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#1 Re: Devuan » A report about systemd on linuxnews.de » 2023-09-24 23:55:00

(Ideologisch getriebene Distros wie z.B.Devuan mal außen vor gelassen).
de==> en
(Ideologically driven distros such as Devuan are left out)
If the systemd-sh*t would work flawlessly and transparent, nobody cared.
But it was a substantial and sensible deterioration of flawlessness, maintainability and transparency.
Saving Admin time seems to be ideology today.

#2 Forum Feedback » delete thread » 2023-09-09 14:43:58

bai4Iej2need
Replies: 0

Hi

Is it possible to delete a thread ?
I have opened a thread and described a proceeding which seem to not work anymore. see
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5975

It would be wise, to delete the thread otherwise I have to edit and delete its contents by individual message

#3 Installation » superseded by changes to adduser » 2023-09-09 10:23:23

bai4Iej2need
Replies: 1

Sorry, This contained false information.

#4 Re: Installation » How To install a virtual machine inside devuan chimaera, later stable » 2023-09-08 12:54:34

fsmithred wrote:

These instructions will work with devuan repos. Don't use any debian.org repos.

https://wiki.debian.org/QEMU
https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox

VirtualBox remains to ask for the non-free Oracle thing from the other website.
https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-instal … -on-debian
It remains qemu.

I installed xen-system-amd64 , but system became unbootable with dead displays. Deleted xen again.
Then I had to reinstall grub-efi-amd-64, which was deleted from the xen-install.
I keep on trying.

#5 Installation » ssh ipv6 offending host key and internet provider » 2023-09-08 11:16:39

bai4Iej2need
Replies: 0

My internet service provider gives me a new ipv6 range /56 about every 8 weeks.
Then I stumble over this

ssh user@some other host
Warning: the ECDSA host key for ' some other host' differs from the key for the IP address '1111:2222:3333:4444:5555:6666:7777:8888'

Offending key for IP in /home/xx/.ssh/known_hosts:8
Matching host key in /home/xx/.ssh/known_hosts:11
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?

I do not want keys based on IPv6 . Each host in my intranet has a proper name chez moi.
That should be the identification for the keys
How can I suppress this seemingly automatic host key generation from varying references?

#6 Re: Other Issues » Virus scanning on Devuan » 2023-09-05 22:58:36

Segfault wrote:

Windows viruses do not run in Wine

And you was looking over my shoulder.

And the earth is flat.

#7 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Browsers won't launch » 2023-09-05 11:39:57

whoami
ps ax | grep -E "slim|lightdm"
set | grep -i display
echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
which firefox-esr
w

please run this code and paste the result to tell us more of your system

#8 Re: Other Issues » Virus scanning on Devuan » 2023-09-05 11:10:34

mark0x01 wrote:

And if you run wine?

I have now scanned my home dir and uncovered a few infected applications hiding in wine.

Definitely worth using on Linux, as it is not as safe as it once was.

It is not the linux which is less safe, it is the w(h)ine install in your $HOME, which is unsafe.

Stop the wine application which offers all the uncertainties of windows.
Stick in an infected usb stick and wine will begin to work and distribute the virus inside your wine-home. I have seen this live on my Laptop.
I used to

apt remove wine*

and then have the directories scanned for viruses.
I Used antivir for that, still existing but it is no more in the distros I know
Have ever since 10 years not used any virus checking or w(h)ine anymore.

#9 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] after upgrade from chimaera to daedalus fail2ban package is broken » 2023-09-03 19:07:05

@chris2be8
I made an attempt to reinstall fail2ban on top of the still existing conf files.

apt install fail2ban

This failed and the system was borked as before.
now I looked for the /var/lib/dpkg/info/fail2ban.prerm script
changed the exit value to 0

dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq fail2ban
(Reading database... 103543 files and directories are currently installed.)
Removing fail2ban (1.0.2-2)...
Stopping authentication failure monitor: fail2ban failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript fail2ban, action stop failed.
Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2)...
root@$HOSTNAME /var/lib/dpkg/info # dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq fail2ban
dpkg: warning: request to delete fail2ban will be ignored, of which only the
  conf files are on the system; use --purge to purge them
root@$HOSTNAME /var/lib/dpkg/info # dpkg --purge fail2ban
(Reading database... 103272 files and directories are currently installed.)
Deleting fail2ban (1.0.2-2) configuration files...
dpkg: warning: while removing fail2ban, directory '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/fail2ban/tests/files/config/apache-auth' is not empty, so will not be deleted
dpkg: warning: while removing fail2ban, directory '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/fail2ban/tests/files/action.d' is not empty, so it will not be deleted
dpkg: warning: while removing fail2ban, directory '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/fail2ban/tests/action_d' is not empty, so will not be deleted
dpkg: warning: while removing fail2ban, directory '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/fail2ban/server' is not empty, so will not be deleted
dpkg: warning: while removing fail2ban, directory '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/fail2ban/client' is not empty, so will not be deleted
dpkg: warning: while removing fail2ban, directory '/etc/fail2ban/jail.d' is not empty, so will not be deleted
dpkg: warning: while removing fail2ban, directory '/etc/fail2ban/filter.d' is not empty, so will not be deleted
dpkg: warning: while removing fail2ban, directory '/etc/fail2ban/action.d' is not empty, so will not be deleted
root@$HOSTNAME /var/lib/dpkg/info # rm -rf /etc/fail2ban
root@$HOSTNAME /var/lib/dpkg/info # rm -rf /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/fail2ban

So Your advice worked. Thx
Finally got rid of the darn package which caused the highest load in the system.
I will do another thing to protect the server  .

#10 Installation » How To install a virtual machine inside devuan chimaera, later stable » 2023-09-03 15:19:10

bai4Iej2need
Replies: 5

I need to speed up changes without breaking production platform(s).
Therefore I need to have a virtual machine for three purposes inside devuan chimaera

  • Run the already installed Win10 of this host for the purpose of updating my Navi from G????n. About every 4 weeks without necessarily restarting the computer.

  • copy the local distro installation and test the update  / upgrade / dist-upgrade e.g. to daedalus for this machine

  • test a fresh install of daedalus for this machine

eventually upgrade to daedalus and stable and

  • continue to have an experimental playground for testing things.

A net search is dominated by results on running *n?x inside a win$ows environment OMFG and other commercial solutions.

this workstation failed badly on updating to daedalus. dpkg locked in on the non-free nvidia driver. It broke the distro upgrade and it needed a fresh install.
This took days. The Reinstall is described elsewhere here.
Therefore I am careful || wary || overcautious || paranoid , when tinkering on production systems. Select as appropriate.

I started now with installing various packages

dpkg -l | grep -E "xen|virt|kvm"
ii  gir1.2-libvirt-glib-1.0:amd64           3.0.0-1                            amd64        GObject introspection files for the libvirt-glib library
ii  grub-xen                                2.06-3~deb11u5                     amd64        GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (Xen version)
ii  grub-xen-bin                            2.06-3~deb11u5                     amd64        GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (Xen modules)
ii  grub-xen-host                           2.06-3~deb11u5                     amd64        GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (Xen host version)
ii  gvfs:amd64                              1.46.2-1                           amd64        userspace virtual filesystem - GIO module
ii  gvfs-backends                           1.46.2-1                           amd64        userspace virtual filesystem - backends
ii  gvfs-common                             1.46.2-1                           all          userspace virtual filesystem - common data files
ii  gvfs-daemons                            1.46.2-1                           amd64        userspace virtual filesystem - servers
ii  gvfs-libs:amd64                         1.46.2-1                           amd64        userspace virtual filesystem - private libraries
ii  libvirt-clients                         7.0.0-3+devuan3                    amd64        Programs for the libvirt library
ii  libvirt-daemon                          7.0.0-3+devuan3                    amd64        Virtualization daemon
ii  libvirt-daemon-config-network           7.0.0-3+devuan3                    all          Libvirt daemon configuration files (default network)
ii  libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter          7.0.0-3+devuan3                    all          Libvirt daemon configuration files (default network filters)
ii  libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu              7.0.0-3+devuan3                    amd64        Virtualization daemon QEMU connection driver
ii  libvirt-daemon-driver-xen               7.0.0-3+devuan3                    amd64        Virtualization daemon Xen connection driver
ii  libvirt-daemon-system                   7.0.0-3+devuan3                    amd64        Libvirt daemon configuration files
ii  libvirt-daemon-system-sysv              7.0.0-3+devuan3                    all          Libvirt daemon configuration files (sysv)
ii  libvirt-glib-1.0-0:amd64                3.0.0-1                            amd64        libvirt GLib and GObject mapping library
ii  libvirt0:amd64                          7.0.0-3+devuan3                    amd64        library for interfacing with different virtualization systems
ii  libxencall1:amd64                       4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1            amd64        Xen runtime library - libxencall
ii  libxendevicemodel1:amd64                4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1            amd64        Xen runtime libraries - libxendevicemodel
ii  libxenevtchn1:amd64                     4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1            amd64        Xen runtime libraries - libxenevtchn
ii  libxenforeignmemory1:amd64              4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1            amd64        Xen runtime libraries - libxenforeignmemory
ii  libxengnttab1:amd64                     4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1            amd64        Xen runtime libraries - libxengnttab
ii  libxenhypfs1:amd64                      4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1            amd64        Xen runtime library - libxenhypfs
ii  libxenmisc4.14:amd64                    4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1            amd64        Xen runtime libraries - miscellaneous, versioned ABI
ii  libxenstore3.0:amd64                    4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1            amd64        Xen runtime libraries - libxenstore
ii  libxentoolcore1:amd64                   4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1            amd64        Xen runtime libraries - libxentoolcore
ii  libxentoollog1:amd64                    4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1            amd64        Xen runtime libraries - libxentoollog
ii  python3-libvirt                         7.0.0-2                            amd64        libvirt Python 3 bindings
ii  qemu-efi-aarch64                        2020.11-2+deb11u1                  all          UEFI firmware for 64-bit ARM virtual machines
ii  virt-manager                            1:3.2.0-3                          all          desktop application for managing virtual machines
ii  virtinst                                1:3.2.0-3                          all          utilities to create and edit virtual machines
ii  virtualbox-7.0                          7.0.10-158379~Debian~bullseye      amd64        Oracle VM VirtualBox
ii  xen-doc                                 4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1            amd64        XEN documentation
ii  xen-hypervisor-4.14-amd64               4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1            amd64        Xen Hypervisor on AMD64
ii  xen-hypervisor-common                   4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1            all          Xen Hypervisor - common files
ii  xen-system-amd64                        4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1            amd64        Xen System on AMD64 (metapackage)
ii  xen-tools                               4.9-1                              all          Tools to manage Xen virtual servers
ii  xen-utils-4.14                          4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1            amd64        XEN administrative tools
ii  xen-utils-common                        4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1            amd64        Xen administrative tools - common files
ii  xenstore-utils                          4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1            amd64        Xenstore command line utilities for Xen

What I did not like that one of the WWWsites  wants me to install from oracle

ii  virtualbox-7.0                          7.0.10-158379~Debian~bullseye      amd64        Oracle VM VirtualBox

Can it be done with the devuan packages only ?
It should be done with the devuan packages only.

a:

  • A metapackage would be appreciated which does the right thing.

b:

  • A How To for devuan should result from this thread.

#11 Re: Installation » Daedalus ISOs don't boot » 2023-09-03 00:04:35

ralph.ronnquist wrote:

whereas the Devuan ISO only has an MBR. Presumably it's the lack of GPT that makes the Devuan ISO non-bootable for your UEFI use case.

It's good you had an alternative method for installation.

I experienced  the same problem but with a chimaera reinstall on an UEFI system. Before the upgrade to daedalus had catastrophically failed.

After reboot the system ended with a prompt of some sort (grub could not find a bootable partition). From there I managed to install the efi-grub and then could successfully start the chimaera again.
With the same USBStick I installed several old Laptops with BIOS.

The history of this problem seems to reach a bit more into history at least back to chimaera.

#13 Installation » [SOLVED] after upgrade from chimaera to daedalus fail2ban package is broken » 2023-09-02 12:54:10

bai4Iej2need
Replies: 3

Hi I had a rather smooth update/upgrade/dist-upgrade from chimaera to daedalus this night.

One package did not make it : fail2ban is now in a state where it cannot be removed, purged nor reinstalled

dpkg --force-conflicts --remove fail2ban > fail2ban_errors 2>&1
cat fail2ban_errors
(Reading database ... 73048 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing fail2ban (1.0.2-2) ...
Stopping Authentication failure monitor: fail2ban failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript fail2ban, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing package fail2ban (--remove):
 installed fail2ban package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Starting Authentication failure monitor: fail2ban2023-09-02 14:21:41,881 fail2ban.configreader   [13051]: WARNING 'allowipv6' not defined in 'Definition'. Using default one: 'auto'
2023-09-02 14:21:42,070 fail2ban                [13051]: ERROR   Failed during configuration: Bad value substitution: option 'ignorecommand' in section 'apache-fakegooglebot' contains an interpolation key 'ignorecommands_dir' which is not a valid option name. Raw value: '%(ignorecommands_dir)s/apache-fakegooglebot <ip>'
 failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript fail2ban, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 installed fail2ban package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 fail2ban
action "stop" failed.

This action must fail, because the fail2ban is not running from the beginning.
Stopping a not running process must not produce an error, because the wished result is already achieved. (initscripts?)

why does the removal procedure try to start the app ?

dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq --remove fail2ban 

  same result

locate fakegooglebot | grep -E "^/etc"
/etc/fail2ban/filter.d/apache-fakegooglebot.conf
/etc/fail2ban/filter.d/ignorecommands/apache-fakegooglebot

Nothing which I understand

Now I am lost, because this hinders other install activities . Each time dpkg is called, this errors show up, of course multiple times.

#14 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] EFI, 2 videocards, 1 monitor, grub, kernel, xorg.conf » 2023-08-11 14:47:26

Due to the acquisition of a DP2DVI Adapter, this problem is no more existing in this form. to be continued in another thread

#15 Re: News & Announcements » sources.list confusion. » 2023-06-13 10:47:14

@maintainer of isos

I tried to file a bug , but this is not possible with the bug tracking system
The bugs must refer to a package but 
/etc/apt/sources.list does not belong to a package.

the bug should be against the iso install

#16 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] mail filtering in console » 2023-05-16 14:40:50

I have looked again and came to imapfilter, an existing package.
It does not download the Mails, it only scans the folders on the IMAP server.
The configuration is easy  and well explained.
2 to 3 lines per folder needed.

A test run has shown that the scan works, remains to do all the folders and their deletion rules.
almost solved

#17 Installation » [SOLVED] EFI, 2 videocards, 1 monitor, grub, kernel, xorg.conf » 2023-05-14 22:19:58

bai4Iej2need
Replies: 2

This Lenovo P330 thinkstation has 2 video cards. The MB one from Intel (IGD) and a PCIe x16 Nvidia P2000 (PEG)
It came with the EFI setting Videocard at "PEG" . A monitor connected to the MB remained black.
The HW adapter from DP to HDMI was missing.
I had to remove physically the nvidia video card, to be able to access the BIOS and to change it to IGD.
Then I could setup devuan chimaera on the station. Grub menu, kernel boot and xorg.conf all fine.
But with this setting the nvidia card is invisible to the OS.

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 8th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6th-10th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 07)
00:02.0 Display controller: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th/8th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH USB 3.1 xHCI Host Controller (rev 10)
00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM (rev 10)
00:15.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 10)
00:15.1 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 10)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH HECI Controller (rev 10)
00:16.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Active Management Technology - SOL (rev 10)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SATA AHCI Controller (rev 10)
00:1b.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #21 (rev f0)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f0)
00:1e.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO UART Host Controller (rev 10)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP LPC Controller (rev 10)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH cAVS (rev 10)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SMBus Controller (rev 10)
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SPI Controller (rev 10)
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (7) I219-LM (rev 10)
02:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM981/PM981/PM983

Setting the EFI setting again to "auto" or "PEG" makes the display black again.

But I could ssh into the station and run lspci.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106GL [Quadro P2000] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

Trying to create a working xorg.conf without the nvidia is only possible when the nvidia is powered off.

While testing the other EFI videocard options auto and PEG,
I had to take the nvidia out a second time physically to get back to EFI and grub boot option menu.

I want this card only to do computations (CUDA), because my requirements for the graphical display are low.

After starting the xorg-server , the kernel should power up the PEG and rescan the PCIe bus.

Is there a way to power up the PEG via kernel command, after EFI - grub - boot - kernel - xorg have done their thing,
Despite it is turned off in EFI ?
however grub menu and console goes into the dark  and are not accessible
Edit: 2023-05-25

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nomodeset"

makes everything dark.

Edit 2023-05-26

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="fbcon=map:1"

solves the console Problem
xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
	FontPath     "built-ins"
EndSection

Section "Module"
#	Load  "glx"
#	Load  "glxserver_nvidia"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "libinput"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "libinput"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Lenovo"
	ModelName    "L24e-30"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "intel"
	BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     1
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     4
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     8
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     15
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes     "1920x1080"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Device"
	VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation"
	Identifier  "Card1"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
	Option	    "Ignore" "true"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option "AutoAddGPU"	"false"
EndSection

solves the xorg Problem

Remains the grub problem
a bug https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62806 is made against grub already

almost SOLVED

#18 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] mail filtering in console » 2023-05-14 12:55:02

I have now moved all the sorting into folders to my e-mail provider.

However they do not provide methods to delete older mails such as system mails or  forum threads.
This remains to be solved.

#19 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » missing shutdown menu item in mate desktop/ panel / system menus » 2023-05-10 10:09:51

Now I found the difference
bad computer :

May  9 16:10:25 lenovo-r500 x-session-manager[6629]: WARNING: Could not make DBUS call: Failed to execute program org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: Permission denied

Now I fight these strange program names, which are not reflected in the ps -tree

May  9 16:14:31 lenovo-r500 dbus-daemon[1789]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' requested by ':1.1497' (uid=1000 pid=8547 comm="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/polkit-mate/polkit-mate-") (using servicehelper)
May  9 16:14:31 lenovo-r500 dbus-daemon[1789]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' failed: Failed to execute program org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: Permission denied
May  9 16:14:31 lenovo-r500 dbus-daemon[1789]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' requested by ':1.0' (uid=0 pid=2142 comm="elogind-daemon ") (using servicehelper)
May  9 16:14:31 lenovo-r500 dbus-daemon[1789]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' failed: Failed to execute program org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: Permission denied

The command 

comm="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/polkit-mate/polkit-mate-"

line is not complete
the only file in the directory is named /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/polkit-mate/polkit-mate-authentication-agent-1
The command is given to the dbus daemon dynamically, not in the commandline

apt-file search /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/polkit-mate/polkit-mate-authentication-agent-1
mate-polkit: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/polkit-mate/polkit-mate-authentication-agent-1

I reinstalled mate-polkit, but the wrong command is created somewhere upstream dbus-daemon

netstat -pe | grep 1789 
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     VERBUNDEN     1843695  1789/dbus-daemon     /run/dbus/system_bus_socket
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     VERBUNDEN     15114    1789/dbus-daemon     
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     VERBUNDEN     1844316  1789/dbus-daemon     /run/dbus/system_bus_socket
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     VERBUNDEN     15115    1789/dbus-daemon     
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     VERBUNDEN     1843633  1789/dbus-daemon     /run/dbus/system_bus_socket
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     VERBUNDEN     17893    2518/ntpd            
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    2220616  1789/dbus-daemon     
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     VERBUNDEN     17894    2518/ntpd            
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     VERBUNDEN     1843969  1789/dbus-daemon     /run/dbus/system_bus_socket
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     VERBUNDEN     1843355  1789/dbus-daemon     /run/dbus/system_bus_socket
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     VERBUNDEN     2188007  1789/dbus-daemon     /run/dbus/system_bus_socket
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     VERBUNDEN     1843535  1789/dbus-daemon     /run/dbus/system_bus_socket
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     VERBUNDEN     1843493  1789/dbus-daemon     /run/dbus/system_bus_socket
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#20 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » missing shutdown menu item in mate desktop/ panel / system menus » 2023-05-09 14:24:54

fsmithred wrote:

Make sure policykit-1-gnome is installed.

Yes it is installed.

chris2be8 wrote:

Check the config files in your home dir.

I checked ,  the problem is not in the $HOME.

Thanks for the help, this hint is leading to the right direction.

When starting both as user 1000 or 1001 , the item is not there.
But doing startx as root, the shutdown menu item it present.
therefore everything is installed as should be,
giving the users >=1000 the rights to access the shutdown menu will solve the puzzle.

#21 Re: News & Announcements » sources.list confusion. » 2023-05-05 13:48:05

golinux wrote:

Hear ye, hear ye intrepid Devuan users!!

Please use deb.devuan.org in your sources list with http NOT https.  It is a round-robin of all available Devuan package mirrors.
...
Finally . . . all Devuan mirrors pull from pkgmaster.devuan.org so please do not add extra load by using it in your sources.list.  Use the round-robin - deb.devuan.org - instead.

golinux

I made today a fresh install using the devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_netinstall.iso,
devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_netinstall.iso         12-Oct-2021 10:48    372M

My /etc/apt/sources.list contains 2 lines after the install

deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main contrib non-free
deb-src http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main contrib non-free

all other lines in the file point to deb.devuan.org

So this should be fixed, as it introduces confusion and additional load on my apt-proxy, which creates a new directory for this.
It should be fixed at least for daedalus.

BR

#22 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » missing shutdown menu item in mate desktop/ panel / system menus » 2023-05-04 10:44:20

rolfie wrote:

Investigate what caused the HDD crash, and attribute the change to the crash.

The HDD crash was caused by the old age and 11 years of operation . 
Certain ranges in my home directory were affected, but that has been fixed with backups. nothing in /etc /usr/ was affected
As I have written, the install was from scratch.

#23 Desktop and Multimedia » missing shutdown menu item in mate desktop/ panel / system menus » 2023-05-03 18:25:40

bai4Iej2need
Replies: 7

Hi
Recently I installed 3 computers from scratch. they should have the same desktop appearance. mate desktop, no big deal.
However they came out different. In one install the mate desktop/ panel / system menus / shutdown button is missing
Did not find out how to get it back. the other 2 have it.

All three have different HW and age. (2010 2 cores, 2017 2 cores, 2019 12 cores)
I now wonder why 2 have the shutdown button but the one of 2010 not. Although it had it before the HDD crash.

#24 Re: Installation » Chimaera Netinstall Live ISO 4.0.0 in Multibootstick » 2023-04-16 11:55:03

rolfie wrote:

With a Ventoj multiboot stick never use automated install! You will need to use manual partitioning to have full control where the system goes. This works perfectly.

Unfortunately there is no way of deselecting the wrong partitioning of Ventoy stick
The choice on Ventoy stick with manual partitioning is

  • create LVM Partition or

  • create empty partition or

but there is missing point "do nothing" or "leave as is"

#25 Installation » Chimaera Netinstall Live ISO 4.0.0 in Multibootstick » 2023-04-15 19:18:52

bai4Iej2need
Replies: 6

I used my new and shiny VENTOY multibootstick to test the installation on a laptop Lenovo-R460, before doing a final install.
The laptop boots ventoy,
then I choose devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_netinstall.iso, which starts as with a normal boot-stick.

Arriving at the disk partition menue I choose to encrypt the whole or part of the partitions in LVM
Then the installer wants to encrypt the SSD , but also this part of /dev/sdb, the Multiboot stick Ventoy part, where the ventoy iso is installed.
The same happens in other partition menues with LVM

mount says there is no LVM Volume on /dev/sdb
So I stop using this sort of install.
It was hard enough to create this multiboot stick. Should not be destroyed.

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