No it isn't. This issue has been raised before, so there's probably a small but fundamental error somewhere that has yet to be resolved. I can't solve it, someone more knowledgable should/would/could.

Yesterday I updated my "company-repo", which took a fair while to complete. Yet, no packages were downloaded as apparently, no updates had been made, or at least not processed/mentioned in the various Release files. This is not the first time, that's been going on for weeks now.

Obvious: where does /bin/bash lead you? Is it a sym-link to dash or another shell? And why are you mounting proc twice? (typo, I assume )

These are the commands Funtoo uses to chroot into a new install:

mount -t proc none proc
mount --rbind /sys sys
mount --rbind /dev dev
env -i HOME=/root TERM=$TERM /bin/chroot . bash -l

HTH!

Ok, good point for Linux   Running th test as root also negates my next problem-solver: can your user access USB devices? I still think there must be some permissions issue here, but then, I can be wrong

As for my work setup: just Devuan machines with LibreOffice, the hpijs & hplip packages and CUPS installed, worked pretty much OOTB.

I've unsuccessfully attempted to use the Devuan RPi images for the RPi1 several times, so I ended up using Raspbian-lite instead. As I'm using this particular RPi in headless mode, systemd is not a overly annoying issue. Using a GUI is rather not recommended though

But there is! If you install Devuan manually on a previously partitioned disk, it'll respect the partition sizes allocated to the various mount-points. This includes SWAP. Admittedly it's an extra step but the sysrescuecd guys offer a nice graphical way to partition and format your system with gparted from the GUI desktop. I don't use encryption (no need as I'm the sole user of my Devuan systems) so can't tell you anything on that.

Odd. I found this one:
http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian … _amd64.deb

Did you update the package list?

Thx for the reply. I doubt the SD card was/is corrupted, as I mentioned the official Raspbian image worked fine on the same SD card. But it's encouraging you got it working, so I'll try again later (perhaps over the weekend). Thx!

Given the error and your info, I have a hunch therer's a mismatch between the UUID of the Devuan partition you used and the one reported in Grub. Obtain an 8 or 16GB USB stick and install Devuan on that (as sole OS), then try booting it. If that works, the problem is not Devuan but in Grub.

If you need to ask how to break it, stick to the provided stable release, Kali in your case. Your question indicates you lack the knowledge to fix things when (not if!) they go belly-up

Note this is a Devuan support forum, not Kali (who have their own support channels).

You seem to be obsessed with "open source evarything', assuming because you "have reservations" about people trying to spy on you. That's fine, but if you're that paranoid about privacy, don't use a computer you haven't build from scratch yourself! Design your own hardware, using Open Source is quite easy: Kicad. Make your own PCB's, now that's a challenge if you know nowt about electronics. For chips, use un-programmed FPGA's. Not exactly open source, but as the specific chips in your system cannot be identified at the time of manufacturing, there's little risk you're targeted via this route (s'cuse the pun) Write your own bootloader, booting a plain, but patched (by yourself) Linux kernel. Next, create the entire ecosystem for your desktop, or rely on GNU/Hurd to port their software to your specific hardware. Not impossible, but quite unrealistic.

Maybe you should try being less paranoid about privacy, it's healthier too

PS: the suggestion to learn more about what certain phrases mean in FLOSS-land is highly recommended.

I wonder how an AMD Ryzen-9 proc would fare

And I reckon now they're out (launched last week), the Ryzen-3 series will become dirt cheap. And TTBOMK (to the best of my knowledge) AMD doesn't suffer from Intel's security holes in their proc's.

Go wash your mouth with soap bleach you heretic!