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#1 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] excalibur: grub boot menue entry for archlinux disappeared. » 2025-08-30 00:23:25

Hmm... looks like grub can use any of these files:
/boot/grub/menu.lst
/boot/grub/grub.conf
/boot/grub/grub.cfg
/boot/grub2/grub.cfg

#2 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] excalibur: grub boot menue entry for archlinux disappeared. » 2025-08-29 19:46:29

You could edit your grub.conf
find the line menuentry 'Arch Linux (rolling) (on /dev/nvme0n1p3)' ...  and delete the (on /dev/nvme0n1p3) part, that should satisfy 40grub2.

#3 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] excalibur: grub boot menue entry for archlinux disappeared. » 2025-08-29 14:09:13

So 40grub2 skipped the detected boot entry! But why?

(...) 40grub2: debug: parsing: menuentry 'Arch Linux (rolling) (on /dev/nvme0n1p3)' --class arch --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'osprober-gnulinux-simple-4b419f03-1a7f-4fa8-836c-4018cd10c5ca' {

in /usr/lib/linux-boot-probes/mounted/40grub2, function parse_grub_menu() :

if [ -z "$title" ]; then
	ignore_item=1
elif echo "$title" | grep -q '(on /dev/[^)]*)$'; then
	log "Skipping entry '$title':"
	log "appears to be an automatic reference taken from another menu.lst"
	ignore_item=1
fi

That's why it skipped the entry - it matched the string.  For your particular case, the easiest fix would probably be to patch 40grub2, but that wouldn't help others who encounter the same problem.  Does arch use the same version of grub2?

#4 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Excalibur net install 20250823 not installing rsyslog » 2025-08-29 13:39:12

Thank you for the report.  rsyslog will be included in the next netinstall iso, probably later today or tomorrow.

#5 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] excalibur: grub boot menue entry for archlinux disappeared. » 2025-08-28 00:44:01

Hopefully this is the problem:

Warning: os-prober will be executed to detect other bootable partitions.

In /etc/default/grub, find the line

#GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER="false"

and remove the # symbol:

GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER="false"

It's worded kind-of awkwardly, but that will make grub not disable the os-prober, that is, it will enable the os-prober.
After saving the file, re-run update-grub

#6 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] No audio on Excalibur through pipewire on KDE wayland » 2025-08-21 19:23:35

Yeah, I see, the sed command makes it work :-)   that's what I get for posting before carefully reading to the end

#7 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] No audio on Excalibur through pipewire on KDE wayland » 2025-08-21 19:19:05

I wrote the openRC init script, if you want to use it, replace "radio" with your own username, or if anyone works on maintaining stuff can figure out some solution to automatically fill in the user field, or maybe if I have some free time outside work, I'll make some kind of script that gets your users name and replaces it.

There are a few ways to do this.  Replace command_user="radio" with command_user="$USER" is one way (probably the way that makes the most sense).  Another option is command_user="$(whoami)".  If you want a non-sensical solution, use command_user="$(env | grep ^USER= | cut -c 6-)" (but that is a very strange way to get the USER).

#8 Re: Installation » Upgrading to Excalibur » 2025-08-11 15:18:02

Here are some other issues to be aware of https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/ … ssues.html - although not all of these apply to devuan.

#9 Re: Other Issues » I seem to crash when I go to a certain website... » 2025-07-24 18:03:36

Could you mitigate the scrapers by rate-limiting by IP address? Eg addresses making more that 10 requests per minute get responses delayed so they only get 10 responses per minute. That would not be too bad for a human, but hurt scrapers trying to train an AI system.

(from reading back in my irc logs) Something similar was tried for a short time.  Unfortunately, the first "D" in DDoS (Distributed) meant that approach was not very effective.  After successfully slowing down the bots for a few days via IP-address blocking, they adapted to use a unique IP address for each request. Before anubis was added to the site, the web interface was pretty much unusable most of the time.

"Anubis is going to implement TLS fingerprinting support and that discrepancy between a Windows user agent with a Linux TLS fingerprint will be caught as suspect instantly."
Will break sites for anyone running a privacy-centric browser or extension that always supplies a windows UA regardless of platform, something several currently do.

If that's all that is done, just use a user-agent that displays the actual o/s family (i.e. Linux).  There are several "valid" (default for a browser) user-agents that could be rotated through, without needing to report Windows as the o/s.  I know it's not a perfect solution for privacy, but the user-agent string matching the operating system probably isn't a huge deal.  I wonder what happens if your user-string says "MyBrowser 1.2.3.4" - will anubis block access entirely?

#10 Re: Installation » Daedalus 5.0.0 iso » 2025-07-22 20:10:56

SHA256SUMS.txt

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#11 Re: Installation » Daedalus 5.0.0 iso » 2025-07-22 16:57:47

I know it's not an "official source" like you asked for, but I do have a copy of the file I think you're looking for

-rw-r--r-- 1 tempo tempo 4045406208 Oct 20  2023 devuan_daedalus_5.0.0_amd64_desktop.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 tempo tempo       4711 Sep  1  2023 README.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 tempo tempo       1453 Sep  1  2023 SHA256SUMS.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 tempo tempo        833 Sep  1  2023 SHA256SUMS.txt.asc

I could upload it somewhere if you really need it - or it might still be available via bittorrent (?)

In another post you mentioned that "Daedalus 5.0.0 desktop DVD and Daedalus 5.0.0 live usb for UEFI works well."  Does this mean you have the Daedalus 5.0.0 desktop DVD?  You should be able to make an iso image from the dvd, if that's what you need.

#12 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] zfsutils-linux backport not showing via apt » 2025-06-29 03:31:15

`apt-cache policy zfsutils-linux` should show:
  Version table:
     2.3.1-1~bpo12+1 100
     2.1.11-1+deb12u1 500
...
(note this requires "contrib" on your daedalus-backports apt sources line)
`apt install zfsutils-linux -t=daedalus-backports` should install version 2.3.1-1

#13 Re: DIY » Working on a new app, the learning curve continues... » 2025-06-27 17:13:47

Scraper script is pretty complex now, and takes quite a while to run, it's only a one-time run needed for this,

Next step, rewrite the scraper in C
:-)

#14 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Installer *.iso problems - again ... » 2025-06-26 18:35:23

What use do you give it?

I run a postfix mail server on it, as well as pihole.  my local network uses it for dns. that's pretty much it.  sometimes I'll use it as backup or to transfer files when it's convenient.

As I posted earlier, I downloaded two images but neither of them will boot my RPi. (see my previous two posts)
Can you boot from any one of them?

I have not tried either of the installer files you listed (from https://arm-files.devuan.org/Devuan-Arm64-Installer/ ?)
I had been able to boot an image from https://arm-files.devuan.org/RaspberryP … %20Builds/  and that was what I was recommending to use (since I knew they had worked for me previously).
I can give one of the installer images a try and see what happens here, but if the hardware's the same the result will probably be the same.

#15 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Installer *.iso problems - again ... » 2025-06-26 15:45:58

I have a RPi3b+ running devuan.  (actually, 2- one of them I manage remotely but can gain physical access to it if needed).  Like you, I believe I started with ascii on it, some image obtained from https://arm-files.devuan.org/ written directly to SD card (since then, I've moved to external USB storage).  Never tried an installer (don't think it was around then for arm).
Is there any particular reason for staying on ascii?  I've upgraded mine, one to chimaera the other to daedalus.  The first upgrade I think I had to resize the boot partition because the original one was too small.  If you're setting it up new and don't have anything important already set up that you need to keep, it's probably easiest to download a more current image and dd it to your RPi media.

#16 Re: Installation » No live devuan or refracta will boot on a new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX370 » 2025-06-17 16:50:13

DevArch:

neither Excalibur nor Daedalus netinstall .iso images have WiFi support; they all require iwlwifi-ty* on an external USB drive. However, even when I provide it, Devuan is unable to find and use the driver.

The iwlwifi firmware issue is a bug on that iso.  A new iso should be making its way to the mirrors soon.  The problem was there was a newer firmware (firmware-iwlwifi_20250410-2_all.deb) but Contents-firmware listed an older one (firmware-iwlwifi_20241210-1_all.deb).

I'm not sure why the installer would not use the driver you provided, I'll take a look at that part.  Could you tell me the steps you took so I can reproduce it?

Then "The system can be set up to symlink /bin and /sbin to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin, respectively. ....If unsure, the safe choice is "No".
However, the default choice was Yes.
So,Yes.

That seems like an odd question, it should probably be removed from excalibur due to usrmerge being required now.

#17 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Android in a VM - recommendations? » 2025-06-13 15:22:21

dDepending on your needs, Genymotion (https://www.genymotion.com/product-desktop/download/) may work.  I used it in the past, seems like it's gotten a bit worse in later versions though from my perspective.  It's something you could try, but it seems a bit hit-and-miss as far as app compatibility is concerned.  It gives the option of using VirtualBox or QEMU for hypervisor.

#18 Re: Installation » Minimalist/selective installation? » 2025-06-11 23:36:24

(slightly off-topic, I know)
The excalibur (testing) netinstall iso should boot from ventoy.
I did confirm today the published daedalus netinstall iso will not boot form ventoy.
However there have been some changes to installer-iso project (https://git.devuan.org/devuan/installer-iso), if you build a new daedalus netinstall iso it will boot from ventoy.  Just another option to put out there.

#19 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Non-root-users cannot ping in devuan5-based lxc-container » 2025-06-07 15:03:30

I just noticed this problem yesterday on a VPS that I use.  But it does not affect a different one.  Both on the same kernel, 6.1.0-37 (amd64).  May have something to do with the hosts.  Thanks for tracking it down and finding a solution!

#20 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] accidentally deleted (EFI) partition - how recover? » 2025-06-07 14:47:55

 dd if=/dev/zero of=zero.img ;  rm zero.img 

would just zero-out the unused space on the partition.  Probably so it compresses better with zip.

#21 Re: Other Issues » Daedalus kernel upgrade from 6.1.0-35 to 6.1.0.37 breaks hibernate » 2025-06-07 14:46:14

Not sure why backports kernel wouldn't work in your case.  But to remain on a specific kernel version you could try this,
create a file in /etc/apt/preferences.d  - you could call it pin-kernel  or something
The contents would be:

Package: linux-image-amd64
Pin: version 6.1.137-1
Pin-Priority: 1001

  You didn't mention architecture, so I'm assuming amd64.  After creating that file, run `apt update`.   I haven't actually used this with a kernel so not 100% sure on it.  Keep an eye out for later kernel updates, once there's one past 6.1.0-37, you may want to try it out.  To do so, remove the pin-kernel file and run `apt update` again.  (or apt-get, or whatever you use to upgrade).

#22 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] MBR and efi booting issue » 2025-05-09 02:58:13

first thing that comes to mind is, ensure the boot partition has the "boot" flag - if /boot is not a separate partition, then make sure the root partition has the boot flag

#24 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Resolution » 2025-02-07 02:02:23

As a workaround, I'd make a script to do this
/etc/pm/sleep.d/50_resolution (make it executable)

#!/bin/bash

case $1 in
  suspend|suspend_hybrid|hibernate)
    :
    ;;
  resume|thaw)
    xrandr --output HDMI-0 --mode 1920x1080 --rate 60 --primary
    ;;
esac

Obviously, change the "HDMI-0" to your device's correct output, and make any other adjustments to the xrandr line to fit your desired setting.  If this doesn't work, try putting a short sleep command before the xrandr command.

#25 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] window /frame content not displaying » 2024-12-26 04:04:38

well that didn't work so well.
screen went black during boot (instead of showing scrolling text and eventually login prompt).  I waited until a login prompt should have been there, then logged in, attempted startx.  eventually the screen came back, X did not start.  some errors in Xorg.0.log:

[    81.998] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load module "glxserver_nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
[    81.998] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
[    81.998] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
[    81.998] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module.  If
[    81.998] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     you continue to encounter problems, Please try
[    81.998] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.
[    81.999] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to acquire modesetting permission.
[    81.999] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failing initialization of X screen
[    82.000] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
[    82.000] (EE) 
Fatal server error:
[    82.000] (EE) no screens found(EE) 
[    82.000] (EE) 

So... I removed the /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia_drm.conf file, rebooted, and put export WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 in my .profile.  good enough, it's working at least.  Not going to worry about the modesetting thing.  Thanks again :-)

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