Stop at boot.php when creating capture task

[christianu]

Hey folks,

i update on the current trunk (like 1 hour ago) and now the bootloader stucks at “http://fogserver//fog/service…” , Mind the “//”, i cannot make it bold unfortunately. Is this an error in my configuration or is this a bug in the trunk?

Thanks
Chris

edit: a capture task is created for this machine - with the task cancelled the boot menu shows up without any issues

[Quazz]

Please list your server OS.

As far as I know, it should resolve a double slash automatically to the proper address, so it shouldn’t cause issues.

Edit /tftpboot/default.ipxe (last line is the one to edit) if you want to experiment though.

[Tom Elliott]

double slash isn’t a bug and shouldn’t be impacting actual URL information.

It comes because of the way the links are created. There’s simply not a very nice way to separate what is and isn’t the webroot, so it’s safer to prepend with a slash. I can correct this, but I highly doubt this is what’s causing your issue.

[george1421]

so what happens when you key this into your browser?

http://<fog_server_ip>/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=00:00:00:00:00:00

Does it give you a screen full of text or just a white screen?

[christianu]

okay i will change the default.ipxe (it should not help)

Ah - its a Debian and completely fresh.

@george1421 A screen full of text

[Quazz]

@christianu Have you turned off the firewall?

[christianu]

I did now - but unfortunately i am not able to test it now. Can do tomorrow morning

[Tom Elliott]

@christianu I’ve updated the trunk to not add the doubleslash anymore, though I still doubt it was the problem.

[george1421]

Before you installed fog, did you set the fog server to have a static IP address?

And the ip address listed in the /tftpboot/default.ipxe points to the IP address of your fog server?

[christianu]

Yes to all of it - the “//” was not the problem. Yes the servers owns a static ip and is behind a dhcp - all options are set (i already saw your bootmenu)

But i found something else for now

I called the url with the MAC address the not working host and i got just these lines

#!ipxe
set fog-ip 192.168.22.76
set fog-webroot fog
set boot-url http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}

Than i remembered that i created an image pull task for this host - deleted the task and the boot menu is back again.

[george1421]

@christianu So its solved or just different results?

[christianu]

When i create a new capture task its the same error again. But i have to change the title apparently

[Wayne Workman]

Make sure apache2 is running. I had an instance this morning on one server where it (very unusually) did not start up automatically after a reboot.

[christianu]

Yeah but the management console is running

[george1421]

Does the apache error log give you any indication of the error? It sounds like the deploy is failing to create the required ipxe fog menu.

Because this is wrong, it should give you the full path to something

set fog-ip 192.168.22.76
set fog-webroot fog
set boot-url http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}

[Wayne Workman]

@christianu said in Stop at boot.php when creating capture task:

okay i will change the default.ipxe (it should not help)

Ah - its a Debian and completely fresh.

@george1421 A screen full of text

Can you copy/paste this so we can see it?

[christianu]

This is what i get when i call it without capture task

#!ipxe
set fog-ip 192.168.22.76
set fog-webroot fog
set boot-url http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}
cpuid --ext 29 && set arch x86_64 || set arch i386
goto get_console
:console_set
goto MENU
:alt_console
goto MENU
:get_console
console --picture http://192.168.22.76/fog/service/ipxe/ --left 100 --right 80 && goto console_set || goto alt_console
:MENU
menu
item --gap Host is registered as BPY-LAP-028!
item --gap -- -------------------------------------
item fog.local Boot from hard disk
item fog.memtest Run Memtest86+
item fog.keyreg Update Product Key
item fog.quickimage Quick Image
item fog.multijoin Join Multicast Session
item fog.quickdel Quick Host Deletion
item fog.sysinfo Client System Information (Compatibility)
choose --default fog.local --timeout 0 target && goto ${target}
:fog.local
sanboot --no-describe --drive 0x80 || goto MENU
:fog.memtest
kernel memdisk iso raw
initrd memtest.bin
boot || goto MENU
:fog.keyreg
login
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username ${username}
param password ${password}
param keyreg 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
:fog.quickimage
login
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username ${username}
param password ${password}
param qihost 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
:fog.multijoin
login
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username ${username}
param password ${password}
param sessionJoin 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
:fog.quickdel
login
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username ${username}
param password ${password}
param delhost 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
:fog.sysinfo
kernel bzImage32 loglevel=4 initrd=init_32.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 keymap= web=192.168.22.76/fog/ consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 loglevel=4 mode=sysinfo
imgfetch init_32.xz
boot || goto MENU
:bootme
chain -ar http://192.168.22.76/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php##params ||
goto MENU
autoboot

[Wayne Workman]

@christianu Does the issue only happen on upload/download? Can you queue a task for this MAC and then see what this URL produces?

[christianu]

Yeah just the first 4 lines

#!ipxe
set fog-ip 192.168.22.76
set fog-webroot fog
set boot-url http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}

[george1421]

@christianu When you get these 4 lines. What does the apache error log say. Not sure where it is on debian, let me see if I can find Sebastian’s signature.

[edit]Web GUI issue? Please take a look at your apache error log file (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log)

Tail the above log file. My bet there is an error thown.