Nope, on further testing it’s the auto logoff causing the reboots and NOT shutdown/reboot. I tried setting forcerestart=0 but, that didn’t change the behavior. Hmmmmm.

I can get it to restart but, haven’t gotten it to simply shutdown with these settings:

FOG Server:
[LIST]
[][FONT=Times][COLOR=#000000][B]FOG Configuration -> Auto Log Out -> Enabled [/B][/COLOR][/FONT][COLOR=#000000]and set to 5 Minutes[/COLOR]
[][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times][B]FOG Configuration -> Task Reboot -> Enabled[/B][/FONT][/COLOR]
[][COLOR=#000000][B][B][FONT=Times]FOG Configuration -> Green FOG -> Enabled [/FONT][/B][/B]and set to reboot in about 5 minutes[/COLOR]
[][COLOR=#000000]Restarted FOGScheduler service[CODE]# /etc/init.d/FOGScheduler restart[/CODE][/COLOR]
[/LIST]
[COLOR=#000000]FOG Client (Edit the [B]taskreboot[/B] settings in [B]C:\Program Files\FOG\etc\config.ini[/B]):[/COLOR]
[CODE][taskreboot]
forcerestart=1
checkintime=60[/CODE]
Then restart the FOG client service

This will reboot the client in about 5 minutes. However, if I increase [B]Auto Log Out[/B] time the reboot will not happen until this time period has expired. If I set [B]Green FOG[/B] to Shutdown instead of Reboot it reboots anyway.

We are also experiencing this problem …logoff hasn’t been reliable either.

[FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#141414]/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default is owned by fog:root so you need to sudo/su yourself to edit and save changes to the file by executing something like this from the terminal:[/COLOR][/FONT][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=3][FONT=Andale Mono][CODE]$ sudo nano /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default[/CODE][/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[COLOR=#141414][FONT=Tahoma]I haven’t tried updating the kernel from the FOG web interface - I did it manually:[/FONT][/COLOR]
[CODE]$ su

wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/freeghost/Kernels/Kernel-3.2.4.core/Kernel-3.2.4.core

cp /tftpboot/fog/kernel/bzImage /tftpboot/fog/kernel/bzImage.bak

mv Kernel-3.2.4.core /tftpboot/fog/kernel/bzImage[/CODE]

Yep! Also all better with the 3.2.4 kernel!!!

The “vga=771” addition to FOG_KERNEL_ARGS and every “append” in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default has got us 100% happy with the DVI issue on these Dell’s. I downloaded the 3.2.4 kernel and will give it a try and report back.
Thank you!!!

Adding “vga=771” to the “append” definitions in “/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default” resolved the issue but, isn’t global.

I tried adding “vga=771” it to Other Information -> FOG Settings -> General Settings -> FOG_KERNEL_ARGS in the FOG Manager to make it global but that did not work. I also tried adding it per host via Host Management -> myHostName -> Host Kernel Arguments but that also did not work. The settings FOG Manager may only apply to imaging because with the changes to “/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default” and FOG_KERNEL_ARGS everything seems to work fine with DVI.

FWIW, I found a similar thread at [SIZE=12px][FONT=Helvetica][COLOR=#223cfb][U][url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/optiplex-990-issues.145/[/url][/U][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]

[FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#141414]We setup a test bench to try out FOG 0.32 with a few Dell Optiplex 745’s. These Dell’s have both VGA and DVI display ports on their integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3000. If we plug the monitor into the DVI port, we can see the PXE boot menu but the screen goes blank and displays a, “Cannot display this video mode” error when uploading/downloading images or anything after it exits the initial text-mode after selecting a PXE menu option. If the monitor is plugged in to the VGA port then we can see everything as you would normally expect.

With monitor plugged into DVI port of client:

1. Graphical PXE Menu - OK
2. Brief Text Mode (“…Ready.”) - OK
3. Actually doing something - Not OK

Superficially, even if we can’t see what’s happening it still works but if we go live with FOG this will be a problem - we have 100’s of machines that will have the monitor plugged into the DVI port and the lack of feedback is going to be an issue.

Any clues as to how I can change the display mode/resolution would be greatly appreciated.[/COLOR][/FONT]

We setup a test bench to try out FOG 0.32 with a few Dell Optiplex 745’s. These Dell’s have both VGA and DVI display ports on their integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3000. If we plug the monitor into the DVI port, we can see the PXE boot menu but the screen goes blank and displays a, “Cannot display this video mode” error when uploading/downloading images or anything after it exits the initial text-mode after selecting a PXE menu option. If the monitor is plugged in to the VGA port then we can see everything as you would normally expect.

With monitor plugged into DVI port of client:

1. Graphical PXE Menu - OK
2. Brief Text Mode (“…Ready.”) - OK
3. Actually doing something - Not OK

Superficially, even if we can’t see what’s happening it still works but if we go live with FOG this will be a problem - we have 100’s of machines that will have the monitor plugged into the DVI port and the lack of feedback is going to be an issue.

Any clues as to how I can change the display mode/resolution would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: I probably should have put this in Technical Help - Moved to [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/blank-screen-after-pxe-menu-when-imaging-on-dvi-port-but-not-on-vga.421/[/url]
Mods - feel free to delete this thread.

I hear you have to update /opt/fog/service/etc/config.php AND /fog/commons/config.php FWIW.
[url]http://blog.thefoleyhouse.co.uk/2011/02/fog-free-opensource-ghost-multicast.html[/url]

FWIW, we’ve noticed on some computers that if you hard power 'em off (press and hold the power button) they won’t wake on LAN but, they will with a soft shutdown from the OS. I haven’t had a chance to see if there’s a BIOS setting to make this go away.