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#1 Re: Devuan Derivatives » live-iso 32 bits testing and expirmental with miniKDE » Today 00:22:30

Your subject lines lately are very confusing. They appear to be about Refracta, which is a devuan re-spin derivative, but they more about your experiments than they are about Refracta. This one even sounds like you are the developer of Refracta when you are not. Maybe we could change the subject lines to something like "live-iso with minimal 32-bit KDE" or something like that. If you are unable to edit the subject lines on these recent posts, just let me know and I can do it.

Thanks,
fsmithred (developer of Refracta GNU/Linux and maintainer of refractainstaller and refractasnapshot)

#2 Re: Installation » Daedalus netinstall partitioning » 2024-03-22 21:37:38

Here's a video. We use the same installer.

How to install Debian GNU/Linux with LUKS encrypted LVM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEl2S5MI-WU

#3 Re: Off-topic » Refracta-SnapShot - Question » 2024-03-21 10:36:28

The issue with handling initramfs with microcode is fixed in refractasnapshot 10.4.0 in excalibur/ceres. You can download it here if you want to install it in daedalus or chimaera:i
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/poo … shot-base/
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/poo … pshot-gui/

@pcalvert: The refracta tools rely on live-boot and live-config, which are debian-based packages. You might need to cobble some stuff into place manually to get it to work. Look at the other dependencies to see if alpine uses the same package names. (Does alpine use apt?)

#4 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Reliability of desktop vs enterprise drives » 2024-03-17 22:20:47

The WD Caviar Black drives larger than 1TB dropped error correction capabilities. The WD Gold drives have that and are therefore more suitable for RAID. The Gold drives a couple years ago only had a 3yr. warranty. I'm not sure about the newer ones.

The 1T Caviar Black drives I had all lasted longer than five years. (always on)

#5 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Want to use startx instead of slim » 2024-03-16 11:12:06

@Andre: My solution keeps the user in a multi-user non-graphical session, not single-user. Only the display-manager gets disabled. Other services continue running.

#6 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Want to use startx instead of slim » 2024-03-16 10:54:37

I would have done it this way instead:

update-service --remove /etc/sv/slim

which would not remove /etc/sv/slim but would remove the symbolic link, /etc/runit/runsvdir/default/slim. I just tested this with lightdm instead of slim, and it worked fine. Be aware that it will kill your graphical session. I'm running in qemu, and it left me with a black screen. Might be different on real hardware. I rebooted and got a console login screen. And startx works.

Also note that in debian/devuan, runit will use the sysvinit script if there are no runit scripts for a service. I don't know if this has anything to do with your problem, but maybe it's a useful clue.

#7 Re: Installation » justX-installation from stable ok but refractasnapshot does not » 2024-03-06 16:52:03

how can I now make a snapshot? what is wrong (probably in the actual devuan binary package from refracta)?

I'm not aware lf a problem, and as far as I can tell, you did not describe one. Maybe sharing some error messages or the debug log would help.

#8 Re: Off-topic » fantastic evolutions: one of the best ones - Refractasnapshot » 2024-03-05 11:46:18

Can anybody remember how it was problematic to make a snapshot out the Commando Line Interpreter?

I'm not sure what you are asking. Do you want to run refractasnapshot without a graphical environment? If so, the answer is yes, just run "refractasnapshot" as root (or with sudo).

If you're asking if it's possible to make a snapshot by manually running commands, then yes, that's how it was done before the script was written. Some of the commands are long, and that is why the script was written.

#9 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » apt update tries to delete /lib/init & /lib/lsb » 2024-03-05 11:33:18

I didn't think it was a usrmerge problem until I compared files in different versions of initscripts. They moved scripts from /lib/init to /usr/lib/init.

Is this upgrade trying to install the usrmerge package, or did you already have merged usr in your system?
Does /usr/lib/init contain the same scripts as /lib/init? If so, I think you could move /lib/init out of the way. (move rather than delete, in case you need to put it back.)

#10 Re: Other Issues » save my refractasnapshot » 2024-03-04 21:59:35

I'm not sure I understand what you want to do. If you want to change the contents of a live-iso, the easiest way is to install it into a VM, make the changes you want, and then make a new snapshot.

A less easy method is to mount the iso, mount filesystem.squashfs, copy both, chroot the filesystem and make the changes, re-squash the filesystem and then use xorriso (or other iso software) to make the new iso file.

#11 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Changing permissions on external drive » 2024-03-02 18:57:52

It's locked because it's mounted. Right-click on it to unmount.

Any time I've used fsck, I've done it on an unmounted device, like /dev/sdb1 for example. I just tried running it on a mounted filesystem, using the directory, and I got the same error you got about superblock.

#12 Re: Other Issues » Installing latest xfce4-terminal » 2024-02-28 10:06:55

Install build-essential and linux-headers-<version> to compile software.

A better way would be to backport xfce4-terminal and make a deb package so that your package manager knows about it.
https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingFormalBackports

Either way, you might need to build more packages to satisfy dependencies.

I think you got better advice in the first reply.

#13 Re: Other Issues » New backports packages for Chimaera » 2024-02-27 18:48:54

Yes, there is a reason not to install everything that's in backports.

Things get backported to bring new features into the stable distribution.  Maintainers will test their backported packages with the stable system.

Nobody tests all the backported packages together, therefore nobody knows if they all work together. If you need something from backports, just install what you need.
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#14 Re: Installation » installing Devuan Trinity, gpt disk, non-uefi boot error » 2024-02-26 23:20:35

ExeGNU/Linux is Devuan with Trinity -
https://sourceforge.net/projects/exegnulinux/files/iso/

As mentioned before, to boot gpt in legacy mode, you need a partition that is at least 1MB, unformatted and bios_grub flag (in gparted) or ef02 flag (in gdisk). No partition needs to be marked bootable.

#15 Re: Other Issues » tomcat10 on daedalus » 2024-02-24 16:47:12

The orphan-sysvinit-scripts package has an init script for tomcat9. Maybe that can be modified to work with tomcat10. I don't know if there's a better solution.

#16 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Firefox-esr Audio through ALSA Alone » 2024-02-24 16:36:32

There is no devuan version of firefox-esr. We're using the debian version along with the debian version of about 99% of everything. We only fork around a hundred packages. You should be able to get rid of pulseaudio and have sound in firefox. If you've changed any config files related to audio, you might want to check your settings and run alsamixer to make sure your sound isn't muted. This should work out of the box.

If you do need to use apulse, it's just 'apulse firefox'. No need for asoundrc. The only time I need to use apulse is if tor-browser uses audio and then I try to use audio in firefox-esr.

#17 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Can't connect to repos » 2024-02-08 02:01:49

To prevent network-manager from messing with your resolv.conf after you edit the file,

chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

To undo that (in case  you want to edit the file again) change the plus to minus.

#19 Re: Off-topic » Refracta-SnapShot - Question » 2024-02-07 12:50:45

oui,
live-config live-config-systemd live-boot and live-boot-initramfstools should all be installable in ubuntu. Try installing those first.

If it's a really old ubuntu, replace live-config-systemd with live-config-upstart.

#21 Re: Installation » all the new kernel disturb some old PC's! » 2024-01-29 13:39:48

We do not fork the debian kernel. If you have issues with it, you should direct your complaints to debian or possibly to kernel.org. Not here.

To answer your question, I don't think you need to do anything special to use refractainstaller in ubuntu, but to use refractasnapshot you need to change the initrd compression to xz. When the next version of refractasnapshot is released, you won't need to use xz compression. The new version will support zstd compression.

#22 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Possible to make LXQt the default desktop with automatic login? » 2024-01-23 13:55:58

Edit /etc/slim.conf or /etc/sddm.conf depending on which display manager you're using. Set the session to start lxqt instead of xfce.

If you're using sddm, then /etc/sddm.conf should look like this:

[Autologin]
User=<user's login name>
Session=lxqt.desktop

I'm not exactly sure how to edit /etc/slim.conf, but you might be able to figure it out if you read the comments. I'm not sure if you'd use "lxqt.desktop" or "startxqt" in that file. The .desktop files for the desktops are in /usr/share/xsessions.

For lightdm, set autologin-user in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

On second thought, maybe the correct way is to use update-alternatives to change the x-session-manager.

update-alternatives --config x-session-manager

and it'll give you available choices.

#23 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] cron-daemon-common depends on systemd » 2024-01-16 10:10:29

Another solution is to use mmdebootstrap which does a better job of handling the dependencies. It will install systemd-standalone-sysusers before cron-daemon-common.

#24 Re: Devuan » [SOLVED] How will the deprecation of Debian's i386 affect Devuan? » 2024-01-15 19:23:04

Hendrick, I don't get any delays when I ssh into my Asus netbook. If you want to try the same system I'm running, here's a live-iso I made for my EEE. Passwords are root:root and user:user and you'll need to use startx to get a desktop.
https://get.refracta.org/files/experime … 5_1348.iso

#25 Re: Other Issues » Ceph on Devuan » 2024-01-15 18:35:10

On my daedalus system, aptitude says it will install ceph and cephadm. How did you determine that it requires systemd?

If apt or apt-get won't let you install it, please post the terminal output so we can see what's wrong. Also, if you try it with aptitiude, you might be given some alternate solutions.

apt show ceph*

Will give you information about every package whose name starts with ceph. None of them depend on systemd.  One thing I'm not clear on is whether docker containers work in devuan.

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