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#1 Re: Devuan » Debian LTS/Extended by Freexian and Devuan EOL - best practices » 2026-07-14 05:13:33
I use virtualization and understand how to gain experience independently. I asked the question because I wanted to learn from the community's experience.
#2 Re: Devuan » Debian LTS/Extended by Freexian and Devuan EOL - best practices » 2026-07-13 10:31:14
kernel 5.10 is also very interesting, does anybody tried kernel from Freexian?
#3 Devuan » Debian LTS/Extended by Freexian and Devuan EOL - best practices » 2026-07-13 09:42:47
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I have a service that depends on Tomсat 9 and Java 8. I'm currently using Devuan 4 and Java from Temurin.
Debian 11 support ends in September, and Devuan 4 support will end soon as well.
My service is fairly stable and won't be updated. It's not exactly a legacy service, more like a "mature enterprise solution" 
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I'd like to connect the Freexian repository, but I'm worried about potential issues.
Are there any good practices for using Freexian? Perhaps a whitelist of packages (tzdata, dns-root-data, and other system packages), or a blacklist?
Basically, I'd like to receive updates for Java (which will come from Temurin), Apache 2 (hopefully via ELTS), and the system/OS in general. Apache Tomchat 9 obviously won't update automatically, and even if it does, it won't have the scripts for Sysvinit.
So, has anyone tried Devian + ELTS Freexian and what happened?
#4 Re: Devuan » Question about https://deb.devuan.org/ » 2026-03-04 06:30:21
Does this mean opening the first vhost on port 443 is normal behavior when opening https://deb.devuan.org?
In my opinion, the mirror is configured incorrectly.
I expect to see deb.devuan.org, a redirect to http://deb.devuan.org, or nothing when opening https://deb.devuan.org, but I see the first website I come across on the same hosting.
In my opinion, this isn't normal.
#5 Devuan » Question about https://deb.devuan.org/ » 2026-03-03 12:28:43
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wtf?
Admin of SledjHamr.org is not very cool in vhosts?
ip address is 152.53.121.155
#6 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] tomcat9 version in chimaera » 2025-09-08 07:43:51
https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/poli … 9&x=submit
May be it is siolved.... i need to check
#7 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] tomcat9 version in chimaera » 2025-09-04 17:50:04
Thank you. I tried to make a report and send a copy to maintainer.
Unfortunately, my major packages, for example tomcat and nodejs are broken, outdated and/or misconfigured in Devuan.
#8 Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] tomcat9 version in chimaera » 2025-09-04 09:58:23
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9.0.107 - https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/tomcat9 (bullseye - 9.0.43-2~deb11u10, bullseye security - 9.0.107-0+deb11u1)
9.0.43 - https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/pack … 3+devuan10
why? Is it in chimaera-security?
#9 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org » 2025-09-03 12:53:07
There is no devuan archive mirrors and current morror (hosting provider?) blocks some networks (not all) in my country. I have no access to mirror from Universiry network and have no problems in home network.
#10 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org » 2025-08-24 14:52:14
ralph.ronnquist
(I assume "freer" is a misspelling)
No, I copied one more additional symbol from next line
Does the "same thing" happen every time?
Unfortunatelly yes.
Now I am using this mirror http://mirror.mephi.ru/devuan/devuan/di … backports/ - it is actually ru.devuan.org and have no problems.
rolfie
not
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged backports
but
deb http://archive.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports main contrib non-free
#11 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org » 2025-08-24 07:59:43
user@host:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://archive.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports main contrib non-freerThere are no problems with adoptium java repo:
user@host:~# ls -l /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64 мая 29 14:57 adoptium.listThere was no any changes here:
user@host:~# ls -l /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 мая 29 14:34 00CDMountPoint
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40 мая 29 14:34 00trustcdrom
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 630 июн 21 2021 01autoremove
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 122 мая 29 14:36 01autoremove-kernels
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 307 мар 28 2021 20listchanges
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182 июн 10 2021 70debconf#12 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org » 2025-08-24 07:03:53
I tried something like
apt-get -o Acquire::CompressionTypes::Order::=bz2 update
but it does not work
#13 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org » 2025-08-24 06:58:28
Unfortunately yes.
This message was translated:
Reading package lists… Done
E: Failed to fetch http://archive.devuan.org/merged/dists/chimaera-backports/main/i18n/Translation-en Connection timed out finally [IP: 116.202.138.216 80]
E: Some index files could not be downloaded. They were ignored or older versions were used instead.
root@ojs:~#I can not update apt sources 
#14 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org » 2025-08-23 12:47:56
bullseye-backports was allways avaliable. There was no removal. bullseye-backports was avaliable in debian archive with no delay.
And now we have no http://archive.devuan.org/merged/dists/ … slation-en in devuan archive... problem is NOT SOLVED. chimaera-backports does not working now.
#15 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org » 2025-08-23 12:26:04
Sorry, you seem to have a silly idea how Devuan works
Ok... I seem to have a silly idea.... but - https://archive.devuan.org/merged/dists … backports/
#16 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org » 2025-07-28 11:42:55
Ok.... chimaera-backports just broken now... and daedalus-backports is EOL and in archive.debian.org
#17 Re: Other Issues » Sync of daedalus-backports <-> bookworm-backports? » 2025-07-28 11:41:08
Ok.... chimaera-backports just broken now...
#18 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org » 2025-07-25 16:03:10
not all distro, only backports - https://backports.debian.org/news/bulls … continued/
I saw a problems with updating repo today:
E: Репозиторий «http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports Release» не содержит файла Release.#19 Re: Other Issues » Sync of daedalus-backports <-> bookworm-backports? » 2025-07-25 07:13:26
what about chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org?
#20 Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org » 2025-07-25 07:11:27
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when?
#21 Other Issues » "pm2 startup" fails on Devuan » 2025-06-13 14:18:42
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pm2 startup actually supports "systemv" but only in redhat/centos6 way. It depends on chkconfig.
https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/issues/4180 - nobody will patch pm2 for Devuan byt may be we will make a working init script?
#22 Re: Other Issues » Tomcat problems in Devuan » 2025-04-30 14:33:19
I found here that there is no pam_limits.so in common-session-noninteractive and common-session by design. Apache 2 can be preconfiured via /etc/apache2/envvars and what about tomcat? All manuals are only about systemd.
Now i put ulimit -n 16384 directly in /etc/init.d/tomcat9 and it is working, but what is the right way?
#23 Re: Other Issues » Tomcat problems in Devuan » 2025-04-30 11:27:51
i made "nofile = 65535" for tomcat and "nofile = 16384" for root... after restarting tomcat, i see a changes - 1st tomcat process have nofile=16384 (cat /proc/1st_pid/limits) and ither processes has 8192.
nofile for root allows to change 1st tomcat process configuration, but not others. How to change nofile for tomcat, runned by init script?
In systemd i can make something like this:
[Service]
Type=forking
User=tomcat
Group=tomcat
LimitNOFILE = 65535Is it possible to make the same thing in /etc/defaults/tomcat?
#24 Re: Other Issues » Tomcat problems in Devuan » 2025-04-30 10:19:31
I also see no "pam_limits.so"
here:
/etc/pam.d/common-session-noninteractive
/etc/pam.d/common-session
#25 Re: Other Issues » Unable to set the value “nofile” in /etc/security/limits.conf » 2025-04-30 08:53:48
I asked same question about tomcat. I will try to post here what I see in same situation:
All settings seems to be good and in the right places:
root@host:~# cat /etc/sysctl.conf | grep file-max
fs.file-max = 65535
root@host:~# cat /etc/security/limits.d/nofile.conf
tomcat hard nofile 65535
tomcat soft nofile 65535Tomcat user shows right values:
root@host:~# sudo su -l tomcat -s /bin/bash
tomcat@host:~$ ulimit -n
65535
tomcat@host:~$ ulimit -Hn
65535
tomcat@host:~$ ulimit -Sn
65535Looking for tomcat pids:
root@host:~# lsof -t -i:8080
10832
10893
12255
12304
12339
12383
12578Checking limits, and found 8192 but not 65536:
root@host:~# cat /proc/12578/limits
Limit Soft Limit Hard Limit Units
Max cpu time unlimited unlimited seconds
Max file size unlimited unlimited bytes
Max data size unlimited unlimited bytes
Max stack size 8388608 unlimited bytes
Max core file size 0 unlimited bytes
Max resident set unlimited unlimited bytes
Max processes 192572 192572 processes
Max open files 8192 8192 files
Max locked memory 65536 65536 bytes
Max address space unlimited unlimited bytes
Max file locks unlimited unlimited locks
Max pending signals 192572 192572 signals
Max msgqueue size 819200 819200 bytes
Max nice priority 0 0
Max realtime priority 0 0
Max realtime timeout unlimited unlimited us
root@host:~# cat /proc/12383/limits
Limit Soft Limit Hard Limit Units
Max cpu time unlimited unlimited seconds
Max file size unlimited unlimited bytes
Max data size unlimited unlimited bytes
Max stack size 8388608 unlimited bytes
Max core file size 0 unlimited bytes
Max resident set unlimited unlimited bytes
Max processes 192572 192572 processes
Max open files 8192 8192 files
Max locked memory 65536 65536 bytes
Max address space unlimited unlimited bytes
Max file locks unlimited unlimited locks
Max pending signals 192572 192572 signals
Max msgqueue size 819200 819200 bytes
Max nice priority 0 0
Max realtime priority 0 0
Max realtime timeout unlimited unlimited usBoard footer
