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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Can't identify Linux distribution  **SOLVED**]]></title>
			<link>https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=5219#p5219</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>Awesome! Thanks, works perfectly.</p><p>Better safe than sorry on the Control Centre apps issue. I&#039;ve borked enough installations that I didn&#039;t feel like re-installing this one.</p><p>Noted &quot;SOLVED&quot;.</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (NFT5)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 23:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Can't identify Linux distribution  **SOLVED**]]></title>
			<link>https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=5216#p5216</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>Problem #1:&#160; It&#039;s os-prober that&#039;s the issue with grub calling Devuan &quot;unknown linux&quot;, easy fix:&#160; &#160;/usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro&#160; and replace/rewrite that file to include Devuan. The version I modded and use is in below codebox.</p><p>Problem #2 The control center app isn&#039;t updated properly for devuan, but it works perfectly in Devuan, just choose the &quot;Debian&quot; option at that first pop-up and it will work fine.</p><div class="codebox"><pre class="vscroll"><code>#!/bin/sh
# Test for linux distributions.
set -e

. /usr/share/os-prober/common.sh

partition=&quot;$1&quot;
dir=&quot;$2&quot;
type=&quot;$3&quot;

# This test is inaccurate, but given separate / and /boot partitions and the
# fact that only some architectures have ld-linux.so, I can&#039;t see anything
# better. Make sure this test has a high number so that more accurate tests
# can come first.
# Unless volumes to checked are already mounted, they will be mounted using
# GRUB&#039;s own filesystems through FUSE. Since these ATM doesn&#039;t support
# symlinks we need to also check in $dir/usr/lib* for distributions that
# moved /lib* to /usr and only left symlinks behind.
# TODO: look for ld-linux.so on arches that have it

# Modded by greenjeans to add Devuan and Vuu-do and strip old invalid entries. September-2017

if (ls &quot;$dir&quot;/lib*/ld*.so* || ls &quot;$dir&quot;/usr/lib*/ld*.so*) &gt;/dev/null 2&gt;/dev/null; then
	if [ -e &quot;$dir/etc/debian_version&quot; ]; then
		short=&quot;Debian&quot;
		long=&quot;$(printf &quot;Debian GNU/Linux (%s)\n&quot; &quot;$(cat &quot;$dir/etc/debian_version&quot;)&quot;)&quot;
	# RPM derived distributions may also have a redhat-release or
	# mandrake-release, so check their files first.

    elif [ -e &quot;$dir/etc/devuan_version&quot; ]; then
      short=&quot;Devuan&quot;
      long=&quot;$(printf &quot;Devuan GNU/Linux (%s)\n&quot; &quot;$(cat &quot;$dir/etc/devuan_version&quot;)&quot;)&quot;
    elif [ -e &quot;$dir/etc/vuudo_version&quot; ]; then
      short=&quot;Vuu-do&quot;
      long=&quot;$(printf &quot;Vuu-do GNU/Linux (%s)\n&quot; &quot;$(cat &quot;$dir/etc/vuudo_version&quot;)&quot;)&quot;
	elif [ -e &quot;$dir/etc/altlinux-release&quot; ]; then
		short=&quot;ALTLinux&quot;
		long=&quot;$(cat &quot;$dir/etc/altlinux-release&quot;)&quot;
	elif [ -e &quot;$dir/etc/magic-release&quot; ]; then
		short=&quot;Magic&quot;
		long=&quot;$(cat &quot;$dir/etc/magic-release&quot;)&quot;
	elif [ -e &quot;$dir/etc/blackPanther-release&quot; ]; then
		short=&quot;blackPanther&quot;
		long=&quot;$(cat &quot;$dir/etc/blackPanther-release&quot;)&quot;
	elif [ -e &quot;$dir/etc/ark-release&quot; ]; then
		short=&quot;Ark&quot;
		long=&quot;$(cat &quot;$dir/etc/ark-release&quot;)&quot;
	elif [ -e &quot;$dir/etc/arch-release&quot; ]; then
		short=&quot;Arch&quot;
		long=&quot;$(cat &quot;$dir/etc/arch-release&quot;)&quot;
	elif [ -e &quot;$dir/etc/vine-release&quot; ]; then
		short=&quot;Vine&quot;
		long=&quot;$(cat &quot;$dir/etc/vine-release&quot;)&quot;
	elif [ -e &quot;$dir/etc/pld-release&quot; ]; then
		short=&quot;PLD&quot;
		long=&quot;$(cat &quot;$dir/etc/pld-release&quot;)&quot;
	elif [ -e &quot;$dir/etc/fedora-release&quot; ]; then
		short=&quot;Fedora&quot;
		long=&quot;$(cat &quot;$dir/etc/fedora-release&quot;)&quot;
	elif [ -e &quot;$dir/etc/redhat-release&quot; ]; then
		short=&quot;RedHat&quot;
		long=&quot;$(cat &quot;$dir/etc/redhat-release&quot;)&quot;
	elif [ -e &quot;$dir/etc/SuSE-release&quot; ]; then
		short=&quot;SuSE&quot;
		long=&quot;$(head -n 1 &quot;$dir/etc/SuSE-release&quot;)&quot;
	elif [ -e &quot;$dir/etc/gentoo-release&quot; ]; then
		short=&quot;Gentoo&quot;
		long=&quot;$(cat &quot;$dir/etc/gentoo-release&quot;)&quot;
	elif [ -e &quot;$dir/etc/turbolinux-release&quot; ]; then
		short=&quot;Turbolinux&quot;
		long=&quot;$(cat &quot;$dir/etc/turbolinux-release&quot;)&quot;
	elif [ -e &quot;$dir/etc/pardus-release&quot; ]; then
		short=&quot;Pardus&quot;
		long=&quot;$(cat &quot;$dir/etc/pardus-release&quot;)&quot;
	elif [ -e &quot;$dir/etc/kanotix-version&quot; ]; then
		short=&quot;Kanotix&quot;
		long=&quot;$(cat &quot;$dir/etc/kanotix-version&quot;)&quot;
	elif [ -e &quot;$dir/etc/slackware-version&quot; ]; then
		short=&quot;Slackware&quot;
		long=&quot;$(printf &quot;Slackware Linux (%s)\n&quot; &quot;$(cat &quot;$dir/etc/slackware-version&quot;)&quot;)&quot;
	elif [ -e &quot;$dir/sbin/pkgtool&quot; ]; then
		short=&quot;Slackware&quot;
		long=&quot;Slackware Linux&quot;
	elif [ -e &quot;$dir/etc/frugalware-release&quot; ]; then
		short=&quot;Frugalware Linux&quot;
		long=&quot;$(cat &quot;$dir/etc/frugalware-release&quot;)&quot;
	elif [ -e &quot;$dir/etc/lfs-release&quot; ]; then
		short=&quot;LFS&quot;
		long=&quot;$(printf &quot;Linux From Scratch (%s)\n&quot; &quot;$(cat &quot;$dir/etc/lfs-release&quot;)&quot;)&quot;
	else
		short=&quot;Linux&quot;
		long=&quot;unknown Linux distribution&quot;
	fi
	
        label=&quot;$(count_next_label &quot;$short&quot;)&quot;
	result &quot;$partition:$long:$label:linux&quot;
	exit 0
else
	exit 1
fi</code></pre></div>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (greenjeans)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 19:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Can't identify Linux distribution  **SOLVED**]]></title>
			<link>https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=5214#p5214</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>When I access &quot;users and groups&quot;, Devuan is also not listed. I check Debian and it works just fine.</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (golinux)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Can't identify Linux distribution  **SOLVED**]]></title>
			<link>https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=5211#p5211</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>Thanks darry1966 and FOSSuser. </p><div class="codebox"><pre><code>chris@BOSSDESK:~$ uname -a
Linux BOSSDESK 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2+deb8u5 (2017-09-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux</code></pre></div><p>Both sysinfo and hardinfo recognise the kernel, but not Devuan as the distribution. At first I thought it was a MATE related thing, but now I don&#039;t think so.</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (NFT5)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 10:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=5211#p5211</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Can't identify Linux distribution  **SOLVED**]]></title>
			<link>https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=5209#p5209</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome aboard. <img src="https://dev1galaxy.org/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /></p><p>Try running</p><div class="codebox"><pre><code>uname -a</code></pre></div>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (FOSSuser)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=5209#p5209</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Can't identify Linux distribution  **SOLVED**]]></title>
			<link>https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=5208#p5208</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome:)</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (darry1966)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=5208#p5208</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Can't identify Linux distribution  **SOLVED**]]></title>
			<link>https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=5207#p5207</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>I&#039;m not really intentionally making a habit of popping up in Linux forums but here I am. Debian user since the end of XP and it has served me, and the 15 machines that I admin, well. But, for myself, I wanted more, or better, or something, so have done a clean Devuan install with MATE desktop.</p><p>No problems with the installation, except that I wasn&#039;t asked if I wanted to install GRUB and it took a little work to get that back in Debian&#039;s control, at least for the time being. Fixed the IO page fault issue and installed the usual software that I run. Nothing extraordinary here except for Virtualbox that I like to keep up to date, the Flash plug-in and Grub Customizer that I sourced from MX16. Other software is just some basic utilities, the rest of the MATE package that wasn&#039;t installed, Thunderbird, Dropbox and the like. MX16 repos are disabled in my sources.list.</p><p>First hint of a problem was GRUB not finding Devuan and then finding it as an &quot;unknown&quot; Linux. Running update-grub a couple of times seemed to fix that. Then Vbox chucked a wobbly which was easily enough fixed by installing kernel headers. Odd, I don&#039;t recall having to do that before.</p><p>Then I started Control Centre and a number of the apps refuse to start, citing &quot;The platform you are running is not supported by this tool&quot;. The popup box advising of the error does offer to modify itself if I choose one of a list of distributions. A little judicious Google-foo finds only one slightly related mention and a comment that most of the distros that I&#039;m offered to choose from are well outdated. I&#039;d agree with that. Further encouragement not to proceed without a little research comes in the rather dire warning that making the wrong choice might &quot;damage the system configuration or downright cripple your computer&quot;. </p><p>It would seem that there should be some file with identification information in it, but I really don&#039;t know where to look. A search here uncovered something which may be vaguely related, but appears not to have been resolved.</p><div class="codebox"><pre><code>chris@BOSSDESK:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Devuan
Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 1.0 (jessie)
Release:	1.0
Codename:	jessie
chris@BOSSDESK:~$ </code></pre></div><p>Apps in Control Centre that are afflicted include, but may not be limited to:</p><ul><li><p>Time and Date<br />Users and Groups<br />Services<br />Network</p></li></ul><p>Suggestions?</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (NFT5)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=5207#p5207</guid>
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