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#1 Desktop and Multimedia » desktop grey » 2023-08-12 05:45:28

roluan17
Replies: 1

This has already happened twice in the meantime: after updating there is an empty desktop. I didn't do anything and after a while ( I can't remember how long) and after updating regularly everything was back. This time I thought I try to learn where Devuan puts its desktop configuration or better said: what can I do?

echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP==>XFCE

inxi -Fz :
System:
  Host:devuan Kernel: 4.19.0-25-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: N/A
  Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (beowulf)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: extra product: N/A v: N/A serial: <filter>
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: B75M-D3H v: x.x serial: <filter>
  BIOS: American Megatrends v: F12 EP date: 12/04/2012
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-3470 bits: 64 type: MCP
  L2 cache: 6144 KiB
  Speed: 1599 MHz min/max: 1600/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1597 2: 1596
  3: 1597 4: 1597
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics
  driver: i915 v: kernel
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
  resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Desktop v: 4.2 Mesa 18.3.6

#2 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » unknown files "xyz.db" » 2023-04-25 13:15:50

"fdisk -l xyz.db " gives:

xyz.db: 4 GiB, 4294966784 bytes, 8388607 sectors

sudo mount -o loop,offset=$OFFSET xyz.db  /mnt
mount: bad usage
Try 'mount --help' for more information.

#Request patience

#3 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » unknown files "xyz.db" » 2023-04-25 08:14:22

Sorry again! You are right, I could have done that myself.
What I then found out further is that Billy Boy offers a free (?) program: "Visual Studio 2022" to open it.
Any other idea than going to a neighbour and looking it up on his machine?

Are there other possibilities within Linux?
Sqlite3 just give cryptic characters ... as i mentioned above.

It might be that these are useless temp files, right.
But as it is named "recover" (i myself would not name a recover file "recover" but Sicherung or something like that) I suspect it might be something I should store.
It could be something from the time I ran "teams" on my machine for my sons home schooling period during corona-times.
("teams" did a lot of uncontrollable things and was not -as promised- running  within Firefox alone, crashed several times and was then removed, last time I ran one of Billy's products)
Thanks

#4 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » unknown files "xyz.db" » 2023-04-24 19:19:45

Sorry! Misinterpreted "file" ...

"file xyz.db" results in:
"Composite Document File V2 Document, Cannot read section info"

"stat xyz" gives:
file: xyz.db
  size: 4294967295    blocks: 8388616    EA block: 4096   regular file
Device: 808h/2056d    Inode: 5510191     Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access    : 2023-04-24 19:47:44.524001543 +0200
Modify: 2020-07-06 17:26:34.000000000 +0200
Change: 2021-03-04 22:45:42.316023800 +0100
Birth    : -

#5 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » unknown files "xyz.db" » 2023-04-24 14:22:02

>what does `file xyz.db` say? creation date?

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4294967295 Jul  6  2020
(Can't remember what I could have done three years ago to create them)

>could be a db backup, or something else. do you have a database server running on that system?

No, just a normal pc, no database server (as far as I know)
[UPDATE] I tried to open one of the files using sqlite3. But no hint about the content, only a long row of
-- unrecognized token " "
-- syntax error
-- and unreadable characters
runs about 15 minutes

LibreOffice doesn't know to open it (or better said I don't know how to make LibreOffice open it)

#6 Hardware & System Configuration » unknown files "xyz.db" » 2023-04-24 08:08:27

roluan17
Replies: 11

Lokking for big files on my system:
4.19.0-23-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.269-1 (2022-12-20) x86_64 GNU/Linux

I found 5 files, each 4 GB, named like "xyz.db" in a directory named "recover".

Has anyone an idea where this might come from? Can't remember that I did that (so not a 100% proof)
;-)

Anyway 20 GB is a lot of wood, just delete them, seems a bit risky to me.

Any hints?
Thanks

#7 Re: Other Issues » minecraft on devuan? » 2021-11-27 12:40:05

Well,
;-))
good answer!
Whenever I had to do with
-- Billy Boy's products (I do not use them personally since 1995)
--  people using Billy Boy's products
it is as you say:
strange language (translated into german even worse!)
incredible fear of not getting paid as wanted
therefore complete silly security ideas for unimportant areas
bad security concepts, where it would be necessary to have good ones.

People using it seem to have undergone some kind of brain washing (no wonder).

Anyway, my daughter spent money on that game ! And she was not d'accord, that Billy bought minecraft.

How do I find out, what old hardware means?
How can I test if OpenGl4.4 will run?
My daughter's machine:
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-3470 bits: 64 type: MCP
  L2 cache: 6144 KiB
  Speed: 1597 MHz min/max: 1600/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1614 2: 1628
  3: 1635 4: 1628

inxi -m
  System RAM: total: 15.52 GiB used: 1.48 GiB (9.6%)

There is another one:

RAM :7,66GiB

CPU:
Intel Core i7-6500U 64 bits 3000 Mhz

Thanks in advance

#8 Other Issues » minecraft on devuan? » 2021-11-27 09:07:18

roluan17
Replies: 3

Is there a way to install minecraft on dvuan (beowulf) (4.19.208-1, x86_64)

Tried to install java via

sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre

But I get

 no package openjdk-8-jre

Any ideas?

#9 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [ SOLVED ] cant run command from commandsline » 2020-08-04 16:07:24

fsmithred wrote:

Does the error message appear inside the terminal that you just opened, or is it in a notification window or other popup?

It is the first line in every terminal I open:

ash: 0: Can't open completion

What terminal is it?

GNOME-Terminal 3.30.2
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.8
Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (beowulf)

Maybe a right-click on that icon will let you see a list of Properties that will show the command.

By right-clicking  under "edit" I get a window (launcher properties) with the following entries:

Name: Terminal
Command: gnome-terminal  (with a button "Browse" which opens a file manager)
Comment: Use the command line
there is a tickable box "Launch in Terminal? (not checked)

If you have a terminal that will let you run commands, run the command that the panel icon uses to open a terminal and see if it gives you any more information.

If I run  "gnome-terminal" (in a GNOME-Terminal) I get a new terminal (including :"ash: 0: Can't open completion" as first line).

If I stop that terminal with CTRL +D, the original terminal displays:

# Couldn't register with accessibility bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
# watch_fast: "/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/" (establishing: 0, active: 0)
# unwatch_fast: "/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/" (active: 0, establishing: 1)
# watch_established: "/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/" (establishing: 0)

All above as user!

If I switch to root and try to run "gnome-terminal"

I get this error (and NO new terminal-window!):

# Error constructing proxy for :1.98:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Verbindung ist geschlossen
# Failed to use specified server: Verbindung ist geschlossen
# Falling back to default server.
# Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Verbindung ist geschlossen

"Verbindung ist geschlossen" means: "connection closed"

Thanks for your patience!
wink

#11 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [ SOLVED ] cant run command from commandsline » 2020-08-03 16:11:21

You wrote:

I don't get an error message when I start an ash shell.

Same with me!
I do get an error message, when I open an console.

How did you install the system?

I installed ascii from a netinstall iso. Upgraded to beowulf by replacing "ascii" in my sources.list

What did you do that's different from everyone else?

;-)
well I really don't know. It all started when I upgraded from ascii to beowulf.
Since then I got

bash: ash: command not found

whenever I open a console.
After installing "ash" I get

ash: 0: Can't open completion

I'm not finding that error message on a web search. (Can't open completion)

Me neither.
Perhaps we ask the guys who develop ash/dash?
greetings

#12 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [ SOLVED ] cant run command from commandsline » 2020-08-03 07:04:59

bash-completion ist schon die neueste Version (1:2.8-6).

is already newest version
greetings

#13 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [ SOLVED ] cant run command from commandsline » 2020-08-02 15:49:40

@fsmithred
thanks for answering ...
sorry, I found out that ash was NOT installed. So I installed it (again? I am really not quite shure)
I don't remember exactly what kind of prompt-behaviour I had, before I did that su alias.
Before installing ash I deleted that empty ash file.
/bin looks like this now:

ls -l *ash
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       4 Jan 17  2019 ash -> dash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1168776 Apr 18  2019 bash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  121464 Jan 17  2019 dash
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       4 Apr 18  2019 rbash -> bash

NOW opening a console, I get:

ash: 0: Can't open completion 

#14 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [ SOLVED ] cant run command from commandsline » 2020-08-02 13:31:12

To finish that

bash:ash: command not found

thing:
I just added an empty  "ash"-file in /bin.

Since then there are no more errors like

bash:ash: command not found

If anyone has an better idea or just can explain to me where that error message came/comes from;
you are very welcome!

I found no hint in .bashrc of any script or program that needs ash.
greetings

#15 Re: Off-topic » deb.sury.org now requires systemd » 2020-07-12 13:52:13

Thank you! Feels good you are there!

#16 Re: Installation » [solved]Upgrading to Beowulf packages held back » 2020-07-04 21:13:15

apt full-upgrade

made no difference.
So I tried

apt-get install elogind libelogind0 libpam-elogind 

after update there was no

"packages held back"

message any more.

Thanks for helping.

#17 Installation » [solved]Upgrading to Beowulf packages held back » 2020-07-03 15:07:28

roluan17
Replies: 3

I don't know whether my question has anything to do  with the problems described above ...
I did upgrade from ascii to beowulf.

when I do

apt-get upgrade

I get:

Die folgenden Pakete sind zurückgehalten worden:
  elogind libelogind0 libpam-elogind

meaning the following packages have been held back

Everything seems to work fine on my machine, but I'd like to know if I need to take action?
Which part of beowulf needs elogind, libelogind0 and  libpam-elogind?
How could I have found out for myself?

greetings

#19 Forum Feedback » Where to report broken link on https://devuan.org/os/keyring? » 2020-07-01 06:39:23

roluan17
Replies: 2

There is a broken link on https://devuan.org/os/keyring:

"You can get it here: E032 601B 7CA1 0BC3 EA53 FA81 BB23 C00C 61FC 752C"
does  lead to:
Document Not Found
Where should this be reported?
greetings

#20 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED]Detached signature file(s) » 2020-07-01 06:08:19

Thank you!
Keyring was the newest.
All seems to be fine now, replaced country mirrors.
greetings

#21 Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED]Detached signature file(s) » 2020-06-30 21:34:42

roluan17
Replies: 2

Hi
since upgrading from ascii to beowulf, I get the following errors, when I do:

apt-get update:
Detached signature file '/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/us.deb.devuan.org_merged_dists_beowulf_Release.gpg' is in unsupported binary format

for each of these sources:

us.deb.devuan.org_merged_dists_beowulf-security_Release.gpg' 

us.deb.devuan.org_merged_dists_beowulf_Release.gpg' 

us.deb.devuan.org_merged_dists_beowulf-updates_Release.gpg'
apt-get install devuan-keyring

is answered by:

devuan-keyring ist schon die neueste Version (2017.10.03).

(keyring is already newest version)

Anyone can help?

#22 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [ SOLVED ] cant run command from commandsline » 2020-06-28 15:35:31

@Head_on_a_Stick:

"su" without argument

works fine

Yes .bashrc and .bash_aliases are those from root

GNU nano 3.2                     /root/.bashrc                                

# eval "`dircolors`"
# alias ls='ls $LS_OPTIONS'
# alias ll='ls $LS_OPTIONS -l'
# alias l='ls $LS_OPTIONS -lA'
#
# Some more alias to avoid making mistakes:
# alias rm='rm -i'
# alias cp='cp -i'
# alias mv='mv -i'
HISTSIZE=1000
HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:erasedups
GNU nano 3.2                  /root/.bash_aliases                             

alias su='su -'

But I overlooked three lines out commented in /etc/pam.d/su:
sad

# This allows root to su without passwords (normal operation)
auth       sufficient pam_rootok.so

session       required   pam_env.so readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale

session    optional   pam_mail.so nopen

session    required   pam_limits.so

greetings

#23 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [ SOLVED ] cant run command from commandsline » 2020-06-28 10:44:54

@steve
yes, there is a root password!

@ralph
I can't reproduce the problem anymore (puuh, saved)

su -
su --login

and

su

all demand a password. (Everywhere, also on a non grafic console. "ctrl-alt-f1").
Sent securrity home again.
-----------------------------------

su -

and

su --login

with output

-bash: ash: Kommando nicht gefunden.

(command not found)

-----------------------------------------------------
Only

su

(after setting alias)

alias su='su -'

does NOT output

-bash: ash: Kommando nicht gefunden.

but silently opens a root-shell

root@someone:/home/someone# 

------------------------------------------------------
Remains the "ash output".
Couldn't find much in the web:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almquist_shell
https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/ash/
which leaves me as ignorant as before.

greetings

#24 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [ SOLVED ] cant run command from commandsline » 2020-06-26 15:08:46

Hi Steve, ptmy!

~# printenv
SHELL=/bin/bash
PWD=/root
LOGNAME=root
HOME=/root
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
TERM=xterm-256color
USER=root
SHLVL=1
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
MAIL=/var/mail/root
_=/usr/bin/printenv

.bashrc:

HISTSIZE=100
HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:erasedups

.profile

if [ "$BASH" ]; then
  if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
    . ~/.bashrc
  fi
fi

mesg n || true

.bash_profile does not exist

.bash_aliases

alias su='su -'

smile

/etc/pam.d/su

@include common-auth
@include common-account
@include common-session

/etc/pam.d/su-l

#%PAM-1.0
auth		include		su
account		include		su
password	include		su
session		optional	pam_keyinit.so force revoke
session		include		su

Thanks
greetings

#25 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [ SOLVED ] cant run command from commandsline » 2020-06-26 10:06:34

Hi Ralph,
thanks for the answer!
1)
Well my "su" still works fine. I was a bit of confused that I should work from now on with "su -". But I tried it with "command not found" result.
Why should I check up why "su -" is not working, when "su" is working as usual? Btw I have no idea how to check up why I get that "ash" output.
Any suggestions?

2)
Being able as normal user to get a root-shell by just typing su "--login" without need for a password  makes me a little nervous.
Not you?
greetings

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