Trying to reinstall from trunk, the install script fails at:
Attempting to redownload init_32.xz.........................Failed!
This happens way more often than it succeeds. I am not behind a proxy and we have a 50 meg connection. Where are these files coming from?
Still no luck. I am using a VM so I wiped it out and started over. Completely stock 16.04 install, nothing but SSH installed. Installed subversion, then
svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/freeghost/code/trunk /root/fogproject
Ran the install from /root/fogproject/bin with:
php_ver='7.0' php_verAdds='-7.0' ./installfog.sh
It never asked me for a password for the MySQL install so I assume it is blank when the install script asks me if it is. When I get to the part where it says to go to the browser and hit a button, I do this first from another ssh session:
"ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY '';
Then go to the browser and hit the button.
Then I copy my disk images from my original server.
After that I download the database backup from my original server. It says it’s running version 7909, and import them into the new server.
Am I running into issues with my backup?
Alternatively, would I be better off running a different version of Ubuntu? Which one? Which version of Fog is the safest? This whole thing started when I got some PC’s that would not boot off the kernel that 0.32 had. I was perfectly happy with that version and everything worked and was rock-solid. I just want to be able to multicast again.
I did not do this with mysql:
ALTER USER ‘root’@‘localhost’ IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY ‘’;
Is there a reason we would want anyone to login with root and no password?
BTW, the groupmanager.log file needs a newline put in after each entry. It’s a little hard to read right now.
This is the command line I used: php_ver=‘7.0’ php_verAdds=‘-7.0’ ./installfog.sh
That is the only change I made. Is there something I missed?
Folks - I am using Version 1.3.0-RC-5 SVN Revision: 5943 on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS. Unicast imaging works fine, but multicast does not. I am on the trunk version because I could not get 1.20 to install on 16.04.
The PC’s do come on, but they say:
Attempting to check in…failed
No active task for Host: (…)
And this goes on forever.
When I look at the “Active Multicast Tasks” page it says “No results found”.
In the “Active Tasks” page the two machines that I put in my test group are there.
Before I upgraded, the version I was on , 0.32 i think, multicasted just fine, so I don’t think there are any networking issues.
After starting the multicast session, the multicast log just says,
[08-03-16 12:17:57 pm] | This is not the master node
every 10 seconds forever.
What should I be looking for?
@Wayne-Workman
With USF funding, our fiber connection is actually quite cheap.
@george1421
See the error messages below. Someone said that they thought it was our internet connection. We have 50mbit fiber to the largest public institution ISP in Michigan. One thing that I was wishing for was a little more feedback during the install process. I had no idea why it was failing or where.
@george1421 said:
According to google that motherboard has an Intel I219-LM network adapter on board.
You will need newer kernels than 3.19 to make that one work.
Any reason why you can’t upgrade that 1.2.0 install to the trunk release (i.e. 1.3.0 beta)? That release has the latest kernels including that intel driver.
The trunk version did the trick. But - I had to restart the install at least six times until it actually downloaded everything.
I was able to pull an image off of the M700 this morning with no trouble. I really like the new web page and the PXE menu. It all looks newer and more professional now, although the new icons on the webpage threw me for a quick loop. Nice work, guys! Many thanks! But I am curious about one thing - how is it the NIC driver in the PXE boot works just fine, but the kernel that does the imaging does not? I would think they are one in the same, but obviously, I am wrong.
Thanks again!
So I tried to upgrade to the beta, but it says this at the end then quits:
* Downloading inits, kernels, and the fog client..............OK
* Comparing checksums of kernels and inits....................Failed init.xz
* Attempting to redownload init.xz............................Failed!
Am I doing something wrong? Or is there another issue here? I am using Ubuntu 14.04, and used git to pull down the upgrade. Also, there were a few PHP packages that failed to install, even though they installed manually just fine. They were php5-mcrypt, php5-mysqlnd, and php5-fpm. Plus, these two lines were in the list of package installs:
* Skipping package: php5-mbstring.............................(Does not exist)
...
* Skipping package: php5-gettext..............................(Does not exist)
@george1421 said:
Lets get a little more info here
What version of fog are you using 1.2.0 stable or a trunk release (i.e. pre 1.3.0)?
Is this device in efi or bios mode? (I’m going to guess bios)
What version of the FOG (Fog OS) kernels are you using?
I can’t find a reference for a lenovo B700 on their web site, what is the real part number?
I tried fog 1.2.0, but I also tried 0.32 as I have both versions running on two separate networks. The behavior is the same on both. The kernel I just updated today. I used this one:
Kernel - 3.19.3 TomElliottUSB
Date : July 22, 2015
Version : 3.19.3
FOG Type: TomElliottUSB
Arch Type: (x86_64)
Folks - we just got a couple of Lenovo’s cute little M700 mini pc’s to play with and I cannot inventory them at the PC and when I create a record for them they won’t image. The ghost menu does show up. When I run the client system compatibility test it says that the hard drive is fine but the network is not. What do I need to do?
Thanks -
Library Mark
Andrew - this looks like great work. I have a question - when you say
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You’ll see something like PCI\VEN_XXXX&Dev_YYYY&SUBSYS_ZZZZ… or USB\VID_XXXX&PID_YYYY or ACPI\XXXXXXXXX
You take the driver for that device, and place it in a folder of /images/drivers/XXXX/YYYY.
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What files do I place in the folder? The files in the “driver file details” window? If so, is there a better way to get that file list?
Thanks -
Library Mark
Paul - if/when you get any news from Lenovo, would you be so kind as to post it here? Thanks!:D
We have run Fog on a virtualbox vm from the first time we used it. Had no troubles at all. It’s been rock-solid. Way easier than setting up a separate box if you already have some sort of VM infrastructure in place. Performance has been fast enough for us.
Making the changes outlined in the link above solved the booting to hard disk problem on my Lenovo E72 3493’s, and it looks a little cleaner coming out of the fog menu, too. The only problem is - if the fog server is down for any reason, these PC’s are dead in the water. The only real solution is for Lenovo to publish a BIOS that boots correctly.
I’ve got the same problem. Going to try chainloading when I get back to work on Monday. I will let you know what I find.
One thing to try is to delete the group and recreate it. I did that just now and am able to image a group (even as we speak, from the comfort of my rocking chair in my living room!) that had the same problem. I am not sure that it fixed the problem, but that is all I did to this group of 20 pc’s.
Hello - This is no real big deal, but when I multicast a group, the status is always some 8-digit number with a percent sign after it, like 50284129%.
Do I have something misconfigured? Or is this normal?