I know I’ve been out of this for a little bit. I check in here or there, but just been extremely busy.

I don’t want to stop contributing, I just am taking time for myself after my workly duties.

I have to give a big gratitude and thanks for everyone here trying to help out whether by code, by helping the rest of the community, or documentation.

@Sebastian-Roth I know you’re busy but you’ve kept the project rolling even with the minimal availability you have. Thank you.
@george1421 I’m sure you’re busy, but I still see you posting and helping where possible and amenible. Thank you.
@Wayne-Workman I know you’re helping where you can as well. (Of course I can’t exactly post everybody because I’ve been busy and honestly not keeping up with the forums as much as I probably should.)

@everyone Thank you. Thank you for still believing in this project. We’re doing the best with what we have. Please understand in we’re lacking, it’s most likely unintentional. I know I’m just busy.

https://news.fogproject.org/fog-1-3-5-and-client-0-11-11-officially-released/

https://news.fogproject.org/fog-1-5-0-rc-11/

TLDR; Rerun the fog installer if you have lost “Database Connectivity” to your fog server, or run the ALTER USER syntax shown below.

So Ubuntu 16, among others I suppose, enable a “security updates” to be applied automatically as a “default” to things. Why, well it makes it simpler to ensure your Ubuntu systems are in compliance and patched for any potential exploits. This causes unknown and unexpected issues.

I figured it’d be a safe thing to express that there could be problems (as many of you have already experienced) that when these updates go up (with or without your knowledge) it can break functionality in unexpected and inopportune ways.

The quickest fix is to simply rerun the fog installer which should correct the problem.

As a note, it seems this problem is specific only when the mysql account is the 'root' user AND the password is blank.

The “fix” if you must do it manually is to open a terminal and obtain root:
Super (Windows Key) + T then sudo -i (in most cases).

From there, open mysql with mysql -u root

NOTE: MySQL MUST be run with ROOT.

Run:

ALTER USER 'root'@'127.0.0.1' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY ''; AND
ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY '';

It’s okay if one of them fails. This is going to fix Most people’s issues.

I would highly recommend removing the unattended-upgrades as many of these “sudden” issues came as a security patch ubuntu pushed out. By default Ubuntu typically set’s this for you as enabled and it can cause havoc on you as you (the admin) may not have “done” anything.

To prevent this problem from happening in the future you could run:

apt-get -y remove unattended-upgrades (AS Root again).

FOG is still actively being developed. It’s not necessarily readily apparent, but we can assure you things are still being worked on. These updates may not be communicated in a way that everybody just knows, but can easily be seen if one were to look at our repository site.

Between our own schedules and lives, we can get very busy. We try to keep things updated and help out on the forums even during lull periods. This might mean we aren’t pushing an RC or release as frequently. It may mean we’re working on other things for the project, such as can be seen if looking at our github site.

Our forums are heavily active, and this should point as an indicator to our “status” as well.

If anybody would like to see an increase in developers donating their time to making this free software, consider donating either with monetary support or by spending personal time to help with development.

FOG is an open source project - it’s even in the name. It is driven by people donating their time and resources. The releases of FOG revolve around when developers can spare a few hours throughout the week. Sometimes that will mean releases will be further, sometimes that will mean releases will be faster. That’s just the nature of our project, and many other open source projects.

Hey everybody,

I know you see me here on occasion from time to time. Life decisions have made it more difficult for me to do things I would normally be doing. Rest assured, I am still around, and while I’m not quite as active as I was in the past, it’s not because I don’t want to be.

I had to move, and as part of that I have none of my normal development stuff readily available. Part of the move made me not have a laptop, until today.

I need to setup my dev environment again, so it may take a little bit, but I will be back up.

That’s correct. The main reason fog is constantly moving forward is because the codebase is improved upon. Major bugs tend to be addressed for the next release. We don’t do an LTS because there’s really two main people working on fog in a consistent manor. Those two are @Joe-Schmitt and myself. Debian and Libreoffice have the team too be able to perform such a feat. Their product is Opensource but they have an employment team which can afford them that luxury. FOG has a team but we make no money and as such are required to work full time jobs. We work on FOG in our free time. I’ve had the ability to even work on it from work because we used the software.

Maintaining many different versions is difficult. And we don’t have a support team. WYSIWYG and I think we’ve done pretty well on support, even if we don’t have the ability to do dedicated support for our product. 1.5 was a major step toward modernizing the GUI. 1.6 will vastly improve on this. It was only recently we kind of came up with a road map on how best to proceed. Of note, 1.5 will be maintained until 1.6 is released. 1.6 is focused on making he GUI much more modern. 1.7 will be focused mostly toward fixing and refactoring the FOG client. 1.8 will focus on making the FOS system more modular and usable. I don’t know yet for 1.9. 2.0 will bridge the gap for our rewrite based on the work from 1.5 and up. While we do plan to try to do backports where possible, it’s much easier to ask people to update to the latest version than it is to try to maintain many different versions with backports in mind. At least for what FOG does.

I doubt this will appease anybody, but it’s what I think needs to be said. We are working hard and provide support for our product as best we can. The community makes fogs support system, I think, one of the best around. Add to that and you can almost always have a developer working side by side to help and fix issues as they come up, I don’t think it’s unfair to ask users to update to a specific version. Even if there are bugs, we will always try to correct what we can, when we can. (And normally it’s a pretty quick turn around).

I’m not perfect and I’ll give you that. We don’t even have a test suite to know if things are working as intended. We have to rely on the community and suggestions are great, just understand our answers won’t always be what people want to hear.

https://news.fogproject.org/fog-1-4-0-officially-released/

https://news.fogproject.org/fog-1-4-4-officially-released/

https://news.fogproject.org/fog-1-5-0-rc-12/

@Fog_Newb Yeah, we did release the experimental as the “release” version so it should be the same init you get for 1667 or 1771 now.

@Fog_Newb The fos release has been officially updated so if you were to do a full fresh update, it should pull the version you just tested automatically.

Thanks for the testing.

@Fog_Newb Yes, though maybe I can get the master release updated and it take hold for anyone from that point forward who gets 1771, but that’s not great practice, that we fall into better waiting the monthly release I think.

@Fog_Newb Did you update the init to the one you downlaoded after updating to 1771?

The init that it is pulling by default has the bad data.

@Fog_Newb I’m going to close this as it’s a duplicate to the Bug one. Thanks!

@Fog_Newb No.

You shouldn’t have to touch your fog install (overall) to test the latest init files.

Just download the init.xz file from the EXP_20250731 tag and either replace your existing /var/www/fog/service/ipxe/init.xz with it, or put the filename you want to use (init_20250731.xz for example) in the same folder and set the Host’s Host Init field to the filename you created.

Once that’s known to be working, you are welcome to update to the latest version of fog, but you would still have to do the same work for the new experimental init files. We could potentially work to make these working fos files the latest “release” which might fix the issue for you, but first would like to know it’s working.

Luckily init’s are released as a separate funciton so it wasn’t FOGProject 1.5.10.1771 directly, but just the init’s having issues.

@Fog_Newb It seems I introduced a bug on the init’s specifically surrounding a request to fail out if the Host Primary Drive is defined but not found to error out.

Effectively I tried to make a function more robust (normalize output data) but it only works on direct input rather than piped input. I’ve made a correction to fix this miss, but it will take about 2 hours to build.

Maybe I can get you to help?

I am currently building a new set of init’s under experimental: https://github.com/FOGProject/fos/tags

When it completes it will show up as EXP_20250731 (I think?) but if you can download the init and test it on your machine, this should fix the issue you found so thank you for reporting it.

@Fog_Newb For this host in question, are you indicating a serial number or wwn identifier for the drive? On this machine, it seems you have entered 21297930000130911023 on the Host Primary Disk field within the UI. Just trying to understand.

@Greg-Plamondon and @Clebboli are the Storage nodes associated to the same storage group?

For example:

Site 1 -> Default Group
Site 2 -> Default Group

Or are each storage node associated to their own Storage Groups?

The idea of storage groups is to spread the load of imaging. So if all storage nodes are part of the same storage group, then it makes sense the “jumping to different storage nodes within the group”.

While seemingly unexpected, the idea of jumping to other nodes within the same storage group is intended to balance the workload around as best it can. Sure this can probably be better handled, though I don’t know when I might get around to refactoring it. Just saying what I suspect might be happening.

@Clebboii said in Location Plugin - PHP Warning and Location Assigned Node not working:

PHP Warning: Undefined array key “REQUEST_METHOD” in /var/www/html/fog/lib/plugins/location/hooks/addlocationapi.hook.php on line 121

I’ve pushed an update to the dev-branch regarding this issue.

I don’t know if it will definitely fix it, but it should help prevent continued writing of this error.

As for the issue of slot and hopping, I’m not sure how I can simulate this issue. Is this a new issue or something that was noticed and we’re not really sure when it began and/or has always been there?