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#1 Devuan Derivatives » Installation failure (Excalibur) » 2025-11-18 21:14:03

fredbird67
Replies: 2

I was just doing a test installation of my distribution, F3OS, now based on Devuan, using Calamares, and I just got the following error message in a popup:

Command <i>systemd-machine-id-setup --root=/tmp/calamares-root-kqvis5j_</i> finished with exit code 127.
Output:  env: 'systemd-machine-id-setup': No such file or directory

Any ideas?

In the meantime, I will retry the test installation with Refracta.  But I would, of course, prefer to get it to install correctly with Calamares for the sake of those who have never used Linux before, especially when you consider what a fiasco Windows 11 is.

BTW, I did do a test installation on my computer of Debian Trixie with Calamares, and it worked just fine, so this error is specific to Devuan.

Thanks in advance,
Fred in West Plains, MO

#2 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Lightdm replaced by Slim in Excalibur ? » 2025-11-12 17:01:44

fredbird67

Thanx, FSmithRed (does the FSmith part refer to Fort Smith, Ark., by any chance?  I'm in Missouri, only 30 minutes from the Arkansas line).  I'm in the process of switching the base of my distro, F3OS, from Debian to Devuan.  On login managers, I'm using LightDM's Slick Greeter on the Xfce edition, but plan to use Slim for the ultra-lightweight IceWM edition (just started on it last week, having figured out over the weekend how to get it to reboot or shut down via the menu, which took me a while to figure out, after much frustration -- and a vow to never give up).

#3 Re: Installation » Latest Excalibur desktop installer forces LXQt? » 2025-11-12 16:37:44

fredbird67

Hmm...I just created a Devuan derivative with the Xfce desktop environment the other day (formerly based on Debian, but now fixin' to be based on Devuan due to the political nonsense Debian has engaged in as of late, according to Bryan Lunduke), but due to the IceWM edition of it not being ready yet (I've been busy with lots of other stuff), I haven't gone public with the release of it yet.  Now I did notice that the ISO is a bit bigger than on the previous edition (almost 3 GB vs. a little over 2 GB previously), so I need to go back and make sure it didn't also install LXQt on me.  Nothing against LXQt, I just prefer Xfce, although I have thought about creating a combined LXQt/Openbox edition.

#4 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Can't suspend, reboot, or shut down in a WM » 2025-11-10 03:17:26

fredbird67

I finally got it to reboot and shut down, y'all! big_smile

I finally did it by installing elogind.  Doing further research, I found that there's also something else I had to do -- run the following command after installing the base Devuan CD:

sudo update-rc.d elogind defaults

I then changed the commands in the IceWM preferences file for rebooting and shutting down to loginctl reboot, loginctl suspend, and loginctl poweroff, which still didn't work.  I then checked later, and found that I forgot to uncomment them. LOL

But once I discovered that oversight on my part about the uncommenting, I tried them again, AND THEY WORKED!!!

Thanx, y'all!

Now, to FINALLY get around to customizing it to my specifications and make the public announcement of the new release later this week.  I'm PUMPED! big_smile

#5 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Can't suspend, reboot, or shut down in a WM » 2025-11-09 01:13:21

fredbird67

In all honesty, I'm very tempted to just replace IceWM with Openbox over this one...this one's REALLY ticking me off...gonna see if I can get Openbox to do my bidding here...

#6 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Can't suspend, reboot, or shut down in a WM » 2025-11-08 19:12:14

fredbird67

Well, I tried Dan's solution from a MiyoLinux IceWM respin he did back in 2020, including his logout menu.  I do, of course, have the logout command in the preferences menu set to point to that script, and I can run it from the terminal just fine.  BUT -- when I click "Logout" in the menu, all it does is just dump me back to the login screen without displaying the script.  What else could I be missing?

#7 Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Can't suspend, reboot, or shut down in a WM » 2025-11-08 07:59:18

fredbird67
Replies: 18

Due to political nonsense with Debian that I've had it up to here with, I'm making the switch from basing my distro, F3OS, a web-filtered  famy-friendly distro, on Debian to Devuan.  I've got the main edition, with Xfce, uploaded and ready to go.  But I'm hung up BAD on an even lighter version I'm trying to create that uses IceWM.

The problem is -- and this, BTW, is how it came from the Devuan repositories (no offense,  y'all) -- the IceWM preferences file does have the commands one needs for the reboot, shut down, and suspend logout menu entries -- FOR PEOPLE USING SYSTEMD. mad That, of course, ain't gonna do jack for us on Devuan.

Since Google ain't much help on this one, does anyone have any idea what the proper commands are for those of us in sysvinit-land that allow one to do all of the above without having to have administrative privileges in order to do so, for use in a menu?

Thanx in advance,
Fred in West Plains, MO

#8 Re: Packaging for Devuan » gnome-hearts is gone in Daedalus? » 2025-11-04 21:46:48

fredbird67

GNOME-Hearts has been gone for several years, and it's not available in upstream Debian, either.  The reason it was discontinued was due to one of its dependencies (I wanna say Python 2.7 -- someone please correct me if I'm wrong) being discontinued, along with the project no longer being maintained.

#9 Freedom Hacks » Request: Can we PLEASE fork APT? » 2025-11-04 21:40:51

fredbird67
Replies: 1

As I'm sure y'all have heard, Debian has announced plans to introduce Rust code in APT no earlier than May of 2026, which I VERY bitterly oppose.  Ubuntu has already done this with some of their core utilities, and from what I understand, such a move has, at least so far, proven to be a fiasco.  Not to mention...and I may be a bit fuzzy on the particulars here (some clarification would be helpful here), but from what I understand, Rust's licensing allows it to become controlled by outside entities, which is anathema to the spirit and intent of the GPL and anything open source.  Therefore, could y'all PLEASE fork APT, even if it's nothing more than taking the existing code and preserving it, like, for example, MATE initially was after GNOME 3 came out? #ifitaintbrokedontfixit

Thanx in advance,
Fred

#10 Re: Devuan Derivatives » "ln -sf" resulted in a broken link » 2025-10-12 11:19:52

fredbird67

Thanx, Ralph, I will give that a look.  But I'm also now tempted to just go with the default SLiM login manager instead and create my own SLiM theme for the Xfce and IceWM editions of my project.

But I do prefer to offer the extra functionality LightDM offers, such as language selection and remote login capabilities, so I will take a look when I get the chance.

#11 Devuan Derivatives » "ln -sf" resulted in a broken link » 2025-10-12 01:08:44

fredbird67
Replies: 3

I don't know if this is the correct sub-forum in which to post this or not.  If it isn't, please forgive me.  Anyways, I am trying to switch my distribution, F3OS, from Debian to Devuan.  But I'm having a bit of a problem with LightDM.  I have created my own theme file that specifies what I want my log in screen to look like.  I tried to make /etc/alternatives/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf link to my theme instead of the default Sapphire theme.  I could have sworn that "ln -sf (original) (symlinked file)" was the way to do it, but I guess not, as it has resulted in /etc/alternatives/ lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf being a broken link.  What am I doing wrong?

Thanx in advance,
Fred in West Plains, MO

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