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Trying excalibur desktop-live.iso in qemu i get a blank screen

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:41:03 +0000

I don't know the solution, but you could try the options in the failsafe boot one at a time, or eliminate them one at a time until you find the one that makes the difference. I would start with just adding 'nomodeset' to the default boot command. That one is often useful to eliminate black screen.

BETTER SOLUTION:
I used your command and added '-vga qxl' and the desktop comes up.

qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -nic user,model=virtio -vga qxl -cdrom isos/devuan_excalibur_6.1.1_amd64_desktop-live.iso

Make sure you have xserver-xorg-video-qxl installed.

Can not do apt update

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:33:26 +0000

time is off again

Firefox lags and sometimes freezes completely on Devuan 6

dummy@example.com (kapqa) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:50:35 +0000

"i am sure there is a point in all of this"

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-V … deo-Merged

cannot install devuan container -- the public key is not available

dummy@example.com (kajko) — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:59:33 +0000

@webman try incus to play with lxc containers . Look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdcQSmkF_4U

Changing the login manager in excaliber.

dummy@example.com (Jamsiemac) — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:24:20 +0000

I did another clean install. Even though I am in the sudo group, I cannot change the lightdm login window background but when I login as root I can. My profile for some reason does not have root permissions which is weird.

I logged in to xfce as root and could change the background through login window in settings but still cant see the grub appearance setting in grub customizer. I think this is because grub customizer is trying to read them in etc when they are located in /boot... I can edit the file anyway. So I basically got what I needed to do. I now have xfce with lightdm, xlibre, customised grub and login manager. I have never seen anything so complicated and I have run alot of distros. Never seen this. In devuan 5, I just added myself to sudoers and could do everything.

[SOLVED] Help! Install failing repeatedly/failing to mount file system ext4

dummy@example.com (StinkyEmptyAfterlife) — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:57:26 +0000

Yeah definitely, or rather, pay very close attention to the screen that flashes right when booting the install media. There was a brief warning about being "unable to probe AHCI". Almost too fast to read it.

Windows re-arranged when waking computer

dummy@example.com (unixbot443) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:57:20 +0000

Yup, I have 3 monitors. And the affected applications are full screen.

[SOLVED] Error: udev is the name of a real and virtual service.

dummy@example.com (Lorenzo) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:50:24 +0000

IMHO, this is a bug and should be reported against the initscripts' package; see my other reply in
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=64102#p64102

udev and initscript both install udev service and conflicts

dummy@example.com (Lorenzo) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:48:17 +0000

Hi,
(I don't think this problem is specific to openrc)
As far as I know Devuan uses eudev, not udev(aka systemd-udevd); the "problem" is that in Debian the package udev comes from systemd, and systemd maintainers decided to drop the sysvinit script, so it was moved into "initscripts" from sysvinit; in Debian this works without error messages, but, I guess , in Devuan this result in having two sysvinit scripts that provides 'udev' and insserv complains about that.
You should drop the udev script and keep the eudev one; probably also, report a bug against "initscript" package so that does some checks and do not install the udev script when it detects a Devuan system.

Cheers,
Lorenzo

How to pure OpenRC-based Devuan?

dummy@example.com (gruffs) — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:21:04 +0000

JCK,

For me it almost worked out of the box including the proper /etc/conf.d/agetty config and the poweroff shim inspired from here https://laskarnix.org/devuan-migrate-fr … enrc-init/.
It probably gets stuck because some leftover sysv style scripts conflicting somewhere, i removed all except for the 6 or so mount*.sh.

I just made the migration to openrc-init using the guide you posted here. Thank you!

Devuan and vscode

dummy@example.com (Gnostic) — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:28:45 +0000

@rations - thanks, that works fine.

1) download the latest .deb file
e.g.codium_1.121.03429_amd64.deb

2) in the Downloads folder, open Terminal, then:
sudo apt install ./codium_1.121.03429_amd64.deb

excaliber odd /etc/hostname file

dummy@example.com (mknoop) — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:05:42 +0000

Again, this is not a major issue, but I am 99% certain I entered devuan-stable on that screen. Which makes me wonder if the installer is just ignoring the field.
Anyway, I think I am going to stop fussing about this.

fstab not mounting at startup

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:44:00 +0000

unixbot443 wrote:

I am using Network Manager.
I'm not following what that thread is getting at. Can you please explain?

The point is that initscripts installs an ifupdown networking "event handler", /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs, that processes /etc/fstab when interfaces are brought up, and both the daedalus and ceres versions of network-manager link up to that by means of the indicated script,
/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/01-ifupdown.

The excalibur version however lacks that script.

[SOLVED] Unknown file

dummy@example.com (Altoid) — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:07:23 +0000

Hello:

I wrote:

No idea as to why it is there.

Doing some more digging found that, at some point and for reasons unknown, I did ...

# ldconfig -p
#

... which can only be executed with elevated priviliges.

From man ldconfig:

man ldconfig wrote:

-p
--print-cache
Print the lists of directories and candidate libraries stored in the current cache.

As it was just a print I tried it, with the result being a huge printout in the terminal:

[root@devuan ~]# ldconfig -p
1442 libs found in cache `/etc/ld.so.cache'
	libz3.so.4 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz3.so.4
	libz3.so.4 (libc6) => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz3.so.4 ...
--- snip ---
        ld-linux.so.2 (ELF) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
	ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
Cache generated by: ldconfig (Debian GLIBC 2.36-9+deb12u14) stable release version 2.36
[root@devuan ~]#

No idea as to how that got in the /root directory but I deleted it.
The cache itself is in /etc/ld.so.cache.

That's all I could find, so I guess I can mark it solved.

Best,

[SOLVED] New Devuan user, strugging to get the sound working

dummy@example.com (Big_Hat) — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:11:08 +0000

Thank you both for your replies, rolfie and rbit, they were really helpful. I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to reply, work’s been hectic this week.

Your advice rolfie about me mixing several approaches made a lot of sense, and I decided to get around this by reinstalling Devuan, and noting down what I then did.

And your advice rbit was also really helpful, that on Cinnamon the sound should work from the installation without needing scripts/adjustments etc.

So I re-installed Devuan to a new partition, booted it up, didn't fiddle with anything but played a Youtube video – and the sound worked! :-) I have done a few other tests with offline video/audio files, and the sound keeps working, I haven’t needed to do the adjustments in the release notes or anything.

I found it didn’t help that there were no system sounds set on Devuan, so I copied the system sounds off my Mint installation, and set them up on Devuan. This reassures me when I log into my laptop, as every time I’m greeted by the login chime – so I know the sound is still working.

Thank you again for your help, I really appreciate it :-)