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#2801 Re: Installation » KVM guest - kernel panic when running from P9 share root » 2019-07-06 21:01:14
I don't understand this error message:
run init: /sbin/init: Too many symbolic links encounteredIt might make sense in the context of a Debian system where /sbin/init is a symlink to systemd (hence my suggestion in the fdn thread) but not for Devuan.
Is sysvinit-core installed?
#2802 Re: Installation » Odd message on booting a new install » 2019-07-06 20:56:09
The systray application is provided by /usr/bin/nm-applet, which is included in the network-manager-gnome package and should be autostarted by the XFCE desktop (or any other XDG autostart compliant desktop).
#2803 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Passwordless root execution in scripts » 2019-07-06 20:45:19
apps like wicd seem to only need group access in order to perform wpasupplicant tasks (wireshark to perform tcpdump, etc). I'm wondering how these are configured to do so.
The devices are under the ownership of the relevant groups, for example:
E485:~$ find /dev -group netdev
/dev/rfkill
E485:~$ ls -l /dev/rfkill
crw-rw-r-- 1 root netdev 10, 58 Jul 6 20:45 /dev/rfkill
E485:~$So users in the netdev group can use rfkill(8).
#2804 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » PulseAudio? Seriously!? » 2019-07-06 20:39:18
Why would these apps depend on libpulse0 especially since a lot of people on Linux don't use Pulseaudio?
The only people who don't use Pulseaudio these days are hair-shirt minimalists, all the desktop environments have PA as a dependency because it provides a convenient high-level interface for controlling how multiple sources are connected to sinks.
For example, almost all new laptops have HDMI outputs and if pure ALSA is used then it is necessary to configure it to make the inbuilt speakers work, most non-technical users don't know how to do that and so need PA to do it for them.
#2805 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » PulseAudio? Seriously!? » 2019-07-04 18:33:03
I am not sure if Firefox 60 ESR would still work with alsa-only
It works for me.
EDIT: don't use v52.9, it is full of security holes.
#2806 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Kernel 5 / way better benchmark on geekbench » 2019-07-04 17:24:46
@OP: you can follow the Debian guide for building new kernel versions:
https://kernel-team.pages.debian.net/kernel-handbook/
The Liquorix kernel should be compatible with Devuan and they have v5.1 for jessie, stretch & buster:
And if you wait for a bit then the freeze will be over and v5 should make it into ceres & beowulf-backports.
#2807 Re: News & Announcements » Devuan for ARM 64 on Raspberry Pi 4B? » 2019-07-04 17:18:29
The kernel doesn't have a Device Tree for the Pi4 so it's only supported by Raspbian at the moment.
#2808 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Installing VirtualBox in Devuan ASCII » 2019-07-04 17:16:15
can you migrate a KVM machine to any other virtualization system?
Yes, qemu-img(1) can convert disk images between various formats:
https://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/ … mages.html
What if I want to run something from a KVM on Linux in a Windows environment?
Convert the disk image to the vpc format and use Hyper-V.
#2809 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » PulseAudio? Seriously!? » 2019-07-04 17:09:10
Pulseaudio is a dependency for the XFCE desktop, if you don't want it then use a simple window manager instead; I had Devuan running without PA just fine for my usual dwm desktop.
And for the record the firefox-esr package is compiled with the --enable-alsa flag and so does not need either pulseaudio or apulse.
#2810 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Enable touchpad on LXQT » 2019-07-03 18:40:28
@OP: do you have xserver-xorg-input-evdev installed?
What does this say
synclientCheck the TouchPadOff value.
Also check
xinput --listAnd use this for the touchpad device ID:
xinput --list-props $IDFor configuration copy the template file from /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-synaptics.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-synaptics.conf and add the desired options as per synaptics(4).
#2811 Re: DIY » When will/was Beowulf stable enough to move to? » 2019-07-03 18:09:07
^ Thanks for the information! 
#2812 Re: Other Issues » [Solved] Installing printer Ecotank - cannot install "LSB" » 2019-07-02 18:50:11
How could i overcome this?
Either backport the printer package to Devuan ASCII or upgrade to beowulf.
Which package is this, exactly?
#2813 Re: DIY » When will/was Beowulf stable enough to move to? » 2019-07-02 18:45:03
There seems to be some confusion in this thread about the meaning of the term "stable" — the word is used to refer to the package versions rather than reliability and the Devuan beowulf package versions will stop changing (ie, become stable) on the 6th of July.
#2814 Re: Installation » Upgrade from Debian Wheezy to Devuan Jessie » 2019-07-02 18:42:02
golinux wrote:KDE is available as an option -
Is the same command needed as with Debian?
aptitude install ~t^desktop$ ~t^kde-desktop$ ?
Yes but you only need the second part, task-desktop is a dependency of task-kde-desktop.
#2815 Re: Off-topic » Boom Times or financial apocalypse » 2019-07-02 18:34:47
which is about the surveillance potential of zuck bucks
Oh, is that what this is about? I'm not enabling javascript for rt.com and I don't watch YT videos 
#2816 Re: Installation » Installing Devuan ASCII Amd64 from DVD (full ISO) - no CD-ROM found » 2019-07-01 18:53:17
Did you check TTY4 for the exact error message?
Perhaps try mounting /dev/sr0 to /cdrom manually.
#2817 Re: Installation » How do I install a package that requires snapd? » 2019-07-01 18:42:34
Snap format is basically crumpled deb package. You can unpack it yourself.
That would only work if the runtime libraries are compatible.
#2818 Re: Off-topic » Boom Times or financial apocalypse » 2019-07-01 18:39:50
There has been too much investment in the stock market for quite a while now and a crash is surely imminent.
Vive la révolution! (scnr)
#2819 Re: DIY » When will/was Beowulf stable enough to move to? » 2019-07-01 18:37:39
The beowulf branch is based on Debian buster and that is due to become stable next week.
#2820 Re: Off-topic » ps_mem.py » 2019-06-28 21:47:10
So you don't have any shared memory in the container then.
Probably a good thing though, at least in respect of security.
#2821 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » CPU throttling » 2019-06-28 21:19:12
Did you try modifying /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/* instead of just disabling it?
#2822 Re: Off-topic » ps_mem.py » 2019-06-28 21:16:27
Any ideas on what is missing?
Looks like vultr isn't exposing shared memory in it's containers but that's just an uninformed guess on my behalf.
Can you see /dev/shm in the output of df -h?
#2823 Re: Installation » How do I install a package that requires snapd? » 2019-06-27 17:49:43
The company does not provide the source code yet.
Have you tried asking them for it?
The snap store says the licence is GPL-3.0+ so they have to make the code available on request.
#2824 Re: Off-topic » What extensions do you use in FF? » 2019-06-27 17:38:21
Noscript
#2825 Re: Off-topic » Boom Times or financial apocalypse » 2019-06-27 17:37:16
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