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#176 Re: Installation » Beowulf installer broken? » 2021-11-18 18:38:01

Hello, IAM using a Thinkpad T440p, so I wonder were i made the error:

After updating to Beowulf, promptly the same error: grub bash instead of boot.

Tried several fixes, rescatux, refund , super grub disk, manual removal of grub entries and re- install, so far, no luck.
The grün-Installer would somehow always try to boot
\EFI\devuan\grubx64.efi from EFI system partition
Which fails
Instead

\boot\vmlinuz-4.19.0-18-amd64 from 212GB ext4 Volume would boot
Would boot

But grub-install always reinstates the Boot EFI from system partition option.

Sorry if this is confusing but I am sure the error is not entirely my fault, it seems a pattern with Beowulf grub package or how it handles the Dualboot.

#178 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] devuan 4 - protonvpn » 2021-11-18 11:26:24

@andyprough yes, it is always good to have options, and freedom is a most important. if i would have to guess, would weigh in Australia, but again, that maybe just a trend these days, but love see DownUnder rising!

to be honest, i dont think that VPN is helping so much with avoiding spying, but it helped me to access content that would be otherwise concealed to me due to companies geo-blocking some of their content.

#179 Re: Installation » Beowulf installer broken? » 2021-11-18 11:17:36

hello @head_on_a_stick, thank you very much for reply, very helpful, thoughful.

the question remains, why only the Beowulf would make this error?

devuan jessie, ascii, debian stretch, would insert the correct grub entry (or otherwise said, boot correctly after installation, with the same installation routine (automatic partitioning on largest freespace available, around 228GB). however, when installing devuan beowulf Straight, it would fail, as would updating from ascii (booted correctly with grub in place) to beowulf ?

hint: had previously installed chimaera, but that should not mess up things that way.
in BIOS Boot Manager next to pyhsical drives and Windows Boot Manager is shown entry for "Devuan" and "Debian" and both produced the same error.

EDIT: sorry but i cannot troubleshoot your method above as i am currently on ascii; but should i upgrade once again, i might have the opportunity to, thanks.

#180 Re: Installation » Problem with updating the repositories » 2021-11-18 11:11:57

@ralph.ronnquist, if you mean jessie archive, yesterday night it did not. was however able to install it using dvd-full installer and choosing not to add  additional software sources.
the installer would pickup "archive.devuan.org" but after loading some files it would state that it cannot use the repository. after installation i would manually install the devuan keyring and add sources.list for jessie, and that would fix it. however, netinstall seems broken.

#181 Re: Installation » Problem with updating the repositories » 2021-11-17 20:51:00

noticed that when doing the netinstall with devuan jessie, it would fail, even after manually changing to the archive "archive.devuan.org"
please fix, if possible.

#182 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] devuan 4 - protonvpn » 2021-11-17 20:40:44

@andyprough i have a account with protonvpn,
there i login, and go to "downloads" where it lets me choose to download or the apps or the .openvpn config files ; after downloaded the proper one, can add it to network manager;
is not so elegant, as it would not let me choose another country or another channel if the server is full, but for my needs it is enough.

#183 Installation » Beowulf installer broken? » 2021-11-17 20:24:09

kapqa
Replies: 12

Hello,

i had fair share of Devuan installs over last couple of hours (on no-ssd system)
and am wondering if Beowulf installer is broken, as it constantly fails on the system.

500 GB HDD
Windows 7 installed (first side of HDD)
second side HDD for Linux

....
first i delete the partition in Devuan installer, then let the partitioner choose "biggest freespace" for automatic partitioning;

installation succeeds,
but after finishing everything,
and reboot,

there comes just

Grub window

"GNU Grub Version 2.02-dfsg1-20+deb10u4"
grub>

or similar...
very frustrating.

This happens with Netinstall.iso and also with full DVD installer.

Then i tried to circumvent by installing Debian Stretch, from there to Ascii (so far , so good),

and then from Ascii to Beowulf.
everything seems fine, but after re-boot (into BEOWulf),

the same grub error as above.

Please indicate were wrong.

Thanks, richard

#184 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] devuan 4 - protonvpn » 2021-11-13 21:53:15

just ran into the same problem,

but i resorted a different path,

and downloaded the .openvpn config files for the free servers in US and JP

and just added those to create "VPN Connections" in the Network Manager; is quite elegant, i think, works beautifully and easy in XFCE4

#185 Installation » (Chimaera) Suspend fails over Screenlock not functioning Lenovo T440p » 2021-11-13 21:45:47

kapqa
Replies: 3

Hello,

just installed Chimaera on an older Lenovo Thinkpad T440p

and it functions great!!!

thank you guys, really liked it.

one small  notice that when i close the lid , and set to "suspend" it would ask

that it could not activate the screen lock and if i still would like to suspend, but would not do so automatically.
(which would need to make me open the lid again, click YES, and close lid again)

To circumvent, when i go into Powermanager, in Security setting under System Tab, when untick "lock screen when system is going to sleep" then the suspend functions normally, but the screenlock is gone.

would be nice to have both suspend and screenlock;

please suggest a solution, thanks.

https://imgur.com/ROKcyAo.png

#186 Re: Other Issues » [Solved] Installing printer Ecotank - cannot install "LSB" » 2021-07-09 08:24:01

it is still installable on ubuntu, though, as in ubuntu 20.04 LTS (it is the current LTS version of Ubuntu, July 2020)

lsb is already the newest version (11.1.0ubuntu2).

#187 Re: Other Issues » [Solved] Installing printer Ecotank - cannot install "LSB" » 2021-07-01 11:10:05

today i installed the printer on newly installed Devuan Beowulf, via the installed "printer-driver-espcr" (Model: Epson ET-4750)

and the printer would only print however a series of unrelated signs / letters / in a row;

i found a solution here on how to install the printer "manually" and now it functions, but this not simple as Linux should be.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic. … 3&start=20

sudo lpadmin -p et4750 -v ipp://127.0.0.1:60000/ipp/print -E -m everywhere

#188 Re: Other Issues » [Solved] Installing printer Ecotank - cannot install "LSB" » 2021-07-01 10:54:00

hello , it would be nice to have LSB package available , for being able to install the proper Epson printer driver on Beowulf and later, similar to Ubuntu, where this is still possible.

(request).

#189 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » (beowulf) gtk3 needed! » 2021-03-13 18:50:48

golinux wrote:
kapqa wrote:

(please mark solved)

There is a button for you to do that!

should i click do "report" as solved?
haven't seen the button yet.

#190 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » (beowulf) gtk3 needed! » 2021-03-11 11:21:51

thanks,

it was only needed to install

libglib-object-introspection-perl

then it would build correctly, it seems that gtk3 is already present.
(please mark solved)

#191 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » (beowulf) gtk3 needed! » 2021-03-11 11:19:21

you may need to install the Glib::Object::Introspection module
Result: FAIL
Failed 22/22 test programs. 0/0 subtests failed.
make: *** [Makefile:829: test_dynamic] Error 2
  XAOC/Gtk3-0.038.tar.gz
one dependency not OK (Glib::Object::Introspection); additionally test harness failed
  /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
//hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, try:
  reports XAOC/Gtk3-0.038.tar.gz

#192 Desktop and Multimedia » (beowulf) gtk3 needed! » 2021-03-11 11:16:59

kapqa
Replies: 9

Hello ,

i would like to install on a fresh install of Beowulf with Cinnamon the latest
Gtk-youtube-viewer;
however, it is now only possible to build the newest version with gtk3 and no longer has a fallback option for gtk2.

can someone please help me to install gtk3 on Devuan Beowulf?

Did look some packages like "libgtk3-dev" but this would not suffice.

<it says that i am not having gtk3 installed>

#193 Hardware & System Configuration » How to get a working jessie sources.list » 2021-02-17 18:37:22

kapqa
Replies: 2

please help me to get a working devuan jessie sources.list.

the netinstaller would no longer function on the proposed net-repository.sources, thanks!

EDIT:

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged jessie main contrib
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged jessie-security main contrib
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged jessie-updates main contrib
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged jessie-backports main contrib

seems somehow to function;
the security branch is no longer active,
and i think the netinstaller iso wanted to use auto.mirror.devuan.org or similar instead of "deb.devuan.org", maybe therefore it did not function.

#194 Re: Other Issues » [Solved] Installing printer Ecotank - cannot install "LSB" » 2020-11-24 20:06:43

Hello ,
i also use

printer-driver-escpr

because i am not able to install "lsb-package" at the moment, but it won't help with duplex-printing.

maybe i am doing something wrong here?

#195 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » (HowTo)(GTX 1650) Install Nvidia-Driver properly » 2020-11-21 09:33:31

ok, it seemed the very first thing to do would have been

sudo apt install -t beowulf-backports linux-headers-amd64

but in my case it was already installed , maybe because i had installed the "Nvidia-Linux ..run" previously or maybe installing "nvidia-driver" via backports installed those aswell?

#196 Hardware & System Configuration » (HowTo)(GTX 1650) Install Nvidia-Driver properly » 2020-11-21 09:26:12

kapqa
Replies: 2

Hello ,

i am back with the setting up of the desktop PC;
it has a Nvidia graphics card GTX 1650 and i am having problems setting the graphics card up properly.

tried to install the "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.80.02.run" package, but some things seemed not function,
so i went the "official" route through devuan drivers.

what i did

1. went to Debian Wiki to lookup how it is done there
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

2. adapted from debian-backports to devuan-backports (in my case beowulf-backports)

3. installed the one-liner

apt install -t beowulf-backports nvidia-driver 

4. deleted nvidia-persistenced (it gave error)

apt autoremove nvidia-persistenced

5. reboot

it would normally boot and give some error "nvidia-persistenced not found" somewhere during boot process;
but then Xserver would start and i could normally logonwas  to a functional desktop.

was trying to test then with GFXbench, and some error were visible so probably the nvidia-driver installation is faulty?

[clew] [INFO ]: App data path: /home/rich/.local/share/Kishonti Ltd/GFXBench GL
[INFO ]: Synchronization path: /home/rich/.cache/Kishonti Ltd/GFXBench GL/synchronized
[INFO ]: Config path: /home/rich/Downloads/gfxbench_gl-linux-qt-4.0.13+community/config
[INFO ]: Data path: /home/rich/.cache/Kishonti Ltd/GFXBench GL/synchronized/data
[INFO ]: Plugin path: /home/rich/Downloads/gfxbench_gl-linux-qt-4.0.13+community/plugins
[INFO ]: Test image path: /home/rich/Downloads/gfxbench_gl-linux-qt-4.0.13+community/images
[INFO ]: Asset image path: :
[INFO ]: Dispatching getTests
[INFO ]: Dispatching getConfigurations
[INFO ]: Dispatching getSessions
[INFO ]: Dispatching getBestResults
[INFO ]: Dispatching getBestResults
[INFO ]: Dispatching getSystemInfoItems
[b][clew] Could not load OpenCL
[cudaw] Could not load CUDA library
[INFO ]: GLFW init
[clew] Could not load OpenCL
[clew] Could not load OpenCL[/b]
[INFO ]: Service instance constructor
[INFO ]: Synchronizing from: http://cdn.gfxbench.com/production/gfxbench_gl-4.0.0.json.gz
[INFO ]: No configuration selected --> disable all tests!!!
[INFO ]: Selecting configuration: GeForce GTX 1650

maybe someone can tell me where i have made the error?

thank you very much.

#197 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Changing from amd to nvidia card » 2020-11-04 18:08:20

@GlennW , thank you, i tried your method, and it brought me a functioning desktop. However there were some error messages, one notably

WARNING: Unable to determine the path to install the libglvnd EGL vendor library config files. Check that you have pkg-config and the libglvnd development libraries installed, or specify a path with --glvnd -egl -config-path.

#198 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Sony Camera not recognized » 2020-10-21 20:34:22

Thank you Pedro, i have seen that this gphoto2 is active with Camera on Wheezy, too.

However, on Devuan it seems the package is not enough.

sudo apt install gphoto2*
[sudo] password for rich: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'gphoto2' for glob 'gphoto2*'
gphoto2 is already the newest version (2.5.20-3).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

EDIT:
after installing with

sudo apt install libgphoto2*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'libgphoto2-port10' for glob 'libgphoto2*'
Note, selecting 'libgphoto2-port12' for glob 'libgphoto2*'
Note, selecting 'libgphoto2-6' for glob 'libgphoto2*'
Note, selecting 'libgphoto2-2-dev' for glob 'libgphoto2*'
Note, selecting 'libgphoto2-dev-doc' for glob 'libgphoto2*'
Note, selecting 'libgphoto2-l10n' for glob 'libgphoto2*'
Note, selecting 'libgphoto2-dev' for glob 'libgphoto2*'
libgphoto2-6 is already the newest version (2.5.22-3).
libgphoto2-6 set to manually installed.
libgphoto2-l10n is already the newest version (2.5.22-3).
libgphoto2-l10n set to manually installed.
libgphoto2-port12 is already the newest version (2.5.22-3).
libgphoto2-port12 set to manually installed.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libexif-dev libexif-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libexif-dev libexif-doc libgphoto2-dev libgphoto2-dev-doc
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

the camera is recognized and photos come up!

thank you very much - it seems however that when installing

gphoto2

with "sudo apt install gphoto2" it is not enough as it does not install the dependencies. maybe i am doing it wrong?
please indicate me a proper line for installing it correctly, and please include this software by default.

#200 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Cmus not starting on Devuan 3.0.0 Beowulf, Mate[ SOLVED] » 2020-10-19 20:09:56

what i didd on powerpc probably or mac osx to compile it for newer version, you could always try that with help on github pages or wiki.

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