Posts by alphalpha

alphalpha · Devuan Derivatives

just uploaded a video on how to use the installer
https://lbry.tv/@alphalpha:d/installer-tutorial:9

in case you still have problems, try it with the --debug option and tell me the last thing it displays before it fails

alphalpha · Devuan Derivatives

i am not sure why, but the forum tells me i dont have permission to edit my original post

just wanted to add some updates
i didn't post anything in the last months but that does not mean i did not make any changes on the distro

finally found a good chess program with a live evaluation graph (cutechess)
added sound effects that can be launched with shift + F-keys
added sound for login and if usb devices are plugged in
added new scripts and improved the old ones (the kernel compiler script can now download and compile the linux libre kernel)
added the olive video editor and some small packages
and more

alphalpha · Devuan Derivatives

Hey Yohno !
nice to hear, since i get almost no feedback i was thinking that no one is trying it

I noticed the Oct. issue was very strange with very tiny size of 13.5MB

i just checked and it says 2.5GB on sourceforge
maybe you tried to download on the day i was uploading, i lost the connection and had to reupload

And kindly add how to install via your Michaels installer as well for me or for us.

use the arrow keys to navigate up and down in the menu, press enter (or right arrow) to select something and q (or left arrow) to go back
the blinking cursor indicates required input
under "system settings" you should edit the hostname and keyboard layout (i set the default to german)
under "user account settings" you should change the user name
when you are done configuring hit "start installation"

did you get any error message or explain in more detail how it failed?
maybe i will manage to make a tutorial video this weekend

greetings, michael

alphalpha · Other Issues

lsblk -plo NAME,FSUSED,SIZE,FSUSE% /dev/sda4 
NAME      FSUSED   SIZE FSUSE%
/dev/sda4 777.4G 872.1G    91%

df -h /dev/sda4
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4       858G  778G   37G  96% /media/EVO_860

what is going on here?
lsblk says sda4 is 91% full and df says 96% (96% is correct)
and df says 858 - 778 = 37 , which is obviously not true
also the sizes dont match, which is propably a result of the -h flag but they also dont match when i use -H

alphalpha · Devuan Derivatives

@ Ozi
I am not familiar with virtualbox and i dont see why it wont show
what happens if you enter the password (root) and enter?
The shutdown option in the rofi launcher should work tho

alphalpha · Devuan Derivatives

zephyr wrote:

@alphalpha: Took Michael's Devuan Edition for a test drive "Live" JWM, very impressed with what you have done! I got caught up in it and played around and explored, learned a few things too!
I'm guessing or assuming because haven't used polybar before is what you have in Jwm?
zephyr

@ zephyr
hey nice to hear that i thought nobody would even try it
jwm uses its own bar, i3 and bsp use polybar

Ozi wrote:

@alphalpha I also took Michael's Devuan Edition for a test drive using VirtualBox 6.0.14
On shutdown from the Jwm menu, then it just hangs.
xauth: file/home/michael/.Xauthority does not exist
Ozi
EDIT: After checking the home folder I can see that the .Xauthority is there.
I also checked the shutdown menu item in the Jwm menu file. I didn't get a message to supply the password to shutdown.

@ Ozi
as far as i know the .Xauthority file will be created automatically when you login
the shutdown didnt work for you? i will have a look at it later today

alphalpha · Devuan Derivatives

Any reason behind the name or is that your given name?

thats my name and my configs, hence the name

alphalpha · Devuan Derivatives

Get the latest Version >> here <<

***********************************
Update 20.06.2020
***********************************
updated the packages
installed/uninstalled some software
compiled the latest version of jwm (send# now works as expected)
fixed some issues with the installer
gave the configs a little more love
added a few new scripts
fixed some minor but annoying things

***********************************
Update 01.05.2020
***********************************

Notes: Added a bunch of Synthesizers, DAWs, VST Plugins and various stuff from the KxStudio Project.
Also some other random programms like chezscheme, drraket, ipython and more, along with general updates and minor fixes. + Faster boot time by repacking the initrd as gzip

Feel free to leave feedback or questions below.

alphalpha · Installation

maybe you can mount the micro sd on your main computer and modify the /etc/network/interfaces to a static ip and check the ssh server config

alphalpha · Other Issues

stanz wrote:

I hope this helps!
asta..

yay this works thx

alphalpha · Installation

as far as i know you cannot use the micro-usb port to connect to your pc
but you can connect a serial cable to the gpio pins and use putty to connect via com port
see this tutorial

alphalpha · Other Issues

sudo apt update
Ign:1 https://sledjhamr.org/devuan beowulf InRelease                                            
Ign:2 https://ftp.fau.de/devuan beowulf InRelease                                               
Ign:3 https://pkgmaster.devuan.org beowulf InRelease
Ign:4 https://sledjhamr.org/devuan beowulf-updates InRelease
Ign:5 https://ftp.fau.de/devuan beowulf-updates InRelease
Ign:6 https://pkgmaster.devuan.org beowulf-updates InRelease
Ign:7 https://sledjhamr.org/devuan beowulf-security InRelease
Ign:8 https://ftp.fau.de/devuan beowulf-security InRelease
Ign:9 https://pkgmaster.devuan.org beowulf-security InRelease
Err:10 https://sledjhamr.org/devuan beowulf Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 37.220.36.58 443]
Err:11 https://ftp.fau.de/devuan beowulf Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 131.188.12.211 443]
Err:12 https://sledjhamr.org/devuan beowulf-updates Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 37.220.36.58 443]
Err:13 https://pkgmaster.devuan.org beowulf Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 5.196.38.18 443]
Err:14 https://ftp.fau.de/devuan beowulf-updates Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 131.188.12.211 443]
Err:15 https://sledjhamr.org/devuan beowulf-security Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 37.220.36.58 443]
Err:16 https://pkgmaster.devuan.org beowulf-updates Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 5.196.38.18 443]
Err:17 https://ftp.fau.de/devuan beowulf-security Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 131.188.12.211 443]
Err:18 https://pkgmaster.devuan.org beowulf-security Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 5.196.38.18 443]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'https://sledjhamr.org/devuan beowulf Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'https://ftp.fau.de/devuan beowulf Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'https://sledjhamr.org/devuan beowulf-updates Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'https://pkgmaster.devuan.org beowulf Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'https://ftp.fau.de/devuan beowulf-updates Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'https://sledjhamr.org/devuan beowulf-security Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'https://pkgmaster.devuan.org beowulf-updates Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'https://ftp.fau.de/devuan beowulf-security Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'https://pkgmaster.devuan.org beowulf-security Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

alphalpha · Other Issues

thx

alphalpha · Other Issues

Hi,

im trying to set the apt mirrorlist from http to https but it fails due to some certificate error:

apt install apt-transport-https
sed s'/http:/https:/g' -i /etc/apt/sources.list
apt update

Error:

https://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security Release
  Certificate verification failed: The certificate is NOT trusted. The name in the certificate does not match the expected.  Could not handshake: Error in the certificate verification

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

## package repositories
deb https://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main
deb https://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-updates main
deb https://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security main
#deb https://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-backports main

## source repositories
#deb-src https://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main
#deb-src https://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-updates main
#deb-src https://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security
#deb-src https://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-backports main

what am i doing wrong?

alphalpha · News & Announcements

Dutch_Master wrote:

When I do that (installed from a .deb package) it tells me it detected yt-dl was installed via a package manager and I should use that to install a new version, then quits. It does not update the package!

the "youtube-dl -U" option does not work if you installed via package manager, thats why you should install it like ron said

sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rwx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

alphalpha · Installation

thanks for the replies

i always used the minimal-live iso withouth the gui installer,
i will try the desktop-live with the graphical install

alphalpha · News & Announcements

if you intalled youtube-dl like Ron described you can simply

youtube-dl -U

to update

alphalpha · Installation

I want to have an encrypted LVM container that contains /root and swap on sda2
and unencrypted /boot on sda1
for encryption i used luks
crypttab looks like this:

vol1		/dev/mapper/grp1-root		none		luks

for installation i used a snapshot from an older ASCII install that i had
with i slightly modified installer script that contains commands for pvcreate, lvcreate etc

i noticed that /mnt/etc/cryptsetup-initramfs/conf-hook was unconfigured
so i added CRYPTSETUP=y and updated initramfs but its still not working

alphalpha · Installation

Nope i dont get a password request and my volumegroup is not found

alphalpha · Installation

Hello friends,

I'm trying to install on an encrypted LVM
installation was ok but after reboot i am not asked to enter the password,
instead i get:
"WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to internal scanning."
then i end up in busybox

any ideas for troubleshooting?
i already tried

update-initramfs -u

alphalpha · Other Issues

Translate all BASHisms to standard SH because:

I tried it with just

brightness="/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness"
tee $brightness <<< 3000

but that didn't work, i guess im terrible with SH

anyway i solved the problem by changing the rc.local from #!/bin/sh -e to #!/usr/bin/zsh
thx guys

alphalpha · Other Issues

Hey Guys,
i want to run a script each time my computer boots up

problem is since i compiled a new kernel, my screen backlight will go very dark once open-rc starts booting up
i tried the bootloader thing that people suggest on the internet but it only works randomly sometimes

so i wrote this short script that i want to execute with root rights during startup

brightness="/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness"
if [[ -f $brightness ]] && [[ "$(cat $brightness)" != "3000" ]]; then
tee $brightness <<< 3000
fi

i tried to add it into /etc/rc.local but that does nothing...
any ideas how to make it work?

alphalpha · Other Issues

of course a .zip file is not a .deb file....
you need to build it yourself

first make sure you have the dependencies:
Python 2.7.3+
wxPython 3
TwoDict
GNU gettext (to build the package)
FFmpeg (optional, to post process video files)

that would be:

sudo apt-get install python python-wxgtk3.0 gettext ffmpeg git

TwoDict is not available in the Repository so you need to complie that too

git clone https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/twodict.git
cd twodict
sudo python setup.py install

now you have all the dependencies and can build youtube-dl-gui like this:

git clone https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui.git
cd youtube-dl-gui
sudo python setup.py install

now you can run it with

./build/scripts-2.7/youtube-dl-gui

it should also automatically be added to your /usr/local/bin
so you can just type youtube-dl-gui in the terminal to start it

alphalpha · Other Issues

is it this one?
https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui

alphalpha · Documentation

Hello Everyone

I finally found a way to make to make ISO snapshots that can be larger than 4GB.
I had this problem for a long time that i would get an Error during the snapshot progress because i have a lot of packages installed on my system.
I know some folks have had the same problem so i thought i'd share the solution to this.

For this to work one has to modify the xorriso command in /usr/bin/refractasnapshot,
my code may differ from your version, the important thing is to add the -iso-level 3 option

xorriso -as mkisofs -r -J -joliet-long -l -iso-level 3 -isohybrid-mbr /usr/lib/ISOLINUX/isohdpfx.bin -partition_offset 16 -V "$volid"  -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o "$iso_dir"/"$filename" live/

and thats all
i now have a 4.2 GB large ISO file

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