Re: [DNG] Advice on a package pinning

2021-03-18 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab via Dng
s all messed up. I managed to recover it, so I guess, if something happens to the one I am asking about, I will (hopefully) be able to recover it too :) Cheers! Antonio On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 7:29 PM Florian Zieboll wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:18:03 +0100 > "Antonio T

Re: [DNG] Advice on a package pinning

2021-03-17 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab via Dng
Thank you Florian for your good advice on pinning strategy. What I am really scared of is if having installed different gcc packages could screw up my system. Does your strategy take into account this, i.e. is your suggestion a way to take care of such situations? did you have any such problems der

[DNG] Advice on a package pinning

2021-03-17 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab via Dng
Hello all, I could use some advice on a package pinning which I have set. I need a version of ripgrep (>11.0) only available in Ceres repos. Hence, I enabled the ceres repo in my sources.list file and I pinned all packages from this release with: Package: * Pin: release n=ceres Pin-Priority: -1

[DNG] Advice on a package pinning

2021-03-17 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab via Dng
Hello all, I could use some advice on a package pinning which I have set. I need a version of ripgrep (>11.0) only available in Ceres repos. Hence, I enabled the ceres repo in my sources.list file and I pinned all packages from this release with: Package: * Pin: release n=ceres Pin-Priority: -1

Re: [DNG] Upgrade to Beowulf - two issues

2019-04-11 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab via Dng
For the issue n.2: Did you try to comment/delete the file /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf ? Hope it helps. Antonio On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 6:02 PM wrote: > I have upgraded two laptops from ascii to beowulf, and have noted only > two issues. Overall, things really look great. >

[DNG] Problems with mate-power-manager

2019-03-07 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab via Dng
Dear All, I am using ascii with mate on a laptop and recently I switched from xfce-power-manager (perfectly working) to mate-power-manager from hezeh.org repo. Following recommendations from repo mantainer I have also installed mate-session-manager, mate-control-center and mate-settings-daemon fro

Re: [DNG] Migrate to Beowulf

2019-03-02 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab via Dng
eb 28, 2019 at 9:39 PM Antonio Trkdz.tab wrote: > Thank you for the info. > > I will also try hezeh.org mate-power manager on my laptop. > Cheers! > Antonio > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 8:20 PM KatolaZ wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 08:56:53PM +0200, Dimitris via

Re: [DNG] Migrate to Beowulf

2019-02-28 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab via Dng
Thank you for the info. I will also try hezeh.org mate-power manager on my laptop. Cheers! Antonio On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 8:20 PM KatolaZ wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 08:56:53PM +0200, Dimitris via Dng wrote: > > On 2/28/19 4:50 PM, Antonio Trkdz.tab via Dng wrote: > >

[DNG] Migrate to Beowulf

2019-02-28 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab via Dng
HI All, I am actually looking to migrate from Ascii to Beowulf. What is the best course of action? Is the information here: http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2301 still relevant? I use mate desktop and nvidia drivers and I have packages from backports as well as other repos external to devu

[DNG] catch 22 situation with mate?

2018-09-13 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Hi All, I would like to bring to your attention this: I recently wanted to switch from XFCE to MATE. I installed task-mate-desktop, but I noticed that suspend and shutdown were missing and generally the system is not in the best state (i.e. no system tray and other quirks). I installed elogind an

Re: [DNG] running script on eudev event

2018-08-08 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
nput/ext_usb/) if echo "$EVENT" | grep -qe CREATE ; then apply_xmodmap fi done It works just fine, I don't have an idea on the overheads in terms of cpu time, although I didn't notice any difference on my michine. If some of you has some opinion on this, please share

Re: [DNG] running script on eudev event

2018-08-06 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Hi, Thanks for your help. > How are you running the echo command from the udev rule? ATTRS{idVendor}=="", ATTRS{idProduct}=="", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/echo 'message' >> /full/path_to/log_file.log" they do not have the DISPLAY variable initialized and do not have the > appropriate ses

[DNG] running script on eudev event

2018-08-05 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Dear All, I am struggling to understand how to run a script automatically upon plugging a USB keyboard. I know this issue is not directly related to Devuan, but I will certainly appreciate a little help. I created the following rule as /etc/udev/rules.d/90-usb-keyboard.rules: ATTRS{idVendor}=="X

Re: [DNG] pgcli bash completion script included in the official package

2018-06-21 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
bugreport, thanks also to your list of reasons that make this a better choice. Cheers! Antonio On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:32 PM Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 07:52:51PM +0200, Antonio Trkdz.tab wrote: > > I wrote a bash completion script for the pgcli utility, a com

[DNG] pgcli bash completion script included in the official package

2018-06-19 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Hi All, I wrote a bash completion script for the pgcli utility, a command line interface for Postgres - https://www.pgcli.com/ The script is at: https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli/pull/892/files for those who want to see or to use it. it actually completes some arguments of the pgcli command in a wa

Re: [DNG] npm and nodejs

2018-05-25 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Hi All, To install the latest(ish) nodejs from nodesource get the signin keys with: curl -sSL https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add - then, after touching /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list, add the following to the newly created file: deb https://deb.node

[DNG] KDE Problems on ASCII

2018-04-16 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Dear All, I have been installing ASCII from the netinst image and I wanted to try KDE out. There is a problem with permits policy (from what I can guess) because it is not possible to shutdown or halt the system from the DE itself and it is not possible to mount usb sticks. This happens upon sel

Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII 2.0.0 Beta released

2018-02-25 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Hi, I had the same problem of XFCE not being able to restart/shutdown/suspend. libpolicykit-agent-1-0 and policykit-1 were being held back on apt-get upgrade. When installing explicitly they were pulling ibpolkit-backend-systemd and libpolkit-gobject-systemd (among others) as dependencies as I did

Re: [DNG] ASCII Sprint this week-end -- Things we would like to have feedback on

2017-12-14 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Dear all, I have pulled eudev from experimental yesterday and I couldn't notice any issue on my ASCII powered laptop. I have one question, though. I am having some packages held back: devscripts procps # apt-cache policy devscripts procps devscripts: Installed: 2.17.5 Candidate: 2.17.6+deb9u

Re: [DNG] Expansion of the development team

2017-11-05 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Very good news! I wish all the best to the Caretakers! Antonio On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 7:46 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 05 Nov 2017 12:44:29 -0600 > goli...@dyne.org wrote: > > > Dear Dev1rs, > > > > Because Devuan is growing and needs more hands on deck to make and > > execute important de

[DNG] Raspi3 RC2 NOT working

2017-05-14 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Hi All, I have tried twice to dd the RC2 raspi3 image on a sd card, but I ended up with a non responsive login prompt. Also the ethernet is screwed, effectively rendering the system unusable. RC1 is fine. Thanks. Antonio ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists

Re: [DNG] Help with xmodmap+xcape

2017-05-11 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
As often happens with FOSS, problems are a source of learning and knowledge which led me to a better xmodmap configuration than the one a started with. Thank you once more and long live Devuan. Cheers, Antonio. On 10 May 2017 8:53 am, "Giovanni Rapagnani" wrote: > On 09/05/17 2

[DNG] Help with xmodmap+xcape

2017-05-09 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Hi All, I decided to live dangerously (with backups) and I recently upgraded my laptop install from Jessie to Ascii. It was a full fledged installation (X and all the bells and whistles...) and so far so good except for a couple of little things. Slim got hit as apt-getting it throws: The follow

[DNG] vim8

2017-03-15 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Hi All, I have few questions. I am on (devuan) jessie.. Given that "mixing stable and testing branches is recipe for disaster", is it safe to apt install vim version 8 from ascii? I pinned the ascii packages to priority 50 in preferences and I get: # apt-get install -t ascii vim ... The followi

Re: [DNG] https://talk.devuan.org/ not accessible

2016-12-22 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
It seems back on line now. A On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 3:02 PM, wrote: > Oddly, I can access talk.do and even log in. > > On Thursday, December 22, 2016 8:23 AM, hellekin > wrote: > > > On 12/22/2016 04:08 AM, Antonio Trkdz.tab wrote: > > Hi All, > > As of no

[DNG] https://talk.devuan.org/ not accessible

2016-12-21 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Hi All, As of now 3:12 UK time I can't access the https://talk.devuan.org/ pages. Just to let you know. Thanks. Antonio ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] transmission-daemon

2016-10-13 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Hi Florian, I just ditched transmission-daemon (and Transmission) in favour of Deluge. Much better (IMHO) and no systemd dependencies. Hope it helps. Antoniotrkdz On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Florian Zieboll wrote: > > > Hallo, > > I recently noticed, that Jessie's transmission-daemon pac

[DNG] smbclient problems

2016-06-15 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Hi All, I am trying to install smbclient to get a windows share printing system going and I get the following error: # apt-get install smbclient Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you ha

[DNG] FIFO underrun

2016-06-12 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Hi DNG List, I bonded two ethernet interfaces on my home server, just for fault tolerance. It is running Devuan Jessie. On reboot the loading hung throwing out a message 'like' this: [drm:cpt_set_FIFO_underrun_reporting] *ERROR* uncleared pch FIFO underrun on pch transcoder A The boot hangs for

Re: [DNG] Linux-libre-4.5.4

2016-05-30 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
I tried openrc today on a VM ascii install. so far so good. Antonio On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 6:19 PM, Svante Signell wrote: > On Mon, 2016-05-30 at 17:15 +0200, Jaromil wrote: > > > > dear Arnt, > > > > On Mon, 30 May 2016, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > > > > > ..I should have said "packaged into

Re: [DNG] Install a new kernel

2016-05-26 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
I have managed to compile and package the 4.4.11 kernel following Katolaz instructions (thank you!). It took ages to compileand I knew I would forgot to create a initrd for it: kernel panic at first boot! And yet today I saw... >Lazier: apt-get -t jessie-backports install linux-image-4.5.0.

Re: [DNG] Install a new kernel (Antonio Trkdz.tab)

2016-05-25 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
>i've built linux-libre-4.3.5 in 686, 686-pae and amd64 architectures, and shortly i'll share the beta of Gnuinos. Give me one week... Great! Looking forward to it. Antonio On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:01 PM, aitor_czr wrote: > Hi Antonio, > > El 25/05/16 a las 16:

Re: [DNG] Install a new kernel

2016-05-25 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
kage. Yeah, you mentioned that in one of those early posts I was referring to. It looks the easiest solution, configuration issues apart Antonio On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 25/05/2016 16:25, Antonio Trkdz.tab a écrit : > >> Thank you Didier and U

Re: [DNG] Install a new kernel

2016-05-25 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Thank you Didier and Urban. >I think you can compile your kernel with any version of gcc 3, 4 or 5, but take care of the C library. The libc used by your OS (ie glibc) must be compiled with the kernel headers for the kernel version it runs on. So to be clear...if I download the sources and I comp

[DNG] Install a new kernel

2016-05-25 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Hi All, I didn't want to resuscitate old discussions, so I am writing a new one. I am actually using Nvidia drivers from jessie-backports, but I would like to try nouveau drivers for my Nvidia card to get rid of some proprietary blobs... With current kernel in stable(3.16), nouveau don't support

[DNG] KDE plasma in devuan testing.

2016-05-02 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Dear All, I have fiddled a bit with a virtual machine running ascii to try to install kde plasma desktop[kde5].(please, fellows minimalists refrain to insult meI love lean systems too) and from what I understood libpam is preventing the thing from happening (correct me if I am wrong). I wo

Re: [DNG] Fw: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!]

2016-04-17 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Dear All, I have been using Devuan (upgraded from wheezy) for several months on my desktop PC: I am using XFCE as Desktop environment. I use Gimp and imageJ for the occasional image manipulation work. Keeping chrome open with dozens of tabs, toying with HTML and Javascript (debugging). I use an U

Re: [DNG] Raspberry Pi 2 image

2016-04-11 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Dear All, can some of you be so kind to point out in a clear form (and possibly link it to uname outputs) the architectures needed by each raspberry version, namely 1,2 and 3? Thank you in advance! Also, I have a Hummingboard, will the image to use be drastically different from (I think it is) th

Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-12-16 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Hi Dev1fanboy, I revised the translation (italian) and added The CC html code at the end of the text file (attached). I hope it fits the purpose If any italian speaker has 5 minutes to spare having a look at it I would be glad to incorporate any correction. In the meanwhile I will try to reg

Re: [DNG] problems with CUPS

2015-11-30 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
quick! What is the difference between 'bare' nosystemd and nosystemd-jessie? Shall I use the latter? I wish to thank you guys once more for your work and your kindness. Best, Antonio On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 03:16:27AM +0

[DNG] problems with CUPS

2015-11-29 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Dear All, I finally removed systemd from my devuan system with: apt-get purge systemd libsystemd0 libsystemd-daemon0. I would like to install CUPS from angband.pl repo as suggested, but when I issue: apt-get install -t nosystemd cups cups-client I get this: ... The following packages have unmet

Re: [DNG] Removing of systemd causes removal of CUPS

2015-11-25 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
at 6:09 PM, Daniel Reurich wrote: > Hi Antonio, > > I'm working my way towards fixing the issue with cups. Feel free to > use angband.pl's if you want to, but I wouldn't recommend keeping > angband.pl repo active otherwise. > > Regards, > Dani

Re: [DNG] Removing of systemd causes removal of CUPS

2015-11-24 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
< rainerweiku...@virginmedia.com> wrote: > "Antonio Trkdz.tab" writes: > > I recently upgraded to Devuan from Wheezy. > > I investigate the possibility to remove any trace of systemd from my > > system, but > > in the list of packets to be purged there is al

Re: [DNG] Removing of systemd causes removal of CUPS

2015-11-20 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Thank you! I will try this later today. A. On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Am Freitag, 20. November 2015 schrieb Antonio Trkdz.tab: > > Dear All, > > > > I recently upgraded to Devuan from Wheezy. > > I investigate the possibility to

[DNG] Removing of systemd causes removal of CUPS

2015-11-20 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Dear All, I recently upgraded to Devuan from Wheezy. I investigate the possibility to remove any trace of systemd from my system, but in the list of packets to be purged there is also CUPS and a bunch of its dependencies. Maybe this has been already covered in other discussion, but I would like t

Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2015-11-10 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Dear All and dev1fanboy, this is just to let you know that I followed your guide to upgrade my debian wheezy install and it went very well! Thank you for the great instructions. It was a really messed up old installation and the upgrade sorted it out brilliantly. Just as a note, gnome was still t

Re: [DNG] Fail to install devuan-jessie-netboot-amd64-alpha2 on metal

2015-09-24 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Hi, I'll just append to this conversation as I installed the netboot successfully on my desktop pc, but I had a minor "issue". The installer went straight without asking unnecessary questions up to the point it gave me the choice of where to install the system. At that point choosing manual parti

Re: [DNG] openRC

2015-07-21 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
appears to want to stick to sysvinit for the initial release. > Afterwards however, is debatable, but regardless, sanity in init is going > to be probably prevalent. > > I too favor OpenRC as well as it is really a sane way to extend sysvinit. > ---------- >

[DNG] openRC

2015-07-21 Thread Antonio Trkdz.tab
Dear List, I have been following your discussions with a lot of interest for quite a bit now. I really admire what you are doing as I really felt let down by Debian's decision to prevent people to have a choice. I am not a programmer and I consider myself an average user, I have been using Debian