Posts by erdos

erdos · Other Issues

thanks!

the command i used installs the latest pip (ver. 19.2.1), while the pip in ascii is ver. 9.0.1. maybe that's what caused the installation error for other python packages.

how do i remove PIP i already installed? i looked through 'synaptics' for installed packages but couldn't find it.

erdos · Other Issues

hi,

I installed python pip in debian wheezy before I upgraded my system to devuan stable.

these are the command I used:

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
python get-pip.py

however, when I tried to install additional python libraries after devuan upgrade, I received error:

pip install numpy keras matplotlib  pandas

erdos · Desktop and Multimedia

nice! thank you!

erdos · Desktop and Multimedia

after upgrading to ascii, system can't find and install 'firefox'

root@debian:/home/erdos# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-security InRelease
Hit:4 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done                      
root@debian:/home/erdos# exit
exit

erdos@debian:~$ sudo apt-get install firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Package firefox is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'firefox' has no installation candidate
erdos@debian:~$

erdos · Installation

fsmithred wrote:

You either need to install elogind or edit Xwrapper.config to allow X to run as root. See the section on startiing X from console in the release notes:
https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/Release_notes.txt

thanks, i added line to Xwrapper.config and x windows works now.!

erdos · Installation

i have icewm WM installed and startx will start 'icewm', no display manager being used.

i upgraded to ascii from Debian Wheezy on this particular machine last night, in wheezy, it directly boot into 'icewm' once start the machine. however, after upgrading to ascii, it failed to enter 'icewm' after init is done, instead displaying error message on the screen and bring me to user log in prompt, after loggin in as my username, i typed 'startx' and enter, it can launch into icewm but the screen would freeze every time.

The onscreen error message instructs me to look at '/home/erdos/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log for details so it's up-to-date log info.

i will look at my /etc/inittab file for any hints.

it seems the new 'xorg' has changed its behavior in ascii comparing with prior jessie xorg - since i know the same setup works under both Debian Wheezy and Devuan Jessie from experience.

erdos · Installation

hi, i upgraded Debian Wheezy installed on an Sony-vaio netbook to Devuan Jessie with success.

But after running further upgrade to ascii, i encounter issues:
the upgrade itself was a success, no errors.

but after i rebooted the machine, as soon as i started x, the screen freezes, with no response from mouse or keyboard.

here's the related error info in '~/.local/share/Xorg/Xorg.0.log'

(EE)parse_vt_settings:  Cannot open /dev/tty0 (permission denied)
...
(EE)  xf86CloseConsole: KDSETMODE failed: bad file descriptor
(EE) xf86CloseConsole:  VT_GETMODE failed:  bad file descriptor
(EE) Server terminatored with error (1). closing log file

not sure what to do next

erdos · Installation

thank you, it's a success upgrade to Devuan Jessie after ignoring warning messages.

erdos · Installation

i received the following error when i tried upgarde from wheezy to devuan jessie
root@debian:~# apt-get update

Ign http://pkgmaster.devuan.org jessie/main Translation-en                     
Ign http://pkgmaster.devuan.org jessie-security/main Translation-en_US         
Ign http://pkgmaster.devuan.org jessie-security/main Translation-en            
Err http://pkgmaster.devuan.org jessie-backports/main i386 Packages            
  404  Not Found
Ign http://pkgmaster.devuan.org jessie-backports/main Translation-en_US        
Ign http://pkgmaster.devuan.org jessie-backports/main Translation-en           
Fetched 7,587 kB in 15s (487 kB/s)                                             
W: GPG error: http://pkgmaster.devuan.org jessie Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY BB23C00C61FC752C
W: GPG error: http://pkgmaster.devuan.org jessie-security Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY BB23C00C61FC752C
W: Failed to fetch http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/dists/jessie-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/dists/jessie-backports/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
root@debian:/home/erdos# ^C
root@debian:/home/erdos#

erdos · Hardware & System Configuration

dxrobertson wrote:

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.

After I deleted lines in /etc/network/interfaces about 'wlan0', it seems delays caused by both network interface and MTA are gone.

thanks!

erdos · Hardware & System Configuration

/etc/network/interfaces

# 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
auto wlan0
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
    wireless-essid asd

ip link

erdos@t60:~$ ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:15:58:82:f6:94 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: irda0: <NOARP> mtu 2048 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 8
    link/irda 00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff
4: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:19:d2:c5:0a:41 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

erdos · Hardware & System Configuration

hi, my ascii installation has an unusually long boot time.

it always stuck at two places by looking at onscreen boot log:
1. configuration network interfaces..ifup: wait for lock on /run/network/ifstate.wlan0
2. starting MTA

I started the wifi connection by issuing the following command once loggin into icewm WM,

root@t60:/home/erdos# wpa_supplicant -B -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dwext
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
root@t60:/home/erdos# dhclient wlan0

erdos · Hardware & System Configuration

install i386 .deb didn't work for me on the 64-bit ascii.

I ended up downloading the 'Driver Install Tool' available on the Brother website for this printer (hl-2270DW) and followed the instruction to run the script, it automatically pulls in the needed package and installs the printer.

Driver install Tool is available here:

https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloa … all&os=128

erdos · Hardware & System Configuration

Marjorie wrote:

I'm assuming you've already tried using CUPs with the available drivers provided there?
In my case I use the driver for a slightly different Brother model: I have a DCP 9015CDW and use the DCP 9010CDW dirver which works fine, including duplex.
A cursory search finds there's a discussion of drivers to use for your model here: http://openprinting.org/printer/Brother … -HL-2270DW.

the provided link is empty.

erdos · Hardware & System Configuration

ToxicExMachina wrote:

Try to enable multiarch support: https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Imple … _multiarch

tried this, still having error:

root@t60:/home/erdos/Downloads# dpkg -i hl2270dwlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.deb
Selecting previously unselected package hl2270dwlpr:i386.
(Reading database ... 75692 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack hl2270dwlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.deb ...
Unpacking hl2270dwlpr:i386 (2.1.0-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hl2270dwlpr:i386:
 hl2270dwlpr:i386 depends on libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1).

dpkg: error processing package hl2270dwlpr:i386 (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 hl2270dwlpr:i386
[1]+  Done                    synaptic

i installed mentioned missing libc6 for i386, still got the same error

erdos · Hardware & System Configuration

i have a brother hl-2270dw laser printer that i want to install the driver downloaded from manufacturer website. the .deb package I downloaded is 32 bit package and i'm running into difficulty to install onto the 64-bit devuan.

erdos@t60:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i hl2270dwlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.deb
[sudo] password for erdos: 
dpkg: error processing archive hl2270dwlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.deb (--install):
 package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 hl2270dwlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.deb

any suggestion how to resolve this?

erdos · Installation

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Yes, run fsck from the USB drive system, the version in Slackware is not compatible.
You should also be able to mount & chroot from the USB system.

Great! I reinstalled grub bootloader from bootable ascii USB drive onto hdd, now it boots into devuan again!

erdos · Installation

PedroReina wrote:

erdos wrote:
it display a bunch of '07 07 07....' on the screen, no grub menu.
Strange enough, its seems a LILO problem to me.
From https://www.linux.org/threads/linux-lin … tup.10146/
L – First stage of the boot loader has finished and has been unable to load the second stage. This usually indicates bad BIOS parameters or bad sectors on the media or even a corruption of the boot loader. The letter is usually followed by an error code as follows:
07 – Invalid initialization – BIOS did not initialize the boot disk

thank you, this is very strange, did ascii corrupt my bootloader somehow? i had 'pm-suspend' feature working most of time on my thinkpad with devuan ascii, when it didn't work properly, i had to recycle power. however this time it results a boot failure.

i ran built-in hdd diagnostic tool in Bios as well as 'badlocks' command from slackware, both reporting no error.

badblocks -v /dev/sda
checking blocks 0 to 78150743
checking for bad blocks(read-only test):
done
pass completed, 0 bad blocks found (0/0/0 errors)

erdos · Installation

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Which filesystem is Devuan installed on?
Do you have the appropriate filesystem tools package installed in the system from which you are trying to mount the Devuan partition?
Have you tried fsck?
It may be best to boot the Devuan ASCII minimal-live.iso image to ensure compatibility:
https://mirror.leaseweb.com/devuan/devu … imal-live/

devuan ascii was installed on ext4, on partition /dev/sda5, slackware was installed as ext4 on external HDD.

bash-4.2# file -sL /dev/sd*
/dev/sda:  x86 boot sector
/dev/sda1: x86 boot sector
/dev/sda2: x86 boot sector
/dev/sda3: x86 boot sector
/dev/sda4: x86 boot sector
/dev/sda5: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data, UUID=0262b140-607c-4a24-b40b-faa1e1cd222b (extents) (64bit) (large files) (huge files)
/dev/sda6: Linux/i386 swap file (new style), version 1 (4K pages), size 323839 pages, no label, UUID=c844573e-30c1-4c64-8e7d-0857e041b5ba
/dev/sda7: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data, UUID=244b532e-263c-41ac-b009-28669b7301e3 (extents) (large files) (huge files)

running fsck from slackware (ver. 14.1) results,

bash-4.2# fsck /dev/sda5
fsck from util-linux 2.21.2
e2fsck 1.42.8 (20-Jun-2013)
/dev/sda5 has unsupported feature(s): metadata_csum
e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck!

i have ascii installation image on usb drive, will that be of help?

erdos · Installation

hi, my thinkpad t60 has devuan ascii installed along with windowsXP/freebsd. recently when i opened the lid to wake it from previous sleep state in devuan, it displayed shell instead of returning to X /WM. when i power cycle and reboot it, the machine won't boot, after thinkpad logo appears on the screen, it display a bunch of '07 07 07....' on the screen, no grub menu.

screenshot of boot error screen.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AgFqxF-g9pqPvxl_RJq … 2?e=WHYDzz

i can get into bios and change settings, i can also boot into slackware linux installed onto an external hdd, and mounted the windows partition and my /home partition on devuan.
however, i can't mount devuan root / partion, receiving error.

bash-4.2# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 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
Disk identifier: 0x9f114bc6

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *          63    62929439    31464688+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2       106027047   143775701    18874327+  a5  FreeBSD
/dev/sda3       143806320   156295439     6244560    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda4        62930942   106027007    21548033    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5        62930944    82460671     9764864   83  Linux
/dev/sda6        82462720    85053439     1295360   82  Linux swap
/dev/sda7        85055488   106027007    10485760   83  Linux

bash-4.2# mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/tmp
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda5,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

bash-4.2# mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/tmp

any advice?

laptop specs:
Lenovo Thinkpad T60 1.83Ghz/2G RAM/80G HDD
WinXP/freebsd/Debian8 triple boot

erdos · Installation

devuser wrote:

erdos wrote:
system is in read-only mode after attempted ascii upgrade.
As in your disks are mounted read only? That seems to be more of a disk problem. What does your partition layout and filesystems look like?

output of 'fdisk -l', partition sda5~7 are Linux partitions, I've a multi-boot system.

root@(none):~# fdisk -l 
Device   BOOT   START   End Sectors Size ID  Type
/dev/sda1   *              63      62929439   62929377   30G  7   HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2         106027047    143775701    37748655   18G  a5   FreeBSD
/dev/sda3         143806320    156295439    12489120     6G   c   W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda4          62930942      106027007   430960666   20.6G   f   W95  Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5           62930944      82460671    19529728      9.3G    83 Linux
/dev/sda6            82462720      85053439    2590720       1.2G    82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7            85055488      106027007    20971520    10G     83   Linux

output of /etc/fstab:

UUID= ' -------'  /   ext4   errors=remount -ro 0  1
UUID= ' -------'  /home  ext4  defaults  0  2
UUID= ' -------'  none  swap   sw 0 0
/dev/sr0    /media/cdrom0  udf,iso9660  user, noauto  0  0

erdos · Installation

msi wrote:

Ok, I see. First, I'd try setting sources.list back to Jessie and then run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. If that goes well, I'd reboot and see how that goes.
Btw, it's a good idea to use code tags when posting config files. That makes it more readable.

The issue remains unresolved because the wifi is not working and system is in read-only mode after attempted ascii upgrade.

erdos · Installation

msi wrote:

With that kind of error messages occuring, apt-get should refuse to perform any dist-upgrade, which it seemingly did in your case. So, unless you did not "try using -f" or anything else in that direction and also changed back your sources.list to Jessie and ran apt-get update after that, your system should actually be fine. So, did you try any other commands to make the upgrade happen or forget to revert your apt sources to Jessie?
What does /etc/apt/sources.list look like on that system?

I can only boot into command line, and wifi isn't working. the system is in read only mode and home directory isn't mounted.
i have run '-f' but it returns error since system is locked in read-only mode.

erdos · Installation

/etc/apt/sources.list:

# deb  jessie main

#deb [url]http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/debian/[/url] jessie main contrib non-free
#deb-src [url]http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/debian/[/url] jessie main contrib non-free

#deb [url]http://security.debian.org/[/url] jessie/updates main
#deb-src [url]http://security.debian.org/[/url] jessie/updates main

# jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
#deb [url]http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/debian/[/url] jessie-updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src [url]http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/debian/[/url] jessie-updates main contrib non-free

#deb [url]http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged[/url] jessie          main
#deb [url]http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged[/url] jessie-updates  main
#deb [url]http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged[/url] jessie-security main
deb [url]http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged[/url] ascii main
deb [url]http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged[/url] ascii-updates main
deb [url]http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged[/url] ascii-security main
deb [url]http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged[/url] ascii-backports main

erdos · Installation

hi, newbie here.

i've run into this error when i tried to upgrade from devuan jessice to ascii a couple months ago (March 24th):

root@debian:/home/erdos# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these. 
The following packages have unmet dependencies: 
initscripts : Depends: sysv-rc or file-rc but it is not installable libncurses5 
: Depends: libtinfo5 (= 5.9+20140913-1+b1) but 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u1 is installed sysvinit-core 
: Depends: sysv-rc or file-rc but it is not installable sysvinit-utils 
: Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.25~) but 1.24+devuan1.0 is installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

after reboot the system, i can only log into command line, but my home directory is not mounted, wifi is not working.

my laptop is thinkpad t60 with wifi built in.

this seems to be some init messed up when ascii is still in testing, now that ASCII has been released. is there a way to recover the system without reinstallation?

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#1 Re: Other Issues » installing python libraries with pip in devuan » 2019-08-09 20:24:36

#2 Other Issues » installing python libraries with pip in devuan » 2019-08-08 16:18:11

#3 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » apt-get can't find 'firefox' package » 2019-08-05 03:02:41

#4 Desktop and Multimedia » apt-get can't find 'firefox' package » 2019-08-03 14:14:29

#5 Re: Installation » Upgrade from Devuan Jessie to Ascii causing X window issues » 2019-08-02 23:04:44

#6 Re: Installation » Upgrade from Devuan Jessie to Ascii causing X window issues » 2019-08-02 18:23:31

#7 Installation » Upgrade from Devuan Jessie to Ascii causing X window issues » 2019-08-02 15:23:07

#8 Re: Installation » Upgrade from Debian Wheezy to Devuan Jessie » 2019-08-02 15:15:08

#9 Re: Installation » Upgrade from Debian Wheezy to Devuan Jessie » 2019-08-01 23:31:20

#10 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Long Delayed boot time on ascii » 2019-07-22 17:44:23

#11 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Long Delayed boot time on ascii » 2019-07-13 19:27:59

#12 Hardware & System Configuration » Long Delayed boot time on ascii » 2019-07-13 14:01:59

#13 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Brother laser printer installation on devuan » 2019-07-12 04:39:39

#14 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Brother laser printer installation on devuan » 2019-07-12 03:44:02

#15 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Brother laser printer installation on devuan » 2019-07-12 03:41:16

#16 Hardware & System Configuration » Brother laser printer installation on devuan » 2019-07-10 02:54:12

#17 Re: Installation » laptop failed to wake up from suspend mode, boot failure afterwards » 2019-06-25 00:39:42

#18 Re: Installation » laptop failed to wake up from suspend mode, boot failure afterwards » 2019-06-23 21:09:47

#19 Re: Installation » laptop failed to wake up from suspend mode, boot failure afterwards » 2019-06-23 21:03:40

#20 Installation » laptop failed to wake up from suspend mode, boot failure afterwards » 2019-06-23 03:11:13

#21 Re: Installation » Ascii upgrade messed up the devuan jessie » 2018-07-21 16:38:17

#22 Re: Installation » Ascii upgrade messed up the devuan jessie » 2018-06-27 19:42:46

#23 Re: Installation » Ascii upgrade messed up the devuan jessie » 2018-06-04 18:42:10

#24 Re: Installation » Ascii upgrade messed up the devuan jessie » 2018-06-04 18:36:19

#25 Installation » Ascii upgrade messed up the devuan jessie » 2018-06-04 17:30:43

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