Re: [DNG] Key is expired
On 06/09/22 19:33, Chris Dos wrote: Just spent that last few hours updating all our Devuan servers. If you ever need again to do the same set of commands on multiple servers, you may find cssh useful. It connects via SSH to any number of servers and replicates the commands you type to all of them at once. https://linux.die.net/man/1/cssh (on Devuan the package is 'clusterssh') ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] elogind on a server?
On 04/08/22 04:05, Gregory Nowak via Dng wrote: I don't have elogind installed on my server, and don't seem to have problems. I suppose you can try to purge it, and see what else it wants to remove before answering yes or no. I've purged elogind and libpam-elogind two days ago, no problems so far! Fun fact: after removing elogind a massive memory leak went away (Unreclaimable slab_cache - I had to reboot this machine every two weeks) Could be this issue https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/8015 but they claim that it was a bug in kernel version < 5.3 and I'm running 5.10 Anyway, many thanks for your time! ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] elogind on a server?
Hi everyone! I've just installed a minimal Chimaera on a VM from devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_server.iso I see that it has installed elogind, but is this required on a server? What will I miss if I remove it? Thanks! ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Ossec-hids for Beowulf
On 20/05/21 11:23, Luciano Mannucci wrote: I need to install an ossec-hids (from www.ossec.net) agent on a Devuan Beowulf PPC64 machine. AFAIK the .deb package is not supported direcly by Devuan and I cannot find a Debian PPC version. Compiling would be trivial if I can get pcre2 devel libs and .h, wich I'm unable to find for Beowulf. What sould I do? Isn't libpcre2-dev what you are looking for? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] update a virtual pc with chimaera
On 21/04/21 20:46, Ismael L. Donis Garcia wrote: I try to update a virtual pc with chimaera and it gives me the following error: W: Fallo al obtener http://192.168.0.73/devuan/chimaera/pool/DEBIAN/main/m/make-dfsg/make_4.3-4.1_amd64.deb File has unexpected size (384048 != 395632). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 192.168.0.73 80] Hashes of expected file: - SHA256:a1a83af8cbd854af887b72ad196b1f4af58387815e21ced1000253a116a46e2a - MD5Sum:ad23a28085ea694f6677b80baca3ff34 [weak] - Filesize:395632 [weak] The mirror is recently updated Maybe your mirror mirrored a "sync-in-progress" mirror? Have you tried updating your mirror again? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] SSL certificate or host mapping for ASCII updates for APT not right
On 08/04/21 16:40, crich...@blackfoot.net wrote: I’m trying to ‘apt update’ an ascii box, and the repos in the aptsource list point here: deb http://us.deb.devuan.org/merged ascii main non-free contrib I think that "country mirrors" are deprecated, try using just deb.devuan.org Bye! ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Default logins for ARM images?
On 26/03/21 11:30, Lars Noodén via Dng wrote: I'm looking at an ARM image for Beowulf, but cannot find where the default password is annotated. It's not on either of these pages: https://arm-files.devuan.org/ https://www.devuan.org/get-devuan And no README file seems to be present. What is the default user/password for those images? Strange, I can see a https://arm-files.devuan.org/README.txt, it contains this annotation: Beowulf 3.0.0 credentials: devuan:'devuan' root :'toor' Beowulf 3.1.0 credentials (rpi-img-builder based): pi:'board' (with passwordless SUDO :-O ) ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] LightDM password expired localization
On 25/08/20 19:40, Adam Borowski wrote: I'm testing out what happens on Beowulf when a user password expires. The process isn't very user-friendly, but the biggest problem is that not all the messages from the UI are localized (the machine will be used by non-technical people). Even though the rest of the UI gets shown in my language, here's what I'm seeing when my password expires: 1) I type the current (old) password 2) The message "Changing password for (user)" appears 3) I retype the old password 4) "New password" appears and I type it 6) "Retype new password" appears I'm using LightDM with the GTK greeter. Any hint on what I could try to change those messages? I've searched for them, and it appears the messages come not from lightdm but from pam. And indeed, you can find them in the pam package, /po/ directory. So you'd need to fill in missing translation strings for your language -- and rebuild pam. I checked inside /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES but the translated strings for my language ARE there, inside Linux-PAM.po and shadow.po too... I noticed that if I try to login from a tty console the messages there are in english too, so maybe while at the login stage the system doesn't use /etc/default/locale at all? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] LightDM password expired localization
Hi everyone! I'm testing out what happens on Beowulf when a user password expires. The process isn't very user-friendly, but the biggest problem is that not all the messages from the UI are localized (the machine will be used by non-technical people). Even though the rest of the UI gets shown in my language, here's what I'm seeing when my password expires: 1) I type the current (old) password 2) The message "Changing password for (user)" appears 3) I retype the old password 4) "New password" appears and I type it 6) "Retype new password" appears I'm using LightDM with the GTK greeter. Any hint on what I could try to change those messages? Thanks in advance! ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Question
On 23/08/20 15:42, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: Greetings A friend and mentor in all things Linux was a proponent of Devuan. Sadly he died some months ago Sorry to hear that :( Have found that devuan 3.0 or Beowulf is the present stable product. Is there a 'testing' equivalent Devuan product? I believe you are looking for Devuan Chimaera? See https://devuan.org/os/releases ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Zoom? Rather not...
Hello, On 06/08/20 15:27, ael wrote: Actually zoom does offer a tarball for download, so that can be checked and so is safer than a closed deb. Well if you want you can inspect debs too, Midnight commander even provides a "virtual filesystem" implementation for it Bye! ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Deleted qemu image
On 16/07/20 12:35, fraser kendall wrote: I have just done the stupidest thing. I was freeing up (rm -rf) space on what I thought was a storage directory (/srv), but I have now just discovered that it contained a critical qemu image. The image is a W7 VM and is still running; it appears unaffected. The /srv partition is the largest on this machine and the testdisk recovery image of this partition (~170G) is too large to fit anywhere on the hard drive. [cut] Best option: 1) can I retrieve the deleted qcow image from a running instance of that image? If I understood correctly the image file is still open, so MAYBE there's an open file descriptor inside /proc/$pid/fd that you can use to create a copy of the image somewhere else...? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] HW: Which brand and model of lapto have your successfully installed Devuan on?
On 09/04/20 03:56, terryc wrote: This is a hardware question. Which brand and model(s) of laptop have people successfully installed devuan onto? How difficult was it? HP db1043nl, installed Beowulf in... November? Wifi and graphics drivers didn't work out of the box, so I had to use another machine to get the necessary updates Bye! ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Clean install of ascii: / is huge ~ 40gb
On 13/02/20 03:26, Owen wrote: Any ideas how I can reclaim 30gb of my disk space please? You could try looking for huge directories with ncdu ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Devuan cannot exist without the help of Debian
On 29/11/19 12:29, Denis Roio wrote: Sadly it's not just init scripts: for example how would a case like http://bugs.devuan.org/db/27/276.html be handled? I guess by hand. Do you mean the user's hand, or the distro maintainer's? :D do you know about other show-stoppers for the systemd unit conversion plan? Well I'm not an expert but it looks like there are already projects that have started to tie themselves to systemd's specific services, so at least _for those projects_ converting units would not be enough BTW, with this mail you just helped me fix this annoying bug on my beowulf day to day install :^) did not knew the fix Glad to hear it :) I've stumbled on it myself just a few days ago, when installing Beowulf on my new laptop ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Devuan cannot exist without the help of Debian
On 26/11/19 22:13, viverna wrote: I wrote this summer in this list about a possibility of inject init run scripts (for example runit) in all Devuan packages automatically. This is a great idea. I've been in favor of something similar since 2015. It frees "upstreams" from the responsibility of maintaining init script/configurations for init systems they don't care about or perhaps despise. Daemon start files are written by experts on the init system. Sadly it's not just init scripts: for example how would a case like http://bugs.devuan.org/db/27/276.html be handled? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Insane defaults on Raspberry Pi images - How to fix corruption/dataloss
On 08/11/19 16:21, g4sra via Dng wrote: FYI: ext4 filesystem journaling (and swap) *should* be disabled by default on SD\SDHC media. To reduce wear? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Insane defaults on Raspberry Pi images - How to fix corruption/dataloss
On 27/10/19 03:32, tom wrote: The defaults on the linux kernel flags have the options rootflags=noload. This has the effect of disabling ext4 filesystem journaling, checksumming, and all other safeguards. In addition to that the root filesystem's parameters are set to always disable filesystem checks. Thanks for pointing this out :) It looks like "noload" is useful only for recovery purposes ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII point release
On 22/10/19 06:00, . fsmithred via Dng wrote: The Devuan ASCII 2.1 point release has begun. The installer isos, desktop-live and minimal-live isos are currently available After installation lsb_release still reports 2.0, should I file a bug report? # uname -r 4.9.0-11-amd64 # lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Devuan Description:Devuan GNU/Linux 2.0 (ascii) Release:2.0 Codename: ascii ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII point release
On 22/10/19 06:00, . fsmithred via Dng wrote: The Devuan ASCII 2.1 point release has begun. The installer isos, desktop-live and minimal-live isos are currently available for download here: http://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/ Other images will be uploaded as they are ready. For the record I've asked Hetzner to provide the new ISO, since they already have Devuan 2.0 it shouldn't be a problem ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII point release
On 22/10/19 16:11, goli...@devuan.org wrote: On 2019-10-22 01:46, Joril via Dng wrote: On 22/10/19 06:00, . fsmithred via Dng wrote: The Devuan ASCII 2.1 point release has begun. The installer isos, desktop-live and minimal-live isos are currently available for download here: http://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/ Other images will be uploaded as they are ready. Great news! :) Will there be a torrent too? Downloading & seeding right now :) Thanks! ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII point release
On 22/10/19 06:00, . fsmithred via Dng wrote: The Devuan ASCII 2.1 point release has begun. The installer isos, desktop-live and minimal-live isos are currently available for download here: http://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/ Other images will be uploaded as they are ready. Great news! :) Will there be a torrent too? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] ASCII on rpi1 & resize root partition?
On 26/06/19 07:58, Thomas Besser via Dng wrote: what's the easiest way to resize the root partition to the full size of the sdcard? On raspbian it is done with 'raspi-config' which is not available in devuan. Thanks for hints. Have you already checked this? https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/499/how-can-i-resize-my-root-partition Bye! ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Beowulf release schedule
On 08/05/19 05:43, Steve wrote: So, 1 (mostly) thumbs up for Beowulf (thanks, Aitor) but nobody knows when it is scheduled to be released. Not exactly the enthusiastic response I was expecting. Well we have to wait at least for Debian 10 to be released, right? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Way forward
On 11/04/19 16:15, Arnt Karlsen wrote: Enzo, please enjoy your leave and come back soon. Speaking for myself, you have my full and unreserved confidence. ..and mine. And mine! ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
