@Sebastian-Roth Thank you very much! I tested it and it worked!
Posts made by isaiah658
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RE: Disable additional MAC address feature?
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RE: Disable additional MAC address feature?
@Sebastian-Roth I would definitely prefer to have something changed. The idea of having multiple MAC addresses is great! Especially if it’s a laptop! But having a way to edit the primary MAC address without the old one becoming a secondary address would be ideal. If I change the primary address and click Update, it should only edit the primary MAC address. The functionality of adding the primary address to a secondary address could exist through the Add MAC button. Or maybe there’s a better UI option for integrating both features.
The other reason I’m not a fan of how it currently works is that after you edit a primary MAC address and click update, you don’t even see that it added a secondary address until you refresh the page. I was adding secondary addresses and didn’t notice until later. Since previous versions didn’t do that, it felt a bit deceiving.
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Some praise for the developers...
I recently switched from 1.2.0 to 1.5.7 and while there are some things I don’t like, the imaging speeds have become incredibly fast. Previously on a Dell laptop with a SSD, the speeds were around 4 - 5 Gigabytes per minute. That was with a Cat 5e connection. After the update and transferring the same exact image files (I copied them over), using the exact same computer and connection, the speeds are around 13 Gigabytes per minute! I’m very happy to be getting that speed over Cat 5e connection. What ever voodoo magic is happening is working well! Thank you to anyone contributing to the project!
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RE: Setting the primary and additional MACs the same makes the host invisible
@Tom-Elliott Thank you for the response. So it seems the two issues are not linked. The duplicate MAC address issue is related to this: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/13402/fog-1-5-6-changing-host-mac-address-can-make-hosts-inaccessable/6. The primary MAC address being added as an additional MAC address is in fact a feature.
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Setting the primary and additional MACs the same makes the host invisible
EDIT: I didn’t see that there was a similar issue posted already about the bug. Thanks to the command given by one of the devs, I was able to clear the invisible host. However, the way I caused the issue was a little different and might still be useful for the devs to see. If it’s fixed, this can be marked as resolved.
Original Post:
I’m using FOG version 1.5.7 on Ubuntu 18.04 and I’m having a lot of weird quirks with MAC addresses. I opened up an issue in the tech help forum asking about why changing the primary MAC address causes it to add the old MAC as an additional one. Now I’m not even sure if that’s a feature.If you set the primary MAC address and additional MAC address to be the same, the host vanishes. You can’t search for it. It doesn’t appear when you export the host list. But if you try to create a new host with the same name it says you can’t because a host with the name already exists. I now have a host I can’t remove and can’t use that name anymore.
I apologize if I sound angry, but I’m just disappointed that when I went from FOG 1.2.0 to 1.5.7, it’s worse. I really do appreciate the volunteers working on the project though. If you need anymore info for me to test something, please let me know.
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RE: Disable additional MAC address feature?
To clarify, all I’m doing is modifying the MAC address on a host in FOG and clicking the update button. After that, when refreshing the page, I noticed it added the old address as an additional MAC. You might not see it until you refresh. I’m not clicking any other buttons related to adding an additional MAC. FOG just adds one itself.
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Disable additional MAC address feature?
Whenever I change the MAC address for a computer, it adds the old one as an additional MAC address for the computer. That is a terrible feature for how we use FOG. I’m often changing computers to replace one and instead of rewriting the whole description and making a new computer, I just put the new info in place of an existing computer since it accomplishes removing the old one from the system and adding the new one. Is there any way this can be disabled / forcefully ripped out of FOG? This is going to cause a lot of issues is people don’t remember to remove the additional MAC.
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RE: Problem at the very end of uploading
@Wayne-Workman I’m pretty sure we found the culprit. I copied over some the the different images from our old server to the new one and me being the Linux newbie I am never checked permissions. I will fix it. Sorry for wasting your time on such a simple problem. I greatly appreciate everyone’s help on here! You can mark this as solved.
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RE: Problem at the very end of uploading
@Wayne-Workman Yup I tested that and all the places listed had the same credentials (minus the last one on the list because it only for 1.3).
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RE: Problem at the very end of uploading
@Wayne-Workman I tested logging in to ftp://x.x.x.x with the fog tftp username and password and it worked. I made another image template in fog and I’m trying to upload to that instead. I also now know where fog is putting the temporary image that is being uploaded so if it fails again I might try manually copying that over where is it meant to be and then doing a download test on a computer. Thank you for the suggestion!
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Problem at the very end of uploading
So I’m running into a problem that I have never seen before. When I am uploading an image to FOG it gets to the point where it says * Image uploaded * Task complete! and then just pauses there. Then every so often it just keeps outputting another * on the screen on a new line. The web interface says its like 99.98 - 99.99% complete. I tried uploading once and after it did this I decided to reboot the server. It then did it a second time. I did image a computer with the same image after the failed upload and it was imaged with the previous image and not the one I’m trying to upload. I’m running fog 1.2 on 14.04. The computer is actually going through the partclone process and not skipping that either.
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RE: Database Schema Installer / Updater Update/Install Failed!
@Wayne-Workman I can also confirm that it worked for myself too. That’s how I knew about the post and I wanted to make sure to share it.
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RE: FOG 1.2.0 Multicast creates multiple single udpcast sessions
@SKasai So are you saying that multicasting was actually working recently after you thought you found the problem but now it stopped again? That could be a clue as to what it could maybe be.
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RE: Database Schema Installer / Updater Update/Install Failed!
@econcepts Sounds like your issue is the same as what people are describing here: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/564935-fog-database-error
The solution that worked for them:
Here is the post with the answer (I prefer vi to nano but I just copied the post as it was from the FOG forums) I will do this and let everyone know:
Open up
sudo nano /var/www/fog/lib/fog/Config.class.php
Notate both the host, username & passwordOpen up
sudo nano /opt/fog/.fogsettings
Fill in the following portionssnmysqluser=“{root}”
snmysqlpass=“{password if you have one}”
snmysqlhost=“{localhost}”
Reset the mySQL database password to be what is in the config files
run
sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.5
replace the last two numbers if using a different version of mySQLenter in the new password
From that point on it should stay working after rebooting.
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RE: Fog web login shows weird text characters?
@Tom-Elliott Just did a brand new reinstall of Ubuntu 14.04 and same issue. I’m just going to take your word for it that it isn’t anything critical and continue. If there is a way to “fix” what ever it may be please let me know.
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RE: Fog web login shows weird text characters?
@Tom-Elliott Version 1.2.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I knew there were some issues with FOG on that version of Ubuntu but I just decided to try it. I don’t think this is the issue though that people were seeing.
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Fog web login shows weird text characters?
So I’m in the middle of trying to set up a new fog server so I can take the old one down and I came across something strange. When I go to login to the web interface there are random currupted looking characters at the bottom of the screen. Thinking that something went wrong with fog I decided to follow the steps fog has for uninstalling and would reinstall. I did that but they are still there. I have no idea what is going on. I don’t feel safe continuing to use it that way as something isn’t right.! I’m okay with blowing fog completely away in any shape or form but I really don’t want to have to reinstall ubuntu as I just transfered a bunch of images over. fogissue.png
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RE: Multicast freezing in partclone screen: Starting to restore image to device.
@danilopinotti What did it say when you used the commands? Any error messages? Was is actually started? You may have to use “sudo service FOGMulticastManager start” instead of restart if the service isn’t started or at least I think I had to.
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RE: Imaging won’t begin, host going into boot loop
Your issue sound similar to one that I had and one that someone else posted on here. Is the hard drive size that you created the image on the exact same size? Also is the image type you are using one that is not resizable? If so, either try shrinking the partition and reupload the image so that way there is about 1-2gb of unallocated space on the drive or simply try imaging a computer with a hard drive that you for sure know is larger (not same, larger) than the one used to make the image. Hope this helps.
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RE: Remove "Uploaded by batch import on" Message?
If this is just deleting the descriptions, I don’t think I can use this then as I actually do have stuff in each of the descriptions that I want to keep. That’s the main reason I want to get rid of the message in the first place. I inconveniently adds it to the end of each of the descriptions. If that’s not what your script does then please correct me.