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Did you try a non-root user?
@greenjeans
you made my day - great video, thanks a lot ![]()
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/systemctlI often install Debian than convert it to Devuan.
It can be a pleasure to apt-get purge systemd ![]()
"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.
First word says ceres.
What else would you run as a beginner ... stable is boring!
$ sudo apt-get install enlightenmentshould do it.
I gave it a try once, but my brain doesn't work this way.
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.
/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.
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.
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-configurationYou made my day!
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.
The following may or may not apply ... .
Assuming you already did
# update-grubDoes 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?
@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).
e.g.: /etc/init.d/networking restart
@_mAL_4_th3_fl00r #1 : beside that the commands are to execute from right to left ... what is "cmac; .z" doing?
is package firmware-iwlwifi installed?
Ups!
I read RedGreen925 post and thought it was an update from the OP.
Sorry for the confusion.
Looks like the package usrmerge is not installed. It is mandatory to install before switching to excalibur or ceres.
# apt-get install usrmergesources 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-upgradeIs there an error message afterwards?
Edit: I got this wrong!
('strike through' does not work on code blocks)
"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.
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.
@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.
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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
# exitAnd 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_chrootIn case of umount errors: mount | grep arch_chroot shows remains.
$ grep 'Arch' /boot/grub/grub.cfgreturns nothing.
I'm out of ideas by now.