OMV6 does not show dashboard after fresh installation

carriba · 3. Mai 2022

After a fresh installation of OMV 6, which went just fine on a headless Raspberry Pi device running the latest and updated version of Raspberry Pi Bullseye Lite-OS , I am encountering the following issue:

When I successfully log in with any modern browser on my PC (Edge and Firefox), I am landing on a message under the "Home/Dashboard" panel:

Information: The dashboard has not yet been configured. To personalise, please go to the settings page.

I click on the "settings page" hypertext link, which brings me to the "Home/Dashboard/Settings" panel that displays underneath some overlapped check marks on the same line and then further below the title "Enabled widgets".

I click all the check boxes that are all overlapped without particular message on the same line, and then click the "Save" button that changes its colour from grey to blue. I then click on the blue coloured Save button, which brings me back to above described "Home/Dashboard" panel with the same "Information" message.

Please, what is going on here?

Soma · 3. Mai 2022

You need to have cookies enabled.

Also, CTRL+shift+R helps

carriba · 3. Mai 2022

Cookies are enabled on all web browsers, and full refresh of the OMV web page reveals the same observations as described before.

Soma · 3. Mai 2022

Can you post screenshots of what is going on?

carriba · 3. Mai 2022

Attached a sequence of six screen dumps taken form the web browser:

Login window, populated with the user name "pi".
First window after successful login displaying the "Dashboard" and underneath the message "Information: The dashboard has not yet been configured. To personalize it, please go to the settings page" (Note: the "settings page" is a hypertext label).
After clicking the "settings page" hypertext label, the next 3rd window opens with overlapping check marks without description field. The "Save" button remains greyed out.
After clicking the overlapping check marks, the "Save" button turns to a blue colour.
After clicking the "Save" button, it reopens the same window after login as above the navigation reiterates ad infinitum.
Last window shows the "Settings/Your profile" panel of the user "pi".

Not sure yet, if I can find anything on the OMV web browser logs for more details (digging through the log files).

ryecoaaron · 3. Mai 2022

Zitat von carriba

Login window, populated with the user name "pi".

use admin. The pi user is not an admin.

carriba · 3. Mai 2022

Thank you for the obvious pointer

I am using the user "admin" now, authenticated with the default password, and am getting the following window.

Let me go through the setup panel....

ryecoaaron · 3. Mai 2022

Zitat von carriba

am getting the following window.

as expected for first login as admin and nothing is configured.

carriba · 3. Mai 2022

Well understood

evilmrb · 6. Mai 2022

I have just installed OMV 6 on a PC and I sign on with the 'admin' user. I get the prompt saying the Dashboard has not been configured. I apply the settings and Save. The next time I reboot the PC I have to start again. This happens EVERY TIME I reboot ie the Dashboard settings are never kept. Correction - almost every time. Is this right?

votdev · 6. Mai 2022

Zitat von evilmrb

I have just installed OMV 6 on a PC and I sign on with the 'admin' user. I get the prompt saying the Dashboard has not been configured. I apply the settings and Save. The next time I reboot the PC I have to start again. This happens EVERY TIME I reboot ie the Dashboard settings are never kept. Correction - almost every time. Is this right?

You are surely deleting cookies when closing the browser. Keep the cookies for OMV and you'll be fine.

evilmrb · 6. Mai 2022

If that's all it is, I strongly suggest putting that somewhere very prominent in the documentation. I fully expected the settings to be kept somewhere in OMV rather than in my browser. I do appreciate you solving the mystery though.

ryecoaaron · 6. Mai 2022

Zitat von evilmrb

I fully expected the settings to be kept somewhere in OMV rather than in my browser.

They are client side settings though.

davekband · 20. März 2023

Help please!!

I am having the same problem. I am completely new to this.

I just installed omv 6 and cannot get past the settings page. There are no widgets to check.

I've enabled cookies. It's not that I lose my settings, there are no settings to save. I can't get to them.

I'm ready to throw my pi 4 in the trash. It's nothing but trouble.

How do I get a list of widgets to appear in the settings page?

KM0201 · 20. März 2023

Zitat von davekband

Help please!!
I am having the same problem. I am completely new to this.
I just installed omv 6 and cannot get past the settings page. There are no widgets to check.
I've enabled cookies. It's not that I lose my settings, there are no settings to save. I can't get to them.
I'm ready to throw my pi 4 in the trash. It's nothing but trouble.
How do I get a list of widgets to appear in the settings page?

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you need to log in with default credentials

username: admin

password: openmediavault

davekband · 22. März 2023

Zitat von davekband

Help please!!
I am having the same problem. I am completely new to this.
I just installed omv 6 and cannot get past the settings page. There are no widgets to check.
I've enabled cookies. It's not that I lose my settings, there are no settings to save. I can't get to them.
I'm ready to throw my pi 4 in the trash. It's nothing but trouble.
How do I get a list of widgets to appear in the settings page?

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Zitat von KM0201

you need to log in with default credentials

username: admin
password: openmediavault

Thanks. However that is how I was logged in. Any other ideas?

ryecoaaron · 22. März 2023

If the following command doesn't have output like this:

Code

$ groups admin
admin : users openmediavault-admin

then run this command:

sudo usermod -a -G openmediavault-admin admin

KM0201 · 22. März 2023

Zitat von davekband

Thanks. However that is how I was logged in. Any other ideas?

I can only replicate what you're getting when I log in as a regular user.

ryecoaaron · 22. März 2023

Zitat von KM0201

I can only replicate what you're getting when I log in as a regular user.

I have seen this quite a few times when the user creates the admin user before installing OMV. OMV doesn't add the user to the openmediavault-admin group when the user already exists. If the install guide is followed, this won't happen : )

KM0201 · 22. März 2023

Zitat von ryecoaaron

I have seen this quite a few times when the user creates the admin user before installing OMV. OMV doesn't add the user to the openmediavault-admin group when the user already exists. If the install guide is followed, this won't happen : )

Hmm... So they would have to install Debian first to pull that off? That's strange.. I thought Debian (or it may have been Ubuntu)... did not allow creation of a user named "admin". I seem to recall getting errors when I tried this once before on a minimum Debian install

OMV6 does not show dashboard after fresh installation

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