Red Hat - installer bug

[Wayne Workman]

This is not fixed yet.

[Tom Elliott]

@Wayne-Workman Why can I not replicate?

[Tom Elliott]

[root@mastasql bin]# ^C
[root@mastasql bin]# lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID: CentOS
Description:    CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core) 
Release:        7.2.1511
Codename:       Core
[root@mastasql bin]# 

  +------------------------------------------+
   |     ..#######:.    ..,#,..     .::##::.  |
   |.:######          .:;####:......;#;..     |
   |...##...        ...##;,;##::::.##...      |
   |   ,#          ...##.....##:::##     ..:: |
   |   ##    .::###,,##.   . ##.::#.:######::.|
   |...##:::###::....#. ..  .#...#. #...#:::. |
   |..:####:..    ..##......##::##  ..  #     |
   |    #  .      ...##:,;##;:::#: ... ##..   |
   |   .#  .       .:;####;::::.##:::;#:..    |
   |    #                     ..:;###..       |
   |                                          |
   +------------------------------------------+
   |      Free Computer Imaging Solution      |
   +------------------------------------------+
   |  Credits: http://fogproject.org/Credits  |
   |       http://fogproject.org/Credits      |
   |       Released under GPL Version 3       |
   +------------------------------------------+


   Version: 8138 Installer/Updater

  What version of Linux would you like to run the installation for?

          1) Redhat Based Linux (Redhat, CentOS, Mageia)
          2) Debian Based Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu)
          3) Arch Linux

  Choice: [1] 



  Starting Redhat based Installation


  FOG Server installation modes:
      * Normal Server: (Choice N) 
          This is the typical installation type and
          will install all FOG components for you on this
          machine.  Pick this option if you are unsure what to pick.

      * Storage Node: (Choice S)
          This install mode will only install the software required
          to make this server act as a node in a storage group

  More information:  
     http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=InstallationModes

  What type of installation would you like to do? [N/s (Normal/Storage)] 

[Sebastian Roth]

@Wayne-Workman Can you please to me a favor? Run the installer like this:

sudo -i
cd /path/to/fogproject/bin
set -x
./installfog.sh
...
set +x

You’ll see a lot of stuff on the console. Can you copy&paste all of it and post here?

[Wayne Workman]

@Sebastian-Roth Will do, I can do this tomorrow morning on yet another new node.

[Tom Elliott]

@Wayne-Workman Are you seeing this, btw, on your home system as well?

[Wayne Workman]

@Tom-Elliott yeah.

Here in a minute I’m going to do what Sebastian said.

[Wayne Workman]

@Sebastian-Roth You’re not going to believe this and I’m going to sound like a liar but… it didn’t do it this time around…

[Tom Elliott]

@Wayne-Workman wtf ?

[Wayne Workman]

@Tom-Elliott idk

[Wayne Workman]

I’ll try again this afternoon on another new node.

[Wayne Workman]

This afternoon the bug did not appear, again. This particular install I didn’t update the OS first. So updates didn’t play a roll in the bug.

I’m unsure what was causing it. Have any more changes been made to the installer about this?

[Tom Elliott]

@Wayne-Workman Not a single one. Not to this particular bug at least.

[Wayne Workman]

@Tom-Elliott I just thought of something…

Try copy/pasting ALL of this and see if it happens… I am probably really dumb…

yum install git -y 
cd ~ 
mkdir git 
cd git 
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject.git 
cd fogproject/bin 
./installfog.sh 
echo Now you should have fog installed.

[Tom Elliott]

@Wayne-Workman lol.

[Sebastian Roth]

I don’t get it… What’s wrong with those commands?

[Tom Elliott]

@Sebastian-Roth I don’t think anything is wrong with the commands but I think he copied and pasted from wiki maybe? I’ve seen a few times where what we originally suspected the issue was (tab /space ) is there and that would be a problem then.

[Wayne Workman]

I’m thinking the last “echo” command was piping stuff into the OS selection, causing the input to be invalid.

Just a theory at this point.

The only thing I’ve done different with the last two nodes is following exactly what Sebastian posted, which means I wasn’t copy/pasting from the Wiki, which leads me to believe something with what’s in the wiki is causing this minor issue.

[Sebastian Roth]

@Wayne-Workman said:

I’m thinking the last “echo” command was piping stuff into the OS selection, causing the input to be invalid.

This shouldn’t be the case as the bash is normally waiting for commands and scripts to finish if they are not called like cmd &…

Probably some magic invisible (meta) character copied from the wiki?

[Tom Elliott]

@Sebastian-Roth

Notice the selected text? There’s a lot of extra white space. This is particularly from: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=CentOS_7

This is what I get if I try to run just simple copy paste from those lines:

   +------------------------------------------+
   |     ..#######:.    ..,#,..     .::##::.  |
   |.:######          .:;####:......;#;..     |
   |...##...        ...##;,;##::::.##...      |
   |   ,#          ...##.....##:::##     ..:: |
   |   ##    .::###,,##.   . ##.::#.:######::.|
   |...##:::###::....#. ..  .#...#. #...#:::. |
   |..:####:..    ..##......##::##  ..  #     |
   |    #  .      ...##:,;##;:::#: ... ##..   |
   |   .#  .       .:;####;::::.##:::;#:..    |
   |    #                     ..:;###..       |
   |                                          |
   +------------------------------------------+
   |      Free Computer Imaging Solution      |
   +------------------------------------------+
   |  Credits: http://fogproject.org/Credits  |
   |       http://fogproject.org/Credits      |
   |       Released under GPL Version 3       |
   +------------------------------------------+


   Version: 8169 Installer/Updater


 * Found FOG Settings from previous install at: /opt/fog/.fogsettings

 * Performing upgrade using these settings


  Starting Redhat based Installation



   ######################################################################
   #     FOG now has everything it needs for this setup, but please     #
   #   understand that this script will overwrite any setting you may   #
   #   have setup for services like DHCP, apache, pxe, tftp, and NFS.   #
   ######################################################################
   # It is not recommended that you install this on a production system #
   #        as this script modifies many of your system settings.       #
   ######################################################################
   #             This script should be run by the root user.            #
   #      It will prepend the running with sudo if root is not set      #
   ######################################################################
   #           ** Notice ** FOG is difficult to setup securely          #
   #        SELinux and IPTables are usually asked to be disabled       #
   #           There have been strides in adding capabilities           #
   #          The recommendations would now be more appropriate         #
   #    to set SELinux to permissive and to disable firewall for now.   #
   #  You can find some methods to enable SELinux and maintain firewall #
   #   settings and ports. If you feel comfortable doing so please do   #
   ######################################################################
   #            Please see our wiki for more information at:            #
   ######################################################################
   #             https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php             #
   ######################################################################

 * Here are the settings FOG will use:
 * Base Linux: Redhat
 * Detected Linux Distribution: Fedora
 * Server IP Address: 10.0.7.1
 * Server Subnet Mask: 255.0.0.0
 * Interface: eno16777728
 * Installation Type: Normal Server
 * Donate: 0
 * Internationalization: 
 * Image Storage Location: /images
 * Using FOG DHCP: No
 * DHCP will NOT be setup but you must setup your
 | current DHCP server to use FOG for PXE services.

 * On a Linux DHCP server you must set: next-server and filename

 * On a Windows DHCP server you must set options 066 and 067

 * Option 066/next-server is the IP of the FOG Server: (e.g. 10.0.7.1)
 * Option 067/filename is the bootfile: (e.g. undionly.kpxe)


 * Are you sure you wish to continue (Y/N) y


 * Sorry, answer not recognized

[root@fogstorage bin]#