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#1 Re: Installation » Devuan without refracta » 2026-09-12 11:47:56
Use the installer-iso path to get to the options with the traditional installer. I typically use the netinstaller.
#2 Re: Installation » Devuan without refracta » 2026-09-12 11:09:16
Look at the top of this page, there is a link to "Download | Devuan.org | .... ".
#3 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Replace/remove OpenRC » 2026-09-11 19:53:42
Thanks, that did work.
#4 Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Replace/remove OpenRC » 2026-09-10 20:07:52
- rolfie
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On my travelling laptop openrc is installed as init system. I would like to replace it by pure sysvinit (same setup as my main system). When I look at what Synaptic shows installation does not seem to replace openrc.
What do I need to do?
The laptop was installed with Daedalus and upgraded to Excalibur.
#5 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] System doesn't see upgraded package in repo » 2026-09-08 13:52:17
Well, I would say 013 is more than 04.
#6 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » What DE do you prefer to use on Devuan? » 2026-09-07 18:51:22
I started off with Mate desktop on ASCII and switched to Cinnamon on Beowulf which I am still using.
#7 Re: Installation » Test report Freia netinstall 20260819 » 2026-09-06 16:36:46
Testing the 20260903 iso at first glance shows no new topics. logrotate is present.
#8 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » syslog-ng will replace rsyslog as default logging system? » 2026-09-04 21:48:26
Well, I do create my own starter in the menu. No problem with that.
#9 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » syslog-ng will replace rsyslog as default logging system? » 2026-09-04 20:57:14
mate-system-log is part of mate-utils. gnome-logs nowadays is meant only for systemd systems.
Is there anybody who has other solutions to display log files?
#10 Installation » Test report Freia netinstall 20260819 » 2026-09-04 19:39:08
- rolfie
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Is my second test in a VBox VM. My setup: German language, keyboard, timezone, expert install to cli with sysvinit, luks encrypted. Manual installation of Cinnamon DE on X11 w/o recommends to reduce the usual bloat and to get a system with that sw I like and need. I am using my notes so the result is mostly reproduceable.
Installer: no comments
German language in DE wasn't set: fixed.
Time zone not set: problem still present. There is a discussion ongoing on github LinuxMint/Cinnamon #13922. Fixed locally by installing ntpsec.
Call up of several graphical applications on the DE only worked once (bug #972): solved by adding accountservices to cinnamon as a dependency (upstream).
syslog-ng installed now, solves bug #973. I have to have a look at logrotate on the next ISO.
So far so good, no further comments.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your work.
#11 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » syslog-ng will replace rsyslog as default logging system? » 2026-09-02 06:02:35
Used the same iso for my text in a VBox VM. Was my second go, in an earlier iso from end of June no logger was installed.
What the performance concerns: Nothing that caugth my eye in this short test. It works with mate-system-log as displayer.
#12 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Xorg error on Devuan freia » 2026-08-27 17:53:43
... however all based on gnome (that would be gnome 4, gnome-flashback and cinnamon) ...
The fork of Cinnamon from Gnome is way back. Some apps are the same like gnome-terminal, but I would see them as two different beasts nowadays. BTW: I am Cinnamon user on my desktop, and on xorg. I have tried xlibre in a VM, but was not really successful.
#13 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » xrdp. Update request » 2026-08-24 13:32:37
With a bit of luck the patched upgrade will go into Trixie-Backports.
#14 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » xrdp. Update request » 2026-08-24 12:53:05
I fear you are in the wrong place here, this is a native Debian package. Can be seen on this +deb13u1.
You should ask the Debian maintainers to update this package.
#15 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Kernel command line not saved by [update-initramfs] » 2026-08-17 14:23:04
When you use grub, edit /etc/default/grub to add the new parameter, perform an
# update-grubThat should do the job.
#16 Re: Installation » Some stupid questions to prepare for Devuan installation » 2026-08-14 13:02:27
Welcome to Devuan.
To your questions:
1.) I don't use ZFS, no idea how this is supported. I am on ext4, grub and luks encryption. Works for me.
2.) The current state of Nvidia/Nouveau/amdgpu drivers is exactly the same as for Debian. Devuan is a Debian - systemd + support for sysvinit and various other init systems. https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=3192
I guess this old GT730 is loosing support by NVidia, and older driver packages do no more build with current kernels.
3.) I use hibernation, it works fine on my grub system, Excalibur, encrypted, LightDM/Cinnamon DE.
#17 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] GRUB_TIMEOUT is being ignored » 2026-08-09 10:28:19
Well, there is one more effect we did not mention so far: modern GPUs and LED/LCD screens typically take a few seconds before they display a clear picture when waking up from power save mode and switching resolutions. Have a look at the grub screen, you should see a countdown in the bottom.
On my system set to 8s it is at 5s or lower when I get to see this screen.
#18 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] GRUB_TIMEOUT is being ignored » 2026-08-08 08:24:01
Strange behaviour.
My first suspect would be the grub-customizer. This package can be a system killer app. The customizer replaces grub configs with an own version and only by a complete new installation you may get rid of the effetcs.
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c … s.html#ID7
My default setting on Excalibur without any specials reacts to my 8s setting.
When looking at what you did, yours:
GRUB_DEFAULT="0"
GRUB_TIMEOUT="10"Mine:
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=8#19 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] Can't install nvidia-driver-libs:i386 in devuan freia » 2026-08-07 16:46:10
Well you have used the simple way. Why haven't you extended the Architectures: line as proposed by me?
#20 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] Can't install nvidia-driver-libs:i386 in devuan freia » 2026-08-07 14:39:40
Make it look like this:
Architectures: amd64 i386AFAIK that shoud work. I am wondering why your sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 did not add that entry. Maybe dpkg can't deal with the deb822 sources?
Make a check:
# dpkg –print-foreign-architectures#21 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] Can't install nvidia-driver-libs:i386 in devuan freia » 2026-08-07 11:24:25
Well, the devuan.sources as shown in post #1 does only contain amd64 as architecture. There is no i386. While non-free is in there.
#22 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] How do I disable ssh-agent and gpg-agent from starting automatically? » 2026-08-05 20:40:11
In your initial post it wasn't clear that you use ssh. I thought a fast look at the installed packages might give an entry point. Don't know why it doesn't work on your system. My experience: typos cause empty output.
When you use ssh: can't help with diabling the agent. Sorry, its your game.
#23 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] How do I disable ssh-agent and gpg-agent from starting automatically? » 2026-08-05 20:31:53
This is what I get on my system, Excalibur with Cinnamon DE, openssh-server is installed. Can be run in a user console. root permisson not required. It lists the installed packages that contain the string ssh.
$ apt list -i *ssh*
libssh-4/stable,now 0.11.2-1+deb13u1 amd64 [Installiert,automatisch]
libssh2-1t64/stable,stable-security,now 1.11.1-1+deb13u1 amd64 [Installiert,automatisch]
openssh-client/stable,now 1:10.0p1-7+deb13u4 amd64 [Installiert,automatisch]
openssh-server/stable,now 1:10.0p1-7+deb13u4 amd64 [installiert]
openssh-sftp-server/stable,now 1:10.0p1-7+deb13u4 amd64 [Installiert,automatisch]#24 Re: Off-topic » troubled of linux behaviour (or is it devuan=?) » 2026-08-05 20:27:28
I became a Mate user after Gnome2 was dropped and replaced with Gnome3. I dropped Mate for Cinnamon about 6 years ago because of various hangs especially related to USB. Haven't seen similar issues on Cinnamon.
#25 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] How do I disable ssh-agent and gpg-agent from starting automatically? » 2026-08-05 20:22:38
Well I would think about a ssh package first of all.
apt list -i *ssh*Board footer
