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#926 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » BDRE mounted read only » 2020-08-14 21:30:53
Many months later:
Learned that I have to format the disk as dvdrw and with UDF2.01. Then mounting RW works.
rolfie
#927 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Cannot install VLC » 2020-08-14 19:06:40
Dependency hell.
We could reply: What the hell are you doing here?
Before you try to clean out your installation you better read some literature about sources.list and Franken-Debian. Here are some useful links.
You could start on the main page of Devuan.org: https://devuan.org/,
about installation: https://devuan.org/os/install,
about releases: https://devuan.org/os/releases
about sources.list recommendations: https://devuan.org/os/packages
about FrankenDebian: https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian
HTH, rolfie
Edith: added link to the Debian Wiki.
#928 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » amdgpu-pro drivers » 2020-08-14 18:55:53
Got a RX580 installed on a Ryzen 2700X computer. Worked fine with ASCII and now with Beowulf with KMS driver (included in the kernel) and firmware. You need non-free added to the sources.list, you install amd64-microcode and firmware-amd-graphics. On ASCII you better pull firmware-amd-graphics from backports.
If you need some guidance, check out the Devuan.org website, there you will find some instructions how to set the sources.list.
No fiddling required with amdgpu-pro.
rolfie
#929 Re: Installation » How do I install CUPS? » 2020-08-12 18:47:03
When Synaptic is open you can't install anything with apt(-get).
#930 Re: Installation » How do I install CUPS? » 2020-08-12 17:54:03
# apt install cups
#931 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Amd Radeon RX 5600 XT » 2020-08-11 15:36:09
To encourage you, please read https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=3358.
rolfie
#932 Re: Other Issues » Install grub so that EFI directory is 'devuan' » 2020-08-09 19:16:36
The following trick may do what you want:
1.) apt remove grub-efi-amd64-signed
2.) grub-install --bootloader-id=devuan
Worked in my Chimaera VM.
#933 Re: Other Issues » Install grub so that EFI directory is 'devuan' » 2020-08-09 07:20:50
I can confirm that also Chimaera (in a VM) has the same behaviour. What easily worked under Beowulf is no more working with the testing/unstable stuff.
Needs a closer look.
rolfie
#934 Re: Other Issues » Install grub so that EFI directory is 'devuan' » 2020-08-08 21:06:36
That will work if you don't use Secure Boot. But you still will have a debian and a devuan EFI directory.
Use the efibootmgr to boot the devuan entry. If that works, you can delete the debian entry with the file manager.
rolfie
#935 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [ SOLVED ] cant run command from commandsline » 2020-08-04 16:06:15
Got two PC here with Beowulf installed from scratch, both with Mate desktop. No ash, just bash and bash-completion are installed. Both work fine whenever calling Mate terminal as user or with pkexec as root. Same on the desktop opening the (Mate-)terminal.
Also got two Beowulf VMs running in Virtual Box. One is based on an ASCII upgrade with Mate. Same setup as above, works like a charm w/o ash. The other one is a native Beowulf with Cinnamon. The I only have xterm, but that also works fine.
rolfie
#936 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [ SOLVED ] cant run command from commandsline » 2020-08-02 19:25:07
I m sitting on fresh installed Beowulf. No ash, just bash, dash and bash-completion. No problems.
Have you got bash-completion installed?
I am not using the alias.
rolfie
#937 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Shutdown delay due to Veracrypt » 2020-08-02 19:18:05
Checked with my ASCII installation on the same PC. Had to update Veracrypt to run the same version first. There I do not see the shutdown delay I have with Beowulf. Something is different here.
rolfie
#938 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » LibPAM-TMPDIR Causes VeraCrypt Mounting Problems » 2020-08-02 16:47:42
There are several options I know how to mount a Veracrypt volume.
1.) Veracrypt GUI
2.) Veracrypt cli interface
3.) cryptsetup
I use 1 and 2. All in common is that you have to tell the sw which container to open and where to mount it. No idea what LibPAM-TMPDIR does or requires.
If you use 2 you will see the mounted container(s) in the GUI. I am not astonished that a container opened with cryptsetup isn't seen by the GUI.
rolfie
#939 Re: Installation » backports » 2020-07-30 16:23:38
I do consequently use the backports kernels on all my machines. Did that from Squeeze onward for various generations of hardware. Never had any issues.
And every now and then I used bugfixes from backports. But thats rare.
rolfie
#940 Re: Installation » Devuan Chimaer as guest on Virtualbox: any known issues? » 2020-07-27 20:20:24
VirtualBox is a buggy pile of shite which is slower than QEMU/KVM and the developers have a tendency of covering up and ignoring security issues.
See also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=794466
And it relies on blobs.
Maybe you're right. But for me VBox does what I expect it to do. I can pass through USB drives w/o any problem, UEFI mode is sort of crap but available. I can boot a VM from an iso, ....
Tried the same with qemu/kvm and gave up when bold promoters of qemu/kvm didn't have any advise how to solve my issues. I guess this highly promoted piece of SW still requires a lot of brains to really make it a competition for VBox.
rolfie
#941 Re: Installation » Devuan Chimaer as guest on Virtualbox: any known issues? » 2020-07-26 09:42:27
I am running 6.1.10 directly from Oracle, installed with dpkg -i. Extension pack installed, and guest extensions in each of my old and new virtual machines.
Had some fun to get it working on Beowulf, see https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=3641.
Maybe it helps. Good luck, rolfie
#942 Re: Installation » Devuan Chimaer as guest on Virtualbox: any known issues? » 2020-07-24 19:45:51
No issues here with latest VB directly from Oracle on Beowulf and Chimaera as guest. No issues with systemd.
Have you installed the extension pack?
rolfie
#943 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Shutdown delay due to Veracrypt » 2020-07-19 17:24:28
If Caja is correct, 1.7TB. About half of a 4T drive.
rolfie
#944 Hardware & System Configuration » Shutdown delay due to Veracrypt » 2020-07-19 14:46:18
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Beowulf amd64, openrc as init, shares from file server mounted with nfs4. Veracrypt is used to open a NTFS container as data drive for a Win7 VM. This is done via a script in the user startup folder.
Shutting down this container seems to cause a about 15s long delay past the line "Asking all remaining processes to terminate".
The complete output looks like this:
[ok] Asking all remaining processes to terminate ... done.
Currently running processes (pstree):
init-+-rc---openrc---openrc-run---sendsigs---pstree
|-rpc.statd
|-rpcbind
|-veracrypt---dmsetup
'-veracrypt---18*[{veracrypt}]
[FAIL] Killing all remaining processes ... failedOn another PC with a similar setup, just without Veracrypt, the shutdown has normal speed.
How can I speedup closing the Veracrypt volume?
rolfie
#945 Re: Other Issues » [solved] before grub screen appears » 2020-07-16 14:57:12
You move the themes folder to /boot/grub and specify that in /etc/default/grub. From my notes:
# mkdir /boot/grub/themes
# cp -r /usr/share/desktop-base/grub-themes/cinnabar-grub /boot/grub/themes/
# nano /etc/default/grub
Change entry to:
GRUB_THEME=/boot/grub/themes/cinnabar-grub/theme.txt
# update-grub That fixes the error and brings the new cinnabar theme to grub. If you do not want that you can copy the default theme.
rolfie
#946 Re: Other Issues » [solved] before grub screen appears » 2020-07-16 14:19:21
okay so if i understand this correctly it has something to do with desktop-base and grub, not sure if it is present with or without encryption though?
Only appears with encryption, because when grub starts there is no access to /usr/share/..... yet.
rolfie
#947 Re: Other Issues » [solved] before grub screen appears » 2020-07-16 12:47:06
Have a read of https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=3471. Isn't that the same kind of issue you see? Error message is slightly different, but similar.
rolfie
#948 Re: Forum Feedback » Why Fie? » 2020-07-10 20:09:36
Tatwi wrote:golinux wrote:Note that this option is no longer available in Beowulf and probably beyond.
Heh, I didn't even notice!
Neither did I. If I need an installer I'll pick the TUI one every time, and frankly I don't understand what a GUI provides in that context besides a bigger install image and more to go wrong. Starting an X server and all the baggage that entails just to have a pretty installer nuts.
I'd like to give you my reason why I would prefer the graphical installer if available: I can copy/paste passwords and encryption keys to make sure they are the same.
And I do not suffer from CLI-o-phobia. I started my PC career exactly with CP/M when I was on university. My theses was written on a CP/M 8085 and printed of with a I think 9 needle printer.
GlennW wrote:Ascii did have a nice gui installer, cut and paste options with the mouse.
Why would you need copy-paste in the installer anyway?
I mean you can use GPM at the console, but why?
Well, installation is possible with the CLI installer, and just for avoiding a few keystrokes I never would use the GUI. But see above, that are very valid reasons, especially when you are dealing with 40 or more character long encryptions keys. This makes the difference.
Also love Beowulf, though I had to fight my way through key typos.
rolfie
#949 Re: Other Issues » [Solved] linux-5.6.0-0.bpo.2 stucks at "waiting for /dev.... udevd" » 2020-07-06 06:48:50
rolfie wrote:unpack it to /tmp, mv to /opt/firefox
I prefer to unpack it in $HOME so that it can update itself without having to be run as root.
Works fine with my method, I have just enabled notifications. Getting the notification, FF downloads the update on request, applies updates on next restart as user, no issues.
rolfie
#950 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » How to properly unpack and repack initramfs by hand? » 2020-07-05 20:04:34
Another approach: boot the hardware with a life media, chroot into the new system, then check crypttab, fstab .... for correct UUIDs. The problem may the there.
rolfie
Note: I have used VMs to explore new distros myself, makes sense to get some experience. I used to take notes what I did to achieve certain results, and then I went an made a fresh install on the real HW based on the notes.
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