Hi Am 6. November 2017 14:28:54 MEZ schrieb GDR! <g...@gdr.name>: >Hello, > >I'm not a novice user and I've dealt with all the problems listed, no >need for assistance, but I wanted to show what installing Freedombox is >like for a new user now. It's a QA report, not a rant. > >I've downloaded Freedombox 0.9 image for Virtualbox. It imported nicely >and I was able to see the web interface. > >Problem 1: Chromium isn't happy to show http://freedombox/ and there's >no MOTD on screen suggesting which IP address to use. > >Okay, so let's see what's available. I wanted to install Pagekite - > >Problem 2: getting an error about dpkg being locked. > >After logging in I figured out that unattended-upgrades is running. >When it was done, I tried installing the Pagekite again. > >Problem 3: after upgrade is finished, web interface is dead. > >Okay, I'll try to reboot the VM then. > >Problem 4: after reboot, nothing is listening on ports 80 and 443 > >Looks like Apache failed to start, `systemctl start apache2` worked but >the web interface is very incomplete (missing the left column). >Something is very wrong. Turns out, package configuration wasn't >finished and `dpkg -a --configure` was needed, followed by `apt-get -f >install`. The failed packages were: freedombox-setup and plinth. After >that, I was able to see the web interface and install Pagekite. > >Problem 5: /plinth/sys/pagekite/configure/ displays error 500 - >reported: https://github.com/freedombox/Plinth/issues/1119 > >I guess all of these problems, except for #5, could be solved by >releasing a new set of images - the current ones are from July 2016: >http://ftp.skolelinux.org/pub/freedombox/ > The Mirror is very outdated More recent images can be found on http://freedombox.org/download/ and http://ftp.freedombox.org/pub/freedombox/
Thank you for your feedback. We should remove the outdated mirror from the wiki. Chromium also doesn't like selfsigned certificates so we should advice to use Firefox. Pascal _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss