Release notes for Excito B3 software version 2.4

[pcrene]

It is indeed in the network interface section on the admin websites.

But do i understand this well that Tor is a kind of free wifi ?
I dont have the wifi version so why active than?

Rene

[pcrene]

Tor (short for The onion router) is a system intended to enable online anonymity. Tor client software routes Internet traffic through a worldwide volunteer network of servers in order to conceal a user's location or usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis. Using Tor makes it more difficult to trace Internet activity, including "visits to Web sites, online posts, instant messages and other communication forms", back to the user[5] and is intended to protect users' personal freedom, privacy, and ability to conduct confidential business by keeping their internet activities from being monitored.

Lent from Wiki.

Rene

[johannes]

I couldn't find any reference to TOR in the admin interface at all. Well hidden it is.

which reminds me: the default interface is bugged in Opera 11.61.

Check admin -> network -> Tor!

[johannes]

k tnx

oh and wtf is this "Remote access through other router" option?. That just has to be the most cryptic description ever. What is this thing? Why is it on by default?

Upnp

Yes, this is upnp, so that when enabled, it tries to open up port 80 in your main router, to simplify setup to get remote access for non-techy users.

[Ubi]

Why then not at least put (uPNP) on there? The current statement isn't just confusing, it's nonsense! It suggests tunnels or NAT or whatever. I at least did not knwo UPNP required a multi-stage access that required at least two routers. Well, you learn something every day!

[RandomUsername]

@Ubi, I think what Johannes meant is that, if your b3 is behind another router it can try to use upnp to open port 80 on the first router so you can get external access to the B3. Not sure what you mean about the multi-stage access but I think you might have misunderstood it's purpose.

[eZap]

Hi,

Tried to do the upgrade via the webinterface...This halted and I recieved the following errror when I did it again: Failures found in package (dpkg) database, unable to continue with upgrade

Have tried the App-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade, but this also halts when setting up forked-daapd:

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root@b3:/etc# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Setting up forked-daapd (0.19-1~bpo60+1) ...
adduser: The GID 65534 does not exist.
dpkg: error processing forked-daapd (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bubba-backend:
 bubba-backend depends on forked-daapd; however:
  Package forked-daapd is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing bubba-backend (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bubba-frontend:
 bubba-frontend depends on bubba-backend (>= 1.0.19); however:
  Package bubba-backend is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing bubba-frontend (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bubba:
 bubba depends on bubba-backend; however:
  Package bubba-backend is not configured yet.
 bubba depends on bubba-frontend; however:
  Package bubba-frontend is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing bubba (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
configured to not write apport reports
                                      configured to not write apport reports
                                                                            configured to not write apport reports
                                  configured to not write apport reports
                                                                        Errors were encountered while processing:
 forked-daapd
 bubba-backend
 bubba-frontend
 bubba
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any suggestions on how to fix this ?

Appreciate your help.
eZap

[Joric17]

Hi,

Since the update I am getting messages like this:

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
error: error running non-shared postrotate script for /var/log/forked-daapd.log of '/var/log/forked-daapd.log '
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1

Any help?

Thanks
Eric

[eZap]

Hi again.

I have solved my issue with the 2.4 upgrade, where forked-daapd halted the process.
This was solved by adding the group nobody (nobody65534) followed by the "apt-get dist-upgrade".

//eZap

[carl]

Hi,

I get the message "Upgrade halted: Nothing to upgrade". I have a custom version due to manual downgrade of Squeezecenter to resolve database issues with 2.3.1.1/ SqC 7.6.1 :


Package name Package version
bubba 2.3.1.1
bubba-album 2.3
bubba-backend 2.3.1
bubba-frontend 2.3.1
bubba3-kernel 2.6.38-1
filetransferdaemon 0.50.26
squeezecenter 7.5.4.dfsg1-2

Could you please support me in upgrading to 2.4? Thanks a lot!!

Cheers!!

What you will have to do is to upgrade manually from the command line, using following instructions:

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DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get dist-upgrade

Hi,

When I trie this, i get the following message:


root@b3:~# DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update
Hit http://b3.update.excito.org elvin/snapshots/2.3.0.2 Release.gpg
Ign http://b3.update.excito.org/ elvin/snapshots/2.3.0.2/main Translation-en
Hit http://b3.update.excito.org upstream_squeeze/snapshots/2.3.0.2 Release.gpg
Ign http://b3.update.excito.org/ upstream_squeeze/snapshots/2.3.0.2/main Transla tion-en
Hit http://b3.update.excito.org elvin/snapshots/2.3.0.2 Release
Hit http://b3.update.excito.org upstream_squeeze/snapshots/2.3.0.2 Release
Ign http://b3.update.excito.org elvin/snapshots/2.3.0.2/main armel Packages
Ign http://b3.update.excito.org upstream_squeeze/snapshots/2.3.0.2/main armel Pa ckages
Hit http://b3.update.excito.org elvin/snapshots/2.3.0.2/main armel Packages
Hit http://b3.update.excito.org upstream_squeeze/snapshots/2.3.0.2/main armel Pa ckages
Reading package lists... Done
W: Conflicting distribution: http://b3.update.excito.org elvin/snapshots/2.3.0.2 Release (expected elvin/snapshots but got elvin)
W: Conflicting distribution: http://b3.update.excito.org upstream_squeeze/snapsh ots/2.3.0.2 Release (expected upstream_squeeze/snapshots but got upstream_squeez e)
root@b3:~# DEBIAN_fRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@b3:~#

Do you have any instructions for me?

Thanks,

Winston

Hello Winston,

I see you are trying to upgrade against a snapshot (Assuming you have changed to the snapshop in the post), try issuing the command "change_distribution elvin" and try again.

[carl]

About that being cryptic...

Thanks for confirming that there is in fact a new kernel. Can anyone please where / when the kernel source for this version will be available? For now I'll have to skip the update, how promising the improvements may seem.

The new kernel source is directly available now as a debian source package, i.e. if you enables sources in your apt-sources (change_distribution -s elvin && apt-get update), then you can issue "apt-get source bubba3-kernel" for the sources.

[carl]

edit 2: Seems you forgot to ship the web interface in the deb... In /var/log/forked-daapd.log I get lots of the following:

From what I figured out, forked-daapd doesn't have a web-interface (Config file even says "# Admin password for the non-existent web interface"). I never really used the web-interface for mt-daapd because I found it never to be of any use.

[DanielM]

edit 2: Seems you forgot to ship the web interface in the deb... In /var/log/forked-daapd.log I get lots of the following:

From what I figured out, forked-daapd doesn't have a web-interface (Config file even says "# Admin password for the non-existent web interface"). I never really used the web-interface for mt-daapd because I found it never to be of any use.

Yes, that's the conclusion I came to as well after some more searching. Sorry for not stating it here.

Anyways, the only thing I ever used mt-daapd's web interface for was to click "force scan" (or whatever the name of the button was) because the scanner was so crappy. forked-daapd doesn't seem to need this, when I change stuff in my tags now it's changed in forked-daapd immediately. So there clearly is no need for any web interface any longer

/Daniel

[eramoli]

The new kernel source is directly available now as a debian source package, i.e. if you enables sources in your apt-sources (change_distribution -s elvin && apt-get update), then you can issue "apt-get source bubba3-kernel" for the sources.

And is it to the file "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/excito.list" that I should add "deb-src http://b3.update.excito.org elvin main" or is there a better, more correct, place?

Is there a reason for not having it in there from the start?

Best Regards,
Morgan

[eramoli]

The new kernel source is directly available now as a debian source package, i.e. if you enables sources in your apt-sources (change_distribution -s elvin && apt-get update), then you can issue "apt-get source bubba3-kernel" for the sources.

And is it to the file "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/excito.list" that I should add "deb-src http://b3.update.excito.org elvin main" or is there a better, more correct, place?

Is there a reason for not having it in there from the start?

I just noticed that the "change_distribution" command didi was I was asking for, sorry.

/Morgan