[DNG] New Chimaera torrent file needs seeders.

2022-09-11 Thread fsmithred via Dng
There's a new torrent file for chimaera to include the updated live isos. All the installer isos are unchanged and still at 4.0.0. The four live isos are 4.0.2 and include a bugfix for the live installer. Please seed. Thanks. Here's the torrent file:

Re: [DNG] connman missing from system menu

2022-08-17 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 8/17/22 06:20, Hendrik Boom wrote: > connman is missing from the system menu of my 32-bit laptop running chimaera. > I have installed: > connman-gtkverion 1.1.1+git20180626.b72c6ab-2 > connmanversion 1.36-2.2 > connman-uiversion 0-20150623-1 > The menu item is absent

Re: [DNG] booting devuan minimal live on MSI laptop

2022-04-23 Thread fsmithred via Dng
Here's a devuan chimaera minimal-live iso with grub-efi-amd64-signed. Please let me know if it works with secure boot. Thanks. fsmithred https://get.refracta.org/files/experimental/devuan_chimaera_4.0.0-signed_amd64_minimal-live.iso ___ Dng mailing

Re: [DNG] booting devuan minimal live on MSI laptop

2022-04-23 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 4/20/22 20:55, Gregory Nowak via Dng wrote: > So, remastering the minimal live image to have a valid secure boot > signature seems the simplest way forward. Any help on figuring out on > how to get a valid signature, and remastering the iso image would be > much appreciated. Sorry, I just saw

Re: [DNG] Chimaera installation issue (regulatory.db)

2022-04-19 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 4/17/22 14:40, al3xu5 via Dng wrote: > Hi > > This is to report an istallation issue with Chimaera (net install). > > The setup process halted at the beginning asking the "firmware"(???) > package for 'regulatory.db'. > > After some investigation I found it is related to a wireless-regdb

[DNG] Daedalus minimal-live sneak preview

2022-04-15 Thread fsmithred via Dng
First daedalus minimal-live isos are ready for testing and are available here: https://files.devuan.org/devuan_daedalus/minimal-live/ or from your favorite iso mirror: https://www.devuan.org/get-devuan As usual, some packages no longer exist. Here's the list: minimal-live changes for Daedalus

Re: [DNG] vdev in chimaera

2022-02-07 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 2/7/22 06:35, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 07/02/2022 à 08:29, aitor a écrit : >> I've uploaded new iso images fixing a bug related to the last change in >> simple-netaid for >> compatibility with static ip addresses, that involved the response to >> routing table netlink >> events triggered by

[DNG] test message

2021-12-29 Thread fsmithred via Dng
Sorry for the noise. Don't reply. I made other arrangements, thanks. fsr ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] EFI boot not found, partially solved in gnuinos (Was: 1st boot failed but repaired OK)

2021-12-22 Thread . fsmithred via Dng
On 12/21/21, aitor wrote: > Hi, > > On 21/12/21 19:55, aitor wrote: >> >> Hi Ralph, >> >> On 21/12/21 12:19, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote: >>> On Tue, 21 Dec 2021 01:44:39 +0100 >>> aitor wrote: ... The outcome is that i've been compelled to turn back the distributor to its

Re: [DNG] grub-efi-amd64-signed bug: hardcoded link -> unbootable system

2021-08-08 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 8/6/21 5:57 PM, Adrian Zaugg wrote: > In der Nachricht vom Friday, 6 August 2021 03:25:58 CEST steht: >> Which Beowulf iso did you use? I think we fixed this in the 3.1.1 >> point-release isos, but you still may hit it on an upgrade. > > It happened on upgraded systems. > > Thanx for fixing

Re: [DNG] grub-efi-amd64-signed bug: hardcoded link -> unbootable system

2021-08-05 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 8/4/21 7:17 AM, Adrian Zaugg wrote: > Dear list > > Beowulf is hit hard by a problem with hardcoded path in grub-efi-amd64-signed > leading to an unbootable system as reported on this list and on dev1galaxy > (manual intervention in certain configurations needed to boot). This problem >

Re: [DNG] RFC: minimal-live iso changes for chimaera

2021-07-20 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 7/20/21 11:15 AM, terryc wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 09:46:09 -0400 > fsmithred via Dng wrote: > >> The following packages are not in chimaera. I'm removing them from the >> minimal-live isos so that they will build successfully. >> >> Suggestions for

[DNG] RFC: minimal-live iso changes for chimaera

2021-07-20 Thread fsmithred via Dng
The following packages are not in chimaera. I'm removing them from the minimal-live isos so that they will build successfully. Suggestions for replacement packages are welcome. bittornado termsaver Thanks, fsmithred ___ Dng mailing list

Re: [DNG] desktop-live chimaera isos

2021-07-16 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 7/16/21 3:55 PM, fsmithred wrote: > Chimaera desktop-live isos are ready for testing. They can be downloaded > from files.devuan.org or from your favorite iso mirror. > https://www.devuan.org/get-devuan > > Let me know if the desktop does not look like this. >

[DNG] desktop-live chimaera isos

2021-07-16 Thread fsmithred via Dng
Chimaera desktop-live isos are ready for testing. They can be downloaded from files.devuan.org or from your favorite iso mirror. https://www.devuan.org/get-devuan Let me know if the desktop does not look like this. https://transfer.sh/1C8R6Pg/Screeshot_desktop-live-chimaera.png We're getting

Re: [DNG] Script to migrate buster desktop to beowulf v1.6

2021-04-14 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 4/14/21 10:15 AM, tito wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:57:38 -0400 > fsmithred via Dng wrote: > >> >> It's currently opt-out. You must select Expert install to avoid >> non-free and to choose your sources. Something about how the >> installer works makes i

Re: [DNG] Script to migrate buster desktop to beowulf v1.6

2021-04-14 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 4/14/21 9:50 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 09:02:54AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> tito via Dng said on Tue, 13 Apr 2021 22:03:02 +0200 >> >> >>> 2) should non-free and contrib repos be added to sources.list >>>or should that be left to the user >> >> I'm not sure whether

Re: [DNG] BUG in desktop-base

2021-04-13 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 4/13/21 6:13 PM, tito via Dng wrote: > On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 23:19:06 +0200 > aitor wrote: > >> Hi Tito, >> >> On 13/4/21 8:08, tito via Dng wrote: >>> cat /sys/class/drm/card0-Virtual-1/modes >>> preferred >>> 2560x1600 >>> 1920x1440 >>> 1856x1392 >> The origin of the warning lies in the first

Re: [DNG] Default logins for ARM images?

2021-04-03 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 4/2/21 11:13 PM, Gregory Nowak via Dng wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 07:57:21PM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: >> Greg, >> >> Have you not seen this thread on the forum? Because it is not a community >> project, it is presented differently that the official devuan isos. >> >> Location is:

Re: [DNG] Strange behaviour with last version of grub

2021-03-06 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 3/4/21 11:08 PM, wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote: > > >> On 5 Mar 2021, at 03:23, viverna wrote: >> >> Yesterday I updated one of my computers with apt-get upgrade. This packages >> are upgraded: >> >> grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common >> >> dpkg install from version

Re: [DNG] Devuan Beowulf 3.1.0 point release

2021-02-16 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 2/16/21 1:43 AM, spiralofhope wrote: > On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 20:36:58 -0500 > fsmithred via Dng wrote: > >> Devuan Beowulf 3.1.0 point release > > > However, > > devuan_beowulf_3.1.0_amd64_minimal-live.iso does NOT work with > ventoy-1.0.35 (inst

[DNG] Devuan Beowulf 3.1.0 point release

2021-02-14 Thread fsmithred via Dng
Devuan Beowulf 3.1.0 point release Dear Init Freedom Lovers Once again the Veteran Unix Admins salute you on this day commemorating six years since the first Devuan pre-alpha Valentine's Day release in 2015! Devuan Beowulf 3.1.0 point release installer ISOs, desktop-live, and minimal-live isos

Re: [DNG] install in private partition scheme ?

2021-02-04 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 2/3/21 4:43 PM, Radisson via Dng wrote: > > Am 03.02.21 um 02:59 schrieb fsmithred via Dng: >> >> You can have a separate /home or /boot, but if you want to  re-use an old >> /home partition, you must do that manually after the install. > I would like to setup a

Re: [DNG] install in private partition scheme ?

2021-02-02 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 2/2/21 7:48 PM, Gregory Nowak via Dng wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 04:57:35PM +0100, rad via Dng wrote: >> The programm calls refrectinstaller-wrapper.sh > > OK, it sounds like you're using Refracta, which is another > distribution based on devuan. > >> >> so what program should i start

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-23 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 10/23/20 3:04 AM, Simon Walter wrote: > From what I understand, I now have to maintain two copies of my key rings: > the regular one and the one *inside* TB. > Hm.. I was already a little nervous about keeping one copy of the keyring on the hard drive. > > Has any of you TB users (assuming

Re: [DNG] Complete system HDD encryption w/o LLVM.

2020-10-01 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 9/29/20 9:58 AM, Андрей via Dng wrote: > Question is, Is it possible to to achieve same goal without LLVM -- > i.e. to partition system HDD with fdisk, and then still have full > encryption? > Another way to do it is with the live-isos (using refractainstaller). Select encryption for the root

Re: [DNG] Failed run live usb iso

2020-09-28 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 9/26/20 3:09 AM, Budi via Dng wrote: > Did download this: > [b]devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_amd64_desktop-live.iso[/b] > (1.2GB) > > and did: > [code]sudo dd if=devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_amd64_desktop-live.iso > of=/dev/sdc bs=4096[/code] > > did reboot it, but got sort of this output: > > Error : cannot

Re: [DNG] terminology

2020-08-24 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 8/24/20 10:32 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Mu memory may be failing ne after almost half a century, but I recall > that the original Unix, way back in the early 70's, > even directories could be read as files. Not that there was > some hidden trickery making them into files; instead there

Re: [DNG] terminology

2020-08-24 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 8/23/20 6:37 PM, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > On 2020-08-23 17:20, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> I suspect that's what I'm going to have to do. >> Unless something better comes along I'm calling it a Thing. >> I do hope something better comes along. >> >> -- hendrik > > From my early Linux days I

Re: [DNG] Can't get graphic output from qemu

2020-07-13 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 7/13/20 12:37 AM, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote: > Joel Roth via Dng wrote on 13/7/20 1:42 pm: >> Hi list, >> >> Since upgrading to ascii, I don't get a graphic window by default >> as before. Instead, qemu tries (and fails) to make a VNC connection. >> >> I can run qemu-system-x86_64 -display

Re: [DNG] eudev-related problems after Beowulf upgrade

2020-06-15 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 6/15/20 12:15 PM, David Kuehling wrote: > > This is my diff: > > --- /etc/init.d/eudev 2019-02-09 13:22:24.0 +0100 > +++ /tmp/eudev2020-06-15 17:59:00.384481497 +0200 > @@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ > sleep 15 > fi > > +sleep 1s > log_action_begin_msg "Synthesizing

Re: [DNG] Jessie to Beowulf?

2020-06-15 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 6/15/20 6:43 AM, Antony Stone wrote: > On Monday 15 June 2020 at 12:30:36, Luciano Mannucci wrote: > >> Hello everybody! Just a quick question: >> >> Can I upgrade my Jessie to Beowulf directly or I have to upgrade >> to Ascii first? > > I would expect it's exactly the same as Debian - you

Re: [DNG] eudev-related problems after Beowulf upgrade

2020-06-12 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 6/12/20 10:05 AM, David Kuehling via Dng wrote: > > - during startup, the LVM init.d-script hangs for a very long time > repeatedly outputting errors of the form > > WARNING: Device /dev/xxx not initialized in udev database even after > waiting 1000 microseconds. > To get rid of

Re: [DNG] release status, was: Re: Devuan Beowulf 3.0.0 released.

2020-06-03 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 6/3/20 3:43 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > Since this topic came up, I have a couple non critical machines > running jessie, and they still get updates. Is this a fluke, or is > jessie still being supported. If jessie is still being supported, then > how long is that planned to continue as of

Re: [DNG] beowulf-stable-announce 404

2020-06-02 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 6/1/20 8:44 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 11:45:44AM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: >> Not enough hands on deck. The new website was release while I was sleeping >> so that page hasn't been created yet and I won't be able to get to it for >> several hours. You are

Re: [DNG] Waterfox issues under Devuan ASCII

2020-04-12 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 4/12/20 2:32 AM, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: > Hi, > > I will upgrade to Beowulf. As usual, I will upgrade dpkg, apt, > aptitude and the kernel first and then reboot with the new versions. > Then, I will do an "apt-get dist-upgrade". > > If there are more critical packages which need to be

Re: [DNG] ASCII 2.1 to Beowulf: Report + questions

2020-03-22 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 3/22/20 12:53 PM, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: > Hi all > > Yesterday I dist-upgrade ASCII 2.1 (MATE DM) to Beowulf, following [1]. > > Now I have: > ~~~ > $ uname -a > Linux computer0 4.6.0-0.bpo.1-rt-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 4.6.4-1~bpo8+1 > (2016-08-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux You can do

Re: [DNG] darkpurpy-grub theme on Beowulf

2020-03-22 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 3/22/20 1:30 PM, J. Fahrner via Dng wrote: > Am 2020-03-22 18:16, schrieb goli...@devuan.org: >> I'm feeling the darkpurpy love! :) > > You are right :-) > >> But if all else >> fails you can just replace the cinnabar elements with darkpurpy in >> /usr/share/desktop-base.  That's how I got

Re: [DNG] Installer images for armel, armhf and ppc64 need testing

2020-03-07 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 3/6/20 6:30 PM, fsmithred wrote: > On 3/2/20 7:54 PM, fsmithred wrote: >> We built beowulf installer images for armel, armhf and ppc64el. If you >> have appropriate hardware, please test and report. >> >> armel (no mini.iso for these. I hope you know what to do.) >>

Re: [DNG] Installer images for armel, armhf and ppc64 need testing

2020-03-06 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 3/2/20 7:54 PM, fsmithred wrote: > We built beowulf installer images for armel, armhf and ppc64el. If you > have appropriate hardware, please test and report. > > armel (no mini.iso for these. I hope you know what to do.) >

[DNG] Installer images for armel, armhf and ppc64 need testing

2020-03-02 Thread fsmithred via Dng
We built beowulf installer images for armel, armhf and ppc64el. If you have appropriate hardware, please test and report. armel (no mini.iso for these. I hope you know what to do.) https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dists/beowulf/main/installer-armel/current/images/

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-25 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 2/24/20 7:21 AM, Daniel Abrecht via Dng wrote: > One last, only partially related thing. Does anyone know how to get polkit > agents working properly? If I start `lxqt-policykit-agent`, for example, > pkexec won't work. If I start it as `su -c 'lxqt-policykit-agent'`, it > does, but I'm pretty

[DNG] Sort directories before files!

2020-01-17 Thread fsmithred via Dng
This has been bugging me since I started playing with beowulf at the beginning of last year. When I want to open a file in an application, the file chooser lists all the contents in alphabetical order, with files and directories mixed in together. This makes it take longer for me to find what I

Re: [DNG] Beowulf, I2Pd, libboost 1.62 vs 1.67

2020-01-12 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 1/12/20 9:19 PM, 'smee via Dng wrote: > Oh I see, I'm on 2.29.0 but it is locally compiled and not installed. I > guess if I were to compile the same version again in Beowulf (since > it's the latest) it would pickup the correct version...? > If you install i2pd 2.23.0-1 from beowulf, you

Re: [DNG] Beowulf, I2Pd, libboost 1.62 vs 1.67

2020-01-12 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 1/12/20 8:40 PM, 'smee via Dng wrote: > I tried running i2pd on my recently upgraded Beowulf instance but found > it errors out looking for libboost 1.62.0 libraries, which > libboostx.xx-dev appears to be an automatic install. > > Should I expect any problems rolling libboost1.67.0 back to

Re: [DNG] When upgrading to Beowulf please test and report issues with eudev-3.2.9-2 from unstable!

2020-01-10 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 1/9/20 3:40 PM, 'smee via Dng wrote: > > Correct, I can add it and try reinstall but just trying to figure out > why firmeware-misc-nonfree and firmware-linux-nonfree are there. If the > simplest answer is just that I must have installed them myself, I can > accept that, but I don't think

Re: [DNG] Fonts trouble on beowulf

2020-01-08 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 1/8/20 1:07 PM, Rowland penny via Dng wrote: > On 08/01/2020 17:56, fsmithred via Dng wrote: >> On 1/8/20 11:38 AM, Rowland penny via Dng wrote: >>> On 08/01/2020 16:25, goli...@devuan.org wrote: >>>> On 2020-01-08 10:14, Rowland penny via Dng wrote: &

Re: [DNG] Fonts trouble on beowulf

2020-01-08 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 1/8/20 11:38 AM, Rowland penny via Dng wrote: > On 08/01/2020 16:25, goli...@devuan.org wrote: >> On 2020-01-08 10:14, Rowland penny via Dng wrote: >>> On 08/01/2020 16:02, goli...@devuan.org wrote: phenix is the correct spelling and has been since jessie.  ;)  The French do it

Re: [DNG] Refracta Snapshot - Increase allowable size

2020-01-03 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 1/3/20 7:50 AM, 'smee via Dng wrote: > In attempting to make a copy to upgrade (and report back), I ran into > the size limit (got an error in the log that the squashfs was 37 g and > I think it said allowable was 4 gb). I understand why a typical iso > would need to be small, but is there a

Re: [DNG] We need upgrade reports

2020-01-01 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 1/1/20 3:48 AM, R. G. Sidler wrote: Hi fsmithred, where would you like those upgrade reports sent to? Sincerely R. G. Sidler I guess this list is best; then we can compare notes. Thanks. fsr ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] We need upgrade reports

2020-01-01 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 12/31/19 4:49 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: All upgraded since some months, no problems so far. Nik Was that with kde desktop by any chance? (One less for me to do?) fsr ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Catching up (was Re: Result of the Debian vote 'General Resolution: Init systems and systemd')

2020-01-01 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 12/31/19 9:16 PM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 16:01:11 -0500, fsmithred wrote in message <56853e51-735a-8e18-1f44-f6ae3fb6c...@gmail.com>: CenturionDan posted this in irc a few days ago: " with the 4.19 kernel LVM requires udev to be running and /run/udev to exist in order for

Re: [DNG] Catching up (was Re: Result of the Debian vote 'General Resolution: Init systems and systemd')

2019-12-31 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 12/31/19 3:16 PM, Andrew McGlashan via Dng wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 1/1/20 6:53 am, fsmithred via Dng wrote: On 12/31/19 2:16 PM, Andrew McGlashan via Dng wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 1/1/20 4:20 am, fsmithred via Dng

[DNG] We need upgrade reports

2019-12-31 Thread fsmithred via Dng
Please upgrade your highly customized and configured ascii production system to beowulf and tell us if it works. Okay, DO THIS ON A COPY, not the real thing. I've upgraded standard no-X systems, xfce and mate desktops, and those went smoothly. We need more data points. Thanks, fsmithred

Re: [DNG] Catching up (was Re: Result of the Debian vote 'General Resolution: Init systems and systemd')

2019-12-31 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 12/31/19 2:16 PM, Andrew McGlashan via Dng wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 1/1/20 4:20 am, fsmithred via Dng wrote: On 12/31/19 12:06 PM, Andrew McGlashan via Dng wrote: So how long before we can expect to get stable release of Beowulf

[DNG] Refracta-10.0 (beowulf) XFCE isos

2019-12-31 Thread fsmithred via Dng
Betas: https://get.refracta.org/files/testing/ I know there are a couple of issues with the high contrast theme. (wrong icon set, one wrong launcher.) What else? (other than missing documentation. Don't worry, you'll figure it out. Release notes will come later, but they won't be much

Re: [DNG] Catching up (was Re: Result of the Debian vote 'General Resolution: Init systems and systemd')

2019-12-31 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 12/31/19 12:06 PM, Andrew McGlashan via Dng wrote: So how long before we can expect to get stable release of Beowulf? Is there a reasonable timeline available yet? About the only thing left to do is make the isos, and we're working on that. Meanwhile, upgrades from ascii seem to be

Re: [DNG] Result of the Debian vote 'General Resolution: Init systems and systemd'

2019-12-30 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 12/29/19 10:46 PM, tom wrote: I know Devuan has been pretty much more or less 'to create a binary compatible Debian but without systemd', but at what point would it be determined that the best course of action may be to leave Debian behind and continue our own way? Probably won't happen any

Re: [DNG] Fw: looking for a replacement for debian since systemd

2019-12-14 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 12/13/19 8:55 PM, Steve Litt wrote: = Begin forwarded message: - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 7b77e0f2-4ff9-4adb-85e4-af249191f27a [ 3 ] Choice 1: F: Focus on systemd [ 1 ] Choice 2:

[DNG] Refracta beowulf no-X isos

2019-12-13 Thread fsmithred via Dng
https://get.refracta.org/files/testing/ No X. Plenty of extra command-line software, especially stuff for rescue and repair. I'm calling them beta because beowulf is still undergoing some changes. These were built with live-sdk, and I don't think I need to change anything in the build

Re: [DNG] Installing devuan on newer hardware

2019-10-31 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 10/31/19 6:44 AM, Yevgeny Kosarzhevsky via Dng wrote: I tried mini.iso from https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dists/beowulf/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/ but it isn't booting, bailing out to grub prompt. Can someone suggest how would I proceed with devuan installation here?

Re: [DNG] Devuan as a rescue CD?

2019-10-26 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 10/26/19 5:06 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Has any of you been using Devuan as a rescue CD? If so, how has it been working out for you, and do you have any suggestions to make the Devuan rescue experience easy and productive? System Rescue CD recently switched from Gentoo to Arch, thus

Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII point release

2019-10-26 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 10/26/19 9:54 AM, s@po wrote: Where does 'apt-cache policy' get the version number? Oh, maybe it reads it from the repo. I see that we have: It could be.. Another place, I searched for and makes sense to me: http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/dists/ascii/Release So I think it comes

Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII point release

2019-10-26 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 10/26/19 1:49 AM, Pontus Goffe via Dng wrote: Hi, On 2019-10-26 02:27, s@po wrote: You see here the '2.0' String, and it comes from the funtion guess_release_from_apt().. like you can see above.. The guess_release_from_apt() function: 228 def guess_release_from_apt(origin='Devuan',

Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII point release

2019-10-25 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 10/25/19 9:48 AM, 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 After installation lsb_release still reports 2.0, should I file a bug report

[DNG] Devuan ASCII point release

2019-10-21 Thread . fsmithred via Dng
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. - The option to choose openrc is more prominent and no longer

Re: [DNG] openvpn beowulf package imssing

2019-10-20 Thread . fsmithred via Dng
On 10/17/19, Yevgeny Kosarzhevsky via Dng wrote: > On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 at 12:25, Dimitris via Dng wrote: >> seems to be there..: >> https://pkginfo.devuan.org/stage/beowulf/beowulf/openvpn_2.3.10-1+devuan1.html >> mirror package : >> https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/pool/main/o/openvpn/ > >

Re: [DNG] Gnuinos Beowulf

2019-10-20 Thread . fsmithred via Dng
On 10/19/19, Aitor wrote: > At some point, the boot process waits for something. Pressing > Ctrl+Alt+F4 the boot process went ahead > ending up at a prompt. If openssh-server is installed, it's waiting for entropy. Install haveged and make sure it's running before ssh. I made a modified

Re: [DNG] Can't grub ignore /dev/hdb?

2019-09-13 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 9/13/19 5:43 PM, goli...@devuan.org wrote: On 2019-09-13 16:24, Hendrik Boom wrote: Haven't replaced /dev/hdb yet. Is there some way of getting it ignored in the following scenario? I started aptitude. It told me it hadn't been cleanly shut down last time, and recommended I do     dpkg

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed

2019-09-10 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 9/10/19 7:59 AM, Mark Hindley wrote: I have been further testing ways of migrating buster to beowulf. With a install of xfce4 and lightdm, the cleanest way I can come up with is: # Migrate from Debian buster to Devuan beowulf # Install devuan-keyring wget

Re: [DNG] udisks2 - who uses it? (not a poll)

2019-09-10 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 9/10/19 5:11 AM, Daniel Reurich wrote: On 08/09/19 07:37, fsmithred via Dng wrote: On 9/7/19 1:33 PM, Ismael L. Donis Garcia wrote: - Original Message - From: "fsmithred via Dng" To: "dng" Sent: Friday, September 06, 2019 9:23 AM Subject: [DNG] udisks2 - who

Re: [DNG] udisks2 - who uses it? (not a poll)

2019-09-07 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 9/7/19 1:33 PM, Ismael L. Donis Garcia wrote: - Original Message - From: "fsmithred via Dng" To: "dng" Sent: Friday, September 06, 2019 9:23 AM Subject: [DNG] udisks2 - who uses it? (not a poll) In ascii, udisks2 has been devuanized to remove a dependenc

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed

2019-09-07 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 9/7/19 2:26 AM, Mark Hindley wrote: libpam-systemd depends systemd-sysv. libpam-systemd also depends systemd. Devuan's libpam-elogind provides libpam-systemd but conflicts with systemd which must be removed first. However, to get systemd uninstalled we first have to replace systemd-sysv with

Re: [DNG] udisks2 - who uses it? (not a poll)

2019-09-06 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 9/6/19 5:43 PM, Alessandro Selli wrote: On 06/09/19 at 15:23, fsmithred via Dng wrote: In ascii, udisks2 has been devuanized to remove a dependency on libpam-systemd (and maybe libsystemd0, too.) The version of udisks2 in beowulf is very old compared to what's in buster.   Really?  I'm

Re: [DNG] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed

2019-09-06 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 9/6/19 9:05 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 09:00:08AM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote: On 9/6/19 8:33 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: I could try crossgrading to beowulf before I delete it. ... Are there instructions already? Or is it the usual change the apt-sources, update

Re: [DNG] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed

2019-09-06 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 9/6/19 9:34 AM, fsmithred wrote: On 9/6/19 9:05 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 09:00:08AM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote: On 9/6/19 8:33 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: I've got buster on a partition I never use and was thinking of deleting. I could try crossgrading to beowulf

Re: [DNG] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed

2019-09-06 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 9/6/19 9:05 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 09:00:08AM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote: On 9/6/19 8:33 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: I've got buster on a partition I never use and was thinking of deleting. I could try crossgrading to beowulf before I delete it. Would that help

[DNG] udisks2 - who uses it? (not a poll)

2019-09-06 Thread fsmithred via Dng
In ascii, udisks2 has been devuanized to remove a dependency on libpam-systemd (and maybe libsystemd0, too.) The version of udisks2 in beowulf is very old compared to what's in buster. The version in buster depends on libpam-systemd OR libpam-elogind. (Also libsystemd0 OR libelogind0) Since

Re: [DNG] Migrating from Buster to Beowulf - feedback needed

2019-09-06 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 9/6/19 8:33 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: I've got buster on a partition I never use and was thinking of deleting. I could try crossgrading to beowulf before I delete it. Would that help? It would not likely get any actual usage to discover problems beyond the actual crossgrade itself. Yes,

Re: [DNG] error to install gnome-disk-utility in beowulf

2019-09-05 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 9/3/19 12:52 PM, Florian Zieboll wrote: On September 3, 2019 4:46:28 PM GMT+02:00, "Ismael L. Donis Garcia" wrote: Los siguientes paquetes tienen dependencias incumplidas: gnome-disk-utility : Depende: udisks2 (>= 2.7.6) pero 2.1.3-5+devuan2 va a ser instalado Depende:

Re: [DNG] Identifying an installed physical hard drive without damage

2019-08-12 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 8/11/19 8:46 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 05:17:08PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: You could also execute a command that causes heavy load on /dev/sdb - be it a test, or a search - and then see which drive's lights flash a lot (if the drive has a light). Good idea, but

Re: [DNG] But there is a problem, but my report was wrong.

2019-08-10 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 8/10/19 7:36 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 098 098 036Pre-fail Always - 104 Count not zero. Time to replace the disk. Ouch! And more than just a handful. As for moving data off, the crucial partitions are part of a RAID, so the

Re: [DNG] But there is a problem, but my report was wrong.

2019-08-10 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 8/10/19 4:32 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 03:11:03PM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote: Perhaps that disk is defective and I have to replace it. If you have smartmontools installed, you can check: smartctl -a /dev/whatever Im not familiar with these statistice

Re: [DNG] But there is a problem, but my report was wrong.

2019-08-10 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 8/10/19 2:51 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Sorry for this post. There is trouble, but the details are all wrong. I was upgrading a machine that was differet from the machine I thought I was upgrading. Given that, it's no surprise that it appeared to be upgrading ascii instead of beowulf, or that

Re: [DNG] trouble with grub-pc during routine upgrade

2019-08-10 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 8/9/19 2:16 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: OK. Towards my usual ugrade, I'm told: grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible. grub-install: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for RAID and LVM install. At

Re: [DNG] Future of gNewSense: Debian or Devuan?

2019-08-01 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 8/1/19 12:26 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Anyway, if this is a suggestion to yank all nonfree out of Devuan and call it something else, that's fine with me. As a matter of fact, Devuan could slowly, selectively and judiciously make the same substitutions as the child distro. There's not really

Re: [DNG] Installing fresh copy of x86_64 Beowulf?

2019-07-31 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 7/31/19 9:08 AM, Lars Noodén via Dng wrote: On 7/28/19 6:33 PM, goli...@devuan.org wrote: On 2019-07-28 09:29, rgsid...@sunrise.ch wrote: Hi, with the actual image, I encountered only one problem. I tried to install it from a USB-stick, but the installer mixed up the partitions and

Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-29 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 7/27/19 2:52 PM, Haines Brown wrote: I'm installing Ascii->Beowulf on a separate hard disk, but obviously would like to make my current disk bootable as well. But still can't install GRUB: # grub-install bash: grub-install: command not found Since your su is acting like it's

Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-25 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 7/25/19 7:46 AM, Haines Brown wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 06:59:02AM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote: On 7/24/19 4:40 PM, Haines Brown wrote: I've no idea what's going on. I think you got a non-devuanized util-linux from ascii-security. That package has been replaced. You should be able

Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-25 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 7/24/19 4:40 PM, Haines Brown wrote: I've no idea what's going on. I think you got a non-devuanized util-linux from ascii-security. That package has been replaced. You should be able to get the right one with the following commands. su - apt-get update apt-get install util-linux or

Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-24 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 7/24/19 4:40 PM, Haines Brown wrote: When I become root with "su", I get the following: # grub-install bash: grub-install: command not found # /usr/sbin/grub-install bash: /usr/sbin/grub-install: No such file or directory How are you becoming root? In ascii, either 'su' or

Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-24 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 7/24/19 10:45 AM, Haines Brown wrote: I seem to be loosing ground. Someone helped me with the chroot method, but then: # grub2-install /dev/sdb bash: grub2-install: command not found # grub-install /dev/sdb bash: grub-install: command not found # ls -la /usr/sbin | grep grub-install ls:

Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-22 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 7/22/19 12:40 PM, Haines Brown wrote: So I do ... # chroot /sysroot # grub-install /dev/sdb bash grub-install: command not found # ls -la /usr/sbin | grep grub-install -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 102046 Oct 28 2018 grub-install #

Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-22 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 7/22/19 1:48 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 20:25:42 +0100 Simon Hobson wrote: 2) use these incantations, lifted from a post elsewhere : mkdir /sysroot mount /dev/your-root-dev /sysroot mount /dev/your-boot-dev /sysroot/boot mount --bind /dev /sysroot/dev mount --bind /sys

Re: [DNG] Systemd depends on random numbers in order to work properly

2019-07-09 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 7/9/19 5:07 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Martin Steigerwald - 09.07.19, 10:54: Just *booting* the system should not depend on enough entropy being available. Starting services that need entropy may be delayed, but just booting should not depend on entropy being available. This is

Re: [DNG] Firefox-esr freezes ASCII

2019-07-09 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 7/9/19 4:34 AM, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: For the information of everyone: I would like to inform all those concerned that firefox-esr is causing ASCII to freeze. Getting access to a terminal is almost impossible. Yesterday, I had to power off the machine. I did not investigate why the

Re: [DNG] ..so Debian is Busting postgresql, evolution-ews inboxes and history itself?, was: Runit service depend another script not daemon

2019-07-07 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 7/7/19 10:29 AM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..5.3.8. Calamares installer leaves disk encryption keys readable: https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#calamares-creates-readable-key Is this referring to the use of a keyfile in the initrd? Or is this

Re: [DNG] UEFI support in the live-sdk

2019-07-06 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 7/6/19 7:16 AM, aitor_czr wrote: First of all, are you using the latest sources: $ git clone https://git.devuan.org/aitor_czr/live-sdk.git No, I'm using the copy I cloned at the end of May. It worked for me then; I did not change anything, so I expect it should work now. On the other

Re: [DNG] UEFI support in the live-sdk

2019-07-05 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 5/30/19 4:54 PM, aitor_czr wrote: Hi fsmithred, On 30/5/19 15:30, fsmithred via Dng wrote: Reboot into the system looks good. It installed the full system from the iso (without network) :) :) :) Now I have to look at it and figure out what you did. fsmithred All these changes have

Re: [DNG] installing Ascii on ryzen 7 1800x machine

2019-05-31 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 5/31/19 1:47 AM, Gregory Nowak wrote: Hi all. I will be building a machine based on the ryzen 7 1800x CPU. From what I've read, support for ryzen 7 starts with the 4.11.x kernel, however Ascii comes with the 4.9.x kernel. My question is will I be able to do a full install of Ascii on this

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