1. I always end up at the qemu uefi shell, type exit, then go into the Boot Maintenance and drill down until I find the actual boot file (grubx64.efi or something like that).  It's in EFI/debian.

Since you said you could fix it, I booted and reinstalled the bootloader with

grub-install --bootloader-id=devuan

and it updates the bootloaders in EFI/debian instead of making a devuan directory. That's the first time I've seen that happen, but I've been seeing unexpected behavior in grub for a few years, so I'm not too surprised. And after that, it boots correctly.

I don't know why it doesn't work from the installer. It runs the same commands.

2. Another 'I don't know'. When I've tried it in the past, both language and keyboard settings persisted. When I get a chance, I can try it again.

As root:

dpkg-reconfigure locales
dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

Then I think you need to reboot. (Log out/in might be enough)

FYI: The 6.0.0 desktop-live iso does not have the untitled blank window or the polkit warning. If it did, it wouldn't have been 6.0.0.

Alsatoggle works. While watching the changes in alsamixer, it occured to me that there needs to be a way to un-mute channels in AlsaTune. If a channel is muted, the slider won't do anything and there's no way to know that without opening alsamixer. (or did I miss something?)

Oh yeah, I did this in i386. BTW, when I try to run the 32-bit program in a 64-bit system, I get an error message that says 'file not found' but it doesn't tell me what file it's looking for. I don't know strace well, so maybe someone can tell me what options to add to get better output. Here's what I got:

$ ./mxeq-i386 
-bash: ./mxeq-i386: cannot execute: required file not found

$ strace ./mxeq-i386 
execve("./mxeq-i386", ["./mxeq-i386"], 0x7fffcd583e70 /* 20 vars */) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
strace: exec: No such file or directory
+++ exited with 1 +++

$ ./alsatoggle 
-bash: ./alsatoggle: cannot execute: required file not found

$ strace ./alsatoggle 
execve("./alsatoggle", ["./alsatoggle"], 0x7ffc3bdfafc0 /* 20 vars */) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
strace: exec: No such file or directory
+++ exited with 1 +++

Even stranger, when I try to run it on chimaera (amd64) I get this:

$ ./mxeq-i386 
bash: ./mxeq-i386: No such file or directory

# Oh, really?

$ ls -l mxeq-i386 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 fsmith fsmith 42664 Dec 14 09:49 mxeq-i386

Yes, I'd like to try it. Thanks. My first attempt will be to build it for "all" arch.

Edit: changed "any" to "all" after checking what I usually do.

I can confirm that eurkey isn't working in console. I was able to fix it by editing /etc/default/keyboard and changing XKBLAYOUT="us" (or was it "en"?) to XKBLAYOUT="eu" and then running '/etc/init.d/console-setup restart".

I don't know if this gets rid of the icon, but this will disable searching in the address bar. Or at least it will make it so that your mouse doesn't automatically bounce up to the address bar when you start typing. I haven't actually tried to see if searching in the address bar still works. And I don't have the ddg icon.

In case the search bar gets disabled by an update, here's how to get it back.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1356391

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk.

More info on about:config: Configuration Editor for Firefox. The moderators would like us to remind you that changes made through this back door aren't fully supported and aren't guaranteed to continue working in the future. Since I use this one myself, I feel comfortable mentioning it, even if it does turn out to be temporary relief only.

(2) In the search box in the page, type or paste handoff and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Double-click the browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar preference to switch the value from true to false

Edit: I tried it. "about:blank" gives me a blank page. In the address bar, it says something like "Search with ddg or enter a url" but there's no icon and the page is blank. It is still possible to search in the address bar but it doesn't jump there from the search bar.

Edit2: Sorry, I forgot I was in Chimaera when I did the test. In excalibur there's a duck icon in the address bar. I assume that can be changed by changing the default search engine, in case you like the bing or wikipedia icon better. Do what I do and don't look at the duck.

Oh, maybe I wasn't clear. 1065-refracta-lang is working correctly while the standard live-config option for locales is not working. I just changed the boot menu to use lang= and it works. I haven't tried the latest 1065 yet. And "works" means it shows the language selected at boot plus C plus American English. The keyboard selector has a full range of choices.

One odd thing. In the VM I'm using to make the snapshots, the lightdm puts the widgets on the left side of the top bar, but in the live isos, they're on the right.

- Updated 1065-refracta-lang - and I see that the standard live-config options for locales no longer works. Only the keyboard layout changes. I'll have to hack the boot menu on the next build.

- Fixed lightdm as indicated. Note: lightdm-gtk-greeter allows you to select the locale, slick-greeter allows you to select the keyboard. I don't know how to get either one to do both. (I like the look of slick-greeter)

- Added lines to /etc/pmount.allow (and hacked refractasnapshot and installer to deal with the nvme line)

#/dev/sd[a-z][0-9]*
#/dev/nvme[0-9]n[0-9]p[1-99]

- Diverted xfce background image

inkscape -l deepsea_173556_640x480.png -o deepsea.svg

dpkg-divert --rename --divert /usr/share/backgrounds/xfce/xfce-x.svg.distrib /usr/share/backgrounds/xfce/xfce-x.svg

ln -s deepsea.svg xfce-x.svg

- Added libmtp-runtime and modified /etc/udev/rules.d/90-alsa-restore.rules

- Unchecked the box in desktop settings for showing fixed drives. (That box is new, thanks.)

- Thunar mounts disks. In the case of encrypted disks, it says it failed after you give the password, but the /dev/mapper device appears and clicking on it mounts it.

Atlante,

You might have a better time using the old-style sources.list. It makes it easier to find typographical errors like the one you made above which I can't find now. There was an extra space somewhere. That's in addition to the error message regarding "Types". I can't figure out what that one means.

You can use this for /etc/apt/sources.list and get rid of the devuan file in sources.list.d.

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main non-free-firmware contrib non-free
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates  main non-free-firmware contrib non-free
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-security main non-free-firmware contrib non-free

All the live images use codenames in sources.list, so excalibur is/was/will be excalibur whether it's testing, stable or oldstable. The last few pre-release isos had excalibur-security and excalibur-updates enabled in addition to the main repo. You shouldn't need to change any of that.

You need to run 'apt update' to refresh the cache. Then you'll be able to search for packages. Run 'apt upgrade' to get whatever updates there are.

sources.list examples:
https://www.devuan.org/os/packages

Replace http with https and replace "deb.devuan.org" with "mirrors.dotsrc.org/devuan".

I don't usually look at the output you posted, so I can't sort out what you did wrong in sources.list. But I'll go ahead and guess - did you forget the /merged?