Hello:

I just tried reinstalling:

~$ sudo apt install --reinstall wine
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 70.6 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus/main amd64 wine all 8.0~repack-4 [70.6 kB]
Fetched 70.6 kB in 8s (8709 B/s)
(Reading database ... 181668 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../wine_8.0~repack-4_all.deb ...
Unpacking wine (8.0~repack-4) over (8.0~repack-4) ...
Setting up wine (8.0~repack-4) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for wine (8.0~repack-4) ...
~$ 

Reinstall went through with no warnings.
Unfortunately the problem remains.

Thanks for your input.

Best,

A.

Hello:

Thinking the unsupported nvidia 340.108 driver for my twin PCI-e cards could well be the cause, I decided that my upgrading to Chimaera would be a good opportunity to see if the nouveau driver worked as well as it did in the Daedalus live-iso I had tested some time ago.

But it was (indeed) a Chimaera.

After a few hours of trying to get the two card / three screen layout to work as it was supposed to, I called it a night.

I had not had this much fun since I first spent a couple of days to get a properly working xorg.conf in a version of PCLinuxOS.
That was many years ago, may be too old for all that now.

At the time the effort proved to be well worth it as I was able to use the same configuration file from Jesse to Beowulf by simply dropping it in place, no questions asked.

But nouveau would have none of it and the xorg-config generated file was not a solution.

This morning, before I restored my Beowulf image I decided to see if whatever problem I had in front of me had been solved/taken care of in Daedalus, so I went ahead with the upgrade.

Went by witout much ado and although few desktop settings got mangled (conky panel and xfce4-panel placement and transparency) the three screens were recognised and working as intended fron the get-go, with Right click -> Open [ Terminal or root Thunar ] here is working as expected.

So, for the time being everything is well enough, time will tell.

Many thanks to the developers/maintainers involved in/with Devuan and nouveau: the problems I came across did not get fixed by themselves.

Best,

A.

Hello:

A rather belated update.

Good times, bad times ...
Edie Brikell comes to mind.

Finally got my new fibre link installed so I went ahead with that.
Worked prefectly well.

Thank you very much.

Best,

A.

Hello:

Indeed ...

Not only that, he has devoted many hundred of hours to Devuan.
And continues to do so.

@oui
If you have problems with Devuan, you may want to consider using another distribution more suited to your specific needs.
There are a great many to choose from, with and without systemd.

A.

Hello:

From what I make out of the OP, the reduced functionality has only been applied to sid, the unstable developement Debian, meaning Excalibur in Devuan.

I'd opine that there is still a long way to go till the package with the reduced functionality actually gets into the Debian stable repositories.

In the meantime, I'm sure a way to get what different users need without going against the basic do one thing and do it well philosophy will be found.

eg: base package for most users plus a set of separately packaged plugins (or similar) for those who need the different additional functionalities.(?)

Just my $0.02.

Best,

A.

Hello:

Devuan Excalibur is a testing/in development version of Devuan, the equivalent (sans systemd) of Debian Trixie.

That is surely the reason you are having issues with installing FreeCAD.
I am assuming that FreeCAD worked properly under Devuan Daedalus, yes?

If FreeCAD is essential to you, you may want to consider rolling back to the stable version of Devuan (ie: Daedalus) you were using.

Now, now ...
No need to scream and/or plead to get help here. 8^)

Best,

A.

Hello:

Maybe.
And then, maybe not.

My verbose and redundant writing style comes from having had dedicated school teachers and my last 20+ years of professional practise in the public sector. ie: reading, proofing, vetting and as time went by authoring tender documents and technical specifications for the government.

The sort of work that, with my initials on it, ended up on a cabinet minister's desk and was usually pored through by the government's comptroller/auditor or a disgruntled bidder's legal team.

So I think it will be a maybe not.

That said, thank you for your input. 8^)

Best,

A.

Hello:

No need to apologise.  8^)

And that's the spirit it was received in. (I was actually about to riff on it but decided to stay on topic)
Rest assured that no offense was taken, none whatsoever.

Yes, but being so meticulous is time consuming, I sometimes I forget.

If at all possible and does not cause any issues, could you consider extending it 10' or 15'?

Or maybe use a pop-up like some banks use:
---
Still there? Logging out in XX seconds.    -> where XX is a countdown from XX to nought.
---

Thanks in advance.

Best,

A.

Hello:

It seems that ceph is a Debian package.
ie: maintainers are Ceph Packaging Team <team+ceph@tracker.debian.org>

Meaning that it is not a sanitised Devuan package with a Devuan maintainer.

Debian all but dropped support for sysvinit software as of Bullseye so it is highly probable that the ceph package does not have the all necessary files to run on Devuan.

But since it is in the Daedalus repository, a bug could be filed against it in Devuan.
Maybe the maintainers can do something about that that if the only thing lacking is an init script.

Best,

A.

Hello:

I run my box on Devuan Beowulf with a backported kernel.

~$ uname -a
Linux devuan 5.10.0-0.deb10.16-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.127-2~bpo10+1 (2022-07-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux
~$ 

I have no docker containers installed.

~$ apt list | grep installed  | grep -i docker 
--- snip ---
~$ 

When I ask apt about ceph, systemctl and systemd, I get this:

~$ sudo apt install --dry-run ceph | grep -i "systemctl\|systemd"
--- snip ...
~$ 

As you can see, as per grep, the terminal printout does not contain any systemctl or systemd strings.

Likewise, when I ask apt about docker, I get this:

~$ sudo apt install --dry-run docker | grep -i "systemctl\|systemd"
--- snip ---
~$ 

So much for my Devuan system.

But on your Devuan system you are getting this error from cephadm:

systemctl: ERROR:systemctl:Unit systemd-timesyncd.service could not be found.

And systemd-timesyncd.service seems to be a Debian systemd-specific package.

So why is ceph looking for a systemd-specific Debian package when installed in Devuan?
No idea, but it do not think it should be happening.

Q: did you install ceph from a Devuan repository?

Looking around for a clue, I found this thread at the Bunsen Labs forum:

There is more discussion on systemd-timesyncd.service further down.

It may or may not be of relevance but from what I can make of what I read, it would seem (?) that ceph needs a time sync daemon to work but is configured to use a systemd service which (quite obviously) Devuan does not have, hence the error message.

That said, could ceph use any other one? eg: npt

Cannot really say as this is where I have reached my pay-grade ceiling.

Best,

A.