Settings lost on Armbian

[Siggemada]

I lost the login and settings. Root/root works and brings up the GUI but in Dutch.

Permission issue?

How can I debug this?

[cedricve]

Not sure what you mean, can you providing more detailed instructions and screenshots?

[kocis73]

Hi Cedric
I've the same issue me too. I run an Orange Pi Zero armbian, I've installed the system from https://doc.kerberos.io/2.0/installation/Generic because I did not succeed from Armbian section, I had a warning from lib4.so (or something similar)..
Let me add somthing more. The web interface is not saving any configuration from the beginning. From the starting page I set new user/password, but the next time it runs again from zero, proposing the introduction again with root/root.
After new login the user is always root (even if you set the new user/password).
From the configuration page any change is not saved after click on uploading button.
The only chance is to edit from consolle (i.e. nano config.xml) and restart the system. Then I see from web the new configuration set.
Basically not any configuration can be saved from web interface...
Another minor issue, sometime the machinery status is red, it doesn't run, but maybe is it because of the board?

[cedricve]

hmm interesting definitely is a permission issue. can you try this:

sudo chown www-data -R storage bootstrap/cache config/kerberos.php
sudo chmod -R 775 storage bootstrap/cache
sudo chmod 0600 config/kerberos.php

[cedricve]

@kocis73 if you prefer we can open a teamviewer session, to better understand the situation.

[kocis73]

Many thanks for your availability Cedric.
first I'll try the new permission this evening, I'll keep you posted.

[Siggemada]

Sorry but I can not consistently recreate this. Settings works fine after reboot. Still unable to change resolution of USB camera but login is ok.

[kocis73]

@cedricve I cannot modify those permissions because I have not those directories... maybe something went wrong during the installation of the web.
Actually I run Armbian, but I had to follow the Generic installation. Which are the correct dependencies to install? Ubuntu or Raspbian? Maybe I did a wrong choice... How to start from the beginning?
thanks

[Siggemada]

Ok, I did not change anything and now it works. Sorry, should we close this issue?

kocis73: I can walk you thru the steps I did to install.

[cedricve]

hmm looks like something weird is going here. Can you try to simulate with a blank install @Siggemada. Want to be sure this is a bug or not, and ideally have a better understanding what's happening. Maybe something is missing in the Armbian section?

[kocis73]

@Siggemada it would be great! Can you help me?

[Siggemada]

Yes sure. For this to be of value, I will have to reformat my SD.

I´ll follow the instructions and use the deb file we compiled.

Is there a better way to install npn? Not so keen on all the warnings about unsigned binarys.

[cedricve]

hmm not sure, if you are following the generic installation? or the armbian/raspbian install?

[Siggemada]

Ok, so here are my steps:
-Installed https://www.armbian.com/banana-pi/
Armbian_5.38_Bananapi_Debian_stretch_next_4.14.14

Installed according to:
https://doc.kerberos.io/2.0/installation/Armbian

After installing machinery, I change /etc/opt/config/config.xml:
USBCamera

Instructions tell us to start kerberosio but this results in:
17/02/2018 16:59:50.915 INFO [trivial] Capture: (Warning) You can change the capture device with the configuration files.
VIDEOIO ERROR: V4L2: Pixel format of incoming image is unsupported by OpenCV
Unable to stop the stream: Device or resource busy
17/02/2018 16:59:50.916 ERROR [trivial] OpenCV : can't open usb camera

I guess that it is already started.

I skip this step: echo "deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ stretch main contrib non-free rpi" | sudo tee --append /etc/apt/sources.list

Now I install nodejs and npm in a different way:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

after this I continue with:

sudo apt-get install nginx php7.0 php7.0-curl php7.0-gd php7.0-fpm php7.0-cli php7.0-opcache php7.0-mbstring php7.0-xml php7.0-zip php7.0-mcrypt

and I follow the instructions from here on....

I did not set up the removal crontab job for this test.

[Siggemada]

Now,

1. I set the username and password I want.
2. I log in.
3. I set a new resolution on my USB Camera with advanced mode.
   Suddenly, My username has changed to "root".

I can not log in with the selected username.
username.pdf

[Siggemada]

After reboot, the web interface askes me to set up username again.

I do so and my changed USB cam settings remains those I set.

After clicking on the dashboard the root user is shown again.

[Siggemada]

So, I think I found a consistent problem.

After I click on "Update" under Configuration, Advanced; user displays as "Root".

[Siggemada]

This is the content of /var/www/web/config/kerberos.php after setting a new username/pw at the welcome screen:

'advanced', 'radius' => '1', 'installed' => false, 'users' => array ( 0 => array ( 'id' => 1, 'username' => 'root', 'password' => 'root', 'firstname' => 'Firstname', 'secondname' => 'Lastname', 'language' => 'en', ), ), );

[Siggemada]

Ok, so if I change this with "Update profile" this file do change. And kerberosio works as expected.

[cedricve]

Interesting feedback. Looks like something is going wrong, i'll try to simulate it. when doing so, do you see something weird in the console. Also which browser are you using?

[Siggemada]

My conclusion is that the welcome screen doesn't modify the file. Or that something else is is changing it back.

[cedricve]

Indeed we've had that issue a while ago, which browser are you using?

[Siggemada]

Using chrome. I can try with firefox.

I see a difference if I add /login or if I just go to the ipaddress. The ip address keep redirecting me to the /welcome screen.

[cedricve]

Jep that's normal because it checks the kerberos.php file if its already installed. Can we open a teamviewer session I would like to see what's happening in the console/network tab.

[Siggemada]

I could expose it to the internet and give you the ip.

[aamorin]

I'm having a similar issue with Docker (OS X as host): I've created the docker-compose file, started a container with a unique project name, configured everything and let it there.. after a while, I came back to discover that the web is now on the welcome screen like if it were a new installation. After configuring the user/password, I login and my camera is already configured and working (like if it just lost the login config).

This is the only thing I can see on logs:

2018-03-19 20:04:32,554 CRIT Set uid to user 0
2018-03-19 20:04:32,584 INFO RPC interface 'supervisor' initialized
2018-03-19 20:04:32,584 CRIT Server 'unix_http_server' running without any HTTP authentication checking
2018-03-19 20:04:32,585 INFO supervisord started with pid 31
2018-03-19 20:04:33,589 INFO spawned: 'nginx' with pid 34
2018-03-19 20:04:34,634 INFO success: nginx entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (startsecs)
2018-03-19 20:53:29,462 CRIT Set uid to user 0
Unlinking stale socket /tmp/supervisor.sock
2018-03-19 20:53:29,829 INFO RPC interface 'supervisor' initialized
2018-03-19 20:53:29,829 CRIT Server 'unix_http_server' running without any HTTP authentication checking
2018-03-19 20:53:29,830 INFO supervisord started with pid 30
2018-03-19 20:53:30,834 INFO spawned: 'nginx' with pid 33
2018-03-19 20:53:32,008 INFO success: nginx entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (startsecs)

[cedricve]

I've been trying to resolve this issue for a couple of times and added some extra check to the welcome screen. I have not been able to reproduce this. Somehow the settings from the welcome screen aren't written to the config/kerberos.php file.

@aamorin are you able to reproduce this issue ?

[cedricve]

Ok nevermind, I was able to reproduce. I followed @Siggemada steps. Debugging the issue and will supply a patch.

[cedricve]

Ok found the bug. If you start toggling between advanced/basic on the settings view it reverts the startup config file. Working on a patch. Thanks guys..

[aamorin]

Awesome !!! .. Yes, I was about to tell you that, I came to the same conclusion, it seemed that the trigger was to toggle between advanced/basic..

[cedricve]

hello all, I've created a fix for this. Problem will be fixed in next release.

[cedricve]

Will be integrated in 2.6.1.