Maybe the problem is HP. The very first post in our documentation section is about uefi booting on HP Probook. The bootloader file had to be renamed to make the bios happy. https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=15

If you decide or figure out how to go to legacy boot, and if you keep the disk with a gpt partition table, you need to have a special partition for grub that is at least 1MB in size, is not formatted with any filesystem, and has a bios_grub label (in gparted) or type ef02 (in gdisk).

In /etc/slim.conf, uncomment and edit default_user and auto_login lines:

# default user, leave blank to not pre-load the username.
#default_user        simone

# Focus the password field on start when default_user is set
# Set to "yes" to enable this feature
#focus_password      no

# Automatically login the default user (without entering
# the password. Set to "yes" to enable this feature
#auto_login          no

In /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, go down to the section that begins with [Seat:*] and uncomment the autologin-user line and add your user name.

@grafiksink - here's source for a packaged version of the update-notifier that bgstack and I worked on. I don't know if this version made it into any miyolinux builds.
https://git.devuan.org/fsmithred/basic-update-notifier

I think all the other stuff I have is older than what's on the sourceforge site. (some yad scripts and themes)

You can (and should) remove the unwanted boot entries using efibootmgr.

efibootmgr -b XXXX -B

where XXXX is the boot order number given by efibootmgr without any arguments.

This is why they invented Predictable Network Interface Names.
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Softwa … faceNames/

In debian, with udev you get the new names (enpblahblahblah) unless you boot with 'net.ifnames=0' to preserve the old names (eth0...)

In devuan, with eudev you get the old names (eth0...) unless you boot with 'net.ifnames=1'.   Add that to the boot command in /etc/default/grub like this:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet,net.ifnames=1"

and then run update-grub

You will need to edit any scripts you've written that reference the interfaces by the old names.

I think adding a debian repo without pinning it to a low priority is asking for trouble. You bypass amprolla which filters out systemd. It's also unnecessary because the same package is available through devuan repos in the non-free section.

$ apt policy nvidia-driver
nvidia-driver:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 525.147.05-7~deb12u1
  Version table:
     535.161.08-2~deb12u1 100
        100 http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged daedalus-proposed-updates/non-free amd64 Packages
     525.147.05-7~deb12u1 500
        500 http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-updates/non-free amd64 Packages
     525.147.05-4~deb12u1 500
        500 http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus/non-free amd64 Packages

Note: I have proposed-updates pinned to low priority (100) and that's why the newest version isn't shown as the Candidate.

I'm 99.9% sure that login:password is user:user and root:root and that it should boot to a desktop without logging in.

notify-send will make a popup window with icon and message. The package name is libnotify-bin and it might already be installed.

If you want an icon to sit on the desktop to click and get a message, I think you just need to create a file or shortcut, but how you do it probably depends on what the text message is. Is it a note you wrote or do you want some text generated automatically?

Icons are just image files. You can make one in gimp.

If google says that devuan is lagging behind debian, then google is confused. Almost all of the packages in devuan are taken directly from debian's repos when you install something.

If you think I was too aggressive when I told you and someone else to stop talking about each other, then I guess you misunderstood. We are here to talk about devuan, not to have personal arguments with other users. Or maybe the part you misunderstood was that I don't want to have a discussion about how to have a discussion. I don't require or want any feedback regarding this particular issue. Just stay on-topic.

@others - Thanks for the support.

Confirmed. I used the amd64 netinstall iso from April 24. That library (libgcc_s.so.1) is in package libgcc-s1 and it's in the iso. I tried dropping to shell and installing it, but that didn't work.

./pool/DEBIAN/main/g/gcc-14/libgcc-s1_14-20240330-1_amd64.deb

My first thought was maybe a package got removed. I can find clhsdb in daedalus but not in chimaera. In daedalus, apt-file shows the path to be different from what you posted. There's an extra 'jre' in yours. I don't have that package installed, so I don't know what it really does. You can also run dpkg -L <package> to see what files from a package are actually installed on your system.

$ apt-file find clhsdb
openjdk-8-jdk-headless: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin/clhsdb
$ apt-file list openjdk-8-jdk-headless
openjdk-8-jdk-headless: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/ASSEMBLY_EXCEPTION
openjdk-8-jdk-headless: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/THIRD_PARTY_README
openjdk-8-jdk-headless: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin/clhsdb
openjdk-8-jdk-headless: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin/extcheck
openjdk-8-jdk-headless: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin/hsdb
<snip>

Is it also trying to remove libseat1 when it removes seatd?  When I try to remove libseat1, it wants to remove xorg. I can't try to remove seatd because it's not installed. Maybe you could apt install libseat1 to set it to manually installed so it doesn't get removed with seatd.