[Freedombox-discuss] FYI: FreedomBox upgrades, qemu.

[A. F. Cano]

In my ongoing attemps to figure out why after the last dist-upgrade nothing
from inside goes out unless the firewall is disabled, I have set up another
SD card with debian 12, while it was still in testing.  Not an upgrade from
11 which is what stopped working in the main FreedomBox.

The apu1d4 is, per lshw, capable of 1600MHz (2 cores).  Qemu runs on a 2.3GHz
computer, 2 cpus, 4 x 2 cores.  To simulate the apu1d4, qemu was started like
this:

sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=/dev/sdf,media=disk -m 4G -smp 2 -nic user,hostfwd=tcp::10080-:443

I can access the web interface by pointing the browser to

https://127.0.0.1:10080

I would have thought that this would be a pretty similar set up, with the
additional cpu power compensating for the emulator overhead, but the
FreedomBox image, that was at 22.12, has been "updating" for 10 days now.

I can also not login at the "Freedombox login:".  Not only does it claim
incorrect user name or password, the qemu window steals the cursor rendering
the whole computer inaccessible via mouse until I type CTRL + ALT + G (lower
case ok), as I found here:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/107633/how-do-i-get-my-mouse-back-from-qemu-kvm

I know the ueer name and password are correct.  I have tried to "change" it
using the same one and it succeeded, but it gave some LDAP error.

This is a brand new FreedomBox image, downloaded while it was still in testing
and the only configuration done to it is the admin user, as required by the
first boot setup.  Then it was upgraded a few times, until version 22.12.

I might stop it or let it run a little longer, but for how long?  Would another
day or two let it finish the upgrade? or will it require another 10? 20?  Very
strange...  When I finally pulled the plug on the original FreedomBox/apu1d4,
the rest of the upgrade completed in minutes via aptitude.