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KiwiSDR unable to login with SDR.HU [caused by new Comcast/Xfinity "advanced security" feature]

jks

April 2020

At the moment I can't connect to http://71.197.249.8:8073
It just times out. If you hover over your purple icon on rx.linkfanel.net it says "Last online: 7 hours ago".

So I think you've got incoming… (more)

New KiwiSDR is non-functional after upgrade from 1.2 to 1.383 [fixed, but root cause not understood]

jks

April 2020

Re: links on kiwisdr.com pages to forum for more info about password changes. You're absolutely right -- these links are totally broken. Were they ever set correctly in the first place? I don't know.… (more) It almost looks like I had set a placeholder link and then forgot to go back and edit the content. I'm always pretty good about checking links in hand-edited html because they are so easy to get wrong. Anyway, should be good now.

If you haven't already started making customizations to your Kiwi configuration and you want to try the regular install procedure then just do this: Re-flash to v1.2 using your sd card (with the Ethernet disconnected just for good measure). Then after the re-flash powers down remove the sd card, reconnect Ethernet and power up.

You should be able to ssh in using the root account and a blank password since the v1.2 image will be running for the hour it will take for v1.384 to be installed. Upgrading from v1.2 doesn't have a nice log file you can follow to see the process. But you could do a successive "ps ax" (or your favorite variant) and get a rough idea of what's going on. There will be an initial period of apt-get activity as many Debian packages are installed, the largest being the Clang compiler suite. Eventually clang will get invoked on the Kiwi sources and that will take the balance of the time. Things will be very slow during the compilation of the DRM sources as they are written using true, extensive C++ constructs which cause the compiler no end of heartburn (me too as I was trying to wade through that stuff, lol). At the very end a bunch of time is spent coalescing all the data files (.js, .html, .jpeg et al) into the in-memory image file which is done via a pearl script that generates these huge inline C data files. After that the usual "make install" behavior that moves all the binary files into place.

Then a reboot to (hopefully) v1.384 when the one-time password changes will be applied where the root password will be set to the Kiwi serial number since there was never a point in this whole sequence where a Kiwi admin password was set manually. Same for the "debian" user account password.

I have done this procedure a number of times now and it's always worked. So I'd be keen to understand any case where it doesn't.

Cheers,
John (less)

New KiwiSDR is non-functional after upgrade from 1.2 to 1.383 [fixed, but root cause not understood]

jks

April 2020

Re: links on kiwisdr.com pages to forum for more info about password changes. You're absolutely right -- these links are totally broken. Were they ever set correctly in the first place? I don't know.… (more) It almost looks like I had set a placeholder link and then forgot to go back and edit the content. I'm always pretty good about checking links in hand-edited html because they are so easy to get wrong. Anyway, should be good now.

If you haven't already started making customizations to your Kiwi configuration and you want to try the regular install procedure then just do this: Re-flash to v1.2 using your sd card (with the Ethernet disconnected just for good measure). Then after the re-flash powers down remove the sd card, reconnect Ethernet and power up.

You should be able to ssh in using the root account and a blank password since the v1.2 image will be running for the hour it will take for v1.384 to be installed. Upgrading from v1.2 doesn't have a nice log file you can follow to see the process. But you could do a successive "ps ax" (or your favorite variant) and get a rough idea of what's going on. There will be an initial period of apt-get activity as many Debian packages are installed, the largest being the Clang compiler suite. Eventually clang will get invoked on the Kiwi sources and that will take the balance of the time. Things will be very slow during the compilation of the DRM sources as they are written using true, extensive C++ constructs which cause the compiler no end of heartburn (me too as I was trying to wade through that stuff, lol). At the very end a bunch of time is spent coalescing all the data files (.js, .html, .jpeg et al) into the in-memory image file which is done via a pearl script that generates these huge inline C data files. After that the usual "make install" behavior that moves all the binary files into place.

Then a reboot to (hopefully) v1.384 when the one-time password changes will be applied where the root password will be set to the Kiwi serial number since there was never a point in this whole sequence where a Kiwi admin password was set manually. Same for the "debian" user account password.

I have done this procedure a number of times now and it's always worked. So I'd be keen to understand any case where it doesn't.

Cheers,
John (less)

New KiwiSDR is non-functional after upgrade from 1.2 to 1.383 [fixed, but root cause not understood]

jks

March 2020

Okay, there seems to be a couple of issues going on here.

1) I got screwed over by dropbox.

The v1.383 img.xz file has the correct filename, contents and SHA on my laptop dropbox directory. But even… (more)

New KiwiSDR is non-functional after upgrade from 1.2 to 1.383 [fixed, but root cause not understood]

jks

March 2020

Okay, there seems to be a couple of issues going on here.

1) I got screwed over by dropbox.

The v1.383 img.xz file has the correct filename, contents and SHA on my laptop dropbox directory. But even… (more)

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KiwiSDR unable to login with SDR.HU [caused by new Comcast/Xfinity "advanced security" feature]

New KiwiSDR is non-functional after upgrade from 1.2 to 1.383 [fixed, but root cause not understood]

New KiwiSDR is non-functional after upgrade from 1.2 to 1.383 [fixed, but root cause not understood]

New KiwiSDR is non-functional after upgrade from 1.2 to 1.383 [fixed, but root cause not understood]

New KiwiSDR is non-functional after upgrade from 1.2 to 1.383 [fixed, but root cause not understood]