@GNUser . . . that's good news.  Keeping fingers crossed that you've seen the last of hung reboots.  Sorting this conflict consistently is one of the last things holding up the next release.

Seems I remember someone else fixed something similar by changing to slim.  slim and lightdm have different backends.  Might be worth a try.  Might also be off the mark.

There are many more typos than that.  I would have proofed it had I been asked.  Probably too late to make changes . . .

As to the link . . . that is the one that jaromil requested to be used.

Yup . . . The haiku version

Maybe it would be a better idea to start with a minimal install and build a DE piece by piece rather than trying to gut a full-blown default install.

I saw your email and discussed it with the admins.  They checked and auto.mirror is working.

Assuming the problem is at the source . . . you could switch to the newer repos at pkgmaster.devuan.org

I'm not sure quite what you're talking about.  But if it is those maddening disappearing scrollbars . . . I went through that doing the clearlooks-phenix-darkpurpy theme for ASCII.   This thread on the Xfce forum got me to a solution which is here.  If you're talking about something else, excuse the noise.   I think it's just a different way of skinning the cat.

As I remember it . . . the first Valentine iso merged backports with the main Devuan repos.  That was a test to see how Amprolla would do with merging repos.  There was no way to comment it out so one had to be really careful about upgrading.  But not before I got bit.  I still have some bpo remnants on this system.  Everything is appropriately commented now.

But wouldn't hurt to try would it?

Yes, but don't install everything in backports - that could get you into big trouble.  Just download what you need and comment that repo again.  There is also some magic that can be done with pinning but I don't know the details.  Maybe someone else will put it here.

Do not use Debian repos directly or ubuntu PPAs at all.  Look in Devuan backports for more recent versions