I am following (correctly, I hope) the instructions for Centos 5.3 to install Fog 0.32. The installation script fails with the error “php-gettext . . .Failed!” It seems I have PHP installed. Can anyone offer advice or things to check?
Thanks,
A new user to Fog
Spoke in depth with our senior admin and he said that by following the CentOS install guide, he was able to successfully install on RedHat. He did want me to ask about CentOS compatibility. I offered your suggestion of Debian but he countered with issues concerning iSCSI support for our SAN and other issues. Thanks again for your support.
We planned on going there. The issue is that the admin who first installed it used RedHat 2.6.18 and had to heavily modify the install script. Would I be better to build a new server using one of the preferred versions in the install guide and migrate everything over from the existing server or suffer the slings and arrows of an in place upgrade on something that was a bear the first time around? Once again, your advice is timely and expert. Thanks.
Looks like there’s disk errors on our Master which I’m correcting. I did get the original image to unicast to multiple successfully so I’ll work with that for now. Some here think an upgrade from .30 to.32 is a panacea but from what you’re telling me and my observations that may not be the case. Once again, thanks for your guidance and helpful suggestions.
Multicast decided to not be our friend today. <sigh> I pushed up a new image today and it did appear in the /images folder but, alas, it would not multicast either. Some anomalies I noticed:
If the image upload is successful, does the system just boot?
Oddly, the client did not report any errors. But, now that I know the process behind the move, i have things to check if it fails; permissions, FTP, watch the client closely for errors. Thanks again for your input. It is greatly appreciated.
OK, hide the sharp objects 
Our latest attempt to upload appears to have worked as the server did finally move it to the /images directory with the proper name. Hence, we can multicast it. The question is: Why???
AHA!!! The upload is complete and the image file remains in /images/dev/macaddress. Is there a linux process that renames this file and m oves it to the /images directory? If so, perhaps ours is broken. In speaking with the tech, he never really did test fully unicasting the image out as it takes over 8 hours and usually fails, he says.
Curiouser and curiouser. I browsed the /images folder on our Linux fog server and do not see the 64 bit images even though they appear on the list and if we push an image to a single computer, it finds it. I started a new upload and do see activity in /images/dev/mac address which I assume is where fog collects the image being pushed. Upon completion, should it be sent to images?
Oddly, I can push one out, but not multicast. The computer getting the image just sits there at “Please wait”. It’s like it’s lost connection to the server. We’re going to try updating our Fog server over the Christmas break to see if that helps. Thanks for posting,
Steve
Your post seems to echo basic troubleshooting for multicasting that isn’t working at all. My issue is a bit unique in that only one of my images (64 bit Windows 7) won’t multicast. I will use your advise, though to make sure that there are no “zombies” out there. The log file may proves informational as well. My other images (XP, Windows 7 32 bit) multicast just fine. So, we’re thinking there’s something about the way fog images 64 bit OS’ that different than 32 bit images or I’m making a really dumb mistake in the image creation that I’m not seeing. Thanks for your input, help from others is always greatly appreciated.
Has anyone out there successfully multicast Windows 7, 64 bit?
Thanks,
We recently deployed 20 workstations using multicasting within the last month, if we try to multicast a new Win 7 image, the client sits at the wait screen and it never starts. If we multicast an old Win XP image, the client starts without issue. We are pulling out the few hairs we have left. Any suggestions or advice is greatly appreciated.
As far as we know, there have been no upgrades or changes to the server. We can push a single copy of this image and it seems to go OK, but we need to image 40 computers and one at a time is not an option.
Thanks.