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Thanks,

I upgraded my Wheezy installation to Devuan Jessie using the instructions at
https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/2 … 10.en.html
with these package sources:

The configuration I'm trying to upgrade is Debian Wheezy. I have no Debian kernel packages. I download kernels from kernel.org and build from source. Network-manager is not installed. I use a custom network configuration and wicd instead. My boot manager is lilo. Grub is not installed.

I used a terminal window from my xfce desktop to do the installation, which at first appeared successful, but which I soon discovered has the following problem areas:

1. initramfs-tools emits bug message

2. xfce only has 1280x1024 resolution

3. network-manager ends up being installed

Cumulatively, these resulted in an unusable desktop and a non-functioning local network configuration serious enough that I needed to drop back to a backup disk image of Wheezy. Here's what I know about these problems:

initramfs-tools emits bug message

When initramfs-tools setup started, these messages were issued:

I tried unsuccessfully (pilot error suspected) to use reportbug to report it.

Trying to install initramfs-tools separately resulted in this error:

First, I don't have kernel 4.11.4 installed. I do have 4.11.7 installed. Second, why is initramfs-tools being run in the first place? I haven't called out for any kernel packages to be installed, so the boot configuration is unchanged.

xfce only has 1280x1024 resolution

Xfce4 gets upgraded from 4.8 to 4.10 (good). When I logged into my upgaded xfce4 desktop, I found that it was set at 1280x1024. My display has 1920x1080 capability, which was being used prior to the upgrade. Running 'xfce4-display-settings' did not offer the option of 1920x1080. Furthermore, I found that my displays.xml file had been modified to change name="Default" with Resolution of 1920x1080 to name="active" (I think), then *append* a name="Default" set of properties with a max Resolution of 1280x1024. Running "xfce4-display-settings" did not allow me to increase the resolution above 1280x1024, even though the former "Default" Resolution continued show as 1920x1280.

My understanding is the it is conventional *not* to modify user specified settings. Getting back to a full display capability is something I need to be able to do before entering the fray once more.

network-manager ends up being installed

I don't know why this happened, but this and network-manager-gnome were both installed. My understanding is that 'upgrade' installs newest versions of currently installed packages while 'dist-upgrade' also installs dependencies. Doesn't seem that either of these should end up installing a package that's not currently installed.

Anyway, I need to know how to keep Network Manager out of my system in order to be able to proceed.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks,