Hi stultumanto,
    Yes I know about comments.
    A rather knowledgable fellow on another forum pointed out to me that visudo is meant only to edit /etc/sudoers and using it to edit /etc/sudo.conf puts it in the position of complaining of things that don't belong in /etc/sudoers.
    Another thing he pointed out is that complaint I was seeing when bringing the network up/dwn was because my hostname wasn't mentioned in /etc/hosts.
    Putting this line in /etc/hosts:
127.0.1.1   MikesPI
made that problem go away and the long delay while sudo tried to find the address of my host also disappeared.
    This might be worth looking into for you too.

Be well,
Mike

Well, surprise, surprise, when I went back to boot the Devuan install, the first try it, didn't get to the login prompt but the second time I could login and every thing seemed OK, I'm begining to suspect my KVM switch which is likely 15 years old.
None the less I purged all the packages tasksel installed for LXDE so I'll have to start over there. I've seen some posts here about a minimum X install, so will persue that.

Steve_v you mention adding to the kernel command line. Would that be editing /boot/config-6.1.69 and the param: CONFIG_CMDLINE?
A line at the top of that fle says: # Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.

Aluma, what program gave you that display? Apropos confif or sysv orrunlevel doesn't give me anything that looks like it might be that program. Maybe I need to install it.

I just today realized that a short script I wrote to backup personal stuff to a flash drive weekly has been failing because some process under systemd had already mounted that flash under /media/mike/ hence my mount command telling it to mount on /sdb failed, grr. I'm really getting annoyed when the system does not what I want but what someone else wants.

Guys I really appreciate your input and if you lived close by would be deligted to buy you a beer.

Be well,
Mike

Steve_v, I've never used sysrq before. While man, aprpops, whatis and which had nothing to say about sysrq or magic, Wikipedia filled in the blanks.
None of those gave any information about 'sak' that you mentioned and a web search mostly pointed to women's handbags and fashions.
Please explain or point me to a reference.
Thanks,
Mike

Thanks Steve_v,
Itś been so long since I ran a sysV init system that I had forgotten to look in /etc/init.d/.
After spending half an hour last night killing various processes with ´kill -9 nnnn´ and watching LXDE shutdown then come right back I appreciate your pointing /etc/init.d/ and update-rc.d.
I killed lightdm with ´/etc/init.d/lightdm stop´, then restarted  it on tty11 with ´śtartx -- vt11 &'.
I had already tweeked /etc/inittab to only start gettys on tty1 and tty3.
´ update-rc.d lightdm disable' will hopefully keep lightdm from starting without my starting it.

I appreciate you taking the time to help and hope this new year treats you well.
Mike

My apologies steve_v,
I just got back to my Devuan system and the only line in my sources list was:
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
I have since added the lines suggested on https://www.devuan.org/os/packages and was able to install dma.
Hopefully that will cure at least one problem.
There are others that Iĺl have to chase down, like where does whether to start with the CL or Xwindows.

Thanks for your help.
Mike