It’s all good !

As you can see, informations are now written in the database (last image).

Many thanks for your help. And long live Fog and all of you who are involved in the project !

Bingo!

(I tried the older password just to be sure before typing the good one)

This one was related to our password which started with ‘&’
I modified it and now, I can image I soon as I register a new host. I must say that password has always worked right from the beginning till the previous version 1734 (prior to update to 2390).

So now, everything should be sorted out after updating our server to the last commit?

(Still those instances of MariaDB but I’m no good to debug it without help)

-> I’ve made some progress

@Tom-Elliott : Good explanation and I understood the most of it. Many thanks.

I will try to help resolving these remaining bugs.

About the MariaDB Instances. I don’t understand why there are 2 instances but I’m not the only person using this server. Are they both related to Fog? I used your codelines :

I don’t know where to find the count in the web UI?

I remember I had problems with phpmysql for several years and I had to modify a file to be able to update our FOG servers. I noticed I hadn’t have to modify that file (functions.sh) anymore. Could it be related to those MariaDB instances?

Now, speaking about invalid login led me to think the password could be the culprit because it’s started with ‘&’. I’ve just modified it and will try again and finally let you know what happened.

@Tom-Elliott : I found a way to do it :

mysql --user=fogstorage --password=MYPASSWORDHERE -D fog

Here are the results :

@Tom-Elliott : I can do that if you tell me how to do it!

Update : I figured it out.

@Tom-Elliott : Unfortunately, it is the right password. I was wondering myself when the problem appeared but the prompt says something when it’s not the good one and you have 3 tries before giving up.

And by the way, it works using “deploy image” from PXE menu.

I’m available if you want me to do some special moves to find out where is the culprit ^^

I tried new things : I created a new user to see if I have the same problems as user “Fog”.

Well, when I perform a registration with immediate deployment : it works!

But it failed to update the database at the end of the deployment.

It looks like it has something to do with active tasking.

So, it’s still broken somewhere…

@Fog_Newb : Well it doesn’t work for me. I still have problems with this version.

@Fog_Newb : Good to know I’m not the only one having this problem. I’ll wait for a patch.

I may have found something related to my problem. When I rebooted the Fog Server, it tried to stop 2 instances of MariaDB. Could it be possible that a part of Fog is trying to join the wrong database?

@Tom-Elliott : I tried what you suggested but it doesn’t work. When I try to register a new host, it works but it says “Invalid Login” when I try to deploy an image at the same time.
To succeed deploying an image, I must boot to pxe once more and deploy an image from the menu using the same credentials.

Obviously, it’s not related to tftp password.

It’s really weird!

Hi there!

Recently, we updated one of our server from dev-branch 1734 to 2390. It updated smoothly without any error. We updated the database (schema) as well.
Afterwards, I wanted to delete an image from the webpage but I couldn’t do it with the files : it said “Wrong credentials” if I remember well.
I had to delete only the record then going to the server (ssh) and delete the folder.
It’s annoying but I can live with this.

We encountered another problem which made me coming here. We imaged existing hosts. Imaging process went well but failed right at the end with these messages : “Failed to update database - Failed to update host”.
The host is well imaged but it is not updated in Fog, informations about last image aren’t written in the database.

Also, when we want to deploy an image right after a full perform, it fails saying again “Wrong credentials”…

So there is a problem but I don’t know what it is. Any help?

Thanks.

Cheers!

PS : same problems with 2393

@george1421 Ok, I was curious to see the newest version but no problem, we will switch back to dev-branch.

Thanks.

Hi guys!

We are trying FOG 1.6 and we are facing our first problem which is we can’t register our host. It tells us : “Unsafe Hostname entered, please try again : ZHdzCg==”

What can we do to register our host properly?

I must add we can register our host with the desired name using the web interface.

Thanks for your help.

Max

PS : FOG Version : 1.6.0-alpha.1159

Hi,

Everything’s fine after updating our FOG. Thank you guys.

Morning,

Have you tried to update kernels of your FOG Server guys? To do so, you click on “Fog Configuration” then “DefaultMember FOG Version” to display both running kernels (mines are 5.15.19 for example).

Then you click on Kernel Update in left panel. You pick those 5.xx.xx kernels Intel 64 Bits and Intel 32 Bits and download them to start the installation process.

You probably need a 5.xx kernel and don’t have it installed.

Let us know if it works

Good afternoon,

Sorry, I didn’t see your topic before but after looking at it, it looks like you’re right, we’re facing the same problem.
I also found this issue here : https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/issues/467 which is the same as well.

Let’s wait for a fix now. Cheerio

Hello,

I updated my FOG 1.5.9.113 with the last dev-branch version and since then, my snapin is queued. I try recreating it but it doesn’t work either.

On client side, the fog.log says “response no snapins”.

Any idea how to solve this?

Thanks.

Yes, this is true, I could do that but it won’t change anything the way the “Image Managament” page looks. I was thinking about the ability to browse through folders and display the content rather than displaying all the images. (I know there is the searching field but it’s not exactly the same)
We could imagine a tree on the left side of the panel and browse through categories like an explorer if you prefer.

Well, that was just an idea and the way it works at the moment suits my needs but I thought it could bring a little something.

Cheers.

Hey guys,

We don’t say it very often or perhaps we do but I’d like to thank you very much once again for FOG because it’s so useful! We love it

Yesterday, I was cleaning our server because we had a lot of old images and I suddenly realized there was a missing feature which could help us to tidy images up.
We could create categories and sub categories to classify images. For example, I could create a “Windows 10” folder and inside it another folder named “1903” and another “20H2”
Then, when I would like to clean old images, I could remove the whole 1903 folder.

Thanks for thinking about it!

Best regards from France

Max