Given the weird problems I ran into with snapd and removing it on Ubuntu 18.0.4 LTS (Hyper-V quick start) I decided to download a Debian ISO, and recreate a new VM.

I made a server, non desktop install of Debian via the prompts after booting the VM from the .ISO.

It worked OK, although a couple of typical errors. PHP was version 7.3
Mysql couldn’t be downloaded/installed
libcurl3 couldn’t be downloaded/installed

I’ve managed to push past the php7.X issue (found a clue on a Hyper-V install):

sudo php_ver='7.3' php_verAdds='-7.3' ./installfog.sh

but now am getting errors with libcurl3. libcurl4 is installed.

MySQL has to be downloaded from Oracle I believe. I switched over to Mariadb-server and -client.

From checking the install script, it looks like with Debian, the $OSVERSION is 10? That seemed to try to load libcurl3 instead of libcurl4.

Based on another thread I found that talked about libcurl3, I edited the /opt/fog/.fogsettings file, and changed the packages line from libcurl3 to libcurl4, and changed mysql-* to mariadb-*

The install then worked!

      == John ==

Hey, I just wanted to Necro this thread as I ran into the same problem, but had a different and simpler problem.

My DHCP address hand changed on the server! I didn’t use DNS names, but IP addresses, as I thought I’d be in a remote location with IPX but not DNS.

The fix was to update the address in the FOG settings. Voila, no problems installing the CA certificate.

The error message is probably spurious; the right fix might be to say “IP address not reachable” or something.

    == John ==

Wow! Sorry for that, I would have used 9 had I known it was that new!

Yup, I think for this install I actually had used su … but then again, unlike Raspbian (which has nothing to do with Fog), I can actually use the root password.

I did get it to install, should I scrap this and use the dev-branch? I just need something stable. Seems to be OK now that I used libcurl4 and Mariadb.

       -- John --

Given the weird problems I ran into with snapd and removing it on Ubuntu 18.0.4 LTS (Hyper-V quick start) I decided to download a Debian ISO, and recreate a new VM.

I made a server, non desktop install of Debian via the prompts after booting the VM from the .ISO.

It worked OK, although a couple of typical errors. PHP was version 7.3
Mysql couldn’t be downloaded/installed
libcurl3 couldn’t be downloaded/installed

I’ve managed to push past the php7.X issue (found a clue on a Hyper-V install):

sudo php_ver='7.3' php_verAdds='-7.3' ./installfog.sh

but now am getting errors with libcurl3. libcurl4 is installed.

MySQL has to be downloaded from Oracle I believe. I switched over to Mariadb-server and -client.

From checking the install script, it looks like with Debian, the $OSVERSION is 10? That seemed to try to load libcurl3 instead of libcurl4.

Based on another thread I found that talked about libcurl3, I edited the /opt/fog/.fogsettings file, and changed the packages line from libcurl3 to libcurl4, and changed mysql-* to mariadb-*

The install then worked!

      == John ==

@Sebastian-Roth

Interesting, and good questions. I definitely didn’t install anything, but curl, and openssh.

The Ubuntu install was a stock “Quick Create” on Hyper-V; the first thing I did with all 5 VM’s was to download and install Fog.

My exact steps were this:

sudo apt-get install net-tools
sudo apt-get install openssh-server
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install curl
curl https://codeload.github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/tar.gz/1.5.6 --output 1.5.6.fog.tar.gz
tar -xzvf 1.5.6.fog.tar.gz
cd fogproject-1.5.6/bin
sudo ./installfog.sh

This was based on this page: https://fogproject.org/download

Side note: Ah ha! sudo -i works on a Raspberry Pi. Su does not; root is disabled, so I got in the habit of doing “sudo” for everything. So it never occured to me the sudo ./installfog.sh was a problem. I get you on the path issues; I ran into this with Debian, so much so I just ran “su” there and did everything as root

The root user is disabled on Raspbian (I do a lot of work on embedded systems), so I got out of the habbit of su.

I had hoped to run Fog on a PineH64, but couldn’t get it to boot with Armbian, and the supporters of Armbian said “I was wasting their time” trying to debug why it wouldn’t boot without a $20K payment to them. I won’t be doing Fog with Armbian! I may try it on the Pi 4, it’s got a Gigabit network, and USB3, so might get some OK speeds. If I get it in time, I’ll let everyone know.

For now, I’ll use the Debian VM, but for completeness will check the above commands.

The proposed fix here again more or less hung stuff up.

sig@sig-fog-3:~$ sudo fuser -vki /var/lib/dpkg/lock
[sudo] password for sig: 
sig@sig-fog-3:~$ sudo apt purge snapd
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. 
sig@sig-fog-3:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:amd64 (1.14.4-1ubuntu1.1~ubuntu18.04.1) ...
Setting up libpython3.6-stdlib:amd64 (3.6.8-1~18.04.1) ...
Setting up gstreamer1.0-plugins-base:amd64 (1.14.4-1ubuntu1.1~ubuntu18.04.1) ...
Setting up gir1.2-gtk-3.0:amd64 (3.22.30-1ubuntu3) ...
Setting up libdrm-amdgpu1:amd64 (2.4.97-1ubuntu1~18.04.1) ...
Setting up libedataserver-1.2-23:amd64 (3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.2) ...
Setting up cups-browsed (1.20.2-0ubuntu3.1) ...
Setting up plymouth-label (0.9.3-1ubuntu7.18.04.2) ...
Setting up usb-creator-gtk (0.3.5ubuntu18.04.1) ...
Setting up gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64 (1.14.4-1ubuntu1~ubuntu18.04.1) ...
Setting up plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text (0.9.3-1ubuntu7.18.04.2) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Setting up gvfs-fuse (1.36.1-0ubuntu1.3.3) ...
Setting up libgnome-bluetooth13:amd64 (3.28.0-2ubuntu0.2) ...
Setting up libgbm1:amd64 (19.0.2-1ubuntu1.1~18.04.1) ...
Setting up libevdocument3-4:amd64 (3.28.4-0ubuntu1.2) ...
Setting up python3.6-minimal (3.6.8-1~18.04.1) ...
Setting up cups-ppdc (2.2.7-1ubuntu2.6) ...
Setting up libebackend-1.2-10:amd64 (3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.2) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130ubuntu3.8) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-47-generic
Setting up libqmi-glib5:amd64 (1.22.0-1.2~ubuntu18.04.1) ...
Setting up libqmi-proxy (1.22.0-1.2~ubuntu18.04.1) ...
Setting up libebook-contacts-1.2-2:amd64 (3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.2) ...
Setting up snapd (2.39.2+18.04) ...
md5sum: /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.snapd.snap-confine: No such file or directory
snapd.failure.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
snapd.snap-repair.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.

Just in case I messed something up … I’ll create a sixth Ubuntu “quick start” 18.0.4 LTS image for Hyper-V and immediately check the snapd stuff.

    == John ==

Sorry, was in the middle of running the other install, I usually put more stuff up.

I got Debian to work! So Ubuntu 18.04 is less of an issue.

But, in the hopes it’ll help someone else:

1. Direct access. (apt-get works fine)
2. tarball
3. I did review it, wasn’t obvious to me. Will paste the tail of it at the end.
4. If you mean in general, sudo apt-get install <package> works, yes, package installation works fine. If you mean that specific package, I can’t test, as the install is still running (after 2 days). Checking one of the other 4 VM’s where I killed the install after 10 hours … that caused issues, running dpkg cleanup on that VM. Huh … that seems to have paused as well, but at snapd.

So I think snapd.snap-repair.service is the problem, it’s the last line in the apt repair as well as the install log.

Ok, I think the fix (for others that might need it) is here:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1037431/receiving-the-error-snapd-snap-repair-service-is-a-disabled-or-a-static-unit-n

sig@sig-fog-vm:~$ sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server
[sudo] password for sig:
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run ‘sudo dpkg --configure -a’ to correct the problem.
sig@sig-fog-vm:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up snapd (2.39.2+18.04) …
md5sum: /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.snapd.snap-confine: No such file or directory
snapd.failure.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
snapd.snap-repair.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
^Cdpkg: error processing package snapd (–configure):
installed snapd package post-installation script subprocess was interrupted
Setting up firefox (68.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1) …
Please restart all running instances of firefox, or you will experience problems.
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) …
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) …
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-software-plugin-snap:
gnome-software-plugin-snap depends on snapd; however:
Package snapd is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package gnome-software-plugin-snap (–configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
snapd
gnome-software-plugin-snap
sig@sig-fog-vm:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up snapd (2.39.2+18.04) …
md5sum: /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.snapd.snap-confine: No such file or directory
snapd.failure.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
snapd.snap-repair.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.

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Installation log errors on current (hanging) install:

sig@sig-fog-3:~/fogproject-1.5.6/bin/error_logs$ tail fog_error_1.5.6.log
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
Setting up libpython3.6-minimal:amd64 (3.6.8-1~18.04.1) …
Setting up libcamel-1.2-61:amd64 (3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.2) …
Setting up libcupsimage2:amd64 (2.2.7-1ubuntu2.6) …
Setting up snapd (2.39.2+18.04) …
Installing new version of config file /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.snapd.snap-confine.real …
md5sum: /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.snapd.snap-confine: No such file or directory
snapd.failure.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
snapd.snap-repair.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.

I’m installing FOG version 1.5.6 on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS

This is actually on Hyper-V. I have integration services installed, and checked the instructions at: https://optionkey.blogspot.com/2017/06/setting-up-fog-project-on-hyper-v-and.html

Everything seems similar.

My install has five times now (on 2 different host machines) locked up at:

* Installing package: lftp....................................OK
* Installing package: libapache2-mod-php7.2...................OK
* Skipping package:   libc6...................................(Already Installed)
* Skipping package:   libcurl4................................(Already Installed)
* Installing package: liblzma-dev.............................OK
* Installing package: m4......................................OK
* Installing package: mysql-client............................OK
* Installing package: mysql-server............................OK
* Skipping package:   net-tools...............................(Already Installed)
* Installing package: nfs-kernel-server.......................OK
* Skipping package:   openssh-server..........................(Already Installed)
* Installing package: php7.2..................................OK
* Installing package: php7.2-bcmath...........................OK
* Skipping package:   php7.2-cli..............................(Already Installed)
* Installing package: php7.2-curl.............................OK
* Installing package: php7.2-fpm..............................OK
* Installing package: php7.2-gd...............................OK
* Skipping package:   php7.2-json.............................(Already Installed)
* Installing package: php7.2-ldap.............................OK
* Installing package: php7.2-mbstring.........................OK
* Installing package: php7.2-mysql............................OK
* Skipping package:   php7.2-mysql............................(Already Installed)
* Installing package: php-gettext.............................OK
* Skipping package: sysv-rc-conf..............................(Does not exist)
* Skipping package:   tar.....................................(Already Installed)
* Installing package: tftpd-hpa...............................OK
* Installing package: tftp-hpa................................OK
* Skipping package:   unzip...................................(Already Installed)
* Installing package: vsftpd..................................OK
* Skipping package:   wget....................................(Already Installed)
* Installing package: xinetd..................................OK
* Skipping package:   zlib1g..................................(Already Installed)
* Updating packages as needed.................................

I’ve let it sit for 15 hours. Plenty of disk space. top shows “apt-get” runs sporadically.

It never goes past the install into the configuration portion.

I’m repeating an install on Debian this time. Running into some package issues, we’ll see if we get any further.

    == John ==

I’m actually running into massive problems with Ubuntu 18.04, and the libcurl3 is one of them.

The other is mysql; I installed MariaDB and that works, but the install script still tries to install mysql-client and mysql-server.

I found this topic due to libcurl3; I have libcurl4 installed (via apt-get install curl) but it’s still looking for libcurl3.

This is Fog 1.5.6

I have other Ubuntu 18.0.4 issues, but I switched to a raw install of Debian, and am still getting the same errors, above.

Will update if/when I get a solution.

    == John ==