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dummy@example.com (bai4Iej2need) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 11:42:01 +0000

@coder-hase Thanks for your contribution

I'm working on a Raspberry Pi project where I have the strong use case to dump systemd

I have the same use case with Raspberry Pi 4 for my home automatisation. But it does not need a GUI. A CLI is enough and a webserver.

leave the shiny modern desktops behind.

What are these ? I am on MATE, since the MATE fork and/or my change to debian.

There may be other options as well.

1. is a reasonable approach IMHO
I miss
4. design a distribution with draining source code packages from all over the place , dpkg them and the help of amprolla.

Restarting sddm makes regular user part of the root group

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 21:41:41 +0000

Well for a while I used xdm myself, of nostalgia perhaps, but on this last machine I've got lightdm with lxqt-session and then xfwm4 as window manager. My setup includes much of LxQt though I've swapped in xfce4-terminal which had more configurability in looks and behaviour (getting reduced it seems).

lightdm probably works for you, otherwise xdm is a simple and good "greeter". It's a function where "less is more".

[SOLVED] Excalibur and fail2ban

dummy@example.com (joril) — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:53:45 +0000

For the record, there is this open bug on the Debian tracker: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … ug=1121919

Proxmox on Devuan

dummy@example.com (saki) — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:31:02 +0000

Proxmox on Devuan is possible. POC can be found at https://github.com/psakar/proxmox-devuan
I'm running it on my homelab,
Beware - it was built with help of Claude. No ZFS or Ceph ATM

How can I create my own Linux distribution based on Devuan

dummy@example.com (greenjeans) — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:13:57 +0000

Can refractasnapshot be used in conjunction with the Calamares installer?

Certainly! Some folks have already done so I believe including Fsmithred. Snapshot and Installer are two different apps, neither one depending on the other.

Devuan Excalibur KDE Plasma fresh install - Discover AWOL.

dummy@example.com (KindlyDoRight) — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:22:13 +0000

KDE Plasma Discover, packages fix

The solution (provided by rbit) is "shown running" here:
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=65844#p65844

And rbit's perfectly working shell script is here:
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=63245#p63245

(I've tested that it works perfectly with Devuan 6 excalibur,
and it is coded to also work with Devuan 7 freia,
and Devuan 5 and 4, daedalus and chimaera).

KDE Plasma freezes and becomes unresponsive sometimes

dummy@example.com (KindlyDoRight) — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:11:27 +0000

blackhole, thank you for the proper troubleshooting technique, and for the insightful explanation. Nice!

Due to the likely GPU-Compositor interaction, I'm thinking that... (temporarily)
turning off the Plasma Compositor could improve some desktop stability,
while attempting to apply a remedy (GPU driver update, configuration fix, etc.)

For Devuan excalibur:
System Settings > Input & Output > Display & Monitor > Compositor
Compositing: [ ] Enable on startup (unmark this setting)

(Other thoughts and insights are welcome. Long-term desktop stability is important)

Oh, <sheepishly> I happen to be one of those folks who benefits tremendously from having an LTS kernel.

[SOLVED] error report - kernel excalibur-backports

dummy@example.com (kapqa) — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:11:08 +0000

thanks, it fucntioned after applieing

sudo apt modernize-sources
The following files need modernizing:
  - /etc/apt/sources.list
  - /etc/apt/sources.list.d/boinc.list

Modernizing will replace .list files with the new .sources format,
add Signed-By values where they can be determined automatically,
and save the old files into .list.bak files.

This command supports the 'signed-by' and 'trusted' options. If you
have specified other options inside [] brackets, please transfer them
manually to the output files; see sources.list(5) for a mapping.

For a simulation, respond N in the following prompt.
Rewrite 2 sources? [Y/n] 
Modernizing /etc/apt/sources.list...
- Writing /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan.sources
- Writing /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan-backports.sources
Warning: Could not determine Signed-By for URIs: http://deb.devuan.org/merged/, Suites: excalibur-backports

sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-backports InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-security InRelease
Hit:4 http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates InRelease
Hit:5 https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/linux/alpha/trixie trixie InRelease
All packages are up to date.                         
Notice: Missing Signed-By in the sources.list(5) entry for 'http://deb.devuan.org/merged'

sudo apt -t excalibur-backports install linux-image-amd64
Upgrading:                      
  linux-base  linux-headers-amd64  linux-image-amd64  linux-libc-dev  linux-sysctl-defaults

Installing dependencies:
  cpp-14-for-host               linux-binary-7.2.6+deb13-amd64    linux-kbuild-7.2.6+deb13
  gcc-14-for-host               linux-headers-7.2.6+deb13-amd64   linux-modules-7.2.6+deb13-amd64
  linux-base-7.2.6+deb13-amd64  linux-headers-7.2.6+deb13-common
  linux-base-amd64              linux-image-7.2.6+deb13-amd64

Suggested packages:
  debian-kernel-handbook  firmware-linux-free  linux-doc-7.2

Summary:
  Upgrading: 5, Installing: 10, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 129
  Download size: 191 MB
  Space needed: 290 MB / 739 GB available

Featured in Discover (KDE Plasma) not working

dummy@example.com (KindlyDoRight) — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:16:42 +0000

Updated: Found this post (by rbit on dev1galaxy, 2026-04-16)

rbit: "I wrote a script to fix plasma-discover problem."
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=63245#p63245

(I removed my original post, an incomplete solution - [KindlyDoRight])

rbit has coded the correct solution.
(Absolutely perfect results for Devuan excalibur!)
(T h a n k y o u , r b i t !)

First, examine current Appstream status

appstreamcli status

Applying rbit's Fix

I copied rbit's shell script into "FixPlasmaDiscover.sh" file.

# (copy and paste rbit's shell code into FixPlasmaDiscover.sh, save, and close)
kate ~/Downloads/FixPlasmaDiscover.sh &

# set execute permission, then run it.
chmod +x ~/Downloads/FixPlasmaDiscover.sh
sudo ~/Downloads/FixPlasmaDiscover.sh

Output

Downloading: component: excalibur-main...
Downloading: component: excalibur-contrib...
Downloading: component: excalibur-non-free...
Downloading: component: excalibur-non-free-firmware...
Downloading: component: excalibur-updates-main...
Downloading: component: excalibur-updates-contrib...
Downloading: component: excalibur-updates-non-free...
Downloading: component: excalibur-updates-non-free-firmware...
Downloading: component: excalibur-backports-main...
Downloading: component: excalibur-backports-contrib...
Downloading: component: excalibur-backports-non-free...
Downloading: component: excalibur-backports-non-free-firmware...
Patching component: excalibur-main_amd64 ...
Downloading 48x48 icons for excalibur-main...
Downloading 64x64 icons for excalibur-main...
Downloading 128x128 icons for excalibur-main...
Downloading 48x48 icons for excalibur-contrib...
Downloading 64x64 icons for excalibur-contrib...
Downloading 128x128 icons for excalibur-contrib...
Downloading 48x48 icons for excalibur-non-free...
Downloading 64x64 icons for excalibur-non-free...
Downloading 128x128 icons for excalibur-non-free...
Downloading 48x48 icons for excalibur-non-free-firmware...
Downloading 64x64 icons for excalibur-non-free-firmware...
Downloading 128x128 icons for excalibur-non-free-firmware...
Downloading 48x48 icons for excalibur-updates-main...
Downloading 64x64 icons for excalibur-updates-main...
Downloading 128x128 icons for excalibur-updates-main...
Downloading 48x48 icons for excalibur-updates-contrib...
Downloading 64x64 icons for excalibur-updates-contrib...
Downloading 128x128 icons for excalibur-updates-contrib...
Downloading 48x48 icons for excalibur-updates-non-free...
Downloading 64x64 icons for excalibur-updates-non-free...
Downloading 128x128 icons for excalibur-updates-non-free...
Downloading 48x48 icons for excalibur-updates-non-free-firmware...
Downloading 64x64 icons for excalibur-updates-non-free-firmware...
Downloading 128x128 icons for excalibur-updates-non-free-firmware...
Downloading 48x48 icons for excalibur-backports-main...
Downloading 64x64 icons for excalibur-backports-main...
Downloading 128x128 icons for excalibur-backports-main...
Downloading 48x48 icons for excalibur-backports-contrib...
Downloading 64x64 icons for excalibur-backports-contrib...
Downloading 128x128 icons for excalibur-backports-contrib...
Downloading 48x48 icons for excalibur-backports-non-free...
Downloading 64x64 icons for excalibur-backports-non-free...
Downloading 128x128 icons for excalibur-backports-non-free...
Downloading 48x48 icons for excalibur-backports-non-free-firmware...
Downloading 64x64 icons for excalibur-backports-non-free-firmware...
Downloading 128x128 icons for excalibur-backports-non-free-firmware...

Review the updated Appstream status

appstreamcli status

benchmark anomalies > hpl (linpack)

dummy@example.com (kapqa) — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 08:52:30 +0000

have updated the benchmark result for devuan 6,

the devuan box is upping the bar over the previous kubuntu result.

 OPERATING SYSTEM:       Devuan 6
    Kernel:               6.12.111+deb13-amd64 (x86_64)                                                                                                            
    Desktop:              KDE Plasma 6.3.6                                                                                                                         
    Display Server:       X Server 1.21.1.16                                                                                                                       
    Compiler:             GCC 14.2.0

Current Description: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core testing with a ASUS PRIME X670-P (3881 BIOS) and Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 7600 8GB on Devuan 6 via the Phoronix Test Suite.

New Description: 

HPL Linpack 2.3:
    pts/hpl-1.0.0
    Test 1 of 1
    Test Profile Status:          Experimental           
    Estimated Trial Run Count:    3                              
    Estimated Time To Completion: 1 Hour, 14 Minutes [09:38 UTC] 
        Started Run 1 @ 08:24:56
        Started Run 2 @ 08:26:50
        Started Run 3 @ 08:28:45

    Test Results:
        833.55
        830.88
        829.02

    Average: 831.15 GFLOPS
    Deviation: 0.27%

    Comparison of 393 OpenBenchmarking.org samples since 6 March 2021; median result: 84.49 GFLOPS. Box plot of samples:
    [#*!#*##*---------------------*---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|                                   ]
                                  ^ This Result (94th Percentile): 831
            ^ Intel Core i7-10750H: 213
      ^ AMD Ryzen 3 3200G: 60
         ^ Intel Xeon E-2288G: 135

yt-dlp in Debian 13 / Devuan 6 affected by serious CVE (Score: High)

dummy@example.com (blackhole) — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:04:45 +0000

Yes it's very true that there is actually little point in packaging these types of scripts, which can simply be downloaded from the project's own page.

It's the nature of Debian however that anything and everything may be packaged while someone is willing to package it and then maintain it.

It is also the nature of Debian that, with very few exceptions, no new versions of "upstream" software are introduced after the "freeze". Note: I'm not defending this model, just explaining the basics of how it works.

Around 15 - 20 years ago, this manifested itself most publicly, in the multitudes of "I want the latest firefox" rant threads. This was where users who were running Debian stable, e.g. 1.5 years into a release, were still at easily a 2 year old firefox release (rebranded to "iceweasel" due to licence and trademark issues).

The obvious answer was to just go to mozilla and download it, but many still complained and felt entitled to the latest version. Unlike the example in this thread, Iceweasel did receive backported security patches, but functionality wise could be 2+ years behind.

This situation is similar - few will be happy with the packaged version, so it is indeed pointless.

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0' cannot be preloaded

dummy@example.com (kapqa) — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:31:57 +0000

hello ,

on this laptop using devuan freia or maybe unstable

with kde plasma x11.

normally receive fairly daily upgrades , however tody chose to upgrade via "discover" which alwasys remind up impending update/upgrades but then does not finish seem to finish them mostly due to errors. there were lots of packages propeosed , maybe 600+.

since then have now this error here like

source ~/.bashrc 
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

locate libgtk3-nocsd.so.0
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0

but when i look inside this folder "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu" it seems the file object

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0

is not present?

sorry if i made anerror.

Hardware Config advice for 4K screen laptop with NVIDIA

dummy@example.com (SS) — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:53:17 +0000

I solved the above by entering the QT Scale command in the /usr/local/vpn.ac/bin/run script directly as that script had a pkexec command so nothing else I tried worked. If I shouldn't have added the QT scaling command there please let me know

[SOLVED] udisksctl Error “GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Error.NotMounted”

dummy@example.com (luvr) — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:16:24 +0000

Sorry for the delay, but I’ve been going through some health issues lately.

Anyhow, i have just installed a Debian 13 (trixie) system, to test the ‘apfs-dkms’ package and to try and reproduce the problem under Debian proper.

Result: Under Debian 13, mounting and unmounting an APFS partition on a disk dump file using the ‘udisksctl’ utility works fine; I presume, then, that under Devuan 6 (excalibur), it will also work (since that is based on Debian 13). I therefore consider the problem solved.

P.S.: I don't really like Debian 13 (trixie), since it won’t let me remove GRUB without installing ‘systemd-boot’. Who came up with that idea? I want neither GRUB, nor systemd-boot, since I don’t want Debian (or any other system, for that matter) to mess with my EFI System Partition; I'm prepared to clean up the ESP right after a system (e.g., Devuan) insists on setting up GRUB upon initial install, but after that, it should leave my ESP alone; ‘systemd-boot’ in particular is pretty aggressive in that regard, in that it wipes away my /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI (as provided by Limine) and replaces it with its own version. YUCK!

I’ll simply dump Debian and replace it with Devuan 6; I already installed it once on an Apple MacBook Air, and it appears to be well-behaved.

UPDATE: I have just tested the ‘udisksctl’ utility to mount and unmount an APFS partition under Devuan 6 (excalibur) and, as expected, it works fine. Problem definitely solved!

UPDATE—QUICK (admittedly, off-topic) NOTE: Even though, by default, Debian 13 (trixie) wouldn’t let me remove GRUB without installing ‘systemd-boot’, I eventually succeeded in avoiding having either boot loader on the system. All I had to do, was to purge the ‘shim-signed’ package first:

# apt purge shim-signed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  mokutil  shim-helpers-amd64-signed  shim-signed-common  shim-unsigned
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.

REMOVING:
  shim-signed*

Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 1, Not Upgrading: 0
  Freed space: 1,068 kB

Continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 110520 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing shim-signed:amd64 (1.51~1+deb13u1+16.1-2~deb13u1) ...
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
No DKMS packages installed: not changing Secure Boot validation state.
(Reading database ... 110516 files and directories currently installed.)
Purging configuration files for shim-signed:amd64 (1.51~1+deb13u1+16.1-2~deb13u1) ...
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
No DKMS packages installed: not changing Secure Boot validation state.

(I have no use for ‘shim-signed’, since I have “Secure” Restricted Boot disabled.)

I then also ran the auto-removal step that the output of the above command suggested:

# apt --purge autoremove
REMOVING:
  mokutil*  shim-helpers-amd64-signed*  shim-signed-common*  shim-unsigned*

Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 4, Not Upgrading: 0
  Freed space: 3,190 kB

Continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 110516 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing shim-signed-common (1.51~1+deb13u1+16.1-2~deb13u1) ...
Removing mokutil (0.7.2-1) ...
Removing shim-helpers-amd64-signed (1+16.1+2~deb13u1) ...
Removing shim-unsigned:amd64 (16.1-2~deb13u1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.13.1-1) ...
(Reading database ... 110490 files and directories currently installed.)
Purging configuration files for shim-signed-common (1.51~1+deb13u1+16.1-2~deb13u1) ...
Purging configuration files for shim-helpers-amd64-signed (1+16.1+2~deb13u1) ...

I could subsequently remove GRUB:

# apt purge --allow-remove-essential 'grub*'
.
.
.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  efibootmgr  libefiboot1t64  libefivar1t64
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.

REMOVING:
  grub-common*  grub-efi-amd64*  grub-efi-amd64-bin*  grub-efi-amd64-signed*  grub-efi-amd64-unsigned*  grub2-common*  os-prober*

WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
  grub-efi-amd64-signed  grub-common (due to grub-efi-amd64-signed)

Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 7, Not Upgrading: 0
  Freed space: 42.6 MB

Continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 110490 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing os-prober (1.83) ...
dpkg: warning: while removing os-prober, directory '/var/lib/os-prober' not empty so not removed
Removing grub-efi-amd64 (2.12-9+deb13u2) ...
Removing grub2-common (2.12-9+deb13u2) ...
Removing grub-efi-amd64-bin (2.12-9+deb13u2) ...
dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
dpkg: warning: this is a protected package; it should not be removed
Removing grub-efi-amd64-signed (1+2.12+9+deb13u2) ...
Removing grub-efi-amd64-unsigned (2.12-9+deb13u2) ...
Removing grub-common (2.12-9+deb13u2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.13.1-1) ...
(Reading database ... 109977 files and directories currently installed.)
Purging configuration files for grub2-common (2.12-9+deb13u2) ...
Purging configuration files for grub-common (2.12-9+deb13u2) ...
dpkg: warning: while removing grub-common, directory '/var/lib/grub/ucf' not empty so not removed
Purging configuration files for grub-efi-amd64 (2.12-9+deb13u2) ...
Purging configuration files for grub-efi-amd64-bin (2.12-9+deb13u2) ...

Afterwards, I did a bit of cleanup:

Reviewed the warnings, i.e., checked and deleted directories ‘/var/lib/os-prober’ and ‘/var/lib/grub/ucf’ (after which ‘/var/lib/grub’ could also be deleted);
Marked ‘efibootmgr’ as manually installed—after which no packages remained to be auto-removed;
Ran ‘efibootmgr’ to clean up the EFI Boot Menu;
Cleaned up the ESP (“EFI System Partition”), i.e., deleted its ‘debian’ subdirectory;
Cleaned up the ‘/boot’ directory, i.e., deleted its ‘grub’ subdirectory.

Done!

Xsane bad scan image quality

dummy@example.com (Andre4freedom) — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:12:50 +0000

simple scan = Document Scanner
as it is called in the DE (Cinnamon)
(mentioned in post #2)