Good morning Fedi friends and happy Saturday!

[elena@aseachange.com]

@def beautifully said Tomás 🙏

[olberger@mastodon.social]

@elena
Have you tried backing up and restoring ?
That kinda stuff may be worth having on your agenda some day ;-)

[elena@aseachange.com]

@olberger I routinely back stuff up through their interface but I bricked things so badly that I couldn’t access the admin via their graphical interface.

Figured it would be quicker to nuke everything and start over (than going through terminal).

That installation was basically 30 min old and I didn’t have anything important on it. Just a fresh install of Sharkey 😅

[olberger@mastodon.social]

@elena You may investigate backing up on remote servers, and restoration... at a later point. Good luck, and please, keep sharing your journey

[elena@aseachange.com]

@olberger yes yes I know and I’m typically much more cautious and take snapshots before starting critical jobs.

This was a fresh installation on a test VPS so I was a little too cavalier about things.

Never in a million years would I do such foolish moves on a VPS hosting important tools. But hey the silver lining is that I learned an important lesson and can integrate it into my YunoHost starter guide 😅

[tanavit@toot.aquilenet.fr]

@elena

Why ordering a new server ?
Was it not possible to reinstall a fresh distribution on the bricked one ?
(I am a newbie in VPS)

[elena@aseachange.com]

@tanavit because I’m the biggest airhead sometimes and I didn’t take a snapshot of the instance before attempting to install Sharkey 🤦🏻‍♀️

in my defense I was in a rush and it was a test VPS with a fresh installation of YunoHost so I didn’t have much at stake. Easier to just wipe it and start over… 🥲

[edwing@mstdn.moimeme.ca]

@elena I hope you have an enjoyable day in the mountains! :-)

[elena@aseachange.com]

🎶​ hello darkness my old friend
🎶 I've come to talk to you again

​ #Sharkey installation attempt no.2

🤓​ this time I took a snapshot before!

☺️​ let's hope it works out this time around

[elena@aseachange.com]

@EdwinG thanks it was really nice! in between the mountain this morning and a bike ride in the afternoon I've squeezed in a new Sharkey installation. All fingers crossed 😅​

[jan@social.dytrych.cloud]

@elena good luck!

[jan@social.dytrych.cloud]

@elena eh, how did it went?

[elena@aseachange.com]

@jan same as last time: when I access the URL I briefly see the Sharkey logo but the page then is blank 😢

then I had the brilliant idea of adding /login/ to the URL and I see the instance but I cannot log in.

In the YunoHost logs I see that there should be an admin user called « sharkey » although that doesn’t work.

I need to manually create the admin / first user and password in Terminal I think 🥲

Everyone is still asleep in the house so I need to wait a little bit. Thanks for the encouragement though 🙏

[jan@social.dytrych.cloud]

@elena let me check on my Yunohost instance. 😉 Will try it if works for me. 🤔

[jan@social.dytrych.cloud]

@elena installing...

[jan@social.dytrych.cloud]

@elena ok, first attempt draw my server in broken state - I wasn't able to ssh into it. Interesting. Need to uninstall and start again.

[elena@aseachange.com]

@jan I installed it twice and always get the blank page… I tried to ssh into my server but got a wrong password last night. Which is weird, I use a password manager. You think the two may be connected?

Thanks for looking into it 🙏❤️

I’ll reset my VPS password in Hetzner console and take it from there…

[d1re_w0lf@mstdn.social]

@elena Are you by any chance using Cloudflare for the DNS?

[elena@aseachange.com]

@d1re_w0lf no... someone else I know also had issues with Sharkey... it's the first app packaged by YunoHost that is giving me such a headache. Usually the installation is seamless 😭​