If you have not already deleted that file, please wait. Below is the last changelog entry for the package that provided that file in the past. Latest version of the package should remove all the old files, including avoid-systemd. Please see if devuan-baseconf is installed. Let me know if it is.

If it's not, please install it and see if it removes avoid-systemd. Let me know that, too. Thanks.

If you already deleted it, then don't worry about it. It's no longer needed.

devuan-baseconf (0.6.4+devuan3.2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Disable debian/install and debian/postinst.
  * Keep postrm to remove old files.
  * Keep package until nothing depends on it.

 -- fsmithred <fsmithred@gmail.com>  Sun, 05 Jan 2020 17:12:00 -0500

I've used refractainstaller to install to lvm. You have to use the cli version of the installer, not the gui. And you have to do a lot of the work manually, which you seem to be doing anyway. Maybe something in my Howto will help you.
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2323

One important change. The howto says that your logical volume names should end in a digit. I fixed the installer so that is no longer true. You can use all alpha characters in your /dev/mapper/names.

Here's the themerc for openbox with the sapphire hexes. The one in the current package is unchanged from the original clearlooks-phenix theme. Replace the one in the sapphire theme package with this one. If you can figure out why it doesn't work,  please let us know.
https://paste.debian.net/1248088/

paste is good for 90 days.

First mistake was excusable - OP believed the screen that asked him to load firmware from external media. Almost everyone who sees this screen should ignore it and continue. The firmware usually gets installed automatically.

We should probably put a screenshot of that in the install guide. I'm not sure how to get that. The screen doesn't seem to come up when booting a VM. Maybe a camera shot of a hardware boot?

Welcome to Devuan. In Debian and Devuan, openrc uses the sysvinit scripts. That's about all I know about it. I think there are some on-screen instructions when you install it that talk about fixing links that might be relevant if you're replacing sysvinit but get done automatically if you choose openrc when installing the system. That's based on my memory of doing a couple of test installs in the past few years, worth what you paid for it.

Removed packages sometimes leave config files behind. Purging the package instead will remove the configs. To see all leftover configs and remove them:

aptitude search ~c
aptitude purge ~c
# or be specific
aptitude purge <package package...>

This might be of interest. (more package manager commands)
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=511

There are a few people here using openrc. You'll get better answers from them. Also, search the forum for past discussions on openrc. There have been a few.

Fixed version of refractainstaller is now in ceres and will migrate down to daedalus. I'll have to pull some strings to get it into chimaera-proposed-updates. If you're in a hurry to get it, you can download it from the repo.

refractainstaller-base
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/poo … .2_all.deb

refractainstaller-gui
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/poo … .2_all.deb

This one will correctly remove the diversion of anacron and rename it so it runs. It also contains a postinst script, so that when you upgrade the installer to this version, it will check your system for the leftover cruft from the diversion and correct it. It does not restart anacron, so logs won't rotate until after a reboot or a manual restart of anacron.

No, we're not archiving the testing isos. To install daedalus or ceres now, you can either install a chimaera base system and upgrade or else do a debootstrap install. All the live isos have debootstrap installed.

Type menu at the boot prompt and press ENTER.

The second pair of commands I posted are what the installer should do. They could also be run in a live session immediately before installing the system.

Currently, the installer removes the diversion but does not rename the diverted file. To fix an installed system, you remove the symlink and rename the file. I think restarting anacron is sufficient, but a reboot would certainly work.

rm /usr/sbin/anacron
mv /usr/sbin/anacron.orig.anacron /usr/sbin/anacron
/etc/init.d/anacron restart

anacron and cron are started from init scripts. anacron checks /etc/anacrontab for what jobs it should do. (It runs the cron scripts.)

Edit: Here's the bug report https://bugs.devuan.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=682

I thought I fixed this in an earlier version, but I did it wrong. To fix your installed system:

rm /usr/sbin/anacron
mv /usr/sbin/anacron.orig.anacron /usr/sbin/anacron

Getting this out to everyone might be tricky. That would include anyone who installed Refracta, Devuan Live, or any other system that has anacron installed an used refractainstaller. I could put the fix in a postinstall script in the next version, but I think the user should be warned and asked to OK it. I don't know how to program debconf and I don't really have time to figure it out right now. If anyone knows how to get a debconf dialog to run from a postinst script, please help. I can tell you what the script needs to do.

Poke around in here:
https://git.devuan.org/devuan/documenta … t/graphics

Look in the logo directory and the numbered directories for the different releases.
Some of the icons are provided by the desktop-base package. That would include any icons used in the boot screen, the login screen and the icon for the applications menu in the xfce panel. All of them are archived in the documentation git I linked.

First thing I would try is to run dpkg-reconfigure lightdm as root and set lightdm as the default.

Make sure elogind and libpam elogind are installed and check that consolekit and libpam-ckconnector are not installed.

Installing multiple desktops in devuan doesn't always work because there are some differences in how policykit works with the desktops and the login manager. By installing all of them, you are blazing a new trail.