Devuan - the systemd-free Debian fork

Ubuntu repositories for Devuan.

2023-01-26T12:27:03+00:00

Hello! I am a newbie with limited experience with Devuan. I'm willing to learn new things on distros such as Devuan. However, I had a bad experience with Peppermint OS w/ Devuan as its repositories are limited compared to distros such as Pop!_OS and Zorin. I don't know how to get my repositories to Devuan then. Is there a way to get over this? Giving my appreciation in advance!

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User and Admin Documentation?

2023-01-21T07:04:47+00:00

I'm a new user with first install. Are there any user guides / admin guides available? I'm not seeing much documentation available at devuan.org -- maybe my eyes glaze over(?)

For example, I figured out just by trying 'apt' that I can use apt from the terminal much like Debian. Do other Debian commands and practices work the same way? If I want to set up an lp printer, should I google for Debian guides?

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A call for testers! arm64 debian-installer images are now available

2023-01-20T01:50:00+00:00

Greetings, r/Devuan! I'm a Devuan contributor whose research concerns our arm64 support. You can sometimes find me on the Dev1 forums under my handle MrReplikant. Recently, I published two ISOs to arm-files.devuan.org , which allows a PROPER debian-installer ISO to be used for Devuan installs on that platform. If anyone here has hardware and is willing to test, let me know! And while you're reading, one of our derivatives, Peppermint OS, is developing one of VERY FEW arm64 ISOs for linux, so if you can help them out, that would be wonderful as well!

Please note: only UEFI is supported on arm64. We would REALLY like to see arm laptops, but UEFI firmware is also available for the raspberry Pi 3 and 4 series, including the 400.

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Grub Boot Loader Won't install

2023-01-17T22:02:07+00:00

I am trying to do the netinstall of Devuan but keep running into the error that the GRUB boot loader won't install. Would anyone know why this might be?

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Strange privilege issues started on 2023/01/03

2023-01-06T21:42:41+00:00

I'm on daedalus/ceres (no victim shaming please!) and update usually every night. I'm using Xfce4 UI. About three days ago something must have happened because since then I experience strange behavior:

I cannot shut down the machine any more Imgur
I also cannot reboot Imgur
The system asks for root password just for scanning for wifi SSIDs Imgur
Asks for root password also to connect to a wifi access point. That latter dialog sometimes pops up while the list of SSID is still on, and in that case the system locks up completely
As a developer when I connect my Android phone via a USB cable adb does not pick it up any more as a device

I expect to be able to shutdown, restart, scan for wifi and connect to a wifi without a fuss. The adb connection would not work if I had not configured a udev rule for Android phones, but I did that about 3-4 years ago when I installed this Devuan.

Things which could be wrong:

Maybe due to some change I have to be in some user group? Right now my user is member of apart form myself (my own group): lp cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev netdev bluetooth lpadmin scanner render docker. So as we see I'm member of audio and video and also netdev. Maybe some of the udev rules files are too old and the format changed? How would I know that? If the Android phone was rejected due to an udev rule I should see that in dmesg. Audio controls work BTW, however the brightness does not, but that stopped working more than a year ago, not new, I'm controlling it with /sys/class/backlight/amdgpu_bl0/brightness.
Maybe something with policy kit? But I have no idea what. The fact that I'm member of netdev should provide me access to wifi scan and connect according to policy kit: /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.rules but that was touched on Dec 20th (with the related pol kit action). The directories in my /etc/polkit are empty.
Maybe Somethign with udev?
Maybe something with DBus?
Maybe something pam? libpam changes only cam on 2023/01/05, so a few days after this behavior started.
Maybe some gnome keyring or devuan keyring stuff? (When that was an issue then even just starting Chrome it was asking for keyring password, that got resolved a long time ago).

Some polkit config files in /usr/share/polkit-1/:

# cat /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.rules polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) { if (action.id == "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system" && subject.local && subject.active && (subject.isInGroup ("sudo") || subject.isInGroup ("netdev"))) { return polkit.Result.YES; } }); # cat /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy <policyconfig> <vendor>NetworkManager</vendor> <vendor_url>https://networkmanager.dev/</vendor_url> <icon_name>nm-icon</icon_name> ... <action id="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control"> <description>Allow control of network connections</description> <message>System policy prevents control of network connections</message> <defaults> <allow_any>auth_admin</allow_any> <allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive> <allow_active>yes</allow_active> </defaults> </action> ... <action id="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.scan"> <description>Allow control of Wi-Fi scans</description> <message>System policy prevents Wi-Fi scans</message> <defaults> <allow_any>auth_admin</allow_any> <allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive> <allow_active>yes</allow_active> </defaults> </action>

The interesting thing that this file was changed not 2-3 days ago but on the 20th of December. I sure as hell would notice if I cannot shut down my own machine and would have to use Magic Sysreq key to shut down (reisub).

I'm peeking at the X.Org log files, I see some error messages related to seatd / libseat.

[ 29.064] (II) Module ABI versions: [ 29.064] X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4 [ 29.064] X.Org Video Driver: 25.2 [ 29.064] X.Org XInput driver : 24.4 [ 29.064] X.Org Server Extension : 10.0 [ 29.064] (II) seatd_libseat init [ 29.064] (EE) seatd_libseat not initialised! [ 29.064] (II) [libseat/backend/seatd.c:64] Could not connect to socket /run/seatd.sock: No such file or directory [ 29.064] (II) [libseat/libseat.c:76] Backend 'seatd' failed to open seat, skipping [ 29.124] (EE) [libseat/backend/logind.c:660] Could not get primary session for user: No data available

and later with various event numebr where i = 1-20 or /dev/input/mousex where x = 0-2

[ 29.655] (EE) [seatd/seat.c:222] Could open device: client is not active [ 29.655] (EE) [seatd/client.c:238] Could not open device: Operation not permitted [ 29.655] (EE) seatd_libseat open /dev/input/event10 (-1) failed: -1

I think that is some alternative to elogind (see fellow systemd-less Artix forum https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,3050.0.html). My system has elogind installed along with the pam module and a few more stuff. I'm also not sure if this seatd error is new or not. Do I supposed to use seatd?

# dpkg -l | grep logind ii elogind 246.10-5 amd64 user, seat and session management daemon ii libelogind-compat:amd64 246.10-5 amd64 user, seat and session management library compatibility ii libelogind0:amd64 246.10-5 amd64 user, seat and session management library ii libpam-elogind:amd64 246.10-5 amd64 elogind PAM module ii libpolkit-gobject-elogind-1-0:amd64 122-1devuan1 amd64 polkit Authorization API # dpkg -l | grep seat rc consolekit 1.2.1-8 amd64 framework for defining and tracking users, sessions and seats ii elogind 246.10-5 amd64 user, seat and session management daemon ii libelogind-compat:amd64 246.10-5 amd64 user, seat and session management library compatibility ii libelogind0:amd64 246.10-5 amd64 user, seat and session management library ii libseat1:amd64

Moving onto auth.log looks like elogind and polkit initializes:

2023-01-06T11:31:36.938763-08:00 asus elogind-daemon[2255]: New seat seat0. 2023-01-06T11:31:36.940546-08:00 asus elogind-daemon[2255]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event10 (Power Button) 2023-01-06T11:31:36.940846-08:00 asus elogind-daemon[2255]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event7 (Power Button) 2023-01-06T11:31:36.940988-08:00 asus elogind-daemon[2255]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event9 (Lid Switch) 2023-01-06T11:31:36.941061-08:00 asus elogind-daemon[2255]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event8 (Sleep Button) 2023-01-06T11:31:36.941644-08:00 asus elogind-daemon[2255]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event5 (Logitech MX Vertical Advanced Ergonomic Mouse Keyboard) 2023-01-06T11:31:36.942000-08:00 asus elogind-daemon[2255]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event0 (AT Translated Set 2 keyboard) 2023-01-06T11:31:36.942071-08:00 asus elogind-daemon[2255]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event2 (Acer WMI hotkeys) ... 2023-01-06T11:31:37.419920-08:00 asus polkitd[2849]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d 2023-01-06T11:31:37.420051-08:00 asus polkitd[2849]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d 2023-01-06T11:31:37.422975-08:00 asus polkitd[2849]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 7 rules 2023-01-06T11:31:37.423493-08:00 asus polkitd[2849]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 on the system bus ... 2023-01-06T11:32:48.505698-08:00 asus gnome-keyring-daemon[3534]: discover_other_daemon: 1 2023-01-06T11:32:49.245295-08:00 asus gnome-keyring-daemon[3347]: The PKCS#11 component was already initialized 2023-01-06T11:32:49.245395-08:00 asus gnome-keyring-daemon[3706]: discover_other_daemon: 1 2023-01-06T11:32:49.246617-08:00 asus gnome-keyring-daemon[3347]: The SSH agent was already initialized 2023-01-06T11:32:49.246714-08:00 asus gnome-keyring-daemon[3707]: discover_other_daemon: 1 2023-01-06T11:32:49.403583-08:00 asus polkitd[2849]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:1 (system bus name :1.34 [/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8)

This is when I enter the root password for wifi scanning and the system graciously let me to do so:

2023-01-06T11:37:34.041052-08:00 asus polkitd[2849]: Operator of unix-session:1 successfully authenticated as unix-user:root to gain ONE-SHOT authorization for action org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.scan for unix-process:3727:10161 [nm-applet] (owned by unix-user:csaba)

BTW, seeing the gnome keyring, can this be something with either the gnome keyring or the devuan keyring? In the user log pulseaudio complains:

2023-01-06T10:22:42.903285-08:00 asus /usr/sbin/gpm[2689]: *** info [daemon/startup.c(131)]: 2023-01-06T10:22:42.903290-08:00 asus /usr/sbin/gpm[2689]: Started gpm successfully. Entered daemon mode. 2023-01-06T10:23:09.075259-08:00 asus pulseaudio[3691]: [pulseaudio] bluez5-util.c: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1 2023-01-06T10:23:09.346751-08:00 asus pulseaudio[4202]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. 2023-01-06T10:44:11.312008-08:00 asus pulseaudio[3691]: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile. 2023-01-06T10:44:11.312324-08:00 asus pulseaudio[3691]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="3" name="usb-OnePlus_OnePlus_Nord_7d9f7038-00" card_name="alsa_card.usb-OnePlus_OnePlus_Nord_7d9f7038-00" namereg_fail=false tsched=yes fixed_latency_range=no ignore_dB=no deferred_volume=yes use_ucm=yes avoid_resampling=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed. 2023-01-06T10:44:14.970170-08:00 asus pulseaudio[3691]: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.

However I've found similar errors in the rotations before, when the adb debugging worked. Other info:

# lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Devuan Description: Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus/ceres) Release: 5 Codename: daedalus ceres # uname -a Linux asus 6.0.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.0.12-1 (2022-12-09) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Regarding the lack of adb visibility of the Android phone this is the closest I saw in the dmesg:

[ 7545.122516] udevd[11447]: error opening ATTR{/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.3/0000:02:00.0/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.0/sound/card3/controlC3/../uevent} for writing: No such file or directory [ 7545.525186] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 17 using xhci_hcd [ 7545.769854] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=22d9, idProduct=2765, bcdDevice= 4.19 [ 7545.769858] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 7545.769860] usb 1-3: Product: OnePlus Nord [ 7545.769861] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: OnePlus [ 7545.769862] usb 1-3: SerialNumber: 7d9f7038

I don't remember seeing that udev error about the missing device. This could be connected to the pulse audio error? I don't care about audio though, I don't want to play music on the phone, I just want to debug. The phone shows up as an USB device:

# lsusb Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 004: ID 8087:0025 Intel Corp. Wireless-AC 9260 Bluetooth Adapter Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0d8c:0020 C-Media Electronics, Inc. ATR2USB Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c08a Logitech, Inc. MX Vertical Advanced Ergonomic Mouse Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:5621 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. HD WebCam Bus 001 Device 005: ID 22d9:2765 OPPO Electronics Corp. Oppo N1 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

It's the OPPO and it does have an adb interface:

# lsusb -v -s001:005 Bus 001 Device 005: ID 22d9:2765 OPPO Electronics Corp. Oppo N1 Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 0 bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x22d9 OPPO Electronics Corp. idProduct 0x2765 Oppo N1 bcdDevice 4.19 iManufacturer 1 OnePlus iProduct 2 OnePlus Nord iSerial 3 7d9f7038 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 0x003e bNumInterfaces 2 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 4 mtp_adb bmAttributes 0xc0 Self Powered MaxPower 0mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 3 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass bInterfaceProtocol 0 iInterface 5 MTP Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x01 EP 1 OUT bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x82 EP 2 IN bmAttributes 3 Transfer Type Interrupt Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x001c 1x 28 bytes bInterval 6 Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 1 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 2 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 66 bInterfaceProtocol 1 iInterface 6 ADB Interface Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x02 EP 2 OUT bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x83 EP 3 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 0 Device Qualifier (for other device speed): bLength 10 bDescriptorType 6 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 0 bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 bNumConfigurations 1 Device Status: 0x0000 (Bus Powered)

But adb now doesn't sense the phone when it's connected. This started to happen exactly in concert with the weird privilege issues.

Can someone point me to any direction?

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error in boot verbage

2023-01-03T13:48:32+00:00

Can I please get some help trying to figure out how to resolve "error: unexpectedly disconnect from boot status daemon". I have tried googling it with no success with results that were similar. System is Devuan Chimaera with runit as init. I don't know if any other info is needed. System boots in to console and cinnamon and on both virtualbox and real hardware.

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Fedora Change Proposal: Supporting Unified Kernel Images for "Improved Security"

2022-12-25T13:19:49+00:00

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/22/12/24/1912219/fedora-change-proposal-supporting-unified-kernel-images-for-improved-security

by the systemd folks, obviously.

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Does anyone have a link to a version of devuan with the non-free firmware?

2022-12-14T11:31:04+00:00

If anyone has a link to the devuan version which includes the non-free firmware and is also chimaera 4.0, that would be awesome. Thanks!

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Devuan not showing the GUI after dual booting into it

2022-12-13T07:05:23+00:00

I set up a dual boot of windows 10 and devuan chimaera and when I boot into devuan, the screen remains black and doesn't show anything, however, when I boot into windows 10 I don't have any issues, I see the lock screen without any issues, I'm not sure if this is important but I'm using a Lenovo FLEX 3-1120 and I'm using UEFI not BIOS. Any help would be great. Thanks!

SOLUTION: Go into UEFI, navigate to boot and switch to legacy boot

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How do I install Python 3.5 in chimaera? I have a configure script that's incompatible with Python 3.9

2022-12-12T19:46:00+00:00

I hate python, it's evil and I can see why developers held on to 2.x, 3.x feels like planned obsolescence to add more docker container overhead to sell more CPUs or as a sysadmin job security ploy to break stuff so the sysadmin can fix it. (half joking, but anyway)

I have a configure script that gives me an attribute error and based on what little search engine-foo I can do, what I learned is attribute error comes from that configure script being dependent on features that exist in Python 3.5, but don't in Python 3.9. I tried running make on the python 3.5 source code and it just hanged all night long on the same part. (0:10:19 load avg: 2.49 [118/391] test_faulthandler) When I try searching for installing, I just get an ubuntu ppa how to for an old version of ubuntu to install what was then bleeding edge python and not installing old python in new debian. Also how can I temporary sent my env to 3.5 and back to 3.9?

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I have remastered the original wallpapers I posted a while back, and now they're on GitHub, alongside new variants! Link in comments!

2022-12-01T20:32:17+00:00

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Happy Cakeday, r/devuan! Today you're 8

2022-11-28T06:51:11+00:00

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 10 posts:

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Time for me to join

2022-11-26T12:04:19+00:00

I am currently on Ubuntu + KDE Plasma, used as main desktop system.

My activities are developing with Godot 3D (usually installed directly from their website), Python and C++.

Playing on steam and watching Netflix or Prime are unofficial activities, but they happens.

I wonder if Devuan would give me problems with audio or with browsing or with the 3D acceleration.

Also, any suggestion on how partitioning the SSD? I came from a time when I made swap partitions as big as 2*RAM and 12 years of Mac OS X kept me away from the best strategy for partitioning for SSD disks and to keep in mind how a UEFI system works.

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What is the state of Gnome 4X in Devuan? possible to use it as main DE

2022-11-17T03:35:47+00:00

Last I tried Devuan (Beowulf) was almost a year ago. Will Gnome 43 supported fully in Devuan Chimaera or testing distros?

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Debian testing VM and build KDE software using kdesrc-build tutorial for beginners

2022-11-16T13:19:52+00:00

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Is there an "extra" repo with more packages than default?

2022-11-10T07:25:59+00:00

I'm trying to install rtorrent/rutorrent as I'm building a seedbox and it seems none of the packages I want can be found in the standard repo. Wondering if there is an extra one with more package selection? ideally it would be nice to have one that even has rtorrent itself so it can figure out all the dependencies.

Trying to install via tarball but starting to run into dependency hell. It wants libcrypto and not sure how to get that installed.

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Installed Devuan for the first time and loved it!

2022-11-07T10:07:54+00:00

I am a fairly new Linux user (~2 years) and recently upgraded my Linux machine's RAM enough to start trying out distros on VMs alongside my main distro.

I ended up checking out Devuan for the first time, and did a minimal install with sysvinit using the TUI installer, and then added a minimal XFCE desktop and a few other packages using this command -

sudo apt install git libxfce4ui-utils lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter neofetch papirus-icon-theme thunar unzip vim xfce4-appfinder xfce4-panel xfce4-session xfce4-settings xfce4-terminal xfconf xfdesktop4 xfwm4

The package count and cold boot RAM usage was very low, even when compared with other distros in the vicinity. I noted down my installation process, comparisons and other thoughts in this blog post here.

I just want to say kudos to the dev team of Devuan for their work! I am planning to resurrect an old netbook-style device and I believe Devuan will be a great choice for it!

Just leaving my Devuan desktop here -

https://preview.redd.it/o0u4fqph6iy91.jpg?width=1366&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f7b1dce01f8ecc13c5ecd15073cc6f1e3719894

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PSA: Devuan on Secure Boot-locked PCs can be booted with PeppermintOS

2022-11-06T20:03:57+00:00

Since Devuan cannot boot on Secure Boot-locked PCs even if it was supposed to, if you don't want to use any Debian-based distro but still want a distribution based on Devuan, Peppermint OS made a Devuan-based spin.

Let's hope Devuan's ISOs will manage to boot on Secure Boot-locked PCs soon!

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What's to be known?

2022-11-04T20:40:47+00:00

Hello.

I'd like to try a devuan install. I plan on using the KDE version. How lost will I be during install and first runs? Can I expect a stable system?

I'm currently using some more classic *nuxes and I've been having a sysV server (no X) back in the era.

Will be using some classics: skanlite, inkscape, libreoffice, firefox, thunderbird, VLC etc...

I only have a wifi connexion and a network printer.

I also would like to use BTRFS for system drives. Are there tools that auto snapshot before updating the system and such?

[EDIT] Forgot to mention, but I would be using Teamviewer... or a linux 2 linux alternative. X2Go?

Thanks

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Installing .deb files

2022-11-01T04:37:26+00:00

Hello all. I am very new to Devuan Linux and I am having problems installing .deb files that are not in the main software repo. I have several programs that I need for work downloaded in .deb format, and when I try to run them with Synaptic nothing happens. I have made the files executable and I get the same result. I know this is a simple request, but can anyone help?

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Install, encrypted root problem

2022-10-22T22:42:23+00:00

Lenovo x230. Devuan Chimaera desktop-live all just worked. Everything I wanted. Minimal bloat too.

Boot desktop-live again and installed to /dev/sda2, choose encrypted root. No separate boot partition.

/dev/sda1 is the EFI partition, fat32, unencrypted.

Installed boot loader. No errors during the install.

On reboot the boot failed. HD not recognised as a bootable device. Booted from the desktop-live usb again. Unencrypted /dev/sda2 and chroot'ed into the install. Run

grub-install --uefi-secure-boot --target=x86_64-efi /dev/sda Installing for x86_64-efi platform. Installation finished. No error reported.

Reboot:

Attempting to decrypt master key... Enter passphrase for hd0,gpt2 (94454ab59343fd43c99):

Looking promising. I enter the sda2 crypt password and screen changes graphical options, and I pick:

Booting 'Devuan GNU/Linux' Loading Linux 5.10.0-19-amd64 ... Loading initial ramdisk ...

But then it drops back to console:

[ 0.190978] x86/cpu: VDX (outside TXT) disabled by BIOS [ 2.425227] integrity: Couldn't parse dbx signatures: -74 Please unlock disk root_fs: _

If I enter the crypt password again, the boot continues and I can log in.

VDX (outside TXT) disabled by BIOS I have these turned off in the BIOS. Turning them on makes no difference to the boot. Adds a few more error messages if they are on.

Turning secure boot on/off in the BIOS doesn't matter.

But, I think it's a configuration issue with grub? sda2 is decrypted by grub to show the menu, and to be able to start loading the ramdisk.

How can I fix this so I don't need to enter the disk encryption password twice?

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Devuan 4 can't Secure Boot

2022-10-17T02:05:44+00:00

Devuan 4 is told to be able to boot with Secure Boot enabled, but I couln't even boot any ISO be it 4.0 or 4.0.2 (LiveCD, netinstall, etc too) in VirtualBox 7.0.

When an Iso is loaded, all VirtualBox does is getting to the UEFI shell right away and nothing else. What's happening?

Also, what would happen if I remaster Devuan ? Do I need to sign the kernel myself?

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They said for over a decade that it was impossible to migrate from Ubuntu to Debian. Here I stand today having not only proven them wrong, but having proven that you can migrate to DEVUAN, too.

2022-10-12T01:49:09+00:00

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KDE Plasma reset sound preferences after logout/login (Devuan 5)

2022-10-06T14:03:08+00:00

Hi there

I have daedalus installed here.

Almost everything works fine.

I have an external TV/Monitor attached in tht HDMI port on my laptop.

So I set in the KDE Plasma systemsettings to use HDMI only and have disable the internal sound device.

But everytime I restart or do a logout/login, the system just bring back the internal sound as default.
I already tried with Cinnamon and GNOME and has the same behavior.

Anybody knows how can I set the system to use only HDMI for audio?

Thanks

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Some help getting Runit to work on Ubuntu?

2022-09-20T14:02:05+00:00

Hi. I am trying to get some info about setting up 'runit' on Ubuntu. Its available in Ubuntus Repos. Maybe someone here could help me out with this?
I know this sub is not about Ubuntu. But you guys seem to be more knowledgeable on this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/xj9de3/anyone_here_know_how_to_setup_runit_initsystem_on/

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