Failed install on OpenVZ container

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Hi, tried like others to install mailinabox in an OpenVZ container (via vzctl, not direct SSH), with the trick to previous install ufw and disable it for install.

Still get this :

Updating system packages…
already installed: python3 (3.4.0-0ubuntu2), wget (1.15-1ubuntu1.14.04.1), curl (7.35.0-1ubuntu2.2)
installing python3-dev python3-pip haveged unattended-upgrades ntp fail2ban …
already installed: ufw (0.34~rc-0ubuntu2)
ERROR: problem running ufw-init
modprobe: ERROR: …/libkmod/libkmod.c:507 kmod_lookup_alias_from_builtin_file() could not open builtin file ‘/lib/modules/2.6.32-34-pve/modules.builtin.bin’
modprobe: FATAL: Module nf_conntrack_ftp not found.
modprobe: ERROR: …/libkmod/libkmod.c:507 kmod_lookup_alias_from_builtin_file() could not open builtin file ‘/lib/modules/2.6.32-34-pve/modules.builtin.bin’
modprobe: FATAL: Module nf_nat_ftp not found.
modprobe: ERROR: …/libkmod/libkmod.c:507 kmod_lookup_alias_from_builtin_file() could not open builtin file ‘/lib/modules/2.6.32-34-pve/modules.builtin.bin’
modprobe: FATAL: Module nf_conntrack_netbios_ns not found.
iptables-restore: line 4 failed
iptables-restore: line 77 failed
iptables-restore: line 31 failed
ip6tables-restore: line 4 failed
ip6tables-restore: line 73 failed
ip6tables-restore: line 31 failed
sysctl: permission denied on key ‘net.ipv4.tcp_sack’

Problem running ‘/etc/ufw/before.rules’
Problem running ‘/lib/ufw/user.rules’
Problem running ‘/etc/ufw/before6.rules’
Problem running ‘/lib/ufw/user6.rules’

After errors, VM loosing access to network and can’t continue install, any hint please?

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Set DISABLE_FIREWALL=1 in the VM’s environment to have it not attempt to install ufw. Would that help?

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Still installing ufw, and same errors, after some steps, still Could not resolve 'archive.ubuntu.com’
and no more network connection.

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No, then you didn’t set the environment variable correctly. You may need to use export. This will totally skip ufw (source).

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Yep, seems export DISABLE_FIREWALL=1 not working or i just did something wrong but can’t see what.
Btw, just edited the system.sh manually to remove ufw install, working well, work in progress, thanks.

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I’ve come over the same problem lately and I think I’ve found the source and the solution of the problem.

I have wrote a small bash script to test if the environment variable is set correctly.

When I run

$ DISABLE_FIREWALL=1
$ export DISABLE_FIREWALL
$ ./test-fw.sh
$

Everything looks super. But the problem is that the installer is called via sudo. So now when I run sudo ./test-fw.sh I get:

$ sudo ./test-fw.sh
FW enabled

I googled an found the following thread on stackoverflow.

The solution to the problem is to run the installer script with the parameter -E to preserve the the environment variables.

$ curl -s https://mailinabox.email/bootstrap.sh | sudo -E bash
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