The comments! # if this is not your actual config dir then get rekt

Srsly tho, this put a bee in my bonnet on a small utility i've thought about in the past, a right-click context menu entry that offers to install a local .deb package when you select it in the file manager, little script + apt-get + some yad dialogs. I think that would be handy.

Probably easier to just use gdebi, it's nice.

Okay, more info. The bug is in alsa-utils, in the 90-alsa-restore.rules file. Looks like alsa fixed it months ago, but then a patch from Debian broke it again so now I guess it's their bug, and it's still an issue in Trixie as of 2 days ago.

https://bugs-devel.debian.org/cgi-bin/b … ug=1093057

The patch is also supposed to be a fix for some mics not working from what i've read.

I wonder if this might help?: https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-utils/pull/281

I'm sure you probably did this, but just to rule out the small stuff, you did install usrmerge before updating yes?

I actually don't know what would happen if you had not, likely wouldn't have succeeded in updating, but I always like to start with the simple stuff when troubleshooting.

Known issue, supposedly fixed, some links:

https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-ut … e.rules.in

https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-utils/issues/280

https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-ut … 17e53b41a8

An even easier workaround (have not tested myself): https://andrzej.langow.ski/2025/05/14/s … -ignoring/

I guess the fix never made it into trixie?

I think it's just the LABEL + definition missing, not an actual file? Possibly:

LABEL="alsa_restore_std"
TEST!="@daemonswitch@", RUN+="@sbindir@/alsactl@args@ restore $env{ALSA_CARD_NUMBER}"
TEST=="@daemonswitch@", RUN+="@sbindir@/alsactl@args@ nrestore $env{ALSA_CARD_NUMBER}"

And from Ubuntu bugs:

I don't have excalibur booted up right now, will boot up a live-session later and do some more testing.

Ouch! One year old and it already broke the network adapter internally? Yikes. And no ethernet port to fall back to (brilliant design that). Can you just share the make/model so folks know not to buy 'em?

9-06-2025  New versions of Vuu-do Openbox 5.03 max and mini uploaded.

A number of important packages updated, including a new kernel. New version of the Vuu-do App Info app with a re-scan button now for when you add new programs. Set the volume icon in the tray to open AlsaTune when you middle-click instead of the terminal mixer. Cleaned up a redundant menu entry and did some small tweaks that should increase performance and use less power doing it. New versions of ffmpeg and Chromium (in the max) and udisks. Cleaned up some other cruft that had snuck in on me and some other house-cleaning.

A piece of paper and a pen. <<greenjeans password managing system

Thanks rayburn! Also, that's good to know the blinking is happening on your machine too, that at least means it's not just my hardware.

Solved on IRC.

Good questions ffp, I just don't have answers for you as i'm not a part of Devuan's Dev team. That being said I haven't heard anybody say it was in consideration for Devuan proper, there's just a lot of interest though in the community, if you take a peek at xlibre's IRC channel on libera you'll see a lot of members of this forum hanging out there.

I myself don't even have a good understanding of what it brings to the table, that's why i'm testing and trying to learn more about it, and trying to make it easier for other people like me to do some testing as well by squashing up these iso's. Not everybody wants to mess with their current installations by trying experimental software on them, but it's super easy to download an iso with xlibre already on there and burn it to a stick and run a live-session to run it through it's paces on their hardware.