@JYost
Thank you George…this pointed me to the etc/network/interfaces file where I found that the dns-search field only had “domain.local” and was missing “domain.com”. Once I added that into the dns-search field all was good and FOG was able to see devices which were online (denoted by green Windows icon).
Thanks again guys…great support as always!!!
Go ahead and mark this as solved.

Disregard - problem has been solved. I renamed a .msi setup file but forgot to edit the filename in the snapin configuration.

Just heard back from our Cali, Columbia office. All is well, device imaged fine with no errors. Thanks again for the awesome support!

@Sebastian-Roth
Thank you Sebastian, I will give that a try. Thanks again for the excellent support! You can close this ticket.

Background: We recently changed the user account that we use with FOG to join the domain. That account was set in the FOG settings page / Active Directory section.
Whenever we image devices now we come to the Active Directory tab in the web interface, but it is still showing the old user account in the Domain Username field. If we uncheck and re-check the ‘Join Domain After Deploy’ checkbox the field auto-populates with the correct/new username. My question is whether there is some cached data that we need to clear out so that the new account name automatically appears in the Domain Username field without having to uncheck and recheck the top checkbox. We have over 2000 hosts on multiple servers - that is a lot of unchecking and rechecking boxes!!!

We’re running FOG 1.5.9 on Ubuntu 20.04

@george1421

I just tried another capture after changing the FOG client on the image to point to our FOG server in Germany. This time there was a normal 1 minute pause during the resizing process then Partclone G-zip started and imaged without problems. All seems normal again…gremlins have been eradicated. You can mark this as solved.

@jyost

I did notice something odd about the latest image capture though…
Normally using Partclone G-Zip we end up with 10 files in the image…this time we ended up with 11 files:

And here is the 21H2 image I captured immediately prior to the iPXE boot loader update - 10 files:

@george1421
The VM partition is 60GB - as far as fragmentation goes the partition resides on an SSD which shouldn’t be defragmented. I’m not of the opinion that fragmentation had anything to do with the slow resizing as the image I captured immediately before the iPXE boot loader update resized within a minute or so. The same image was captured after the boot loader update (the only difference being the FOG client installation using a different IP.)

Even with the long resizing the second time around the image uploaded and downloaded fine without any errors.

Sidenote: You stated that FOG 1.5.9 had issues with 20H2 and possibly even 20H1. Ironically we have been using FOG 1.5.9 with 20H1, 20H2, and 21H1 without any issues whatsoever. 21H2 is where we ran into problems.

So, moving forward…for the rest of our fog servers I take it that the order of operations to fully update our servers should be as follows:

1.) Update FOG to v.1.5.9.111 by updating the FOS init (is server restart or re-run install fog.sh required here?)
2.) Update Kernel to latest version, then restart FOG server
3.) Update iPXE to latest version, then re-run installfog.sh

Again, thank you George, Sebastian, et al. for the excellent tech support. You guys are geniuses.

@george1421
No, I never do in place upgrades. This is a fresh copy of 21H2 straight from Micro$oft.
The strange this is I created a 21H2 image with no problems whatsoever immediately before doing the iPXE boot loader update. After the boot loader update I went back into the VM, Opened the pre-sysprep snapshot, uninstalled the FOG client and reinstalled it with a different IP address (for a different site in India) as I’ve done countless times before. Re-ran sysprep and attempted the capture. That’s when the problems started…

EDIT: AS I AM TYPING THIS Partclone finally started the capture (~25+ minutes later). Strange.

I will need to test this image to see if it’s working and report back…

@george1421

Closer…after updating the FOS init and restarting the server, the Init Version is now 20210807. The blkid error is also gone. “New fixed partition for (/dev/nvme0n1p4 added.” message is now displayed (which I assume is good ). The only issue now is that the PXE boot process is now hung up on Resizing filesystem…
Normally this passes within a minute or so and PartClone does it’s thing. It’s been 15 minutes now and we’re still stuck.

@george1421
How does one get to the dev-branch to download 1.5.9.111??? The Kernel has already been updated to the latest.

Screenshot below:

I’ve gone through 5 of our FOG servers and updated the iPXE boot loaders on all of them, then re-ran the FOG installer and restarted. On our primary FOG server I am now unable to capture images. (NOTE: I was able to capture an image immediately prior to performing the iPXE boot loader update)

During the capture sequence I am getting the following error immediately after mounting the partition:

blkid: error: /dev/nvme0n1p4: No such file or directory…

The process continues running the partition resize test, then begin the resize process where it hangs indefinately. With limited Linux knowledge I’m at a loss on what to look for. Googling the error I found someone that said that the libblkid-dev package may be missing so I installed that package but the problem persists.

Screenshot: