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"after a while, browsing to IIAB home page fails, and requires IIAB to be rebooted, somewhat regularly" "menu.json file is broken and could not be patched" [`systemctl restart hostapd` appears to work, as an ugly workaround?]

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Question from @nzola: > cellphones can't open the browser. But is it is rebooting iiab that repairs the issue. This situation is still coming back and I have to reboot...

Should IIAB try to offer OnlyOffice (ONLYOFFICE) that is growing in popularity?

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Especially given that Nextcloud Office effectively _no longer really works_ (unless one pays per seat / per user licensing!) This de facto (very real) change in Nextcloud's pricing arrangements has...

FYI [Manual Installation](https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/Manual-Installation) of Calibre-Web does not work (as tested on 4+ OS's including Debian 12 & 13, Ubuntu 24.04 & 24.10) unless this additional/manual step is added: ``` ./venv/bin/python3...

Ubuntu 25.04 pre-release testing + actively discourage 3 old OS's

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Tested on Ubuntu 24.10. Helps prepare for Ubuntu 25.04 pre-release testing (daily/nightly images will be available very shortly in coming weeks). Resolves: - #3758 Analogous changes about a year ago...

Admin Console download of 5.5GB Ubongo Videos won't start, or is stuck, and Kiwix catalog cannot be refreshed? [Later on, all ZIM files appear as "502 Bad Gateway"]

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Trying to download the 5.5GB Ubongo Videos (full set) leads to "SCHEDULED" (screenshot further below) but it never starts:   Canceling individual jobs ("Cancel...

urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.github.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /repos/iiab-share/js-menu-files/contents/menu-defs/

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@tim-moody have you seen this before? > 2024-10-03 23:05:19,524 p=7857 u=root n=ansible | TASK [js-menu : Post process the downloaded menu defs] ******************************************************************************** 2024-10-03 23:05:36,767 p=7857 u=root n=ansible | fatal:...

Does IIAB currently install on the new Edubuntu 24.04.1 ? [YES! Compare OS's UX/UI & Learning Apps to Linux Mint, Raspberry Pi OS & Ubermix?]

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@EMG70 can you take a look in the coming week? (If you have time to compare this to Mint 22?!) - Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS released, and Edubuntu 24.04.1 too: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2024-August/000304.html...

How hard will it be to make Calibre-Web work with Python 3.13 ?

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Just curious, as Debian 13 "Trixie" and Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" now make such testing possible, with these 2 pre-release OS's now quite stable, and being released in coming months...

To be merged later in May. Related ansible-core 2.7.11 announcements: - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/releases/tag/v2.17.11 - https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-release-ansible-core-v2-17-11/41879 Building on: - PR #3842 - PR #3998

Include Minetest client software for Windows/Android for offline communities? [Luanti, Minecraft]

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IIAB could possibly offer http://box/software as a synonym for the pre-existing http://box/local_content == http://box/usb Reason: what client software to offer each community tends to be highly-dependent on local needs /...