Posts made by scooke

@alejandrolengua Which service are you using at Mirhosting?

I'll be honest with you, that is one complicated looking Dashboard! I managed to figure out how to generate a plain old Ubuntu 18.04 environment, but on the free trial I can't have an IP4 address. So I will just continue and see how this goes.

Well, I was trying to install Cloudron on both Mirhosting, and Ultime Hosting (france), but both do not provide IP4 addresses for the free trials. And I don't really want to add funds to these either, sorry. But I can say that it is definitively getting stuck at

=> Installing software-properties-common

and tails tells me specifically:

Configuration file '/etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base'
 ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
 ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
   What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
    Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
    N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
      D     : show the differences between the versions
      Z     : start a shell to examine the situation
 The default action is to keep your current version.
*** base (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? Y

It just hangs here. EDIT: I spoke too soon, after about 20 minutes it resumed.

It seemed to fail again starting Docker.

storage_driver=$(docker info | grep "Storage Driver" | sed 's/.*: //')
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

I suspect that, according to the Dashboard, the environment I picked was Docker, and then I chose Ubuntu 18, whatever this jelastic is it already installed Docker in this service. Anyway, I ran systemctl start docker and systemctl daemon-reload, in one Terminal window, then reran the cloudron install script, and this time it resumed downloading all the various docker images. So, progress maybe?

EDIT: FINAL UPDATE
There was another fail, during the openjdk install. I wonder, I had to choose 8 "cloudlets" in order to get 1GB of ram for Cloudron, so I wonder if this is affecting the install. It doesn't sound like it is a physical instance, like a KVM VPS, so I suspect it is having trouble connecting everything and making it work. Maybe you should consider a plain old KVM? Good luck.
(The setup before openjdk was nginx, which completed, but there was a warning :

cat: /home/yellowtent/box/VERSION: No such file or directory
==> installer: Updating from  to 5.4.1 <==
==> installer: updating docker
nginx version: nginx/1.18.0
==> installer: installing nginx 1.18

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.):

The final errors:

Setting up openjdk-11-jre-headless:amd64 (11.0.8+10-0ubuntu1~18.04.1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/rmid to provide /usr/bin/rmid (rmid) in auto mode
update-alternatives: error: error creating symbolic link '/usr/share/man/man1/rmid.1.gz.dpkg-tmp': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package openjdk-11-jre-headless:amd64 (--configure):
 installed openjdk-11-jre-headless:amd64 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of default-jre-headless:
 default-jre-headless depends on openjdk-11-jre-headless; however:
  Package openjdk-11-jre-headless:amd64 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package default-jre-headless (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ca-certificates-java:
 ca-certificates-java depends on openjdk-11-jre-headless | java8-runtime-headless; however:
  Package openjdk-11-jre-headless:amd64 is not configured yet.
  Package java8-runtime-headless is not installed.
  Package default-jre-headless which provides java8-runtime-headless is not configured yet.
  Package openjdk-11-jre-headless:amd64 which provides java8-runtime-headless is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package ca-certificates-java (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 openjdk-11-jre-headless:amd64
 default-jre-headless
 ca-certificates-java
W: --force-yes is deprecated, use one of the options starting with --allow instead.

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

@alejandrolengua Hmmm. I guess it has Ubuntu 18 installed on that Jelastic?

@murgero said in "Searching toots by their content is not enabled on this Mastodon server.":

https://relay.mastodon.host/inbox

I've entered the url and was almost immediately listed in the "List of 286 registered and active instances:" Thank you!

I have also signed up with a free trial with an ElasticSearch provider (bonsai.io), just to see how to connect my instance to it in order to see what else is out there in the fediverse from within my own instance, I'm sure I'm going to just love trying to hook it all up!

@murgero OK, I ran the CLI tool from the Terminal in the app dashboard, and though there was no indication anything was happening, it seemed to have worked. It helped that I just walked away from my laptop for a few hours, rather than "watching the kettle". So now I do have the Admin panel. BUT, unless signing out and in is part of the CLI process, I didn't do that, it was just there when I reloaded the page. Anyway, thanks again for your help and input. Rather than continue complaining I'm going to try to reread everything that I found not helpful the first time and see if it makes more sense now, and then try to rewrite the directions and post it somewhere. I'm sure I'm not the only user who will boot up a Mastodon instance expecting to have my own personal twitter that is automatically connected by federation!

@murgero Thanks for the reply. I don't have an Admin panel. Just a preferences panel. When I tried appending /admin to my instance I received an error notice about not having permission to access the page, and when I clicked "Abut this server" I saw on the right side this!:

ADMINISTERED BY:

Not set
N/A

But can I find (easily) anything about how to set this up?? No. Just pages about how to use; nothing about how to set it up, or why in a single user instance it isn't automatically set up, nothing. It's unbelievable.

Even within Cloudron, on the app dashboard page, in the dropdown menu, I can see there are three choices, the third one being Admin Page, but this is greyed out. I can't access it. What happened??

OK, I've finally found this: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/setup/#admin Looks promising.

Welp, I'm running various commands from the Terminal window in the app dasshboard, and nothing seems to be happening.

RAILS_ENV=production bin/tootctl accounts modify alice --role admin

produces nothing

bin/tootctl accounts modify alice --role admin

produces nothing.

I'm not surprised this hasn't caught on.

You can add as many domains as you need from your Dashboard. Under your username is a dropdown menu (1), and in that you will see an option for Domains & Certs (2), and from there you can enter in a new domain, sometimes using a handy API from a registrar. Of course, you have to have set an A record for the domain(s) you are adding (do this ahead of time for it to work seamlessly).

Or, in the App dashboard, you can simply add a subdomain if you want to keep just one domain. So, mastodon.example.com, or chat.example.com, etc.

Dashboard

Domains

Enter domain name here

Sorry everyone for coming across negatively, but this is really bugging me! I've googled "mastodon relay", "join (m) relay", etc, and all i find are posts, tons of posts, that read basically, "I've set up a relay, subscribe here!".... but no where is there an explanation about how to subscribe! I see nothing in my mastodon instance to do so, nothing in the settings, nothing in the conf from the Cloudron Filemanager panel, nothing. Nothing. No wonder people stick with twitter and facebook!

Could someone direct me to an actual site with explanations on how to join a relay, or whatever the syntax is, please?

It's increasing for me too. It used to be notifications for just one domain, but now two more are getting the same error notification. But, I thought you had removed this?

@rmdes said in "Searching toots by their content is not enabled on this Mastodon server.":

your mastodon instance is not designed to be able to search the entire fediverse.

"my", or "anyone's". Thanks for your info, I've found you and followed you. So, if I want to follow #indieweb, for example, I need to be on a mastodon instance wherein those tags are used? *I just tried to search, but found the same result: only on my mastodon. So I'm starting to think having a Mastodon instance is really only useful if I am planning a community to use it topically, or already have a community. I don't use it to find other communities? And when I do sign up on other instances, I'm still stuck on just theirs. So I need to sign up with multiple instances if i want to participate in, say, mastodon.social, and another for theres.life, and yet another for weirder.earth? I can't have one identity that can access various mastodon instances/the fediverse? Strange. I guess. Not what I thought it was.

@doodlemania2 I suppose so. I've installed my own Mastodon instance, but am finding it sort of weird that I can't easily find anyone else, nor any other Mastodon instance, from within my own. I read somewhere that part of that is due to a need to offer provacy and protection for users. But, I thought federation didn't just mean anyone could host but that everyone could also connect. Thus far, no. The only way I've found other 'topics' is to google a topic which include "mastodon" in the search query, and then click on promising links which lead me to its respective mastodon instance, and from there I can see who is posting interesting stuff. I then copy their username @user@mastodon.instance, then go back to my own instance and search for them specifically. Then they pop up and I can follow. So far, federated for me means separated and undiscoverable. Oh well.
If elasticsearch would enable me on my single user instance to search for topics and hashtags around the fediverse, that would be an essential plugin. But I see the resource requirements are rather astronomical! Is there not a 'fedi-shared' ES server or service out there?

I have gotten this error message after searching for a few terms or hashtags, seeing as my new little mastodon instance was too quiet. Can someone help me enable this option please? Thank you!

@girish Actually, if it only preps a link to then download to my device then it isn't something I'd need. I've unfortunately already uninstalled it and I don't think I will reinstall. Sorry.

Hi @jdaviescoates How did you get this to work? I keep getting errors like below. If I can't get it to work, and indeed it will download only to my laptop only, I am going to just uninstall this.

ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/code/vendor/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1412, in _decrypt_signature
    video_id, player_url, s
  File "/app/code/vendor/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1324, in _extract_signature_function
    cache_res = res(test_string)
  File "/app/code/vendor/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 1388, in <lambda>
    return lambda s: initial_function([s])
  File "/app/code/vendor/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/jsinterp.py", line 258, in resf
    res, abort = self.interpret_statement(stmt, local_vars)
  File "/app/code/vendor/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/jsinterp.py", line 56, in interpret_statement
    v = self.interpret_expression(expr, local_vars, allow_recursion)
  File "/app/code/vendor/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/jsinterp.py", line 92, in interpret_expression
    m.group('expr'), local_vars, allow_recursion - 1)
  File "/app/code/vendor/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/jsinterp.py", line 189, in interpret_expression
    m.group('x'), local_vars, allow_recursion - 1)
  File "/app/code/vendor/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/jsinterp.py", line 56, in interpret_statement
    v = self.interpret_expression(expr, local_vars, allow_recursion)
  File "/app/code/vendor/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/jsinterp.py", line 211, in interpret_expression
    raise ExtractorError('Unsupported JS expression %r' % expr)
ExtractorError: Unsupported JS expression u'['; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
 (caused by ExtractorError(u"Unsupported JS expression u'['; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.",)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

@rmdes Seems redundant then. I already have youtube-dl on my laptop which I use in my Terminal, and it downloads to the laptop, or in other words, to the same device it is on. Hence, it seemed logical that a VPS-based youtube-dl would also download to the same device -> the VPS. Who actually uses this then, as it seems you have to choose the downloads twice: Once on the youtube-dl, and then again to your computer. I might just go ahead and install it, see for myself. If it is as you describe, I don't use the point of it being installed on a VPS (at least on a Cloudron install, if it won't download to the Cloudron VPS).

I am curious if this is possible. Otherwise, I'll have to download media, but then move them again to make them accessible, right?
thanks!

@alejandrolengua Do you mean you are using it for a Cloudron install?

@rmdes said in Mobile App support:

OAUTH_ENABLED=true

Thank you for posting this. I also can now post remotely. If anyone is interested, my instance is @lenote.eu. I am @scooke. I add this because the one time I was able to search, and find, and follow someone was when they shared their entire name @username@theirinstance.com

@girish But, I want Outbound enabled. And under this option, it says I'm using the Built-in SMTP Server. So, does Cloudron use yahoo? When I click the Send Test Email icon an test email is successfully sent and received. And in the Raw Headers of the received email there is nothing about yahoo (just my Cloudron domain). So, did you mean in an earlier statement that Cloudron tests outgoing smtp servers? As in, a bunch of them? Why would it check the yahoo smtp server? (EDIT: I just checked https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/blob/master/src/mail.js#L102 and it looks like the yahoo smtp check was removed. This makes sense since the Yahoo smtp server isn't a default option in the Outbound settings, although it looks like someone could use it if they set it up manually.) And since that edit was 3 hours ago I haven't yet received another notice about this, so I guess it has been taken care of. Thank you!

Hi, I started getting this error recently. I looked in the logs for the domain/app in question but nothing with 'yahoo' appears. And the email setup for this domain is Outbound only, using the Built-in SMTP Server. How can I see what is causing this error?

Relay error: Connect to smtp.mail.yahoo.com timed out. Check if port 25 (outbound) is blocked
Email Status is checked every 30 minutes. See the troubleshooting docs for more information.