Posts by durham

durham · Other Issues

The package libdbus-glib is dependency of firefox-esr, according to apt-get.

When I type apt-get install libdbus-glib, I get this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libdbus-glib

Ah, so there is no such package. Acknowledged.

Curious, I typed apt-get firefox-esr, and got this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libdbus-glib-1-2
Suggested packages:
  fonts-stix | otf-stix pulseaudio
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  firefox-esr libdbus-glib-1-2
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/63.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 237 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Selecting previously unselected package libdbus-glib-1-2:amd64.
(Reading database ... 200138 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libdbus-glib-1-2_0.112-3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libdbus-glib-1-2:amd64 (0.112-3) ...
Selecting previously unselected package firefox-esr.
Preparing to unpack .../firefox-esr_115.5.0esr-1~deb12u1_amd64.deb ...
Adding 'diversion of /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox.real by firefox-esr'
Unpacking firefox-esr (115.5.0esr-1~deb12u1) ...
Setting up libdbus-glib-1-2:amd64 (0.112-3) ...
Setting up firefox-esr (115.5.0esr-1~deb12u1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/firefox-esr to provide /usr/bin/x-www-browser (x-www-browser) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/firefox-esr to provide /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser (gnome-www-browser) in auto mode
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.36-9+deb12u3) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1) ...

So how does firefox successfully pull in a dependency that does not exist?

Thank you.

durham · Off-topic

Today I stumbled onto Santa Esmeralda's cover version of The Animal's Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k2z_4vQUu8

durham · Other Issues

Thank you for the replies.

The "missing" files are there. Checking the file from the first error message:

 $ find $HOME -type f | grep -i "zlib1\.dll"
/home/bob/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/zlib1.dll
$

In the meantime, I tried something that I knew would not work and it worked. I have multiple distros on this computer, so I, still in Devuan, ran the wine from the Slackware install. It runs fine.

I will check out the staging thing. Thank you.

EDIT: staging version from winehq.org works. Yay! Thank you.

durham · Other Issues

Nothing is running in wine. I've not used wine in devuan in a while so I am not sure what changed. That said, I recently finally got around to an upgrade to the latest Stable version of devuan.

The error message seems the same for all programs I've tried to run (in this next, an attempt to run guild wars, a windows game that up to how has always worked fine in wine):

~ $ wine Gw.exe -bmp -fps 30
0024:err:module:import_dll Library zlib1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\USER32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library USER32.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\bob\\win_hold\\proggy\\Guild Wars\\Gw.exe") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library zlib1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\user32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library user32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\msacm32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library msacm32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\WINMM.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library zlib1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\user32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library user32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\combase.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library combase.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ole32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library zlib1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\user32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library user32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ole32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library ole32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\WINMM.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library zlib1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\user32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library user32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\WINMM.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library WINMM.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\bob\\win_hold\\proggy\\Guild Wars\\Gw.exe") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library zlib1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\user32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library user32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\shlwapi.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library shlwapi.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\SHELL32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library zlib1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\user32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library user32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\SHELL32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library SHELL32.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\bob\\win_hold\\proggy\\Guild Wars\\Gw.exe") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library zlib1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\user32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library user32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\imm32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library imm32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\COMCTL32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library zlib1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\user32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library user32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\COMCTL32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library COMCTL32.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\bob\\win_hold\\proggy\\Guild Wars\\Gw.exe") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library zlib1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\user32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library user32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\combase.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library combase.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ole32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library zlib1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\user32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library user32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ole32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library ole32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\OLEAUT32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library zlib1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\user32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library user32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\OLEAUT32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library OLEAUT32.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\bob\\win_hold\\proggy\\Guild Wars\\Gw.exe") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library zlib1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\user32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library user32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\combase.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library combase.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ole32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library zlib1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\user32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library user32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ole32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library ole32.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\bob\\win_hold\\proggy\\Guild Wars\\Gw.exe") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library zlib1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\user32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library user32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MSACM32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library zlib1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\user32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library user32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\combase.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library combase.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ole32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library zlib1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\user32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library user32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ole32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library ole32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winmm.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library zlib1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\user32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library user32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winmm.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library winmm.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MSACM32.dll") not found
0024:err:module:import_dll Library MSACM32.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\bob\\win_hold\\proggy\\Guild Wars\\Gw.exe") not found
0024:err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Importing dlls for L"Z:\\home\\bob\\win_hold\\proggy\\Guild Wars\\Gw.exe" failed, status c0000135
bob@moonshadow:~ $ MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete

~ $

The files are there. Not sure why wine can't find file <whatever>when fie <whatever> is right there.

Googling indicates that others have had this problem, but the solutions were unclear, though many results indicated that installing winetricks would fix it.

I then installed winetricks. Not sure what the difference is. Still nothing runs, so winetricks is not the trick? I'm out of ideas. Can anyone advise, please?

Thank you.

durham · Other Issues

Upgraded to daedalus and the problem still happens with the Linux version of the program. The big bother has been, the windows version is soooo slow.

I tried something new: I put a non-debian kernel in (with modules, of course). I ran streaming_extractor_music annnnd... no segfault. Problem solved. It's the kernel that is the cause. Go figure.

durham · Desktop and Multimedia

Surprised to see no mention of OpenMW. Original Morrowind can also be run through Wine but OpenMW is much more stable.

durham · Off-topic

The Interrupters - "She's Kerosene"
link (if all goes well): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq2jJLswL8I

durham · Devuan Derivatives

bimon wrote:

https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Debian_ … structions

The instructions linked above describe only Debian. There was a link entitled "Preliminary Stable Builds - rolling version of current stable branch (maintenance releases)" which went to a page that did (finally) mention Devuan.

I'm a bit wary of a creating what they used to on the Debian forums call a "frankendebian" by willy-nilly adding repos. I've only been running Devuan a few months and so far have stayed with official repos. Can anyone clue me in, please?

durham · Other Issues

edit: running Devuan amd64 for about a month now

Upon performing a "ps -e | less" I notice two processes: gvfsd and fusermount.

In a previous distro, those were not present in a ps, though fuse was part a working part of that distro. Odd, as the only time I remember using fuse over a year ago was for mounting a windows partition. There is no windows on this computer now so I don't understand why a fuse-related anything would be started immediately every boot.

What I've been able to ascertain from research is that these may be daemons that do things that just don't apply to my workflow at all.

Can I (somehow) stop gvfsd and fusermount from being started a boot time? And if so, what will break?

Thank you.

durham · Off-topic

I've heard tales of exactly as it happened to you: sudden complete failure without warning. As I am running on a SSD, this also worries me.

Did you run with discards on or, if using LVM run fstrim every once in a while (say, once a week)?

durham · Other Issues

Thank you for the replies. The idea of restarted the connman daemon had never occurred to me. The next time it happens, I'll try that.

p.s. Would this be a good way to restart connman?

/etc/init.d/connman restart

From other distros I'm used to starting and stopping daemons that way, the service command is new to me.

durham · Off-topic

I remember trying to get compiz to work in 2007 or so, and failing. I tried every year or whenever I switched distros or got a new computer. Always failure.

I'm nostalgic for something I never used.

durham · Other Issues

I'm running Devuan Chimera amd64.

So today connman (a network manager) failed in a strange and new way. I lost net (nothing strange in that). Then it got strange. The icon in the tool tray brought up an empty window instead of the usual list of network interfaces. it was as if someone has opened up my computer and removed all network cards.

Then I decided to see what was up from the console:

root@moonshadow:~ # connmanctl technologies
Error: The name net.connman was not provided by any .service files
root@moonshadow:~ #

Rebooted. Got net, yay.
For comparison, here is some normal output from connmanctl:

bob@moonshadow:~ $ connmanctl technologies
/net/connman/technology/p2p
  Name = P2P
  Type = p2p
  Powered = False
  Connected = False
  Tethering = False
/net/connman/technology/ethernet
  Name = Wired
  Type = ethernet
  Powered = True
  Connected = False
  Tethering = False
/net/connman/technology/wifi
  Name = WiFi
  Type = wifi
  Powered = True
  Connected = True
  Tethering = False
bob@moonshadow:~ $

question
Has anyone else had this happen?

durham · Off-topic

I use fsarchiver to backup an operating system partition, rsync for a home directory.

It's all on an LVM so I can make a snapshot of a mounted partition and safely backup from that.

durham · Other Issues

ralph.ronnquist wrote:

If azura-dawn is your root LVM then, possibly, the initram lacks the lvm2 utilities? But those should have been added by the update-initramfs command, so it's a bit peculiar.

That's pretty much what I thought, but then the fact that the init ram fs then activates and mounts the lvm volumes (with discards correctly set to passdown, i used lvs to check) means that the lvm software must be the init ram fs (oh and when I looked in the init ram fs, I saw lvm in there).

It begins to look like the fsck call tries to happen before lvm opens everything up.

Agreed: peculiar.

durham · Other Issues

Right, so I finally got around to opening up the init ram disk. I hate looking at other people's sh/bash code. Arg.

Between that and snapping a pic with my phone during boot up (debian/devuan loves to the clear the screen during boot up, as well as on login prompts) I've got an idea of what is going on.

Near as I can tell, the init ram fs calls fsck early on. fsck then whines that it can't see /dev/mapper/azura-dawn. fsck must be running before LVM opens up (activates? makes visible?) the volume. Then the init ram fs quietly and without any further fuss mounts the volume and boot off of it. The problem is not solved, but now it is revealed to be an init ram fs error not a disk error.

The only thing I am missing out on, therefore is the early (still in the init ram fs part of the boot process) file system check.

Since the last few distros I used didn't do disk check in their init ram fs's, nothing is different now.

durham · Other Issues

JWM-Kit wrote:

EDIT : I see you had it fixed before I pressed post. I guess I was barking up the wrong tree and your hostname wasn't even set to begin with.

It's as if the /etc/hostname file is ignored?

durham · Other Issues

JWM-Kit: Thank you for the quick reply. I am new to (and not particularly fond of) connman, so your advice is appreciated.

durham · Other Issues

Well, I figured it out. Rather, I got it to work. Pasted this in from a previous distro's /etc/hosts:

# This next entry is technically wrong, but good enough to get TCP/IP apps
# to quit complaining that they can't verify the hostname on a loopback-only
# Linux box.
127.0.0.1       moonshadow.example.net moonshadow

That comment, along with the man page for hostname, were my clues.

Rebooted. Made sure I was offline. Ran startx. Blink: in the window manager without delay.

durham · Other Issues

Running Devuan 64 Chimaera.

On my system I log in, in text mode, then, when I want to, I type startx to start up xorg & the window manager.

When my computer is not connected to the net, and I type startx, there is a minute before anything happens; I'm just staring at the text ode screen. When I am online, startx goes to a graphics mode screen almost instantly and starts the window manager without delay.

This is utterly strange. In several distros over several years, I have never encountered this!

Why would that make a difference? xorg has no reason to touch anything the net. Is it trying to send data to something out there?

log of output with no net:

hostname: Temporary failure in name resolution
xauth: (stdin):1:  bad display name "moonshadow:0" in "add" command

X.Org X Server 1.20.11
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: linux Debian
Current Operating System: Linux moonshadow 5.10.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.46-4 (2021-08-03) x86_64
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=dawn ro root=fd0b loglevel=4 panic=12 loglevel=4 logo.nologo root=/dev/azura/dawn blacklist=bluetooth
Build Date: 13 April 2021  04:07:31PM
xorg-server 2:1.20.11-1 (https://www.debian.org/support) 
Current version of pixman: 0.40.0
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/home/bob/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Sep 20 12:38:58 2021
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)
(II) modeset(0): Initializing kms color map for depth 24, 8 bpc.
xrdb: colon missing on line 107, ignoring line
xrdb: colon missing on line 108, ignoring line
xrdb: colon missing on line 109, ignoring line

(pnmixer:2549): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:39:01.989: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:8:12: The 'icon-shadow' property has been renamed to '-gtk-icon-shadow'

(pnmixer:2549): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:39:01.990: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:26:19: The :prelight pseudo-class is deprecated. Use :hover instead.

(pnmixer:2549): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:39:01.990: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:30:13: The :insensitive pseudo-class is deprecated. Use :disabled instead.

(pnmixer:2549): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:39:01.990: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:68:17: 'foregound-color' is not a valid property name

(connman-gtk:2552): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:39:04.073: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:8:12: The 'icon-shadow' property has been renamed to '-gtk-icon-shadow'

(connman-gtk:2552): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:39:04.073: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:26:19: The :prelight pseudo-class is deprecated. Use :hover instead.

(connman-gtk:2552): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:39:04.078: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:30:13: The :insensitive pseudo-class is deprecated. Use :disabled instead.

(connman-gtk:2552): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:39:04.078: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:68:17: 'foregound-color' is not a valid property name

(pnmixer:2549): Gdk-WARNING **: 12:53:35.191: GdkWindow 0x800007 unexpectedly destroyed

(connman-gtk:2552): Gdk-WARNING **: 12:53:35.191: GdkWindow 0x1000007 unexpectedly destroyed

(connman-gtk:2552): Gdk-ERROR **: 12:53:35.193: The program 'connman-gtk' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 9487 error_code 143 request_code 139 (RENDER) minor_code 7)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment
   variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

(pnmixer:2549): Gdk-ERROR **: 12:53:35.193: The program 'pnmixer' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 514 error_code 143 request_code 139 (RENDER) minor_code 7)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment
   variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
xinit: connection to X server lost

waiting for X server to shut down (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.

xauth: (argv):1:  bad display name "moonshadow:0" in "remove" command

log of output with net

hostname: Name or service not known
xauth: (stdin):1:  bad display name "moonshadow:0" in "add" command

X.Org X Server 1.20.11
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: linux Debian
Current Operating System: Linux moonshadow 5.10.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.46-4 (2021-08-03) x86_64
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=dawn ro root=fd0b loglevel=4 panic=12 loglevel=4 logo.nologo root=/dev/azura/dawn blacklist=bluetooth
Build Date: 13 April 2021  04:07:31PM
xorg-server 2:1.20.11-1 (https://www.debian.org/support) 
Current version of pixman: 0.40.0
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/home/bob/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Sep 20 12:59:56 2021
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)
(II) modeset(0): Initializing kms color map for depth 24, 8 bpc.
xrdb: colon missing on line 107, ignoring line
xrdb: colon missing on line 108, ignoring line
xrdb: colon missing on line 109, ignoring line

(pnmixer:3784): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:00:00.034: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:8:12: The 'icon-shadow' property has been renamed to '-gtk-icon-shadow'

(pnmixer:3784): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:00:00.035: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:26:19: The :prelight pseudo-class is deprecated. Use :hover instead.

(pnmixer:3784): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:00:00.035: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:30:13: The :insensitive pseudo-class is deprecated. Use :disabled instead.

(pnmixer:3784): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:00:00.035: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:68:17: 'foregound-color' is not a valid property name

(connman-gtk:3787): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:00:02.120: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:8:12: The 'icon-shadow' property has been renamed to '-gtk-icon-shadow'

(connman-gtk:3787): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:00:02.120: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:26:19: The :prelight pseudo-class is deprecated. Use :hover instead.

(connman-gtk:3787): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:00:02.126: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:30:13: The :insensitive pseudo-class is deprecated. Use :disabled instead.

(connman-gtk:3787): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:00:02.126: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:68:17: 'foregound-color' is not a valid property name

(pnmixer:3784): Gdk-WARNING **: 13:00:29.097: GdkWindow 0x800007 unexpectedly destroyed

(connman-gtk:3787): Gdk-WARNING **: 13:00:29.098: GdkWindow 0x1200007 unexpectedly destroyed

(pnmixer:3784): Gdk-ERROR **: 13:00:29.099: The program 'pnmixer' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 324 error_code 143 request_code 139 (RENDER) minor_code 7)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment
   variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

(connman-gtk:3787): Gdk-ERROR **: 13:00:29.100: The program 'connman-gtk' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 384 error_code 143 request_code 139 (RENDER) minor_code 7)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment
   variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
xinit: connection to X server lost

waiting for X server to shut down (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.

xauth: (argv):1:  bad display name "moonshadow:0" in "remove" command

Running diff, the only non-common error-messages between the two runs was:

1c1
< hostname: Temporary failure in name resolution
---
> hostname: Name or service not known

Can anyone please advise? This has me dumbfounded.

Thank you.

durham · Other Issues

Well I found a kludgy but workable workaround: I run the Windows version using Wine. As it is a command-line program, I can still call it from scripts. The only real downside is that the Windows version runs about ten times slower.

durham · Other Issues

Thank you for the reply. I tried everything you said. No errors, but no changes. It is beginning to look like something is off in the init ram fs configs and that will be a pain to sort out.

durham · Other Issues

So there is a rather handy music analysis program by "AcousticBrainz" called streaming_music_extractor. Give it an audio file of just about any tune (it seems to prefer .wav, and that's easy for me) and it outputs the time of each beat as well as the BPM and the key. I don't know how it can figure out what key it is in just from the audio but it does. This information allows various other software to do all sorts of sonic fun. There is a static binary available from the site. They are up to version 2.1 beta ... and have been for at least four years. I've used this same binary in two Linux From Scratch systems, Gentoo and at least two Slackware installs.

So I finally got around to running this in my Devuan install ... with unexpected results. It segfaults. Every time. On every file tried. I'm running the same hardware as I was on the mentioned Linux installs, so same CPU, RAM etc.

There is no error message of any use. In fact, here is the complete (only five lines) output from a run:

Process step: Read metadata
Process step: Compute md5 audio hash and codec
Process step: Replay gain
Process step: Compute audio features
Segmentation fault

Has anyone else tried to run this program under Devuan Chimaera 64bit? If so, did it segfault or not? Thank you.

ps: Googing reveals others have had this problem but no solution: things like:
https://github.com/MTG/essentia/issues/565 so I expect I should ask on the debian forums but I'd really hate to go all the fuss of finding my old password or making a new account, plus then they'd probably just tell me "you're running devuan, that's not our problem."

pps: Link to the site is https://acousticbrainz.org/

durham · Other Issues

In recent times i've been getting an odd sort of error message during boot. The messge is "file system check failed but did not detect errors". It does not stop the boot process. The screen blanks when Devuan reaches the login prompt so I didn't notice it for several days. After noticing it, I could not find it in dmesg. A grep of files in the /var/log directory could find no log of the error message.

The usual search engines found many occurrence of this error message but each for a different problem.

As far as I can tell, there are no file system errors.

Devuan Chimaera, 64 bit.

Do I actually have an error?

Thank you.

durham · Other Issues

OK, from this thread ...
in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf, using ROOTFSTYPE=ext4 in addition to the already tried ROOTFS=ext4 fixed the problem.

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