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#1 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Thunar freezes after NAS is shut down » 2024-10-21 20:59:33

Try a netdev in the fstab options?

Are you sure nofail and nolock are a good choice?

#3 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Detached signature file is in unsupported binary format » 2024-10-07 10:06:07

Repeat the apt update?

Just done an update on my Daedalus workstation, worked fine.

#4 Re: Devuan » Why has no one enhanced sysvinit? » 2024-10-03 17:21:27

@stopAI: Don't expect any further insight, I am a simple user running a small home network with some PCs here.

I am with Devuan since ASCII was Testing and I discovered that ASCII supported my method of encryption/automatic decryption during bootup I used to use with my Debian installations before systemd. For some reason I started with openRC.

My experience that openRC did not care for non-critical but irritating error messages, understanding that openRC is more or less just an add-on to sysvinit, reading some of the forum entries and comments from fsmithred and ralphronnquist pointing to sysvinit as the primary init system made me try this on all my installations I have done from last year onward, and I miss nothing.

#5 Re: Devuan » Why has no one enhanced sysvinit? » 2024-10-02 21:13:28

I do not see any advantage from using openrc, runit, s6 ... whatever. They promise a lot, but I do not get their benefits.

#6 Re: Devuan » Why has no one enhanced sysvinit? » 2024-10-02 19:48:16

View of a simple user: sysvinit is just functional, I have moved back from openrc to sysvinit.

#7 Re: Installation » Trouble in paradise » 2024-09-22 07:30:37

Another thought: 4G is about the max a file can get on a fat32 partition?

#8 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Very strange: is it connman or network-manager? » 2024-09-19 13:25:07

When you say "no network manager at all" you actually mean "just using ifupdown".

... Whatever got installed with cinnamon with --no-install-recommends, no additional packages.

#9 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Very strange: is it connman or network-manager? » 2024-09-18 21:14:53

Well, my workstation is a new installation (multiboot, paralell to a working Chimaera) of an early Daedalus preview before the release, no upgrade. Simple netinstall, fixed IP, just basic system utilities. AFAIK I just checked the resolv.conf, and did not need to change it. Manual installation of xorg, lightdm and cinnamon with --no-install-recommends, and everything else just as I needed it. No network manager at all.

#10 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] mate-terminal freezes briefly every X seconds due to orca » 2024-09-18 19:48:13

Well, you seem to have a not too old AMD graphics. That should work just with kernel and the firmware-amd-graphics package installed.

Which amdgpu driver do you use?

Debug symbols: have a look into Synaptics, mostly what Debian has is also present in Devuan (as long as it does not depend on systemd).

#11 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Very strange: is it connman or network-manager? » 2024-09-18 19:42:26

connman isn't installed on my workstation, it just has LAN:

# apt list connman
Auflistung… Fertig
connman/stable 1.41-3 amd64
connman/stable 1.41-3 i386

I had no need for any network management here.

And I haven't manipulated anything regarding any symlink to /etc/resolv.conf, just entered my local ethernet router's IP.

#13 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Very strange: is it connman or network-manager? » 2024-09-18 18:48:36

Well, I have looked at two of my PCs with Daedalus: as well on my Ryzen workstation as on my travelling laptop I have a file /etc/resolv.conf, no symlink. And the entry in the file points to my local ethernet router IP as DNS (I am working with fixed IP adresses).

On the laptop I have the Gnome network manager installed to be able to switch between LAN and Wifi and Home and away.

#16 Re: Installation » Daedalus LXQT-only installs no wireless manager? » 2024-09-01 14:15:17

Do not expect that you will get an automatic installation and configuration of your wifi stuff. Linux is not like Windows.

If the required packages aren't part of the meta-package that installs the desktop, they are simply not there. You will have to add your choice manually.

#17 Re: Other Issues » Disappearing files » 2024-09-01 13:57:53

.... but the file was located on a partition that I formatted as ext3.

Maybe its related to the older version of the ext file system. Don't know how they do maintain the ext3 module it in the kernel. I would change that to ext4.

I am on ext4 since its available. I don't see any reason not to switch.

#19 Re: Off-topic » How are you guys quoting posts? » 2024-08-28 17:05:38

greenjeans wrote:

I don't see the option to do so anywhere anymore. Or has my eyesight really gotten that bad?

1.) There is the quote button in the list of available commands above the Reply Window.
2.) Read this post: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=6369

#20 Re: Installation » is the Devuan repository server usually slow or offline? » 2024-08-23 20:59:55

Happened to me recently here in Germany too, was ok again some minutes later. Repo deb.devuan.org.

#21 Re: Installation » how to install kernel 6.6.47 (or 6.10.6) in a new daedalus install » 2024-08-22 12:11:49

@alexkemp: kernel updates are handled by the (meta)-package linux-image-amd64.

When this package is installed from the main branch, you will automagically receive the main line kernel updates. When this package is installed from the bpo branch (apt -t daedalus-backports install linux-image-amd64), you will get the bpo kernel updates.

Security updates are a separate story.

When you only install a dedicated kernel image from bpo, you won't get updates.

#23 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-21 18:37:31

Refer to posts #10 and #12 in this thread.

#24 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-19 20:46:43

No. Writing a new partitioning scheme will delete all partitions on the drive. If you have data on /home make sure you have a backup that you can play back.

#25 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting. » 2024-08-19 19:49:45

Sure, select Device in the gparted menu.

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