Posts made by Tom Elliott

So when the image is being uploaded/created, it tells you the size of the image upload. Is this Partition 2 the full size that it’s copying, or is there free space? Next question would be, what kind of Hard Drive is the 500 GB? Meaning, is it SATA/AHCI or SATA/IDE in the bios? Is it a Solid State, Solid State Hybrid, or regular Platter drive?

This is important, as through some of my testing, I’ve found that, especially hybrid SSD, actually causes my kernel to crash because it can’t open a solid read/write stream to the drive. It keeps hanging and will give this pigz error anywhere between 2 minutes, to 10 minutes into the image upload cycle.

I forget which file to edit would be, but you just need to add the line:

net stop “FOG Service”

Before the SAD2 tools start running.

Then after it’s complete, put in the same script:

shutdown -r -t 10

So that the system will reboot automatically after the install of the drivers are complete. This will prevent the FOG Service from restarting the system automatically.

Yes it could be the network. Not necessarily a network driver issue, but something is preventing the system from communicating with the FOG Server. On your alternate system, these aren’t occuring.

Is your Storage Node on a separate system?

What is the size of the image to be created? How much space is available to actually store the image?

Alright, I’m not going to upload with the group attachment. The reason being that I can’t, for the life of me, figure out how it’s adding/modifying groups. I’ll look further and post when I’ve finally figured it out.

Found a small issue in the group management system. There is no submenu to create a new group. So I added it.

The modified file is in:

{fogwebdir}/management/includes/submenu.include.php

I will update the tarball, if you’ve already downloaded, just redownload and you’ll be able to create groups. Now I just need to find out how to add a host to the group.

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 14251, member: 7271”]Alright, alright,

So apparently I’m too dedicated to getting this out there. I’ve copied all the changed files to the trunk system. Removed all the .svn folders for compactability. Added the bzImage kernel 3.10.6 and my modified init.gz file.

All web pages should be modified.

Link to download the new tarball is:

[url]https://mastacontrola.com/fog_0.33b.tar.bz2[/url]

Download the file, extract with:

tar -xjf fog_0.33b.tar.bz2

Then install like you normally would. I didn’t copy any of my configuration files so there should be no information pertaining to my system. Hopefully this helps you falko, and whomever else decides to download.[/quote]

Also, if you decide to use wget to obtain the file use the command:

wget --no-check-certificate [url]http://mastacontrola.com/fog_0.33b.tar.bz2[/url]

Alright, alright,

So apparently I’m too dedicated to getting this out there. I’ve copied all the changed files to the trunk system. Removed all the .svn folders for compactability. Added the bzImage kernel 3.10.6 and my modified init.gz file.

All web pages should be modified.

Link to download the new tarball is:

[url]https://mastacontrola.com/fog_0.33b.tar.bz2[/url]

Download the file, extract with:

tar -xjf fog_0.33b.tar.bz2

Then install like you normally would. I didn’t copy any of my configuration files so there should be no information pertaining to my system. Hopefully this helps you falko, and whomever else decides to download.

You want, I can try to rebuild the tarball and post it on my website for download. It’ll need some adjusting for you particular setup, but other than that you should be good? All I’d really have to do is delete the original packages/web directory and place mine in there!. Maybe add my init.gz file to the proper area as well so we don’t have the fog registration system asking you for osID of the host.

Let me know, and I can probably have it up and ready to download by Friday Evening-ish time frame. (I’m on -5hr GMT) So right now it’s about 4:30 PM/1630 EDT or 8:30 PM/2030 GMT.

check the file: /opt/fog/service/etc/config.php file. make sure your database information is filled in. Then restart the three fog files in /etc/init.d by simply typing

for i in ls /etc/init.d/FOG*; do $i restart; done

You should no longer have the error.

eddieduce,

Have to had any luck now? Like I stated earlier, don’t try to unzip the bzImage as you’re downloading it exactly as it will be staged on your fog server.

What, else, have you tried? Have you tried alternative kernels? Have you tried debug mode to see if you can find an issue specific to network or hard drives? It isn’t just going to be configuration. There are many different things that could be the cause of the problem.

There are a few options that you should look into other than configuration. I just know, for my setup, if I don’t have the trailing slash, it causes the same type of issue. The other things to look into would be the Network itself. Make sure that the path to the router/switch is relative free of collisions and/or broadcasts. Things that seem to affect the network adversely are Devices that use broadcast messages to communicate such as Apple’s Bonjour service (iPads, iPhones, iPods, Airplay) especially if they’re setup to communicate wireless to another endpoint. Also check your kernel and make sure it’s not a driver issue. If fog can’t recognize your network card, it would also give this issue. I would almost point out that it could be the hard drive setup as well. Though the kernel’s I use seem to be able to work on AHCI mode, maybe the kernel you’re using can’t recognize it. Does the system recognize a hard-drive (/dev/sda, /dev/hda, etc…)?

Also, start small to help in troubleshooting. Try just emplacing a single router or switch to the host you’re trying to image and the fog server. This will help you troubleshoot whether it’s a network issue, or a driver issue.

Thank you,

Fixed the kernel update system. Just needed a pointed function to do the update.

First things first. Make a copy of the fog.about.kernel.js file and save it as name fog.about.kernel-update.js in {fogwebdir}/management/js

Then copy the FOGConfigurationPage.class.php file to
{fogwebdir}/lib/pages

You should now be able to update your kernel using the FOG Web GUI.

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/377_FOGConfigurationPage.class.php?:”]FOGConfigurationPage.class.php[/url]

Okay, try this php file. I’ll have it posted on The .33 tracker as well.

This file will go into either:

/var/www/fog/lib/pages

or

/var/www/html/fog/lib/pages

Unless you have specified a more customized location.

If your web server is separate from the tftp server, the error is gone, but the download and transfer will fail.

Also,

the js file needs to added to allow for the page to load under the new classes to actually download and transfer the file.

just a simple:

cp {fogwebdir}/management/js/fog.about.kernel.js {fogwebdir}/management/js/fog.about.kernel-update.js

will do.

Hopefully this helps.

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/376_FOGConfigurationPage.class.php?:”]FOGConfigurationPage.class.php[/url]

Also, make sure rpcbind and nfs services are running. Through more searching, it sounds like it could be the NFS service isn’t running. Try running:

/etc/init.d/nfs restart

If it fails, check your rpcbind service and make sure it’s running.

Your commands may vary differently based on the OS you’re running the fog server from.

Here’s something you could try as well. I never needed to do it, but while reviewing information within these forums, I came across an option for Windows XP maintaining Multiple Partition images. Maybe try using FOGprep on the master system, then re-upload and see if that helps you out. Otherwise, you could use the Single Partition, Resizable option as well.

I know this particular forum hasn’t had any input for a while, but I’m going to try taking a look at this from the GUI as, from what I can tell, the code base does exist in the class files, but the call to it is just a name sub=kernel, but the methods call this as kernel-update. I’ll try to post something in the 0.33 Bugs page as that’s where I’ve been placing any of the code change files for pretty much the rest of the GUI.

It will be a few days probably but hopefully we can manage until then.

P.S. I’m guessing you’re referring to FOG 0.33b having this issue?

For windows xp, try using the single partition resizable option. I never had luck with it writing with multiple partition single disk non-resizable on Xp machines.