@Tom-Elliott

I’m on Debian Bullseye.

I can’t install php-gettext, and i installed php-php-gettext (not installed), restart php7.4 but no better.

Arghh

I tried to apply this command without any conclusive results:

msgfmt -o /var/www/html/fog/management/languages/fr_FR.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo /var/www/html/fog/management/languages/fr_FR.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po

I did see the accents once or twice (after msgfmt command), but they disappeared after two clicks or connecting to Fog. Very strange…

Maybe this is my translation file submitted a few years ago?

https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/pull/431

@Tom-Elliott

Indeed, it worked before the migration.

Accented characters work on the terminal connected to my server.

However, it is strange that it displays the ç and the spanish ñ correctly on the home page. It seems that only the é and è are not working…

Look :

Hello everyone,

Following the migration of my server to Debian Bullseye and Fog 1.5.10.1734, I have noticed problems with characters that contain accents.
Is this a bug in this version, or have I forgotten something?

Thanks!

Example :

Finally, I did my update.

The problem was that I was running Debian Buster, so I first had to upgrade to Debian Bullseye so that the installer could install the new packages.

Then, I made a copy of the fogproject/ folder, deleted the folder to initiate a git clone
Next, I followed the tutorial and restarted the installer, which restored my old settings. The web interface is working, so I assume my clones will work as well.
Thank you.

@lukebarone Thanks, i will try !

Hello everyone and the Fog team, I love your software!

I installed Fog several years ago, I am using version 1.5.9, but I don’t know if I installed it via git or the installer?

How can I find out and what procedure should I follow to update to the stable version 1.5.10?

Thank you for your help!

I think I have the same problem and I want to be sure of exactly what I need to do (I don’t know if there is a step-by-step tutorial…).

I boot with a USB-C network adapter on an HP Elitebook. It finds FOG, I have the menu, I choose to deploy an image, and then I get this error message:

Is this the problem in question?
If so, what exactly should I do? I see (link @FlorianLenz ) that I need to replace two files with the new ones, then run the .sh. But isn’t that dangerous for other network boots?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Hello everyone,

As I work at a secondary school, I was able to get hold of some Catalina iMacs (iMac 14.3).
I already use FOG to deploy Windows and Linux images on PCs.

I would like to deploy a LinuxMint image on these iMacs.

However, I am unable to boot into PXE on them with FOG, and I do not know what is wrong.

I modified my DHCP server as follows:

## FOG
class "UEFI-32-1" {
match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00006";
filename "i386-efi/ipxe.efi";
}

class "UEFI-32-2" {
match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00002";
filename "i386-efi/ipxe.efi";
}

class "UEFI-64-1" {
match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00007";
filename "ipxe.efi";
}

class "UEFI-64-2" {
match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00008";
filename "ipxe.efi";
}

class "UEFI-64-3" {
match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00009";
filename "ipxe.efi";
}

class "Apple-Intel-Netboot" {
    match if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 14) = "AAPLBSDPC/i386";
    option dhcp-parameter-request-list 1,3,17,43,60;
    if (option dhcp-message-type = 8) {
            option vendor-class-identifier "AAPLBSDPC";
            if (substring(option vendor-encapsulated-options, 0, 3) = 01:01:01) {
                # BSDP List
                option vendor-encapsulated-options 01:01:01:04:02:80:00:07:04:81:00:05:2a:09:0D:81:00:05:2a:08:69:50:58:45:2d:46:4f:47;
                }
            elsif (substring(option vendor-encapsulated-options, 0, 3) = 01:01:02) {
                #BSDP Select
                option vendor-encapsulated-options 01:01:02:08:04:81:00:05:2a:82:0a:4e:65:74:42:6f:6f:74:30:30:31;
                # filename "i386-efi/ipxe.efi";
                filename "snp.efi";
                }
            }
        }

class "Legacy" {
match if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:00000";
filename "undionly.kkpxe";
}

### END FOG

I tested ipxe.efi in 64-bit and 32-bit, as well as snp.efi, but it still doesn’t work. I get some kind of spinning planet when I try to boot.

I admit I don’t fully understand the documentation page: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FOG_on_a_MAC

Thanks in advance!

Same thing here with this laptop. We’ve also tested the experimental kernel but same problem.

Thanks

Hello everyone!

I’m going to need to clean up my storage space and I’d like to know if it’s possible to temporarily store image files to free up space?

My idea:

• I take a screenshot of my image parameters,
• I assign another image to the PCs using this image to store elsewhere (or maybe I can leave this assignment anyway)
• move the image folder contained in /images
• delete the image from FOG

As soon as I can, I do the opposite:

• move the image folder to /images
• recreate the image in FOG with my saved settings,
• reassign the image to the PX.

Will this work?

Thank you for your help

I have very good news.

While analyzing the chipset of the network card, I realized that it was an Intel (and not a realtek) I219-LM and that it was an old chipset.

So I downloaded the bzImage 5.15.98 kernel and made it available in the appropriate folder on the FOG server, calling it bzImage_5.15.98.

Then, in the host description, I put bzImage_5.15.98 in front of the machine kernel.

And oh magic, everything went back to the way it was before 13 GB/mn

Hello

I’m experiencing the same problem with HP ProTower G9, but with the added bonus of randomness

I’m using Fog 1.5.9 and kernel 5.10*.

The first PC, I deploy an image very quickly but it freezes at the end, perhaps a network cut. Impossible to restart the deployment, it deploys at 5Mb / min or something like that.

2nd identical PC, I deploy the image at high speed. I modify it and capture it just as quickly.

3rd identical PC, impossible to bring the image down quickly. I decide to update the Linux kernel to version 6.1.63. There’s some improvement, it’s stable between 400 and 600 MB/min. It’s not as fast as my previous deployments.

I don’t know what to do to improve this knowing that I have to deploy 13 other new PCs by Wednesday.

Thank you all for this tool that I love!

Hi !

I cloned some Linux Mint Una PCs with FOG and everything went fine.
Now I’d like to use the wake on lan feature to turn them on remotely and do updates on them.

The problem is that while the PCs start up fine when I switch them on normally, when I switch them on via WOL, they launch the FOG menu and after 3s switch to Boot From Hard Disk. From then on, the PC displays a cursor on an all-black screen. So the PC can’t boot normally.

Do you have any ideas for solving this problem?

Thanks for your help!

Thanks a lot @rodluz !

I took your script and adapted it. I use it directly on my FOG server, which simplifies things a bit. I also changed the mail to a notification sent to my smartphone with ntfy, which I find easy to use.

I also mounted my NAS share in NFS directly on /mnt/FOGBackups.

Here’s my script:

#!/bin/bash

fogServerAddress="172.X.Y.Z"  # Change to actual FOG server address

backupDate=$(date +"%Y%m%d")

backupDir="/mnt/FOGBackups/$backupDate"
backupDirImages="/mnt/FOGBackups/images"

snapinLocation="/opt/fog/snapins"
reportLocation="/var/www/fog/lib/reports"
imageLocation="/images"

failedBackupDB=0
failedBackupSnapins=0
failedBackupReports=0
failedBackupImages=0

[[ ! -d $backupDir ]] && mkdir -p $backupDir/{mysql,snapins,reports,logs} >/dev/null 2>&1
[[ ! -d $backupDir/mysql || $backupDir/snapins || $backupDir/reports || $backupDir/logs ]] && mkdir -p $backupDir/{mysql,snapins,reports,logs} >/dev/null 2>&1

backupDB() {
    wget --no-check-certificate --post-data="nojson=1" -O $backupDir/mysql/fog.sql "http://$fogServerAddress/fog/management/export.php?type=sql" 2>>$backupDir/logs/error.log 1>>$backupDir/logs/progress.log 2>&1
    stat=$?
    if [[ ! $stat -eq 0 ]]; then
        echo "Failed to backup database!"
        failedBackupDB=1
    else
        echo "Database backed up."
    fi
}

backupSnapins() {
    cp -r $snapinLocation $backupDir/snapins/ 2>>$backupDir/logs/error.log 1>>$backupDir/logs/progress.log 2>&1
    stat=$?
    if [[ ! $stat -eq 0 ]]; then
        echo "Failed to backup snapins!"
        failedBackupSnapins=1
    else
        echo "Snapins backed up."
    fi
}

backupReports() {
    cp -r $reportLocation $backupDir/reports/ 2>>$backupDir/logs/error.log 1>>$backupDir/logs/progress.log 2>&1
    stat=$?
    if [[ ! $stat -eq 0 ]]; then
        echo "Failed to backup reports!"
        failedBackupReports=1
    else
        echo "Reports backed up."
    fi
}

backupImages() {
    rsync -auv $imageLocation $backupDirImages 2>>$backupDir/logs/error.log 1>>$backupDir/logs/progress.log 2>&1
    stat=$?
    if [[ ! $stat -eq 0 ]]; then
        echo "Failed to backup images!"
        failedBackupImages=1
    else
        echo "Images backed up."
    fi
}

checkForFailures() {
    echo "Running checkForFailures()"
    if [[ $failedBackupDB -eq 1 ]]; then
        message="$message \nFailed to backup database."
    fi

    if [[ $failedBackupSnapins -eq 1 ]]; then
        message="$message \nFailed to backup snapins."
    fi

    if [[ $failedBackupReports -eq 1 ]]; then
        message="$message \nFailed to backup reports."
    fi
    if [[ $failedBackupImages -eq 1 ]]; then
        message="$message \nFailed to backup images."
    fi
}

sendNotif() {
	echo "Running sendNotif()"
    if [[ ! -z $message ]]; then
        {
            curl -d "FOG Backup Failed\n $message" ntfy.sh/XYZATEHFJICH
		}
	else
		curl -d "FOG Backup Successful!" ntfy.sh/XYZATEHFJICH
	fi
}

backupDB
backupSnapins
backupReports
backupImages

checkForFailures
sendNotif

@falko Yes, I already clone my VM on a remote space. But if my clone isn’t correct, I lose everything.
So I’d like a backup script that allows me to automate a database backup and an rsync to a remote share. You can never be too careful.

At present, I clone my proxmox virtual machine for my backups and from time to time, I manually run a dump of the database and images.

I’d like to automate this backup via a cron. Do you have a script that allows me to :

• database dump
• rsync images to remote media

Perhaps you have something better to suggest? Thanks

Thank you for your answers. I’ll give it a try and let you know!

To facilitate a one-day deployment of Linux workstations, I was wondering if I could prepare a LinuxMint VM, save it on FOG and then downgrade it to a physical workstation (several different ones).

Will this work?