Posts made by quinniedid

@george1421 That is understandable.

Here is the data you requested:

System Manufacturer	Hewlett-Packard
System Product	HP ProBook 455 G2
System Version	A3009DD10303
System Serial Number	<omitted>
System UUID	<omitted>
System Type	Type: Notebook
BIOS Vendor	Hewlett-Packard
BIOS Version	M75 Ver. 01.09
BIOS Date	12/04/2014
Motherboard Manufacturer	Hewlett-Packard
Motherboard Product Name	2235
Motherboard Version	KBC Version 66.20
Motherboard Serial Number	<omitted>
Motherboard Asset Tag	Base Board Asset Tag
CPU Manufacturer	AMD Corporation
CPU Version	AMD A8-7100 Radeon R5, 8 Compute Cores 4C+4G
CPU Normal Speed	Current Speed: 1800 MHz
CPU Max Speed	Max Speed: 1800 MHz
Memory	3.30 GiB
Hard Disk Model	WDC WD2500BEVT-22ZCT0
Hard Disk Firmware	11.01A11
Hard Disk Serial Number	WD-WXT0E59HNE56
Chassis Manufacturer	Hewlett-Packard
Chassis Version	
Chassis Serial	<omitted>
Chassis Asset	Not Specified

@sebastian-roth That change worked! The screen doesn’t have our background image and different colored text. What does that mean we need to do to get the regular console back?

@sebastian-roth So far we see all the iPXE messages and everything looks fine until we get to the FOG menu itself. That is when we get scrambled display output.

@sebastian-roth I was finally able to get this done. We are not always in the office due to the current pandemic. After updating the iPXE we are still getting the same behavior.

@Sebastian-Roth I PM’ed you a link to the video. This is showing when we select a task to start from the menu. Right now, we don’t have any of these PC’s registered but we might be able to get that done for testing purposes.

@Sebastian-Roth When scheduling a task to run when the system is booting using iPXE/UEFI, the lines that you have displayed are garbled. But as soon as it loads everything is fine and you can clearly see all the associated text.

@george1421 When running it on the BIOS it displays perfectly! So it must be something with iPXE than?

The laptops are using UEFI. They should have the latest BIOS version available. These are specifically ProBook 445 G2. They have AMD Radeon R5 graphics. Processor AMD A8-7100.

FOG: 1.5.8
bzImage Version: 4.19.101
bzImage32 Version: 4.19.101

When we PXE boot these HP ProBook 445 laptops, we are getting some very interesting artifacting going on. These are the only devices that we are seeing it on. We are able to navigate the menu if we do it by memory and the amount of clicks so that we can get them imaged and registered. Haha. But that is not always great, when you have to do other tasks.

Any ideas??? It almost seems like maybe a resolution issue… Computer displays everything else fine.

@bogle We are a pure HP shop and we have seen these errors before. Just as long as you are able to register and deploy/capture images I wouldn’t worry about the errors, I could be wrong if there is truly an issue but in our experience it shouldn’t really matter. What I would like to know is what is the error output after “Starting eno1 interface…?” Anything?

Now if you are able to register the host in FOG I would recommend going to that specific host in the FOG UI, under the General tab and setting Host Kernel Arguments to apci=off and try to deploy again and see if that helps.

@Birgit-Godfrey I would also check and make sure that you have the latest BIOS installed on your system. We have run into issues that PXE booting was not always stable or even worked until we updated the BIOS.

Also, you need to make sure that you change refind_x64.efi, if using 64bit, file to the 0.11.0 rEFInd. We had to change both of them in order for things to boot. Something pretty new for FOG.

@Sebastian-Roth

Thank you for your help!

@Quazz

You are absolutely right. I always struggle to keep the copying behavior between Linux and robocopy. Sure enough there was a snapin folder inside of the snapin folder. I thought that I had checked that but probably just saw that files were there and did not pay attention to the path. The hashes now exist and I saw that in the logs that it was generated and deploying of those snapins now work as expected.

I appreciate everyone’s help and willingness

@Birgit-Godfrey

We are an all HP environment so we have found that 0.11.0 rEFInd is required for all of our machines to boot. We also have to change in the refind.conf that Sebastian mentioned is the line scanfor netboot,internal to scanfor internal

You might want to try some of the things mentioned in this post: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/11993/refind-pxe-booting-issue/

@Birgit-Godfrey

What version of FOG are you currently using?

rEFInd has made some changes that do not always agree with some older hardware but depending on your version might not be the case.

@Sebastian-Roth
Attached is the log. Looks like the hash isn’t ever generated…
fogsnapinhash.log

@Sebastian-Roth

Here is the command output:

admin@fog-server:/var/www/fog/service/ipxe$ ps ax | grep FOGSnapinHash
 31163 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/bin/php -q /opt/fog/service/FOGSnapinHash/FOGSnapinHash &
 31186 ?        S      1:06 /usr/bin/php -q /opt/fog/service/FOGSnapinHash/FOGSnapinHash &
113518 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto FOGSnapinHash

Ubuntu 18.04.2
FOG 1.5.7.2

After migrating my server files and database, I am not able to get the snapins to work.

In the logs of the client this is what I am seeing:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------SnapinClient---------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 8/5/2019 10:49 AM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.16
 8/5/2019 10:49 AM Client-Info Client OS:      Windows
 8/5/2019 10:49 AM Client-Info Server Version: 1.5.7.2
 8/5/2019 10:49 AM Middleware::Response Success
 8/5/2019 10:49 AM SnapinClient Running snapin Set IP Address ONLY 
 8/5/2019 10:49 AM SnapinClient ERROR: Snapin hash does not exist

I have tried based on another thread to go into the database and set null to sHash column. I did do that in MariaDB as it appears that is now the database to which FOG uses. Re-ran the installer. Still getting the same error and database shows nothing in the sHash column.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

@Sebastian-Roth

So far I think my Linux host has corruption after an update it fails to boot. I have to go back and select the old Linux kernel just to boot.

I am now in the process of rebuilding fog. I have imported my database back and have changed IPs, hostnames and password based on the wiki.

I am now running 1.5.7.2 and now so far so good after lots and lots of troubleshooting.

Ubuntu 16.04 - FOG 1.5.7

Output of journal:

Aug 01 16:07:13 fog-server systemd[1]: Mounting RPC Pipe File System...
-- Subject: Unit run-rpc_pipefs.mount has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit run-rpc_pipefs.mount has begun starting up.
Aug 01 16:07:13 fog-server systemd[1]: Stopped NFS server and services.
-- Subject: Unit nfs-server.service has finished shutting down
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit nfs-server.service has finished shutting down.
Aug 01 16:07:13 fog-server systemd[1]: Mounting NFSD configuration filesystem...
-- Subject: Unit proc-fs-nfsd.mount has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit proc-fs-nfsd.mount has begun starting up.
Aug 01 16:07:13 fog-server mount[3235]: mount: unknown filesystem type 'rpc_pipefs'
Aug 01 16:07:13 fog-server mount[3236]: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfsd'
Aug 01 16:07:13 fog-server systemd[1]: run-rpc_pipefs.mount: Mount process exited, code=exited status=32
Aug 01 16:07:13 fog-server systemd[1]: Failed to mount RPC Pipe File System.
-- Subject: Unit run-rpc_pipefs.mount has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit run-rpc_pipefs.mount has failed.
--
-- The result is failed.
Aug 01 16:07:13 fog-server systemd[1]: Dependency failed for RPC security service for NFS server.
-- Subject: Unit rpc-svcgssd.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit rpc-svcgssd.service has failed.

Not sure what is going on.

Tried to re-run installer and getting:

 * Installing package: apache2.................................OK
 * Skipping package:   bc......................................(Already Installed)
 * Installing package: build-essential.........................OK
 * Skipping package:   cpp.....................................(Already Installed)
 * Skipping package:   curl....................................(Already Installed)
 * Skipping package:   g++.....................................(Already Installed)
 * Skipping package:   gawk....................................(Already Installed)
 * Skipping package:   gcc.....................................(Already Installed)
 * Installing package: genisoimage.............................OK
 * Skipping package:   gzip....................................(Already Installed)
 * Installing package: htmldoc.................................OK
 * Installing package: isolinux................................OK
 * Installing package: lftp....................................OK
 * Installing package: libapache2-mod-php7.2...................OK
 * Skipping package:   libc6...................................(Already Installed)
 * Skipping package:   libcurl4................................(Already Installed)
 * Installing package: liblzma-dev.............................OK
 * Installing package: m4......................................Failed! (Will try later)
 * Installing package: mariadb-client..........................Failed! (Will try later)
 * Installing package: mariadb-server..........................Failed! (Will try later)
 * Skipping package:   net-tools...............................(Already Installed)
 * Installing package: nfs-kernel-server.......................Failed! (Will try later)
 * Skipping package:   openssh-server..........................(Already Installed)
 * Installing package: php7.2..................................Failed! (Will try later)
 * Installing package: php7.2-bcmath...........................Failed! (Will try later)
 * Skipping package:   php7.2-cli..............................(Already Installed)
 * Installing package: php7.2-curl.............................Failed! (Will try later)
 * Installing package: php7.2-fpm..............................Failed! (Will try later)
 * Installing package: php7.2-gd...............................Failed! (Will try later)
 * Skipping package:   php7.2-json.............................(Already Installed)
 * Installing package: php7.2-ldap.............................Failed! (Will try later)
 * Installing package: php7.2-mbstring.........................Failed! (Will try later)
 * Installing package: php7.2-mysql............................Failed! (Will try later)
 * Installing package: php7.2-mysql............................Failed! (Will try later)
 * Installing package: php-gettext.............................Failed! (Will try later)
 * Skipping package: sysv-rc-conf..............................(Does not exist)
 * Skipping package:   tar.....................................(Already Installed)
 * Installing package: tftpd-hpa...............................Failed! (Will try later)
 * Installing package: tftp-hpa................................Failed! (Will try later)
 * Installing package: unzip...................................Failed! (Will try later)
 * Installing package: vsftpd..................................Failed! (Will try later)
 * Skipping package:   wget....................................(Already Installed)
 * Installing package: xinetd..................................Failed! (Will try later)
 * Skipping package:   zlib1g..................................(Already Installed)
 * Updating packages as needed.................................OK
 * Installing now everything is updated........................Failed!

@george1421 I forgot to mention that in my notes. I will fix that. Changing fetch=tftp://${fog-ip}/gparted/filesystem.squashfs to fetch=tftp://<fog_server_ip>/gparted/filesystem.squashfs worked just fine and booted properly.