Posts made by ariederer26

Thank you for the quick replies. Turns out I did have Fastboot enabled. The Recovery environment was not setup as well. Had to copy winre.wim, and enable the reagentc. Did those things and recaptured the image. Deployed to another laptop and it’s working properly.
Thanks again.

I have a set of laptops to image to factory settings for our Senior class. The students can buy their laptops for 1$ after graduation. I have to put them back to factory setup. Anyway, my question is. I setup my source laptop without secure boot. I then captured the image, Then I did the MBR2GPT thing on the source laptop. This worked as it should. I changed the BIOS to UEFI boot. It was all good.
I then started imaging some others using the captured source image. I tried the same MBR2GPT process. I get the error MBR2GPT cannot find OS partition when I try to do this.
Any ideas as to what is happening? Or a free fix for the problem. I have approximately 50 of these to do.
My reason for doing this way is if the student wanted to go Windows 11, they could. I don’t want to force it onto some of the students that may not to go that route.
Thank you.

@george1421 Thank you much for the replies. I haven’t had a chance to steadily work on this. But I cannot get past the permission denied for the life of me. I guess I am confused on the syntax of the command to sqldump. Do I have to execute it as Ubuntu root user? Or myself the only user on the system?

@george1421 I was able to put the hard drive into another computer. I tried running the FOGBackup script. This seems to hang at backing up database. I stopped that. I am now trying to just do a mysqldump. Keep getting permission denied. What credentials am I to use to backup the database? Thank you for the help.

I had a nice working fog server 1.5.9 running on Ubuntu 20.04. Updating it to 22.04 proved to be a mistake. That’s not the worst part. I could have recovered from that. At the same time the system board failed on that server.
The hard drive data is fine. But I don’t have a DB backup.
I have setup a new server running on Ubuntu 20.04. The original hard drive is connected to it via USB.
How can I get my existing DB onto the new server? I know the images can be copied over.

@sebastian-roth Thank you for the quick reply. My intentions are to move this to new hardware. I will also install a newer version of Ubuntu. I’m trying to backup the DB. Not exactly sure how to do this. Along with the image files. I would think I could just transfer the images from the existing hard drive to the new server.

I have had a working fog system running on Ubuntu 16.04 for quite some time. I began to upgrade to 1.5.9
It fails at setting up the MySQL user and database. It asks for the database root user password. I can’t remember what this would be. This was setup so long ago.
Anyway the installer fails at this point because it can’t connect to the database.
I am also unable to get back to using my 1.5.6 that was previously working.
What am I missing here?

Thank you for the reply. I am all set now. Seeing the fogproject user had me confused. I wasn’t aware of the username change.
Thanks again for the help.

I have been trying to capture a new image. It goes through everything as it should. Up until it tries to update the database. I receive Error returned: Type: 2 File: /var/www/fog/lib/fog/fogftp.class.php line 464, Message: ftp_login(): Login incorrect., Host: xxx.xxx.xx.xx, Username fogproject
And then reattempts a few times and finally fails.
This is using 1.5.6
When I installed the new version the install ended with an unable to backup the database error as well.
Everything else seems to be working properly. I can deploy existing images to other devices.

What am I missing here?

@tom-elliott
I installed 1.4.4. and am back up and running again. Everything seems to still be in tact. Thanks again for the help.

@tom-elliott
Thank you for the quick reply.
Will I still be able to use my existing database if I reinstall?

It also looks like I need to look at my unattended updates setting.

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I am running Ubuntu 16.04 and FOG server 1.3.5. The setup had been working flawlessly for the last 6 months or so. Yesterday I was going to image some more computers and received the database schema error. Nothing had been done or changed in FOG itself. I don’t if maybe the OS received an update.

How do I resolve this without losing my existing database and images?
Thank you,
Anthony