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Phil

That just fixes the keyboard and mouse problem, right? Because I just tried it, and sound still isn't working.

Phil

That may help with some issues, but it doesn't look like it will help with the no-sound issue (for me, anyway).

Here's why:

# groupadd kvm
groupadd: group 'kvm' already exists

Phil

I migrated a new Debian Buster system to Beowulf, and things went well (for the most part). There is a problem, though. After the desktop appears, there is constant, non-stop disk activity. Running top shows a couple of CPU hogs:

udevd      20 to 30 % CPU
udisksd    14 to 20% CPU
udevd      1 to 2 % CPU

Based on a hunch, I uninstalled gvfs and the problem went away.

Phil

I found something that looks like it could be a possible solution (or workaround):

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p1867015

The Gentoo wiki page that he linked to seems to have some good info (based on my limited understanding) about this problem.

Phil

My test results:

1st attempt
===========

Version: refracta10-beta2_xfce_amd64-20200425_1600.iso

Error messages:

WARNING: Device /dev/loop0 not initialized in udev database even after waiting 10000000 microseconds.
WARNING: Device /dev/sda not initialized in udev database even after waiting 10000000 microseconds.
WARNING: Device /dev/sda1 not initialized in udev database even after waiting 10000000 microseconds.
WARNING: Device /dev/sda2 not initialized in udev database even after waiting 10000000 microseconds.

...and so on.

I didn't know what to do about it, so I just waited to see what would happen. After a long wait, the boot process eventually "died" and I thought the system had frozen. I pressed the "Enter" key to see if anything would happen, and I was presented with a working command prompt.

2nd attempt
===========

Version: refracta10-beta2_xfce_i386-20200425_1631.iso

As before, error messages:

WARNING: Device /dev/loop0 not initialized in udev database even after waiting 10000000 microseconds.
WARNING: Device /dev/sda not initialized in udev database even after waiting 10000000 microseconds.

I pressed Ctrl-C and the boot process continued. Eventually I was presented with an Xfce desktop. The mouse was unresponsive, so I tried pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete and Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. Nothing happened. However, the system wasn't totally locked up because the clock was working.

Phil

I looked around quite a bit and didn't see any instructions anywhere on how to verify the downloads using the SHA256SUMS.txt.asc file. Such instructions (or a pointer to where they are located) would be very helpful.

Phil

Devuan ASCII has the same problem. I encountered it last year.

See: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=14632#p14632

Phil

I am using NoScript (v. 5.1.9) on Palemoon. Palemoon tries to dissuade people from installing NoScript, but you can safely ignore the warning and install it anyway. NoScript seems to work just fine on Palemoon.

Phil

This looks quite interesting:

https://www.hyperbola.info/
https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=:en:start
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distr … =hyperbola

I learned about it yesterday.

Phil

It doesn't matter because the OP didn't mention that as a requirement; he or she requires support for the old type of Firefox extensions. If someone also wants support for Widevine, then I recommend using Chromium, or a web browser based on Chromium such as Google Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, etc. After all, there's nothing stopping anyone from having more than one web browser.

Phil

For comparison sake, and to give you some additional information, I am using Devuan ASCII and didn't have any problems installing WINE when I followed the Debian wiki. I also don't have any elogind packages installed. And now your experience has me wondering if there's been a big change between ASCII and Beowulf.

Phil