file.)

[robin-masters]

@Tom-Elliott Yes it`s correct i use dnsmasq only with a proxy setup. Like i said a symlink to undionly.0 seems dont work … but a copy… seems illogical, eventually i have misspelled but i copy the line from the manual
ln -s /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe /tftpboot/undionly.0
After that a PXE boot was not possible it cant find the file. With cp /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe /tftpboot/undionly.0 it works…

[Wayne Workman]

@robin-masters Symbolic links have never worked for me in Fedora. I’ve always had to make a copy.

[ch3i]

@robin-masters said:

@Tom-Elliott Yes it`s correct i use dnsmasq only with a proxy setup. Like i said a symlink to undionly.0 seems dont work … but a copy… seems illogical, eventually i have misspelled but i copy the line from the manual
ln -s /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe /tftpboot/undionly.0
After that a PXE boot was not possible it cant find the file. With cp /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe /tftpboot/undionly.0 it works…

Hi, try relative link instead absolute.

ln -s undionly.kpxe undionly.0

[robin-masters]

@ch3i

Hey lol it works… tried before again with ln -s /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe /tftpboot/undionly.0 and it definitively dont work.

ln -s undionly.kpxe undionly.0 works now… oO

Tried pxe boot from Dell Optiplex 790 and 7010

[ch3i]

@robin-masters said:

@ch3i

Hey lol it works… tried before again with ln -s /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe /tftpboot/undionly.0 and it definitively dont work.

ln -s undionly.kpxe undionly.0 works now… oO

Tried pxe boot from Dell Optiplex 790 and 7010

[robin-masters]

@ch3i

Thx…for this.

Who maintained this page?https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Using_FOG_with_an_unmodifiable_DHCP_server/_Using_FOG_with_no_DHCP_serverundefined

Under the text: "Make a symlink for the undionly.kpxe file so dnsmasq can find it. " eventually it`s better to use here the relative link it should work for all systems?

[ch3i]

@robin-masters said:

@ch3i

Thx…for this.

Who maintained this page?https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Using_FOG_with_an_unmodifiable_DHCP_server/_Using_FOG_with_no_DHCP_serverundefined

Under the text: "Make a symlink for the undionly.kpxe file so dnsmasq can find it. " eventually it`s better to use here the relative link it should work for all systems?

@Wayne-Workman , it’s for you.

It’s work for all system, I think it’s a tftpd server limitation.

[Wayne Workman]

@ch3i fixed.

[Sebastian Roth]

@ch3i said:

I think it’s a tftpd server limitation.

I guess this is for security reasons. tftpd is not allowed to leave the “cage” of /tftpboot … not even to follow a symlink back into the cage. “Keep it local”.