Posts by Fjalar

Fjalar · Other Issues

Good evening all,

I realize this is probably not a genuine Devuan issue, it probably applies to older Debian as well.

I have set up my Beowulf box as iSCSI originator using open-iscsi (target is a Synology box) and so far it is working well. The only trouble is that the iSCSI "drive" does no unmount in time on shutdown and reboot, making it practically impossible to reboot the machine (need to hard-reset it). The drive in question is mounted with these options in fstab:

LABEL=ISCSI     /home   ext4    defaults,auto,_netdev   0       0

The messages I'm getting are:

acpid: exiting
[ 1852.014742]   connection2:0: ping timeout of 5 secs expired, recv timeout 5, last rx 4295352890, 
last ping 4295354170, now 4295355456

Can anyone comment on this? I suspect the order of stopping the network connections, iSCSI daemons and unmounting is the problem. Debian Buster is always unmounting the drive and shutting down properly.

Fjalar · Off-topic

Hey there Pedro (and the other folks of course). Matthias from Germany here.

I've been a Linux user since around 1997, I first used SuSE (with kernel 1.0.* iirc), then switched to Debian out of frustration over the demise of KDE. After an intermission of about 12 years, this is my second round as a full-time sysadmin (maintaining *x-based servers and small wide-area networks). Systemd made me part ways with my beloved Debian (which used to be an all-purpose distro for both servers and workstations - who on Earth would want to change that?) and switch over to OpenBSD. With the advent of Devuan Jessie RC1 I'm back on the Linux boat. My compliments to the Devuan team and everybody involved in the task of bringing sanity and reason back to Linux.

Fjalar · Other Issues

Wouldn't it make more sense to add the stretch repository and then upgrade?

Fjalar · Other Issues

I understand I would use a VirtualBox repository then. Which would be the correct one? VirtualBox offers

deb https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian <mydist> contrib

and a variety of distributions, apparently based on Debian and Ubuntu.

Fjalar · Other Issues

I am running 2.0 Ascii on a HP DL380G6, with VirtualBox 5.2.12 installed per Devuan repo. I have reasons to believe that the thing is unstable (particularly one virtual machine keeps crashing) and I'd like to upgrade to VirtualBox 6.

My questions are:
1: Has anybody here had similar issues with the version (virtual machine aborting while under load)?
2: What would be the best practise to upgrade (i. e. use a VirtualBox repo)?

TIA
Matthias

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