Hi guys,

Just having trouble getting fog to update to version 1.1.2.
I’m not sure if this is a bug or something I may have done.
but I get the following when trying to run the Database Schema Install / Updater

[CODE]1.1.2
Open Source Computer Cloning Solution
Database Schema Installer / Updater

Update/Install Failed!
The following errors occured

Update ID: 1 - 0

Database Error:

Database SQL:

CREATE DATABASE fog

Update ID: 1 - 1

Database Error:

Database SQL:

CREATE TABLE fog.groupMembers (
gmID int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
gmHostID int(11) NOT NULL,
gmGroupID int(11) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (gmID),
KEY new_index (gmHostID),
KEY new_index1 (gmGroupID)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=1 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC[/CODE]

That is a small snip but it lists on and on for quite awhile.

I’ve pasted the full error here: --> [url]http://pastebin.com/vY2FVYQh[/url]

Cheers,

Ahh no worries, The work around is easy enough.
Cheers,

Hi Guys,

I think I found a bug in updating the host name when updating the hostname from lower case to capital letters.

Normally our naming convention is all capitals like PC-SERIAL
One of the guys accidentally entered pc-serial which isn’t a big deal so we went to update it to all capital letters in the web interface it comes up with the error “Hostname Exists already”

When changing it to another name like PC-RANDOM and then renaming it back to PC-SERIAL it works fine.

I am guessing that php is assuming that A and a are the same.

Cheers,

Hi guys,

Would the idea of importing hosts (eg. from the old version of fog) with the ability to add them with a group ID be possible at all?

e.g. if I manually figure out what hosts belong to what group in the imports.csv file and can manually assign them into a group without having to go into fog and doing it via the interface.

Cheers,

Ahh No worries, if I suspect it is a bug I’ll post there sorry.
I wasn’t sure if it was something I did on the install.

Cheers,

Hi Guys,

Just noticed an issue when trying to use the location plugin section of Fog 1.1.1
When creating Groups after turning on the locations plugin I am getting a few fatal errors listed in PHP.

[Mon Jun 16 17:42:05 2014] [error] [client 10.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in /var/www/html/fog/lib/pages/GroupManagementPage.class.php on line 253, referer: [url]http://fogserver/fog/management/index.php?node=group&sub=add[/url]

The group gets created and listed but when trying to edit the group I get a blank page.

I can confirm when disabling the location plugin this does not occur.

Cheers,

I read that Tom Elliott was going to try to test the older driver in the newer kernel but wasn’t sure if he has have time to look into that yet.

So far I am using the newest one from Fog version 1.1.1 and the 3.15.0 kernel that is installed from FOG still fails on those NICs
I tried looking up the unofficial kernels and it is showing up as blank at the moment, so I’ll try later on tonight.
At this stage I can only get the FOG Kernel 3.0.1 working with those models.

Dell OptiPlex 755 - NIC: 82566DM-2 - with Fog 1.1.0 - Kernel 3.0.1 Required
Dell OptiPlex 760 - NIC: 82567LM-3 - with Fog 1.1.0 - Kernel 3.0.1 Required
Dell OptiPlex 780 - NIC: 82567LM-3 - with Fog 1.1.0 - Kernel 3.0.1 Required

One of the developers he mentioned he had a Dell OptiPlex 780 that works fine on the default kernel.
So I am suspecting results may vary but this is just my experience so far.
I’ll get the NIC details from our OptiPlex 990 and OptiPlex 9020 later on today.

Ahh, I’ve never actually tried assigning multiple images to the same field. I always incorrectly assumed it was a one image per DMI.
I guess as we have mainly used it for re-imaging bulk laptops that all have the same image.

I wasn’t expecting this quick response

Thanks again.

Hi Guys,

Not sure if this has been brought up before. I couldn’t find anything when I did a search.

My request is with the Capone Plugin to enable a kernel field
I know some PCs/Laptops have trouble on the default kernel or the likes.
It would be handy to enable a particular kernel based on the DMI field.

That way you have the option to select image & Kernel based on the DMI field not just the image.

Thanks again

Cheers,

I found that fog boots fine from USB using syslinux. I guess the problems that will come up is how dynamic fog is now with iPXE generating the upload and download via kernel arguments in iPXE.
Having kernel support for the USB-Ethernet adapter might be a problem as well.

As was mentioned earlier capone plugin might work.

I used syslinux 4.02 to create the bootable USB key and in the syslinux.cfg have:
[CODE]default vesamenu.c32
prompt 0
timeout 100

MENU TITLE Fog USB Stick
MENU COLOR TITLE 1;36;44 #ffffffff #00000000 std
MENU BACKGROUND images/background.png

label Fogcheck
menu label Fog Compatibility
kernel /fog/bzImage root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 ip=dhcp dns= keymap= web=10.0.0.253/fog/ consoleblank=0 pcie_aspm=off loglevel=4 mode=sysinfo
initrd /fog/init.xz

label Fogdebug
menu label Fog Debug
kernel /fog/bzImage root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 ip=dhcp dns= keymap= web=10.0.0.253/fog/ consoleblank=0 pcie_aspm=off loglevel=4 mode=debug
initrd /fog/init.xz

label Fogcapone
menu label Fog Capone
kernel /fog/bzImage root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 ip=dhcp dns= keymap= web=10.0.0.253/fog/ consoleblank=0 pcie_aspm=off loglevel=4 mode=capone shutdown=0 storage=10.0.0.253:/images
initrd /fog/init.xz
[/CODE]

I don’t know how practical this will be though.

I’m happy to test any of the kernels for the Dell 755/760/780 and provide feedback.

The only thing I can think of us possibly finding a USB Ethernet adapter that supports PXE (not very common)
Dell apparently sell these but who knows if they will work very well.
The other question is if iPXE has drivers built in for it, they could possibly be chain booted.

[url]http://accessories.ap.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=sg&l=en&s=bsd&cs=sgbsd1&sku=470-13498[/url]

Another option is installing the Windows 7 image directly on a USB key.
[url]http://blogs.ethz.ch/jlaville/2012/04/12/how-to-deploy-windows-7-on-non-pxe-ultrabooks-with-mdt-litetouch/[/url]

It could be possible to create fog as a live USB key you can directly boot without PXE and have all of the Menu options available.
That way if the default Linux Kernel has the drivers built in it should work? Again I have no idea how easy the last option is :EDIT: don’t forget fog likes to use the MAC address to know what device is what, if you use USB Ethernet adapters; fog won’t know the host name of the computer you are trying to re-image.

Just tested the Tom Elliott 3.0.1 64bit image.
Yep works fine on the Dell 755’s now. I’ll test on the other models shortly and let you all know how it goes.

Cheers,

Just FYI, I tested the 3.10.1 kernel on the Dell 755.
Same issue.

Hmm strange, I wonder if there is a difference between the 780s?
All the Kernels that I tried from Official Kernels and Tom Elliott’s in the forum all had the same error on the OptiPlex 780s.
Changing the Timing Frequency to 1000hz fixed other issues as well.
Granted most of my testing was on the Dell OptiPlex 755s as we have quite a few hundred of those and only a hand full of Dell OptiPlex 780s

Ok, Just decided to use version 3.0.1 Kernel ([url]https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.0.1.tar.gz[/url])
Downloaded the linux-fimware into the kernel folder.
Compiled it as x86_64 with the Tom Elliott 64bit .config

Everything seems to work! (from what I can tell)
Not sure what the difference with the network drivers are, Obviously the latest kernel would be the best solution but this seems to work for now. I’m still happy to test any kernels on these problem models.
A debug init.xz might be handy?

Cheers,

I tried setting the MSI to legacy mode in the intel drivers.
That didn’t seem to help either. Same result.

:EDIT:
Just a thought. Is there a debug init.xz that will allow me shell access to look at any errors and logs at all?
I remember I used one awhile ago with an old FOG version.

As a temp work around I tried to recompile the old fog kitchensink as 64bit and 32bit to see if that worked.
The kernel compiles okay but it kernel panics on init.xz.
I’m guessing it has to do with the new compression of the init being init.xz and it can’t decompress it when it tries to load.

EDIT: Got the old 2.6.39 one working with kitchen sink, not everything works. the SATA drivers don’t seem to work so I can’t see the HDD, DMI doesn’t show any fields either as well as errors about files not being found but the Network worked, and it mentioned when it was loading that it had to fall back to MSI legacy interrupts.
I will test the 3.15.0 kernel but change some driver options to the e1000e driver to see if any of that helps.

Same issue again.