Hosts not imaging - HELP
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also, you can test if it’s the fog menu exit type that’s causing the issue by unplugging the computer from the network and rebooting. if it boots when it’s not connected to the network, the problem is the exit type.
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@Sebastian-Roth
OK - I have my photos of screens, but, they don’t show any errors.Created download-debug task - deployed.
Client connected and did indeed run through its tasks, and I press enter when prompted. And then I get to the final prompt and type fog:
and it boots and starts over again.Sorry not sure how to get screens into the reply. But again, no errors to report.
The one weird thing I did see was in my Image Management: I have three images one of them says:
Image on Client - 453.99GiB Image on Server - 33.96GiB
the other two say:
Image on Client - 0.0iB Image on Server - 17.95GibI thought that was odd but not sure.
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typing “fog” after it has finished it’s task will make it try to do the task again, only this time the server will say that the task isn’t valid (because it’s already finished).
if you’re having trouble sharing images on the forum, you can post your images to an image hosting site like imgur and share the links.
i would guess that the first image on your server is a non-re-sizable image based on it’s size.
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@Junkhacker
If they have been replaced or corrupted by images that don’t contain data is there a way to find the original image(s) that were used? Previous admin says all was well and working. I haven’t really touched it other than to try and image some clients.
I would share the screens but there are no error messages there - everything move right along except no partclone. -
@prestop I don’t understand why you refuse to share the pictures. I might look all fine for your eyes but possibly we see things you are not aware of yet. I am more than willing to help out (otherwise I wouldn’t be active in the forums) but I refuse to help without getting information. This is no personal thing - so please don’t get me wrong. I’d love to help you out. But reading all your posts over and over I just don’t know enough to be able to help.
I am not saying that we’ll be able to fix things for you the second you post pictures but you increase the chance of getting help a lot!
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I agree with Sebastian. It’s really hard to help without pictures or video or a direct copy/paste… and sometimes copy/paste isn’t easily possible.
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@prestop You can open the images in paint, select all, copy, then paste here.
If you did a debug deploy and you eventually got to a prompt, that means it finished its task. It either had errors or it finished the task without errors…Also, there is a log file in /var/log/forgotname.log on the client you are running the debug on.
PS I forgot to mention, I do not actually use DNS in my setup.
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@GoodGuyQ
Believe me guys - I’m not trying to be difficult, I wasn’t sure how to get them posted.
I did go to Imgur and here’s the link:
http://imgur.com/a/17agSI think this is an awesome product and I greatly appreciate everyone’s responsiveness and interest. Thank you very much.
This is really strange - it certainly seems like it should work.Thanks again.
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@Sebastian-Roth I get it - not trying to be difficult. Just posted to GoodGuyQ in the thread.
Thank you
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are those all in the right order? also, did you type “fog” more than once?
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@Junkhacker No, I’m sorry they are not in the right order.
I did the debug w/image several times, but these were taken from the first try. And yes I did type FOG more than once, and then it would come back with ‘no active task’, as explained to me.
Sometimes I would have to hit Enter more than once to get it to move to the next step. I took the pictures each time I hit Enter as I recall.
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@Junkhacker And If I need to do it again and take each picture and then make sure they’re in order, I would be more than happy.
It’s a weird situation, I don’t even have two monitors (no spares here) and have to use an old TV/monitor in this little room where the server sits. -
i forgot how the init for fog 1.2.0 wasn’t always the most informative.
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@Junkhacker I’m afraid I’m not the sharpest tool here. I’ve been IT for a while but more desktop support and hardware. It took me a while just to figure out to do some basic Ubuntu tasks. I may not be able to do it - but I’m game for a try.
My apologies for my newbieness.
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are you running ubuntu directly on a compter, or is it in a VM?
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@Junkhacker it appears to be just a dell - no vm. and the previous admin didn’t say it was.
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do you have access to a hard drive large enough to create a backup of the server with clonezilla? while this isn’t strictly necessary, i believe in creating backups of anything you rely on.
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@Junkhacker I think so, I’ll look around, I think there are some systems sitting around. I’ll have to try on Monday - working this weekend elsewhere.
What should I do: download clonezilla and copy the server over?Thanks again.
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What should I do: download clonezilla and copy the server over?
that’s the idea. create a backup image of the server as-is so you can try things out but be able to restore to the point where you took a backup if something goes wrong.
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@prestop Ok, now we are talking! In this picture I see “Checking Hard Disks” and then three times [Enter]. Normally this is the part where the blue partclone window comes up (which would flush the messages on screen). Seems like it just does not come up for you. So it’s most probably not deploying anything to the disk. Just to make sure this image on the server seems valid show us a listing of
ls -al /images/MMHOptiplex7020.By the way, is this a complete new and empty disk you are trying to restore an image to? FOG 1.2.0 had some issues with completely empty disks if I remember correctly. I know this is not nice but that’s the way it was back then. Please fill the disk with one big primary partition and quick format once with whichever filesystem you like.
If that is not helping then please run another debug client session and show us a picture of the following commands:
fogpartinfo --list-devices fogpartinfo --list-parts /dev/sdaNote to myself: Thank god we got rid of fogpartinfo in FOG trunk!!!
