I really like theregister

When I install I dpkg -P apparmor
When I install X, I dpkg --force-all -P elogind libelogind0 libpam-elogind libpolkit-agent-1-0 libpolkit-gobject-1-0 libpolkit-gobject-elogind-1-0 policykit-1 policykit-1-gnome
Then I install libsystemd0 (which elogind removed,)
And nothing is broken at all, no apt-get sorry, nothing.
And then if I install a full-fat browser and it pulls all that in again I do the same again.

i will default the bios and disconnect the battery for 20 minutes or so
i can try again and let it do automatic partition and see how it goes
i'm afraid i'm going to bed in about half an hour in my locale
peace be with us

i hope these few hours of this post has given us all some nuance of food for thought
i will dissect my box and look for a cmos battery (doubt it,) and give it a good chill and if that don't work i will spend my money on a new one, great
the situation is reconnaissance down to bios level
dangerous

i know exactly what my old boss doctor of nanotechnology probably the best doctor of nanotechnology in the world and a true genius, would say, flash the bios, can't do that, the internal ssd is totally wiped and zero'd and can't flash DOS only windows, best i can do is reset.
doctor would say open up and disconnect battery for period of time,
i can open box piece of cake and no electrostatic discharge i used to work on military medical air traffic control
i've opened in the past, the battery is on a connector
doctor used to have laptops sat on a rack sometimes for weeks! it's the low tech components that fail, resistors, capacitors, in the 1980's i was building darkrooms with the Greek army, in the 10's i was changing resistors and caps on Sony cathode monitors!
never mind

i'm truly grateful for all this input, cognition, what with this semi post-covid isolation at 3 years now this new year
for a while working for the chinese i used to test 450 motherboards a day and the 2 doctors used to pass cpu & memory to me when they were a bit fried but sufficient for my task
i'm inclined to think that my notebook cpu is not 100% and there is something in the libsemanage code which is fragile or poor, but ok in libsemange 2 in daedalus
i've even done wget --limit-rate=5.5M akin to like burning optical too fast

GlennW
I masquerade my MAC address, MANY reasons to do this, not shady
masquerade in wpasupplicant does NOT work
auto masquerade in systemd does NOT work
masquerade in new 'iw' does NOT work
so go back to ifconfig and route
the interweb would NOT work without a degree of low level tool functionality
and some Devaun folk are maintaining these programs, and some young orientals who are computer doctors and realise the situation

ralph.ronnquist I am inclined to think that my hardware is 'damaged' even at memory cpu level, need to reset bios for a start
please ask questions if you think

sgage piss of wasting stealing OUR time fool find something different to do

and my father fabricated the in fleight refuelling for the Vulcan to bomb that runway Stanley, amongst other things.
I take pictures.
If you want to know anything about photography ask me because I have forgotten more about photography than anybody will ever know about photography.
Where were we.
Devuan is problematic.

Let me get one thing clear, I'm a civilian.
Previously I worked at the main IBM facility in the U.K. IPC certificated to mend computers, under a 40X microscope, class A hardware, zero down time, Five Eyes countries, military, medical, air-traffic control.
Also licensed to fabricate some Sony components when stores were out of stock, mending civil servants piece of crap laptops.
One of my grandfathers use to be an instrument maker with Tim Berners Lee's parents.
My grandad used to get infant Tim ice cream and push him on the swings in the park.
I was employed by Mitac Synnex to do silicon technology and nano technology R&D with the best two Chinese doctors (out of the top 400,) on the planet, exiles from the 'square' event, this job required ink on paper at the highest echelons of power in China. Band of brothers.
Was because of my innate mechanical engineering ancestry background, when you're down to atomic level you're back to boulders and levers, whereas the doc's folks were growing rice.

the only devil in your world, lives in the human heart