Posts made by Mark Pickard

[quote=“Uncle Frank, post: 43614, member: 28116”]Would it be possible to dump your whole FOG database and upload that dump file to this forum?? I’d love to push this data into my database to see if it looks me out as well… I hope there is no sensitive data in it. Please look through the file an delete password hashes before posting the file here!
[CODE]$ mysqldump --databases fog --user <your-db-user> -p > fog_dump.sql[/CODE][/quote]

Have at it.

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/1/1779_fog_dump.zip?:”]fog_dump.zip[/url]

[quote=“Wayne Workman, post: 43523, member: 28155”]Tom suggested that you check this (on the broken FOG vm) in the FOG data base: [FONT=arial][COLOR=#222222]Globalsettings.[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=arial][COLOR=#222222]fog_regenerate_[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=arial][COLOR=#222222]timeout[/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT=arial][COLOR=#222222]That’s the table and field for the timeout setting. it should NOT be set to zero…[/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT=arial][COLOR=#222222]beyond that, I’ve got nothing.[/COLOR][/FONT][/quote]

[FONT=arial][COLOR=#222222]Globalsettings.[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=arial][COLOR=#222222]fog_regenerate_[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=arial][COLOR=#222222]timeout is set to [/COLOR][/FONT]0.5

And just to review: my first two FOG installations that ended up locking me out were both on physical machines (both on the same hardware). I just recently brought up a third install in a VM as per your suggestion. That one is working OK so far.

[quote=“Wayne Workman, post: 43510, member: 28155”]What else are you doing on this Linux VM? Just FOG? What’s all the things that are installed? What versions?[/quote]

On the FOG VM (this is the new install that’s currently working) all I’ve got going is FOG (other than Samba and RDP).

[quote=“Uncle Frank, post: 43419, member: 28116”]Hmmm, that’s interesting. So it’s FOG not being able to save session information properly. Not sure if this is related but someone had issues with wordpress writing zero size session files: [url]http://quirm.net/forum/topic.php?id=3950[/url]
So far I couldn’t really see what was fixing the issue for him. But maybe this can lead us to where we should have a closer look…[/quote]

Yeah, I came across that and a few others like it after Tom made some suggestions about the session files. If that’s what the problem is then it seems like it has to be a FOG problem since phpMyadmin is writing them OK.

I’ve got another new FOG install up and running on Ubuntu 12.04 in a VM. This is the third install in the past two weeks with the first two ending in me being locked out of the web interface. Don’t know what else to try if this one locks me out again.

Additional info:

I’m able to login to phpMyadmin on this server and it appears to be generating PHP session files without a problem:

[code]
root@FOG:~# ls -al /var/lib/php5
total 1500
drwx-wx-wt 3 root root 1499136 Mar 6 11:54 .
drwxr-xr-x 66 root root 4096 Feb 24 12:48 …
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 4 16:16 old
-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 23934 Mar 6 11:55 sess_pd6cadbemdnt9m3ks2bn1gpbguk4c75c
root@FOG:~#
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[quote=“Wayne Workman, post: 43327, member: 28155”]I’m going to assume you’ve tried logging in from a different computer, a different browser?[/quote]

Yes to both.

Don’t know if it’s just a coincidence but both times this has happened (on two separate installations) I was changing settings on the FOG configuration page at /fog/management/index.php?node=about&sub=settings. Once it was AD settings and the other it was TFTP settings. As soon as I hit the “Save Changes” button it booted me back to the sign in page and from that point I could never sign back in.

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 43286, member: 7271”]Try this:

[code]sudo service apache2 stop;sudo rm -rf /var/lib/php5/sess_*; sudo service apache2 start;[/code][/quote]

It wiped the session files but I still see the same behavior.

/var/lib/php5 after a couple attempts to login after running the above command:

[code]
root@FOG:/var/lib/php5# ls -al
total 1476
drwx-wx-wt 3 root root 1499136 Mar 5 08:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 66 root root 4096 Feb 24 12:48 …
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 4 16:16 old
-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 0 Mar 5 08:10 sess_e60jnb59pcoqads486btknhsj4
-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 0 Mar 5 08:10 sess_mqhj79o0eiih24g25cp37t4is2
-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 0 Mar 5 08:10 sess_p1f43a9hrglme8diq0ptrmlu51
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[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 43284, member: 7271”]What’s the alias you’ve got?[/quote]

Line 3 of /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf is:

[COLOR=#000000][code]Alias /phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin[/code][/COLOR]

Tried that once from Webmin; just did it again from the terminal. Still seeing the same behavior.

The restart command returned the following:
[code]
root@FOG:/var/lib/php5# sudo service apache2 restart

• Restarting web server apache2 [Thu Mar 05 07:34:27 2015] [warn] The Alias directive in /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf at line 3 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
  apache2: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
  … waiting [Thu Mar 05 07:34:28 2015] [warn] The Alias directive in /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf at line 3 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
  apache2: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
  [ OK ]
  [/code]
  Any issues with that?
  [quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 43280, member: 7271”]can you restart the apache services?
  [code]sudo service apache2 restart[/code][/quote]

[code]
root@FOG:/var/lib/php5# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 145G 31G 107G 23% /
udev 991M 4.0K 991M 1% /dev
tmpfs 201M 1.4M 199M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 1001M 148K 1001M 1% /run/shm
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[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 43262, member: 7271”]Also,

Check the file space:

[code]df -h[/code][/quote]

Here’s the results of ‘ls -al /var/lib/php5’ from a copy of those files I made before cleaning out the /var/lib/php5 directory and restarting Apache.

-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 0 Mar 4 16:15 sess_0969m10k5egnck11q07jkb3uq5
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 24 14:32 sess_e2i1ddhl3g3vppt4gv5kh5am16
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 24 14:32 sess_e6pvp88q6vhdnide6b5f94gll3
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Feb 24 14:32 sess_gm47ulnsrhe19nr4q6petondv0
[quote=“Uncle Frank, post: 43260, member: 28116”]Session filenames look alright I’d say. But why are there three files owned by root I wonder AND why are all these files of zero size? Is that really the case? Please run ‘ls -al /var/lib/php5’ on the console on the FOG server. Check the permissions.

Can’t see any related error in the log files you posted (doesn’t mean much)![/quote]

I attached both my Apache error and access logs in a previous post. Do you see anything in them that would indicate a problem?

As you can see from the screen shot in my last post there isn’t a sessions folder in /var/lib/php5/, only a bunch of files (session files?). Is that a problem?

[quote=“Wayne Workman, post: 43228, member: 28155”]Look at Tom’s signature. It says where everything is.[/quote]

Not sure what I’m looking for but I’ve attached a screenshot.

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 43222, member: 7271”]First,

what’s in the error logs?

As you’re running 12.04 and Ubuntu, can you check if there’s a permissions error in the /var/lib/php5/sessions folder?[/quote]

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/1/1749_varlibphp5.png?:”]varlibphp5.png[/url]

I can still WebMin into the box so I could definitely back up everything. Plus I’ve got Samba running so I can easily grab the images. However, this is the second time this has happened. I’d rather find the root cause instead of re-installing (or going back to a snapshot if I virtualize) if this happens again.

Apache error and access logs attached.

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/1/1744_error.txt?:”]error.txt[/url][url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/1/1745_access(tail).txt?:”]access(tail).txt[/url]

Unfortunately, no. It’s on a real server.

Just noticed that my FOG management login page has several lines of gibberish at the bottom (see attached image). Don’t think that was there when things were working.

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[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/1/1743_management-login-page.png?:”]management-login-page.png[/url]

New FOG 1.2 install on Ubuntu workstation 12.04. Have successfully created and deployed images to a test machine.

After entering my active directory information in the FOG configuration page and saving the changes I was immediately taken back to the sign in page. I re-entered my credentials but the page just refreshed back to the sign in page - no error message or anything. If I intentionally enter wrong credentials it gives me the “Invalid Login” message.

This happened to me once before when I first setup this FOG server a couple of weeks ago. That time I was changing DNS settings in the FOG configuration pages IIRC. I searched for a solution but was never able to fix it. Since I wasn’t very far along at that time I ended up re-installing.

I’ve got a lot more invested in it this time and don’t want to re-install. Any ideas?