[Freedombox-discuss] Quassel trouble.

[A. F. Cano]

Hello,

I have recently installed the quassel core app on the FreedomBox.  The
tests report everything working.

I found this:

https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/Quassel

But the behavior doesn't match what I see after the quassel client
is installed on Debian.  Even after an apt-get purge quassel-client,
it seems to remember previous (probably incorrect) setups and keeps
jumping to DebianIRC when it can't connect to the FreedomBox.

I'm getting:

Connecting to <my-subdomain>.freedombox.rocks:4242...
Connection failure: The remote host closed the connection

Even after deleting all the files in ~/.config/quassel-irc.org

all I get is the "connect to Core" window, I click "+Add..."
and I enter a name for the group chat I want to set up.  According to
the above manual page, this can be an arbitrary name.

Then I enter
Hostname: <my-subdomain>.freedombox.rocks
Port: 4242 (unchanged from the default)
User: <user name from the FreedomBox list of users>
Password: <the associated password>

I then select no proxy and click ok. Ok again at the "connect to Core
window after selecting "Always connect to <account just created> so I
can avoid jumping to "DebianIRC" as the client tends to do.

THen it apparently proceeds to log in, but it jumps to "Debian IRC"

I then manually select my newly created account (in the left frame) and
all I see are the error messages above, repeated every time it tries to
reconnect.

What did I mis-configure? I saw once the warning about untrusted
certificates, but I could never again get to the complete setup
described in the page above.  I saw a page with a "server password" and
tried the user password and the admin user password, but now I can't
even find where that setting is.  As far as I know the FreedomBox has no
such thing as a server password.

In "Identities" the user name is listed as a "Nickname".  Is this
normal?

Obviously, I'm a total novice at setting up IRC.  Any assistance would
be greatly welcome.  Thanks.

Augustine