Do  I need to edit debian/control file to remove libaudit-dev,libselinux1-dev
//sorry for multiple q's since I last built deb binaries a long time ago.

I checked the pool and there is no openRC packages there for Ceres. From what I understands, Devuan repositories uses Debian repos for most other packages? Will you share the Ceres version of openRC?

apt source openrc/ceres

Reading package lists... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for openrc

Hmm.. I think I will have to get openRC source for Beowulf and patch it with Debian OpenRC?

Great! Thanks for that. So, this line needs to be commented out to get pulseaudio working.
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Now, almost everything looks fine with Devuan.
I was almost convinced that Gnome 3.x will not work without systemd. But, proven wrong!

I selected gdm3 as display manager. Now, wayland session is working fine.

:~$ loginctl show-session 1 -p Type
Type=wayland

Now, the only thing is pulseaudio not starting at boot time.

:~$ start-pulseaudio-x11 
Connection failure: Connection refused
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused

Thanks. Forgot to add that pulseaudio did not start at boot time.

May be no one hear enjoy Hindi/Urdu songs. Mine favourite is this song from Guide (1965):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM98lgeku80

Thank you for all the work to keep us experience a systemd free simple Linux and userland with Devuan. Wish to see more Debian/Utnubu/antiX developers collaborate to sanitize Debian packages out of the systemd. I hope antiX developers at least will connect to Devuan now.

Slight OT: But, what kind of ridiculous reasons are they claiming in Debian mailing lists to enforce systemd? Is there someone putting a revolver on their back to enforce systemd? Yeah, most of us know.

UPDATE: I followed https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=11114#p11114 and installed lightdm. Now, lightdm works after commenting out "session   optional pam_systemd.so" and adding    session   "optional pam_elogind.so" in /etc/pam.d/lightdm-greeter . Then, I did a sudo telinit 1 and returned to runlevel 2 - lightdm worked! Restart, shutdown buttons now works! Thanks to @fred43 for the helpful HOWTO. IMHO, Some info about using elogind and pam, policykit for Gnome, Cinnamon, XFCE etc with lightdm and other greeters should be added in the main page.

To add user list to lightdm, you have to edit /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/01_debian.conf and change "greeter-hide-users=true" to "greeter-hide-users=false".

I also installed lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings and executed "lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings-pkexec" and this is how it looks now:

For me, Cinnamon worked with LXDM only. Lightdm has shutdown, restart buttons grayed out. Polkit issues.

OpenRC version is very old - 0.23.x in ASCII . Latest version available in Devuan is that of Debian - 0.34-3. OpenRC latest is 0.38.x

So, If I manually install OpenRC 0.34-3, librc1 from Beowulf, will it be OK? Is there a way, I can manually download openRC from Beowulf repositories without adding beowulf to sources.list? Is the packages originates from Debian Buster?

Thank you for your answers @fsmithred.
BTW, at this point, how is OpenRC integration in Devuan? Is it an easy conversion from sysV to OpenRC. And, is OpenRC parallel start supported in Devuan.

I'm using ubuntuzilla repository for new firefox quantum (62.0) in Devuan ASCII. It installs into /opt and so far working good.
https://sourceforge.net/p/ubuntuzilla/w … stallation