[looking for maintainers] Debian 12 bare metal and Proxmox installs fail

[tescophil]

log.txt

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing open and closed issues and I checked the docs https://jokob-sk.github.io/NetAlertX/

The issue occurs in the following browsers. Select at least 2.

• Firefox
• Chrome
• Edge
• Safari (unsupported) - PRs welcome
• N/A - This is an issue with the backend

Current Behavior

Install via curl -o install.debian12.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX/main/install/debian12/install.debian12.sh && sudo chmod +x install.debian12.sh && sudo ./install.debian12.sh script fails with

[INSTALL] 🚀 Starting app - navigate to your <server IP>: 10:24:05 [Settings] ⚠ File not found: /app/api/table_settings.json Traceback (most recent call last): File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code File "/app//server/__main__.py", line 255, in <module> sys.exit(main()) ^^^^^^ File "/app//server/__main__.py", line 75, in main updateState("Initializing", None, None, None, 0) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/app//server/app_state.py", line 99, in updateState return app_state_class(newState, settingsSaved, settingsImported, showSpinner, graphQLServerStarted, processScan) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/app//server/app_state.py", line 86, in __init__ with open(stateFile, 'w') as json_file: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/app/api/app_state.json'

Full install log attached

Expected Behavior

To not fail...

Steps To Reproduce

No response

app.conf

docker-compose.yml

What installation are you running?

Production (netalertx)

app.log

No response

Debug enabled

• I have read and followed the steps in the wiki link above and provided the required debug logs and the log section covers the time when the issue occurs.

[tescophil]

log.txt

[jokob-sk]

Hi @tescophil ,

@adamoutler is reworking the installation approach so the baremetal installations are currently work in progress. If you want you can download the last stable code base and install it from there. You can find it under Assets on the latest release: https://github.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX/releases/tag/v25.10.1

[tescophil]

Hi, Thanks for the reply, but I'm not technical so would not know where to start with this, I'll take another look when the installer is completed / officially released. (Tried the docker method and this also failed for me)

[gjhitchen-proxmox]

Have the same/similar issue on a debian 13 lxc in proxmox with the following errors:

Oct 27 02:44:58 netalertx start.netalertx.sh[23509]: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/app/api/app_state.json'
Oct 27 02:44:58 netalertx start.netalertx.sh[23509]: 02:44:57 [Settings] ⚠ File not found: /app/api/table_settings.json

[gjhitchen-proxmox]

And looks like the chown and chmod are not working as /app/api and /app/log are both root:root

root@netalertx:/app# ls -al
total 816
drwxrwx--- 17 root www-data 4096 Oct 27 07:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Oct 27 06:59 ..
-rwxrwx--- 1 root www-data 143360 Oct 27 07:00 .coverage
drwxrwx--- 4 root www-data 4096 Oct 27 07:00 .devcontainer
-rwxrwx--- 1 root www-data 163 Oct 27 07:00 .dockerignore
-rwxrwx--- 1 root www-data 260 Oct 27 07:00 .env
drwxrwx--- 8 root www-data 4096 Oct 27 07:00 .git
drwxrwx--- 5 root www-data 4096 Oct 27 07:00 .github
-rwxrwx--- 1 root www-data 716 Oct 27 07:00 .gitignore
-rwxrwx--- 1 root www-data 721 Oct 27 07:00 .venv_import_check.py
drwxrwx--- 2 root www-data 4096 Oct 27 07:00 .vscode
-rwxrwx--- 1 root www-data 5899 Oct 27 07:00 CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
-rwxrwx--- 1 root www-data 1831 Oct 27 07:00 CONTRIBUTING.md
-rwxrwx--- 1 root www-data 9501 Oct 27 07:00 Dockerfile
-rwxrwx--- 1 root www-data 7547 Oct 27 07:00 Dockerfile.debian
-rwxrwx--- 1 root www-data 35149 Oct 27 07:00 LICENSE.txt
-rwxrwx--- 1 root www-data 13014 Oct 27 07:00 README.md
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 07:00 api
drwxrwx--- 2 root www-data 4096 Oct 27 07:00 back
drwxrwx--- 2 root www-data 4096 Oct 27 07:00 config
drwxrwx--- 2 root www-data 4096 Oct 27 07:01 db
-rwxrwx--- 1 root www-data 4196 Oct 27 07:00 docker-compose.yml
-rwxrwx--- 1 root www-data 31424 Oct 27 07:00 docker_build.log
drwxrwx--- 5 root www-data 4096 Oct 27 07:00 docs
drwxrwx--- 10 root www-data 4096 Oct 27 07:00 front
drwxrwx--- 6 root www-data 4096 Oct 27 07:00 install
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 07:00 log
-rwxrwx--- 1 root www-data 5740 Oct 27 07:00 mkdocs.yml
-rwxrwx--- 1 root www-data 176 Oct 27 07:00 pyproject.toml
-rwxrwx--- 1 root www-data 366 Oct 27 07:00 requirements.txt
drwxrwx--- 6 root www-data 4096 Oct 27 07:00 scripts
drwxrwx--- 9 root www-data 4096 Oct 27 07:00 server
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 387 Oct 27 07:00 start.netalertx.sh
drwxrwx--- 3 root www-data 4096 Oct 27 07:00 test
-rwxrwx--- 1 root www-data 458547 Oct 27 07:00 xdebug.out

root@netalertx:/app# ls -al api/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 07:00 .
drwxrwx--- 17 root www-data 4096 Oct 27 07:00 ..
root@netalertx:/app# ls -al log/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 07:00 .
drwxrwx--- 17 root www-data 4096 Oct 27 07:00 ..

[adamoutler]

Are you talking about the debian bare metal or Docker @gjhitchen-proxmox?

[adamoutler]

On all OS's you should be using ramdisks on /app/API and /app/log. This will create those assuming you have sudo.

#!/bin/bash
sudo mkdir -p /app/api
sudo mkdir -p /app/log
echo 'tmpfs /app/api tmpfs defaults,size=512M,noatime,nodiratime 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
echo 'tmpfs /app/log tmpfs defaults,size=1G,noatime,nodiratime 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
sudo mount /app/api
sudo mount /app/log

[gjhitchen-proxmox]

Debian 13 "bare metal" in a proxmox lxc. Yes I ended up running the last part of the install script commands on the CMD line replacing instances of install_dir with /app and things seem to be working ok now. Strangely enough if I search replace all instances in the script itself and run it it still ends up with owner root:root for the API and log folders, but not if I execute the commands individually line by line interactivity. Will look some more but back to babysitting my granddaughter for now. Not sure what takes more effort. 😉😁

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