Hello:

I'm attempting to set up a sort of bare bones Devuan-Live on a 4.0Gb SD Card to run a just couple of dedicated applications on my netbook.
I'm able to write the image to the SD Card wihout any problems and it boots perfectly well, no issues.

The problem arises when I shrink the FAT32 partition to make room for a persistent ext4 partition.
Once I shrink it to 1.0Gb (nothing else done) and try to boot from the card, I just get a blinking cursor on the screen.

Undoubtedly this is a problem arising from shrinking the partition generated by the Rufus application.
I have tried using setting the format option in Rufus to FAT and FAT32 but the problem remains.

I'm using the latest Devuan-Live image downloded from here ...
https://mirror.leaseweb.com/devuan/devu … p-live.iso

... writing the image to the SD Card with rufus-2.18p and resizing the FAT32 partition with GParted from my Linux installation.

Any help will be appreciated.

Best,

A.

Hello:

I have installed LinSSID 2.7 but it will not run from 'Menu' -> 'Internet' -> LinSSID. 
It asks for my PW and when I enter it and continue, it stalls/waits for a while and then nothing.

I can only run it successfully from the terminal via 'su'.
I have not set up 'sudo' (would rather always have a PW prompt).

Even though it starts and runs properly, when run as root there's some authentication failed output on the terminal:

root@devuan:/home/groucho# linssid
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
Qt: Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
root@devuan:/home/groucho# 

I know about the "RANDR" missing as it is disabled by the X server.

root@devuan:/home/groucho# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep WW
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[    28.862] (WW) NVIDIA: The Composite and Xinerama extensions are both enabled, which
[    28.862] (WW) NVIDIA:     is an unsupported configuration.  The driver will continue
[    28.862] (WW) NVIDIA:     to load, but may behave strangely.
[    28.862] (WW) NVIDIA: Xinerama is enabled, so RandR has likely been disabled by the
[    28.862] (WW) NVIDIA:     X server.
root@devuan:/home/groucho# 

But I have no idea of the authetication protocols.

I have installed gnome-system-tools to have a GUI for groups and users management but I do not see a group for LinSSID. 

Base info:

groucho@devuan:~$ uname -a
Linux devuan 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.51-3 (2017-12-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux
groucho@devuan:~$ 

I'd appreciate a lead on this.

Thanks in advance,

A.

Hello:

I have a standard 'out of the box' Devuan installation.
The browser I am using is the default one, Firefox 52.5.2 (64-bit) ESR.

When I try to do a drag&drop operation from the adress bar (to anywhere), the browser will crash.
The same thing happens with the browser in safe mode.

To rule out add-on or about:config problems, ie. anything outside the standard browser setup, I completely uninstalled it and installed it again, purging all related files.

The problem subsists.

Some relevant data:

groucho@devuan:~$ uname -a
Linux devuan 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.51-3 (2017-12-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux
groucho@devuan:~$ 

groucho@devuan:~$ xdpyinfo | grep version
version number:    11.0
X.Org version: 1.16.4
groucho@devuan:~$

groucho@devuan:~$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  340.102  Mon Jan 16 13:06:29 PST 2017
GCC version:  gcc version 4.8.4 (Debian 4.8.4-1) 
groucho@devuan:~$ 

This is the entry in syslog when the crash occurs:
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Jan  7 18:48:34 devuan kernel: [ 3330.666686] Chrome_ChildThr[6335]: segfault at 0 ip 0000565170884d6c sp 00007fa6d3afe3e0 error 6 in plugin-container[565170880000+1b000]
---

From the crash report, there are two lines that indicate (?) there may be something going on with X11:

---
AbortMessage: ###!!! ABORT: Request 141.8: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter); 3 requests ago: file /build/firefox-esr-wI7Jwe/firefox-esr-52.5.2esr/toolkit/xre/nsX11ErrorHandler.cpp, line 147

Request 141.8: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter); 3 requests agoxpcom_runtime_abort(###!!! ABORT: Request 141.8: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter); 3 requests ago: file /build/firefox-esr-wI7Jwe/firefox-esr-52.5.2esr/toolkit/xre/nsX11ErrorHandler.cpp, line 147)
---

I'd be very obliged to know if this is something that can be reproduced by anyone else.

Thanks in advance,

A.

Hello:

I'm trying to get acquainted with the XFCE desktop that comes with Devuan 1.0.0.

One thing I am needing is a bit more functionality.
eg: by configuring actions I am used to having in other file managers I have used in the past (in Mint and PCLinuxos), which can be configured as custom actions in Thunar.

One of them is the 'Search' function for which I need to configure one of these custom actions.

I found instructions for implementing the this here:
https://iwf1.com/how-to-make-xfces-file … re-usable/

---
Search
Requirements:
Catfish – a GUI search tool
mlocate – a CLI search tool

-> Done

1. Add new Custom Action button
2. Fill in the following details:

Name: Search
Description: Search for files and folders
Command: catfish –path=%f
Icon: choose or leave empty

-> Done

Appearance Conditions
Fill the following:

File Pattern: *
Appears if selection contains: Directories

-> Done

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All fine and dandy up to here.

Now, when started, Catfish gives you the option to update the database if it is not up to date.
As this has to be done as root, if you opt to update you are asked for your root PW.

The problem I have is that Catfish will not accept my PW.

This can be solved by updating the database from a terminal as root, but it is still a problem.
Why doesn't Catfish accept my PW?
It is the same root PW I use for everything else.

I have the feeling that there's more to this, as Catfish search takes forever (I end up closing it down) but the same system wide search done from the terminal (as root) get done in a flash.

I have the idea that there's a permision/ownership problem somewhere, probably Catfish related.

Any clues?

Thanks in advance.

A.

Note:

[rant]
I would have posted this question at the XFCE Forum (https://forum.xfce.org/) but they have very unfriendly registration process.

---
Are you an human?

What is the output of this command :
Linux: date -u +%jXfce|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'
FreeBSD/OpenBSD: date -u +%jXfce|sha256|sed 's/\W//g'
NetBSD: date -u +%jXfce|sum -a sha256|sed 's/\W//g'
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Unfortunately, I don't have a Linux installation at the office, which is the place I post from during my lunch hour/free time.
So I'll have to wait to register till I get home.

But ...

Should any of the strings above have an incorrect syntax or your rig does not have the date/time set properly (UTC/GMT) or whatever else can happen to anyone who is starting to get acquainted to Linux and needs help with XFCE, you get this:

The following errors need to be corrected before you can register:
Please prove that you are human and know how the Linux terminal works.

I think this is called a Catch-22?

[/rant]