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Andre4freedom

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Registered: 2017-11-15

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[SOLVED] anacron and OpenRC, Devuan 3, 4, 5, 6 (Excalibur)

There is (or was?) a long-time-bug.

I installed the latest devuan_excalibur_6.0-20250605_amd64_netinstall.iso to test it.
What a pleasure. Everything works out of the box, no tinkering - so far.

But, still, the same old bug has made it to excalibur:
I choose OpenRC as the init system, and anacron then prevents to shutdown orderly after reboots later on.
The problem was there already in Devuan 3, 4, 5....
I tested a fresh install with the InitSysV and that worked well, no anacron problem.
I usually get rid of the problem by just removing anacron.

1. Test: Excalibur, OpenRC, Cinnamon Desktop: The problem is real
2. Test: Excalibur, InitSysV, Cinnamon Desktop: No problem anymore(?!)
3. Test: Excalibur, OpenRC, GNOME Desktop: Still the problem

Since Excalibur is being readied, I wanted to ensure the old bug gets solved.
I decided to test more and then file a bug. For this I started some fresh-installs today, using the same iso,
Of course, I always include Devuan-mirrors to be up-to-date.

4. Test: Excalibur, OpenRC, XFCE Desktop: No problem anymore(?!)
5. Test: Excalibur, OpenRC, Cinnamon Desktop: No problem anymore(?!)

Bizarre, yesterday the bug was still there in the installation from yesterday.
Has something changed? I don't dare to file a bug now.

The problem has been consistently there with the last 3 releases of Devuan, always with OpenRC, sometimes Cinnamon DE, sometimes XFCE DE.
I wonder if that sounds familiar to somebody.

Andre4freedom

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Registered: 2017-11-15

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Re: [SOLVED] anacron and OpenRC, Devuan 3, 4, 5, 6 (Excalibur)

Hello Devuan-ers
Good news: I tested the very latest release of Devuan Excalibur 6.0-20250617_amd64 (netinstall)
https://files.devuan.org/devuan_excalib … nstall.iso
under the same conditions: Standard-install, Cinnamon, OpenRC.
Result: The problem with shutdown no longer appears.

I will continue to test upcoming releases and report it back with a new thread should the problem show up again.
So I close this one now.
Be happy and have a good day

Andre4freedom

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Registered: 2017-11-15

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Re: [SOLVED] anacron and OpenRC, Devuan 3, 4, 5, 6 (Excalibur)

I think I marked the topic as "solved" to early.
With the release of Devuan 6 Excalibur, anacron in combination with OpenRC still causes delays at shutdown - sometimes. Not every-time but still sometimes.
The problem can be worked around by disabling anacron (rc-update delete anacron) or by switching to sysvinit.

rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

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Re: [SOLVED] anacron and OpenRC, Devuan 3, 4, 5, 6 (Excalibur)

Yes I know this bug. I see it on my travelling laptop. Installed with openrc, Cinnamon DE, lightdm. Initially Chimaera, a parallel installation of Daedalus shows it too. Meanwhile the Daedalus installation has been upgraded to Excalibur and also shows the issue.

Never had it on my workstation, there I do not have anacron installed.

Maybe I need to change the laptop from openrc to sysvinit.

Andre4freedom

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Registered: 2017-11-15

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Re: [SOLVED] anacron and OpenRC, Devuan 3, 4, 5, 6 (Excalibur)

Your solution sounds very reasonable, fair and sound.
So I will switch to sysvinit on the laptop, and just remove or disable anacron on servers and workstations.
I consider the case as closed, though.
Thank you for your input, rolfie.