In my case, no. I have 3 encrypted partitions for the fixed data, volatile Beowulf and volatile Chimaera.

The main system is an encrypted LVM for / and swap.

As fsmithred I have opened LVM shares to fix problems with live systems like Knoppix or the rescue mode of a boot medium often enough to say that I never had any issues.

rolfie

There are https mirrors available, refer to https://www.devuan.org/get-devuan.

Nevertheless, the sources.list should look like described in https://www.devuan.org/os/packages.

No matter if you use http or https, the checksums of the individual packages ensure that they are safe.

rolfie

Very strange problem. What was your intention? Just install Chimaera with XFCE as desktop? Or did you want to install several DEs?

I have done various Chimaera installations by now, and have not experienced such problems. Well, I usually do a cli install and then after a reboot do install either Mate or Cinnamon manually. Nevertheless, to do that I have to untick the default selections.

On page https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … all-devuan there is a nice guide including screenshots of all the relevant installer pages. Please refer to topic 17. I think the screenshot misses the tick for XFCE as default. I usually just leave the standard system utilities ticked and do the rest manually.

My guess: you may have ticked more than one DE. This may go along with several Window Managers. There is a list somewhere which DE per default uses which WM. For Mate and Cinnamon I happily use LightDM.

rolfie

Chimaera and Cinnamon/Lightdm with Deepsea: no issues.

rolfie

Please also post your sources.list. The wifi chip may need non-free firmware. Please execute and post here.

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

rolfie

That would be valid for ASCII, not for Beowulf/Buster.

rolfie

My intention is just to copy the files listed in the playlist, and not all the CDs from the server. Simple reason being space available.

Thanks for the link to Stackexchange. At first sight rsync looks promising, at least it might allow for using the specs in the m3u file. I have started to fiddle with the example given there and tried to adapt it to my needs. But its not exactly going as I would expect.

As a start I have reduced the list of files to be copied to 3 to be able to test the options. And I have prepared an empty space on a drive on my workstation. I have left out the sed stuff, since the 3 test files just contain a lot of spaces. Thought that should work. Something still isn't right.

~/Musik$ rsync -a --include-from=/home/rolf/Musik/Test.m3u --include='*/' --exclude='*' /srv/Audio/ /mnt/Daten/rolf/Audio --progress --prune-empty-dirs
building file list ... 
403 files to consider
./
~/Musik$ rsync -a --files-from=/home/rolf/Musik/Test.m3u --include='*/' --exclude='*' /srv/Audio/ /mnt/Daten/rolf/Audio --progress --prune-empty-dirs
building file list ... 
rsync: link_stat "/srv/Audio/srv/Audio/CDs/Adele - Adele21/Adele - Rolling in the deep.wav" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: link_stat "/srv/Audio/srv/Audio/CDs/Adele - Adele21/Adele - Set fire to the rain.wav" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: link_stat "/srv/Audio/srv/Audio/CDs/Adele - Adele21/Adele - Someone like you.wav" failed: No such file or directory (2)
0 files to consider
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1207) [sender=3.1.3]
~/Musik$ rsync -a --files-from=/home/rolf/Musik/Test.m3u --include='*/' --exclude='*' / /mnt/Daten/rolf/Audio --progress --prune-empty-dirs
building file list ... 0 files to consider
~/Musik$ rsync -a --files-from=/home/rolf/Musik/Test.m3u --include='*/' --exclude='*' // /mnt/Daten/rolf/Audio --progress --prune-empty-dirs
building file list ... 0 files to consider

Any idea what not right?

rolfie

The playlist is a selection of *.wav files, grown over the years from a Winamp playlist under Windows. On the server I have stored all the ripped CDs I own, one directory per CD. And yes, the paths and file names contain whitespaces and special characters all over. I don't want to copy every single file but just the ones listed in the playlist. And about 500 files manually ......

rolfie

@Ralph: thanks for the input. I was so deep in digging into the wlan issues that I forgot that my company laptops always did ask me to shut down wifi when having a lan connection established. I probably need to start from scratch again.

Isn't there a tool that does this switching sort of automagically if configured accordingly? Or do I have to re-invent the wheel? Is any of the network managers of any use in this case?

Well, I think I need a break now for a day or so. My brain is confused by too many different posts describing differernt ways.

See you later alligator.

For the time being, I will stick with the static adressing. Thats not the issue. And I don't want to switch my complete home network from static to dynamic adresses right now. No time for this.

Yes, can confirm this. BUUUT: when I remove the gateway definition in the wlan0 section, I can't get the interface to wake up again. Has cost me several minutes not to say hours now. So I have the message back and the wlan0 at least being recognised agaion by the router. Also I have looked a bit deeper into the routing issue and found one or the other bit of information in the internet. Unfortunatley, a lot of the stuff seems to be outdated, syntax no more correct .....

Made a little step forward by adding a route for wlan0:

route add -net 10.5.5.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 10.5.5.1 dev wlan0
# route
Kernel-IP-Routentabelle
Ziel            Router          Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
default         fritz.box       0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
localnet        fritz.box       255.255.255.0   UG    0      0        0 wlan0
localnet        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
localnet        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 wlan0
link-local      0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0 eth0

Now a few pings do work:

# ping -c 3 10.5.5.1
PING 10.5.5.1 (10.5.5.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.5.5.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=6.15 ms
64 bytes from 10.5.5.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=6.77 ms
64 bytes from 10.5.5.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=4.38 ms

--- 10.5.5.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 4.384/5.768/6.770/1.010 ms
# ping -c 3 8.8.8.8 
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 10.5.5.31 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 10.5.5.31 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 10.5.5.31 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable

--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 2050ms
pipe 3
# ping google.com -c 3
PING google.com(fra16s56-in-x0e.1e100.net (2a00:1450:4001:82f::200e)) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from fra16s56-in-x0e.1e100.net (2a00:1450:4001:82f::200e): icmp_seq=1 ttl=119 time=19.3 ms
64 bytes from fra16s56-in-x0e.1e100.net (2a00:1450:4001:82f::200e): icmp_seq=2 ttl=119 time=18.4 ms
64 bytes from fra16s56-in-x0e.1e100.net (2a00:1450:4001:82f::200e): icmp_seq=3 ttl=119 time=20.4 ms

--- google.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 18.355/19.366/20.437/0.850 ms
# ping www.spiegel.de -c 3
PING aacfb9d106f4.link11.de (128.65.210.180) 56(84) bytes of data.
From rh031.lan.beiHeinrichs (10.5.5.31) icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From rh031.lan.beiHeinrichs (10.5.5.31) icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From rh031.lan.beiHeinrichs (10.5.5.31) icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable

--- aacfb9d106f4.link11.de ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 2056ms
pipe 3

As it looks like now I can ping the DSL router, and a few things work on the internet. Strangely enough the 8.8.8.8 did not work, while google.com was resolved. Also tried to call up the magazine Spiegel with Firefox, adress isn't resolved. No idea why not.

Something still isn't right.

Also tried to add some routing ruies to the interfaces file, does not seem to work as expected.

Where do I need to go from here?

rolfie