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#301 Re: Devuan » Devuan without elogind » 2023-09-03 20:43:22
I tried to install my way back to a reasonable media system...
I re-installed elogind and rebooted & everything is back...
I can use synaptic package manager (required a password dialog, at least)
I have sounds
I have all the restart and shutdown buttons (so I don't have to logout and ctrl+alt+del to restart)
I will try again next time I have a clean install.
#302 Re: Devuan » Devuan without elogind » 2023-09-03 04:32:03
Hi, I ran with it and had to turn off elogind from starting, ...
How do I check?
No sound atm, but I was relieved to see the remove list shortened (kde stuff).
I can login, and access the desktop tools.
I have lost the shut-down and reboot buttons from the plasma start menu.
See how I go.
#303 Re: Off-topic » Is systemd still bad in 2023? » 2023-09-01 22:57:28
...imho, it's just M$ hobbling the competition.
#304 Re: Devuan » Devuan without elogind » 2023-09-01 22:41:23
I just tried
apt install -s elogind- libpam-ck-connector sway seatdBasically, over 80 lines of mostly kde packages to auto-remove,
0 upgraded, 29 newly installed, 236 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
I don't think "I'm" ready for this yet.
#305 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Chimaera sound/music issues » 2023-08-30 22:33:07
For what it's worth, Pre-empt is not RealTime, but close.
I hope it keeps working for you.
See how you go when playing back 14 tracks while recording overdubs in real time.
Minimal xruns.
#306 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Chimaera sound/music issues » 2023-08-30 07:39:41
Hi, I think jack wants realtime access from the kernel.
uname -a will show your current kernel version, yours should have rt in it's name.
(edit) terrible typos
#307 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] manually mount disks always have different mount points? » 2023-08-29 21:03:02
To setup /etc/fstab from /dev/sd(x)(n) to UUID
Use lsblk blkid and fstab, for clues
you might need root access for one of those.
This will give you the uuids and show you which /dev/... to follow.
#308 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » KDE Desktop - Discover says I'm offline » 2023-08-27 20:48:11
Too many errors since I was introduced to Discover. I usually remove it as soon as it starts making noise.
ymmv.
#309 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Cannot delete application icon on the Panel(Widget) » 2023-08-27 04:05:27
See how you go.
That is the same folder I saw after my last post.
But I wonder if it is a permission issue, ie read/write to folder or linking.
#310 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5.0 VLC cannot play some mp4 files well, many mosaics. » 2023-08-27 04:02:13
Hi, uncomment (#) this line in your sources.list...
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main non-free-firmware non-free contrib...and, you may remove the first line with just "main", as it is now in the un-commented line. It won't hurt but will cut down on the noise (complaints) in logs and on screen when running
apt update
I hope this helps.
#311 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Cannot delete application icon on the Panel(Widget) » 2023-08-26 22:56:07
Hi, do you have a /home/(user)/Desktop folder in your file manager?
You might find the icon there.
Otherwise, you might search for the (program-name).desktop file for that program in the $USER directory.
#312 Re: Other Issues » Lazarus package broken? » 2023-08-25 22:30:38
a few things I sometimes use, not mentioned here...
# apt auto-remove -y
# apt --fix-broken install #with no packages (or specify a solution).
# dpkg -i --auto-deconfigure
# dpkg -i -G # -G do not down Grade
of course, with dpkg you need the package's location.
I hope this helps.
#313 Re: Devuan » Learned something new about devuan, after foolishness » 2023-08-23 02:38:26
On an experimental system... as an experiment.
Biggest hurdles was when glibc version changed between install and upgrade.
#314 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Daedalus, seatd, can’t have multiple X sessions » 2023-08-22 20:29:52
I remember being able to have more than one GUI running on different tty's... but that went away and couldn't be done the same way.
Hoping for innovation.
#315 Re: Devuan » Can anyone fill me in on why and how exactly systemd took over Linux? » 2023-08-22 05:27:13
What was a big thing at the time was multimedia on desktops and laptops and the fragmented sound device specification(s).
The same code writer was involved.
From what I read... (quite a while ago, if my memory serves me well.) the code was not conforming to FOSS standards,
but seemed to work so well it was adopted (capitalist style).
That mess is pulse, followed up with systemd...
1st thing I noticed was, now all your text logs are in binary (1s and 0s)
Also was the introduction of more security measures
(EUFI, secure-boot, apparmor(maybe not this one, but pretty insiduous))
which seem to divide the community rather than unite us.
So, imho I think it's money.
#316 Re: News & Announcements » The Register's OS desk writes about Devuan Daedalus » 2023-08-22 05:10:17
Any advertising is good advertising.
I don't agree with much of what was written.
#317 Re: Devuan » Learned something new about devuan, after foolishness » 2023-08-22 03:43:35
I feel for ya. I've tried on many distros and found the same to be true.
#318 Re: News & Announcements » Daedalus is stable » 2023-08-15 20:54:43
Thank you for the email this morning... (Australia)
I'm excited.
#319 Re: Freedom Hacks » [SOLVED] HOWTO make pysolfc work in Daedalus » 2023-08-15 20:40:40
I don't use it (yet) but thanks for the hack.
regards, Glenn
#320 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Deleted top window bar » 2023-08-14 22:47:56
also, Alt+F3 may bring up the menu to set the bar, etc.
#321 Re: Installation » How/what is at step "Detect and mount installation media" » 2023-08-03 23:27:03
Hi, Thank you for your post.
at step "Detect and mount installation media" ...
this is a filesystem check of the installation media (cdrom, usb, ...) and could take a while, but from my experience only about 20 to 40 seconds.
I hope this helps.
#322 Re: Installation » Strange netinstall.iso behaviour » 2023-07-30 20:52:08
The installer has been picking up swap files from any attached drive. since I remember, but also other distros I have used.
When I had windows I put the swap on a separate HDD and really noticed (benchmark-able) a speed increase.
That's all I got for now. Devuan is good.
(the second swap on my system is from a ubuntu-studio install that I'm playing with)
Thank you
#323 Re: Installation » Strange netinstall.iso behaviour » 2023-07-29 22:48:15
It takes a few minutes to go through that part of the install session, and fstab (my files) will be ready ready for access.
I remember with one of the installers I used (ascii ?) you could cut and paste the directories.
It comes out Like this,
/etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# systemd generates mount units based on this file, see systemd.mount(5).
# Please run 'systemctl daemon-reload' after making changes here.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sdc2 during installation
UUID=2f62f5a2-14f6-405d-8849-9fa7e3210d08 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sdc7 during installation
UUID=0bd195fc-4031-4b5c-a4c9-c807a749c60e /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# /tmp was on /dev/sdc5 during installation
UUID=f6c50808-b2c7-4ece-8d5a-52e1fc520771 /tmp ext4 defaults 0 2
# /usr/src was on /dev/sdc6 during installation
UUID=56eb9205-18e7-43b7-89dd-60f55a8c60cc /usr/src ext4 defaults 0 2
# /var was on /dev/sdc3 during installation
UUID=ab8dfd96-4930-42d8-b07a-3212ab1bc60d /var ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sdc4 during installation
UUID=f0eccce4-0bf9-4238-a477-c13d46a0814d none swap sw 0 0
# swap was on /dev/sdd3 during installation
UUID=e1d942bf-0f66-4294-980f-293c3815ef31 none swap sw 0 0
# /home/glenn/local/archive was on /dev/sdb6 during installation
UUID=e5747e43-525b-4311-b53b-f66fc7b81809 /home/glenn/local/archive ext4 defaults 0 2
# /home/glenn/local/data was on /dev/sdb2 during installation
UUID=4a130c74-c9a0-4369-af07-3f6954939073 /home/glenn/local/data ext4 defaults 0 2
# /home/glenn/local/free was on /dev/sdb5 during installation
UUID=7c682119-06c5-4f9d-bdc2-a7c6bbddb2f7 /home/glenn/local/free ext4 defaults 0 2
# /home/glenn/local/media/circus was on /dev/sdb7 during installation
UUID=913582e9-3f2d-40f6-8494-7136a81db07d /home/glenn/local/media/circus ext4 defaults 0 2
# /home/glenn/local/media/movies was on /dev/sdb9 during installation
UUID=d02d15fb-b266-4fe1-bc49-d341b1984610 /home/glenn/local/media/movies ext4 defaults 0 2
# /home/glenn/local/media/music was on /dev/sdb8 during installation
UUID=bf2c2b46-6cb1-4677-b613-b6763be457ea /home/glenn/local/media/music ext4 defaults 0 2
# /home/glenn/local/other was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=fcf78297-e13b-4b96-9acf-8f6a5465a3eb /home/glenn/local/other ext4 defaults 0 2
# /home/glenn/local/spare was on /dev/sdb3 during installation
UUID=d2a98357-069d-420c-9722-904268da1538 /home/glenn/local/spare ext4 defaults 0 2
# mount install.iso as a directory
# /mnt/storage/debian-8.2.0-i386-CD-1.iso /mnt/debian-cd/ udf,iso9660 loop 0 0
/home/glenn/My_system/system-isos/devuan/devuan_daedalus_5.0.preview-20230601_amd64_desktop.iso /home/glenn/local/archive/debs/iso/devuan_daedalus_5.0.preview-20230601_amd64_desktop udf,iso9660 loop 0 0
/home/glenn/My_system/system-isos/devuan/devuan_daedalus_5.0.preview-20230601_i386_desktop.iso /home/glenn/local/archive/debs/iso/devuan_daedalus_5.0.preview-20230601_i386_desktop udf,iso9660 loop 0 0
# DVD burner.
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,auto 0 0a pet hate on a (brand) new SSD drive the installer auto matically selects "dos mbr" .
So I did the partitioning before the installation with a live devuan session.
I prefer GPT and using UUIDs. My drives change order all the time, UUIDs help.
Next... every time you format a partition it get a new UUID. So you should get one for that "swap" that was reformatted.
It adds a quite a bit of time to the install (and sometimes wont start) if I don't format / and /var.
This is a single user PC.
I used to have more separate system partitions, /usr /boot /usr/src /var /home
all the best.
#324 Re: Installation » How to get a deployable full install media set » 2023-07-23 03:20:23
I use synaptic package manager to save the packages (there's a "file" setting)
and then when restoring a backup, I have a list of packages to go along with the config files.
( keep the packages too, in case I can't connect to the networks.)
This speeds up my recovery time.
I clean the cache after a clean install, or at the beginning of an install I want to monitor.
There is also a list of packages you can generate with dpkg
dpkg --listsee how you go.
#325 Re: Installation » Install with Runit as the init » 2023-07-12 22:58:37
Hi, you'll have to install runit after you setup all the sources for upgrades etc. /etc/apt/sources.list
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