[Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE 0.5

Mon Dec 30 23:16:37 EST 2013

In order to change from a appliance machine to a gateway machine, the
playbook and ansible will need to rewrite the iptables, and get the ports
right so that dansguardian properly filters content that comes from the
internet.

I doubt very much that all this would work, without running "./runansible"
again.  When I was loading 0.5 on a x86-64, the adapters were not
discovered properly.  The quickest way to discover this, for me, is to type
iptables-save in a root terminal.  Look at the masquerade line.  The output
-o needs to be the wan adapter, and the -i the lan.

I'm not understanding why you would want to change appliance -> gateway
without running ansible?

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Curt Thompson <curtathompson at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Just to recap for server-devel at lists.laptop.org,
>
> In virtualbox using XFCE and installing XSCE 0.5, a problem appeared with
> idmgr when doing ./runansible
> ->the solution was to first run "yum -y update audit" and then rerun
> ./runansible.  After this, XSCE seemed to be working normally with the
> exception of the IIAB link being active despite no IIAB device attached.
>
> New Info:
> Setting the network adapter in Virtualbox to "bridged" made XSCE
> accessible from other devices on the LAN.  Rerunning ./runansible was not
> necessary (previously the adapter was in "NAT"mode).  "Appliance mode'
> seems to work quite smoothly and is easy to set up, in VirtualBox at least
> (will try on physical hardware later tonight).
>
> I had previously disabled SELinux, reenabled it to see if disabling it was
> necessary.  Many errors pop up when SELinux is enabled.  Set it back to
> "disabled"
>
> I enabled a second network adapter and booted up to see what would
> happen.  Everything seems to work locally, portal is still accessible from
> other machines on the host's network.
>
> Next question:
> However, XSCE does not seem to be acting as a server/gateway.  Would the
> best solution be to rerun ./runansible now that two network adapters are
> connected?  My understanding is that ./runansible will detect that there
> are two available adapters, one of which is an internet gateway, and set
> itself up in gateway mode.  Is that about right?  Would it be easy enough
> to do without rerunning ./runansible?  (Just get dhcpd going, for example?)
>
> ((I'm sort of imagining a real-world scenario where we got XSCE installed
> with one network adapter, then internet was cut off, then someone came
> through with a second USB network adapter - some scenario like that.  Could
> we get it going so that the machien would work as a router/gateway when
> internet came back... easily?))
>
>
>
>
>
> On 12/30/2013 4:29 PM, Anna wrote:
>
>  As far as accessing it from other machines on your LAN, I've had success
> with configuring the VM's network for Bridged mode and specifying the host
> machine's adapter.  Can't remember if I needed to rerun ./runansible, but
> it seems like I didn't have to (though it wouldn't hurt anything).
>
>  I also can't remember if I needed to disable SELinux on the host machine
> or not.  Sorry, I just got back home after a week with the family and my
> head's not quite back in the game yet.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> Curt,
>>
>> Can you share your conclusions more publicly on
>> server-devel at lists.laptop.org or
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition or similar?
>>
>>
>>  On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Curt Thompson <curtathompson at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>   Anna, George, Tim, Braddock,
>>>
>>> Thank you, ansible finished without issue after "yum update audit",
>>> rebooted, and I seem to have XSCE 0.5 running in appliance mode - quite
>>> easy.
>>>
>>> URLs "schoolserver" and local IP "10.0.2.15" bring up portal as expected.
>>>
>>> semi-bug?
>>> Internet In A Box link appears active and is clickable though no IIAB
>>> device is attached.
>>>
>>> Next:
>>> What would I need to do to convert this into a Gateway-style install of
>>> XSCE?  I could enable another adapter in VirtualBox and rerun ansible, but
>>> the install documentation seems to hint that rerunning ansible may not be
>>> necessary.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/30/2013 3:28 PM, Anna wrote:
>>>  > Oh, you're right, Braddock, Miguel resolved that with pr/103:
>>> https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/pull/103
>>> >
>>> > So updating the audit package on FC18 should be the only workaround
>>> for a successful install, now.
>>> >
>>> >
>>>  > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Braddock <braddock at braddock.com
>>> <mailto:braddock at braddock.com> <braddock at braddock.com>> wrote:
>>> >
>>>
>>>  On 12/30/2013 03:20 PM, Anna wrote:
>>> > I've used that ISO and for idmgr had to do:
>>>
>>> > yum update audit
>>>
>>> > Then there's a conflict with IIAB (which is currently being
>>> > addressed, I believe) but in the meantime, the workaround is:
>>>
>>> What is the conflict, and am I the one addressing it?  I don't recall
>>> it off hand.
>>>
>>>  -braddock
>>>
>>> > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Curt Thompson
>>>  > <curtathompson at gmail.com <mailto:curtathompson at gmail.com><curtathompson at gmail.com><
>>> mailto:curtathompson at gmail.com <curtathompson at gmail.com>
>>> <mailto:curtathompson at gmail.com> <curtathompson at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I started with XFCE, the ISO file is named:
>>> > Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-XFCE.iso
>>>
>>> > Installed through the GUI without customization except what the
>>> > installer asks for (location, username, pass, etc).
>>>
>>> > On 12/30/2013 3:07 PM, Tim Moody wrote:
>>> >> what do you start with as a blank FC18 before installing xsce?
>>> >> I start with a minimal install.
>>> >>
>>> >> Tim -----Original Message----- From: Curt Thompson Sent: Monday,
>>> >> December 30, 2013 5:52 PM To: xsce-devel at googlegroups.com
>>> <mailto:xsce-devel at googlegroups.com> <xsce-devel at googlegroups.com>
>>>  >> <mailto:xsce-devel at googlegroups.com <xsce-devel at googlegroups.com>
>>> <mailto:xsce-devel at googlegroups.com> <xsce-devel at googlegroups.com>>
>>> Subject: [XSCE] XSCE 0.5
>>>
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi everyone,
>>> >>
>>> >> I've been trying to get XSCE 0.5 running in a VirtualBox VM for a
>>> >> few days now, but without much success.  Since there don't seem
>>> >> to be instructions for x86_64 machines yet, I just followed the
>>> >> instructions for XOs and hoped to fix whatever problems arise.
>>> >> Perhaps we should start with this:
>>> >>
>>> >> TASK: [idmgr | Install idmgr packages] fails. Summarized as:
>>> >> "file /usr/lib64/audit from install of glibc-2.16-34.fc18x86_64
>>> >> conflicts with file from package audit-2.2.1-2.fc18.x86_64"
>>> >>
>>> >> Under PLAY RECAP, I see ok-67, changed=10, unreachable=0,
>>> >> failed=1
>>> >>
>>> >> This VM has one network adapter, ideally I'd be installing it as
>>> >> an appliance first to test out, then either changing the current
>>> >> installation to the gateway install or reinstalling from scratch
>>> >> with XSCE 0.5 in gateway mode (former method preferable)
>>> >>
>>> >> I did try to reboot to see if XSCE would work, the VM just grabs
>>> >> the same DHCP address from the gateway here (10.0.2.15).  Typing
>>> >> "schoolserver" or <local ip address> brings me to Fedora/Apache
>>> >> Test Page.
>>> >>
>>> >> I have some familiarity with linux, but I'm no superstar.  If
>>> >> anybody would like to help me get this XSCE 0.5 VM going please
>>> >> let me know, send me some advice, or point me to some
>>> >> documentation if I've
>>> > missed it.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks Curt
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    >
>>> >
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
>>
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