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#1101 Re: Installation » backports » 2020-07-30 16:23:38
I do consequently use the backports kernels on all my machines. Did that from Squeeze onward for various generations of hardware. Never had any issues.
And every now and then I used bugfixes from backports. But thats rare.
rolfie
#1102 Re: Installation » Devuan Chimaer as guest on Virtualbox: any known issues? » 2020-07-27 20:20:24
VirtualBox is a buggy pile of shite which is slower than QEMU/KVM and the developers have a tendency of covering up and ignoring security issues.
See also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=794466
And it relies on blobs.
Maybe you're right. But for me VBox does what I expect it to do. I can pass through USB drives w/o any problem, UEFI mode is sort of crap but available. I can boot a VM from an iso, ....
Tried the same with qemu/kvm and gave up when bold promoters of qemu/kvm didn't have any advise how to solve my issues. I guess this highly promoted piece of SW still requires a lot of brains to really make it a competition for VBox.
rolfie
#1103 Re: Installation » Devuan Chimaer as guest on Virtualbox: any known issues? » 2020-07-26 09:42:27
I am running 6.1.10 directly from Oracle, installed with dpkg -i. Extension pack installed, and guest extensions in each of my old and new virtual machines.
Had some fun to get it working on Beowulf, see https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=3641.
Maybe it helps. Good luck, rolfie
#1104 Re: Installation » Devuan Chimaer as guest on Virtualbox: any known issues? » 2020-07-24 19:45:51
No issues here with latest VB directly from Oracle on Beowulf and Chimaera as guest. No issues with systemd.
Have you installed the extension pack?
rolfie
#1105 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Shutdown delay due to Veracrypt » 2020-07-19 17:24:28
If Caja is correct, 1.7TB. About half of a 4T drive.
rolfie
#1106 Hardware & System Configuration » Shutdown delay due to Veracrypt » 2020-07-19 14:46:18
- rolfie
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Beowulf amd64, openrc as init, shares from file server mounted with nfs4. Veracrypt is used to open a NTFS container as data drive for a Win7 VM. This is done via a script in the user startup folder.
Shutting down this container seems to cause a about 15s long delay past the line "Asking all remaining processes to terminate".
The complete output looks like this:
[ok] Asking all remaining processes to terminate ... done.
Currently running processes (pstree):
init-+-rc---openrc---openrc-run---sendsigs---pstree
|-rpc.statd
|-rpcbind
|-veracrypt---dmsetup
'-veracrypt---18*[{veracrypt}]
[FAIL] Killing all remaining processes ... failedOn another PC with a similar setup, just without Veracrypt, the shutdown has normal speed.
How can I speedup closing the Veracrypt volume?
rolfie
#1107 Re: Other Issues » [solved] before grub screen appears » 2020-07-16 14:57:12
You move the themes folder to /boot/grub and specify that in /etc/default/grub. From my notes:
# mkdir /boot/grub/themes
# cp -r /usr/share/desktop-base/grub-themes/cinnabar-grub /boot/grub/themes/
# nano /etc/default/grub
Change entry to:
GRUB_THEME=/boot/grub/themes/cinnabar-grub/theme.txt
# update-grub That fixes the error and brings the new cinnabar theme to grub. If you do not want that you can copy the default theme.
rolfie
#1108 Re: Other Issues » [solved] before grub screen appears » 2020-07-16 14:19:21
okay so if i understand this correctly it has something to do with desktop-base and grub, not sure if it is present with or without encryption though?
Only appears with encryption, because when grub starts there is no access to /usr/share/..... yet.
rolfie
#1109 Re: Other Issues » [solved] before grub screen appears » 2020-07-16 12:47:06
Have a read of https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=3471. Isn't that the same kind of issue you see? Error message is slightly different, but similar.
rolfie
#1110 Re: Forum Feedback » Why Fie? » 2020-07-10 20:09:36
Tatwi wrote:golinux wrote:Note that this option is no longer available in Beowulf and probably beyond.
Heh, I didn't even notice!
Neither did I. If I need an installer I'll pick the TUI one every time, and frankly I don't understand what a GUI provides in that context besides a bigger install image and more to go wrong. Starting an X server and all the baggage that entails just to have a pretty installer nuts.
I'd like to give you my reason why I would prefer the graphical installer if available: I can copy/paste passwords and encryption keys to make sure they are the same.
And I do not suffer from CLI-o-phobia. I started my PC career exactly with CP/M when I was on university. My theses was written on a CP/M 8085 and printed of with a I think 9 needle printer.
GlennW wrote:Ascii did have a nice gui installer, cut and paste options with the mouse.
Why would you need copy-paste in the installer anyway?
I mean you can use GPM at the console, but why?
Well, installation is possible with the CLI installer, and just for avoiding a few keystrokes I never would use the GUI. But see above, that are very valid reasons, especially when you are dealing with 40 or more character long encryptions keys. This makes the difference.
Also love Beowulf, though I had to fight my way through key typos.
rolfie
#1111 Re: Other Issues » [Solved] linux-5.6.0-0.bpo.2 stucks at "waiting for /dev.... udevd" » 2020-07-06 06:48:50
rolfie wrote:unpack it to /tmp, mv to /opt/firefox
I prefer to unpack it in $HOME so that it can update itself without having to be run as root.
Works fine with my method, I have just enabled notifications. Getting the notification, FF downloads the update on request, applies updates on next restart as user, no issues.
rolfie
#1112 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » How to properly unpack and repack initramfs by hand? » 2020-07-05 20:04:34
Another approach: boot the hardware with a life media, chroot into the new system, then check crypttab, fstab .... for correct UUIDs. The problem may the there.
rolfie
Note: I have used VMs to explore new distros myself, makes sense to get some experience. I used to take notes what I did to achieve certain results, and then I went an made a fresh install on the real HW based on the notes.
#1113 Re: Other Issues » [Solved] linux-5.6.0-0.bpo.2 stucks at "waiting for /dev.... udevd" » 2020-07-05 20:01:06
If you want and need the latest firefox download the Debian package directly from Mozilla, unpack it to /tmp, mv to /opt/firefox and create a starter manually. Easy done, and no foreign repo in your sources.
rolfie
#1114 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » How to properly unpack and repack initramfs by hand? » 2020-07-05 19:58:13
That your image grows tells me that you forgot to recompress again. There should be instructions how to do this.
rolfie
#1115 Re: Installation » How to get java8 on devuan3? » 2020-07-02 20:05:10
You must know why the openjdk-11 that is available in Beowulf isn't good enough. Have you tried that?
Nevertheless it might be possible to install openjdk-8-jre from ASCII. Depends on the dependencies.
Give this a try:
Uncomment #deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii main contrib non-free in your sources.list.
Run apt update
Then apt install -s -t ascii openjdk-8-jre
and look at the result. The -s simulates the installation only. If it looks good you may risk the installation without the -s option.
Don't forget to undo the uncomment and run apt update afterwards.
rolfie
#1116 Re: Installation » How to get java8 on devuan3? » 2020-07-01 21:46:04
Load from Debian:
Paket openjdk-8-jre
stretch (oldstable) (java): OpenJDK-Java-Laufzeitumgebung, verwendet Hotspot JIT
and install with dpkg -i package.
rolfie
#1117 Re: Installation » Errors encountered processing: libgstreamer-gl1.0-0_1.14.4-2_amd64.deb » 2020-07-01 20:52:23
My background: Beowulf installed from scratch, German setup and locale, works fine the way it is, menus ... all in German. My Beowulf is clean....
Based on this:
1.) Give HOAS proposal a try. You can't loose anything but your problem. When that fixes your locale problem you are done so far.
2.) If it doesn't, try to remove the extra stuff vs my post one by one. Play it carefully with simulating with apt -s remove what the consequences are before executing without -s. If in doubt, ask here again with what you got as output.
3.) Repeat HOAS proposal.
Good luck, rolfie
#1118 Re: Other Issues » EFI trouble » 2020-07-01 19:08:00
Followup on bad EFI memory:
Got two boards at home that suffer from strange EFI behaviour. Digged a bit in the internet and came across some threads that talk about that the Linux kernel tries to save some data in EFI variables when the computer crashes. I am pretty sure that happened to my hardware.
Is there any safe way to clear the EFI variables? ASUS denied it and told me to return the board.
Is there a way to prove my theory? To force ASUS to fix the lockup because that should not happen?
These rants also talk about that noefi as kernel parameter would stop the kernel to access the EFI variables. But that would mean the computer has to boot in BIOS mode. Am I right?
rolfie
#1119 Re: Installation » Errors encountered processing: libgstreamer-gl1.0-0_1.14.4-2_amd64.deb » 2020-07-01 17:57:29
From a native Beowulf install:
# dpkg -l | grep locale
ii krb5-locales 1.17-3 all internationalization support for MIT Kerberos
ii libdatetime-locale-perl 1:1.23-1 all Perl extension providing localization support for DateTime
ii libencode-locale-perl 1.05-1 all utility to determine the locale encoding
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-3+b4 amd64 module using libc functions for internationalization in Perl
ii locales 2.28-10 all GNU C Library: National Language (locale) data [support]
ii python-apt-commonMy first candidate for removal would be the libboost-packages, then the util-linux from ASCII.
rolfie
#1120 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [Solved] Password required for startup script » 2020-06-28 19:25:23
Got the hint from here: https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/dis … 04d12bba8/
There is some change between ASCII and Beowulf. This way it works.
rolfie
#1121 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [Solved] Password required for startup script » 2020-06-27 21:45:30
Fixed it by adding /usr/bin/uptime to the priviligues specification for veracrypt in the sudoers. Found it somewhere in the sourceforge forum for veracrypt.
The sudoers entry reads like this now:
$username$ ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/veracrypt, /usr/bin/uptimerolfie
#1122 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [Solved] Password required for startup script » 2020-06-27 15:30:55
Well, found this hint in the net on https://wiki.archlinux.de/title/GNOME#Tipps_und_Tricks
Add export NO_AT_BRIDGE=1 to /etc/environment.
The dbind-warning error when calling up the script directly as shown in the previous post is gone.
Does not bring the complete solution. Still getting asked for user or root passwd.
rolfie
#1123 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [Solved] Password required for startup script » 2020-06-27 15:12:42
Tried to call the script with a sudo in front sudo /path/to/script.sh, that does not work.
Then I directly started the script in a user terminal and got this error:
(veracrypt:5104): dbind-WARNING **: 17:05:21.998: Couldn't register with accessibility bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.How do I have to interpret this?
rolfie
#1124 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [Solved] Virtual Box kernel modules to be rebuilt after each boot » 2020-06-27 14:40:59
rolfie wrote:Can't remember that I had to do this before, e.g. under Squeeze, Wheezy, or ASCII. Anyhow, I think I have got a solution now.
VirtualBox was in the repos back then (It was dropped for buster due to oracle being "uncooperative" IIRC), so presumably you were using those packages rather than the ones from oracle, no?
No, currently I am directly downloading the latest stuff from virtualbox.org and then using dpkg -i. I have been through all the methods from using the repo stuff, the following the sources.list setup as suggested by the VBox docs, then I found that I can ease my life. No enabling/disabling in sources.list, no key to care for .... Works for me.
Thanks, rolfie
#1125 Re: Other Issues » [Solved] Copy putty sessions does not work » 2020-06-27 12:18:48
Solution: the settings need to go to ~/.putty/sessions and not into ~/.putty.
rolfie
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