[DNG] I hope you'll show up at the discussion 8/4/2021 at 7pm New York Time

2021-08-03 Thread Steve Litt
To all who participated in the discussion on writing good software: I hope you come to the Jitsi meeting tomorrow night (8/4/2021 at 7pm New York Time) so we can make it a discussion instead of just a presentation. I just publicized the meeting on LinkedIn and some other places, so we might have

Re: [DNG] grub-install device node not found

2021-08-03 Thread Ralph Ronnquist via Dng
On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 00:59:30 +0200 aitor wrote: > Hi, > > On 4/8/21 0:18, aitor wrote: > > > > Hi Arnt, > > > > On 3/8/21 22:31, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > >> ..is there one? 'fdisk -l ' or somesuch should work, even if > >> there are some new fancy /dev names missing symlinks to /dev/sdc, > >>

Re: [DNG] grub-install device node not found

2021-08-03 Thread aitor
Hi, On 4/8/21 0:18, aitor wrote: Hi Arnt, On 3/8/21 22:31, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..is there one? 'fdisk -l ' or somesuch should work, even if there are some new fancy /dev names missing symlinks to /dev/sdc, e.g. killed by that mlterm crash. The command for the interactive shell of

Re: [DNG] [SPAM] Re: grub-install device node not found

2021-08-03 Thread aitor
Hi Arnt, On 3/8/21 22:31, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..is there one? 'fdisk -l ' or somesuch should work, even if there are some new fancy /dev names missing symlinks to /dev/sdc, e.g. killed by that mlterm crash. The command for the interactive shell of debian-installer is "list-devices".

Re: [DNG] grub-install device node not found

2021-08-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 13:25:19 -0400, Haines wrote in message <20210803172519.gg29...@engels.histomat.net>: > I'm doing a cross install of beowulf. BIOS is legacy. All goes well > until the end when I run /#: grub-install /dev/sdc . > > Installing for i386-pc platform. > device

Re: [DNG] another upgrade ascii to beowulf now OK

2021-08-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 14:49:33 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message <20210803184933.5jt3g3ludpinl...@topoi.pooq.com>: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 08:06:26PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 13:32:40 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message > > <20210803173240.qrlp2elbnda6c...@topoi.pooq.com>: >

Re: [DNG] another upgrade ascii to beowulf now OK

2021-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 08:06:26PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 13:32:40 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message > <20210803173240.qrlp2elbnda6c...@topoi.pooq.com>: > > > > this time it succeeded in stopping ans starting postgres. > > ..I somehow read that the other way. :oD > Happy

Re: [DNG] another upgrade ascii to beowulf borked

2021-08-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 13:32:40 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message <20210803173240.qrlp2elbnda6c...@topoi.pooq.com>: > > this time it succeeded in stopping ans starting postgres. ..I somehow read that the other way. :oD Happy to see you succeed. :o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from

Re: [DNG] another upgrade ascii to beowulf borked

2021-08-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 13:32:40 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message <20210803173240.qrlp2elbnda6c...@topoi.pooq.com>: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 06:13:15PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 10:05:39 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message > > <20210803140539.4kor7lhfljf7t...@topoi.pooq.com>: > >

Re: [DNG] Ascii to Beowulf upgrade borked with eudev

2021-08-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 16:08:52 +0800, Brad wrote in message : > On 3/8/21 1:32 pm, Brad Campbell via Dng wrote: > > Just got stung again by this one, this time upgrading an ascii 64 > > bit rpi3 image to beowulf while using a 5.10 kernel provided by the > > rpi foundation. > > > > This time I just

Re: [DNG] another upgrade ascii to beowulf borked

2021-08-03 Thread Florian Zieboll via Dng
On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 06:44:56 -0400 Hendrik Boom wrote: > I was following the instructions on > https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/dev1fanboy/en/upgrade-to-beowulf > and got to the point of doing apt-get dist-upgrade. > > Partway through, it decided, a usual, that it had to stop and restart

Re: [DNG] another upgrade ascii to beowulf borked

2021-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 06:13:15PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 10:05:39 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message > <20210803140539.4kor7lhfljf7t...@topoi.pooq.com>: > > > On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 02:33:08PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 06:49:33 -0400, Hendrik

[DNG] grub-install device node not found

2021-08-03 Thread Haines Brown
I'm doing a cross install of beowulf. BIOS is legacy. All goes well until the end when I run /#: grub-install /dev/sdc . Installing for i386-pc platform. device node not found ... Installation finished. No error reported. I should mention that when I initially

Re: [DNG] another upgrade ascii to beowulf borked

2021-08-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 10:05:39 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message <20210803140539.4kor7lhfljf7t...@topoi.pooq.com>: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 02:33:08PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 06:49:33 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message > > <20210803104933.5ics6nomqyctr...@topoi.pooq.com>: >

Re: [DNG] Ascii to Beowulf upgrade borked with eudev

2021-08-03 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 3/8/21 1:32 pm, Brad Campbell via Dng wrote: On 11/5/21 12:57 pm, Brad Campbell via Dng wrote: G'day all, I use a self-compiled kernel (v5.10) at the moment. An Ascii to Beowulf upgrade died early on because the eudev preinst script isn't correctly parsing /proc/kallsyms. Preparing to

Re: [DNG] another upgrade ascii to beowulf borked

2021-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 02:33:08PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 06:49:33 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message > <20210803104933.5ics6nomqyctr...@topoi.pooq.com>: > > > > (I wasn't worried about postgresql failing; as far as I know, I don't > > use it.) > > ..you probably use(d)

Re: [DNG] another upgrade ascii to beowulf borked

2021-08-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 06:49:33 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message <20210803104933.5ics6nomqyctr...@topoi.pooq.com>: > > (I wasn't worried about postgresql failing; as far as I know, I don't > use it.) ..you probably use(d) some service built upon it and/or some front end of it. Welcome to the club.

Re: [DNG] Fw: Testers for Chimaera alpha netinstall iso

2021-08-03 Thread aitor
Hi, On 3/8/21 10:36, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote: One thing that springs to mind is "newlisp" which depended on libffi6 on beowulf and libffi7 on chimaera; I'm not sure if that is relevant for you, but I think I added it to vdev some winters ago, and I believe you might be using vdev... vdev

Re: [DNG] Fw: Testers for Chimaera alpha netinstall iso

2021-08-03 Thread aitor
Hi Ralph, On 3/8/21 13:01, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote: Aitor, eventually it dawned on me that probably you meant the mini.iso which LeePen builds with debian-installer; he just now merged the forked s/w (https://git.devuan.org/devuan/debian-installer.git) with debian's and built new

Re: [DNG] Fw: Testers for Chimaera alpha netinstall iso

2021-08-03 Thread Ralph Ronnquist via Dng
Aitor, eventually it dawned on me that probably you meant the mini.iso which LeePen builds with debian-installer; he just now merged the forked s/w (https://git.devuan.org/devuan/debian-installer.git) with debian's and built new mini.iso(s). Perhaps that is a help? regards, Ralph. On Tue, 3

Re: [DNG] another upgrade ascii to beowulf borked

2021-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 06:44:56AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I was following the instructions on > https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/dev1fanboy/en/upgrade-to-beowulf > and got to the point of doing apt-get dist-upgrade. > > Partway through, it decided, a usual, that it had to stop and

[DNG] another upgrade ascii to beowulf borked

2021-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
I was following the instructions on https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/dev1fanboy/en/upgrade-to-beowulf and got to the point of doing apt-get dist-upgrade. Partway through, it decided, a usual, that it had to stop and restart several services: postgresql lprng exim4 cron

Re: [DNG] Fw: Testers for Chimaera alpha netinstall iso

2021-08-03 Thread Ralph Ronnquist via Dng
Hmm the installer iso's are built with the "installer-iso" project https://git.devuan.org/devuan/installer-iso.git using the branch amd64-chimaera-sudo (or i386-..) This enumerates the udebs (in udeb-sets.mk.tmpl) and it doesn't seem to be upset .. it only pulls in libffi7 so evidently not any of

Re: [DNG] Devuan as a hypervisor?

2021-08-03 Thread Simon Walter
On 2021-07-31 10:25, yami...@cock.li wrote: > Hi. > > I want to install a bare metal hypervisor in my computer to get the > benefits from dual booting except without the mess that is dual booting. > > I'm going to use it for both linux and windows systems and all I want is > for the vms and

Re: [DNG] Fw: Testers for Chimaera alpha netinstall iso

2021-08-03 Thread aitor
Hi Ralph, On 18/6/21 0:24, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote: The Chimaera alpha netinstall ISOs version dated 14-Jun-2021 or later now include "the final" versions of the forked udebs, and they need testing to confirm that it is ready for RC1 in the coming month. How are you building

Re: [DNG] Ascii to Beowulf upgrade borked with eudev

2021-08-03 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 11/5/21 12:57 pm, Brad Campbell via Dng wrote: > G'day all, > > I use a self-compiled kernel (v5.10) at the moment. > An Ascii to Beowulf upgrade died early on because the eudev preinst script > isn't correctly parsing /proc/kallsyms. > > Preparing to unpack