Hi, I saw this web artical on initrd and initramfs that may be informative in your case...

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/initrd-vs-initramfs

you might also check what services are running as something is probably waiting for a signal before the shutdown/reboot sequence can be finished.

btw, I usually use the login manager sddm for rebooting (I don't use sudo) or logging out and shutting down, but

when I'm stuck (with a frozen mouse), I ctrl-alt-F1-to-12 tty, depending on what is accessible and issue a ctrl-alt-del to reboot or

"shutdown -r now" if the console is already logged in. -r to reboot, or -h to halt.

imo, initramfs speeds up loading of kernel modules by not having to scan the devices before-hand, saving a few seconds.

The other thing I have come across is that after researching and configuring BT modules (and firmware) I could do

update-initramfs -u -k all

You should check this command so you know what it's doing...

and that saved a few more seconds and had the BT modules up and ready when the desktop started.

It also loaded all the module commands listed in /etc/module(s) files and directories (.d).

I gets like a custom kernel loading speed, but systems are so fast now-a-days you may not notice. Used to be I could make a cup of tea while waiting for a reboot... ymmv.

I hope this gives you something to look in to.

@rankbeginner Ahh, that looks like the new quality control systems,

if someone returns an item for any reason it's put back on the shelf to test it on the next purchaser,
it's cheaper that way, the purchaser gives up, and the seller keeps the money and the seller does not have to do a return authorisation affecting reputations and sales figures.

It seems to be a corporate tactic...

Bait and switch I think it's called. I always try to be aware of tampered packets when I'm shopping live, not as much control when shopping on line.

I had a similar event with a sonic bug repellor (AC wall socket vhf emittor) was quite inexpensive, but was for a foreign country power socket and cost just as much again (plus transport) for an AC adaptor to make it work. (Bait and switch) The company offered to exchange it at my expense... Sorry for the mistake (the company was inside australia selling foreign equipment...unlawful) I try to remember those cheats.

@quickfur ... "saddle light navigation" rotfl

Thank you

Great! It's the permissions I was reffering to. But glad you got it working.

Like @rolfie said, ease of return just in case is best for me.

Like memory sticks IMHO, are far too big for general use, but fs (fat) is too small for large iso s and videos @ 4gb max... Not suited for purpose!

My new spinner is a Seagate Baracooder, 4Tb st4000DM004.

I'll never fill it the way I'm going.

Hi, talking about permissions...

I used to run windows on a virtual (box) machine, and I used these changes to smooth the way...

#chown -hR vboxusers:vboxusers /opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh
#chown -hR vboxusers:vboxusers /usr/bin/VirtualBox
#chmod -R 755 /usr/bin/VirtualBox
#chmod -R 755 /opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh
#chgrp -h glenn /home/glenn/local/vm1/
#chmod -R 755 /home/glenn/local/vm1/

Just sharing the idea... I hope it helps.

glenn@GamesBox ~ $ man life
No manual entry for life
glenn@GamesBox ~ $ 

:-)

@nixer, I recently found the same outcomes.

I had used the debian multimedia repo as well (for ffmulticonverter,) and found that the devuan repo had caught up and dmo was no longer required for that package's dependants.

It's good to know where we can source these updated packages, but also good to find devuan repo is not far behind, and possibly stable for the over-all system and upgrades.

things evolve...
As for intel/nvidia laptops... I set mine up last week and for the first time the nouveau driver loaded, all from the default Devuan/Daedalus install with updates.

In the past I tried to blacklist the intel module, using vesa but to no avail. the intel module was the one that gave me a gui from boot.

I think the nvidia chip is a 107m... it's about 10 years old.

I hope this helps...

Some links to pics of the battery and heatsink operation.

I've tried to show the keyboard and screen dimming, as mentioned in a post about laptops...

also, not very clearly the well used/abused headphone socket which probably is reducing the apparent right side speaker and headphone volume level. I haven't tested BT, but I expect a usb external sound card to work.

There may be a better way to show pics, I'm not familiar enough with the process to remember and repeat a best practice.
I thought a link to the 'ibb.co' laptop-update picture repository may have been better, but I dislike links that take me away from the forum... what's better? I'd prefer not to rewrite a webpage.

13 images, Laptop-update, replaced battery and reseated heatsinks.
https://ibb.co/album/Jv2xLs

  Thank you

here is a list of deps for wpa-supplicant... there maybe others.

I didn't include the version numbers because I'm on Daedalus. I hope this helps.

wpasupplicant

deps...
libc6
libdbus
libnl
libnl_genl
libnl-route
libpclite
libreadline8
linssl3
adduser

I setup wifi on the command-line

and here is how you can setup wifi on the command line.

wpa_passphrase {ssid} {password} > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

all the best

Nuclear energy production creates waste, that waste remains radio active waste for a very, very long time,

and remains dangerous to biological life...

IMO, I wouldn't call it Clean, unless they changed the definition of that word too.

...because of the constant drop-outs I have tried a few gui to control and visualise the connection and traffic.

Still a work in progress.

I have a few hacks I want to try, like removing pulseaudio, but networkmanager was not on my list.

I liked wicd with the older versions of Devuan because it seem simple and effective,

but some of the older packages are harder to install which creates more problems.

btw, when I said I upgraded from ascii through to Daedalus,

I had frozen (pinned) the kernel version and eventually it (the installation) broke because of the older libc version limitations.

I am currently working through a Lynis report to find things to patch (install, upgrade or obfuscate).

All the best.