Dev1 Galaxy Forum / Hardware & System Configuration

[SOLVED] syslog not being rotated

dummy@example.com (chris2be8) — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:09:05 +0000

Check if /run/systemd/system exists on your system. That would cause the test to fail.

Managing language support in a console only installation.

dummy@example.com (Lujoomen) — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:25:22 +0000

Okay, not X11 problem... and console is missing greek symbols.

Have you tried to switch to different font?
Found few that have the symbols in them.

1. setfont latarcyrheb-sun16 or setfont eurlatgr
2. loadkeys gr

Machine freezes if I run a kernel greater than 6.1

dummy@example.com (kapqa) — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:17:33 +0000

have probaly a similar workstation z210'?
however it has updated to bios 2017/18

had some issue with devuan 6 myself also installing it, and that could however be due to own poor aptitude or poor execution,
but for the moment with devuan 5.0 it seem functionine

not sure if it helped the task of updating bios since it also had a lower bios from maybe around 2012-
but i thought since running newer linux it could help with the task therefore i updated it.

[SOLVED] Time do not show correctly on Devuan Excalibur

dummy@example.com (devirx) — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:26:16 +0000

Installation of tzdata-legacy didn't solved the problem but i figured it out.

Installed hwclock with

sudo apt install util-linux-extra

Set date manually with

sudo hwclock --set --date="YY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS"

Then synced system time with hwclock with

sudo hwclock -s

New KVM switch, video not as crisp; a way to restore some sharpness?

dummy@example.com (Ron) — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:00:33 +0000

I'm returning it. It's a piece of crap. My old StarTech is much better (but for only 2 computers).

[SOLVED] gparted will not start

dummy@example.com (Altoid) — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:04:11 +0000

Hello:

steve_v wrote:

... pcmanfm package recommends lxpolkit or polkit-1-auth-agent ...
... it's possible you (auto)removed it.

Indeed ... 8^°

That was it.
lxpolkit was not present so I installed it and set it up as required in Applications -> Settings -> Session and startup.
Now everything works as it should, disks and gparted wise.

Thanks for your input (both you and all those who pitched in).
Much obliged.

Best,

linear arrays

dummy@example.com (lynch9) — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:48:22 +0000

My point was about operational overlap, not architectural equivalence.

In the specific case of linear aggregation, LVM is often used in practice instead of MD linear because it achieves the same end result (concatenation) while offering additional flexibility

“most admins” was shorthand for a general trend, not a statistical claim lol sorry about the imprecision

amprolla package

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:58:12 +0000

Talk to aitor. He uses amprolla for the distro formerly known as gnuinos.

Also see the devuan maintainer's guide.
https://git.devuan.org/devuan/documenta … ngGuide.md

[SOLVED] Removing/purging Network Manager

dummy@example.com (brocashelm) — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:47:20 +0000

It's kind of a necessary evil in my case. I don't like that it's tied to Red Hat and whatnot, but Connman is unpredictable and harder to set up OpenVPN on, and Wicd is still being rewritten.

Instead, I got a good deal on having a dummy replacement for Elogind (although the libraries are still present), with ConsoleKit2 and Seatd doing the actual seat management. This exact method also worked for me in Salix (a Slackware derivative), but on the condition that Elogind as a package remained installed for compatibility reasons only (i.e. it doesn't run at all, but it could if I enabled it). No issues there, either.

Hardware Config advice for 4K screen laptop with NVIDIA

dummy@example.com (SS) — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:55:38 +0000

Hi, thank you for the advice. I haven't started the project yet. I will be looking to start in the next week or so. Will update.

Cannot install Tomcat10 - depends on systemd

dummy@example.com (tyder) — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:22:13 +0000

I try to avoid running Tomcat natively even if I can.
For me, it is much better to use a Docker image with Tomcat, eventually modify it, and then run the applications there. Tomcat running natively is subject to all sorts of interferences, version conflicts etc, in principle the runtime behavior may be affected by even small system modifications. And, at least over some years of use, problems are likely to occur. As long as you can build the packages to run (in a pinch, you can setup a Java container for that), there is very little fuzz running Tomcat that way.
It is also a safe way to work if you, like me, build packages to be deployed at production servers running Docker. (Or Podman, or...)

Accidental Success: Revived 2008 Toshiba with Devuan 6 & AI (Non-Tech)

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:01:02 +0000

tyder wrote:

I don't really trust any of the equipment I use. It's essential for me nonetheless.

And we stupidly and willingly followed the breadcrumbs because we were so entranced by all the toys . . .

Using apt to find the package I want...

dummy@example.com (EDX-0) — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 05:19:47 +0000

so it took ages but for @chris2be8 i finally took the time to re-organize my devuan scripts repo and added the screenshots for apt-ui

https://github.com/eylles/devuan-script … cripts/apt

if ya can't see github the devuan scripts has the following mirrors:
https://codeberg.org/eylles/devuan-scripts
https://gitlab.com/eylles/devuan-scripts
https://git.devuan.org/eylles/devuan-scripts

[SOLVED] ext4 write slow on small 120gb sata SSD

dummy@example.com (steve_v) — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 03:40:51 +0000

kapqa wrote:

maybe bit "solved" too-early,
it seem the two SSD same/brand/ same denomination/size SA400S3 behave differently;
the earlier tested still show very slow performance with ext4 and "normal" speeds with ntfs.
the other SA400S3 show good write/speed with both ext4 AND ntfs -- on same computer, with same cables, on ssame sata sloet (sata3 speed capable).
so am wondering if the SSD is not somewat bit-defective or some other mystery involved.

The other elephant in the room is firmware behaviour.
Consumer SSDs have a minimum erase-block size and can suffer from free-space fragmentation issues. They usually don't have uniform write performance in general, relying on cache/host memory and a dedicated "fast" area to buffer writes until they can do a more efficient block allocation.

The upshot of all that is that SSDs do quite a lot of sneaky things in the background to appear faster than the flash memory actually is, they need regular "trimming" to release blocks and power-on-idle downtime so the firmware can do garbage collection, wear-leveling, and free-space defragmentation.
If any of that goes sideways (IME usually due to firmware bugs), performance will fall off a proverbial cliff.
Check both drives are running the same firmware revision (and update if any are available), check the wear-leveling counters in SMART, and try a full zero-fill wipe followed by a trim on the problematic drive.

onedevone wrote:

Its a magnitute faster on nand-flash

Benchmarks or GTFO.

onedevone wrote:

spinning drives are ancient history

How strange they're still being manufactured in volume, and the technology (e.g. HAMR) is still under active development.

onedevone wrote:

I was forced to use ext4

You were forced to think for yourself. Devuan can run any root filesystem supported by the kernel (as can most distros), the limitation is only in the installer. As for /home... That's utterly trivial to set up after install, with any filesystem you like.

Fail With DOT

dummy@example.com (steve_v) — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:45:11 +0000

ralph.ronnquist wrote:

what is PFS

man wget wrote:

--secure-protocol=protocol
Choose the secure protocol to be used. Legal values are auto,
SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1, TLSv1_1, TLSv1_2, TLSv1_3 and PFS. If
auto is used, the SSL library is given the liberty of choosing
the appropriate protocol automatically, which is achieved by
sending a TLSv1 greeting. This is the default.
Specifying SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1, TLSv1_1, TLSv1_2 or TLSv1_3
forces the use of the corresponding protocol. This is useful
when talking to old and buggy SSL server implementations that
make it hard for the underlying SSL library to choose the
correct protocol version. Fortunately, such servers are quite
rare.
Specifying PFS enforces the use of the so-called Perfect
Forward Security cipher suites. In short, PFS adds security by
creating a one-time key for each SSL connection. It has a bit
more CPU impact on client and server. We use known to be
secure ciphers (e.g. no MD4) and the TLS protocol. This mode
also explicitly excludes non-PFS key exchange methods, such as
RSA.

i.e. more paranoia BS, from someone with likely little idea what it actually does or what attacks it might defend against, since they apparently need "step by step" instructions to write a trivial init script.

Next will be out-of-repo "privacy" browsers, VPNs, and whatever go-fast shiny-new-shit is popular on Arch/Artix right now.

onedevone wrote:

Toxic answeres.

"Toxic" OP, complete with entitlement, shouting, and misguided assertions that your personal preference regarding DNS should be a distro-wide default.

onedevone wrote:

DOT is not something to be laughed at

I'm not laughing at DoT, I'm laughing at people who consider it not being enabled by default and integrated into some random GUI a "complete showstopper".
Devuan, like Debian, comes with a standard DNS configuration by default. If you want something else, it's on you to read the documentation and set it up.
Likewise init systems - sysv is the default and best supported. If you want something else, all the parts are available but you get to assemble them.