I'm not sure what the best solution is. One thing you could try is downgrading all those packages to the version you had previously. The deb packages can be found in /var/cache/apt/archives. But that could be messy.

If everything seems to be working, you might just leave it alone. Wait for us to do some work on ascii and then switch your sources from jessie to ascii and upgrade the rest of your packages so they are from the same release as the ones you just pulled from stretch. No guarantees that it won't be messy, too. But maybe it will work ok.

If you are adventurous and know your way around the package manager pretty well, you could try upgrading the rest of the system to ascii now. You will probably run into conflicts. Don't do it unless you are comfortable with the idea of solving those problems and would not mind reinstalling if it turns out badly.

jessie = jessie
ascii = stretch
beowulf = buster
ceres = sid

I don't know if it's related, but thunar has a similar bug. Sometimes it locks up when it's in detailed list view. If I catch it soon enough, I can press ctrl-1 or ctrl-3 to change to icon or simple list view or else close the window by clicking on the x in the corner. If I wait, it totally locks up and has to be killed from command line. It's a known bug in thunar that's been around for years.

Faster boot times. (no more 5-minute waits for a start job)
Predicatable interface names. (I know it's going to be eth0 unless I changed my hardware.)
An init system that's been well-tested. (I might switch to systemd once they're done developing it and it's had time to mature.)
An init system that knows it's an init system and is OK with that.

Probably more, but it's time to let the dogs out.

So then hd-media would be the way to go. Follow the debian instructions here, but use the devuan files I linked in my previous post.
French:
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ … 02.html.fr

Relevant part in English:

https://packages.devuan.org/merged/dist … /hd-media/
https://packages.devuan.org/merged/dist … /hd-media/

I think that's in remastersys. With refractasnapshot, you have to look over the excludes and decide if you need to add or remove anything. Some of the more obvious personal stuff is already excluded, such as .gnupg, .ssh, list of recently used files, and logs. If you're making a snapshot with some desktop other than xfce, you should check your hidden files.

For example, geany keeps a list of recent files in its own config file, and that file gets cleaned when creating the snapshot. I don't know if other editors do that, so nothing happens to them. I keep the config file in geany instead of just excluding it because I use custom settings for the toolbar.

The timeout has been increased to 30 minutes.

Also, if you check the box for automatic login (at the login screen) and you set dev1galaxy.org cookies to expire when closing the browser, it's the same as "keep me logged in". You won't be automatically logged in if the cookies are gone, and you won't be logged out if you go beyond the timeout.

You should see a Preview button next to the Submit button, just under the Quick reply box at the bottom of the page and also under the Post a reply box.

I've gotten into the habit of highighting/copying my message to clipboard before hitting Preview or Submit. If I've been logged out, I can just log in and paste the message.

This one uses systemd:
minino-queiles-3.0_kernel-64bits-experimental.iso

(No idea what the deal is with the cat.)

On your machine, install openssh-server. I'm not sure if that's needed on MIL's computer.

I haven't figured out how to combine the reverse tunneling with x11vnc. If you can't open a port on Mom's rounter (why not?) you can still get access, and you don't have to walk her through installing anything. (I think.) You will need to have port forwarding set up on your own router. Redirect port 22 to your computer.

You will need to walk her through this command:

ssh -X -R12345:localhost:22 gnuuser@gnuhost

After she does that, you can get shell access to her computer with :

ssh -X -p12345 mom@localhost

Get root and do whatever you need to do.

Some guides I looked at said you (MIL) should add -f and -N to the command to set up the tunnel, but I didn't do that in my tests. The -X means you can run x-apps that are installed on her machine.

Anyway, once you get in, if you think you'll be doing this again some time (i.e. if you don't set up port forwarding on her router) make a script that contains the command she uses to create the tunnel, make it executable, put it in /usr/local/bin/ then make a .desktop file that has the path to that script on the Exec line (look at examples) and put it with the others in /usr/share/applications, and it will appear in the apps menu. You could also put the .desktop file on her desktop if that's easier for her.

I haven't tried this yet, but her script might need to open a terminal and run the command inside the terminal. It might look like this:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

xterm -hold -e ssh -X -R 12345:localhost:22 gnuuser@gnuhost

If you want to see my notes on vnc over ssh (not reverse), go here and scroll down near the bottom of the page.
http://www.ibiblio.org/refracta/docs/Re … es_8.2.txt
If you have two machines at home, you can play with controlling two computers on opposite sides of the room or house without getting up. You would need to install x11vnc and a vncviewer. I use xtightvncviewr and Ralph uses a different one that I've never tried. And if we figure out how to do vnc with a reverse tunnel, (or if you open a port for ssh on the remote router) then MIL's computer will need x11vnc.

You can edit your first post to mark it solved, but there may still be a problem to solve.

For the devuan live-isos, I put those lines in /etc/profile.d/tt_locale.sh where they will affect all users. It should work for one user if you add those lines to ~/.profile.

If you chose Italian during the installation, you shouldn't need to do this. Which iso did you use for the installation?

I do it this way:

export LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=it_IT.UTF-8