So you have installed the xwayland package, right?

EDIT: use foot in Wayland, it's just as "light" as xterm and it doesn't need XWayland.

I think it's something else. Of course, Xwayland is installed. But, don't know how many apps will not be working. It is not alone 2-3 apps that are not working. I can provide any details needed. But, no way to figure out why Wayland is not working, when it is perfectly fine for a Ubuntu 21.10 with Gnome-40 in another system.

EDIT: use foot in Wayland, it's just as "light" as xterm and it doesn't need XWayland.

~$ ps aux |grep earth
devuan   9893  0.0  0.0   6768  3304 pts/0    S+   20:31   0:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/google-earth-pro
devuan   9896  8.0  0.8 395600 71420 pts/0    Sl+  20:31   0:00 /opt/google/earth/pro/googleearth-bin

Same with synaptic-pkexec.

~$ ps aux |grep synaptic
devuan   9932  0.0  0.0   2432   672 pts/1    S+   20:32   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/synaptic-pkexec
root      9933  2.2  1.4 472600 120112 pts/1   Sl+  20:32   0:01 /usr/sbin/synaptic

EDIT: Context: not working on wayland session. In Xorg this apps works.

Even xterm, too doesn't work in Wayland Gnome sessions:

:~$ ps aux |grep xterm
devuan  10712  0.1  0.1  24588 10312 pts/0    S+   12:57   0:00 xterm
devuan  10734  0.0  0.0   6192  2284 pts/2    S+   12:57   0:00 grep --color=auto xterm

there are many offending applications including synaptic which refuse to run even with xhost +si:localuser:root. Synaptic without root shows up with above option. Not synaptic-pkexec.

Yes, that's by design. Running graphical applications as root is now officially discouraged. You have been warned

This works for me for synaptic in GNOME's Wayland desktop and also under sway:

xhost +local:

EDIT: just remember to undo the damage afterwards:

xhost -local:

Have you enabled Wayland support?

MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 firefox

If that works then add the variable to /etc/environment (or in it's own file under /etc/environment.d/).

EDIT: are we having fun yet?

Yes, Firefox worked with the above environment variable set. However, I have to add MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 in /etc/environment file, not under /etc/environment.d/..

Google Chrome works with following lines, when invoked from terminal.:
/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland

However, there are many offending applications including synaptic which refuse to run even with xhost +si:localuser:root. Synaptic without root shows up with above option. Not synaptic-pkexec.

I'm so glad that I'm using this old computer. Give me 2 CPUs and an incredible 4 GBs of RAM, and I'm happy.

Sorry to disrupt the thread...

Good luck to you.

MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 firefox

If that works then add the variable to /etc/environment (or in it's own file under /etc/environment.d/).

EDIT: are we having fun yet?

 $ apropos machine-id
machine-id (5)       - Local machine ID configuration file
systemd-machine-id-commit.service (8) - Commit a transient machine ID to disk
systemd-machine-id-setup (1) - Initialize the machine ID in /etc/machine-id
$

And then

man machine-id

To save you time:

So perhaps try that?

# ln -sf /var/lib/dbus/machine-id /etc/machine-id

Or just make one up and hope the machine-id Police don't come knocking...

EDIT: this may be worth a bug report to Devuan, looks like no package supplies that file since systemd is supposed to generate it. I think it popped up recently in another thread IIRC.

and..
there is no /etc/machine-id file after the upgrade! BTW, I'm using openRC init on this system.

You should probably read https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debi … .html#s3.1 (official Debian documentation but it also applies to Devuan).

But, How can I upgrade to testing (Daedalus)? Should I put only this line in /etc/apt/sources.list, after backing up Beowulf sources.list:
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main contrib non-free
OR
if this line also needed?
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-proposed-updates main contrib non-free