Mightve majorly screwed up? Not sure if VPN is actually connected?
Posted by noliver2761
So I was going through the Media Guide in the order its written. So Prowlarr Radarr Sonarr qBittorrent During the Radarr section it said Add Movies, so I added a movie for testing. I already configured my vpn a few steps ago and on the homescreen it says Protected by NordVPN WireGuard -- Not my VPN -- qBit via VPN ✓ Kill switch active ✓ Tunnel up So I assumed everything was straight,,,, Then when I moved to the hardware transcoding section I ran ls -la /dev/dri/ which returned ???ļ?ʧ??: Permission denied ???ļ?ʧ??: Permission denied total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 100 May 14 11:52 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 7540 May 14 11:52 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 May 14 11:52 by-path crw-rw---- 1 root video 226, 0 May 14 11:52 card0 crw-rw---- 1 root render 226, 128 May 14 11:52 renderD128 worried by the first two lines I ran sparkbox status and saw these two messages ○ vpn (disabled) - Remote Access VPN Container Status: [WARN] Could not query Docker. Is Docker running? so 1. was my vpn actually not running and I just exposed my vpn when i downloaded that movie? 😭 2. Did I some how mess up docker? p.s the movie is still downloading please tell me im not about to get sued lol
4 replies
tomspark wrote:
Take a breath, you're fine. The "vpn (disabled)" line in sparkbox status refers to the Remote Access VPN module (wg-easy, for incoming connections TO your NAS) — totally different from the media VPN (gluetun) that routes qBit's outbound traffic. The dashboard's "Tunnel up ✓ Kill switch active ✓ qBit via VPN ✓" is the source of truth. You were protected. The movie went through NordVPN. "Could not query Docker" is because you ran sparkbox status without sudo — the docker socket needs root. Try sudo sparkbox status. The fact that qBit is still downloading is your proof Docker is up and the VPN tunnel is alive. /dev/dri output is also fine — card0 + renderD128 are both there, which is what transcoding needs.
noliver2761 wrote:
Thank god! (and you haha). I reran with sudo and docker is def appearing! Thanks again! I shall proceed~
tomspark wrote:
Cheers, proceed away.
Chris wrote:
Chris here, and apologies for surfacing on an old thread of yours — your NordVPN one has hit our reply limit, and I did not want this sitting until you posted again. The missing half shipped in 1.6.476. SparkBox can now fetch a current server list from Nord, rather than only ever re-seeding the version-pinned copy I described to you: sudo sparkbox upgrade sudo sparkbox refresh-vpn-servers It fetches outside the tunnel, so it works on a box whose VPN is down, and it restores your existing list untouched if the download fails. If you already moved Provider to Other / Custom, switch it back to NordVPN first. — Chris