Re: [Ubuntu-phone] WPA2 protocol vulnerability

2017-10-18 Thread Chris Croome
Hi A update from Ubuntu would be ideal but failing that I wonder if manually installing the wpasupplicant deb from xenial or recompiling it would work? - https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial-updates/wpasupplicant It would be a shame if this security issue is going to cause still working phones to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Showcase device

2017-02-28 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Tue 28-Feb-2017 at 09:58:09PM +, Francisco Pina Martins wrote: > > https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gemini-pda-android-linux-keyboard-mobile-device-phone#/ > > But maybe I'm just daydreaming... I saw it on the theregister.co.uk today and had exactly the same thought, hope the projec

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ssh connection is lost

2016-12-30 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Thu 29-Dec-2016 at 11:36:21AM -0500, Camilo Ernesto Blanco Peña wrote: > > The SSH connection in terminal is lost when the front app is changed. > Any suggestion to avoid it? I need to keep the ssh connection alive in > terminal while I use another app (web browser or other). My solution

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Encryption

2016-11-04 Thread Chris Croome
Hi This is what I do, it should work OK mounting on /home/phablet but I haven't tried that: https://ubuntu-phone.host1.webarch.net/wiki/Encrypted_Home There is a ticket for this issue but I don't have the URL to hand. All the best Chris On Sat 05-Nov-2016 at 09:23:46AM +1100, Mitchell Reese w

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Adblock for webbbrowser-app

2016-07-29 Thread Chris Croome
Hi > On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Simplehuman > wrote: > > > Ubuntu default browser is based on chromium, so is it possible somehow to > > install extensions such as Adblock? It is really needed, Internet is ugly > > without it :) I use privoxy (and a ssh tunnel), but note this involves mo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ext3/4 & Encryption with the sdcard

2016-04-25 Thread Chris Croome
Hi Mitchell On Tue 26-Apr-2016 at 12:46:11PM +1000, Mitchell Reese wrote: > > So - what's involved with formatting the sdcard to ext3 > or ext4, and mounting it as a drive each time the tablet > boots? I have been doing this for a while, if you are happy using the command line then it is fine.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Why native Canonical browser and firefox?

2016-04-24 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Sun 24-Apr-2016 at 01:26:16PM +0200, Filip Dorosz wrote: > > Firefox is quite good example, it is heavy and while > porting it would be possible I believe it would not > suite small screen, would drain battery quickly etc. I have two Nexus 4's, one running Cyanogenmod and one running Ubunt

[Ubuntu-phone] What is the correct method for customising the Terminal LayoutKeys?

2016-04-01 Thread Chris Croome
Hi I expect that editing the files in this directory isn't correct: /userdata/system-data/opt/click.ubuntu.com/com.ubuntu.terminal/0.7.190/qml/KeyboardRows/Layouts How can I customise the keys so that the customisations persist? All the best Chris PS After messing up an edit of the json fi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [development] LUKS whole hard drive encryption

2016-01-08 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Fri 08-Jan-2016 at 09:01:17PM +0100, Ms Johnson wrote: > > Are there any plans to have Ubuntu Touch allow LUKS encryption of a > mobile device's entire hard drive like the Ubuntu Desktop version? I raised an issue for this: - Full disk encryption for Ubuntu Touch using LUKS https://bugs.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] small GitBook about BQ E4.5

2015-10-16 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Fri 16-Oct-2015 at 10:52:12PM +0200, Niklas Wenzel wrote: > > 2015-10-16 14:35 GMT+02:00 Matthias Apitz : > > > I have moved this now to GitBook as: > > > > https://www.gitbook.com/book/gurucubano/bq-aquaris-e-4-5-ubuntu-phone/details > > Congrats on publishing it! I believe that it will

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Debian Chroot, was: Re: Bootloop after installing OTA4

2015-08-28 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Fri 28-Aug-2015 at 02:34:13PM +0200, Julia Palandri wrote: > > do you have this published somewhere to link to? There is the email list archive: - https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg13344.html And I have just copied it here: - https://ubuntu-phone.host1.webarch.net/wiki/Debian_

[Ubuntu-phone] Debian Chroot, was: Re: Bootloop after installing OTA4

2015-06-16 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Tue 16-Jun-2015 at 03:44:36PM +0200, Torsten Sachse wrote: > > I tinkered with the system in some ways to get a working debian chroot. Did you succeed? If you did is there any change you could document what you did? All the best Chris -- Webarchitects Co-operative http://webarchitects.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Proxy settings, system wide or for browser?

2015-05-07 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Thu 07-May-2015 at 10:42:49AM +0200, Marcus Esser wrote: > > I think I made the bowser app work with the proxy. I was actually trying > to enable command line apps like wget to work via proxy and added to > /etc/environment > > http_proxy=http://192.168.112.1:800/ > https_proxy=http://192.1

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Proxy settings, system wide or for browser?

2015-05-06 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Wed 06-May-2015 at 01:49:51PM +0200, Roberto Resoli wrote: > > Do you really want to set a socks proxy? Yes. > Anyway, you have not set any proxy hostname. How does one do that and what is the difference between a host and a hostname in this context? I'm used to using a socks proxy wit

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Proxy settings, system wide or for browser?

2015-05-06 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Wed 06-May-2015 at 11:17:25AM +0200, Roberto Resoli wrote: > > Just tried on my bq (r21) and it seems that gconf settings for system > wide proxy are supported: > > gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.system.proxy > > org.gnome.system.proxy use-same-proxy true > org.gnome.system.proxy mo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Proxy settings, system wide or for browser?

2015-05-05 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Tue 05-May-2015 at 10:52:34PM +0200, Marcus Esser wrote: > Hello, > command line usage would not be a problem. I am not experienced with > iptables though. Are you talking about an approach like described here: > https://www.mydlp.com/http-and-https-redirecting-with-netfilter-iptables/ ? Ye

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Proxy settings, system wide or for browser?

2015-05-05 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Tue 05-May-2015 at 09:37:23PM +0200, Marcus Esser wrote: > > is there a way to set system wide or at least browser only network proxy > settings in Ubuntu Touch? I went through the various GUI system and > application settings, but was unable to find anything of relevance. > I am making my f

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] cookbook of use Ubuntu phone / FAQ

2015-04-19 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Sat 18-Apr-2015 at 11:25:54AM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: > > > El día Friday, April 17, 2015 a las 06:13:52PM +0200, Gerhard Gonter > > escribió: > > > > > On 04/17/2015 02:02 PM, Chris Croome wrote: > > > > > > > I'll look at p

[Ubuntu-phone] ssh localhost to get an unrestricted shell, was: Re: Running a Debian chroot on Ubuntu Phone MUA mutt

2015-04-17 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Fri 17-Apr-2015 at 04:49:49PM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: > > one option would be "ssh localhost" ;) but that requires you to have > your secret key on teh phone, not sure that is desirable ;) You can generate a key pair just for use on the phone itself (without a passphrase if you want):

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Running a Debian chroot on Ubuntu Phone, was: Re: MUA mutt

2015-04-17 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Fri 17-Apr-2015 at 10:02:28AM -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: > You are running that script as root (with sudo), right? Yes. But I'm going to have a play with using "ssh localhost" to get around this... All the best Chris > On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 14:41 +0100, Chris Croo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Running a Debian chroot on Ubuntu Phone, was: Re: MUA mutt

2015-04-17 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Fri 17-Apr-2015 at 04:49:49PM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: > > you would have to take the terminal app, roll your own version of it and > make it completely unconfined (not sure that is possible at all though) OK. > because ssh is not inside a click package, you actually get pure shell > a

[Ubuntu-phone] Running a Debian chroot on Ubuntu Phone, was: Re: MUA mutt

2015-04-17 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Fri 17-Apr-2015 at 09:24:53AM -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: > > It is better instead, to create a chroot of Ubuntu in the home directory > on the phone, and then install whatever console tools one thinks they > need to run a phone, in that chroot. Please suggest that instead of > making the ro

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Running a Debian chroot on Ubuntu Phone, was: Re: MUA mutt

2015-04-17 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Fri 17-Apr-2015 at 03:52:29PM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: > > > > But the last command fails if I run it on the phone, with the > > following (but it works if I ssh in): > > > > chroot: failed to run command '/bin/bash': Permission denied > > > > Any hints would be appreciated. > > the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] MUA mutt

2015-04-17 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Fri 17-Apr-2015 at 09:24:53AM -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: > > Please suggest that instead of making the root fs writable, as the > latter will very quickly result in a filled root partition If you ignore this advice and run out of space you can do something like this: sudo -i apt-get c

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] MUA mutt

2015-04-17 Thread Chris Croome
Hi Correcting some typos and omissions in my own email... On Fri 17-Apr-2015 at 01:51:38PM +0100, Chris Croome wrote: > > You can create a /home/phablet/.bash_aliases file with commands you > need to run after an upgrade: After creating / adding to your ~/.bash_aliases files you ne

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] MUA mutt

2015-04-17 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Fri 17-Apr-2015 at 01:02:04PM +0100, Chris Croome wrote: > > Kind of, but it would need some work before I could make it public In the meantime here are some things you could add to your http://www.unixarea.de/bq.txt file, but note I have a Nexus 4 running devel and I haven't t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] MUA mutt

2015-04-17 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Fri 17-Apr-2015 at 01:00:02PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Do you have some small how-to for this, including making the rootfs > writable and install packages. Even if it is very raw, I'd like to > include this into my small collection of information (growing here > http://www.unixarea.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] MUA mutt

2015-04-17 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Fri 17-Apr-2015 at 10:40:12AM +0200, Michał Sawicz wrote: > > That said, you're free to make your device's rootfs writable and use > apt/dpkg to install regular .deb packages. It's not a supported way of > working, your mileage may vary and you might lose the installed items > during an OTA

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] do we have a firewall in the phone?

2015-04-03 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Fri 03-Apr-2015 at 09:13:59PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Can I activate and configure some inbound firewall in the phone? You can use iptables to firewall all incoming ports apart from 22 -- this is what I have done. I have also been pondering using iptables to force HTTP requests t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ubuntu phone bq 4.5 how to connecte from ubuntu 14.04?

2015-03-25 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Wed 25-Mar-2015 at 03:23:39PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Any idea how to enable SSH without 'adb' locally on the device? In the terminal type: sudo -i service ssh start setprop persist.service.ssh true See: http://askubuntu.com/questions/348714/ubuntu-touch-apt-get-insta

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to get Nexus 4 Wifi MAC address to be stable?

2015-03-12 Thread Chris Croome
Hi I didn't have an issue with this -- the Mac address wasn't changing, it was set to the one in /persist/wifi/.macaddr, however I thought I'd change it, so I edited that file, changed it to a new random one and rebooted. Now I can't connect to any networks. The only difference I found from the s

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Vivid r89 - problem with unity8

2015-02-05 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Thu 05-Feb-2015 at 11:39:58AM -0300, Facundo Batista wrote: > Just upgraded my device, and after reboot (and further reboots) all I > see is a window flashing that says "scopes" with the little circle > spinning, and then it flashes again... and again... > > Got into the device, it looks a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Setting up and running a Debian chroot on Ubuntu Touch

2015-02-03 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Sun 01-Feb-2015 at 12:04:48PM +, Chris Croome wrote: > > So I have made a start at getting a Debian chroot running, using > debbootstrap, I did the initial install on devel and then switch to RTM, > but now I'm stuck, I can't seem to mount the chroot w

[Ubuntu-phone] Setting up and running a Debian chroot on Ubuntu Touch

2015-02-01 Thread Chris Croome
Hi Most the thing I want to do on my Ubuntu Touch Nexus 4 involve installing packages which are not available on the RTM versions (mosh, cryptestup, mutt etc), and running the devel version, installing additional packages and updating using apt-get often results in a phone that won't boot and whic

[Ubuntu-phone] Some problems with vivid on a Nexus 4

2014-12-21 Thread Chris Croome
Hi I'm running vivid on my Nexus 4 and it has been upgraded from a older version of devel via the Scopes interface and aptitude (I have to mount root rw so that essential tools such as mosh can be installed). Mostly everything works fine, the only application I use on a daily basis is the termina

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Terminal Reboot in Click store

2014-12-08 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Mon 08-Dec-2014 at 06:11:23PM +0100, Filippo Scognamiglio wrote: > > You are missing commas in the action list Oops, thanks. Customising the keyboard like this is great, I'm very happy with this. I do miss left/right scrolling via gestures and I prefer using one finger rather than two fo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Terminal Reboot in Click store

2014-12-08 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Mon 08-Dec-2014 at 02:26:15PM +0100, Filippo Scognamiglio wrote: > > The layouts are included in "/src/app/qml/KeyboardRows/Layout". I don't have a /src/ directory. > It's probably easier to grab one of the default and copy/customize it > for your needs. Sounds good. > To add them to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Terminal Reboot in Click store

2014-12-08 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Mon 08-Dec-2014 at 11:55:15AM +0100, Filippo Scognamiglio wrote: > > The new keyboard can be customized via QML profiles (in the future it will > be json). Any pointers regarding where to start on this -- the lack of ability to enter Ctrl-n and Ctrl-p for next and previous channel in IRSS

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Cannot get rw mode on phone

2014-11-09 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Sun 09-Nov-2014 at 11:16:33AM +, Steve Harriss wrote: > > Can someone point me in the right direction please? TIA I simply do it in a terminal on the device: sudo mount -o rw,remount / All the best Chris -- Webarchitects Co-operative http://webarchitects.coop/ +44 114 276 9709 @

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 06.11.14

2014-11-06 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Thu 06-Nov-2014 at 07:34:43PM +0100, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak wrote: > bad news is: we have a new blocker [1] > > ** [1] [TOPBLOCKER] file corruption on touch images in rw portions of > the filesystem > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1387214 Glad it isn't only me having this issue -- I h

[Ubuntu-phone] Installing shell utilities, such as screen, on rtm

2014-09-25 Thread Chris Croome
Hi I was running the development version and had remounted root read-write so I could install things like screen so I could have more than one terminal session open at once. I was also using mutt, fetchmail and mosh. This afternoon I switched to the rtm version and none of these appear to be avai