[Freedombox-discuss] Quassel trouble.

[Sunil Mohan Adapa]

On 9/15/25 13:24, A. F. Cano via Freedombox-discuss wrote:
> 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.
> 

The duty of the Quassel server (referred to as "Core") running on 
FreedomBox is to connect to IRC servers and keep receiving messages all 
the time without missing any messages. The duty of the Quassel client is 
to present a UI for this server. The actual configuration of which IRC 
servers to connect to is present on the FreedomBox with the Quassel core 
server. If you remove client's configuration this does not clear the 
list of IRC servers on the FreedomBox's Quassel server.

To remove Quassel configuration on the server, connect to the server 
using the client and alter the configuration (In Quassel QT Client, this 
is through File -> Networks -> Configure Networks). Alternatively, 
uninstall and reinstall the Quassel core server app on FreedomBox.

It is not clear what error message you are facing reading above. To 
connect to FreedomBox IRC channel, you can:

1) Create a new network. Call it OFTC.

2) Add a server. Server address = irc.oftc.net, port = 6697, "Use 
encrypted connection" = Yes.

3) Select a Identity and set your nickname there.

After connecting click on the Network name "OFTC" in the "All Chats" 
tree to see the log for the network. There you should find any error 
messages connecting to the network.

-- 
Sunil
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