[Freedombox-discuss] One more reason to keep working on freedombox

2012-03-03 Thread A. F. Cano
By now probably everyone here knows about the preemptive cell phone service shutdowns that occurred before the BART occupation that didn't happen. Now the FCC is getting into this: http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/138248/ Comments are being requested, but the ultimate solution is to NOT depend on

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Wish list

2012-05-25 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 09:56:35PM -0400, thinkmo...@hushmail.com wrote: Hi Nick, I'm not as technically adept as you guys, so I hope I am not on the wrong wavelength, but I will try to answer your question. I want basically what James Vasile on the website said. I want to use

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox 0.2 almost ready - please test

2014-03-13 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 09:22:49PM -0500, Nick Daly wrote: A. F. Cano a...@shibaya.lonestar.org writes: Tried to build for virtualbox. It failed. The loop device the script assumes doesn't exist on Debian Jessie. ERROR: command failed: ['mkfs', '-t', 'ext4', '/dev/mapper/loop0p1

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox 0.2 almost ready - please test

2014-03-15 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 04:59:17PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [A. F. Cano] Ran the vboxmanage convertdd img file vdi file command manually (outside the Makefile) and it worked. This surprised me as the convertdd argument is not documented. In the man page the command

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox 0.2 almost ready - please test

2014-03-16 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 02:50:12AM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: ... Petter pointed to my repository, but I hadn't pushed things there yet... and didn't until nearly a day after his post. So if you pulled quickly after his email, you were indeed working with very old bits. That must have been

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Test if your freedombox is working as it should (testsuite)

2014-03-17 Thread A. F. Cano
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:29:45AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: The Freedombox got a test suite to check if servers and services are working as they should. The code is in the freedombox-setup package, located in /usr/lib/freedombox/testsuite. To test your installation, log in as root

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Test if your freedombox is working as it should (testsuite)

2014-03-18 Thread A. F. Cano
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 06:32:46AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: ... I uploaded a new freedombox-setup with new tests yesterday, with the tor test and updated plinth test. The plinth test fail because the certificate is self signed. I changed it to skip the certificate check. Just

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Test if your freedombox is working as it should (testsuite)

2014-03-23 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 07:08:28AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: ... I can login as root and fbx, but I suspect this is not normal behavior. How do I access plinth? You can access it by visiting URL: http://10.0.2.15/plinth/ with your browser. :) NOTE: I've left some of the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Test if your freedombox is working as it should (testsuite)

2014-04-04 Thread A. F. Cano
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 07:16:49AM -0500, James Valleroy wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Sunil Mohan su...@medhas.org wrote: ... It would be nice to have all this documented. I added a Network Configuration section to the VirtualBoxImages page on the wiki [0]. This setup will be

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Setting up a FreedomBox on an apu1d4. Problem with "network".

2016-03-19 Thread A. F. Cano
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:41:37PM +0530, Sunil Mohan Adapa wrote: Thanks for replying. I can't believe it's been a month since my original message. I finally have some more details, and some progress. > On 02/13/2016 08:40 AM, A. F. Cano wrote: > > > > I just installed the la

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Setting up a FreedomBox on an apu1d4. Usb device (phone/modem) not seen by plinth.

2016-04-26 Thread A. F. Cano
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:41:37PM +0530, Sunil Mohan Adapa wrote: > ... > 2) When you connect a USB tethered phone it will show us as an Ethernet > device. Which you can configure as 'external' connection in Plinth. If Mmm... No such luck. The only interfaces visible to plinth are the 3 usual

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Setting up a FreedomBox on an apu1d4. Usb device (phone/modem) not seen by plinth.

2016-04-30 Thread A. F. Cano
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 11:58:18PM -0400, A. F. Cano wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:41:37PM +0530, Sunil Mohan Adapa wrote: > > ... > > 2) When you connect a USB tethered phone it will show us as an Ethernet > > device. Which you can configure as 'external'

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Name server queries through the freedom box not working.

2016-05-17 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello again, Earlier (On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 01:38:18PM -0400) I wrote: > ... > > On the freedombox: > > $ sudo netstat -anp | egrep :53 > udp0 0 0.0.0.0:53530.0.0.0:* > 354/avahi-daemon: r > udp6 0 0 :::5353

[Freedombox-discuss] Name server queries through the freedom box not working.

2016-05-14 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi everyone, This used to work just fine when the ubiquiti router was connected directly to the internal network. All I needed to do was: route add default gw at the internal machines. Now: route add default gw fbx <- the name of the freedombox on the internal net is not sufficient.

[Freedombox-discuss] How to automate ppp?

2016-07-16 Thread A. F. Cano
I'm currently starting ppp manually. I have to run "sudo pon cell" from ssh and this usually requires entering the sudo password. Unfortunately, I get disconnected with "LCP terminated by peer" at random times and each time I have to restart manually. Of course each time I get a different IP

[Freedombox-discuss] Apt anomaly when going through privoxy.

2016-06-28 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello again, I have noticed that if privoxy is enabled, when doing an apt download from internal machines, if it fails, aptitude retries but starts at the beginning again. With privoxy disabled, the restart works correctly, from the last position up to which the file was downloaded. This is

[Freedombox-discuss] Shaarli anomaly with tags.

2016-06-28 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello everyone, I've just imported 1000+ links from firefox into Shaarli on the freedombox. From firefox: Bookmarks->Show all Bookmarks->import and Backup-> Export Bookmarks to HTML And then from Shaarli: Tools->Import->File selection The import went well, but the web browser page remained

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Apt anomaly when going through privoxy.

2016-07-02 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 11:36:22AM -0400, Daniel Gnoutcheff wrote: > On 06/28/2016 08:59 PM, A. F. Cano wrote: > > I have noticed that if privoxy is enabled, when doing an apt download from > > internal machines, if it fails, aptitude retries but starts at the > > beginning

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Shaarli anomaly with tags.

2016-07-02 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 08:11:28PM -0500, Nick Daly wrote: > A. F. Cano writes: > > > I've just imported 1000+ links from firefox into Shaarli on the > > freedombox from firefox ...all the [comma separated multi-word] tags > > had been broken up into single words... Th

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Can't get android phone to connect to radicale.

2017-02-06 Thread A. F. Cano
On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 11:57:45AM -0500, Daniel Gnoutcheff wrote: > ... > > This may be a sign that SSL certificate verification is failing. > Stuffing that message into DuckDuckGo found me a fellow who got the same > error message and eventually determined that his server's certificate > had an

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Can't get android phone to connect to radicale.

2017-02-04 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 02:30:58PM -0500, James Valleroy wrote: > On 02/04/2017 01:52 PM, A. F. Cano wrote: > > === Android log > >... > > 2017-01-28 20:33:55 2 [ui.setup.DavResourceFinder] Checking user-given URL: > > https://192.1

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Can't get android phone to connect to radicale.

2017-02-07 Thread A. F. Cano
On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 12:41:54PM -0500, Daniel Gnoutcheff wrote: > On 02/06/2017 11:15 PM, A. F. Cano wrote: > > Failed to obtain certificate for domain .freedombox.rocks: Failed > > authorization procedure. .freedombox.rocks (http-01): > > urn:acme:error:connectio

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Can't get android phone to connect to radicale.

2017-02-05 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 08:59:49AM +0100, permondes - sagen wrote: > ... > On my Android phone with DAVDroid (actually also in Evolution), I have > to add the calendar-name, the link looks like: > > https://192.168.1.27/radicale/// That didn't work either. > The trailing / was mandatory, it did

[Freedombox-discuss] Can't get android phone to connect to radicale.

2017-02-04 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello, Android phone (galaxy S) with cyanogenmod and the improvements described here: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-impossible-hardening-android-security-and-privacy At first I thought it might have been a firewall problem, but I disabled the firewall and I still couldn't connect.

[Freedombox-discuss] Guidance needed to add a new "connection" form for ppp.

2017-02-19 Thread A. F. Cano
Since I can't find a way to salvage the old unbootable SD card, I installed freedombox-testing-free_2017-02-02_all-amd64.img on a new 32GB SD card. Plugged it into a PC Engines apu1d4. It was a nice surprise to find the option to expand the FS, but given the recent thread about that option not

[Freedombox-discuss] Attempt to write beyond end of device, and then an upgrade went wrong.

2017-02-13 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, This problem goes way back to the FreedomBox image generated way back then, V 0.7 per my notes. I did get a warning while doing the dd that installed it in the 4GB SD card. I've been upgrading it regularly since. As the FS was getting pretty full, I was seeing this message once in a

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Plinth v0.10.0 released and ppp issue SOLVED!

2016-09-05 Thread A. F. Cano
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 01:08:30AM +0530, Sunil Mohan Adapa wrote: > ... > We need to understand if network manager has support for this kind of > device. The best way check is to plug the device into a desktop system > and get it working with network manager. Network manager community > might

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] ppp details

2016-09-17 Thread A. F. Cano
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 07:53:30AM +0530, Sunil Mohan Adapa wrote: > ... > > After digging into nm-settings (man nm-settings) I had to set these to > > duplicate the ppp configuration in /etc/ppp/peers/cell: > > > > $ sudo nmcli con modify "ppp" cdma.username qnc > > $ sudo nmcli con modify "ppp"

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Plinth v0.10.0 released

2016-08-28 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 09:05:58AM -0400, James Valleroy wrote: > Hi all, > > Plinth v0.10.0 has been released, and is now available in Debian testing. Thank you! > For those running v0.9, if "Automatic Upgrades" are enabled in Plinth, > then it should be upgraded soon (or may have already). I

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] 403 error when connecting from the outside. Also: Shaarli.

2016-11-08 Thread A. F. Cano
On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 07:51:30PM +0100, permondes - sagen wrote: >... > I have been using Bookmarks (Shaarli) from the inside network for a > while now. I haven't noticed anything to distinguish whether it is, > or should be (or not) accessible from the outside, so I assumed it would > be.

[Freedombox-discuss] 403 error when connecting from the outside.

2016-11-05 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, I have tried to connect to the freedombox from the outside and I get a 403 Error: "you do not have permission..." The Dynamic DNS Client is set up (gnudip.datasystems24.net) to a domain under freedombox.rocks (HUGE thanks to whoever set this up!) and I do get to the freedombox. The message

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] 403 error when connecting from the outside.

2016-11-06 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 02:37:24PM +0100, permondes - sagen wrote: >Hi Augustine, > >which service are you trying to access? E.g. Plinth cannot be accessed >from outside of your local network, this gives error 403, but e.g. ikiwiki Mmm... ok. >should work. I have been using

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Update: 403 error, Shaarli, and success with ikiwiki.

2016-11-09 Thread A. F. Cano
Earlier I wrote: > ... > I could swear I was able to access Shaarli before, at the url > [1]http://fbx/shaarli/ but now I only get a blank page, both with chromium > and > firefox. If I click on the "shaare link" button (that's only installed in > firefox) it calls up > >

[Freedombox-discuss] Plinth 0.12 anomalies, and NM still can't start ppp, firewall issue?

2017-01-09 Thread A. F. Cano
FreedomBox stretch/sid (testing) with Plinth 0.12 on an APU1D4. I keep trying different things and I still can't get network manager to start ppp automatically like it used to. Furthermore there are now anomalies in what Plinth reports. When displaying the WAN connection, plinth reports: Link

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Plinth 0.12 anomalies, and NM still can't start ppp, firewall issue?

2017-01-10 Thread A. F. Cano
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 05:43:41AM -0500, James Valleroy wrote: > On 01/09/2017 10:36 PM, A. F. Cano wrote: > > > > When I plug the cdma phone into the usb interface, network manager fails > > to set up the connection. This used to work before december 30 or so when &g

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Plinth 0.12 anomalies, and NM still can't start ppp, firewall issue?

2017-01-12 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 07:27:04AM -0500, James Valleroy wrote: > On 01/10/2017 11:59 PM, A. F. Cano wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 05:43:41AM -0500, James Valleroy wrote: > >> On 01/09/2017 10:36 PM, A. F. Cano wrote: > >>> > >>> When I plug the

[Freedombox-discuss] Error 405 when setting up a calendar in Radicale.

2016-12-03 Thread A. F. Cano
FreedomBox version: testing (stretch/sid in /etc/debian_version) Radicale is installed and passes all the tests: Diagnostic Results Module: radicale TestResult Listening on tcp4 port 5232 passed Listening on tcp6 port 5232 passed

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Error 405 when setting up a calendar in Radicale.

2016-12-03 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 09:22:01AM +0530, Sunil Mohan Adapa wrote: > On 12/04/2016 09:02 AM, A. F. Cano wrote: > [...] > > So, try the following URL: > > https://fbx/radicale//Calendar.ics Thank you!! > > > The FreedomBox-specific page: > > > > ht

[Freedombox-discuss] Network manager auto-upgraded this morning, ppp no longer connects.

2016-12-31 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello everyone, In the latest automatic software upgrade, I noticed that network-manager was upgraded. I no longer can get ppp started like it did before. I think the relevant log lines are: Dec 31 13:12:33 fbx NetworkManager[370]: [1483207953.9875] modem-broadband[ttyACM0]: failed to

[Freedombox-discuss] Setting up VirtualBox test environment. Missing dependency, and 404.

2017-03-18 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, I have set up a VM (VirtualBox) where I installed debian testing. After git clone https://github.com/freedombox/Plinth Per the INSTALL file I installed the dependencies listed there but after sudo python3 setup.py install running sudo plinth returns an error: missing file

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Setting up VirtualBox test environment. Minor modification to README

2017-03-19 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 10:10:27PM -0400, A. F. Cano wrote: > ... > but pointing the browsers to http://localhost:8000 results in this: > > konqueror: "The requested operation could not be completed File or > Folder Does Not Exist" > > fir

[Freedombox-discuss] Plinth development, can't get past the login window.

2017-04-09 Thread A. F. Cano
I've set up 2 development systems with Debian Stretch, the first in a VM and the second on real hardware. In both cases I can't get past the login screen. In addition to the dependencies listed in the INSTALL file, more are needed. I have already reported that firewalld in needed. I also

[Freedombox-discuss] Location of user data.

2017-07-05 Thread A. F. Cano
Hello everyone, Accessing an unbootable FreedomBox image as a mounted FS on another machine, I'm trying to figure out where all the user data I spent so much time importing is. I gather that /var/lib/ikiwiki /var/lib/radicale and /var/lib/shaarli is where it is. Should I be looking somewhere

[Freedombox-discuss] Timeouts everywhere, probably firewall issue.

2017-06-23 Thread A. F. Cano
hello, I could only get this out by switching the SD card in the FreedomBox to an older one. The one that failed just got an upgrade (including kernel and at least one django package). I'm running the stable version, with plinth 0.13.1. The problem: Any attempt to run any application from the

[Freedombox-discuss] SOLVED re: UPDATE and SUMMARY Re: Mounted FreedomBox SD card, expanded partition, mount mounts old size.

2017-05-07 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 03:17:07PM -0400, I wrote: > ... > In any case, the most puzzling thing right now is: why is the expanded > partition not reflected when mounted? If this could be solved I could > probably boot and access this FreedomBox image and delete the snapshots > the native way, via

[Freedombox-discuss] Mounted FreedomBox SD card, expanded partition, mount mounts old size.

2017-05-02 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, Since the expand partition function didn't work, the 3.8 GB FreedomBox image got filled up with snapshots and eventually (presumably because it got totally filled up) became unbootable and inaccessible by ssh. So, I mounted it on a Debian testing system (the only one that seems to be able to

[Freedombox-discuss] UPDATE and SUMMARY Re: Mounted FreedomBox SD card, expanded partition, mount mounts old size.

2017-05-06 Thread A. F. Cano
I have now installed FreedomBox on 3 separate SD cards and all became unusable at some point. Details below: On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 09:29:30PM -0400, A. F. Cano wrote: > Hi, > > Since the expand partition function didn't work, the 3.8 GB FreedomBox > image got filled up wi

[Freedombox-discuss] Plinth fails to start, over and over...

2017-10-19 Thread A. F. Cano
Just did a massive upgrade on a testing FreedomBox image (32GB SD card). This particular card had stopped working some months ago so I stopped using it. Now I'm trying to resurrect it. I can get into it via ssh and after some hiccups, all the upgraded packages seem to have been installed

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Prospective packages for FreedomBox

2017-12-02 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 10:57:52AM +0100, Daddy wrote: >Cool! > >I see some of them are already included / in the process of being >integrated (privoxy, ttrss, transmission, jabber, syncthing, ...) - let's >see if this brings up the discussion about others. > >I guess

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Plinth fails to start, over and over...

2017-10-20 Thread A. F. Cano
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 05:44:29AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [A. F. Cano] > > Is there anything I can do short of diving into the plinth code? Is the > > version number issue the real problem or is it something else? Any specific > > tests I should run in orde

[Freedombox-discuss] Dynamic DNS not returning the IP address of the outside interface.

2017-10-29 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, I have set up the dynamic DNS with gnudip.datasystems24.net and a domain at freedombox.rocks. I thought everything was working fine (no errors) but I couldn't obtain a let's encrypt certificate. It kept timing out. ifconfig on the freedombox says: ppp0:

[Freedombox-discuss] Why is syncthing contacting "relays" out there?

2017-12-26 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, I have installed syncthing but have not configured it yet. While troubleshooting other stuff I found these troubling messages in /var/log/messages: Dec 26 04:41:07 fbx syncthing[524]: [V7KVP] INFO: Disconnected from relay relay://45.79.172.54:22067 Dec 26 04:41:12 fbx syncthing[524]:

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Why is syncthing contacting "relays" out there?

2017-12-27 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 06:19:54PM -0500, Jonathan Frederickson wrote: > This is covered in the Syncthing documentation: > https://docs.syncthing.net/users/relaying.html > > Relays are only used to pass (encrypted) traffic when two devices are > unable to reach each other directly. Shared folders