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#3 Re: Off-topic » The “Ensh*ttification” of the Internet » 2026-03-09 19:36:56

@greenjeans
you made my day - great video, thanks a lot smile

#4 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Unable to run Mullvad VPN » 2026-03-06 19:53:50

Edit2: Post heavily edited!

Purpose: Modify 'mullvad-vpn_2025.14_amd64.deb' to include sysv-init scripts.
Output: 'mullvad-vpn_2025.14~1sysv_amd64.deb'

'DEBIAN/postinst':
  mullvad service is NOT enabled at boot time (intentionally)
  systemctl lines are commented out: --> no need for systemctl on devuan; then on systemd also NOT enabled at boot time
  alternatively: systemctl lines can stay --> updated "docker-systemctl-replacement" needed
Enable service: see post above "forte  #9"

The following is a script to create the modified debian package. Adjust to your flavour.

$ cat modify_mullvad_deb.sh

#!/bin/bash
### recreate mullvad-deb-package for devuan
# https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/138188/easily-unpack-deb-edit-postinst-and-repack-deb
# e.g.: (do as root!)
mkdir tmp
dpkg-deb -R mullvad-vpn_2025.14_amd64.deb tmp
## edit / patch  DEBIAN/postinst
# comment-out lines starting with 'systemctl' ?
sed -i 's/^systemctl/# systemctl/g' tmp/DEBIAN/postinst
# patch for systemctl (docker-systemctl-replacement)
sed -i -e 's/"\/usr\/lib\/systemd\/system\/mullvad-daemon.service"/mullvad-daemon.service/' \
       -e 's/"\/usr\/lib\/systemd\/system\/mullvad-early-boot-blocking.service"/mullvad-early-boot-blocking.service/' \
    tmp/DEBIAN/postinst
# create sysv-init scripts
mkdir -p tmp/etc/init.d
sysd2v.sh tmp/usr/lib/systemd/system/mullvad-early-boot-blocking.service > tmp/etc/init.d/mullvad-early-boot-blocking
sysd2v.sh tmp/usr/lib/systemd/system/mullvad-daemon.service > tmp/etc/init.d/mullvad-daemon
sed -i 's/"MULLVAD_RESOURCE_DIR=/MULLVAD_RESOURCE_DIR="/' tmp/etc/init.d/mullvad-daemon     # correct entry
chmod +x tmp/etc/init.d/mullvad-daemon tmp/etc/init.d/mullvad-early-boot-blocking
chmod g-w tmp/etc/init.d/mullvad-daemon tmp/etc/init.d/mullvad-early-boot-blocking
# re-pack
dpkg-deb -b tmp mullvad-vpn_2025.14~1sysv_amd64.deb

## installation
# cp mullvad-vpn_2025.14~1sysv_amd64.deb /tmp     # user "_apt" can not access files in /root/*
# apt install /tmp/mullvad-vpn_2025.14~1sysv_amd64.deb

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Supplemental:
#
## sysd2v.sh   (to create sysv-init scripts)
# https://web.archive.org/web/20210412005920/http://www.trek.eu.org/devel/sysd2v/
# wget https://cgit.git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit.git/tree/contrib/sysd2v.sh
# chmod +x sysd2v.sh; cp sysd2v.sh /usr/local/bin
#
# systemctl    (updated script - if installed package throws errors)
# git clone https://github.com/gdraheim/docker-systemctl-replacement
# cp docker-systemctl-replacemen/files/docker/systemctl3.py /usr/local/bin/systemctl

#5 Re: Freedom Hacks » About installers » 2026-02-13 21:56:52

I often install Debian than convert it to Devuan.

It can be a pleasure to apt-get purge systemd smile

#6 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] ext4 write slow on small 120gb sata SSD » 2026-02-13 21:44:15

"EDIT" in post #1 is the explanation.

"encrypted" has to be slower (and LVM makes it worse). How much depends on the encryption method andcomputer hardware.
Encrypted zeros are no longer zeros, except the encryption sucks.

Or in short: No, you're doing it wrong.

#7 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-01-30 14:43:58

First word says ceres.
What else would you run as a beginner ... stable is boring!

#8 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Enlightenment » 2026-01-21 14:33:23

 $ sudo apt-get install enlightenment

should do it.
I gave it a try once, but my brain doesn't work this way.

#9 Freedom Hacks » WineHQ released Wine 11 - runs without i386 architecture » 2026-01-17 15:39:35

delgado
Replies: 1

Just stumbled upon https://www.heise.de/en/news/Wine-11-0- … 40791.html
(("WoW64" is micros~1's build-in emulation layer on win64 systems to run win32 programs.))

No need to add i386 architecture to play old games - I'm waiting since ages for that to happen.
This also removes complexity from the installtion.
Thanks a lot, WineHQ!

wine-11 is not in the official debian repos by now.
At least there is a choice: i386 architecture or the foreign WineHQ repo.

#10 Re: Installation » [SOLVED]New partitions do not mount automatically without su password? » 2026-01-13 18:18:08

steve_v wrote:
/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:17.0-ata-1-part1    /mnt/bay1    auto    user,noatime,noauto,exec    0    2

The mount options in the example ("user,noauto") are working with pcmanfm and in a terminal. So probably anywhere else too?!.

Btw. Interesting method to mount a partition using pci-ids. Didn't know tthat. Apreciated.

#11 Re: Other Issues » Superuser authentication failure in graphical mode » 2026-01-11 22:26:21

Hi,
I'm on freia too and had authentication errors until yesterday. The error message was - in my case:
"Incorrect permission on/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1(need to setuid root)"

The solution from
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1115061 … ent-helper
= sudo chmod 5755 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 fixed it.

Edit:
There is a discussion respective other permissions to apply - I do not know such stuff.

#12 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » keyboard broken in excalibur upgrade » 2025-12-15 19:42:20

Can you login via ssh from another computer?
Or boot daedalus and do a chroot into the excalibur installation?
To reconfigre the keyboard:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

#14 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Power usage of SSDs » 2025-11-18 01:19:29

gkrellm is just working and maintained - 13 houes ago, says https://git.srcbox.net/gkrellm/gkrellm

On my AM4-mainboard, the best collection of temperature sensors is at /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon[0-4]/temp[1-9]_input
This does not include the GPU, which gkrellm covers.

#15 Re: Installation » Boot issue » 2025-11-18 01:02:05

The following may or may not apply ... .

Assuming you already did

# update-grub

Does grub's "advanced options" menu show something useful?
Is a kernel installed?
Are you booting in UEFI or BIOS mode?  Can you switch between them?
Did you mount the EFI-partition in excalibur?
chroot probably menas there is a functioning linux installation. Does this grub find devuan excalibur when running update-grub?

#16 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Power usage of SSDs » 2025-11-18 00:22:48

@Micronaut
I do not know how or where gkrellm gathers information, but it found a lot of temperature sensors on cpu, gpu, nvme, network, gigabyte-wmi, thermal_zone[0,1]. And presented them as a list to choose from to display. Only the (data-grave-)HDD's temperature was missing.
It's a good and convenient tool to monitor temperatures (and more).

#17 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » how renew DHCP lease? » 2025-10-07 22:09:18

e.g.: /etc/init.d/networking restart

#18 Re: Devuan Derivatives » [SOLVED] No WiFi. No WiFi devices in Connman. » 2025-09-27 21:25:26

@_mAL_4_th3_fl00r #1 : beside that the commands are to execute from right to left ... what is "cmac; .z" doing?

#20 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Minor issue after upgrading to excalibur » 2025-09-10 18:04:56

Ups!

I read RedGreen925 post and thought it was an update from the OP.

Sorry for the confusion.

#21 Re: Installation » Cant do upgrade Dadedalus to Ceres » 2025-09-10 14:50:51

Looks like the package usrmerge is not installed. It is mandatory to install before switching to excalibur or ceres.

# apt-get install usrmerge

#22 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Minor issue after upgrading to excalibur » 2025-09-10 14:46:00

sources file looks good.
((The repos "excalibur-backports", "excalibur-proposed-updates",  "excalibur-updates", "excalibur-security" are probably not existing by now, but will when excalibur becomes stable.))

Assuming you did:

# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade
# apt-get dist-upgrade

Is there an error message afterwards?

Edit: I got this wrong!
('strike through' does not work on code blocks)

#23 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Firewire optical drive not recognized » 2025-09-04 20:15:32

"unreadable" in case of an optical drive usually means "defective medium" - or more seldon "drive defective".
To find out: Try other CD/DVD's - as Altiod mentioned.

kapqa wrote:

EDIT: if on mac it says "unreadable", there is high chance it is "readable" but contains a linux session or similar, that for mac is just not "readable" out of the box, but still perfectly readable for the drive itself.

No!
Iso file systems are readable on any OS. At least should be.

#24 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] excalibur: grub boot menue entry for archlinux disappeared. » 2025-08-30 09:59:54

@rbit
Good to know.

Solution:
After an Arch Linux upgrade today in a chroot environment, update-grub creates the usual boot entry again.
The reason remains unclear.
It was NOT a problem with debian's grub / os-prober package.
Best guess: *Something* went wrong during the Arch Linux upgrade at 18-Aug-2025.

Thanks for all the replies and regards.

.
.
PS: chroot into Arch Linux as follows:

# mkdir /tmp/arch_chroot
# mount /dev/nvme0n1p3 /tmp/arch_chroot
# cd /tmp/arch_chroot
# mount -t proc /proc proc
# mount --make-rslave --rbind /sys sys
# mount --make-rslave --rbind /dev dev
# chroot /tmp/arch_chroot  /bin/bash
# source /etc/profile
# export PS1="(chroot) ${PS1}"
# packman -Syu
# exit

And unmounting the file system (maybe there is a better way).

# echo 'WD is still /tmp/arch_chroot'
# umount dev/shm
# umount dev/pts
# umount dev
# umount sys/fs/cgroup
# umount sys/fs/pstore
# umount sys/kernel/security
# umount sys/kernel/config
# umount sys/firmware/efi/efivars
# umount sys
# umount proc
# cd
# umount /tmp/arch_chroot

In case of umount errors: mount | grep arch_chroot shows remains.

#25 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] excalibur: grub boot menue entry for archlinux disappeared. » 2025-08-29 21:20:04

 $ grep 'Arch' /boot/grub/grub.cfg

returns nothing.

I'm out of ideas by now.

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