After usrmerge and durring apt upgrade I incautously accepted the defailt when asked for keyboard type and now typing 'qwerty' shows nothing on the screen.
I luckily had mc running in another VT and replaced /etc/default/keyboard hoping that would fix things after reboot.
No Joy, can't login.
I can access that install from daedalus via mounting it as /dev/sdb2.
Suggestions on what I should change to gain access?
I'd prefer not to have to repeat the install daedalus, usrmerge, excalibur again.
Thanks,
Mike

I'm on a Raspberry PI 4b currently running daedalus
mike@DevuanPI4b:~> uname -a
Linux MikesPI 6.1.70 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan  7 04:13:59 CET 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux

Since I have a talent for breaking things and the PI runs off a microSD it's relatively easy to setup a new install to upgrade rather than breaking a working install then having none.

I DLd rpi-4-devuan-daedalus-6.1.93-arm64-ext4-2025-12-08-0310.zip unzipped it and used dd to burn it to a fresh microSD.
When I tried 'apt update' I got no joy but a bunch if 'Ign:' statements for main contrib non-free non-free-firmware.
The line in sources.list was:
    deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
and I couldn't update until I used sed to change it to:
    deb http://us.deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

Has anyone else run into this or is there something flukey with my system?
Thanks,
Mike

In /var/spool/dma are some 200+ messages a few are cron daily reports the rest are ' fail to deliver'.
I don't see anything in /etc/dma/dma.conf that looks like it should be other than default except SMARTHOST smtp.frontier.com
/etc/aliases points everything to root, then root to mike.
I didn't expect it to make a diference but created /root/Mail just in case. It didn't help.
I use fetchmail and mutt to read mail from off site and that works fine.
Thinking it might be a permissions problem I looked at these:
mike@DevuanPI4b:~> ls -l /var/mail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Feb 10 11:06 /var/mail -> /mc/docs/letters/incoming/
Mikemike@DevuanPI4b:~> ls -l /var/mail/
total 312
-rw--w---- 1 mike mail 317051 May  4 16:17 mike
-rw--w---- 1 root mail      0 Feb 20 02:05 root
mike@DevuanPI4b:~> ls -l /mc/docs/letters/incoming/
total 312
-rw--w---- 1 mike mail 317051 May  4 16:17 mike
-rw--w---- 1 root mail      0 Feb 20 02:05 root

At the moment I'm baffled, what am I missing?
Suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Mike

I made the mistake of purging network-manager and it's associated packages then discovered I couldn't figure out how to get the network configured again.
    Consequently I switched to a Debian bookworm install to replace the packages I had purged. I was unable to figure out how to tell the 'Devuan Package Information' system that I wanted arm64 rather than amd64 packages.
   The only way I found was to search for the package, select the appropriate version that matched up with daedalus, on the new page I then scrolled down to the download link for the amd64 version copied the link, pasted it into the browser address bar, changed 'amd64' to 'arm64' in the address and then downloaded the correct package.
    Needless to say that was rather a hassle and quite time consuming for 21 packages.
    I suspect there is an easier way and hope someone here will point it out to me.

Thanks,
Mike

mike@DevuanPI4b:~> uname -a
Linux MikesDevuanPI 6.1.70 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan  7 04:13:59 CET 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux

After my initial install with LXDE I broke the system trying to remove it so reinstalled from scratch then installed twm.
I've got it working but LibreOffice tools don't play well and I use calc daily. Changing calc's window size throws it for  loop and I must close it then reload it to make it usable again.
Looking through the output of `apt-cache dumpavail' I see several window managers who install under 100,000 bytes. Among them 9wm, cwm, dwm, evilwm, flwm, lwm and windowlab and many wouldn't require adding more libs than twm has already installed.
I was wondering if anyone here had tried any of those and liked them.

Thanks for your thoughts,
Mike