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#1 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Devuan 6 (excalibur) mate testing iso uploaded » Today 21:39:45
Philosophic question, why over time all software are become bloat, as proprietary also as free?
#2 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Devuan 6 (excalibur) mate testing iso uploaded » Yesterday 23:46:29
I have noticed in testing, that the Excalibur-based stuff seems very snappy and quick compared to current, really looking forward to seeing how it all performs once declared stable. I think Mate itself has made some improvements too.
Thanks for explain its interesting. And why when unstable/testing go to stable, why all at stable become not so snappy as in unstable/testing?
One quick tip: The Mate menu is usually the first thing to feel sluggish, Mate does cache icon images, but for some reason still tries to re-size SVG's every time you open the menu, so if you have any large ones being used for menu icons for certain programs, it gets glitchy.
I did not know that. Here question - why devs make icons so fat, no minimalism, kiss and unix way law?
#3 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Devuan 6 (excalibur) mate testing iso uploaded » Yesterday 01:06:11
@greenjeans
Woow! Its feels so fast even at my retroPC) Why your Mate-mini feels so fast, how you did that? Usual when i test different distros with Mate its feels very sluggish.
Thanks 
#4 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » open rc "reboot" event logs » 2025-03-31 21:52:35
More new hardware and in this case (and depending on the type/quality of the UPS), a potential source of problems.
eg: while your PSU in you desktop may play nicely with your AC line, smoothing out micro-spikes or simply ignoring them, your new UPS may not be doing the same thing or even be reacting badly.
A good/decent UPS has always been hard to come by ($$$).
Many years ago I ended up deciding that it was much better to go without one that to end up spending more money on a (nother) UPS which could cause problems.
Its wise thoughts but i do not think that UPS is source of problems.
https://debian.drdteam.org <- this has nothing to do with any Devuan repository.
its ok, its doomseeker(doom game server browser) official repo.
#5 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » open rc "reboot" event logs » 2025-03-31 21:45:00
Thanks for attention for me.
After reboot "empty /var/log/*" folder problem solved - now all content of /var/log/* is at its usual place. OS fully functional. But again, what was that?
#6 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » open rc "reboot" event logs » 2025-03-31 20:19:41
Its very strange o_O
Yesterday i am looked at /var/log/ here was many logs
but today /var/log/ its all empty
And i cant update os. But disk is not full.
https://imgur.com/a/nxFPavs
root@devuan:/home/freeartist-devuan# apt install df
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (2: No such file or directory)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?
root@devuan:/home/freeartist-devuan# root@devuan:~# sudo dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
unable to fill /var/lib/dpkg/updates/tmp.i with padding: No space left on device
root@devuan:~# but root is not full of capacity
https://imgur.com/a/oSBCMEY
#7 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » open rc "reboot" event logs » 2025-03-31 19:57:18
Thanks for reply.
All not so hard)
It happens once. And i just want check what could have caused this reboot.
Its my OldGoodDeskTop, i am very care about him)
Temperatures are normal - room(~20C), cpu(43C), gpu(45C). PC tower-case have good air flow.
Devuan installed at new ssd drive.
Also i use new UPS.
Maybe its PSU issue?
I am do not remember correctly(its was late night) before reboot i am input several times under root user this command:
file -sk /dev/*
Start by checking the last (previous) dmesg output for any warnings.
ie: /var/log/dmesg.0 fileAlso check:
ok, thanks, i will look.
#8 Hardware & System Configuration » open rc "reboot" event logs » 2025-03-31 04:31:37
- deepforest
- Replies: 6
Hi. Can someone help?
My Devuan 5 open-rc is suddenly once autorestart, i whant investigate this.
How i can check why os rebooted?
Where i can check its caused by hardware or software?
What log event can give me information?
#9 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Darkness - ISO Devuan Testing + TDE for AMD64 » 2025-03-30 01:02:22
@samhain
Hi i am test some Darkness, feels snappy at my old PC, thanks.
Have few questions:
1. Konqueror have bit issue with authorization, launch via sudo. Solved - xhost +
2. Konqueror - mount ntfs partitions error Error: TDE mediamanager is not running - Solved - dcop kded kded loadModule mediamanager
3. Konqueror - mounted ntfs partition do not show correctly cyrillic names - not solved for me.
#10 Re: Installation » Cant install alien-arena from daedalus repos » 2025-01-16 18:02:28
@greenjeans
thanks for attention man)
can i ask about vuu-do? what your distro make different to other minimalistic distros like crunchbangplusplus, bunsenlabs or hos distro?
#11 Re: Installation » Cant install alien-arena from daedalus repos » 2025-01-14 21:35:15
added "non-free" to source.list helped me
#12 Installation » Cant install alien-arena from daedalus repos » 2025-01-14 21:13:36
- deepforest
- Replies: 4
https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/pack … 1.3+dfsg-3
root@devuan:/home/freeartist-devuan# apt-cache search alien-arena
alien-arena - Standalone 3D first person online deathmatch shooter
alien-arena-server - Dedicated server for Alien Arena
root@devuan:/home/freeartist-devuan# apt-cache search alien-arena-data
root@devuan:/home/freeartist-devuan# apt install alien-arena
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
alien-arena : Depends: alien-arena-data (>= 7.71.3~) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@devuan:/home/freeartist-devuan# apt install alien-arena-data
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package alien-arena-data 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 'alien-arena-data' has no installation candidate
root@devuan:/home/freeartist-devuan# #13 Re: Installation » how restore default permissions root folder after copy OS to SSD? » 2024-09-01 07:57:44
@chris2be8
It won't matter if on both systems the users have the same numeric UID and GID. But it will make a difference if the users have different UIDs or GIDs. Check /etc/passwd on both systems to see what is likely to happen.
Eg if chris has UID 1000 on the source system and UID 1001 on the target you don't want to use --numeric-ids.
But if the names differ but have the same UID (eg chris is UID 1000 on source and fred is UID 1000 on the target (chris doesn't exist on it)) --numeric-ids would leave everything owned by fred.I hope that's enough to let you understand what difference it would make.
and what happens if i use --numeric-ids, but with same user names?
at cloned disk, at /etc/group, /etc/passwd my user have 1000:1001 is it correct?
#14 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Steam not launch » 2024-09-01 07:48:19
thanks for reply,
flatpak steam version is launched,
before i install steam from repos
#15 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » all my partition auto mount after using gparted » 2024-09-01 07:46:10
thanks, daedulus, where i can check this?
#16 Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Steam not launch » 2024-08-31 10:23:45
- deepforest
- Replies: 2
why?
nothing happens
webhelper-linux.txt
freeartist-devuan@devuan:/home/freeartist/Downloads/Devuan/freeartist$ steam
steam.sh[28756]: Running Steam on devuan 5 64-bit
steam.sh[28756]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[28825]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[28756]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
[2024-08-31 13:20:34] Startup - updater built Jul 16 2024 23:21:18
[2024-08-31 13:20:34] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/freeartist-devuan/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-srt-logger-opened' '-nominidumps' '-nobreakpad'
08/31 13:20:34 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
08/31 13:20:34 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1721173382)/tid(28894)
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
[2024-08-31 13:20:34] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/freeartist-devuan/.steam/debian-installation/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2024-08-31 13:20:34] Failed to load cached hosts file (File 'update_hosts_cached.vdf' not found), using defaults
[2024-08-31 13:20:34] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2024-08-31 13:20:34] 1. https://cdn.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2024-08-31 13:20:34] Checking for update on startup
[2024-08-31 13:20:34] Checking for available updates...
[2024-08-31 13:20:34] Downloading manifest: https://cdn.steamstatic.com/client/steam_client_ubuntu12
[2024-08-31 13:20:34] Manifest download: send request
[2024-08-31 13:20:34] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2024-08-31 13:20:35] Manifest download: finished
[2024-08-31 13:20:35] Download skipped: /client/steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1721173382, installed version 1721173382, existing pending version 0
[2024-08-31 13:20:35] Nothing to do
[2024-08-31 13:20:35] Verifying installation...
[2024-08-31 13:20:35] Performing checksum verification of executable files
[2024-08-31 13:20:37] Verification complete
UpdateUI: skip show logo
Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/freeartist-devuan/.steam/debian-installation/logs
XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf4707780
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf4706050
CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 0 milliseconds to initialize
Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 28971
bus_name=com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam#17 Desktop and Multimedia » all my partition auto mount after using gparted » 2024-08-31 09:39:08
- deepforest
- Replies: 2
after quit from gparted, thunar show me popup message for enter root pass for mount every my partition?
its very annoying
#18 Re: Installation » how restore default permissions root folder after copy OS to SSD? » 2024-08-29 06:28:59
#19 Re: Installation » how restore default permissions root folder after copy OS to SSD? » 2024-08-28 20:29:32
clonezilla is free
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonezilla
shit too
try it
its so slooow working
its searching all my partitions about 10-15 min
i start clonzilla iso to ram from easy2boot flash
#20 Re: Installation » how restore default permissions root folder after copy OS to SSD? » 2024-08-27 20:34:08
if i use dd it copy not files but sectors,
how use dd if destination bigger/smaller then source partition?
#21 Re: Installation » how restore default permissions root folder after copy OS to SSD? » 2024-08-26 12:40:16
@nixer
user:group and not UID:GID, which can cause some permissions issues
if it so, why this important thing not mentioned in the rsync manual at first place?
#22 Re: Installation » how restore default permissions root folder after copy OS to SSD? » 2024-08-26 12:36:10
@alexkemp
ok, but where is help? i am always use sudo su, and is my habit, and it always worked for me, but after rsync not.
I just want to show that Linux is still an wonky and shaky system.
#23 Re: Installation » how restore default permissions root folder after copy OS to SSD? » 2024-08-25 18:39:49
@alexkemp
If so, what were the error messages?
freeartist-devuan@home:~$ sudo su
sudo: /usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set
freeartist-devuan@home:~$freeartist-devuan@home:~$ sudo su
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgtk3-nocsd.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
[sudo] password for freeartist-devuan:
#24 Re: Installation » how restore default permissions root folder after copy OS to SSD? » 2024-08-25 18:37:48
@nixer Thanks for reply.
Yes i use Artix for copy Devuan. But where is mistake? Why i cant use another linux os here? Please explain. At many instuctions that i read i am not seen any warnings about type os for copy another os, just it all say "use live os"
#25 Re: Installation » how restore default permissions root folder after copy OS to SSD? » 2024-08-25 04:05:07
use su - ("switch user to root") not sudo su. sudo by itself is "switch user to root one-time only".
but why sudo worked at sourcre old hdd Devuan, and after rsync -aXHx at ssd not?
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