To make sure: you have not assigned a password to the encrypted /home as first step?

There is an option to cryptsetup named luksAddKey. With this option you can add further keys (either passwords or keyfiles) but this will ask for an already existing key. I have always used a passphrase as first key, and have no idea how to add a key with a keyfile as only option.

First of all you should correct the fourth line to also read:

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-proposed-updates main

Since Daedalus isn't released yet, I would uncomment this line for the time being.

The rest looks ok, at least for amd64 it works.

I assume you have installed Chimaera = Devuan Stable? Or did you use Daedalus = Devuan Testing?

Devuan kernels are Debian kernels. Generally spoken make sure you have the meta package linux-image-amd64 installed. That makes sure that the latest released kernel is pulled. For Stable you have the choice to add backports as sub-repo, currently on 6.1 kernel. Don't pull in other distros, you will create a Franken Devuan.

The initramfs will be created by the installation post-processing.

Some further information: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/229450

Sometimes they write nonsense ....

And you should avoid using pkgmaster, use deb.devuan.org.

https://www.devuan.org/os/packages

I think Thunar belongs to XFCE. I am no XFCE user, mine is Cinnamon and Mate. What I can tell is:

When /dev/sda5 is mounted to /delt, you should be able to find the mount point in the file system structure. Open Thunar, then open the File System. There you should see /delt. Try to open. May fail due to access rights.

To your post #5: all devices belong to /root, there is NO way to change rights to other than root.

What you need to do is when  /dev/sda5 is mounted to /delt:
Open a root console, in there:

# lsblk
# df -h 
# cd /delt
# mkdir hans
# chown hans.hans hans

Look at post #15

Replace pkgmaster by deb, then consider if you require the deb-src part. If you are not compiling packages then delete the 3 entries, they are not required.
In addition I suggest to add non-free-firmware (new with Bookworn/Daedalus).

When you install Daedalus with KDE, you will get a working system. No need to fumble, the installation takes care for replacements for the banned packages. Well, I am not a KDE user, but I have tried once Devuan/KDE in a VM, works.
I am not aware about any GUI tool to manage sysvinit, what for? Its set during the installation, and normally you do not need to change anything.
On Mate/Cinnamon you get a log file viewer as GUI tool. I would assume something like that is also available for KDE.
I have installed PA on my workstation, my laptop is using pipewire. Both do the job.

Look at this thread: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=3331

Look at the boot messages or check the syslog for the phrase "missing firmware".

BTW, here is a tutorial: https://tutorialforlinux.com/2021/06/15 … tallation/

That talks about firmware. You will need to enable non-free in Chimaera's sources.list.

Thanks, that did the job. Did run the command on Tuesday, can't remember what the output was (may be none?), too many things going on here. When checking today I saw that all logs referenced in the conf have new date stamps and are much smaller now.

Maybe I will add that to my cron jobs to be run on each first day of the month.