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#1376 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Compile own kernel » 2021-09-30 12:16:41
1) Keep kernel 5.10 as a safeguard (in case of any kernel panic when compiling any new/custom kernel)
The installed kernels should always be available as boot options if GRUB was installed from the Devuan system.
You may might have to make a new boot entry for your custom kernel though. Not sure if grub-mkconfig will pick it up automatically.
2) Compile a new kernel using the config-5.10.0-8-amd64 (file located at /boot) as starting point
From the custom kernel source tree:
cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) .config
make oldconfigSee also https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Con … figuration
3) New kernel does not need to be packaged as .deb
Well yeah, nobody needs chocolate but it's really nice...
https://kernel-team.pages.debian.net/kernel-handbook/
EDIT: corrected command block.
#1377 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Laptop cannot finish booting - Again! » 2021-09-30 12:03:13
SLiM is old and broken. Does startx work from the console?
FWIW the X.Org log looks truncated.
#1378 Re: Off-topic » Troll appreciation thread » 2021-09-30 12:00:50
blackhole wrote:headstick will be nursing a semi reading this....
What does that mean? And why exactly?
Don't feed the troll 
#1379 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » xorg-server Xorg 21.1.0 - first release candidate since 1.20.0 » 2021-09-30 11:59:42
Interesting news, thanks for sharing.
wayland seems dicey, especially if any of this is true
For an alternative opinion see https://drewdevault.com/2019/02/10/Wayl … unked.html & https://drewdevault.com/2021/02/02/Anti … eshit.html
#1380 Re: Other Issues » startx slowwww to start when offline » 2021-09-21 08:42:11
I've just debootstraped a Debian buster system to test:
$ cat /tmp/debian/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
$@OP: Was that the content prior to your modifications? localhost should work just as well as the actual FQDN (AFAIK).
#1381 Re: Installation » minimal installations: what is the minimal way to install sound » 2021-09-20 15:58:47
why not in the dependencies of the package?
ALSA is part of the kernel. The user space utilities are already installed.
If you need help configuring it see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Advanc … sound_card
#1382 Re: Installation » urxvt » 2021-09-20 15:56:32
Note that rxvt-unicode will read ~/.Xdefaults if there are no resources set (ie, if ~/.Xresources does not exist). The file is read automatically on startup so there's no need to run xrdb --merge to apply any configuration changes.
The man pages are very good, especially section 7 (the configuration options).
#1383 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] USB image - Access Denied error » 2021-09-11 20:38:57
Sorry OP, my posts in this thread are irrelevant — I failed to read through the thread properly before answering and didn't appreciate that you're trying to boot a USB stick rather than an installed system.
Apologies for the noise.
#1384 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] USB image - Access Denied error » 2021-09-11 15:13:44
Head_on_a_Stick wrote:So did you check your boot entries?
efibootmgr -uvNo. Sorry if I'm being dense.
But I am running Windows 10 on this PC.
The equivalent command under Windows would be
bcdedit /enum bootmgr#1385 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Different su issue! » 2021-09-11 15:08:41
if I want to run Synaptic
How are you starting Synaptic?
the graphical password box reports back incorrect password - even though it works when su in terminal
Which password are you entering? I think pkexec will expect the user's password so if you're entering the root password (as you would for the su command) then it won't work.
Only just started this issue today
If the behaviour has changed recently then we should probably check your sources so please also post the output of
apt policy#1386 Re: Other Issues » recommend a good email prgram » 2021-09-10 17:43:48
cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozilla.list
deb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/projec … ozilla/apt all main
EOF
Leave that poor cat alone!
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozilla.list <<!
deb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main
!And are you sure the UbuntuZilla repository is compatible with Devuan? Most PPAs aren't.
#1387 Re: Installation » Could not install under UEFI with chimera netinstall » 2021-09-10 16:39:37
if im in UEFI mode only, the installer works normally, but i noticed that it didnt ask me about the disk to copy grub, it only says that its running grub-mkconfig or something like that, but didnt ask me the disk to implement the boot and grub, that shows when i use legacy mode.
That is the expected behaviour. UEFI systems use the EFI system partition to store GRUB's core.img (grubx64.efi) and the motherboard NVRAM to store the boot entries so there is no need to specify the target drive. The UEFI grub-install command does not expect a block device as an argument and will not recognise it if it is provided; the equivalent option for UEFI systems would be --efi-directory (pointing to the EFI system partition).
In UEFI only mode, also, when i reboot, it shows an error saying that i dont have any OS installed, as its like the disk doesnt have any boot installed
Did you try disabling Secure Boot? Devuan chimaera should support it but some motherboards require that .efi loaders be authorised in the firmware ("BIOS") settings first.
#1388 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] USB image - Access Denied error » 2021-09-10 15:36:27
You get quite a few hits if you search for
grub "Image failed to verify with ACCESS DENIED"for example https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … ug/1528345
So did you check your boot entries?
efibootmgr -uv^ That will show the .efi loader used for each entry.
#1389 Re: Installation » Could not install under UEFI with chimera netinstall » 2021-09-10 15:33:21
Other potential causes of a lack of UEFI variable support and ways to fix them are listed here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unifie … le_support
if i used UEDFI only, the installation did not copied grub to the installation disk
What does that mean, exactly? What actually happens when you try? What do you see in the installer? Are there any errors? If so did you check TTY4 for the full message?
If the installer proceeds without error then what happens when you start the machine up afterwards? What do you see?
#1390 Re: Off-topic » Troll appreciation thread » 2021-09-09 09:00:48
I like trolling. Trolling is fun. I left fdn because they banned trolling. Bastards.
#1391 Re: Other Issues » recommend a good email prgram » 2021-09-09 08:56:09
#1392 Re: Installation » Can't overcome 'grub minimal edit shell' problem » 2021-09-09 08:55:05
Alternatively rename /boot/efi/EFI/devuan/ to /boot/efi/EFI/debian/ and keep the signed GRUB package so that Secure Boot will actually work.
See also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=925309
EDIT: corrected paths.
#1393 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] SDDM not starting up after fresh Beowulf installation » 2021-09-03 21:30:10
Check the logs.
#1394 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] KDE "Displays" settings max resolution not higher than 800x600 » 2021-09-03 21:28:23
The firmware package for AMD graphics cards is called firmware-amd-graphics.
Check dmesg to see if it's loaded and check the X.Org log for errors and to see which DDX drivers you're using. lspci -k will show the loaded kernel drivers.
#1395 Re: ARM Builds » Is a Devuan build for the new Apple M1 chip possible? » 2021-09-01 15:39:50
Debian now runs on the M1:
https://twitter.com/alyssarzg/status/14 … 1058194436
The display driver works and will be added to the mainline kernel in due course.
EDIT: and the developer runs a dwm desktop. Nice.
#1396 Re: Off-topic » What other distro are you using (besides devuan)? » 2021-08-30 18:13:16
Yeah musl rules :-)
You can run glibc programs from a flatpak or chroot anyway:
#1397 Re: Off-topic » Whonix or Kicksecure » 2021-08-30 18:11:02
Isn't their kernel installable in Devuan?
Remember to use their hardened malloc implementation too:
#1398 Re: Off-topic » What other distro are you using (besides devuan)? » 2021-08-29 08:22:17
it's just cruising along at 250mb
Is that the musl libc version? I've recently installed that myself but it's at the bare console stage atm.
#1399 Re: Installation » Network Issue With Devuan » 2021-08-28 17:13:13
@Jakoline: I've just tested the Debian bullseye netinstall image and that doesn't seem to install rfkill if no desktop is selected in tasksel. Have you considered reporting this to Debian?
And for general reference:
Assuming the installer brought up the network, one way forward for you would be to start another installation but stop before partitioning; i.e., DON'T partition and instead use ctrl-alt-f2 to gain a shell.
In that shell, you first mount the previously installed file system partition, then chroot into that, and then install rfkill.
The Devuan beowulf netinstall ISO includes a "Rescue Mode" available from the "Advanced Options" boot sub-menu — this can be used to open a shell in an installed system without needing to mess around with chroot (or arch-chroot(8)).
More details on this here: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ … 06.en.html
#1400 Re: Installation » Network Issue With Devuan » 2021-08-26 13:51:30
rfkill WAS NOT INSTALLED!
Are you sure? Did you try
/usr/sbin/rfkillOr perhaps even
man rfkillSee also
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