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@TheStochasticMan: should be fixed now

On a fresh install, I keep getting permissions errors when trying to start the service:

Error updating config: failed to read config: open /etc/mautrix-signal/config.yaml: permission denied

I've since set permissions to 777 on that directory & config file, then I start getting this error instead:

Failed to initialize logger: failed to parse config for writer #2: can't make directories for new logfile: mkdir /var/log/mautrix-signal: read-only file system

So I create the directory as mautrix-signal user, set the permissions wide open to 777 on that directory, but start getting this error

Failed to initialize logger: failed to parse config for writer #2: can't open new logfile: open /var/log/mautrix-signal/bridge.log: read-only file system

Could you please fix the permissions on this package to actually make it usable, or at least tell me what I need to do in order to do so? Setting permissions wide-open is clearly not appropriate, and I've only been doing this out of frustration trying to get this to work

The go rewrite is out as of version 0.5.0 and replaces in place the older one. See release notes for more details: https://github.com/mautrix/signal/releases/tag/v0.5.0

This means that signald (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/signald) is no longer a requirement and there is a new library, libsignal-ffi (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libsignal-ffi) that is a new requirement.

Hi @matkam. Thanks for sharing your PKGBUILD for the unreleased CI builds from mau.dev

I see from the mautrix/signal github repo and from here https://github.com/mautrix/signal/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md that the go bridge is intended to replace, in place, the now unmaintained python one. So once there is a release of 0.5.0 as a go bridge, I will rewrite this PKGBUILD to continue providing a non binary PKGBUILD of mautrix-signal, which will simply be based on go rather than python.

Best,

Mark.

For anyone wanting the latest Golang version of this Signal bridge, check out https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mautrix-signal-bin

With a duly modified service file inspired from this https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/python/setup.html#systemd-service and pkgver changed to 0.4.1 it seems to be working for me. I don't have the knowledge to tell if dependencies are still correct, but here it's been working for a few minutes now.

Current issues and workarounds:

register +123... throws mausignald.errors.CaptchaRequired

Workaround:

According to backlog here: solve the captcha on https://signalcaptchas.org/registration/generate.html, get the token from the Javascript errors (F12, without the signalcaptcha:// prefix) and register --captcha [token] [number].

Source: Mautrix-Signal-Bridge message

set-profile-name <name> throws mausignald.errors.ResponseError

I got it to work by "set_profile" directly through the socket-api. It only worked if I set the "about" and "emoji" attributes also. I guess that's what was missing from the bridge implementation

Source: Mautrix-Signal-Bridge message

Instead of set-profile-name use the raw command:

raw --user v1.set_profile {
    "about": "Come, join the Matrix.org",
    "account": "<your_number>",
    "name": "<your name>",
    "type": "set_profile",
    "emoji": "",
    "version": "v1"
}

See: signald SetProfile

Contact names and profile pictures not synchronized.

see: signald comment