@Tom
Trunk isn’t beta in the traditional sense. I would strongly recommend upgrading to it. If there are problems you post it on the forum and often the issue is fixed in a manner of hours.

@jc35 So I think you can do this
I would follow the help @Wayne-Workman gave you on this post
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6454/wipe-and-restore

Using the information of what the database tables need to say you could write a bash or python script to edit the mysql database of fog.
The next question is whether or not you need help with that part too.
The basics steps you would need to do

• make a remote mysql user with access to the fog database on the fog server.
• Compose and test some mysql commands remotely based on the tables you need to edit and make sure it works
• Take those commands and put them into a script. In bash it is possible to send a single command to mysql, I don’t remember the parameter of the top of my head though, I would have to go find a script where I did that if need be.

Hopefully that helps you get started.

So I’m noticing a couple things.

• The first boot error relates to efi - perhaps you have an efi partition separate from the install and would need to do multiple partition image
• At the same time there are .mbr files and also gpt messages. GPT is typically associated with efi style images and mbr with bios/legacy style images.

So are you using uefi on the image you are uploading from?
Are you uploading from legacy and then downloading to a computer set to uefi mode?
Personally I find mbr and bios/legacy mode to work just fine and to be just much simpler. So if it’s not too much effort you could redo the image making sure that your computer is booting to legacy/bios mode. In some bios’s you have to disable secure boot before it lets you enable the legacy boot mode. GPT and uefi do work with fog, don’t get me wrong, but I just find gpt easier. Also, a side note, to ensure you make only one partition when you install windows (this works on at least windows 7 and up) when you have the install disc in and you’re at the partition selection, hit shift+f10 to bring up a command prompt. Then run the following commands to clear out all existing partitions and make only one new one. As far as I have found this only works with mbr style partitions. There is probably a way to do it for gpt, I just haven’t found it yet, which is another reason I stick with mbr.

diskpart
list disk
(It will list the disks with details, most likely you'll want disk 0, but list and check to be sure)
select disk 0
clean
create partition primary
exit
exit

Then hit refresh on the windows gui partition editor and select the newly created partition

If you put a lot of work into this image and don’t want to start over on it, no worries, we can still try some other stuff.
Go into fog and queue a download of the image ticking the “schedule as a debug task” box.
Now you will be able to step through the image process and run some other commands on the computer you are imaging

I would try running fixparts on /dev/sda in a debug session. This may fix any mbr/gpt confusion within the drive or image your using and that alone could make it work.
If that doesn’t do the trick. Then we’ll come back to the drawing board.

So, that was a lot of information, let me summarize a little.

• Is your image source a gpt/efi setup or a mbr/bios setup?
• Do you want it to be resizable or do you not care because they’re all the same size hard drive?
• Have you tried running fixparts (I would recommend trying this before uploading the source image as well as before download)
• Consider making a new mbr style image in bios/legacy mode using the instructions I gave above, as I know it works for windows 10

@Arrowhead-IT I figure that I should report that in my recent testing with the latest client I have not had any problems with the client being installed as part of the image. It works as it should. I intend to use the script I posted here as a gpo script to add all the active directory computers on my network to fog in one quick click.

So one caveat to my method with using devcon from the windows wdk (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/dn913721.aspx)
is that when you remove all the devices it removes and doesn’t reinstall on restart a couple system devices that are required to make remote desktop work.
So in other words you can’t rdp/windows remote desktop into an imaged computer. I had found this rather annoying and finally figured out exactly which devices are required and scripted how to fix it. yay!

This is also helpful to anyone that perhaps is having trouble with remote desktop when it is otherwise configured correctly.

So the devices that you could install manually as legacy devices are…

• NDIS Virtual Network Adapter Enumerator
• UMBus Root Bus Enumerator (adds UMBus Enumerators on restart that are also needed)
• Remote Desktop Device Redirector Bus

Luckily the inf files for all of these are still in the driverstore. And the devcon.exe tool can be used to install them quickly from the command line. 0_1453504913836_devcon.exe - 64 bit version from wdk 8.1 - put this in your C:\Windows\System32 for the following script to work. You can also download and install the wdk from the above link and find it in C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10 somewhere, a tools folder of some sort as I recall. I tested it with the 8.1 version but just discovered there is a windows 10 version as I was writing this.

Anywho, scripty script

@ECHO off
	REM Script for fixing remote desktop after uninstalling all devices

	call :main

:main
	call :funcHead "Welcome to the remote desktop fix!"
	call :setVars
	call :addDriver "NDIS Virtual Network Adapter Enumerator" "%drivers%\ndisvirtualbus.inf_amd64_c420021ea374b6f3\ndisvirtualbus.inf" ROOT\NdisVirtualBus
	call :addDriver "UMBus Root Bus Enumerator" "%drivers%\umbus.inf_amd64_b5911c04e2dae8d2\umbus.inf" root\umbus.inf
	call :addDriverAndRestart "Remote Desktop Device Redirector Bus" "%drivers%\rdpbus.inf_amd64_e1a9f2699d349149\rdpbus.inf" ROOT\RDPBUS

	EXIT /B

:setVars
	set drivers=C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository

	EXIT /B

:addDriver
	echo. installing %~1...	
	Devcon install %~2 %~3
	echo. done!
	EXIT /B

:addDriverAndRestart
	echo. installing %~1 and restarting computer...	
	Devcon -r install %~2 %~3
	echo. done!
	REM just in case -r doesn't reboot...
	Devcon reboot & exit
	EXIT /B

:dots
	REM just echoing dots in a Function instead of copy pasting them so that it's consistent
	echo ......................................................................
	EXIT /B

:funcHead
	REM A simple function for displaying a consistent header at the start of functions
	call :dots
	echo. %~1
	call :dots
	EXIT /B

run that as a batch script, it will restart your computer and it will fix remote desktop if you break it by manually uninstalling devices

I had been having trouble with this problem for months and just fixed it and figured it related enough to everything else here so I shared it

@anthonyglamis This sounds like a client issue, any thoughts @Jbob

@Tom-Elliott Yes, I just did. I marked it as unsolved when it broke again.

@anthonyglamis Nope. The installer will auto download the latest client to your server and you don’t need to maually update your hosts with the new client. I think it’s supposed to update itself even, if I remember right

@MRCUR Well I think it is possible to edit it directly, but it is not easy.
Let’s say you run my script and have a working default profile and you saved the folder somewhere.
Now let’s copy the whole profile folder to the local computer, in the C:\ root for example(just to be safe not editing the original right away)
Now open up regedit.exe as an administrator and highlight ‘HKEY_USERS’
File → Load Hive
Open up
“C:\Default\NTUSER.DAT”
name the hive test, or something like that.

You can now edit the default profile registry .dat settings to your heart’s content. Problem is, it’s the registry…
So the second half of task bar pins is in that hive under
HKEY_USERS\test\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband
But that key is all binary and Dwords.
Granted, you could just customize some pins on any user and export that key from
HKEY_USERS\userSID\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband
And then import or copy paste the values into the hive you’re editing and that would work.
Then just highlight the test hive and do file→unload hive and all the settings should be saved in the .dat file.

I saw some vbs scripts in various forums that claimed to automate the pinning but I didn’t try any of them. But I’ll post some links in case they help you do it the way you want to.

Here’s where I came up with most of this
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/modify-ntuserdat-56096.html - editing ntuser.dat
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/73eb1c0a-fc78-4ae7-ba6d-356d9a9a5328/solved-how-to-pin-to-start-menutask-bar-for-default-user?forum=w7itproinstall - possible script solution
http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2008/06/06/useful-script-number-5-adjusting-the-default-user-registry-hive.aspx - editing ntuser.dat some more
http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2009/04/08/pin-items-to-the-start-menu-or-windows-7-taskbar-via-script.aspx - other script possibility

Hope that helps in some way. Sorry that I didn’t find an easy answer for you.

@Arrowhead-IT said:

I’m about to test upload on the updated version.

Great success, forgot to post that this worked.

All is working as of 6050

@Wayne-Workman Oh trust me I value my sleep. I just had to move my desk at the odd request of upper management (I won’t get into that…) But the new placing of my desk makes it so the lights in the room and the light from the monitor hits my eyes just right. And by just right, I mean just right for excruciating melting eye pain. And this made it more difficult to sleep and made me want to close my eyes all day. I fixed the lighting issue though. But point is, trust me I know, I don’t sacrifice sleep, I have had to have sleep studies and fun stuff like that. This situation was just forced upon me.

Thanks for the good advice though. I always enjoy a good sleep success story.

@jc35 Just to be sure I understand what you’re trying to do,
You have an inventory system in glpi.
You want to make it so if you hit delete on a computer in your inventory rabbit mq sends a message to fog to wipe the machine and put a default image (like a retail windows or basic linux that the computer can be sold with I’m guessing) on the deleted computer.

So you want to click one button to delete the computer from your inventory and it automatically prepares itself to be safely disposed/surplussed/sold or what have you.

Do I understand correctly?

@MRCUR I see what you’re saying. It would be less work to not have to manually pin some icons to the taskbar and then run the script.
Granted I have my default base image with my default profile on a esxi vm, so for me it is pretty easy to do. I suppose it could be possible to edit the ntuser.dat file manually to add in shortcuts. I’ll look into that, because it would certainly be easier.

@Arrowhead-IT Sorry for the delay, my btsync stopped working, still not working and then I broke my local git repo…like 30 different times because I’m dumb when I’m sleepy. Dumb like trying to reset my git repo to the master branch instead of the dev-branch and wondering why it was installing a version in the 3000’s. Fun fact, if you can’t git pull, try git fetch --all && git reset --hard origin/dev-branch But anyway back to working correctly and on 6050

Resizable download is working again, hooray!
I did try running fog.upload from the download debug session. But I then redid it in an upload debug session and the same error happened. I’m about to test upload on the updated version.

@MRCUR The IE stuff in appdata is where the shortcut files that are pinned to taskbar go, but to get it to work fully you need the ntuser.dat files. The script I posted copies that file from your customized profile into the default profile but only that file. Give my batch script a try. If you’re using sysprep, some customizations might disappear so you could run the script before sysprep then put the resulting C:\Users\Default in a network share somewhere then copy it back over after sysprep or after imaging.

Does that help at all?

Resizable download is giving the same error on normal sda.
So there is most likely a problem with this version of FOG
Help me obiwan- @Tom-Elliott -nobi, you are my only hope

Download and Upload of mps are still working perfectly. It’s just resize that is having trouble.
I am going to try a normal sda vm resizable download to see if this is an nvme problem or a fog init code problem

@Tom-Elliott
This is the output of the upload from the same debug session

# fog.upload
   +------------------------------------------+
   |     ..#######:.    ..,#,..     .::##::.  |
   |.:######          .:;####:......;#;..     |
   |...##...        ...##;,;##::::.##...      |
   |   ,#          ...##.....##:::##     ..:: |
   |   ##    .::###,,##.   . ##.::#.:######::.|
   |...##:::###::....#. ..  .#...#. #...#:::. |
   |..:####:..    ..##......##::##  ..  #     |
   |    #  .      ...##:,;##;:::#: ... ##..   |
   |   .#  .       .:;####;::::.##:::;#:..    |
   |    #                     ..:;###..       |
   |                                          |
   +------------------------------------------+
   |      Free Computer Imaging Solution      |
   +------------------------------------------+
   |  Credits: http://fogproject.org/Credits  |
   |       http://fogproject.org/Credits      |
   |       Released under GPL Version 3       |
   +------------------------------------------+
   Version: 6048
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Verifying network interface configuration.........Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Checking Operating System.........................Windows 8.1
 * Checking CPU Cores................................8
 * Send method.......................................NFS
 * Attempting to check in............................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Mounting File System..............................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Checking Mounted File System......................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Checking img variable is set......................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Preparing to send image file to server
 * Preparing backup location.........................Failed
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

##############################################################################
#                                                                            #
#                         An error has been detected!                        #
#                                                                            #
##############################################################################
Failed to create image upload path (prepareUploadLocation)
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

@Tom-Elliott
On version 6048 I did a debug download of a resizable image
The following is the full output (run from ssh) including the looping error once it tried to enter partclone
It did not seem to ever exit the error loop no many how many steps. It got stuck in this same loop on 6040 in a quickimage and never exited, so I updated and ran it in debug

 # fog
   +------------------------------------------+
   |     ..#######:.    ..,#,..     .::##::.  |
   |.:######          .:;####:......;#;..     |
   |...##...        ...##;,;##::::.##...      |
   |   ,#          ...##.....##:::##     ..:: |
   |   ##    .::###,,##.   . ##.::#.:######::.|
   |...##:::###::....#. ..  .#...#. #...#:::. |
   |..:####:..    ..##......##::##  ..  #     |
   |    #  .      ...##:,;##;:::#: ... ##..   |
   |   .#  .       .:;####;::::.##:::;#:..    |
   |    #                     ..:;###..       |
   |                                          |
   +------------------------------------------+
   |      Free Computer Imaging Solution      |
   +------------------------------------------+
   |  Credits: http://fogproject.org/Credits  |
   |       http://fogproject.org/Credits      |
   |       Released under GPL Version 3       |
   +------------------------------------------+
   Version: 6048
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Verifying network interface configuration.........Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Checking Operating System.........................Windows 8.1
 * Checking CPU Cores................................8
 * Send method.......................................NFS
 * Attempting to check in............................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Mounting File System..............................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Checking Mounted File System......................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Checking img variable is set......................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Attempting to send inventory......................

Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue
 * Using Image: ResizableNVMEUpTest
 * Looking for Hard Disk.............................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue
 * Using Disk: /dev/nvme0n1
 * Checking write caching status on HDD..............Enabled
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Preparing Partition layout
 * Wiping /dev/nvme0n1 partition information
 * Erasing current MBR/GPT Tables....................
Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue
 * Creating disk with new label......................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Initializing /dev/nvme0n1 with NTFS partition.....Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Formatting initialized partition..................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Erasing current MBR/GPT Tables....................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Restoring Partition Tables (MBR)..................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Inserting Extended partitions.....................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Attempting to expand/fill partitions..............Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

   +--------------------------------+
   |  Attempting to download image  |
   +--------------------------------+
   |         Using Partclone        |
   +--------------------------------+


Problem opening ############################################################################## for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!
Problem opening ############################################################################## for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!

 * Processing Partition: ############################################################################## ()

 * Partition File Missing: /images/ResizableNVMEUpTest/d1p.img*
error: ##############################################################################: No such file or directory
Problem opening ############################################################################## for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!
Problem opening ############################################################################## for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!

error: ##############################################################################: No such file or directory
 * Not expanding (############################################################################## -- imager)
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Press [Enter] key to continue


Problem opening # for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!
Problem opening # for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!

 * Processing Partition: # ()

 * Partition File Missing: /images/ResizableNVMEUpTest/d1p.img*
error: #: No such file or directory
Problem opening # for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!
Problem opening # for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!

error: #: No such file or directory
 * Not expanding (# -- imager)
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Press [Enter] key to continue


Problem opening # for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!
Problem opening # for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!

 * Processing Partition: # ()

 * Partition File Missing: /images/ResizableNVMEUpTest/d1p.img*
error: #: No such file or directory
Problem opening # for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!
Problem opening # for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!

error: #: No such file or directory
 * Not expanding (# -- imager)
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Press [Enter] key to continue


Problem opening # for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!
Problem opening # for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!

 * Processing Partition: # ()

 * Partition File Missing: /images/ResizableNVMEUpTest/d1p.img*
error: #: No such file or directory
Problem opening # for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!
Problem opening # for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!

error: #: No such file or directory
 * Not expanding (# -- imager)
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Press [Enter] key to continue


Problem opening An for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!
Problem opening An for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!

 * Processing Partition: An ()

 * Partition File Missing: /images/ResizableNVMEUpTest/d1p.img*
error: An: No such file or directory
Problem opening An for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!
Problem opening An for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!

error: An: No such file or directory
 * Not expanding (An -- imager)
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Press [Enter] key to continue


Problem opening error for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!
Problem opening error for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!

 * Processing Partition: error ()

 * Partition File Missing: /images/ResizableNVMEUpTest/d1p.img*
error: error: No such file or directory
Problem opening error for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!
Problem opening error for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!

error: error: No such file or directory
 * Not expanding (error -- imager)
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Press [Enter] key to continue


Problem opening has for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!
Problem opening has for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!

 * Processing Partition: has ()

 * Partition File Missing: /images/ResizableNVMEUpTest/d1p.img*
error: has: No such file or directory
Problem opening has for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!
Problem opening has for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!

error: has: No such file or directory
 * Not expanding (has -- imager)
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Press [Enter] key to continue


Problem opening been for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!
Problem opening been for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!

 * Processing Partition: been ()

 * Partition File Missing: /images/ResizableNVMEUpTest/d1p.img*
error: been: No such file or directory
Problem opening been for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!
Problem opening been for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!

error: been: No such file or directory
 * Not expanding (been -- imager)
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Press [Enter] key to continue


Problem opening detected! for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!
Problem opening detected! for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!

 * Processing Partition: detected! ()

 * Partition File Missing: /images/ResizableNVMEUpTest/d1p.img*
error: detected!: No such file or directory
Problem opening detected! for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!
Problem opening detected! for reading! Error is 2.
The specified file does not exist!

error: detected!: No such file or directory
 * Not expanding (detected! -- imager)
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

And on the fog server, this is the contents of the image

ls /images/ResizableNVMEUpTest/
d1.fixed_size_partitions  d1.minimum.partitions  d1.original.swapuuids  d1.partitions
d1.mbr                    d1.original.fstypes    d1p1.img

I will try an upload of this image as well as the same with my mps test image and post the results

@anthonyglamis I like scripting things. And I like sharing. Here’s how I do my fog updates with one command.
If you stick with svn, you can just change the git function in the script to do svn up instead of git pull and change the path variables too in the variable setting function. Or just use git, because sourceforge likes to crash.
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6331/automating-git-updates-for-fog