Daniel, please contact me

[JeremyRand]

@domob1812 I'm trying to email you but it looks like Vincent's mail server is still having issues. Can you contact me via either Ricochet or Cwtch? My usernames are in the namecoin.org repo, feel free to check OpenPGP sigs on the commit that added them. Thanks!

[domob1812]

EDIT: I'm taking this back. Apparently my install of Ricochet (using the Debian Buster package) fails to store any state between starts (even though it created ~/.local/share/Ricochet), and thus I lost you and the identity I posted.

Is there something I'm doing wrong in order to let it keep my data?

[JeremyRand]

@domob1812 IIRC there's a bug in the Debian package for Ricochet. Using the upstream release (either their binaries or building from upstream source) should work.

EDIT: Or if you have easy access to other distros, I believe Fedora's package works fine.

[domob1812]

Ok thanks, I'll try using the source itself then. If I manage to get it set up, I'll post my ID here with OpenPGP signature and add you.

[domob1812]

@JeremyRand I've now built Ricochet from source, but am getting the same issue. It seems their repository has not been updated since 2016 anyway?

[JeremyRand]

@domob1812 Looks like the Debian package bug is specifically in the AppArmor policy. Look up issue 594 in the upstream repo; replace the owner @{HOME} lines at the bottom of the policy that you have with the (longer) section from that issue, then reload the AppArmor service via systemctl. That fixed the Debian package for me. (I have no idea why Debian's maintainer didn't add this fix, maybe I'll pester them about it....)

[JeremyRand]

@domob1812 More specifically, look at the bottom of /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.ricochet for a set of rules that relate to owner @{HOME}. For me on Debian Buster, there were 2 such lines, both of which related to owner @{HOME}/.local/. Replace those lines with the following:

  owner @{HOME}/.local/share/Ricochet/ rwl,
  owner @{HOME}/.local/share/Ricochet/** mrwkl,

  owner @{HOME}/.cache/Ricochet/ rw,
  owner @{HOME}/.cache/Ricochet/** rwkl,

  owner @{HOME}/.config/gtk-3.0/* r,

Source: ricochet-im/ricochet#594

This fixed the Debian-packaged's Ricochet's ability to preserve state between runs for me.

[domob1812]

Nope, no luck with that either. If I edit the apparmor profile like that, my Ricochet still does not keep any state.

If it is important to get in touch, can you use Bitmessage and/or XMPP (with OTR) instead?

[domob1812]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512

It seems I got it working now. My ID is:

ricochet:guyb567vuaqxgk5z
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

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rzjQhOoBDame9GLdXP4SqKHIj0NNDNXO/+vCCqNmO2Q6rHI9xz9sI1Z7ZGRNREWU
+mLqaIxJUrnkn0fsL727K5IDVlvV1/hW0btxqPjxhNPSBiEMwso=
=FxJC
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

EDIT: It seems Github messes up whitespace, so I had to give it a couple of tries to make my signature validate. This one should now.