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#376 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] LXQt user shutdown » 2024-04-23 11:14:40

You may have more luck when installing

# apt install libpolkit-gobject-elogind-1-0 libpolkit-backend-elogind-1-0 

This should remove the consolekit packages and install elogind stuff instead. And that should work.

#377 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Devuan Excalibur/Ceres started to work slowly after the recent update » 2024-04-22 20:43:30

The solution is to wait for the solution ..... Have you raised a bug report? It may be fixed in the future.

The solution will come some day.

#378 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Devuan Excalibur/Ceres started to work slowly after the recent update » 2024-04-22 19:47:00

Well, if you want a stable system with minimum hasle stay with Daedalus.

If you are ready for the unexpected, try Excalibur or Testing, and for the often broken, try Ceres or Unstable. Freshly updated/developed packages first land in Unstable, when they have sort of proven to generally work, they may be forwarded to Testing.

Testing some day becomes Stable, but currently this is about 2 years to go.

You only should use Testing if you are ready to accept uneven ground and if you are willing to contribute to this phase, or if you have a good reason to do so, i.e. you have so new hardware that its supported in Testing only. Something for the experienced user. And Unstable will be even rougher.

Just my two cents ...

#379 Re: Devuan » [SOLVED] Confusion with libcrypt.so.1 » 2024-04-11 21:27:08

Well apt policy did not show the 32 bit version. Give

# apt list libcrypt1 -a 

a try.

Normally the 32bit version cab be installed by:

# apt install libcrypt1:i386

#380 Re: Devuan » [SOLVED] Confusion with libcrypt.so.1 » 2024-04-11 17:57:53

I guess you are on amd64, a 64-bit system. Your application is a 32 bit application that requires a 32 bit library. You will need to enable i386 as architecture, if you haven't done so far, and then to install the 32 bit version of libcrypt1. Same procedure as for wine32.

# dpkg --add-architecture i386
# apt update
# apt upgrade
# dpkg -print-foreign-architectures
# apt policy libcrypt1

#381 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » system-config-printer » 2024-04-10 18:44:05

According to the help dialogue system-config-printer is an old RedHat development. Its a tool for cups.

I like it the way it is. I want it locked to avoid that any user can modify settings and then complain that the printer does not work. Its an admin tool.

I am not aware about any configuration option that allows to remove the root password. I am not familiar with MX Linux. Maybe they have used a policy to remove the need for a password entry? Have a look at /usr/share/polkit-1/actions (Debian path).

#382 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Firefox Display Bugs and More » 2024-04-09 15:14:24

I am on Firefox 115.9.1 ESR on Daedalus too, and I can't complain about graphics or drawing errors. But I am not on github or substack.

Well, your OS is two releases back. Maybe your issues are related to some outdated libraries, don't know.

In any case you could update from Beowulf to Chimaera and in a second step from Chimaera to Daedalus. There is no reason why it is impossible. I have done as well upgrades as new installations on my end.

Anyhow, read the release notes and the upgrade instructions, make sure your Beowulf is up to date before starting the upgrade, and disable/remove all non-Devuan repos before you start the upgrade. On the top of this page is a link to Devuan.org. There you can track down the release notes and upgrade instructions.

#383 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Firefox and Firefox Nightly repos in Synaptic . . » 2024-04-06 19:26:54

To set some minds right in terms of relations between Debian and Devuan: The small Devuan team just replaces a minimum set of packages related to systemd by packages that support init freedom. The Devuan web page (accessible by a link on the top of this page) amongst other information also shows a list of banned packages. Only these are modified or replaced.

All the rest is a 1:1 copy of the Debian repo.

This is also true for Firefox. What isn't in the Debian repo can't be found in the Devuan repo, no matter if on cli e.g. by apt or in graphics mode e.g. by Synaptic.

#385 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] libhcrypto.so.4 in Devuan Daedalus? » 2024-04-05 18:14:25

This libhcrypto.so.4 has something to do with Heimdahl stuff. Maybe that's a hint ...

#387 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] USB floppy » 2024-03-28 15:57:25

Can't exactly remember what I did several months ago when reading in some W98SE floppies with an USB floppy drive.

Some ideas:

Make sure you are in the floppy group.
Install mtools and dosfstools.

Then reboot and give it another try.

#388 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] mtp-tool will not start » 2024-03-28 12:58:48

Try to install additionally gvfs-backend and gvfs-fuse. You may need to remove jmtpfs.

This should enable that you get you phone shown on the desktop. Worked for me.

#389 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] mtp-tool will not start » 2024-03-28 09:06:37

You should install fuse3. But you will have to remove jmtpfs, that conflicts with fuse3.

#390 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Daedalus netinstall partitioning » 2024-03-26 19:01:40

At least with the VirtualBox you have to set the mode when configuring the VM. Per default its a legacy VM, only when efi is ticked you have to use efi mechanisms.

#391 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Daedalus netinstall partitioning » 2024-03-24 09:23:31

Yes it can.

Size: my suggestion is 1024 MiB to avoid any issues with strange EFI bios implementations that would like to use the ESP as storage for firmware updates. Minimalists call this way too large. The size is an insurance against the unforeseen.

Filesystem: FAT32/vfat is a must.

If no other ESP is present, create a new one.

If there is an ESP in place already, no need to create a second one. It will not be overwritten or getting damaged. You need to make sure its added in the list of partitions as ESP to tell the installer to use it.

There is one stumbling stone though. Debian and Devuan and if I am not mistaken at least Ubuntu/Mint do add a generic directory into the ESP for their distributions. E.g. Stretch, Buster, Bullseye or Bookworm all add a directory called "debian". Older Devuan releases do the same. You see the problem?

If you want a dual boot for Chimaera and Daedalus you have to do some post processing, or only the later installation is bootable. The solution is to do another grub-install from the booted system with the option --bootloader-id=devuan4 as I am using it. Use efibootmgr to set the boot order as you like.

This rework is not to 100% update safe. I have been through grub updates that did re-establish the generic directory. So I had to redo my specific grub-install.

HTH,

#392 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Daedalus netinstall partitioning » 2024-03-22 21:19:50

To the OP: your setup is quite unusual in my eyes. I always would try it with one encrypted partition.

But your setup should work too. Make sure you have selected /dev/mapper/sda3_crypt, ext4 as file system (or something that is supported), and / as mount point.

Getting these things sorted takes a while. At first I collected lots of web pages and how-to's, and made some sort of notes, and it took several installations to become more or less comfortable with the process without needing notes. Its pretty complex.

#394 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Daedalus netinstall partitioning » 2024-03-22 19:42:17

The question is what do you really want to achieve? The documentation on the Devuan web page uses the guided partitioning, does possibly not help in this case.
I can describe what I do on my PCs. /home is encrypted but always on its own device and set up after the system installation.

Partitioning beforehand with a gparted life stick:
p1 = ESP 512 MiB VFAT/FAT32 on an EFI system, omitted on legacy with MBR/MSDOS partitioning scheme. It gets a bit complicated when GPT is used.
p2 = /boot 2048 MiB ext4 unencrypted.
p3 = large ext4 volume for encryption and LVM inside, set up in the installer by manual partitioning.

In the installer proceed until partitioning and select manual.
Assign p1 to be used as ESP if applicable.
p2: use as ext4, assign /boot, format. Assign names if you want.
p3: use as Volume for Encryption. Exit and go to "Configure encrypted volumes". Go through this process and exit.

Now you should also have a device called something like /dev/mapper/p3_crypt with ext4 file system. Now you set that into "Physical volume for LVM" instead of ext4. Exit.

Call the "Logical Volume Manager". You are asked to provide a name for the Logical Volume group at first. When that is setup you can define Logical volumes, e.g. 1_root, 2_swap as I do, and 3_home if you like. You will be asked for a size definition. You may use MB, % ... . Exit the "Logical Volume Manager" when you are done.
Now you should find /dev/mapper/1_root .... in the display. Select these devices one by one and assign file system and the mount point. Only when this point is done you can leave the partitioning menu and start the installation.

Topic 8 in https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … encryption might give some insight how the result about should look alike.

#395 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » grub-efi-amd64-signed seems to be missing on daedalus dist-upgrade » 2024-03-21 13:42:15

When you are running with Secure Boot set to "Other OS" = Disabled in the Bios, you do not need this package. I do not use SB, I remove grub-efi-amd64-signed on all my efi installations. grub still works alright.

I am on Daedalus with backports kernel 6.6 currently.

#397 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Can I convert Debian 12.4, bookworm, into Devuan? » 2024-03-17 12:53:03

Sure, should work. Have you rebooted?

If that doesn't solve the problem, please post the output of inxi -F

#399 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Want to use startx instead of slim » 2024-03-16 12:30:32

$jacksprat wrote:

In the interim, I tried install [on a different partition] without any X11 packages, just Console stuff, and on reboot it stopped [hung] after the message "Starting bluetooth:  bluetoothd".  I guess no-one tried that yet.

I done that on all my latest Devuan installations including Daedalus to be able to set up the graphical desktop my way. I use netinstalls and disable anything else but the standard system utilities in the sw selection, and do a reboot past the final steps including the grub install. Never had any issues, it simply worked. Independent from if I have network or not, on real HW or in a VM. The console should come up, sometimes when firmware is missing with not so nice graphics, but still readable. No Intel or NVidea involved though, pure AMD stuff.
Have you left out something, skipped an important step during expert install? What kind of PC we are talking about? efi or legacy install? What did you modify versus the procedure described here: https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … all-devuan ?

#400 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » fsck "FEATURE_C12"? » 2024-03-15 18:24:37

Well, a fix could be to reformat it with the oldest distro that needs to access that partition.

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