Posts made by steveballantyne

@george1421 @bmick10

Hey folks - I am also stuck. We just got a batch of HP ProBook 440 14 inch G10 laptops and cannot image them.

I updated to the latest iPXE by following the abovementioned KB which put me up to 1.21.1+ (g5a9f4). I load bzImage just fine. But it’s halting init.xz at 41%.

@Sebastian-Roth said in PXE error Undefined index extraargs:

I feel like I need to tell you a little bit about how FOG is being developed. We are all volunteers doing this in our free time just for the fun of it

Yes, and I greatly appreciate your work. Please don’t mistake my complete and utter frustration for snarkiness. I am just having a bad week with imaging and I am losing my mind. We used Acronis for a short while, and it was painful to pay so much and get such horrible support. I have found that there is much better support for this free and volunteer driven product. And honestly, I have been running this for years without an issue. So I am sure that there is something I am doing to screw this up!

Ok, now about your issues. I just (auto) installed a fresh debian jessie VM with current FOG trunk. I am unable to reproduce the “Undefined index: extraargs” (which is just a notice not an error by the way) unless I set error_reporting to E_ALL and enable display_errors. Possibly you’ve modified your php.ini - FOG does not enable it by default I am pretty sure!

I have not modified any php files.

About the “The storage groups associated storage node is not valid” issue: AFAIK this message only comes from “Quick Image” and only if there is no valid image found on the server.

Okay, that makes sense. I have started over so many times, I am likely trying to quick image where there is no image. I have kept a great number of images for various hardware, and I am hoping to reconnect them once I straighten out my issues.

The array_map warning might be caused by a faulty NAS storage configuration. Please post a screenshot of the settings so we can have a look.

I will do that! Because I am almost positive that my problems are 80% if not 100% in my Storage Node settings.

In the past I have connected to a NAS that has all my images on it. To make this work though, I had to do some ugly hacks in several PHP files to point some references in “FOGFTP” settings to use the static IP address of the Fog server whereas the default would use the Storage Node IP (which is the IP of my NAS). But I don’t want to get into all that at this point. I can save that for another thread. At this point, I just want things to work out of the box with a brand new image on the local machine.

One thing I wanted to ask — when I am installing the Debian/Ubuntu OS, should I NOT check LAMP server? I have been checking this at install time but I keep running into MySQL issues. So I am thinking I should be leaving that unchecked, and let Fog do all the PHP, MySQL and Apache stuff itself.

@Sebastian-Roth Why are you installing Ubuntu 14, when 16 is current? I tried installing with 16 and I ran into problems with web services not able to start. So then I tried it with 14 and I ran into another familiar problem where I end up with a blank web page when I attempt to install/update my database schema (I have seen this error dozens of times, and I usually just fold and start over).

I don’t remember fog ever being this delicate. Maybe in the past I was just lucky and installed just the right version of the right distro and the packages in the right order.

Is there a guide somewhere that lists specific releases that are KNOWN to work? And perhaps what I should be installing, and in what order?

… also I should note, that I get this error when trying to use my external NAS as the default Storage Node. Although if I change the IP to the FOG server itself, I get this error when PXE booting a client, “The storage groups associated storage node is not valid”.

@Sebastian-Roth I’m running the latest release of Debian (fresh yesterday). I just did a refresh on the svn trunk and re-installed. Got the same error.

@Wayne-Workman I installed 1.2.0 just to see if I would have trouble with the stable branch, and I did. So I immediately went to the svn. So it wasn’t a clean install, it was an update.

php -v tells me …
PHP 5.6.19-0+deb8u1 (cli) (built: Mar 14 2016 10:22:33)
Copyright 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies

I was attempting to update to the latest SVN (I was running SVN previously, just hasn’t been updated in months). I keep running into this error message which means nothing to me. I know it has something to do with the StorageNodes which I have always had a problem with (because my images are on an NFS attached NAS).

When PXE booting a client, I get an error that says “http://x.x.x.x/fog/service.ipxe/boot/php… ok Type: 8, File: /var/www/html/fog/lib/fog/bootmenu.class.php, Line: 5 57, Message: Undefined index: extraargs”.

My Apache log says “[Fri Apr 22 12:55:35.274482 2016] [:error] [pid 15302] [client x.x.x.x:50485] PHP Warning: array_map(): An error occurred while invoking the map callback in /var/www/html/fog/lib/fog/storagegroup.class.php on line 43”.

Can anyone provide me clues of what I might be doing wrong here?