Sunil Mohan Adapa 279738c305
actions: Raise an exception if privileged server response is empty
- These situation occur when server encounters an error when trying to formulate
a response. All exceptions during execution of actions are caught and reported
properly. However, server may encounter errors during processing of exception
raised in an action. Or may die abruptly. This special error will make
identifying such situations easier.

Tests:

- Add a 'return' after _read_request() in
privileged_daemon.py:RequestHandler:handle(). This will trigger this error.
Starting FreedomBox service will show these errors as 'ConnectionError: Server
returned empty response'. Similarly running 'freedombox-cmd --no-args plinth
is_package_manager_busy' will show the same error.

Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: Veiko Aasa <veiko17@disroot.org>
2025-09-29 16:59:00 +03:00
2025-07-28 15:17:24 -07:00
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pipeline status Translation status Debian Unstable Debian Testing Debian Stable

FreedomBox Service (Plinth)

The core functionality and web front-end of FreedomBox.

Description

FreedomBox is a community project to develop, design and promote personal servers running free software for private, personal communications. It is a networking appliance designed to allow interfacing with the rest of the Internet under conditions of protected privacy and data security. It hosts applications such as blog, wiki, website, social network, email, web proxy and a Tor relay, on a device that can replace your Wi-Fi router, so that your data stays with you.

This module, called FreedomBox Service and also know as Plinth, is the core functionality and web interface to the functions of the FreedomBox. It is extensible and provides various applications of FreedomBox as modules. Each module or application provides simplified user interface to control the underlying functionality. As FreedomBox can act as a wireless router, it is possible to configure networking. It also allows configuration of basic system parameters such as time zone, hostname and automatic upgrades.

You can find more information about FreedomBox Service (Plinth) on the Plinth Wiki page, the FreedomBox Wiki and the FreedomBox Manual.

Getting Started

To have a running FreedomBox, first install Debian (Buster or higher) on a clean machine. Then run:

$ sudo apt install freedombox

Full instructions are available on FreedomBox Manual's QuickStart page.

For instructions on running the service on a local machine from source code, see INSTALL.md. For instructions on setting up for development purposes, see HACKING.md.

Contributing

See the HACKING.md file for contributing to FreedomBox Service (Plinth).

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License

GNU AGPLv3 Image

FreedomBox is distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License, Version 3 or later. A copy of AGPLv3 is available from the Free Software Foundation.

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Easy to manage, privacy oriented home server. Read-only mirror of https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/freedombox
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