I know I’ve been out of this for a little bit. I check in here or there, but just been extremely busy.

I don’t want to stop contributing, I just am taking time for myself after my workly duties.

I have to give a big gratitude and thanks for everyone here trying to help out whether by code, by helping the rest of the community, or documentation.

@Sebastian-Roth I know you’re busy but you’ve kept the project rolling even with the minimal availability you have. Thank you.
@george1421 I’m sure you’re busy, but I still see you posting and helping where possible and amenible. Thank you.
@Wayne-Workman I know you’re helping where you can as well. (Of course I can’t exactly post everybody because I’ve been busy and honestly not keeping up with the forums as much as I probably should.)

@everyone Thank you. Thank you for still believing in this project. We’re doing the best with what we have. Please understand in we’re lacking, it’s most likely unintentional. I know I’m just busy.

https://news.fogproject.org/fog-1-3-5-and-client-0-11-11-officially-released/

https://news.fogproject.org/fog-1-5-0-rc-11/

TLDR; Rerun the fog installer if you have lost “Database Connectivity” to your fog server, or run the ALTER USER syntax shown below.

So Ubuntu 16, among others I suppose, enable a “security updates” to be applied automatically as a “default” to things. Why, well it makes it simpler to ensure your Ubuntu systems are in compliance and patched for any potential exploits. This causes unknown and unexpected issues.

I figured it’d be a safe thing to express that there could be problems (as many of you have already experienced) that when these updates go up (with or without your knowledge) it can break functionality in unexpected and inopportune ways.

The quickest fix is to simply rerun the fog installer which should correct the problem.

As a note, it seems this problem is specific only when the mysql account is the 'root' user AND the password is blank.

The “fix” if you must do it manually is to open a terminal and obtain root:
Super (Windows Key) + T then sudo -i (in most cases).

From there, open mysql with mysql -u root

NOTE: MySQL MUST be run with ROOT.

Run:

ALTER USER 'root'@'127.0.0.1' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY ''; AND
ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY '';

It’s okay if one of them fails. This is going to fix Most people’s issues.

I would highly recommend removing the unattended-upgrades as many of these “sudden” issues came as a security patch ubuntu pushed out. By default Ubuntu typically set’s this for you as enabled and it can cause havoc on you as you (the admin) may not have “done” anything.

To prevent this problem from happening in the future you could run:

apt-get -y remove unattended-upgrades (AS Root again).

FOG is still actively being developed. It’s not necessarily readily apparent, but we can assure you things are still being worked on. These updates may not be communicated in a way that everybody just knows, but can easily be seen if one were to look at our repository site.

Between our own schedules and lives, we can get very busy. We try to keep things updated and help out on the forums even during lull periods. This might mean we aren’t pushing an RC or release as frequently. It may mean we’re working on other things for the project, such as can be seen if looking at our github site.

Our forums are heavily active, and this should point as an indicator to our “status” as well.

If anybody would like to see an increase in developers donating their time to making this free software, consider donating either with monetary support or by spending personal time to help with development.

FOG is an open source project - it’s even in the name. It is driven by people donating their time and resources. The releases of FOG revolve around when developers can spare a few hours throughout the week. Sometimes that will mean releases will be further, sometimes that will mean releases will be faster. That’s just the nature of our project, and many other open source projects.

Hey everybody,

I know you see me here on occasion from time to time. Life decisions have made it more difficult for me to do things I would normally be doing. Rest assured, I am still around, and while I’m not quite as active as I was in the past, it’s not because I don’t want to be.

I had to move, and as part of that I have none of my normal development stuff readily available. Part of the move made me not have a laptop, until today.

I need to setup my dev environment again, so it may take a little bit, but I will be back up.

https://news.fogproject.org/fog-1-5-10-41-officially-released/

While this maybe spur of the moment, it should officially release 1.5.10 with all relevant bug/security fixes encapsulated (among a few other features.)

This has brought a new methodology of releases in that bug/security releases should be done much more regularly.

dev-branch, historically, was a place where new development occurred (hence its name) but over the last couple of years or so it’s mainly been a bug/security thing, not really a true development approach.

This is OKAY, in my head. Why:

Well we have the master branch which is the ‘baseline’ of a verions. We have the dev-branch, which allows us to work on bugs/security issues. We have the working branches for what will eventually become master. Working is our “dev branch” but keeps proper seperation of things in my opinion.

Basically:
master -> basis for dev-branch (which merges into stable on a regular cadence - still being worked out)
working -> basis of forward development

So we effectively have:
production
staging
development well seperated.

THis may mean on the regular automated releases, no announcement or news article will be created, and I think that’s okay.

Hopefully exciting we have a release after 1.25 years

Thank you!

That’s correct. The main reason fog is constantly moving forward is because the codebase is improved upon. Major bugs tend to be addressed for the next release. We don’t do an LTS because there’s really two main people working on fog in a consistent manor. Those two are @Joe-Schmitt and myself. Debian and Libreoffice have the team too be able to perform such a feat. Their product is Opensource but they have an employment team which can afford them that luxury. FOG has a team but we make no money and as such are required to work full time jobs. We work on FOG in our free time. I’ve had the ability to even work on it from work because we used the software.

Maintaining many different versions is difficult. And we don’t have a support team. WYSIWYG and I think we’ve done pretty well on support, even if we don’t have the ability to do dedicated support for our product. 1.5 was a major step toward modernizing the GUI. 1.6 will vastly improve on this. It was only recently we kind of came up with a road map on how best to proceed. Of note, 1.5 will be maintained until 1.6 is released. 1.6 is focused on making he GUI much more modern. 1.7 will be focused mostly toward fixing and refactoring the FOG client. 1.8 will focus on making the FOS system more modular and usable. I don’t know yet for 1.9. 2.0 will bridge the gap for our rewrite based on the work from 1.5 and up. While we do plan to try to do backports where possible, it’s much easier to ask people to update to the latest version than it is to try to maintain many different versions with backports in mind. At least for what FOG does.

I doubt this will appease anybody, but it’s what I think needs to be said. We are working hard and provide support for our product as best we can. The community makes fogs support system, I think, one of the best around. Add to that and you can almost always have a developer working side by side to help and fix issues as they come up, I don’t think it’s unfair to ask users to update to a specific version. Even if there are bugs, we will always try to correct what we can, when we can. (And normally it’s a pretty quick turn around).

I’m not perfect and I’ll give you that. We don’t even have a test suite to know if things are working as intended. We have to rely on the community and suggestions are great, just understand our answers won’t always be what people want to hear.

https://news.fogproject.org/fog-1-4-0-officially-released/

https://news.fogproject.org/fog-1-4-4-officially-released/

@meie1kyl on your fog server, please login, either as root or a user who can sudo to root:

Become root user:

Then run these commands for consistency (you can change location but will need to remember to make that adjustment every time for updates.)

cd /opt
git clone https://github.com/fogproject/fogproject.git latest_fogproject

# These commands after for updates
cd /opt/latest_fogproject
git checkout dev-branch
git pull
cd bin
./installfog.sh -y

Of course make sure you have a backup but this should get you where you need to be.

@meie1kyl What version of fog are you running?

When you login at the bottom right corner you should see the actually installed version of FOG.

What version is that?

I suspect you’re using a version that is explicitely tied to 20230305.

@DBCountMan It’s most likely somethign that might be implemented in a future release, but isn’t really on the focal point.

Why?

Basically when imaging log was initially created it was entirely built to be tied to registered hosts, and most likely (at that time) the only way to DO anything imaging wise was purely by registered hosts.

What might make mroe sense is a separate imaging log that simply tracks ALL imaging tasks but is linked to “images” as images must always be registered. Just my thoughts.

This is just me spitballing, it is in no way being worked on currently.

Basically I want to create a new table that would track (similarly) all tasks, regardless of host registered or not, and simply use the MAC address as the linkage of “who”. Not pretty but better than assuming all hosts must also be registered. (Since we did add that feature effectively removing the requirement of Capone Plugin)

@raul You can set all the variables before you call the installfog.sh file

for example if you need to set the IP/Interface you can run:

ipaddress="10.255.20.1" interface="eno2" ./installfog.sh -y

I would take a look at the .fogsettings file to know what variables are checked during install.

There’s likely more that could be set as well, but this is one method you can perform what you want automatedly.

@Infojoe Please try the latest dev branch. this should be fixed.

The issue was simple:

Basically the arguments are stored and from what I could tell, work, but when the HTML side would go to re-display it it would make an input value of:

value="    -Execution -File "[FOG_SNAPIN].PS1""

Do you see the problem?

From HTML side, it would think the string ended at the first double quote.

This has been found and should be fixed in the latest dev-branch.

@meie1kyl Indeed that is a VERY old init

@meie1kyl Now run:

echo $hdinfo

If that houses the right information, we should then know I need to look at the code (on the UI side) to see why its not breaking down correctly

I know it’s a process, I apologize.

We can then just run the fog.inventory shell command too.

@meie1kyl Okay then can you try running doInventory and hit enter as needed?

@meie1kyl I think I need you to run a bit more into the debug:

Can you run:

source /usr/share/fog/lib/funcs.sh
getHardDisk

echo $hd

Basically (just so you’re aware)

I am seeing the drive when manually forced to the NVME drive is properly getting the inventory information for that specific drive, but when the machine boots for deploy/inventory tasks it takes whatever drive is returned from the getHardDisk

So what I wanted tested first was that the command actually worked appropriately and it appears to be working at least.

Next I want to see what the system (in normal operational mode) sees as the main drive.

I don’t know where the problem is but at least it doesn’t seem to be a RAID/AHCI mode switch issue (so thank you for that), it helps paint a bigger picture with real information.

@meie1kyl from that, then can you just run smartctl -i /dev/nvme0n1