I recently switched from 1.2.0 to 1.5.7 and while there are some things I don’t like, the imaging speeds have become incredibly fast. Previously on a Dell laptop with a SSD, the speeds were around 4 - 5 Gigabytes per minute. That was with a Cat 5e connection. After the update and transferring the same exact image files (I copied them over), using the exact same computer and connection, the speeds are around 13 Gigabytes per minute! I’m very happy to be getting that speed over Cat 5e connection. What ever voodoo magic is happening is working well! Thank you to anyone contributing to the project!
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Some praise for the developers...
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RE: Multicast freezing in partclone screen: Starting to restore image to device.
Check to make sure that the multicast service is running. This happens to myself every so often. The service just decides to stop running and will do exactly as you described.
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RE: No operating system error message after wiping HD and trying to image
I think I know what the issue is. Try shrinking the partition/volume on the computer that is used for creating the image before uploading. That way the partition that is restored is will be a few GBs less than what the computer you are trying to image to. I noticed when I was trying to image to identical computers the claimed to have the same hard drive space as the computer that the image was made on I had the same issue you had in the video. The computer doesn’t actually image FOG seems to just bail out and then the computer reboots.
Edit: An easier way to test this would be to throw in a hard drive that you for sure know is larger (not the same) than the hard that the image came from and then try imaging. Or even just use a different computer with a larger hard drive to test if the imaging process starts (even if the image isn’t built for that computer you can still do it just to test).
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RE: Multicast freezing in partclone screen: Starting to restore image to device.
@danilopinotti What did it say when you used the commands? Any error messages? Was is actually started? You may have to use “sudo service FOGMulticastManager start” instead of restart if the service isn’t started or at least I think I had to.
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RE: Database Schema Installer / Updater Update/Install Failed!
@econcepts Sounds like your issue is the same as what people are describing here: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/564935-fog-database-error
The solution that worked for them:
Here is the post with the answer (I prefer vi to nano but I just copied the post as it was from the FOG forums) I will do this and let everyone know:
Open up
sudo nano /var/www/fog/lib/fog/Config.class.php
Notate both the host, username & passwordOpen up
sudo nano /opt/fog/.fogsettings
Fill in the following portionssnmysqluser=“{root}”
snmysqlpass=“{password if you have one}”
snmysqlhost=“{localhost}”
Reset the mySQL database password to be what is in the config files
run
sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.5
replace the last two numbers if using a different version of mySQLenter in the new password
From that point on it should stay working after rebooting.
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RE: Database Schema Installer / Updater Update/Install Failed!
@Wayne-Workman I can also confirm that it worked for myself too. That’s how I knew about the post and I wanted to make sure to share it.
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RE: Disable additional MAC address feature?
@Sebastian-Roth Thank you very much! I tested it and it worked!
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RE: Disable additional MAC address feature?
@Sebastian-Roth Thank you very much! I tested it and it worked!
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RE: Disable additional MAC address feature?
@Sebastian-Roth I would definitely prefer to have something changed. The idea of having multiple MAC addresses is great! Especially if it’s a laptop! But having a way to edit the primary MAC address without the old one becoming a secondary address would be ideal. If I change the primary address and click Update, it should only edit the primary MAC address. The functionality of adding the primary address to a secondary address could exist through the Add MAC button. Or maybe there’s a better UI option for integrating both features.
The other reason I’m not a fan of how it currently works is that after you edit a primary MAC address and click update, you don’t even see that it added a secondary address until you refresh the page. I was adding secondary addresses and didn’t notice until later. Since previous versions didn’t do that, it felt a bit deceiving.
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Some praise for the developers...
I recently switched from 1.2.0 to 1.5.7 and while there are some things I don’t like, the imaging speeds have become incredibly fast. Previously on a Dell laptop with a SSD, the speeds were around 4 - 5 Gigabytes per minute. That was with a Cat 5e connection. After the update and transferring the same exact image files (I copied them over), using the exact same computer and connection, the speeds are around 13 Gigabytes per minute! I’m very happy to be getting that speed over Cat 5e connection. What ever voodoo magic is happening is working well! Thank you to anyone contributing to the project!
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RE: Setting the primary and additional MACs the same makes the host invisible
@Tom-Elliott Thank you for the response. So it seems the two issues are not linked. The duplicate MAC address issue is related to this: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/13402/fog-1-5-6-changing-host-mac-address-can-make-hosts-inaccessable/6. The primary MAC address being added as an additional MAC address is in fact a feature.
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Setting the primary and additional MACs the same makes the host invisible
EDIT: I didn’t see that there was a similar issue posted already about the bug. Thanks to the command given by one of the devs, I was able to clear the invisible host. However, the way I caused the issue was a little different and might still be useful for the devs to see. If it’s fixed, this can be marked as resolved.
Original Post:
I’m using FOG version 1.5.7 on Ubuntu 18.04 and I’m having a lot of weird quirks with MAC addresses. I opened up an issue in the tech help forum asking about why changing the primary MAC address causes it to add the old MAC as an additional one. Now I’m not even sure if that’s a feature.If you set the primary MAC address and additional MAC address to be the same, the host vanishes. You can’t search for it. It doesn’t appear when you export the host list. But if you try to create a new host with the same name it says you can’t because a host with the name already exists. I now have a host I can’t remove and can’t use that name anymore.
I apologize if I sound angry, but I’m just disappointed that when I went from FOG 1.2.0 to 1.5.7, it’s worse. I really do appreciate the volunteers working on the project though. If you need anymore info for me to test something, please let me know.
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RE: Disable additional MAC address feature?
To clarify, all I’m doing is modifying the MAC address on a host in FOG and clicking the update button. After that, when refreshing the page, I noticed it added the old address as an additional MAC. You might not see it until you refresh. I’m not clicking any other buttons related to adding an additional MAC. FOG just adds one itself.
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Disable additional MAC address feature?
Whenever I change the MAC address for a computer, it adds the old one as an additional MAC address for the computer. That is a terrible feature for how we use FOG. I’m often changing computers to replace one and instead of rewriting the whole description and making a new computer, I just put the new info in place of an existing computer since it accomplishes removing the old one from the system and adding the new one. Is there any way this can be disabled / forcefully ripped out of FOG? This is going to cause a lot of issues is people don’t remember to remove the additional MAC.
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RE: Problem at the very end of uploading
@Wayne-Workman I’m pretty sure we found the culprit. I copied over some the the different images from our old server to the new one and me being the Linux newbie I am never checked permissions. I will fix it. Sorry for wasting your time on such a simple problem. I greatly appreciate everyone’s help on here! You can mark this as solved.
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RE: Problem at the very end of uploading
@Wayne-Workman Yup I tested that and all the places listed had the same credentials (minus the last one on the list because it only for 1.3).
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RE: Problem at the very end of uploading
@Wayne-Workman I tested logging in to ftp://x.x.x.x with the fog tftp username and password and it worked. I made another image template in fog and I’m trying to upload to that instead. I also now know where fog is putting the temporary image that is being uploaded so if it fails again I might try manually copying that over where is it meant to be and then doing a download test on a computer. Thank you for the suggestion!