Southern Tenant Farmers Union?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_ … mers_Union

Probably not.  I'll post it here, you dont have to hide behind your cute little acronym.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=stfu

I have had this issue on several installs, but with eth0.  This has been discussed here:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=1688

CREDIT: ralph.ronnquist

The fix seems to be to not have /etc/network/interfaces do anything, except for lo, the file contents should be:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

This will get rid of the boot delay and allow you network manager (wicd, network-manager, whatever) to control the network connection.  If you do not use a network manager, then you probably just need to do an ifconfig wlan0 up prior to your other manual connection commands.

My problem with this was with ethernet, hopefully the resolution for your wireless is the same, as posted.

The MTA delay probably has to do with exim4 now being installed by default.  You may want a mail transport agent, I personally find it not needed on my system.  You can purge exim4 and all associates if you do not want the mail transport, this will get rid of that delay.

Here is my actual fstab, from an UEFI install of Devuan ASCII, then upgraded to Beowulf. 

I did make 1 manual change- I removed the UUID from the /dev/sda2 swap partition.  I do this because I have another partition that I install to and the swap always gets formatted and thus its UUID changes.  Removed it from fstab so I dont have to keep manually changing it.

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=a0dc904d-8dfd-4d5c-8800-584836cc979c /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=8796-D391  /boot/efi       vfat    umask=0077      0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda2 during installation
/dev/sda2 none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/sr0        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0

I think the --installed option shows only whats actually installed-

apt --installed rdepends gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio
gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio
Reverse Depends:
 |Recommends: handbrake

And to clarify on /etc/network/interfaces.  Once NM is installed, it is my understanding that it will handle all eth0 and wlan0 network interface.  I had the delays as you experienced on my installs and modifying the interfaces file fixed it once NM was installed.

/etc/network/interfaces should be this:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

The "main" Network Manager package name is network-manager (apt install network-manager).  This will provide a panel app, or interface for one, that works in XFCE, LXQT, and KDE.  Dont remember but XFCE might like network-manager-gnome better.  The panel apps are full featured, like what Windows provides.  Handles ethernet and wifi of course.

As @panopticon mentions, there is the nice nmtui console interface.  There is also the nmcli commandline interface.

The config connections for NM are in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/.  But the panel apps provide full config in themselves.

Agree.  I have tried out KDE for years, since 3 and always the same; buggy and too many config options.  But the current release in Beowulf (5.14) I find it to be very stable, config has gotten to an understandable level, and its actually not horribly bad on resources. 

I have a minimal KDE install and disabled all compositor and effects.  Upon boot into KDE with SDDM display manager; a reasonable memory usage for KDE:

dxrobertson@acer:~$ free -h
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:          3.7Gi       292Mi       3.1Gi        29Mi       333Mi       3.2Gi
Swap:         3.9Gi          0B       3.9Gi
dxrobertson@acer:~$ 

I think the root cause of this is the use of libinput, as opposed to synaptics.  Here is some info from Ubuntu:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1031940 … untu-18-04

Sounds like you already installed xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, as they suggest.  I think you have to adjust the touchpad via synaptics/xorg conf files, as I dont believe LXQT Keyboard and Mouse provide a gui for touchpad.

See this thread, fsmithred post-
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2676

grub-efi-amd64-signed package is a problem.

You 1st need to find out what partition /boot/grub is on (root partition).  Then you can manually boot from the grub prompt.  Something like this for my system, my root partition is sda3 (gpt3).  If you have a simple install, its probably sda2 (gpt2).

find root partition
grub> ls(hd0,gpt2)/
grub> ls(hd0,gpt3)/
.
.
.
manually boot grub:
grub> set prefix=(hd0,gpt3)/boot/grub
grub> set root=(hd0,gpt3)
grub> insmod normal
grub> normal

If you are able to boot into your system, then do this as per fsmithred:

apt purge grub-efi-amd64-signed
grub-install
update-grub

Then reboot and all should be well.

I poked around at https://www.biglybt.com/download/ and at the bottom it mentions:

Our Windows, Linux, and Mac installers use Install4j, multi-platform installer builder 

I believe the BiglyBT_Installer.sh installer needs the Install4j installer installed before it can install.  Enough installs?  Thus disregard my comment above about setting jINSTALL4J_JAVA_HOME to JAVA_HOME.  It needs to point to Install4j, which you will have to 1st install.

Going through SD stuff myself for 1st time.  I am using an SDHC (the tiny thing) with an SD adapter.

I am not having any problems with HC itself, if that helps.  My hardware is a newer laptop as well as an old Windows 7 era asus netbook.  No problem with SDHC on either.  Log files dont reveal much, kern.log entry after insertion:

Jun 18 19:53:43 acer kernel: [ 2056.801914] mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address 1234
Jun 18 19:53:43 acer kernel: [ 2056.829643] mmcblk0: mmc0:1234 SA04G 3.64 GiB 
Jun 18 19:53:43 acer kernel: [ 2056.831028]  mmcblk0: p1

fdisk:

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 3.7 GiB, 3904897024 bytes, 7626752 sectors                                                                                                                                                                   
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes                                                                                                                                                                                           
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes                                                                                                                                                                           
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes                                                                                                                                                                               
Disklabel type: dos                                                                                                                                                                                                             
Disk identifier: 0x00000000                                                                                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Device         Boot Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type                                                                                                                                                                         
/dev/mmcblk0p1 *     2048 7626751 7624704  3.7G  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)  

Sorry can help with actual problem, just wanted to report SDHC works here.  Devuan Beowulf.