Yes firefox is the browser.

If I don't use sudo, I get the following when I click the start Triangle.

"2019-06-27T01:53:50: INDI Web Manager Started."
"2019-06-27T01:53:50: /usr/local/bin/indi-web --verbose --xmldir /usr/share/indi"
"2019-06-27T01:53:50: Traceback (most recent call last):\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 2691, in _dep_map\n return self.__dep_map\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 2806, in __getattr__\n raise AttributeError(attr)\nAttributeError: _Distribution__dep_map\n\nDuring handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:\n\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n File \"/usr/local/bin/indi-web\", line 6, in <module>\n from pkg_resources import load_entry_point\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 3241, in <module>\n @_call_aside\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 3225, in _call_aside\n f(*args, **kwargs)\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 3254, in _initialize_master_working_set\n working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 583, in _build_master\n ws.require(__requires__)\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 900, in require\n needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 794, in resolve\n new_requirements = dist.requires(req.extras)[::-1]\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 2727, in requires\n dm = self._dep_map\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 2693, in _dep_map\n self.__dep_map = self._filter_extras(self._build_dep_map())\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 2721, in _build_dep_map\n for extra, reqs in split_sections(self._get_metadata(name)):\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 3189, in split_sections\n for line in yield_lines(s):\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 2378, in yield_lines\n for ss in strs:\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 2758, in _get_metadata\n for line in self.get_metadata_lines(name):\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 1423, in get_metadata_lines\n return yield_lines(self.get_metadata(name))\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 1419, in get_metadata\n value = self._get(self._fn(self.egg_info, name))\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py\", line 1607, in _get\n with open(path, 'rb') as stream:\nPermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/indiweb-0.1.7-py3.6.egg/EGG-INFO/requires.txt'"
"2019-06-27T01:53:51: INDI Web Manager Shut down with error."

Nevermind then. Will wait for your next release. In the mean time i still can use the Indi Web. Cheers!

Jerry, do you normally have to run INDI Web with root? I know you have this setup where your python and your pip are in two different places, you need root to run it?

Let me check with Jasem about this. I don't think INDI, indiweb, or indiwebmanagerapp should need to be run as root.

Maybe I did an install of one of the packages? indiweb? as root when it shouldn't have been?

that is what I expect happened. Perhaps the solution is to uninstall it using pip3 as root and then install it using pip3 as yourself?

Its interesting that I didn't know you were running as root until you tried to open a browser window as root. Perhaps I should add a warning for that.

Looking back through what you posted, I see that you did this:

sudo -H pip3 install indiweb

It probably should have just been this:

pip3 install indiweb

to install as yourself.

Although also if you are running indiwebmanagerapp as root, it probably would install indiweb as root too.

Ok I added a check and a warning message for running the program as root. It won't prevent you from doing it, but it will warn you about issues.

Ok I went to version 0.9 and made a release. For the OS X version you can go here :

github.com/rlancaste/INDIWebManagerApp/releases/tag/0.9

For the Linux version it is in the nightly ppa, or the source code is on git.


Please test again,

Thanks !

Now i know why it keeps OFFLINE. This is because I let another Indi Webmanager continue to run. After I turn off the other instance, your indi web manager app start to ONLINE!

Regards,
Tom

Yes that makes sense Tom.

So the other INDI webmanager was running when you started INDI Webmanager app?

Did it give you the option to shut down the other one and then you said no?