[DNG] Runit + vdev in gnuinos jessie

2018-06-10 Thread aitor_czr
Hi all, You can test runit and vdev downloading the following image: http://gnuinos.org/gnuinos%20jessie/ There are still some bugs pending to be fixed: - In live mode, the terminal (sakura in this case) doesn't work (this is due to vdev and it's not related with runit). It works only for roo

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 10/06/2018 à 14:55, Haines Brown a écrit : On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 10:05:48AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 10/06/2018 à 04:01, Haines Brown a écrit : On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 10:36:46PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: Haines Brown wrote: In the partitioning scheme, sda is HD ST1000DX002-2DV1.

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 10/06/2018 à 16:08, Rowland Penny a écrit : On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 08:55:55 -0400 Haines Brown wrote: When I execute a shell toward the end of installation, can I use it to run the command "parted /dev/sda set 1 boot on" both to enable sda1 and to make it bootable at the same time? Would the c

Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII 2.0.0 stable

2018-06-10 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting info at smallinnovations dot nl (i...@smallinnovations.nl): > Discussion at slashdot is a waste of time nowadays (I do have a 5 digit > uid from the time ./ had some merits). {ahem} FWIW: rickmoen (1322) Karma: Excellent ;-> ___ D

Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII 2.0.0 stable

2018-06-10 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Jaromil (jaro...@dyne.org): > this weekend the news of our release made a splash on community fora, > namely hackernews https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17274623 where > our effort was always heavily denigrated and mocked, now starts > emerging some reasonable feedback. And last not le

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread golinux
On 2018-06-10 17:31, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 12:45:36 -0500 goli...@dyne.org wrote: > Just have to keep a post-it on the monitor, to remind you which HD has > what ;-3) I actually keep a small sticky label on the drive itself. ;) Might not be very useful at boot ti

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 12:45:36 -0500 goli...@dyne.org wrote: > > Just have to keep a post-it on the monitor, to remind you which HD has > > what ;-3) > I actually keep a small sticky label on the drive itself. ;) Might not be very useful at boot time ;-3) Cheers, Ron. -- Televi

Re: [DNG] Xorg, choosing setuid vs. libpam-elogind and rant about security (was: Re: Jessie -> Ascii upgrade breaks X)

2018-06-10 Thread KatolaZ
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:44:56PM +0200, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > KatolaZ: > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:15:18AM -0500, Peter Vachuska wrote: > ... > > > I know that my setup is atypical and console users won't > > > influence the direction of X. Still > > > Dear Peter, > > > > please have

Re: [DNG] Xorg, choosing setuid vs. libpam-elogind and rant about security (was: Re: Jessie -> Ascii upgrade breaks X)

2018-06-10 Thread karl
KatolaZ: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:15:18AM -0500, Peter Vachuska wrote: ... > > I know that my setup is atypical and console users won't > > influence the direction of X. Still > Dear Peter, > > please have a look at the ASCII Release Notes: > > https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/Rel

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 15:08:31 +0100, Rowland wrote in message <20180610150831.64627...@devstation.samdom.example.com>: > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/252936/grub2-boot-to-a-second-another-hard-disk > > Or failing that, google for the answer ;-) ..https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/g

Re: [DNG] Postgresql problem

2018-06-10 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-06-10 21:12, schrieb Steve Litt: If the error is being thrown by something Debian added, well, it's Holloween code, and we can take it out. Looks like it is some Debian script: # print a list of PostgreSQL versions that are supported for the platform this # script runs on. # Note: Ne

Re: [DNG] Xorg, choosing setuid vs. libpam-elogind and rant about security (was: Re: Jessie -> Ascii upgrade breaks X)

2018-06-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 9 Jun 2018 13:52:06 -1000 Joel Roth wrote: > Colleagues! > > Earlier in this thread, we learned that installing xserver-xorg-legacy > allows you to run X the old way, as a setuid script. > > The default upgrade path from jessie -- in which X11 was > setuid-only -- migrates to a new xse

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 02:08:29PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > The suggestion to disconnect the sda drive while I install the same > version of the operating system on sdc occurred to me, but I worried > about the effect of the resulting change in drive designations. In my > case, by disconnecting

Re: [DNG] Postgresql problem

2018-06-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 10:40:44 +0200 "J. Fahrner" wrote: > Am 2018-06-10 09:26, schrieb Ralph Ronnquist: > > The first google match suggests adding > > ID_LIKE=Debian > > to /etc/os-release > > > > Worth a try perhaps? > > Sounds good. > Before: > ---

Re: [DNG] Xorg, choosing setuid vs. libpam-elogind and rant about security (was: Re: Jessie -> Ascii upgrade breaks X)

2018-06-10 Thread Joel Roth
KatolaZ wrote: > please have a look at the ASCII Release Notes: > > https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/Release_notes.txt > > which provide an explanation of the whole X.org matter and of the > solutions available in Devuan ASCII. Thank you (and the author) for this reference. Somehow I'd mi

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 04:07:17PM +0100, Rowland Penny wrote: > What you are talking about doing is akin to dual-booting, just on > different disks i.e. you will only be able to boot one distro. > > Rowland Yes. In the past I've always had multiple hard drives in one machine, each with an opera

[DNG] [OT] Future codename proposal (was: Devuan ASCII 2.0.0 stable)

2018-06-10 Thread Irrwahn
Irrwahn wrote on 09.06.2018 14:34: > Omedetō gozaimasu, Devuan ASCII! I wonder if someone could sweet-talk the CSBN of the IAU into creating the precondition for us to dub Devuan 21.0.0 UTF-8. -- SCNR, I see myself out. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature _

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread golinux
On 2018-06-10 11:07, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 10:48:28 -0500 goli...@dyne.org wrote: > A work-around for your problem: > Install each OS individually on a HD (disconnecting the other bootable > ones if need be) and install Grub on the mbr of that HD. > When booting, pres

Re: [DNG] Xorg, choosing setuid vs. libpam-elogind and rant about security (was: Re: Jessie -> Ascii upgrade breaks X)

2018-06-10 Thread KatolaZ
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:15:18AM -0500, Peter Vachuska wrote: > I really wish I had paid more attention to this thread and others warning > about the changes to X before attempting to upgrade to ascii. My preferred > way of working is out of a console running byobu and GNU screen and starting

Re: [DNG] Xorg, choosing setuid vs. libpam-elogind and rant about security (was: Re: Jessie -> Ascii upgrade breaks X)

2018-06-10 Thread fsmithred
On 06/10/2018 12:15 PM, Peter Vachuska wrote: > I really wish I had paid more attention to this thread and others warning > about the changes to X before attempting to upgrade to ascii. My preferred > way of working is out of a console running byobu and GNU screen and starting > X only when need

Re: [DNG] Xorg, choosing setuid vs. libpam-elogind and rant about security (was: Re: Jessie -> Ascii upgrade breaks X)

2018-06-10 Thread Peter Vachuska
I really wish I had paid more attention to this thread and others warning about the changes to X before attempting to upgrade to ascii. My preferred way of working is out of a console running byobu and GNU screen and starting X only when needed. This no longer works as both screen and X use virt

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 10:48:28 -0500 goli...@dyne.org wrote: > > A work-around for your problem: > > Install each OS individually on a HD (disconnecting the other bootable > > ones if need be) and install Grub on the mbr of that HD. > > When booting, press F8 (or whichever your BIOS uses) to bring

Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII 2.0.0 stable

2018-06-10 Thread Antonio Volpicelli
Congratulations to all, great work!! \o/ Antonio On 09/06/2018 14:08, Daniel Reurich wrote: Thanks to the work of my friends and fellow hackers we have another blow for freedom. An OS to truly be proud of, beautifully stable and just as it should be. Big shout out to (in no particular order)

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread golinux
On 2018-06-10 10:08, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: A work-around for your problem: Install each OS individually on a HD (disconnecting the other bootable ones if need be) and install Grub on the mbr of that HD. When booting, press F8 (or whichever your BIOS uses) to bring up the Boot Menu, and c

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
A work-around for your problem: Install each OS individually on a HD (disconnecting the other bootable ones if need be) and install Grub on the mbr of that HD. When booting, press F8 (or whichever your BIOS uses) to bring up the Boot Menu, and choose there the HD you want to boot from. Cheer

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread Rowland Penny
On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 10:18:24 -0400 Haines Brown wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 12:36:02PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > > > I think you may be confused about what this section is doing. You > > are telling the installer a) what to do with a disk & it's > > partitions (eg, should it format a pa

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 12:36:02PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > I think you may be confused about what this section is doing. You are > telling the installer a) what to do with a disk & it's partitions (eg, > should it format a partition), and b) where they should be mounted. > So for your partit

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread Rowland Penny
On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 08:55:55 -0400 Haines Brown wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 10:05:48AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > > Le 10/06/2018 à 04:01, Haines Brown a écrit : > > >On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 10:36:46PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > > >>Haines Brown wrote: > > >> > > >>>In the partitioning s

Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII 2.0.0 stable

2018-06-10 Thread info at smallinnovations dot nl
On 10-06-18 14:27, Jaromil wrote: > > this weekend the news of our release made a splash on community fora, > namely hackernews https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17274623 where > our effort was always heavily denigrated and mocked, now starts > emerging some reasonable feedback. And last not lea

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 10:05:48AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 10/06/2018 à 04:01, Haines Brown a écrit : > >On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 10:36:46PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > >>Haines Brown wrote: > >> > >>>In the partitioning scheme, sda is HD ST1000DX002-2DV1. It has a primary > >>>partition th

Re: [DNG] Postgresql problem

2018-06-10 Thread KatolaZ
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 10:40:44AM +0200, J. Fahrner wrote: [cut] > > After (ID_LIKE=debian): > -- > supported-versions: WARNING! Unknown distribution: devuan > debian found in ID_LIKE, treating as Debian > -

[DNG] Devuan package information

2018-06-10 Thread KatolaZ
Dear D1rs, just to let you know that the Devuan infrastructure include a new service: https://pkginfo.devuan.org which allows to access information about the package available in Devuan. It's very basic, and we plan to improve it with time, but gets the job done, somehow. HND KatolaZ -- [

Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII 2.0.0 stable

2018-06-10 Thread Jaromil
ahoy! On Sat, 09 Jun 2018, Irrwahn wrote: > Veteran Unix Admins wrote on 09.06.2018 07:05: > > Dear Init Freedom Lovers > > > > Once again the Veteran Unix Admins salute you! > > > > We are happy to announce that Devuan GNU+Linux 2.0 ASCII Stable is > > finally available.[...] > > Omedetō goz

[DNG] I wish good things for Devuan

2018-06-10 Thread vmlinux
Just wanted to drop the maintainers a note. Keep up the great work. I've been dealing with some really crazy issues during OS installs and upgrades of **NON** Devuan systems in the past couple months. Its hard to believe how broken, discombobulated and simply messed up things have become. From

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread Simon Hobson
Haines Brown wrote: >> You probably want to set this partition to unused (or whatever it's >> called, it's a looong time since I last did this) so that it doesn't >> appear in the mount point table (eventually in fstab of the new >> install). I think what you are telling it is that you want sd

Re: [DNG] Postgresql problem

2018-06-10 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-06-10 09:26, schrieb Ralph Ronnquist: The first google match suggests adding ID_LIKE=Debian to /etc/os-release Worth a try perhaps? Sounds good. Before: - supported-versions: WARNING! Unknown distribution: devuan /

Re: [DNG] Postgresql problem

2018-06-10 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
J. Fahrner wrote on 10/06/18 17:20: Hi, when installing/upgrading postgresql packages, there is the following warning: supported-versions: WARNING! Unknown distribution: devuan /usr/share/postgresql-common/supported-versions: 66: /usr/share/postgresql-common/supported-versions: ID_LIKE: par

[DNG] Postgresql problem

2018-06-10 Thread J. Fahrner
Hi, when installing/upgrading postgresql packages, there is the following warning: supported-versions: WARNING! Unknown distribution: devuan /usr/share/postgresql-common/supported-versions: 66: /usr/share/postgresql-common/supported-versions: ID_LIKE: parameter not set /usr/share/postgresql-c