I recommend you to upgrade the whole system allowing all the changes in /etc/init.d/

I did just that, and all went well. Now gparted is indeed launching as expected. 👍

NB: possibly related to the choice of encoding during the upgrade process, the console is currently not accepting diacritics (and other symbols like square and cube). They are not available in the terminal emulator, and a decryption passphrase with diacritics will be rejected at reboot time.

# hwclock --set --date "2026-06-06 3:44"
# date --set "2026-06-06 3:44"

fake-hwclock is a service designed for boards that do not have a battery or a real hardware clock (such as the Raspberry Pi). What it does is save the time to a text file when the system is shut down and restore exactly that same time when it is switched on. Therefore, I guess that this is causing a conflict with the real clock and freezing the system in the past. I'll try to fix this issue..., maybe disabling fake-hwclock and moving hwclock.sh from the sysinit runlevel to the boot runlevel.

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# Uncomment one of the lines below to use xz or zstd compression for smaller iso.

# small and slow # relative size of the iso-image
#mksq_opt="-comp xz"              # (-4.1% to zstd -19 | -15,4% to zstd -1)
#mksq_opt="-comp xz -b 262144"       # (-2.0% to xz)
#mksq_opt="-comp xz -b 524288"       # (-3.8% to xz)
#mksq_opt="-comp xz -b 1048576"     # (-5.5% to xz)

# smaller and slower:
#mksq_opt="-comp xz -Xbcj x86"                        # (-1.5% to xz)
#mksq_opt="-comp xz -Xbcj x86 -b 524288"       # (-5.4% to xz)
#mksq_opt="-comp xz -Xbcj x86 -b 1048576"     # (-6.9% to xz)

# not as small but faster
#mksq_opt="-comp zstd -Xcompression-level 22"     # (= zstd -19 | --ultra ?)
#mksq_opt="-comp zstd -Xcompression-level 19"     # (-11.8% to zstd -1)
mksq_opt="-comp zstd -Xcompression-level 15"      # (-11.1% to zstd -1)
#mksq_opt="-comp zstd -Xcompression-level 8"       # (-7.0% to zstd -1)
#mksq_opt="-comp zstd -Xcompression-level 3"       # (-3.1% to zstd -1)
#mksq_opt="-comp zstd -Xcompression-level 1"       # (-17.2% to lz4)

#mksq_opt="-comp lz4"     # (+20,8% to zstd -1)

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PRETTY_NAME="PeppermintOS"
NAME="Peppermint"
ID=debian
VERSION_CODENAME=daedalus
HOME_URL="https://peppermintos.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://sourceforge.net/p/peppermintos/pepos/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://sourceforge.net/p/peppermintos/pepos/"

You could be right  some fluke during install any way thanks!

These have been my steps:

(1) install refracta_13.3_nox with runit and seatd

(2) exclude unwanted packages via pins in /etc/apt/preferences.d:
00dbus-bin 00java-common 00libelogind0 00libsystemd0 00mono-runtime-common 00nodejs 00polkitd

(3) add antiX-26 repos to refracta
Give Devuan a higher priority than antiX in /etc/apt/preferences.d
To stay as close as possible to original Devuan I have turned on the antiX repos only when needed.
(i.e.: Arandr from Devuan cannot be installed – the antiX version is fine. Plank needs gconf-gsettings-backend from antiX to function properly.)
Once the base system has been completed, I shall keep the antiX repos turned on for upgrades.

(4) install from antiX-26:
# apt install turnstile runit-service-turnstiled libturnstile0
# apt install runit-service-seatd

(5) install my proven Openbox desktop
no display manager – just xinitrc | no pipewire – pure alsa
This setup should work with all window managers.
Desktops do not work. They all need active dbus daemons, whereas this setup uses libdbus-1-3 only.

(6) Power Management
For power management I use acpid, xset and the script suspend_if_idle (combined with i3lock and kdocker).
[https://gitlab.com/antiX-Linux/antix-go … type=heads]

(7) use lxterminal as pseudo gui
i.e.; obsession is crippled, lxsession needs polkit
As workaround in the openbox menu I use commands like the following:

<execute>lxterminal --geometry=39x4 --title=PowerOff -e bash -c "echo -- ???_PowerOff_??? __ [ENTER] = yes --; read line; (openbox --exit && sudo poweroff); echo read line"
<execute>lxterminal --geometry=90x32 --title=clamscan_Downloads -e "clamscan -v -r ~/Downloads; echo '<Enter> to Close Terminal'; read line"

So far I have found a solution for all my software needs within this setup.
The system is light, fast and stable and maybe a little more secure than standard.

I had to create one single dummy for pkexec, because gparted as dependency of refractainstaller-gui demands it. Of course pkexec is not really needed. Gparted starts as well with 'lxsu' or 'su-to-root -X -c'.

An extra benefit: The limitations have inspired me to find better alternatives to standard apps.
Example: I use SQLiteStudio instead of the bloated LibreOffice-Base.

Linux-libre works well, but I prefer the Devuan kernel for the option of non-free-firmware.
So far xorg has not caused any problems. Therefore I have not yet tested xlibre. It is in the antiX-26 repo. '#apt install -s xlibre' does not show any problems, but all the xserver-xorg-input-* packages will be removed.

screenshot runit-service-manager https://postimg.cc/RqQnGVvg

screenshot #apt install xlibre https://postimg.cc/kDFtwX7f

screenshot openbox desktop https://postimg.cc/mhNFV2TS

ntpdate -u pool.ntp.org
hwclock --systohc

with sudo it worked for me
no problem

thanks very much aitor

refractasnapshot does not require access to the repo to build the iso. It makes a copy of your running system with a few things excluded and puts that into the iso. Since it's copying an installed system, any questions about missing packages have already been answered before you started to make the iso. Also, since it's copying the running system, any changes you make right before running it will be copied into the iso. The downside of this method is that you must have an installed system, either on hardware or in a virtual machine, for each flavor you want to build.

To adjust what gets copied by refractasnapshot, edit /usr/lib/refractasnapshot/snapshot_exclude.list. See 'man rsync' for details.

Edit: one more difference between live-build or live-sdk and refractasnapshot is that refractasnapshot builds an iso that has an unprivileged user with a home directory. The others do not, but the live-config scripts create the user and home when the system boots. This affects which live-config options are used in the boot command. See 'man live-config' and probably 'man live-boot' too.
Note that live-build, live-sdk and refractasnapshot all use the debian live-boot and live-config scripts.

I don't know what those others are.

Again please note: NOT an official Devuan iso! And not efi-enabled. Old-school to the core and proud of it.

https://peppermintos.com/2026/05/pepper … n-testing/

I found it today and installed on intel pc only. Its size is with 1.3gb. After adding firmware(s) for amd pc, it ran perfectly on amd pc as well.
I like it pretty much, by the way.