Yes, I used the same image (exegnu64_excalibur-20251119) and the md5sum matches exactly.

After installation the libdb5.3 was indicated as "installed", but /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdb-5.3.so was not an object file but an empty softlink instead. Additionally there was a libdb-5.3.a file. Now, after installing the newer deb everything looks good.

Meanwhile I believe that during installation some bits may be broken.

I will test a fresh installation on another machine with the same image later today.

Regards
Berni

PS: The problem off course had nothing to do witch mpv. claws-mail, cuyo e.g. also failed.

It's the latest version: excalibur / deb13.2

Thankx for your kind help. Update/upgrade is just running on my Refracta machine.

I could solve this problem as follows:

Create the a new udev rule:

-- Add a new file /etc/udev/rules.d/75-static-mac

-- write
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", RUN+="/usr/bin/iplink set dev %k address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX"
into the new file.

-- Replace XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX with your current mac address

Regards
Berni

Great & interesting, thanks for sharing.
We have a pool of 6 Brother DCPJ525W, all running as networkprinters via a Devuan print server. This works well with the Brother Linux drivers, however our printers are getting old and I am just looking for the next Brother generation.

Sleep well, you*ve earned it.

Berni

Yes, I boot from u-boot.

Believe it or not, but for my daily drivers, my printservers, camservers and NFS-servers there is nothing I'm missing. I use Chimaera ans 2 Daedalus installations and everything I need is in the repositories. It was never necessary to compile a program from source. So I'm quite happy with Devuan. Maybe I'm unpretentious, but thats my situation. 

Regards
Berni

At first I had to enter name and password blind, then the screen was switched to the corresponding output. Then I enabled in slim.conf the sessionstart_cmd  with the name of an executable script file, where the same xrandr commands are called. Worked fine on my old Thinkpad.

If you have once installed Gnome, you will have it forever. Whatever you will do beside Gnome - Gnome is already there. Scary!
Remove it as long you will be ablte to do. :-)

Berni, Gnome-hater.

Does it mean hat the rpc.mountd was not started due to the unknown option?

Sorry, but I talked about OpenBSD.

You are right, off course! I had OpenBSD in my mind, where the setuid bit was removed from the X server some years ago.