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

2021-03-09 Thread David Kuehling via Dng
> On 3/4/21 11:08 PM, wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote: >>> >>> And now the question. Has anyone reported the error in Devuan? Has >>> anyone haved this problem? >> >> Seems to be a bit of news about the latest update. >> https://9to5linux.com/patches-for-multiple-new-grub2-security-flaws-start-roll

Re: [DNG] No Sound in XFCE Beowulf - Pulsaudio

2020-10-31 Thread David Kuehling via Dng
> "Marc" == Marc Shapiro via Dng writes: > It may have been a response to one of my posts that you are > remembering.  Back on September 25 I posted that I had "(Almost) no > sound under Beowulf" and viverna posted a reply suggesting the need > for a .asound file.  In the end, I did not ne

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

2020-06-15 Thread David Kuehling via Dng
>>>>> "fsmithred" == fsmithred writes: > On 6/15/20 11:23 AM, David Kuehling wrote: >>>>>>> "fsmithred" == fsmithred via Dng writes: >> >>> Workaround for now is to put the following line in /etc/rc.local: >

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

2020-06-15 Thread David Kuehling via Dng
> "fsmithred" == fsmithred via Dng writes: > Workaround for now is to put the following line in /etc/rc.local: > /etc/init.d/eudev stop && /etc/init.d/eudev start Based on your suggestion I did some more tests and may have found the root cause of the issue. See https://bugs.devuan.org/cgi

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

2020-06-14 Thread David Kuehling via Dng
>>>>> "fsmithred" == fsmithred via Dng writes: > On 6/12/20 10:05 AM, David Kuehling via Dng wrote: >> [..] >> >> - none of the alsa sound driver modules is loaded during boot, so I >> end up with a Desktop that does not support audio

[DNG] eudev-related problems after Beowulf upgrade

2020-06-12 Thread David Kuehling via Dng
Hi, I upgraded three machines from Devuan ascii to Devuan beowulf. Now one of these machines has non-deterministic problems during startup that look like being related to eudev. As that machine was originally derived by cloning the hard-disk of another machine that works fine, I suspect this iss

[DNG] Small issues after upgrading to Beowulf

2020-05-21 Thread David Kuehling via Dng
Hi, in March I upgraded from Devuan Ascii to Beowulf, using the documentation provided here: https://beta.devuan.org/os/documentation/dev1fanboy/en/upgrade-to-beowulf Only three small problems popped up since that time: 1) During upgrade: dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/arch

Re: [DNG] Help testing Devuan 2 ASCII installer and upgrades!

2018-04-21 Thread David Kuehling
> "Irrwahn" == Irrwahn writes: [..] > Here is where you can make a valuable contribution: If you happen to > have a spare Devuan (Jessie|ASCII) or a Debian (Jessie|Stretch) > desktop machine (virtual or hardware) that you feel brave enough to > sacrifice for testing the upgrade paths - plea

[DNG] which package repository mirror to use?

2018-04-21 Thread David Kuehling
Hi, just wondering what sources.list I should use for upgrading devuan ascii. Depending on where I look I find either http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged or http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ There seem to be slight differences in the packages they hold (maybe just due to latency when mir

Re: [DNG] nfs mounts in fstab

2016-05-05 Thread David Kuehling
> "Steven" == Steven W Scott writes: > FYI, If anybody is having trouble getting nfs mounts in fstab to work, > have a look at /etc/network/interfaces and make sure your interface is > defined there - I've been trying to figure out why mine wasn't working > for the past few days and found the

Re: [DNG] OT de.wikipedia

2016-03-13 Thread David Kuehling
> "m" == m maass writes: > Liebe Mitstreiter, könntet ihr bitte den Artikel devuan in > https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devuan anschauen, ergänzen, > überarbeiten? The german Devuan page https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devuan seems to be facing some sort of deletion war. Somtimes it exists, som

Re: [DNG] Strange NIC reconfiguration after Suspend in Devuan+XFCE

2016-03-07 Thread David Kuehling
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Reurich writes: > On 07/03/16 16:22, David Kuehling wrote: >> Hi, >> >> just noticed that in Devuan after doing "Suspend" from the XFCE menu >> bar, my primary network interface is reconfigured with a new &g

[DNG] Strange NIC reconfiguration after Suspend in Devuan+XFCE

2016-03-06 Thread David Kuehling
Hi, just noticed that in Devuan after doing "Suspend" from the XFCE menu bar, my primary network interface is reconfigured with a new IP-Address retrieved via DHCP. DHCP server logs confirm that. However, I have *not* configured any interface to use DHCP! All my interfaces use "static" primitiv

Re: [DNG] How to guarantee authenticity of Devuan installer downloads?

2016-02-24 Thread David Kuehling
> "Daniel" == Daniel Reurich writes: [..] >> Now if I downloaded Devuan from within Cina or Iran or Syria or any >> company targeted by the NSA [3], how could I ensure that I still >> received a non-tampered with .ISO file? >> >> What about making the download page HTTPS-only (letsencrypt.org

[DNG] How to guarantee authenticity of Devuan installer downloads?

2016-02-23 Thread David Kuehling
Hi, after the recent Mint ISO hack [1], I wonder how secure the Devuan installer download scheme actually is. The Devuan installer download page [2] uses plain unencrypted HTML [2]. It does supply sha256 checksums, but these are also provided via unencrypted HTML only. No GPG signatures or noth

Re: [DNG] Devuan Jessie Alpha4 Installer "Expert Mode" Problems

2016-02-15 Thread David Kuehling
> Tobias writes > Hi David, there should be something mounted under > /sys/firmware/efi/efivars (or /sys/firmware/efi/vars, but that is the > older interface) for efibootmgr to work. Does "efibootmgr" show any > output for you? I do have some stuff under /sys/firmware/efi/vars, but not under

Re: [DNG] Devuan Jessie Alpha4 Installer "Expert Mode" Problems

2016-02-15 Thread David Kuehling
(BTW you replied directly to me, moving the conversation back to DNG.) > Tobias writes: > Hi David, I am curious, how does Devuan mount efivars on UEFI systems? > There was much noise about that topic on the Devuan ML (and IRC) > recently, but apparently nobody ran an EFI system. > "mount |

[DNG] Devuan Jessie Alpha4 Installer "Expert Mode" Problems

2016-02-14 Thread David Kuehling
Hi, tonight I tried to install Devuan Jessie Alpha 4 on my system after installing a new, clean hard-disk. At first I launched the Installer from CD (EFI boot) selecting "Expert mode" in the Installer CD's Grub Menu. This did not work: after manually partitioning the system, I selected "Install

Re: [DNG] Input Method Framework

2016-01-19 Thread David Kuehling
Hi メット, I haven't yet found the time to actually upgrade my Debian systems to Devuan. I didn even consider, that there are pitfalls around the input method support, thanks for the info, it is good to be able to consider these things in advance (I use japanese input myself). My usual workaround f

Re: [DNG] Upgrading a MIPSel Jessie to Devuan

2016-01-17 Thread David Kuehling
>>>>> "David" == David Kuehling writes: > Hi, can I perform an "upgrade" from Debian Jessie to Devuan, as > described on devuan.org, on a system running MIPSel architecture > Debian? Replying to myself, just for the mail archives: after some chat

[DNG] Upgrading a MIPSel Jessie to Devuan

2016-01-15 Thread David Kuehling
Hi, can I perform an "upgrade" from Debian Jessie to Devuan, as described on devuan.org, on a system running MIPSel architecture Debian? Poking around in http://packages.devuan.org/devuan/pool/ I can see amd64, ARM* and i386 packages, but not a single MIPSel one. So is MIPS not currently suppo