Where is the problem? Yes, Bookworm and Chimaera have been archived. The final update of Chimaera still is possible, you simply have to switch your sources.list to archive like this here:

# Changed to archive on Oct 23rd 2026, rh

deb http://archive.devuan.org/merged chimaera main contrib non-free
deb http://archive.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main contrib non-free
deb http://archive.devuan.org/merged chimaera-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://archive.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports main contrib non-free

Updating your installation against this sources will work fine.

How did you install Brave? Which instruction did you follow?

Please show us the output from

inxi -Fzxr

especially the repo part.

What for? When I switched to Devuan with ASCII I thought that one of the new inits is a good idea. Started off with OpenRC. But I haven't seen any advantages on my small home network, just a few additional error messsages. No use for services supervision ....
Since Daedalus I am back to sysvinit. No need for anything else. It just works as far as I cal tell.

Thanks for coming back. Upstream is not very responsive and helpful, are they?

No need to start VBox as root. Just double-click on the downloaded Extension Pack. You will be asked for the root-PW.

The rcvboxdrv is only required within Linux guest to (re-)generate the guest modules for the guest additions.

I never needed anything like your script to have access to USB devices from the host and to pass them through to the guest (I use VBox since Squeeze). But: I am not using this run-version, I insist on using the deb. That works fine for me.

No problem any more. I am currently running VBox 7.2.12 on Excalibur with kernel 6.12.x on an ASUS Prime X570 with AMD Ryzen9 and AMD graphics. There is no problem with this KVM stuff. That started to be a problem when using backported kernels between I think 6.13 and 6.17. Backports is on 7.1.x now, its fixed there.

It might well be easier to backup all relevant data and to re-install the system. I assume no Timeshift snapshots are available?

It very much depends on when you start with testing and how close they are to the release.

Wrong, Debian is the originator of most hickups. Read their bug reports. It happens very often that packages are dropped from testing due to whatever reason, and bug fixes first of all can be found in sid before they are released to testing.

BTW: you can easily tell if the package is modified or original Debian. Examples from my Excalibur:
linux-image-6.12.111+deb13-amd64 (6.12.111-1) => Debian package
xserver-xorg-legacy (2:21.1.16-1.3+deb13u3devuan1 => 2:21.1.16-1.3+deb13u4devuan1) => package modifed by Devuan

Banned packages see list of banned packages. There are also generic packages.

Created a test file in my documents folder which is basically static data.

~$ LC_ALL=C gio trash /home/rolf/Dokumente/Test.txt
gio: file:///home/rolf/Dokumente/Test.txt: Unable to find or create trash directory /mnt/HomeDaten/.Trash-1000 to trash /home/rolf/Dokumente/Test.txt

A .Trash-1000 did not exist, copying the one from my dynamic home did not help.

On my manually pulled up Excalibur with Cinnmon DE packagekit isn't installed (--no-install-recommends used).

Use the installer-iso path to get to the options with the traditional installer. I typically use the netinstaller.

Thanks, that did work.

Well, I would say 013 is more than 04.