Fog Cannot Register Host and Blank Screen on Image Startup

[Atton]

A few days ago I tried to image a set of new Dell Latitude E5570 laptops we got. They didn’t want to register and I got a fast TSC calibration error. I read through the forums and found the linked page and updated the kernel as instructed. The fast TSC error went away but I can still not image or register a computer to fog. Even machines that we previously had done. I was reading a bit more and someone suggested the TFTP service was timing out so I restarted the server and checked the service to find it running normally. The GUI still works just not imaging. If anyone could give me an idea to try next that would be great.

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6516/fast-tsc-calibration-error-unable-to-register-and-inventory/7?page=2

[Tom Elliott]

What version of fog are you running? From the sounds of it it would seem to be 1.2.0.

[Atton]

I am running 1.2.0

[Wayne Workman]

@Atton FOG 1.3.0 RC1 is out, read more information here: https://news.fogproject.org/fog-1-3-0-rc-1/

Please update, follow this guide:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Upgrade_to_trunk

[Atton]

@Wayne-Workman Installing it I ran into an issue that said libapache2-mod-php5 Failed! I followed the link on updating apache2 and php5 and then the install was going. I restarted my machine because the apache2 server was not working so I couldn’t get into the web server to update the database and now I cannot get logged in with my username and password to the machine.

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7420/1-2-0-to-1-3-0-failed-libapache2-mod-php5-failed

[Wayne Workman]

@Atton said in Fog Cannot Register Host and Blank Screen on Image Startup:

libapache2-mod-php5

What version of Ubuntu/Debian are you running?

[Atton]

@Wayne-Workman ubuntu 12.0.4

[Wayne Workman]

@Atton

sudo apt-get install aptitude -y
sudo aptitude reinstall libapache2-mod-php5 libapache2-mod-php5filter php5-cgi php5-fpm php5 -y

[Atton]

@Wayne-Workman I can’t. The password I used to get into the machine is no longer working. I did not change it

[Wayne Workman]

@Atton can you access the /opt/fog/.fogsettings file? The password is in there.
cat /opt/fog/.fogsettings

[Wayne Workman]

This may be of help: https://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+recover+password&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS702US702&oq=ubuntu+recover+password&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.3584j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on

[Atton]

@Wayne-Workman It says my password is the same one I have always been using but it’s no longer working.

[Wayne Workman]

@Atton What says that?

[Atton]

@Wayne-Workman My password problem is fixed. Before I restarted I updated apache2 and php5 and there was a compatibility problem between the 2 and apache2 will not run.

[Tom Elliott]

@Atton I don’t know if you ahve any custom setups, but please try this:

sudo -i
rm -rf /etc/php5 /etc/apache2;
apt-get clean all
apt-get update
apt-get purge apache2 lib*mod*php5 php5*
apt-get clean all
rm -rf /var/www

Then retry installing. This should fix most of those issues.

[Atton]

@Tom-Elliott That fixed the apache2 issue, now when updating it says “Stopping Web Service… Failed!” and stops there.

[Tom Elliott]

@Atton What’s in the apache error log? What’s in the bin/error_logs/fog_error_${version}.log (where version is the version you’re installing?

[Wayne Workman]

@Tom-Elliott said in Fog Cannot Register Host and Blank Screen on Image Startup:

@Atton I don’t know if you ahve any custom setups, but please try this:

sudo -i
rm -rf /etc/php5 /etc/apache2;
apt-get clean all
apt-get update
apt-get purge apache2 lib*mod*php5 php5*
apt-get clean all
rm -rf /var/www

Then retry installing. This should fix most of those issues.

#wiki worthy

[Atton]

@Tom-Elliott I cannot find the error logs

[Tom Elliott]

@Atton Where have you looked?