The xfce configuration files are in /etc/xdg/xfce4/ for the defaults, and any changes the user makes to the desktop are stored in ~/.config/xfce4. Other desktop configs are also in ~/.config.

One thing you can try is to move the configs out of the way, log out and log in again. That will make it like the very first login. Then you can inspect the old configs to see if something changed.

It ;probably means that you still have some debian repository enabled in /etc/apt/source.list/ or sources.list.d/

The version it says will be installed is the version currently in trixie (debian testing).

Make sure you use codenames in sources.list. (i.e. daedalus) not "stable" or "testing".

Run 'apt update' after any changes in your sources.

I don't see it either. That's weird - they have i386 for 78, 102 and 115, but they skipped 91. You might find a suitable version somewhere else. I don't know if Mozilla makes old versions available, or maybe some brownish distro has one that works.

I've been playing with an ASUS EEE this week, trying to figure out what software to use on it. There's an old Refracta Jessie on it that runs fine, but daedalus is slow. Anyway, I'm posting this from the firefox-esr I just installed after increasing my swapfile to 2G (same as the RAM). Scrolling is a little choppy, but it seems to be working ok. Only two tabs are open, so I'm not even using half my RAM. Youtube video is choppy, but the audio is smooth. I think the cpu is the limiting issue.

I've seen the disk order change when booting with usb in some cases such that what was /dev/sda when booting from internal drive is called some other device name in the installer.

Adding something like this to the qemu command might help for some things:

-smp cores=2,threads=2

I don't know what else you could do. I do know that you could make it a lot slower by removing the '-enable-kvm' option.

The the system you're running is a debian-based live system, you could boot the whole iso to RAM and run from there. Booting will be slower but opening programs will be very fast. Add the word "toram" to the boot command or possibly add "toram=filsystem.squashfs" depending on how the usb stick is arranged.

I could never figure out how to use virt-manager, so I just use plain qemu. Something like this to boot the iso file from your hard drive...

qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -cdrom devuan_whatever.iso 

Change the 2048 to however much RAM you want to give it (in MB)

Edit: Fixed typo.

It's not clear what you want to accomplish.

1. If your usb stick is set up with a persistent volume to save changes in the live system, you can install qemu in it. If you don't have persistence set up, you would be better off making a new live-usb with a system that has qemu installed.

2. If you want to install qemu, it would be easier to install it from the devuan repo instead of compiling it from source.

3. Where is the other OS you want to boot? Are you planning to install it into a VM inside your live system? Is there a virtual hard disk with a system already on it?

Most of our packages are from debian, unchanged. That includes python3-venv.

Sometimes an update or upgrade will fail if you happen to hit a mirror when it's updating itself. In this case, trying after a few minutes will fix it.

Please post your /etc/apt/sources.list to make sure it's correct.

Refracta isos have openssh-server installed; the devuan-live isos do not. That's why you can't ssh to the devuan box.

How did you start Thunderbird in a live session? It's not in the isos. Did you install it in the live session? If so, you may have run out of memory.

I went to www.cepher.net and looked inside. I'd say there's a problem with that website. Turning the pages of the book uses 213% of the cpu in a VM that has been allotted 2 cores. It didn't lock up, but it was acting like it was close to doing so.

Install sysv-rc-conf and run it (as root) in a terminal. Arrow keys to navigate, space bar to select/unselect and q to quit.

And while you're in that root terminal...

less /var/log/syslog

In the rc1 live isos, -updates and -security are already enabled in sources.list. Just update the sources and install runit-init. If you want to keep refractasnapshot and refractainstaller, then also install live-config-runit at the same time.

# apt update
# apt upgrade
# apt install runit-init live-config-runit