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#151 Hardware & System Configuration » Login as root on Graphcial desktop possible » 2025-09-28 15:12:55
- rolfie
- Replies: 18
Daedalus with Lightdm and Cinnamon installed from a netinstall: I can login as root on my desktop. Why is this possible? I thought this is a nogo and disabled.
Tested also a VM with Excalibur and Cinnamon, Trixie with LXDE: same picture.
#152 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] rtl8188ftv » 2025-09-28 11:29:02
I don't know how new this adapter is. The firmware is from 2023, two years old. In any case installing the backports firmware is worth a try.
#153 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Encrypt USB? » 2025-09-25 19:49:43
Veracrypt
#154 Re: Installation » firefox on old 32 bit cpu » 2025-09-25 17:14:50
All distros will use the build by Mozilla. Nobody will compile without SSE3 nowadays.
If you can't use one of the alternatives, the only way is to buy a more recent laptop or PC.
#155 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Why freia ? » 2025-09-23 14:37:56
#156 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » (alsa) changin soundcard easily via terminal » 2025-09-22 15:07:21
If you use a desktop like Mate, Cinnamon, XFCE or like, install pipewire to switch between sources and sinks.
Alsa is not userfriendly and lacks everything required to easily control Audio hardware.
#157 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Growing file bloat in ~/.dbus/session-bus and /root/.dbus/session-bus » 2025-09-18 21:08:13
greenjeans wrote:
... do you have an /etc/machine-id file?
Of course, I say so in one of my last posts.
I wrote:Machine-id is set thus:
$ cat /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
26a708d3d7dc6778fc6ff9f55921b024
$
That means your machine-id is fixed. The patch changing the machine-id works fine if that file does not exist. I don't have this file on my Daedalus and changing ids.
#158 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Growing file bloat in ~/.dbus/session-bus and /root/.dbus/session-bus » 2025-09-18 20:02:53
Same on my Daedalus: 340 files since installation.
New installation, the files do not take very much space. New machine ID on every boot.
#159 Re: Packaging for Devuan » different versions of same package, kicad » 2025-09-17 12:04:40
That will be needed to maintain older pcb Hardware.
Under debian the new versions kick out the old versions.
The debian maintainer answered, that he does not intend to change this behavior.
Commercial use with debian/devuan is such not possible. You do not want to migrate old projects forcefully to new versions, for small changes in a maintenance phase. Migration is not backwards compatible.
I think all Linux distributions will do the same: kick out the old versions.
The kicad documentation states that a project once modified can no more be read by an older version of kicad. But does that mean the design data is screwed up?
If you are very conservative and precautios, make up a VM with the older kicad version.
Anyhow: on the kicad home page I can't find any support for downloading older versions either.
#160 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] devuan (fresh install) noticeably slow compared to debian » 2025-09-14 17:15:12
That N100 is a quite weak CPU. Everything requiring CPU performance will delay the response.
#161 Re: Freedom Hacks » apt seems to be a sort of "unstable wrapper" » 2025-09-12 19:00:19
Another conspiracy theory about something being bad?
Could you please read the code and enlighten us?
I am no programmer. Do it yourself.
#162 Re: Freedom Hacks » apt seems to be a sort of "unstable wrapper" » 2025-09-12 16:46:34
Why not? If you desire have a look at the code. The sources are available.
#163 Re: Freedom Hacks » apt seems to be a sort of "unstable wrapper" » 2025-09-12 15:32:12
apt has a progress bar. Perfect for me, I am using apt since many years now, no complaints about it.
#164 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Minor issue after upgrading to excalibur » 2025-09-11 08:11:35
You must have omitted upgrading for quite a while.
Nevertheless, good luck for a new approach.
#165 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Minor issue after upgrading to excalibur » 2025-09-10 17:03:16
@RedGreen925 and @delgado:
Have you digested the OP's = the_edge123 input correctly?
My sources.list refers to stable.
During the last update, the packages were upgraded but/etc/devuan_version
still contains daedalus.
We are on Devuan here, not on Debian. Daedalus = Stable, Excalibur = Testing!!! I am sorry, you are both on the wrong track.
@Fabien: I am pretty sure you do not have Excalibur on your PC. You are on Daedalus still. The output is correct.
You may check with a
cat /etc/os-releaseWhen you want to upgrade to Excalibur, make sure your Daedalus is up-to-date. Then run
apt install usrmergeThen change your sources.list to excalibur.
Some reading: https://www.devuan.org/os/releases
#166 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Minor issue after upgrading to excalibur » 2025-09-10 11:03:37
Again: You never have upgraded to Excalibur if your sources.list refers to "stable".
#167 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Minor issue after upgrading to excalibur » 2025-09-10 06:25:43
My sources.list refers to stable.
For Devuan stable still is Daedalus. If you want to upgrade to Excalibur, change your sources.list to excalibur instead of stable.
#168 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] No automount after update to Excalibur » 2025-09-07 17:24:28
I think so.
#169 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] No automount after update to Excalibur » 2025-09-07 17:08:11
... you did install usrmerge before updating ...
There will be some complaints within the upgrade process if that wasn't done.
#170 Re: Other Issues » amd64-microcode update for transient scheduler attacks » 2025-08-31 19:23:31
Is Devuan in process of putting this update into the Daedalus repos?
Definitely not. The Daedalus repo will only be updated if there is an update coming from the Debian repo.
Devuan is Debian w/o systemd, only parts that have relation to systemd are replaced or modified.
Anyhow, if I read the document correctly the main fix is an bios update.
#171 Re: Installation » [Solved] Beowulf - Nvidia legacy 340XX driver will not install. » 2025-08-31 14:07:51
kernel is 4.19.-27
Linux devuan 4.19.0-27-amd64
however there are no correspondent linux-headers available in the repo
I think that is not really true. From:
https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/poli … *&x=submit
linux-headers-4.19.0-27-common - 4.19.316-1
http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security/main amd64
http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security/main i386
http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security/main arm64They are available, but not in the main section, you have to enable security!
#172 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] excalibur: grub boot menue entry for archlinux disappeared. » 2025-08-28 08:34:00
Warning: os-prober will be executed to detect other bootable partitions. Its output will be used to detect bootable binaries on them and create new boot entries. Found Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus) on /dev/nvme0n1p2 Found Arch Linux (rolling) on /dev/nvme0n1p3 Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings ...
This shows that os-prober is executed and finds Arch. And what is normal for any uefi system, adds an entry to access the uefi bios.
You should see Arch in the grub menu as selectable option.
#173 Re: Installation » How to Install XLibre on Devuan Daedalus (MATE)? » 2025-08-26 18:14:00
Installed a Daedalus VM, encrypted with LVM, efi based, Lightdm and Cinnamon with German locale and Keyboard. Installation works, Lightdm is set to US keyboard, Cinnamon too. Adding a German keyboard works until reboot, then the system is back to US. Is that worth an issue? I think yes?
Edith: the screensaver login allows to switch the keyboard to German, the login doesn't.
#174 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » kernel (error): disabling IRQ:7 » 2025-08-24 20:04:00
From https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … rrupt-irq7
"Classically, the default usage of IRQ 7 is for the (essentially obsolete) parallel port (also known as IEEE 1284 or LPT)..."
Use the search machine of your least mistrust to find some more info.
#175 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org » 2025-08-24 09:57:19
Just pulled out my travelling laptop again.
apt update works fine w/o backports. Re-enabling the standard "deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged" backports throws a "Release file not found" error. Starngely enough it works with "deb http://archive.devuan.org/merged".
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