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#76 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Devuan 4.0 in a VirtualBox VM cannot finish booting » 2023-06-27 16:56:49
Dunno what it was, but it would not load to desktop. I first shut it down and turned off 3D acceleration. That seemed to work, but it complained about possible excess CPU usage. When shut down again and restored the 3D acceleration, it still loaded to desktop. So, maybe it just needed the shutdown and restart?
#77 Hardware & System Configuration » Devuan 4.0 in a VirtualBox VM cannot finish booting » 2023-06-26 18:11:18
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I've got a copy of Devuan 4 running in a VM so I can use Google Chrome for certain things without upgrading to Windows 10. It has been working flawlessly for months, but today I got a small update of some sort, I forget what the packages were, and when I restart it won't finish booting. I can sign in, but the desktop never appears, it just sits there with a black screen. Was there an update to display functions in some recent packages?
#78 Re: Devuan » Devuan 5 Daedalus Release (Debian 12 - Bookworm) | Looking for info » 2023-06-15 17:18:20
When I saw the announcement of Debian 12 I wondered how quickly the next Devuan release would follow. Good to see others had the same question. 
Not in a rush, though. They should do everything right. This time I hope they get the proprietary video drivers to install without leaving issues that cannot be fixed.
#79 Re: Installation » Installing from USB thumb drive » 2022-12-10 21:07:43
Nope, same old same old. Every time the system boots, I get the error:
[ 0.862162] udevd[118]: Error running install command 'modprobe -i nvidia-current ' for module nvidia: retcode 1
Looks like the nVidia drivers just cannot be properly installed in Devuan. But the system does run, so at least it's a minor error, not a system ruining disaster.
#80 Re: ARM Builds » Is a Devuan build for the new Apple M1 chip possible? » 2022-12-08 00:06:57
And now they have the GPU driver working!
#81 Re: Installation » Installing from USB thumb drive » 2022-11-28 17:31:01
You misunderstand what I am referring to. I am not complaining about the 'no non-free software by default' policy, I am referring to a permanent bug in the install of said software if you choose to do so. viz.
#82 Re: Installation » Installing from USB thumb drive » 2022-11-28 16:27:44
OK, I finally decided not to let myself be 'too busy' and actually try again. The install works flawlessly from a plastic disk. Same ISO. So why could it not do its job from a USB? Odd.
It was late at night when I did this, so I didn't do all my usual customizations yet. Now I'm preparing to do all the customization, such as installing the nVidia drivers. Has the odd problem of permanently incomplete install of proprietary video drivers been solved in chimaera? Or will I have to go back to those threads about elaborate extra steps to complete the installation?
#83 Hardware & System Configuration » Kernel issue with Intel video » 2022-10-06 00:49:20
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Yikes! Has a Linux kernel ever damaged people's hardware before?
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/22/10/ … he-display
Intel Linux laptop users on Linux 5.19.12 have begun reporting "white flashing" display issues with one user describing it as "[the] laptop display starts to blink like lights in a 90's rave party." Intel Linux kernel engineer Ville Syrjal posted this week on the kernel mailing list: "After looking at some logs we do end up with potentially bogus panel power sequencing delays, which may harm the LCD panel."
#84 Re: Installation » Installing from USB thumb drive » 2022-10-05 01:54:42
I've burned a DVD but haven't had the time to try again yet. It's gonna need a couple hours (at least) to install the OS and then all the little tweaks that I like in any distro. Probably this weekend I'll try again. If it still doesn't work I'm gonna be very annoyed.
But that 'ventoy' utility looks very interesting. Gonna have to try that out.
#85 Re: Installation » Installing from USB thumb drive » 2022-10-03 00:05:53
Yes, I rebooted and it booted from the USB drive and started the installer. Then it complained it could not 'mount' the install media to get something it needed. Very odd.
This is the 4 GB 'desktop' ISO. I like a full install, don't want to have to download too much.
#86 Installation » Installing from USB thumb drive » 2022-10-01 23:23:51
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Since I don't want to fall behind, I decided it was time to install a copy of chimera. Trying to be 'up-to-date' in other ways as well, I created a thumb drive with Rufus instead of burning a DVD. But when I plugged the USB drive into the machine and tried to get it to install it complained it could not 'mount' the install media. ??? Didn't it already 'mount' the install media if the installer is running? Is there a problem with installing Devuan from a USB drive rather than a DVD?
#87 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Devuan and VirtualBox » 2022-05-03 12:17:48
But it's on an ISO image. I'd have to edit the ISO. Kinda extreme for a small glitch. Though I found a fix with the sh invocation, someone else had another idea. Edit fstab and replace the 'auto' attribute on the cdrom mount with 'exec' and then it should run. Apparently this is the mistake that Devuan makes compared to CentOS. Using 'auto' on the cdrom mount.
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,exec 0 0#88 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Devuan and VirtualBox » 2022-05-02 17:54:12
Just got to work by invoking with sh instead of a plain reference. Apparently that gets around whatever the permissions issue is. We'll see how difficult it is next time...
Now to test the interface and see if it's possible to communicate between host and VM properly.
#89 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Devuan and VirtualBox » 2022-05-02 17:31:36
After literally removing the virtual drive and re-adding it, the machine still won't run the additions CD. I get a popup that says "Error autorunning software" and "cannot find the autorun program"...
This is the exact same CD that just ran in the CentOS VM.
Manually running it as root doesn't work:
/media/cdrom/auotrun.sh returns "permission denied"
#90 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Devuan and VirtualBox » 2022-05-02 16:50:15
The host is Windows 8.1, and the VirtualBox install comes directly from the Oracle site, not a third-party 'download site'. This is version 6.1.32 so it's pretty recent.
Are special modules needed in the kernel? I didn't need to build anything special with CentOS, though it might have detected its environment and chosen a kernel with any special modules already installed. In that case, it was possible to install the Additions CD and everything seems to work.
Edit: I went and got the latest from Oracle, it's 6.1.34, and also the extensions and additions. After updating the VBox software itself, the CentOS happily updated its additions. That worked fine. The Devuan VM won't let me change the iso in the virtual drive. Error:
Could not mount the media/drive 'C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxGuestAdditions.iso' (VERR_PDM_MEDIA_LOCKED).
Result Code:
E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component:
ConsoleWrap
Interface:
IConsole {872da645-4a9b-1727-bee2-5585105b9eed}
Callee:
IMachine {85632c68-b5bb-4316-a900-5eb28d3413df}
Clicking the 'force unmount' button has not effect.
#91 Hardware & System Configuration » Devuan and VirtualBox » 2022-05-02 15:08:15
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Not wanting to use Windows 10 / 11 or how ever many iterations are coming to the MS Kiosk, but not being certain I can completely toss all access to Windows, I have been trying to configure a VM to use as a browser sandbox. Hopefully this would allow the safe maintenance of a Windows 8.1 system after security patches end next year. Other exposure to the Internet should not be necessary.
Installing Devuan 3.1 into a Virtual Box VM, I find an oddity. It is not possible to run the VB Additions CD. BUT... Devuan seems to already be integrated in certain ways. I don't have to fiddle around with the focus settings or use right-ctrl to capture focus. Usually you have to install the additions to have integration like that. And yet, the other things I need the additions for don't work. Clipboard integration, for example. I can click the options on the menu, but they have no effect. There is just no way to copy from the VM to the host. Or vice versa. I had been using the shared folder option to get data into and out of the VM, but today that stopped working and I can't get it to work again.
WHY would Devuan not allow the additions CD to run? I mean, really not allow. I get 'permission denied' when I try to run it either a s user or as root. And since it won't allow the additions to be installed, why is it partially integrated anyway?
#92 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Running a VPN from normal user privilege » 2022-04-06 23:00:52
Hmm, I guess SetUID it is then...
#93 Desktop and Multimedia » Running a VPN from normal user privilege » 2022-04-06 20:20:44
- Micronaut
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By default, OpenVPN sets all the keys and certs as root-only access. I guess this makes sense from a security standpoint. But it means you have to run the daemon from a root terminal window to be able to access them. Is there a way to run OpenVPN at a normal user level and still get access to those high-security files? If it's a single user system, no one else ever logs in, would it be too big a deal to change those files so they can be read by the normal user starting the VPN?
#94 Hardware & System Configuration » How do you get stubby to actually work? » 2022-03-29 16:06:52
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After installing stubby I has assumed that it did what was necessary to activate it's service. But actually, it does not. My resolv.conf is set to Google, which is what my modem/router is set to put in it's DHCP notifications. It turns out that you have to manually change your Network Manager settings to not get DNS from DHCP, and then manually edit resolv.conf to point to 127.0.0.1 -- and after doing his I have no DNS. Stubby is not resolving addresses.
So, who has this actually working and how did you do it?
#95 Hardware & System Configuration » Changing video cards » 2022-02-23 01:41:17
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When removing one piece of hardware and installing another, how much do you have to do with the drivers in Linux? Of course if I switch brands, from AMD/ATI to nVidia, I have to completely uninstall the drivers and install the others for the proper brand. But it looks like the same drivers are used across wide ranges of hardware for any given brand. What if I just upgrade from a GT 1650 to a GT 1660? Do I have to completely remove and reinstall the drivers when simply upgrading in the same series? And then what about upgrading from one series to another but in the same brand, like from a 1050 to a 1650? Do all of these changes require a complete removal and reinstall like Windows?
#96 Re: Other Issues » Moving files between NTFS and Linux files systems » 2022-02-19 14:16:55
At this time I don't know if I need them or not. I've got these huge game files on certain systems that I may want to copy back to an NTFS disk. It's easier than updating the game a second time in Windows since I have a relatively slow internet connection. If there is any use for the 8.3 file names by these games, that may be a problem. Other than that, they are not important.
#97 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Game Managers » 2022-02-18 23:03:51
As nicely as the games run most of the time, they do have problems. At least in the current install I am using. Using a different distro, MX Linux, and on a different system, I find that these problems don't seem to occur (yet). Maybe it was a mistake to use the install method recommended on the Lutris website? They give directions to import an Open SUSE repository even though there is a Lutris package in the Debian/Devuan repositories. I'll be making a new build to test the native Lutris package soon.
#98 Other Issues » Moving files between NTFS and Linux files systems » 2022-02-18 23:00:00
- Micronaut
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Because of the MS-DOS history behind it, there is a strange kludge in NTFS that gives files two different names, the 'long' name and the 8.3 short name. Surely this data is lost when transferring files to any Linux FS? Is there any way to save this data in case there is some reason to move files back to NTFS, and there is some importance to those shorter filenames?
#99 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Listening to local playback with Audacity » 2022-02-06 19:06:29
Yes, I have used Youtube-dl. That works with Youtube, but not with real stick-up-the-*** DRM fanatics like Spotify. The only way I have found to get a podcast from Spotify is to play it in a browser on a different site that has setup embedding, and use the 'analog hole' to get the audio. (And I really do mean the only way. They are so paranoid that I cannot sign up for a legit account with Firefox. Can't figure out why, either.)
ETA: I downloaded the latest Audacity AppImage from the github page and that still has the problem. This is probably a bug in a supporting libraries for the audio system, not the program itself.
#100 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Listening to local playback with Audacity » 2022-02-06 18:09:03
Well, it looks like there has been a recent change in some underlying packages that has broken things in Linux sound. I finally located a discussion of precisely the problem I've been having on the Audacity support board.
https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?t=119186
Pulse is missing
Post by wsfrmn » Thu Jul 15, 2021 10:15 pm
Ubuntu 20.04.02
Audacity 3.0.2 from PPAFor the last couple of weeks I've been recording audio from Firefox using PulseAudio. Three days ago Audacity stopped detecting Pulse and I'm not sure why. I didn't update anything and I can still start Pulse without any problems. But when I bring up the list of recording devices, Pulse isn't on it.
I removed Audacity and Pulse through the shell and re-installed them, but I'm still not able to pick up Pulse.
When I play a stream from Firefox, Pulse picks it up, but I can't get Audacity to monitor it using any of the recording devices available to it.
I've been searching through posts and can't seem to find the answer here. If I've missed it I apologize. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks!
Wes
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After they check all the devices, another poster shares the recent changes in a 'snap' package that also broke Audacity's ability to monitor various devices. This thread is from about six months ago, so you would think there would have been a fix by now. How often do the Debian/Devuan repository maintainers update things?
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