Posts made by Motech09

Jefferson Regional Medical Center
Pine Bluff, Ar
1,500+ systems
2 1/2 years

@Jaymes-Driver

Late response, I know, but you’re right. I think the Ubuntu updated itself and reverted a change I had made with the link below. I had to go back in and blank out the SQL password again:

Is this Ubuntu 16.04? See here: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ubuntu_16.04#MySQL_password_behavior

Nevermind, I fixed it.

Server

• FOG Version: 13
• OS: Ubuntu 16.04

Client

• Service Version:
• OS:

Description

Updated to the trunk version of Fog a year ago or so (SVN Revision 5948) and all has been well but this morning a co-worker noticed an update message when he accessed the Fog web gui but was unsure about it and closed out the message box. Now, we are getting the below message:

Database Schema Installer / Updater
Your database connection appears to be invalid. FOG is unable to communicate with the database. There are many reasons why this could be the case. Please check your credentials in /var/www/fog/lib/fog/config.class.php. Also confirm that the database is indeed running. If credentials are correct, and the Database service is running, check to ensure your filesystem has enough space.

Any ideas?

The database password hasn’t changed. I restarted the MYSQL database. Drive space is fine.

Some clients get stuck at the below during PXE boot since I got the new Fog server up. I know its version 1.3.0 but I don’t have the rest at the moment since I’m not on-site:

iPXE
Received DHCP answer on interface net0
Please enter tftp server: _

Any idea why some would prompt for the server?

@george1421 said in Chainloading Failed - Fog Menu - Boot HD:

OK we need a bit more info, and a possible recommendation that you update to the 1.3.0 RC series before we do too much debugging.

What is version 13, is that fog 1.3.0 (something)? Since the svn versions became disconnected from the git version I can’t tell if that is current or not.

More to the point of your question, is this a uefi or bios (legacy) based target computer? Also please include the mfg and model number of the target computer.

My mistake, it is 1.3.0 RC and the host is a Dell 790 BIOS based.

@Wayne-Workman

Look at you. I did not noticed those two options in the host menu but I did change them in the iPXE menu hoping that would do something. The host is booting pass the Fog menu now, thanks.

Stay tuned for further posts…

Running Version 13
SVN Revision: 5948

When the Fog menu comes up and it auto selects “boot to disk” it fails with chainloading failed.

Any idea why this is happening? I can F12 and manually boot to the HD, bypassing PXE altogether and it works but via the Fog menu it fails.

Does Fog install the Fog client onto clients after they are imaged? We had an older Fog server that after we imaged computers the fog client was automatically included but I did not set that server up, whereas, I did set up a new Fog server and the Fog client is not installed after a PC is imaged.

@Wayne-Workman

Yulp. That was it. Re-ran the install and it updated the IP address.

Thanks for the help!

@Wayne-Workman

Yea, I checked that and it is incorrect there so apparently I never did re-run the install after updating the IP address in fogsettings. I’ll re-run it and see if it changes.

@Wayne-Workman

Nah, it matches perfectly. I’m wondering if I need to run the .installfog.sh again.

I’ve built a new Fog server with Ubuntu 16.04 and Trunk Version 13
SVN Revision: 5948 (finally) and I have it up and going now, BUT, when I attempt to boot a client to it via PXE
it passes the TFTP connection but times out at the HTTP part.

Here is the kicker — and I know it is probably my fault — the TFTP has the correct IP address tftp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/default.ipxe… ok for example but the HTTP IP address is incorrect and I get
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php.....connection timed out.

I’ve checked the .fogsettings config and the IP is correct there and I checked the storagenode IP and it is correct. Is there something that I have over looked that has the IP setting for the HTTP?

Thanks in advance.

@Wayne-Workman

That worked.

@Tom-Elliott

Tom, I got it working now, thanks.

But I’m glad you brought up updating the RC. Don’t you use the below to update?

cd /root/fogproject
git pull
cd bin
./installfog.sh

If this is still accurate, I’ve tried it a few times and it has failed with the below:

fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

Any clue on that?

@Quazz

Quazz,

That was it. I should have caught that but I forgot about settings on the storage node page.

Thanks!

Thanks guys.

@Tom-Elliott

Sorry, getting side tracked at work:

Running Version 1.3.0-RC-4
SVN Revision: 5941

@Motech09

[Thu Aug 04 12:57:49.084428 2016] [:error] [pid 6863] [client 10.225.27.67:39841] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: Type: 8, File: /var/www/fog/lib/fog/fogmanagercontroller.class.php, Line: 80, Message: Undefined variable: whereArray, Host: 10.225.27.128, Username: istech in /var/www/fog/lib/fog/fogftp.class.php:52\nStack trace:\n#0 /var/www/fog/lib/fog/storagenode.class.php(80): FOGFTP->connect()\n#1 /var/www/fog/lib/fog/fogcontroller.class.php(245): StorageNode->loadSnapinfiles()\n#2 /var/www/fog/lib/fog/fogcontroller.class.php(48): FOGController->loadItem(‘snapinfiles’)\n#3 /var/www/fog/lib/fog/storagenode.class.php(41): FOGController->get(‘snapinfiles’)\n#4 /var/www/fog/lib/pages/snapinmanagementpage.class.php(110): StorageNode->get(‘snapinfiles’)\n#5 [internal function]: SnapinManagementPage->{closure}(Object(StorageNode))\n#6 /var/www/fog/lib/pages/snapinmanagementpage.class.php(112): array_map(Object(Closure), Array)\n#7 /var/www/fog/lib/fog/fogpagemanager.class.php(72): SnapinManagementPage->add()\n#8 /var/www/fog/management/index.php(23): FOGPageManager->render()\n#9 {main}\n thrown in /var/www/fog/lib/fog/fogftp.class.php on line 52, referer: http://10.225.27.115/fog/management/index.php?node=snapin

@Tom-Elliott

Do you know off the top of your head where the apache logs are located?

This is probably simple and something I did but I set up a server with Ubuntu 16.04/Fog Trunk and all seems fine with the exception of the Create New Snapin page failing to load. Is this page linked differently than the rest? And is there a config for this that I can check?

Only difference between this install and my previous is that I partitioned the drive and put the /HOME onto its own partition to store the images.

Thanks in advance,

Motech09