Noob In Need Of Piratebox Board Assistance

Hello there PirateBox

So I recently found the piratebox project and was instantly intrigued with it. I immediately set to work collecting the things I'd need to build one.

I got it up and running a few days ago and it's been working great! I started an initial trial of the box and everything was working. The chat, file directory, and the image board. But when I got up the next morning, the board wouldn't work.

I could still chat and upload but when I tried to access the board all I got was a blank white screen. I ssh'ed into the box and tried running the board startup command again to no avail. I've been working on the problem for a couple of days and I can't figure it out.

I'm running the piratebox on an MR3040 and a San Disk 16BG Flash.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Navigate to your image board directory in ssh and run the command 'ls -al' without the quotes. Post what it says. Be sure to use the "code -> HTML strict" tag here on the forums to keep the formatting correct.

As for the first part of your message, here is what was printed when I navigated to /opt/piratebox/fourmspace and typed ls -al:

drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1024 Jan 27 16:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 Jan 27 16:06 ..



As for the second part of your response, I'm sort of confused.What do you mean by "code -> HTLM strict"?

I'm not the support expert on the MR3040, but it looks to me that ALL of the board files are missing. Nothing is there. Possibly the wrong directory? I know on the Raspberry Pi, the board is /opt/piratebox/share/board. Look in there. If you have created symlinks, be sure those point to the correct device & location.

Your directory listing of the board should look like this or very similar:

Language: HTML
[alarm@alarmpi ~]$ ls -al /opt/piratebox/share/board/
total 216
drwxrwxr-x 11 nobody nogroup  4096 Jan 27 00:03 .
drwxrwxr-x  7 nobody nogroup  4096 Jan 27 16:23 ..
-rwxrwxr-x  1 nobody nogroup 12758 Apr 16  2009 admin.pl
-rwxrwxr-x  1 nobody nogroup  7834 May 16  2006 captcha.pl
-rw-rw-r--  1 nobody nogroup 12508 Jan 27 00:00 config.pl
-rw-rw-r--  1 nobody nogroup  8037 Jan 26 17:38 config_defaults.pl
drwxrwxr-x  2 nobody nogroup  4096 Jan 26 17:38 css
-rw-rw-r--  1 nobody nogroup   575 May 16  2006 example.htaccess
drwxrwxr-x  4 nobody nogroup  4096 Jan 26 17:38 extras
drwxrwxr-x  2 nobody nogroup  4096 Feb 23  2005 icons
drwxrwxr-x  2 nobody nogroup  4096 Jan 26 17:38 include
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody nogroup  4725 Jan 27 00:03 index.html
-rw-rw-r--  1 nobody nogroup     0 Jan 26 17:38 init_done
-rw-rw-r--  1 nobody nogroup   894 Sep 14  2004 kareha.ico
-rw-rw-r--  1 nobody nogroup  6150 May 16  2006 kareha.js
-rwxrwxr-x  1 nobody nogroup 32042 Jan 28  2007 kareha.pl
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody nogroup    75 Jan 26 23:30 log.txt
drwxrwxr-x  6 nobody nogroup  4096 Jul  7  2006 mode_image
drwxrwxr-x  5 nobody nogroup  4096 Jul  7  2006 mode_message
drwxrwxr-x  2 nobody nogroup  4096 Jan 27 00:03 res
-rw-rw-r--  1 nobody nogroup  5696 Apr 16  2009 spam.txt
drwxrwxr-x  2 nobody nogroup  4096 Feb 26  2005 src
-rw-rw-r--  1 nobody nogroup 17037 Jan 26 23:27 templates.pl
drwxrwxr-x  2 nobody nogroup  4096 Feb 26  2005 thumb
-rw-rw-r--  1 nobody nogroup 32069 Apr 16  2009 wakautils.pl
-rw-rw-r--  1 nobody nogroup  1912 Jan 26 17:38 zeroconv.pl
[alarm@alarmpi ~]$

My guess, is there was a power failure or something didn't remount correctly.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/31/2016 05:54AM by TheExpertNoob.

polycole Wrote:
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> As for the first part of your message, here is
> what was printed when I navigated to
> /opt/piratebox/fourmspace and typed ls -al:
>
> drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1024 Jan 27
> 16:06 .
> drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 Jan 27
> 16:06 ..
>
>
>
> As for the second part of your response, I'm sort
> of confused.What do you mean by "code -> HTLM
> strict"?

?? The imageboard directory is /opt/piratebox/share/board

best regards
Matthias

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This is only my signature.

Oh my goodness. Thanks to Matthais, who pointed out that I was looking in the wrong directory.... Here's what was ACTUALLY in /opt/piratebox/share/board directory.

drwxrwxrwx 11 root root 8192 Jan 27 16:01 .
drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 8192 Jan 27 08:02 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12758 Apr 16 2009 admin.pl
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7834 May 17 2006 captcha.pl
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12508 Jan 27 16:01 config.pl
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8037 Jan 1 1980 config_defaults.pl
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 8192 Jan 1 1980 css
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 575 May 17 2006 example.htaccess
drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 8192 Jan 1 1980 extras
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 8192 Feb 23 2005 icons
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 8192 Jan 1 1980 include
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 27 08:21 index.html
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1980 init_done
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 894 Sep 14 2004 kareha.ico
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6150 May 17 2006 kareha.js
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32042 Jan 28 2007 kareha.pl
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 143 Jan 27 08:17 log.txt
drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 8192 Jul 8 2006 mode_image
drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 8192 Jul 8 2006 mode_message
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 8192 Jan 27 08:17 res
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5696 Apr 16 2009 spam.txt
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 8192 Feb 26 2005 src
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17044 Jan 1 1980 templates.pl
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 8192 Feb 26 2005 thumb
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32069 Apr 16 2009 wakautils.pl
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1912 Jan 1 1980 zeroconv.pl

Thanks so much for trying to help me!

Oh my goodness. You're totally right. So sorry about that. I'm brand new to all this piratebox stuff. Thanks for pointing that out!!

can you post the output of the following commands please?

cat /opt/piratebox/tmp/break.log
cat /opt/piratebox/tmp/error.log

I tried both commands. cat /opt/piratebox/tmp/break.log returned nothing. The second command produced this:


1970-01-01 00:00:51: (log.c.166) server started
1970-01-01 00:00:51: (server.c.968) WARNING: unknown config-key: url.access-deny (ignored)

then try to delete the index.html of the board, and rerun the kareha.pl (clicking inside the later shown directory listing).
Run the following on you box

rm /opt/piratebox/share/board/index.html

Then open the browser, click on the board link- then kareha.pl .. after that the Index should be regenerated. If not, *directly* connect via telnet and check the both logfiles again.

You sir, are a scholar and a gentlemen. Thank you sososo much for your help! It has been greatly appreciated.

I have exactly the same problem, so I tried this but at the very last step I got:

No ADMIN_PASS defined in the configuration at config_defaults.pl line 8.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at config_defaults.pl line 133.
Compilation failed in require at /opt/piratebox/www/board/kareha.pl line 13.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /opt/piratebox/www/board/kareha.pl line 13.

I'm quite a n00b myself, so no idea how to fix this. Can you help?

ps. I have OpenWRT and Piratebox installed on a TP-Link MR3020.
When I SSH into it and ls I get nothing back where I used to see the directories. The page in browser still works though and when I follow the path you provided /opt/piratebox/share/board I get everything I used to have directly after SSH.

did you run the script to setup the board password?

Hi,

i'm trying to install a Piratebox but I have a problem during the script.

here is the code from the consol :

----------------------------------------------------
* Starting script piratebox
Generating hosts file ....
Generating dnsmasq.conf .....
Generating Environment-config for lighttpd .....
Empty tmp folder
rm: cannot remove ‘/opt/piratebox/tmp/’: Is a directory
Copy over design files
* Probing wlan * Starting hostap... [ OK ]
* Setting up wlan Bringing up wifi interface wlan0
Setting up wlan0
* Starting dnsmasq... [ OK ]
* Starting droopy... [ OK ]
Generated HTML-Shoutbox File.
CRITICAL: /opt/piratebox/share/Shared modified 1 minutes ago. Threshold set to 5 minutes. Cannot update.
Generated HTML-DiskUsage File.
* Starting lighttpd... [ OK ]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

In the error file from "tmp" i have this :

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2016-08-16 17:36:47: (log.c.164) server started
2016-08-16 17:36:47: (server.c.1045) WARNING: unknown config-key: url.access-deny (ignored)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Could someone help me please ?

What device are you using?
Also, unless your problem is related t this thread, please open a new one.

Ubuntuhak, playing and tinkering with Ubuntu!

And the error messages doesn't look like an issue