Thank you for your suggestions.

I have created the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-modesetting.conf, as suggested in your indicated posting, containing :-

Section "Device"
   Identifier "Intel Graphics"
   Driver "modesetting"
EndSection

And rebooted into the 5.10 kernel, but the cursor problem is still there.

I notice that the word modesetting is used. This may be related to the problem I was trying to investigate! This was that dmesg reports :-

This occurs with both kernels. I don't know whether it is a red herring!

Geoff

I have a separate partition on my SSD for /boot with further partitions under LVM for / and /home.

Then on my HDD I have a partition for swap with further partitions under LVM for /var as well as my VMs which run under Xen.

The idea was to have the potentially rapidly changing stuff on the HDD, but boot quickly off the SSD. It seemed like a good idea at the time ;-)

Are you using runit under SysVinit or are you using runit-init. With the latter you need to do some setting up of getty. When I do that in a VM under Xen, I have to set up a getty on hvc0 for the console.

Geoff

Remember, if it ain't Baroque don't fix it.

So, if you like Vivaldi's 4 Seasons, then you could try this version of the Storm sequence from Summer, played by the Ukranian group B&B Project, (Bandorla and Button Accordian)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYW7mrY8Dg0

If that went down well you could also try their version of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrJY_-BIasY

Geoff

Actually, I think you can simplify the log/run file further :-

#!/bin/sh

NAME=postgresql
LOG="/var/log/runit/$NAME"

install -o _runit-log -g adm -d $LOG
exec chpst -u _runit-log svlogd -tt "$LOG"

Geoff

I also use Palemoon. I have this forum permanently open in a tab, but only log in as required and have just logged in to post this.

Geoff

Ah! Thank you for that. I thought that there should be a command to add in a new service rather than just putting in a link manually, but I had not come across it. I see from the man page that it does some checking, which is good.

Chimaera fresh install via debootstrap

I  wanted to do a fresh install of Chimaera from my Beowulf set up and used the debootstrap method to do it. The installation went very smoothly, apart from errors on my part, which I have edited out!

/etc/xen-tools/xen-tools.conf is well commented. The options, which I have set, look like this :-

# grep -v '^#' xen-tools.conf | grep '.'

Now need to add chimaera to the known suites.

If you have not done this before, then you need to set up devuan.d in /usr/share/xen-tools, see

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=13368#p13368

but you will now need to add chimaera :-

cd /usr/share/xen-tools
ln -s devuan.d chimaera.d

I think this is a new step for debootstrap :-

cd /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts
ln -s ceres chimaera

The configuration should now be ok, so get on and install it!

cd /etc/xen
xen-create-image --hostname chimaera

This took about 6 minutes to install chimeara.

lvs includes the info :-

lvs
  LV             VG   Attr       LSize   Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
   ...
  chimaera-disk  HDD0 -wi-a-----  20.00g                                                    
  chimaera-swap  HDD0 -wi-a-----   4.00g                                                    
   ...

And the file /etc/xen/chimaera.cfg has been created. The new VM can now be booted.

cd /etc/xen
xl create chimaera.cfg ; xl console chimaera

Which boots nicely to the login prompt. Log in as root.

apt update
apt full-upgrade

This had nothing to do, although it could not find chimaera-security, un-surprisingly!

When I tried, it was not able to install vnc4server or gksu. The later is to be expected.
vnc4server has been replaced by tigervnc-standalone-server.

apt install task-lxqt-desktop synaptic tigervnc-standalone-server

Need to answer the questions to configure the keyboard.
Then install some of my favourite things.

apt install task-british-desktop rxvt-unicode claws-mail xauth

And set up a user

addgroup --gid 1026 user1
adduser --uid 1026 --gid 1026 user1

su - user1
mkdir .vnc
cd .vnc
cat << 'EOF' >> vnc.conf
# This file, $(HOME)/.vnc/vnc.conf will be sourced after /etc/vnc.conf,
# so values can be
# overwritten on a per-user basis. If you want to reactivate the default
# value here, you have to specify an undef value. For example, $fontPath
# will set to the default value after
#
# $fontPath = "/foo";
# $fontPath = undef;

# set up the screen size which you would like
$geometry = "1900x1200";

# Tell vncserver to accept connections from addresses other than localhost
$localhost = "no";
EOF

In an earlier version, above, I failed to quote the 'EOF' after cat, which does not pass through the variables! Unfortunately I am unable to go back and edit it.

Start up the VNC server as the user.

vncserver

You will have to enter a new VNC password.

back on Dom0 as the user

vncviewer chimaera:1

You will have to enter the VNC password and your new session should display.

Use synaptic to install openbox and select it in the LXQt Session Settings preferences, if that is what you would like.
The file system looks like this :-

df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            940M     0  940M   0% /dev
tmpfs           198M  112K  198M   1% /run
/dev/xvda2       20G  4.0G   15G  22% /
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs           1.2G     0  1.2G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           198M  8.0K  198M   1% /run/user/1026

To use chimeara normally, as user on Dom0

ssh -L 5901:localhost:5901 chimaera

on chimeara

vncserver

as user on Dom0 in another window

vncviewer :1

give the password and there it is!

Have you tried turning on logging in OpenRC?

In /etc/rc.conf you may find a line :-

#rc_logger="NO"

change that to

rc_logger="YES"

and you should get the logging as OpenRC does its stuff, in /var/log/rc.log, although the location can also be changed in /etc/rc.conf.

Also the command rc-status should show you what state each service is in.

Geoff

If you have 2 cards sharing the same module, use the enable option. See :-

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=23900#p23900

Geoff

There is a discussion about which email client to use :-

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=3119

Geoff

Those instructions were written around five years ago. One thing which I spotted is that the mirror should probably be updated from :-

mirror = http://packages.devuan.org/merged

to:-

mirror = http://deb.devuan.org/merged

Geoff