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Grahamps

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

I am going to be following this closely, it's inspired me to restart my tribute build; full disclosure, for the rough start I did use the last KDE build as a spring board. Either way, the kernel has humbled me again and dinit has proved both insanely quick and straight forward but unforgiving. So massive kudos and a serious thank you.

Valera

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Registered: 2026-01-25

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

Grahamps, thank you for your support.

Bizz91

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

Posted right there few mins ago on your Mx Linux forum post and the devuanusers.com post too. All the best of luck man.
Can't wait for a distro on X Libre with any init plus sysd shim and MX Tools or Tweaks And Sonic DE (Plasma 6 fork) with X Server support since Plasma 6.8 will be wayland only and this Sonic DE will like Plasma 6 with that X server support.
I am in "do one thing well" team.

Devarch

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Registered: 2022-10-03

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

I found an interesting feature of this distribution - the installer refuses to see the second disk. Both disks are SSDs. Why?

Last edited by Devarch (2026-05-03 20:55:34)

Valera

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

Gazelle Installer? I have never had problems with it, and I have not changed the default settings. Maybe your SSD is not visible in Live, look before installing it in Gparted and try to mount it manually.

Last edited by Valera (2026-05-04 05:01:54)

Devarch

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

Maybe your SSD is not visible in Live, look before installing it in Gparted and try to mount it manually.

The installer works as expected when I use a Ventoy flash drive. The aforementioned strange behavior only occurs when booting the Live system from this second SSD using Ventoy. In such cases, I see all partitions on the first drive and only Ventoy-related partitions on the second. As a result, I am unable to install the distribution to the second drive.

Bizz91

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

You can't install that particular distro to the same drive you are booting from in ventoy. I have had that in MX Linux since even the file managers don't let us access that drive either.

Devarch

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

You can't install that particular distro to the same drive you are booting from in ventoy. I have had that in MX Linux since even the file managers don't let us access that drive either.

Thanks for info. Anyway it's over - kernel panic after update, not this distro fault but ceres one.
My experience: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit is great but as it's based on unstable it does not survive un update

Valera

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

Configure Timeshift to take one snapshot per week. I have not had any problems after updates.

Devarch

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

Configure Timeshift to take one snapshot per week. I have not had any problems after updates.

I've reinstalled MXD again and had no issue with today' s update.

I've few questions about MXD and dinit (I'm new in dinit)

1. The distro has no doas preinstalled but I see preconfigured doas.conf in /etc/

2. I created ufw in /etc/dinit.d:

type         = scripted
command      = /usr/sbin/ufw enable
stop-command = /usr/sbin/ufw disable
restart      = false

and not sure if I need depends-on, before, logfile? Also the service strarts but ufw is not enabled after reboot.

3. Service rc-local was in place already:

type = scripted
command = /usr/bin/sh /etc/dinit.d/scripts/rc-local.sh start
stop-command = /usr/bin/sh /etc/dinit.d/scripts/rc-local.sh stop
depends-on = login.target

it' s enabled and started but rc.local is ignored. What can be wrong?

4. It seems that bluetooth is installed:

dpkg -l | grep blue  
ii  bluetooth                                           5.85-4                                       all          Bluetooth support (metapackage)
ii  bluez                                               5.85-4                                       amd64        Bluetooth tools and daemons
ii  bluez-alsa-utils                                    4.3.1-3.1+b1                                 amd64        Bluetooth Audio ALSA Backend (utils)
ii  bluez-firmware                                      1.2-13                                       all          Firmware for Bluetooth devices
ii  libasound2-plugin-bluez:amd64                       4.3.1-3.1+b1                                 amd64        Bluetooth Audio ALSA Backend (plugins)
ii  libbluetooth3:amd64                                 5.85-4                                       amd64        Library to use the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth stack
ii  libkf6bluezqt-data                                  6.23.0-2                                     all          data files for bluez-qt
ii  libkf6bluezqt6:amd64                                6.23.0-2                                     amd64        Qt wrapper for bluez
ii  papirus-mxblue                                      25.06.02mx25                                 all          papirus blue folders with tabs for MX
ii  qml6-module-org-kde-bluezqt:amd64                   6.23.0-2                                     amd64        QML wrapper for bluez

but I don' t see any traces of bluetooth to set it up.

Last edited by Devarch (Yesterday 21:33:50)

Valera

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

ufw

type = scripted
command = /usr/sbin/ufw enable
stop-command = /usr/sbin/ufw disable
depends-on = mount-all
logfile	= /tmp/ufw.log

bluetoothd

type = process
command = /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd

depends-on = dbus

sudo dinit-check ufw
sudo dinit-check bluetoothd

if OK, then
sudo dinitctl enable ufw
sudo dinitctl enable bluetoothd

Last edited by Valera (Today 05:08:48)