The officially official Devuan Forum!

You are not logged in.

#126 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-01-28 13:34:08

I am simply using npt. No graphical tool above, since at least the gnome-system-tools are broken since about 2022 or even longer.

With Daedalus ntpsec was introduced as replacement for the simple ntp, with Excalibur I have installed

ntpsec
ntpsec-ntpdate
ntpsec-ntpdig

The time server(s) to be used are configured in /etc/ntpsec/ntp.conf

That setup is working flawlessly.

#127 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-01-26 15:25:27

gnome-system-tools is broken, no maintainer any more.

#128 Re: Installation » Some Concerning Bugs » 2026-01-02 12:05:27

Camtaf wrote:

Ventoy has worked for me with Devuan, no problem. (Chimera, Daedelus, & Excalibur)

Ventoy works with ASCII, Beowulf, Chimaera, some older pre-release-builds of Daedalus, but not with the released ISO's, and again with Excalibur (6.0.0, 6.1.0 not yet tested).

#129 Re: Devuan » Excalibur - is it really stable? » 2026-01-01 18:21:39

To Evolution: I am using Evolution on Excalibur w/o any issues. My setup is an upgrade from Daedalus on sysvinit, LightDM and Cinnamon.

I have installed Excalibur from the netinstall into a VM and on real HW via a Ventoy stick, works fine.

#130 Re: Other Issues » Refracta Snapshot (Excalibur) is Broken » 2026-01-01 15:25:34

FYI Devuan doesn't work properly with Ventoy, there's some threads about that on here.

Thats true for Daedalus. All older iso's work fine on Ventoy, also does Excalibur (again).

#132 Re: Documentation » HOW TO: Install XLibre on Devuan » 2025-12-30 20:20:44

Got XLibre with Lightdm/Cinnamon on Excalibur installed in a VM. As far as I can see it works fine. Only minor glitches.

#133 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Removing obsolete keyrings » 2025-12-22 11:21:15

You simply remove them. There is no de-registering required.

#134 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Synaptic problem, or what? » 2025-12-21 15:35:33

Exotic non-essential function that nobody really uses and tests?

#135 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Synaptic problem, or what? » 2025-12-21 15:20:31

Well, that means there is another unfinished installation around. Well you said you tried double-clicking on a deb. I guess that's what triggers this request. No idea how to get around this.

BTW: the same problem already exists on Daedalus. Same as Excalibur. When I ask for a screenshot of a package, I get a square window with a small terminal-like icon. Thats it.

#137 Re: Installation » LXQt cant install at Ceres » 2025-12-20 10:20:44

Well, Ceres is broken by definition, it is and will remain UNSTABLE in exactly the litteral meaning of this word. The software in Ceres will slowly evolve and mature and end up in Testing at some point in time. And when testing is done, the software finally will become released as stable. It will take a lot of time.

If you want a stable environment use Excalibur. It has some bugs, but it is tested and released for general use.

When you are a bit more daring you may use Testing, which currently is Freia.

Please stop complaing about Ceres is broken.

#138 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] ssh enable and link » 2025-12-17 20:02:18

No, never was as far as I can remember. It has to be installed I don't know exactly for how many releases now in Debian/Devuan?

#139 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] ssh enable and link » 2025-12-17 19:31:16

apt update
apt list openssh-server
apt install openssh-server

Per default openssh-server listens on port 22. Always (after a reboot).

#140 Re: Packaging for Devuan » (request) including of USBimager » 2025-12-16 17:15:01

+1 still for USBimager, in soem regard; but it lacks the format option, is therefore not fully complete.
(but can also read images for backup)

The USBImager does not need any format option. Formatting a drive that gets overwritten with an iso does not make any sense.

#141 Re: Devuan » Devuan 6 Extremely Poor Quality Control. » 2025-12-16 10:35:22

I am happy with my Devuan 6 Excalibur installations, both with Cinamon as desktop. Yes there are a few nicks and glitches, but nothing I would complain too much about. And what I have seen is inherited from Debian upstream.

#142 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » slow file copy / nvme-to-nvme / devuan linux? » 2025-12-11 15:40:12

kapqa wrote:

on  a sidenote,
stopped the file-copy process / however, it seems the copy does continue in the background??=?

Here is caching involved. No copy w/o cache per default. The kernel takes some of the memory available and uses it as cache to speed up file operations.
If you want to make sure all cache is flushed use the sync command. man sync is your friend.

Everything else depends on the nvme's themselves. How they are connected is only a smal part of the story. More important are the exact specs. What kind of cells are used? TLC or QLC? How much and which kind of HW cache is present? Look at the data sheets.

Also the type of files make a difference. Many small files take longer due to directory operations than one large file with the same net size.

#143 Re: Installation » How set time to local-time in terminal? » 2025-12-09 17:42:38

I fear it doesn't work that way, never did.

Best for a Linux system: set the HW clock in the Bios to UTC. Set the time zone to your region.

Then install the packages ntpsec and ntpsec-ntpdate.

Last but not least: define a time server in /etc/ntpsec/ntp.conf. Works for me.

Note: when you dual boot with Windows, you have to change the registry to also set Windows to UTC.

#144 Re: Installation » How set time to local-time in terminal? » 2025-12-09 17:07:24

ntp and ntpdate are outdated since Daedalus. Look for ntpsec, e.g.

apt list ntpsec*

#145 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] tcplay - so different from truecrypt and veracrypt? » 2025-12-07 21:10:32

I never used that kind of tools.

But one thing I know for sure: Truecrypt is no more maintained for now about 12 years or so. So I am not astonished that Veracrypt is a bit more comfortable.

#146 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] anacron and OpenRC, Devuan 3, 4, 5, 6 (Excalibur) » 2025-12-05 16:31:31

Yes I know this bug. I see it on my travelling laptop. Installed with openrc, Cinnamon DE, lightdm. Initially Chimaera, a parallel installation of Daedalus shows it too. Meanwhile the Daedalus installation has been upgraded to Excalibur and also shows the issue.

Never had it on my workstation, there I do not have anacron installed.

Maybe I need to change the laptop from openrc to sysvinit.

#147 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Recommend a Hypervisor ? » 2025-12-04 21:51:30

It called crap by the users of kvm/qemu, VMware, Proxmox etc that only consider their tooling as approriate. Others complain about the license Oracle is using. Others don't like to use a Oracle product ..... I am happy to use it for 13 years now, beginning with my first Linux only PC.

Anyway, VBox was removed from Debian because of license (always was in contrib) and versioning problems, and I think they also lacked a maintainer. So its not available in the Devuan repos. Anyhow, no big problem, the Debian way of packaging was real crap in my eyes.

What I do for many years now: I pull a .deb fitting for the corresponding Debian release from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads, also load the extension pack suiting to the version, and install it with dpkg -i. Only two files required, the guest addition come within the .deb.

#148 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Problem with apt-get update » 2025-12-04 15:28:14

IPv6 often causes problems. Can you test with enabling IPv4 only?

#149 Re: Other Issues » Error: Release file for http://deb.devuan.org/merged/dists/excalibur- » 2025-11-30 15:06:02

No I am not seing this error message.

First guess: make sure that the clock on your PC is set about correct.

#150 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Running with disconnected SATA cables » 2025-11-30 10:13:42

The Windows installation did not work anyway, although it was only to play some old games. I first tried WinXP and it said my BIOS was incompatible, I suppose because my MB BIOS is UEFI not MBR type. I then tried Win7 and it did install but without the mouse working - BIOS issue again I guess. I guess I shall just have to play Solitaire in a VM.

Yes, WinXP does not know anything about UEFI. If your mainboard still supports CSM you may try to install XP on a MBR/MSDOS partitioned drive, but you won't find any drivers. And have a lot of fun trying to multi boot legacy and UEFI installations.
Win7SP1 can be installed in efi mode, that works. But there are no USB3 drivers included. You have to find a generic driver or use USB2 ports for mouse and keyboard.

Board footer

Forum Software