Console-conf and ip address

[Julia Palandri]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Loïc Minier <loic.minier at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> If you have a local console, you can debug this by checking that your
> network is up and then look at snapweb service output (sudo journalctl -u
> snap.snapweb.snapweb.service).
>
>
I ssh'ed to the rpi2 with IP (thanks for the nmap trick!), and the command
you suggested returned no entries. Should I manually enable it?
Thanks!


> Cheers,
> - Loïc
>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Julia Palandri <
> julia.palandri at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Loïc Minier <loic.minier at ubuntu.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I agree this isn't great; I wanted to mention an old but still working
>>> workaround: mDNS. Snapweb should publish a snapweb.local mDNS record on
>>> your LAN, so ssh you at snapweb.local should work. Note that this only
>>> works for one device at a time, so you want to change the hostname to have
>>> e.g. rpi3-xyz.local.
>>>
>>> I tried this on my rpi2 but it didn't work. Grepping in /etc I couldn't
>> find any mention to snapweb.local, could it be that only some devices have
>> this enabled?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Victor Palau <
>>> victor.palau at canonical.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have an issue, and talking to a few people they had it too, where I
>>>> set up my user link to my sso via console -conf and failed to write down
>>>> the ip address of the box.
>>>>
>>>> Even having a keyboard and screen connected to the device (RPI2) does
>>>> not help to get access to the box, since I never had a chance to set up a
>>>> password. So I had to reflash the device and try again.
>>>>
>>>> My concern is that if I take the device somewhere else or I loose the
>>>> lease for that ip and did not set up a password, my only option would be to
>>>> reflash the device (if I dont have admin access in the network router i am
>>>> connected). This seems a bad user experience.
>>>>
>>>> Could we not at least have the ip address for the device always
>>>> displayed on the console login prompt.
>>>>
>>>> However, it still feels very fragile user experience
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Victor
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>
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>>
>> Julia
>>
>
>
>
> --
> - Loïc
>



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Julia
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