Thanks. Welcome to Devuan.

Edit: (Sarcastic joke removed)

Ceres tracks Sid. It should be no more than a few hours behind. So if you run pure ceres, you are likely to get un-devuanized versions of packages that we fork. (recent example: dbus)

But this can happen in devuan testing, too. Right now, ceres and chimaera are in pretty good shape, because someone got on the packaging early, even before beowulf was released. So you can probably get away with any combination of chimaera and/or ceres. Rest assured that something will eventually break and then eventually get fixed. That's likely to happen more than once.

It's possible to create encrypted partitions without lvm using debian installer. It goes like this - http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/misc … rypt-4.ogv

I'm only a little bit surprised you don't know about this. It's not obvious or intuitive. The 4 in the filename is the number of times it took me to do it right, and I've done it many times before.

If you want more than one partition encrypted this way, you'll end up with a password (or keyfile) for each.

Nope. Not our fault. We get it like that from Debian, and it's way down on our list of priorities for a couple reasons. It doesn't require systemd, and there are some easy fixes.

Jessie has reached end of life. Let her go.

If you're running chimaera, then you are already pulling from bullseye. If you add a bullseye line to sources.list you will be able to bypass the filter that keeps you from installing banned packages and you can screw up your system that way. Don't do it.

There's no kodi in chimaera because there's no kodi in bullseye. The version of kodi in ceres (sid) should migrate into chimaera after a couple weeks, I think. That's the normal procedure. If it doesn't, then it means there's a problem either with the package or the maintainer.

You can pull the packages you need from ceres and see if it works, or you can wait until it shows up in chimaera.

Edit: Or maybe not. (I just read the bug report.)

Forgot to comment on this. Install libpam-elogind to satisfy the dependency on libpam-systemd. network-manager works in beowulf.

I was never able to list and mount lvm with gui in debian. Plain encrypted partitions, yes, but not lvm. Find out how those others do it, and maybe it can be replicated. Maybe something is missing.

In xfce, there's a setting to allow removable drives to show up on the desktop. It used to be that the setting affected only removable drives, but it no longer does that. I think the change occurred with xfce 4.12, but I'm not certain.

Internal drives will now show up along with the removable drives, unless they are listed in fstab. (I listed a few of mine and gave them 'none' for a mount point just to get them off the desktop.) It's the same in beowulf (3.0).

Maybe gvfs-backends is needed. It doesn't get installed with gvfs.

One way to have that volume auto-mount is to add it to /etc/fstab.

If the system is running on a logical volume inside the luks container, then the luks container is already open and the volume group is already active. You should be able to mount whatever /dev/mapper/something that needs to be mounted. Or maybe mount /dev/vg1/storage.

Or maybe I'm missing something because I don't know udiskctl. I always use cryptsetup, vgchange and mount to manually mount encrypted lvm.

I've seen that warning on systems that boot. I don't think it's a problem.

I added bluez and then blueman, rebooting after each. Still can't reproduce the problem. You may need to install things one at a time and see which package breaks it.

Tell me exactly what you installed and how you installed it. Reinstalling the kernel and xorg did not break anything here.

The oblx5.6 iso excludes Recommends from installing and there are few or no metapackages, no display manager, no policykit, no elogind or libpam-elogind, just has libelogind0.

Here's a full list of config files that were changed in the oblx5.6 iso. The only thing in this list that was changed to fix a boot delay was lvm.conf, and that was changed in the desktop-live isos, too.

# debsums -ca
/usr/lib/os-release
/etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
/etc/pam.d/login
/usr/share/lxdm/themes/Industrial/nobody.png
/etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf
/etc/pmount.allow
/etc/sysctl.conf
/usr/bin/refractainstaller-yad
/etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults

Maybe an answer in these lists, but for sure a lot of noise:

Packages in oblx5.6 that are not in the desktop-live:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/misc … p-live.txt

Packages in desktop-live that are not in oblx5.6:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/misc … blx5.6.txt