Re: [DNG] lost ability to execute

2017-06-04 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 09:00:04PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Ged, thank you for the reply. But it leaves questions in my mind. > > On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 02:04:05PM +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote: > > > >Installation of Jessie 1.0.1 AMD64 went well. > > > > Considering what you write below, I'm

Re: [DNG] lost ability to execute

2017-06-04 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 09:54:38AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > I don't know exactly what your custom "installation routine" entails, > but since there have been a few dozen thousands successful Devuan > installations in the last few months, and nobody has reported anything > even remotely similar to

Re: [DNG] lost ability to execute

2017-06-04 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 02:54:22PM +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hello Haines, > > On Sun, 4 Jun 2017, Haines Brown wrote: > > >I have an installation routine I've used since Lenny and perhaps > >even Etch. I stuck to it, and generally accepts defaults. > > A list of exactly what you started

Re: [DNG] lost ability to execute

2017-06-04 Thread Haines Brown
Interim report. Without USB back drive installed, I installed the Jessie DVD ISO from key. Do simply installation routine. When it came to partitioning, I accepted a single partition on entire target disk. Oddly my backup USB drive still reported as a possible target even though it is

Re: [DNG] lost ability to execute

2017-06-04 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hello Haines, On Sun, 4 Jun 2017, Haines Brown wrote: I have an installation routine I've used since Lenny and perhaps even Etch. I stuck to it, and generally accepts defaults. A list of exactly what you started with and exactly what you did, step-by-step, would be more useful to the

Re: [DNG] lost ability to execute

2017-06-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 10:42:23AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Another anomaly is what when I boot the old devuan, the boot goes to > recovery mode despite what is selected in the GRUB menu. A control-D > continues the boot normally. It showed up only fairly recently. But > since I seldom reboot

Re: [DNG] lost ability to execute

2017-06-04 Thread Haines Brown
Did a re-install from DVD ISO on key. I first commented all commands to boot Devuan partitions from my Debian fstab. In BIOS I changed disk priority so that the Debian disk would boot. I booted the Devuan installer and choose expert install. I select all defaults unless otherwise noted.

Re: [DNG] reportbug default bts

2017-06-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
I just ran into a similar issue trying to use reportbug on a computer I installed Devuan 1.0 Stable a week ago today using the Netinstall ISO. Here is what happened when running reportbug for the first time: $ reportbug flashplugin-nonfree Warning: no reportbug configuration found. Proceeding