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#1151 Re: Other Issues » What would cause wget to work and apt to get "Connection failed"? » 2020-04-18 00:01:12

That's right.

Use deb.devuan.org in your sources list. That name will resolve in DNS for each request to go to the one or the other of the repository mirrors. That domain name is associated with the whole range of mirror IP addresses in "random" order, and the DNS resolution system will pick the one looking "best" at the time (aka "first one").

The name auto.mirror.devuan.org resolves in DNS to the previous main repository, which nowadays may and might not be maintained.

Though you might, on occasion, temporarily use pkgmaster.devuan.org which resolves in DNS to the current main repository. The repository mirrors "rsyncs" their content from this. However, it has quite limited network bandwidh so having a lot of people going there will be detrimental for all. It's thus better community-wise to use the mirror domain deb.devuan.org even though this slightly increases the risk of random network failure.

#1152 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Hey siva! » 2020-04-14 04:48:02

Or maybe you could send me (or someone else) the email address you want to have in your profile, and I/them will make it happen.

#1153 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Hey siva! » 2020-04-14 04:22:10

can't say I know anything about this... maybe I sould?

#1154 Re: Installation » Beowulf Beta Issues » 2020-04-08 22:44:09

Good place for comprehensive reports. The ISO build team sends its "thanks!".

#1155 Re: News & Announcements » Beowulf Beta is here! » 2020-03-20 09:35:43

Beowulf beta "netinstall"  without network gives you nothing. Try using "server" or "desktop" rather.

#1156 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Running X11 as non-root user » 2020-03-18 22:43:31

I don't know much about this, but my first guess would be that X is actually started via the Xorg.wrap program, which has its configuration file at /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config, and this has a line

allowed_users=console

that probably should be different.

My suggestion comes from the shallow investigation:

find /usr -perm /u=s

followed by some guess work, which made me look at man Xorg.wrap.

HTH

#1157 Re: Other Issues » Can't execute program. System doesn't recognize it's location. » 2020-03-11 03:30:39

More importantly you'll need to spell the argument the way it was given,
i.e. --print-architecture rather than --print-architexture

#1158 Re: Installation » [Solved at last] Issues with very new hardware » 2020-03-09 08:24:19

rolfie  wrote:

The PC now is stuck at "waiting for /dev to be fully populated", there is no more login window poppping up now.

That same thing happens for me with the (forthcoming) beowulf installation on qemu, but this recovers by using ctrl-alt-f2 for an alternate login. Maybe it's the same for you?

#1159 Re: Other Issues » Iptables standartd issue » 2020-03-01 22:00:31

Are you saying that iptables decrements the given option code by 1?

Or is it that you find it confusing that the --tcp-option parameter rejects code 0?

Rejecting option code 0 is of course consistent with the code table, since code 0 is an "end of options list" marker, and not an option code in itself.

#1160 Re: Other Issues » Hwclock issue » 2020-03-01 20:44:56

@Eaglet,
you might want to read man hwclock more carefullly, and then pay special attention to the documentation of the --show option, which clearly states, in so many words:

The time shown is always in local time, even  if  you  keep  your  Hardware  Clock  in  UTC.

The options --utc and --localtime are for you to tell about time basis of your clock. The program then presents the clock reading in ISO 8601 format local time with respect to that basis.

#1161 Re: Installation » Problem with *.iso file » 2020-02-20 20:15:01

When written to a flash, I assume you'd written it to /dev/sdf and not /dev/sdf1 (which is the first partition) and maybe the mdfsum from there matches the iso file?

head -c 4675600384 /dev/sdf | md5sum

#1163 Re: Installation » Beowulf and MySQL » 2019-12-31 02:38:56

For whatever reasons, mysql-* are not avaiable in beowulf. You might need to try version 5.7.26-1 from unstable. Note that mysql is not forked and that Devuan reflects Debian in these packages.

#1164 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Apt-get show one package per line? » 2019-12-17 04:41:22

Yes, it would be nice to have a built-in option. As is, one has to resort to manual output filtering, e.g. by adding

 | sed "/^  /{s/\\b /\n  /g}"

to the command. That merely "pretty-prints" and doesn't provide the version details.

#1165 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Passwordless root execution in scripts » 2019-12-13 12:02:00

The SUID bit makes the executable run as the owner of the executable.

#1166 Re: Devuan » Debian considering going systemd init only » 2019-12-08 10:38:49

hmm; don't you think the silent "non-" could be confusing for a casual visitor ?

#1167 Re: Installation » Refracta Snapshot VM mount points question. » 2019-12-06 20:55:38

That missing "/" before "dev/sr0", is that a typo in this post, or a typo in "fstab"?

#1168 Re: Off-topic » disable touchpad without disabling trackpoint [SOLVED] » 2019-11-19 20:35:13

I think synclient has an option to disable the "TouchPad" - see man synaptics. Though that might be co-joined with the nipple as well.

#1169 Re: Installation » Problem with *.iso file » 2019-11-19 08:22:06

Yes, the 2.0.0 ISO builder(s) took the easy way out and excluded isolinux.bin from the md5sum.txt file.
That's of course one way to avoid a false negative smile

#1170 Re: Installation » Problem with *.iso file » 2019-11-18 23:33:12

It's a good observation. The ISO sets of 2.0.0 and 2.1 where produced in different ways, and obviosuly the 2.1 method is somewhat lacking in care. A re-release of the latter would indeed be a good thing.

thanks,

Ralph.

#1171 Re: Installation » Problem with *.iso file » 2019-11-18 21:29:06

Note that isolinux/isolinux.bin is the "El Torito boot image", and that mkisofs does something to the first 64 bytes on transfer from disk to CD/DVD image, i.e. when the .iso is created.

Thus, the published md5sum in md5sum.txt for isolinux/isolinux.bin should be ignored.

Probably someone could work out exactly what changes and how, and unless it includes some checksum of the content (esp the md5sum.txt file) and/or some time stamp, those changes could be applied to the source prior to checksumming it.

#1172 Re: Other Issues » ASCII i386 repositories [deb.devuan.org] » 2019-11-12 07:43:53

ah right. I'm still in the ipv4 universe. lucky me smile

EDIT:

"onefang", who does ipv6 in his sleep, suggests that there probably are some networking issues at the client end, and that an investigation with traceroute, or traceroute6 I suppose, might tell something.

#1174 Re: Other Issues » SSL error » 2019-10-12 23:23:07

brownh wrote:

"Error during connection to dev1galaxy.org/ SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum possible length (Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG)"

When your SSL client says the above, most likely the actual response from dev1galaxy is (in clear text):

Your IP address has been tagged as dubious. If this is in error,
please contact dev1galaxy forum adminstrators on #d1g-users at freenode.

Like many/most forum sites, dev1galaxy includes a couple of attempted barriers against spam and unwanted intrusions, which results in IP addresses becoming tagged as "dubious". Due to being fully automated, it sometimes (but rarely) makes a false positive judgement, and then it requires some corrective hands-on.

#1175 Re: Other Issues » 32bit packages on a 64bit system » 2019-09-22 21:29:07

Note that there is version competition between the i386 and amd64 for some packages.

In particular the util-linux group of packages have got version mismatch between these architectures (with i386 the newer). This results in a bit of a havoc if one attempts to install something (like wine32) that (indirectly) depends on one of those, as it essentially ends up wanting to replace almost everything.

It's something to careful with.

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