The second pair of commands I posted are what the installer should do. They could also be run in a live session immediately before installing the system.

Currently, the installer removes the diversion but does not rename the diverted file. To fix an installed system, you remove the symlink and rename the file. I think restarting anacron is sufficient, but a reboot would certainly work.

rm /usr/sbin/anacron
mv /usr/sbin/anacron.orig.anacron /usr/sbin/anacron
/etc/init.d/anacron restart

anacron and cron are started from init scripts. anacron checks /etc/anacrontab for what jobs it should do. (It runs the cron scripts.)

Edit: Here's the bug report https://bugs.devuan.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=682

I thought I fixed this in an earlier version, but I did it wrong. To fix your installed system:

rm /usr/sbin/anacron
mv /usr/sbin/anacron.orig.anacron /usr/sbin/anacron

Getting this out to everyone might be tricky. That would include anyone who installed Refracta, Devuan Live, or any other system that has anacron installed an used refractainstaller. I could put the fix in a postinstall script in the next version, but I think the user should be warned and asked to OK it. I don't know how to program debconf and I don't really have time to figure it out right now. If anyone knows how to get a debconf dialog to run from a postinst script, please help. I can tell you what the script needs to do.

Poke around in here:
https://git.devuan.org/devuan/documenta … t/graphics

Look in the logo directory and the numbered directories for the different releases.
Some of the icons are provided by the desktop-base package. That would include any icons used in the boot screen, the login screen and the icon for the applications menu in the xfce panel. All of them are archived in the documentation git I linked.

First thing I would try is to run dpkg-reconfigure lightdm as root and set lightdm as the default.

Make sure elogind and libpam elogind are installed and check that consolekit and libpam-ckconnector are not installed.

Installing multiple desktops in devuan doesn't always work because there are some differences in how policykit works with the desktops and the login manager. By installing all of them, you are blazing a new trail.

Check the sha256sum of the iso to make sure it downloaded correctly.

FWIW,  i used denyhosts in the past, which is similar to fail2ban. I found it to be useless because every break-in attempt now comes from a different IP address. Using non-standard ports is pretty useless too, because Censys publishes their port scans on everyone, so you only have to look it up on the web to find what ports are open on any address.

Yes, appimages should work in devuan. I just tested the musescore I downloaded in 2017 for jessie, and it still runs on beowulf. I did not have to install anything special.

0755 should be sufficient for the permissions.

Try running it from a terminal to see if you get any useful messages. That might be helpful for the developer of this alpha software.

It is correct that you see only the Deepsea theme in Appearance settings. The other themes you see in /usr/share/themes are for other things. To take your example, Smoke, note that the gtk.css file is in a directory called xfce-notify-4.0. That's a good hint.

Go to Settings, Notifications, and play with the Theme drop-down menu. As you select each theme, you'll see a popup notification that uses your selected theme.

The command you're looking for is 'tree'. You probably need to install it. Then run

tree /usr/share/themes

and you'll get the tree-like output you want.

The reason xfs is greyed out in gparted is because the xfsprogs package is not installed. If you have enough RAM to install packages in a live session, you can install xfsprogs and then format partitions with xfs.

Refractainstaller will not prevent you from using xfs. You just have to tell it not to format your partitions and do that part yourself. In the graphical installer, check the box that says "Do not format filesystems..." and for the cli installer, edit /etc/refractainstaller.conf to set no_format="yes" (uncomment the line).

Thanks for reminding me. I meant to delete that iso after it was tested.

If there's no root password, then you must have chosen to use sudo when you were installing. In that case, you would use your user password. If you do a regular install instead of expert, you will not be asked if you want to use sudo. Here's a pictorial guide to the installer:
https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … all-devuan

At what point are you being asked for a password that you don't have?

I did an upgrade of refracta 10 (beowulf) to 11 (chimaera) recently and took notes. Here it is in more detail and with some configs that are specific to refracta.

sed -i 's/beowulf/chimaera/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
apt update
apt upgrade

Allow services to restart automatically.

Config files. Take defaults yes/no as indicated below.
/etc/issue            No, keep old version and edit to change 10 to 11.
/etc/pam.d/login    Yes, install new version
/etc/sysctl.conf    No, keep old version.  (kernel.sysrq=1)
/etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf        Yes, install new version. (edit to set COMPRESSION=xz)
/etc/ssh/sshd_config    take new
/etc/cryptsetup-initramfs/conf-hook        take new
/etc/lvm/lvm.conf    take new    (edit udev_sync=0 udev_rules=0 to fix boot delay)

optional:
/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume        (RESUME=none)

reboot
apt dist-upgrade

apt will then warn about xscreensaver or xlockmore.
As user, in another terminal run:  pkill xscreensaver
Then press ENTER to proceed in the root terminal. (not any key as it says.)

apt autoremove
reboot

Note: did not get wicd transitional package.
If you get stuck without network, run:

  dhclient eth0
  apt install wicd

(it will install network-manager-gnome)

To avoid that problem, install wicd (the metapackage) before the upgrade.

echo "kernel.sysrq=1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf

That's in my script to make refracta-8, which was ascii, but not for 7, which was jessie. So it started in debian stretch.

And I quit using  -e and -i because all they do is generate a console message saying that they are disabled.

I'm getting 11MB/s with rsync or sftp on the local network, Cat6 with gigabit router.

USB is faster, but that requires getting out of the chair.