The live installer would have made a swapfile in the root partition if you had not chosen to use the swap partition. So yes, it's possible to have a swapfile. To be sure, check to see if /swapfile already exists.

refractainstaller does the following, where bs=1024 and count=1048576:

        dd if=/dev/zero of=/target/swapfile bs="$swapfile_blocksize" count="$swapfile_count" ; check_exit 
        mkswap /target/swapfile ; check_exit 
        chmod 600 /target/swapfile

The values for bs and count are in /etc/refractainstaller in case anyone wants to change the size of the swapfile. Currently it's set to 256mb. And then you have to edit the swap entry in /etc/fstab. Mine looks like this:

/swapfile	none	swap	sw	0	0

Nah, don't mark it as solved yet. I screwed up again. The diversion of anacron gets removed in the live session AFTER the system gets copied to hard disk. It needs to happen in a chroot. The good news is that it'll do the right thing if you run the installer twice without rebooting the iso.

If someone wants to change it in place, go to line 2043 in /usr/bin/refractainstaller-yad or line  1893 in /usr/bin/refractainstaller and change this

 # Remove diversion of anacron
if [ -e /usr/sbin/anacron.orig.anacron ] ; then
         rm -f /usr/sbin/anacron
         dpkg-divert --rename --remove /usr/sbin/anacron
fi

to this

 # Remove diversion of anacron
if [ -e /target/usr/sbin/anacron.orig.anacron ] ; then
         rm -f /target/usr/sbin/anacron
         chroot /target dpkg-divert --rename --remove /usr/sbin/anacron
fi

Really sorry about that. I think I need a vacation.

I fixed that a long time ago. You need to run

gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com  --refresh-keys

gpg --list-keys 094c5620
pub   rsa4096 2017-10-07 [SC] [expires: 2025-05-02]
      67F5013216271E85C251E480A73823D3094C5620
uid           [ultimate] fsmithred (aka fsr) <fsmithred@gmail.com>
sub   rsa4096 2017-10-07 [E] [expires: 2025-05-02]

You must have hit a mirror that wasn't fully updated. If you pick one from the mirror list, you can go to the same directory and find the .deb package.
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/mirror_list.txt

For the installer isos (server, desktop, netinstall) the following might work in a shell:

anna install devuan-keyring_2022.09.04_all.deb

or maybe...

anna install /pool/DEBIAN/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.20.9_amd64.deb
dpkg -i  devuan-keyring_2022.09.04_all.deb

For the live isos (minimal-live, desktop-live) dpkg is installed and will work. Only the desktop-live has gdebi.

To do a new install with the existing live isos, you can just download the package in a terminal with wget, check the sha256sum and install with dpkg or gdebi. Then run the installer.

I believe those extra steps are only needed if you installed the first package made today, dated 2022.09.03, but the second package with date 2022.09.04 copies the new file for you.

Use option '--no-install-recommends' when you install the nvidia driver. This will prevent nvidia-persistenced from being installed and will eliminate the conflict. You won't miss the package when it's absent.

FDE usually refers to a setup that has /boot part of the encrypted volume. I recommend using one of the live isos. Refractainstaller knows how to do it. I can never remember all the steps and the right words, which is why I put it into a script.

Tell the installer you want to encrypt the root partition and don't select a separate boot. Added bonus - don't select a swap partition and let the installer put a small swap file on the encrypted root partition.

If you would rather diagnose and fix your current situation, you probably should show us what's in crypttab, fstab, a menuentry from grub.cfg and whatever you put into /etc/default/grub. And maybe fdisk -l, too.

I can't reproduce the error. I'm running daedalus, installed mariadb-server, then installed the version from ceres. So I upgraded from 1:10.6.8-1 to 1:10.6.9-1 without error. The service got stopped and started successfully.

I don't know what else to do. Maybe someone running ceres would get a different result.

Well, maybe dpkg --configure -a or dpkg-reconfigure mariadb-server-10.6

There's an old version of setnet in ascii and an older version in experimental. I'm pretty sure it's still in the minimal-live isos.

Make sure that policykit-1-gnome is installed.
See the section on Session Management and policykit backends in the beowulf release notes:
https://files.devuan.org/devuan_beowulf … _notes.txt

You might want to switch from consolekit to elogind.