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Mike-thinky wrote:I got frustrated and rebooted, it came straight back up to 38%
Don't reboot with the machine plugged in and charging. That sudden jump in percentage may have been caused by your battery being flooded with power during the reboot cycle. That will kill the battery *very* quickly indeed. And when I say "kill" I actually mean "potentially explode" (yes, really).
Check /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/energy_full_design and compare it to /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/energy_full to see how much damage has been sustained.
With an empty battery or a full battery that might be possible, but in between I cannot see how that would happen unless the psu delivered huge fault currents into the battery
well it was charge_full and charge_full_design, they both report 3242000, so thankfully a sane psu design.
That gives me some things to look at.
It stayed at 7% for about an hour, I got frustrated and rebooted, it came straight back up to 38%, so the panel thingy in bottom right had been lying to me for most of that hour.
your link took me after a little look to this page:
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/faq
It seems to be that daedalus is missing pm-utils, the rest seems to be systemd tentacles. I will install that and monitor behaviour on low battery and unplugged.
As a separate note, I do like being able to keep laptop batteries charged between 60%min, 80-85%max, it makes the battery last so much longer.
Eventually I will have to tinker to make that possible here too.
Hi,
System nearly how I want it, but this morning the battery ran low, but not empty.
I plugged it back into the charger, and it displayed charging, but the update to the percentage is very very slow, and I do not know where it is set.
As a consequence of getting below 10%? it would not connect to the wifi, so unable to search on there for an answer
So where should I be looking on a Daedalus XFCE and lightdm build to tinker with the battery charge status update interval, and or change the percentage threshold for this?
The settings editor GUI does not have this number available, unless the name is misleading and I have glossed past it?
well I installed libmtp-runtime.
then reinstalled firmware-realtek
and rebooted, solved, I now have wifi too.
finally half sorted, I had to comment out the daedalus-updates line,
Then it let me update a file,
Then I listed apt list *amd*
and found firmware-amd-graphics, which it did not call me out and say it was upgradeable...
Anyway I have some acceptable resolution now, so easier to find out what is wrong with gdebi, as a way of updating the wireless.
following this thread: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=4900
The final suggestion from HOAS did not work for me...
so I tried an install of gdebi again, this time it pulled in lots of stuff, and worked, yay
I have the mx19 and the mx21 deb files, does it matter which one I use?
I am hoping this will work too.
I have revisited dmeg | grep firmware, there is a missing driver for an rtw_8822be
and also an error in the mwrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/r/rtl8821ce returned exit status 10
Well apt update gives me get:1 ... InRelease [39kb]
Ign:2 http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-updates InRelease
Err:3 ditto
404 Not Found[IP: 89.174.102.150 80]
last time it was a different ip address, with another 404
get:4 http:(as above) daedalus/main and64 Packages [8,948 kB]
Reding package lists... done
Then a warning about repository not having a release file, and the update cant be done securely
With broken wifi, and waiting for an ebay usb/ethernet dongle, copying is going to be painful and slow
Well I have been following instructions.
I have found out that it is not pulling in the non-free that is declared in the sources.list
it already had
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main contrib non-free
even before I did the update & upgrade tango
The scripts, even on this site call for linux-headers-$(uname-r), but for some reason, on this iso it does not work.
I have now found I do have the latest headers when I can fix the problem with gdebi on xfce.
But before that I need to fix the resolution. It has not pulled in the non-free, so presumably I need to force it to understand what hardware is present.
Am I better off re-installing as Chimeara? Daedalus seems not quite ready yet for less mainstream kit.
Have a look at https://www.devuan.org/os/packages. For Daedalus the sources.list must contain the main repo line only.
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main contrib non-free
That will do the job.
Well it has that in the list, and somehow it has got the linux headers in advance of the current install:
uname -r by itself works, and tells me 6.0.0.6-amd64
whilst as part of a script it fails, grr,
but apt install linux-headers-6.0.0.6-amd64 tells me the system is already at the newest version, 6.0.12-1. which surely wont work?
well I removed all linux headers, then added
apt install linux-headers-6.0.0.6-amd64
and ended up with the same headers, so they must be right.
First step is getting the amd non-free binary installed I think.
well dmesg | grep firmware tells me that the firmware didnt get installed along the way.
The iso did give some error messages about a list that was missing, but that was two or three days ago
Ahh, just done an update again, and it tells me that deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-updates Release gives a 404, and then does not have a release file, so cannot update securely
So I need to fix the updates first so that it can get to non-free somehow, then I may be able to see what I am doing, these days I find the 1024x768 postage stamp display hard to work with...
etc/apt/sources.list has deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus(&-updates, on the next line) main contrib non-free ( all enabled)
Hi
bought a cheap light laptop recently, trying to get Daedalus onto it currently.
The native resolution of the display is 1980x1080, BUT xrandr insists it is only capable of 1024x768, makes it hard to do things as it makes a lot less text visible, any tips to force it to behave? I found some posts from 2017, but it just said change the config, but did not name the files that held the config...
Also, currently the wifi does not work, so I need to update the realtek driver, but having problems getting xfce/thunar to run gdebi.
Also having problems getting linux-headers-$(uname -r) to work, it seems to not see the $(anything) part, any ideas how to fix that?
currently running the mobile tethered to it, so unable to easily copy across any info from it.
Any usable suggestions welcome, would like to learn how to fix these issues.
I tried again and it worked the second time, so just an unknown error along the way. I am now thinking it was either what you found or finger trouble.
The last few months I have done over 60 VM's just to try out the different flavours of OS available. This is one of the ones I want to stick with.
The idea was to spin up a bunch of different VM's to see which ones I would like to install properly later.
To that end it has worked quite well for me. I have seen a bunch I know I do not want to try.
Not yet ready for full on customisation, so I need it to be close to how I want my desktop to look.
also have used virtualbox before where the company I was working for at that time wanted a bunch of VM's to do some stuff while using windows boxes. Their company, their rules...
I have just tried
devuan_daedalus_5.0.preview-20221226_amd64_desktop.iso
in a Virtualbox VM, most of my other installs go smoothly, but this one has got stuck at the end of the install process.
I chose runit as the init system to try that out, but it might not be the cause of the problem.
It stops at the command line after the install is complete and it has kicked off the iso.
If I log in as me, the password is accepted, but startx does not do anything.
There are also mentions of apparmor during the boot process.
Hello. Just check
.xsession-errors
file (in /home/yourusername/ dir). If I'm not mistaken, the problem lies with the default keyboard keys...and more specifically to keybinding to show desktop. Just delete it, or assign to another one.
Bingo, and thanks.
BatteryChanged discharging: false chargeLevel: 100 actionTime: QTime(Invalid)
Starting idlenesswatcher
"PowerButton" "" ""
"SuspendButton" "" ""
"HibenateButton" "" ""
[Notice] Started
[Notice] X11 error: type: 0, serial: 367, error_code: 10 'BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)', request_code: 33 (GrabKey), minor_code: 0, resourceid: 380
[Notice] X11 error: type: 0, serial: 369, error_code: 10 'BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)', request_code: 33 (GrabKey), minor_code: 0, resourceid: 380
[Notice] X11 error: type: 0, serial: 371, error_code: 10 'BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)', request_code: 33 (GrabKey), minor_code: 0, resourceid: 380
[Notice] X11 error: type: 0, serial: 373, error_code: 10 'BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)', request_code: 33 (GrabKey), minor_code: 0, resourceid: 380
[Warning] Cannot grab shortcut 'Alt+F2'
[Notice] X11 error: type: 0, serial: 695, error_code: 10 'BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)', request_code: 33 (GrabKey), minor_code: 0, resourceid: 380
[Notice] X11 error: type: 0, serial: 697, error_code: 10 'BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)', request_code: 33 (GrabKey), minor_code: 0, resourceid: 380
[Notice] X11 error: type: 0, serial: 699, error_code: 10 'BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)', request_code: 33 (GrabKey), minor_code: 0, resourceid: 380
[Notice] X11 error: type: 0, serial: 701, error_code: 10 'BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)', request_code: 33 (GrabKey), minor_code: 0, resourceid: 380
[Warning] Cannot grab shortcut 'Alt+F1'
[Notice] X11 error: type: 0, serial: 711, error_code: 10 'BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)', request_code: 33 (GrabKey), minor_code: 0, resourceid: 380
[Notice] X11 error: type: 0, serial: 713, error_code: 10 'BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)', request_code: 33 (GrabKey), minor_code: 0, resourceid: 380
[Notice] X11 error: type: 0, serial: 715, error_code: 10 'BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)', request_code: 33 (GrabKey), minor_code: 0, resourceid: 380
[Notice] X11 error: type: 0, serial: 717, error_code: 10 'BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)', request_code: 33 (GrabKey), minor_code: 0, resourceid: 380
[Warning] Cannot grab shortcut 'Control+Alt+D'
Missing chrome or resource URL: resource://gre/modules/UpdateListener.jsm
Missing chrome or resource URL: resource://gre/modules/UpdateListener.sys.mjs
These settings cannot work with your current window manager (Metacity (Marco))
These settings cannot work with your current window manager (Metacity (Marco))
Listener adapter polkit_qt_listener_initiate_authentication
GSimpleAsyncResult: 0x55aecb4ab600
polkit_qt_listener_initiate_authentication callback for 0x55aecb449200
REQUEST
COMPLETED
Listener adapter polkit_qt_listener_initiate_authentication_finish
Now I will be looking up which files set these keybindings.
I renamed the .xsession-errors file and rebooted, it does take about 20 secs to wake up, and generates an 8k file and the first errors are about dbus and wanting to start systemd!!!
dbus-update-activation-environment: systemd --user not found, ignoring --systemd argument
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge
dbus-update-activation-environment: systemd --user not found, ignoring --systemd argument
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
dbus-update-activation-environment: systemd --user not found, ignoring --systemd argument
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting SHELL=/bin/bash
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge
the next bit of going wrong seems to be:
Output: "Virtual6"
Output: "Virtual7"
Output: "Virtual8"
New PolkitAgentListener 0x5572435cf000
Adding new listener PolkitQt1::Agent::Listener(0x7fffc5d6adb0) for 0x5572435cf000
lxqt-config-monitor: Settings applied.
isPrimaryInstance
** (xiccd:3341): WARNING **: 18:57:39.708: EDID is empty
** (xiccd:3341): WARNING **: 18:57:39.725: EDID is empty
size of cached file QSize(1153, 768) , requiredSize: QSize(1153, 768)
origin "/usr/share/lxqt/themes/ambiance/Butterfly-Kenneth-Wimer.jpg"
QDBusMarshaller: cannot add an invalid QVariant
QDBusConnection: error: could not send message to service "org.freedesktop.login1" path "/org/freedesktop/login1" interface "org.freedesktop.login1.Manager" member "CanHibernate": Marshalling failed: Variant containing QVariant::Invalid passed in arguments
** Dbus error **************************
So that is the next things to google for.
I have had enough of my current Linux install, so I have spun up a collection of VM's to see which ones I could use long term.
So I have Chimaera nstalled as Cinnamon, Mate, LXQT, Ghost BSD, Trisquel, and some others. They all have 1 core, 8Gb of Ram, 80Mb of Video to emulate a similar fairly heavy workload.
The LXQT version takes about 4 secs to come up according to the dmesg logs:
[ 3.680341] ext2 filesystem being mounted at /boot supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff)
[ 3.706336] EXT4-fs (dm-2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 3.719381] Adding 999420k swap on /dev/mapper/devuanC--vg-swap_1. Priority:-2 extents:1 across:999420k SSFS
[ 3.807282] audit: type=1400 audit(1669999101.792:2): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="libreoffice-xpdfimport" pid=1013 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 3.814743] audit: type=1400 audit(1669999101.800:3): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="libreoffice-oopslash" pid=1022 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 3.833185] audit: type=1400 audit(1669999101.820:4): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf" pid=1026 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 3.833188] audit: type=1400 audit(1669999101.820:5): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="/usr/sbin/cupsd" pid=1026 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 3.833189] audit: type=1400 audit(1669999101.820:6): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="/usr/sbin/cupsd//third_party" pid=1026 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 3.947562] audit: type=1400 audit(1669999101.932:7): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="libreoffice-soffice" pid=1035 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 3.947564] audit: type=1400 audit(1669999101.932:8): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="libreoffice-soffice//gpg" pid=1035 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 3.962661] audit: type=1400 audit(1669999101.948:9): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="nvidia_modprobe" pid=1042 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 3.962666] audit: type=1400 audit(1669999101.948:10): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="nvidia_modprobe//kmod" pid=1042 comm="apparmor_parser"
root@devuanC:~# dmesg | grep -i "error||warning|fail|segfault|fatal"
That is fine, and comparable to the other VM's
The desktop comes up and is fully decorated at about that time, BUT it takes at least another 10-20 secs before the mouse is able to select anything, eg start menu.
Any ideas what or where I should be looking for that delay just in the LXQT version?
Once that initial delay is over it is then quite snappy, faster than cinnamon for sure.
with today's larger drives, the CHS figures are always a fudged number. You need to dig into the definitions of all of these numbers in all the modes. There used to be a program that would let you unravel the numbers that work, but I cant remember what it was called. I will try and look though my older files to see if I can find it.
The same happens to everyone not using a US keyboard, the easiest way to make sure it does not catch you out is to turn on the "show password" option when choosing the root and user passwords. the install starts by assuming it is a US keyboard, and keeps to that right up until it writes everything to disk.
No easy way to solve this, but just keep remembering to make passwords visible on the screen when you create them
Well that seems to be working, a suggestion on the password pages, change the "Show password" tick box to be before the password entry, and change the message to let anyone not using a US keyboard that they should try and use this option! It caught me out first time though.
Thanks for the help.
Why not pick one of the installer ISOs instead?
They have desktop, server or netinstall in their names.
https://www.devuan.org/get-devuan
I did use that link and went to one of the mirrors, but did not see a desktop option at the time I went.
I am now downloading a desktop version and will try that
Hi,
I have a laptop with 2 drives in it, a 250Gb nVME and a 1TSSD, anyway I did something (unknown) silly and it will not boot at all,
It did have Beowulf,as that was current at installation. I have separated out the files so that the ssd was for data storedaway from the home directory. I want to save as much as possible from /Home/Me as possible, but fully expect to do a fresh install of Chimera.
Can I trust the inbuilt install guide not to wipe the ssd when I want the os on the nvme.
I know I will have to use a live installation to copy out from /home/me.
Any other suggestions?
I am trying a dry run of the install by trying to install the Daedalus ISO into virtualbox to see if it is stable enough with my usecases.
Anyway I kept ending up in the UEFI shell, so gave up on the realistic install and tried a fresh VM using legacy, that kept coming up as not bootable.
The ISO was:
devuan_daedalus_5.0.preview-20221031_amd64_pool1.iso
Any easy tips?
The current computer is Linux mint 20.04,and achive manager is too dumbed down to let you see hidden files, and compress does not allow iso's either.
I copied in the uefi and other folders from a debiam iso and used mkisofs, but that did notwork.
Is there a simple way to make sure I copy a suitable ISO from the mirrors, or some straightforward instructions to convert?
Hi,
A kobo Aura HD was connected, it was recognised, and I then was able to load some pdf's onto it. I then wanted to update the firmware, using this page as a guide:
https://cheat.readthedocs.io/en/latest/kobo.html
In order to have some more free space to type on the desk I moved the kobo as carefully as I could, but the cable briefly lost contact during the move, I now cannot see any files on the kobo.
[1393662.168185] usb-storage 2-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[1393662.168681] scsi host6: usb-storage 2-1:1.0
[1393663.179066] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access Kobo eReader-2.4.1 0110 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[1393663.179849] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[1393663.181673] sd 6:0:0:0: Power-on or device reset occurred
[1393663.184711] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 6676478 512-byte logical blocks: (3.42 GB/3.18 GiB)
[1393663.297423] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
[1393663.407413] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Asking for cache data failed
[1393663.407431] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[1393663.907475] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[1393762.051145] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, device number 96
[1393960.993462] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 97 using xhci_hcd
[1393961.147922] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=2237, idProduct=4193, bcdDevice= 1.10
[1393961.147932] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[1393961.147936] usb 2-1: Product: eReader-2.4.1
[1393961.147940] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Kobo
[1393961.147943] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: N204B33402399
[1393961.152376] usb-storage 2-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[1393961.153005] scsi host6: usb-storage 2-1:1.0
[1393962.154981] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access Kobo eReader-2.4.1 0110 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[1393962.155843] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[1393962.157758] sd 6:0:0:0: Power-on or device reset occurred
[1393962.160794] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 6676478 512-byte logical blocks: (3.42 GB/3.18 GiB)
[1393962.267704] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
[1393962.377781] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Asking for cache data failed
[1393962.377804] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[1393962.887810] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[1394143.650523] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, device number 97
that shows two succesive attempts at connection.
lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0 7:0 0 512B 1 loop
sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 23.3G 0 part /
├─sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part
├─sda5 8:5 0 9.3G 0 part /var
├─sda6 8:6 0 976M 0 part [SWAP]
├─sda7 8:7 0 18.6G 0 part /tmp
└─sda8 8:8 0 1.8T 0 part /home
sdb 8:16 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 128M 0 part
└─sdb2 8:18 0 931.4G 0 part /data
sdc 8:32 1 3.2G 0 disk
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
so lsblk shows the 3.2GB fat partition, gparted thinks it is only 512b in size, but the kobo starts up and runs so the card is still ok, It also was ready to load and update through windows.
sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Disk model: Samsung SSD 870
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x9e51261c
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 48828415 48826368 23.3G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 48830462 3907028991 3858198530 1.8T 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 48830464 68360191 19529728 9.3G 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 68362240 70361087 1998848 976M 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 70363136 109422591 39059456 18.6G 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 109424640 3907028991 3797604352 1.8T 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: Samsung SSD 860
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: EEB62325-CE32-4D93-BBB5-A0E0F8F14663
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdb1 34 262177 262144 128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sdb2 264192 1953523711 1953259520 931.4G Microsoft basic data
Disk /dev/loop0: 512 B, 512 bytes, 1 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x220acfb8
fdisk cant see it properly, all I can think is that the usb handshakes are being mis-interpreted?
Hi,
Mixed news, I used another (Larger) micro sd card, ended up putting about 30Gb of files (~18K files), The kindle did slowly load them, but crashed within a few days. Ended up needing to do a factory reset, and it has now been recognised by this laptop!