Closed Neustradamus closed 1 year ago
This mostly seems to revolve around the php-gettext, which is now installed as a basic value of php-common from the repositories with Debian/Ubuntu.
Having to install php-php-gettext is useless from my experimentation.
The issue of 1.5.10 or any "stable" release is stable is a static term. So when we release a build of FOG, it's stable - yes, for the timing and technology (software, hardware, etc....) at that static point in time.
With software constantly changing and OS's constantly updating, stable is a term that is almost pointless to use regarding "forward" thinking.
That said, I think simply removing the requirement of installing the package named php-gettext will fix the issue as it is now installed as a common package on these Debian variant machines.
I'm sure there's more information than just the php-gettext issue, but this has been the "main" thing I've seen on the forums and is corrected in my testing by simply removing this from the packages line in /opt/fog/.fogsettings.
I don't know if @Sebastian-Roth or anybody else has added the php-php-gettext, but hopefully this will help others out in general.
@Neustradamus You are right, should really get out a new release. Keep repeating myself but this is only gonna happen when people actually have the time to do it. Get involved to make it go faster.
There will be a new release this spring but the more people help the sooner it'll be.
The problem exist since a very long time...
Right and it is fixed in the dev-branch version since several months too - reference.
Important : Debian 12 will be released in some months (2023).
@mastacontrola said:
That said, I think simply removing the requirement of installing the package named php-gettext will fix the issue as it is now installed as a common package on these Debian variant machines.
Absolutely.
I don't know if @Sebastian-Roth or anybody else has added the php-php-gettext, but hopefully this will help others out in general.
@Neustradamus Just tried to do a test install of FOG dev-branch on latest Debian testing. Seems like testing is still too buggy. I was able to manually fix a GRUB install setup issue manually but then on bootup I get the following messages:
/dev/sda1 has unsupported feature(s): FEATURE_C12
e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck!
Have not found a solution to that and so testing dev-branch is not possible yet.
@Sebastian-Roth: When I have tested Debian 11, I had same about GRUB but the problem is not linked to FOG. It is linked to "Legacy" or "UEFI" mode, if I recall.
And the first step is to have a compatible version with Debian 11 (2021).
I just want to comment that we have been running the dev-branch on several servers with Ubuntu 22.04 for half a year, and we see no issues. So while that's good enough for us, we would also rather install a release version than a dev-branch which is changing over time.
@Sebastian-Roth: Debian 12 "Bookworm" Alpha 2 out:
"FEATURE_C12" bug:
@Neustradamus I have some good news. There seems to be just one simple minor issue left for FOG to run on Debian 12:
$ lsb_release -rs
No LSB modules are available.
n/a
We expect to read the version information using lsb_release
which fails to return the version. Adjusting the script to work around this issue I was able to install FOG dev-branch on Debian 12 no problem. A new FOG release is soon to come.
Edit: This behavior is intended and should be "fixed" as soon as Debian 12 is officially released: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1008735
Simple workaround: echo "VERSION_ID=12" >> /etc/os-release
I have been using FOG dev-branch on Debian 12 for testing in the last days and it's working all fine. Closing this issue as fixed as we'll release 1.5.10 pretty soon.
@Sebastian-Roth: Thanks a lot!
A lot of new users will arrive with the new OS support :)
Dear @FOGProject team,
Currently latest FOG official release build (1.5.9) and master code do not work with Debian 11 (2021-08-14) and all Ubuntu versions based on Debian Testing/Unstable (between Debian 10 and 11)...
Important : Debian 12 will be released in some months (2023).
The problem exist since a very long time:
It is possible to have a new FOG stable release build to fix it?
For example a 1.5.10 version?
Thanks in advance.
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