Re: [DNG] Installer Devuan Jessie 1.0 fails

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 11:03:23PM +0200, emnin...@riseup.net wrote: [cut] > as / with boot flag enabled, keeping sda4 as ext4 /home (to keep my > home from a previous crashed installation). > > Network automatically configured via wireless (router inhouse) > > I point to ascii

Re: [DNG] cosmetic installer issues

On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 01:41:57 +0200 Adam Borowski wrote: > I don't see any strong offenders. Remember, task packages are meant > for ordinary users who want an usable system out of the box. Wasting > some disk space is not an argument for them -- the size of tasks is >

Re: [DNG] Installer Devuan Jessie 1.0 fails

> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 18:21:40 +0200 > From: > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > Subject: Re: [DNG] Installer Devuan Jessie 1.0 fails > Message-ID: <20160615182140.40c99387.emnin...@riseup.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Am Wed, 15 Jun 2016 01:26:45 + >

Re: [DNG] cosmetic installer issues

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:21:18AM +0200, Florian Zieboll wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 16:04:08 +0200 > Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 01:20:23PM +0200, Florian Zieboll wrote: > > > Also great would be an early no-install-recommends option / switch. > > > >

Re: [DNG] Installer Devuan Jessie 1.0 fails

Am Wed, 15 Jun 2016 21:21:08 + schrieb dev : > I did a text mode install with Devuan amd64 DVD.iso over the weekend. > In a virt-manager instance no less. Everything worked fine. Maybe > give text mode install a try and see if results are better. No, here it's in all

Re: [DNG] cosmetic installer issues

On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 16:04:08 +0200 Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 01:20:23PM +0200, Florian Zieboll wrote: > > Also great would be an early no-install-recommends option / switch. > > If you consider no-install-recommends, why would you use d-i tasks, > which

Re: [DNG] Installer Devuan Jessie 1.0 fails

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 07:59:09PM +0900, Simon Walter wrote: > > We are not so spoiled that we need to use a mouse for everything, are we? > Only on machines without keyboards. Is the X on-screen keyboard still a thing? -- hendrik ___ Dng mailing

Re: [DNG] Installer Devuan Jessie 1.0 fails

Am Wed, 15 Jun 2016 16:21:11 + schrieb Robert Storey : > Yes, I think that this IS important to fix. Even though I was able to > work around the problem, there are many others out there who will > give up at the first sign of trouble and head straight back to the >

Re: [DNG] Installer Devuan Jessie 1.0 fails

Since we discussed in irc also about the installer problems (i have, but others, at least partly share) i thought it might be a good idea to describe exactly what i did and tried: I use the installer cd I used both, graphical and text mode installer, so far no difference. I chose several

[DNG] Bugs in the beta of gnuinos

Hi all, Uploading the *preview* of the beta: http://www.gnuinos.org/beta/ There are some bugs. For example, I can't run the system in live mode. This is what i get: Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell Server: sshd. Usage : login [-p] [name] login [-p] [-h host] [-f name] [... several

Re: [DNG] Installer Devuan Jessie 1.0 fails

On 06/15/2016 11:21 AM, emnin...@riseup.net wrote: So in this very moment, apparently there is no way to install devuan :-( May be someone has an idea about alternatives (???) I did a text mode install with Devuan amd64 DVD.iso over the weekend. In a virt-manager instance no less.

Re: [DNG] Custom OS initiator. In need of some hints...

Hi, I am saying the child and parent at not the same at the point fork() executes for the following reasons taken from "man 2 fork". Quote taken from "man 2 fork": (Please not the *except*) << The new process, referred to as the child, is an exact duplicate of the calling

Re: [DNG] Installer Devuan Jessie 1.0 fails

Am Wed, 15 Jun 2016 01:26:45 + schrieb : > i Florian! I tried it that way but it did not work. I was prompted by > the msg that libjson-c2 does not exist. May be it's provided by > another package but i did not succeed in finding it out :-( > > In the meantime, i tried

Re: [DNG] Installer Devuan Jessie 1.0 fails

Am Wed, 15 Jun 2016 01:26:45 + schrieb Robert Storey : Hi Robert! > Note that my following comments apply only to a graphical install, > full-desktop version, which is actually the only kind I've attempted > so I can't say what would happen with a minimal install in

[DNG] smbclient problems

Hi All, I am trying to install smbclient to get a windows share printing system going and I get the following error: # apt-get install smbclient Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you

Re: [DNG] cosmetic installer issues

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 01:20:23PM +0200, Florian Zieboll wrote: > Also great would be an early no-install-recommends option / switch. If you consider no-install-recommends, why would you use d-i tasks, which are made specifically with recommends in mind? Just deselect everything and configure

Re: [DNG] Installer Devuan Jessie 1.0 fails

> > Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 11:21:20 +0200 > From: > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > Subject: Re: [DNG] Installer Devuan Jessie 1.0 fails > Message-ID: <20160615112120.5a0ca29a.emnin...@riseup.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Am Wed, 15 Jun 2016 01:26:45 + >

Re: [DNG] Installer Devuan Jessie 1.0 fails

On 06/15/2016 08:52 PM, emnin...@riseup.net wrote: We are not so spoiled that we need to use a mouse for everything, are we? Simon My problem (the failure while installing the base system) happens in both, the graphical and the text mode installer. I'd suspect there's something wrong with

Re: [DNG] Installer Devuan Jessie 1.0 fails

Le 15/06/2016 12:59, Simon Walter a écrit : On 06/15/2016 06:21 PM, emnin...@riseup.net wrote: ... But if so: Shouldn't we investigate the installer? I mean, it's not really user friendly to have an installer subject to that kind of errors. And in my experience there are even other problems

Re: [DNG] Installer Devuan Jessie 1.0 fails

The following reply escaped me without editing the subject and the author line. Please simply delete it or at least do not regard it. Sorry for the mistake! :-( Am Wed, 15 Jun 2016 11:16:48 + schrieb Simon Walter : Hi Simon! > Since it is a universal OS. I would suggest we

Re: [DNG] Dng Digest, Vol 21, Issue 70

Am Wed, 15 Jun 2016 11:16:48 + schrieb dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org: Hi Simon! > Since it is a universal OS. I would suggest we disable the graphical > installer if it causing people to be put off. This may sound like > heresy, but the text base installer is not minimal and it is fully >

[DNG] developer options

After an install of Devuan Jessie, I find this: $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan.list # autogenerated by devuan-baseconf # decomment following lines to enable the developers devuan repository #deb http://packages.devuan.org/devuan jessie main #deb-src http://packages.devuan.org/devuan

Re: [DNG] Installer Devuan Jessie 1.0 fails

On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 19:59:09 +0900 Simon Walter wrote: > Since it is a universal OS. I would suggest we disable the graphical > installer if it causing people to be put off. This may sound like > heresy, but the text base installer is not minimal and it is fully >

Re: [DNG] cosmetic installer issues

On 06/15/2016 08:16 PM, richard lucassen wrote: ... 1) Wishlist: a real PXE installer like Debian is providing. Just an intrd.gz and a vmlinuz that will guide you through the install process. No need for USB sticks or CD drives. Running a PXE installer together with an apt-cacher-ng saves time

Re: [DNG] cosmetic installer issues

On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 12:46:26 +0200 Jaromil wrote: > perhaps we can start recommending some pinning to avoid > avahi and/or dbus and such things. It might be nice to have a selection of such "-1" pinning options available at install time - perhaps along with the possibility to

Re: [DNG] cosmetic installer issues

On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 12:46:26 +0200 Jaromil wrote: > > The only remarkable thing is a running avahi-daemon. But that's not > > a big issue IMHO. > > yes, I'm having fun myself punching an apt-get remove --purge of > avahi-daemon and dbus now and then, gives me a degree of

Re: [DNG] Installer Devuan Jessie 1.0 fails

On 06/15/2016 06:21 PM, emnin...@riseup.net wrote: ... But if so: Shouldn't we investigate the installer? I mean, it's not really user friendly to have an installer subject to that kind of errors. And in my experience there are even other problems like the overheating problem for amd graphics

Re: [DNG] cosmetic installer issues

thanks for your reports richard, also about the web mirror. On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, richard lucassen wrote: > The only remarkable thing is a running avahi-daemon. But that's not > a big issue IMHO. yes, I'm having fun myself punching an apt-get remove --purge of avahi-daemon and dbus now and

Re: [DNG] Installer Devuan Jessie 1.0 fails

Am Wed, 15 Jun 2016 01:26:45 + schrieb dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org: Hi Robert! > Note that my following comments apply only to a graphical install, > full-desktop version, which is actually the only kind I've attempted > so I can't say what would happen with a minimal install in >

Re: [DNG] LXC template for Devuan

On 2016-06-15 02:30, Simon Walter wrote: > On 06/15/2016 10:26 AM, Greg Olsen wrote: > > So the default for everyone regardless of the template used is "no" > > network. > > The coin drops. I see. That is what is going on. [snip] > > > Yep. A simple network could be set up "out of the box". >

Re: [DNG] Custom OS initiator. In need of some hints...

Le 14/06/2016 19:24, Edward Bartolo a écrit : To me fork() looks much more than simply a function that does some processing returning a result as it looks more like an instruction directed at the kernel scheduler to split the process into a parent and child that are not equal in all respects.

Re: [DNG] Installer Devuan Jessie 1.0 fails

Le 15/06/2016 00:57, Robert Storey a écrit : However, recovery from the error was fairly straightforward, just go back to the screen to install the basic system, run it again (note: do not exit the installer!). Sometimes the error will still recur, but just keep going back and run it again, it

Re: [DNG] Installer Devuan Jessie 1.0 fails

On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 02:25:45 +0200 wrote: > But now there is another problem: Seems there are lost all the shadow > passwords, both, for root and user. Is there a way to re-establish > them? Hallo Emninger, if you have the installer-disk handy, boot to rescue mode (chroot)