RetroShare

[dhf7b8g]

I'm stuck in retroshare crash hell 😟 Haven't been able to use it in quite a while
Currently using 0.6.6 which previously worked well enough. I would get crashes every now and again but it was generally pretty usable.
Now though it consistently crashes within the first minute or two of being open.
I looked into the issue and it was fixed in 0.6.7, good news right? Nope, 0.6.7 crashes instantly.

This might finally push me to compiling from source and building a webui only docker image

[Like Ra]

@hypnoisbetterthancrypto - I see you deleted your posts. Why? Is everything OK?

[dhf7b8g]

Built myself a completely headless docker image  😋
Ran into a few issues though.
The first being that building the retroshare service with webui requires that you also build the GUI (quite strange but whatever)
The second is that I don't have friend servers although I'm not sure how big of a downside this is as I have been using 0.6.6
The third and final issue is that the webui isn't all that useful yet. Its still missing quite a bit of functionality and it handles some things very slowly (file lists make my cpu fans spin up on the client machine)

Interestingly the GUI binary I built myself don't have the crashing issue I was experiencing so it must have been fixed in a later commit.

Anyway I have attached the dockerfile for anyone interested. It is not optimised for space in any way so it will comparatively be quite large

Here is an example docker compose to use the image after building it
```
services:
  Retroshare:
        container_name: Retroshare
        restart: always
        image: retroshare-webui:latest
        volumes:
            - /path/to/your/.retroshare:/home/retroshareuser/.retroshare
        ports:
            - 9092:9092
        environment:
            - WEBUI_PASSWORD=password #Password you want to use for the webui
            - USER_ID=UserID # The xxxxxxxxx part of your HID_xxxxxxxx folder in .retroshare
            - USER_PASSWORD=password # Password you normally log in with
```

[yast2]

Built myself a completely headless docker image  😋
Ran into a few issues though.
The first being that building the retroshare service with webui requires that you also build the GUI (quite strange but whatever)
The second is that I don't have friend servers although I'm not sure how big of a downside this is as I have been using 0.6.6
The third and final issue is that the webui isn't all that useful yet. Its still missing quite a bit of functionality and it handles some things very slowly (file lists make my cpu fans spin up on the client machine)

Interestingly the GUI binary I built myself don't have the crashing issue I was experiencing so it must have been fixed in a later commit.

Anyway I have attached the dockerfile for anyone interested. It is not optimised for space in any way so it will comparatively be quite large

Here is an example docker compose to use the image after building it
```
services:
  Retroshare:
        container_name: Retroshare
        restart: always
        image: retroshare-webui:latest
        volumes:
            - /path/to/your/.retroshare:/home/retroshareuser/.retroshare
        ports:
            - 9092:9092
        environment:
            - WEBUI_PASSWORD=password #Password you want to use for the webui
            - USER_ID=UserID # The xxxxxxxxx part of your HID_xxxxxxxx folder in .retroshare
            - USER_PASSWORD=password # Password you normally log in with
```

Hi!
Any idea if / how I could get that running in unraid?

[dhf7b8g]

Hi!
Any idea if / how I could get that running in unraid?

I don't have any experience with unraid but you should be able to follow a generic guide on how to run a docker container with docker compose for unraid.
The only difference would be that you need to build the image yourself but you can do this on another device, upload it to dockerhub and then pull as (should be) described in the guides.

[VulpineFoxs]

It happened again. Retroshare just stopped functioning. As in, I open retroshare, it connects to Tor, starting loading and then... it hangs forever. It stops responding.

I did nothing. It was working perfectly fine. I restarted my PC and then it stopped working. This exact thing happened before the previous time I tried to use Retroshare.

I'm at my wit's end. There is N O T H I N G on the net about this. I try to search literally anything about retroshare and the best I get is completely useless outdated documentation.

I'm on Windows 11, so it's possible that's the issue?

[VulpineFoxs]

It happened again. Retroshare just stopped functioning. As in, I open retroshare, it connects to Tor, starting loading and then... it hangs forever. It stops responding.
I did nothing. It was working perfectly fine. I restarted my PC and then it stopped working. This exact thing happened before the previous time I tried to use Retroshare.
I'm at my wit's end. There is N O T H I N G on the net about this. I try to search literally anything about retroshare and the best I get is completely useless outdated documentation.
I'm on Windows 11, so it's possible that's the issue?

Sigh.

Through painful trial and error, involving selectively deleting files until I figured out which bloody file was causing the issue, I figured it out.

It was the fucking webui. For some god-forsaken reason if you click "enable webui" in the preferences my retroshare will work perfectly fine, the webui will work perfectly fine... until I close it and try to open it again. In which case it will load Tor and then freeze and die as it tries and, for some still unknown reason, fails to initiate the webui again.

To fix this I can just go to the config file and manually disable the webui. After that it works fine again.

The previous time this happened to me a few months ago it was the same thing. I had enabled the webui and afterwards it never opened again. I didn't realize the connection at the time because I had left my pc open for multiple days.

[Grendel75]

I'll keep trying.

I assume you tried restarting RS... And updating RS?

Thank you so much for assisting. Sorry been away on business for awhile and haven't had a chance to get back to it.
Not sure what fixed the issue but yes, full update, deleted off a lot of the inactives and a few hours later files started to appear again.
Now I just need to get a dedicated computer that I can leave on so that I can regularly upload more. Sharing a computer with the rest of the family, even with separate accounts makes for difficult times.
Thanks again

[brandynette]

i have no friends. sad.
Asking for a Friend!

[Like Ra]

i have no friends. sad.
Asking for a Friend!

Keep adding certs, approving connections and staying online.