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#1676 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Running refractasnapshot on "classical" installed systems » 2019-07-13 10:08:21

Is your system encrypted?
Do you have a swap partition?
Did you install either amd or intel microcode package?

#1677 Re: Devuan » A lighter desktop install » 2019-07-13 02:36:23

reunite_pangaea wrote:

Or maybe I should just install the base system first and then manually install what I need. tongue

1+

(with liberal use of --no-install-recommends, avoid metapackages and install the parts of the desktop individually)

#1678 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Running refractasnapshot on "classical" installed systems » 2019-07-12 16:32:38

Refractasnapshot and refractainstaller were designed to work on debian. It shouldn't matter whether the system was installed from a live-iso, a regular debian or devuan installer iso, debootstrap or any other install. It also works on most debian or devuan derivatives that have been tried.

Take a look at /var/log/refractasnapshot.log (or something like that - I changed the name recently). I don't recall if that version is set to always run in debug mode or not. If the log has a lot of lines that start with + signs, then it's a debug log and it will probably tell what the problem is. If not, re-run 'refractasnapshot -d' or 'refractasnapshot-gui -d' and paste the log some place where I can see it. (email it to me if you want)

If you're creating a snapshot on a system that has an encrypted filesystem or a swap partition, you may need to remove a file or two from the initrd. There are instructions for that in /usr/share/doc/refractasnapshot-base/readme.refractasnapshot.txt.gz or from the Help choice in the program. Or you could use the latest version and it will make those changes for you. 10.2.3 is here (cli and gui will work on ascii) - https://sourceforge.net/projects/refracta/files/tools/

#1679 Re: Other Issues » Is the debian/devuan merge working right? » 2019-07-12 12:21:43

abruening-iwt wrote:

Is this happening again? Time stamps are 07-07-2019 and I haven't gotten any updates for a while.

Yes.

$ apt-cache policy firefox-esr
firefox-esr:
  Installed: 60.7.2esr-1~deb9u1
  Candidate: 60.8.0esr-1~deb9u1
  Version table:
     60.8.0esr-1~deb9u1 500
        500 http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged ascii-security/main amd64 Packages
         10 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 Packages
 *** 60.7.2esr-1~deb9u1 500
        500 http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged ascii-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

#1680 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [Solved] Disk access monitor for ASCII » 2019-07-11 18:10:51

I had a similar symptom once, and in my case it was due to excessive logging in /var/log/auth.log from everyone trying to get into my open ssh port. I moved the port and solved the problem. Probably not the case here, but I thought I should mention it.

#1681 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » UEFI /etc/fstab request » 2019-07-10 11:36:41

FYI, I'm probably going to make some changes to refractainstaller soon (partly as a result of this thread, thanks.)

- umask=0077 on /boot/efi in fstab.
- umask=0077 on initrd.img in full-disk encryption
- change swap mountpoint to "none"

If you can think of anything else I missed, let me know.

#1682 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Thunar -> Send To -> Any Folder? » 2019-07-10 11:28:02

Have you tried searching for examples of Thunar Custom Actions? Someone may have already worked it out. I know there's a long thread about this at forums.debian.net

Konqueror has the feature you want, but it comes at a high price. (kde cruft)  I miss that feature, too. My workaround is to open two thunar windows and drag files from one to the other. Also, if you set the Location Selector to Pathbar style, you can drag files from the main panel to the buttons in the pathbar - this allows you to move files up or down a few levels in the current path.

#1683 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [Solved] Disk access monitor for ASCII » 2019-07-10 11:00:49

Put something like this in your conkyrc.

 ${color lightgrey}Disk I/O:	${color}${diskio sda}	${color}${diskio sdb}	

#1684 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Gkrellm and GkrellWeather » 2019-07-07 10:41:33

Oh! I did this in jessie, with the version before the one in the bug report. It looks for the script in the right place.

Beowulf has the same version as ascii, and it doesn't work there. I fixed it by making a symlink to the real GrabWeather.

#1685 Re: Installation » Odd message on booting a new install » 2019-07-05 18:47:39

There are different ways of hunting. I prefer the command line, but searching in synaptic should work, too.

~$ apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.6.2-3+devuan1.1
  Version table:
     1.6.2-3+devuan1.1 500
        500 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii/main amd64 Packages

#1686 Re: Installation » Odd message on booting a new install » 2019-07-05 01:05:50

Micronaut wrote:

What would changing one single line do to the rest of the network config that it would be completely broken?

Depends on what line it was and what you did to it.  Tell us exactly what you did, maybe even show us the file you edited. There might be a simple fix.

#1688 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Gkrellm and GkrellWeather » 2019-07-04 11:25:29

Your modified script works fine here. Good job.  You can change the update interval in gkrellm settings. Default is 15 min.

#1689 Re: DIY » When will/was Beowulf stable enough to move to? » 2019-07-03 00:23:03

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

the Devuan beowulf package versions will stop changing (ie, become stable) on the 6th of July.

That's true for about 95% of the packages - the ones we get from debian and don't change.
Some of the devuanized packages will still be changing after that, but a lot of the important stuff has already been done. (like policykit, elogind, eudev)

Some data points...
- Our first release was 2 years behind debian.
- Our second release was a year behind debian.

Some opinion...
I think the trend will continue and third release will be six months or less behind debian. The installer isos are the last thing to get debugged before the actual release date. The system is usable well before that.

#1690 Re: Installation » Upgrade from Debian Wheezy to Devuan Jessie » 2019-07-03 00:09:13

golinux wrote:

in a post on FDN:

Jessie support is now handled by the LTS team rather than Security team. You should be OK until June 30, 2020.

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

Evidently June 6 is not a hard cutoff date for jessie so we have a little breathing room.

Thanks! I forgot about that - 2020.
(posted from devuan jessie)

#1691 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Dependency of cryptsetup on cryptsetup-initramfs » 2019-07-01 20:02:45

The cryptsetup command is in the cryptsetup-bin package, which does not require cryptsetup or cryptsetup-initramfs to be installed. It should work with just that (and a library).

#1692 Re: Installation » Upgrade from Debian Wheezy to Devuan Jessie » 2019-07-01 19:54:11

kapqa wrote:
golinux wrote:

KDE is available as an option -

Is the same command needed as with Debian?

aptitude install ~t^desktop$ ~t^kde-desktop$   ?

Thanks

If that's the aptitude equivalent of apt-get install task-desktop task-kde-desktop then it should work.

#1693 Re: Installation » Upgrade from Debian Wheezy to Devuan Jessie » 2019-07-01 00:39:42

Yes, you can go from debian wheezy directly to devuan jessie. I've done it several times in the past year. (always with xfce)

Do it now if you're going to do it. You have about a week before jessie is retired. I heard that july 6 is the projected date.

#1694 Re: Off-topic » ps_mem.py » 2019-06-27 01:59:11

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
fsmithred wrote:

I can't see your image. All I get are ads when I allow javascript.

Click on "continue to image" to see the image smile

Yes, I tried that before and after allowing javascript. It didn't work. I can never see twitter, either. Just a big blue bird. Maybe my computer is trying to protect me from what's there.

                         66.5 MiB
=================================

I win big_smile

Whoa. To paraphrase the late rickh: Are you sure you're running devuan? That looks more like antix.

#1695 Re: Off-topic » ps_mem.py » 2019-06-26 09:53:08

What's in the black box? I can't see your image. All I get are ads when I allow javascript.

#1696 Re: Devuan Derivatives » A question to Miyo regarding Miyo-Linx, i3 version » 2019-06-23 11:36:41

I already have a Devuan installation working fine, so maybe it would be easier for me to just "miyo-ize" this one with i3 than to do the whole new install from scratch - if there is any possibility to do so, of course.

It might be faster and easier to solve the problem you're having with miyo's i3 isos. Installing it should only take about 10 minutes. What did you try, and what happened? Are you able to boot the iso on a usb or optical disk?

#1697 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] firefox-esr update » 2019-06-23 11:31:13

nogeek wrote:
pcalvert wrote:

I downloaded the Firefox ESR package from here:
https://packages.debian.org/stretch/firefox-esr

I now this website, but this link is not the source where you have to download it from, it is here:
http://security.debian.org/debian-secur … ian.tar.xz
and this is not https.

You just downloaded the source package, which you can use to compile new binaries. I can assure you that you do not want to do that. Try one of these .deb packages instead. You can find these by scrolling down the page that pcalvert linked and selecting the architecture you want.

amd64
http://security.debian.org/debian-secur … _amd64.deb

i386
http://security.debian.org/debian-secur … 1_i386.deb

#1698 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] firefox-esr update » 2019-06-22 00:09:03

You found the newest version of firefox-esr that's in stretch/ascii. It's been there a few days. I expect it'll be no more than a few days before the second patch migrates down.
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tra … irefox-esr

There is no firefox in stretch or ascii. Never was, never will be.

Both firefox and firefox-esr are in the unstable branch (sid/ceres) and it looks like they've both been patched.
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tra … ge/firefox

If you need the latest version right away, you can always get it directly from mozilla and just unpack it and run it. That's a more conservative choice than upgrading to ceres.

#1699 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Security update delays » 2019-06-19 11:58:29

Adjusted the subject line again.
Reported the issue again.

Stay tuned...

fsr

#1700 Re: Installation » I lost my desktop after editing conky » 2019-06-19 00:15:43

Since it works for the other user, it's not a problem with fluxbox or xorg. It's a problem with the first user account. It could be some other hidden file in that user's home or it could be something to do with permissions or authentication for that user. Did you change anything in pam or polkit configs? Something else?

I don't think editing the conky configs could do what happened. Something else had to happen around the same time. That's why I suggested looking in the command histories. Maybe you did something that you don't recall right now. (I do that all the time.) Just run history as root and as user, and look at the commands around when you edited conky.

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