Re: [DNG] Life under Devuan is impossible.

2017-10-08 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Adam Borowski (kilob...@angband.pl): > It's only a Recommends, but if it's unsatisfied, you can't shutdown, > suspend, or, as the original poster wants, mount removable filesystems > from the GUI. Running the commands to do these things in an xterm makes them graphical, right? ;->

Re: [DNG] Life under Devuan is impossible.

2017-10-08 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 03:48:13PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Adam Borowski (kilob...@angband.pl): > > > Generally, all desktop environments but hardly anything else in Debian > > Jessie require systemd for an important part of operation. > > In testing of Debian Jessie and querying of

Re: [DNG] Strange interfaces vmnet1 and vmnet8 in network-manager

2017-10-08 Thread John Franklin
> On Oct 8, 2017, at 3:34 PM, J. Fahrner wrote: > > Hi, > I replaced wicd with network-manager on my Thinkpad T61 and now nm-applet > shows me two strange interfaces which it is connected to: vmnet1 and vmnet8. > Maybe these have something to do with vmware player (which I

Re: [DNG] Life under Devuan is impossible.

2017-10-08 Thread Rick Moen
Correcting think-o: > I subsequently upgrade my test VM (running in VirtualBox) to Debian > Squeeze without systemd-dependency problems. ^^^ Should be 'Stretch', aka Debian 9. Sorry about typo/think-o. (And thank you for the offlist note, golinux.)

Re: [DNG] Life under Devuan is impossible.

2017-10-08 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Adam Borowski (kilob...@angband.pl): > Generally, all desktop environments but hardly anything else in Debian > Jessie require systemd for an important part of operation. In testing of Debian Jessie and querying of package metadata, I found these Debian 8 'Jessie' DE metapackages require

Re: [DNG] Life under Devuan is impossible.

2017-10-08 Thread zap
>> Seems like a lot of baby to throw out for a problem in a >> finicky high-level tool. >> >> How does it go if you use the 'mount' command as root and >> command line utilities to inspect the filesystem? > It might have been wiser if he had backed his files and reinstalled > devuan 8

Re: [DNG] Life under Devuan is impossible.

2017-10-08 Thread zap
On 10/08/2017 04:11 PM, Joel Roth wrote: > On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: >> Since I updated my Debian Wheezy to Devuan Jessie I am unable to access USB >> drives to store data. >> >> - I cannot mount them as user under Pcmanfm or Thunar "Error opening >> directory

Re: [DNG] Life under Devuan is impossible.

2017-10-08 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > Since I updated my Debian Wheezy to Devuan Jessie I am unable to access USB > drives to store data. > > - I cannot mount them as user under Pcmanfm or Thunar "Error opening > directory '/media/Mageia-4.1-x86_64': Permission denied" Seems like

Re: [DNG] Life under Devuan is impossible.

2017-10-08 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 08:02:42PM +0200, Antony Stone wrote: > On Saturday 07 October 2017 at 14:20:18, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > > > Is there a way to move from Devuan Jessie to Debian Jessie without catching > > the systemd pox ? > > Depending on whether you use any applications which

[DNG] Strange interfaces vmnet1 and vmnet8 in network-manager

2017-10-08 Thread J. Fahrner
Hi, I replaced wicd with network-manager on my Thinkpad T61 and now nm-applet shows me two strange interfaces which it is connected to: vmnet1 and vmnet8. Maybe these have something to do with vmware player (which I installed for running Windows on my Devuan system). How can I get rid of these

Re: [DNG] Life under Devuan is impossible.

2017-10-08 Thread Antony Stone
On Saturday 07 October 2017 at 14:20:18, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > Is there a way to move from Devuan Jessie to Debian Jessie without catching > the systemd pox ? Depending on whether you use any applications which have dependencies on systemd, you can certainly run Debian Jessie without

Re: [DNG] Life under Devuan is impossible.

2017-10-08 Thread fsmithred
On 10/07/2017 08:20 AM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > Since I updated my Debian Wheezy to Devuan Jessie I am unable to access USB > drives to store data. > > - I cannot mount them as user under Pcmanfm or Thunar "Error opening > directory '/media/Mageia-4.1-x86_64': Permission denied" > > - As

Re: [DNG] Photoshop CS6 on devuan wine?

2017-10-08 Thread Narcis Garcia
Better and easier helper is: www.playonlinux.com El 08/10/17 a les 10:34, taii...@gmx.com ha escrit: > How can I do this? I have installed the recommended windows addons with > winetricks to no luck (installer exits with unspecified error) I then > installed it in a VM and copied it over only to

Re: [DNG] Life under Devuan is impossible.

2017-10-08 Thread Antony Stone
On Sunday 08 October 2017 at 03:34:00, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 09:20:18 -0300 > > "Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI" wrote: > > Since I updated my Debian Wheezy to Devuan Jessie I am unable to > > access USB drives to store data. > > My experience is that

[DNG] Photoshop CS6 on devuan wine?

2017-10-08 Thread taii...@gmx.com
How can I do this? I have installed the recommended windows addons with winetricks to no luck (installer exits with unspecified error) I then installed it in a VM and copied it over only to get either a blank launch and exit with no error or an "Error 1" Thanks