Re: [DNG] Configuring ethernet port for IPv6

On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 11:47:33AM -0400, Curtis Maurand wrote: > I think this is all great right up until you need a fixed address for > something like a mail server or a web server.  So far, I've found IPV6 to be > unreliable. I would argue it's easier to get a fixed address with IPv6 than it

Re: [DNG] meta: list

On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 09:14:31AM +0200, marc wrote: > Hi > > Just a quick note that in the last week or so google seems > have ratcheted up its rejection of mail from independent MTAs > a notch or two. > > IF you check your logs, you might see 550 rejects with a message > such as > > Our

Re: [DNG] Mixer for alsa

On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 11:16:57AM +0200, aitor wrote: > Amixer is only a piece of alsa-utils. The following utility will do the job: > > $ aplay --list-devices Yes, that's another way. The /proc method doesn't require remembering or looking up aplay syntax, or invoking a second utility. So,

Re: [DNG] Mixer for alsa

On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 04:23:38PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Is it my imagination, or does amixer not have a command to list all cards, > with > their card numbers and maybe device numbers? If this capability is really > missing, > it's quite an omission, as it forces one to trial and error

Re: [DNG] Mixer for alsa

On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 10:42:15PM -1000, Joel Roth via Dng wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 10:20:23AM +0200, al3xu5 via Dng wrote: > > - other mixers for alsa? I do not know... > > aumix has an ncurses interactive mode much simpler than > alsamixer, and also a command line mode. amixer has met

Re: [DNG] elogind on a server?

On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 09:55:23AM +0200, Joril via Dng wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I've just installed a minimal Chimaera on a VM from > devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_server.iso > > I see that it has installed elogind, but is this required on a server? What > will I miss if I remove it? I don't

Re: [DNG] UEFI, software RAID1, LVM and encryption

On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 07:54:24PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Hi Gregory, > > Gregory Nowak via Dng writes: > > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 08:54:00PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote: > >> OK but if / and /boot are encrypted, something has to be able to decryp

Re: [DNG] UEFI, software RAID1, LVM and encryption

On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 08:54:00PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote: > OK but if / and /boot are encrypted, something has to be able to decrypt > that before GRUB can read /boot/grub/grub.cfg. It might be that GRUB is > able to do that itself these days (haven't checked) but on my LibreBoot >

Re: [DNG] Upgrade & migrate?

I stand to be corrected, but I think not supported simply means if you get yourself into trouble, you keep the pieces, not that it can't be done. I upgraded a couple of systems from Ascii directly to Chimaera a while ago, and it went well for the most part. From what I recall, I had to intervene

Re: [DNG] booting devuan minimal live on MSI laptop

On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 11:25:49AM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote: > Here's a devuan chimaera minimal-live iso with grub-efi-amd64-signed. > Please let me know if it works with secure boot. Thanks. Thanks fsmithred. The image you provided has the same issue as the previous image "secure boot

[DNG] booting devuan minimal live on MSI laptop

Hello everyone. I need to backup a windows 10 laptop which I don't use, but need to provide support for. This is a UEFI machine with secure boot enabled. When I plug in a custom devuan install I have on a pen drive which I've setup for such things, the system doesn't even recognize the drive is

Re: [DNG] How to port Devuan to a different ARM board?

On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 11:04:19AM +0800, Jeremy Ardley via Dng wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in running devuan on an orange Pi R1 (H3 ARM processor). > > It's not listed as an available image, so I'd be quite happy to build one if > someone can give me the procedures required. As far as I

Re: [DNG] installing Wine 32

Redirecting back to the list. On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 01:04:14PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 04:26:32PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 03:47:43PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > > Your suggestion made me feel rather guilty unt

[DNG] signatures with expired gpg keys

Hello all. There are a couple people who keep posting to this list messages signed with expired gpg keys. Can those individuals please either update the expiration for your keys, or stop signing messages you post to this list? thank you. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key:

Re: [DNG] installing Wine 32

On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 03:47:43PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Your suggestion made me feel rather guilty until I checked after doing > update/upgrade > > $ aptitude show wine | less > Version: 5.0.3-3 > State: installed > > Are you running Ceres? Indeed. The version of wine on multiple

Re: [DNG] Wifi problem - dhclient times out with no reply - SOLVED

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 12:38:05AM -1000, Joel Roth via Dng wrote: > In any case, by enabling the 5GHz radio with AC mode, > WPA2-PSK and 80MHz signal width my BCM43228 associated with > the router and received an IP address. I'm not familiar with that particular chipset. However, based on the

Re: [DNG] Wifi problem - dhclient times out with no reply

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 09:40:15AM -1000, Joel Roth via Dng wrote: > After doing an apt-get upgrade, I can get a a wifi > connection, for example using wpa_gui, however dhclient just > times out. I haven't been able to get to e-mail for a few days, so am coming late to this. If you haven't

[DNG] solved: Re: usb keyboard detection in initramfs

On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 02:57:11PM -0700, Gregory Nowak via Dng wrote: > The problem is that my usb keyboard doesn't seem to be detected in the > initramfs. Once I unlock the partition from the serial console, boot > proceeds as expected, and everything is fine. Turns out th

[DNG] usb keyboard detection in initramfs

Hello everyone. I have a raspberry pi 3b arm64 sd card which I recently upgraded in stages from jessie to chimaera. This card has the second partition encrypted, so I need an initramfs to decrypt it. The problem is that my usb keyboard doesn't seem to be detected in the initramfs. Once I unlock

Re: [DNG] Configuring ethernet port for IPv6 - broken hardware revealed by dmesg

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 03:14:31PM -1000, Joel Roth via Dng wrote: > This is an older thinkpad, I think it's unlikely to need > extra firmware. When I try to install firmware-misc-nonfree I'm told: > > Package firmware-misc-nonfree is not available, but is referred to by another > package. >

Re: [DNG] Configuring ethernet port for IPv6 - broken hardware revealed by dmesg

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 12:40:36PM -1000, Joel Roth via Dng wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 12:05:06PM -0700, Bob Proulx via Dng wrote: > > Joel Roth wrote: > > > Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > > Is there anything different in the dmesg(1) output for eth1 than >

Re: [DNG] Configuring ethernet port for IPv6

Hi Joel, redirecting back to the list. On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 12:44:55PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Thank you for the response, Gregory. > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 03:33:01PM -0700, Gregory Nowak via Dng wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 11:37:52AM -1000, Joel Rot

Re: [DNG] Configuring ethernet port for IPv6

On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 11:37:52AM -1000, Joel Roth via Dng wrote: > It seems that my new router uses IPv6. Perhaps that means > the ISP does so as well. Just because a router uses IPv6, doesn't necessarily mean the ISP supports it. > > My problem is connecting via dhcp over ethernet. On IRC >

Re: [DNG] no ttyS0 - Chimaera, vanilla kernel 5.10.0-10 on Atom C2750

On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 08:15:54PM +0100, Andrzej Peszynski wrote: > I am trying to use onboard RS-232 @ supermicro A1Sai-2750 with Intel C2750, > Devuan Chimaera, vanilla kernel 5.10.0-10-amd64. In BIOS the ports COM1 and > COM2 are configured on 24MHz/13. 24MHz/13 makes no sense here, unless

Re: [DNG] Ryzen?

On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 06:54:41PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > I'm sure I've read somewhere (and not especially recently) that Linux on AMD > Ryzen CPUs can be unreliable and/or surprisingly poor performance. Yes, ryzen had issues in its early days:

Re: [DNG] Pipewire and PulseAudio: apulse & firefox

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 03:34:09PM -0800, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: > Installed apulse.  Still no sound in firefox, or xine. Simply installing apulse doesn't mean applications will start using it. You need to use /usr/bin/apulse as a wrapper around every application you want to use it. Sounds

Re: [DNG] Pipewire and PulseAudio

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 06:57:02PM -0800, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: > Next, I may take out pulseaudio and verify > that firefox works on my system with apulse.  Then I can be rid of both of > them. Firefox works fine on my systems for playing audio without pulseaudio or apulse. So, I suggest

Re: [DNG] Wanting to set up an email system

On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 05:12:59AM +1000, onefang wrote: > If you mean email server as well as client, on the server side I picked > courier, coz it supplise most of the bits, which all work well together. > Every other email server solution means gleuing together various bits > from different

Re: [DNG] Install OpenSSL (libssl, libcrypto) with weak ciphers

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 02:20:50PM +0100, Mike Tubby wrote: > I am trying to migrate a legacy system from Ubuntu 16.04 to Devuan 3.0 where > we have mobile IoT devices based on Cinterion TC65i that are 10+ years old > with a limited sub-set of SSL 3.0/TLS 1.0 ciphers in its Java-ME runtime, in >

Re: [DNG] Fwd: Installing postgresql13 on beowulf

On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 03:46:56PM +1000, wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote: > Bionic is an Ubuntu release. You should be using buster-pgdg repository for > postgresql apt as Devuan Beowulf is directly based on Debian Buster. Devuan > has no direct relationship with Ubuntu. I don't recall seeing

Re: [DNG] Fwd: Installing postgresql13 on beowulf

On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 09:38:13PM -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > - - - - no mention of Beowulf and that means a - - - no go - - - - at least > as far as I can tell. > > Any ideas? Bionic is based on buster, and therefore similar to Beowulf. If the repository has bionic, use bionic if

Re: [DNG] PartialSolve Re: Chimaera; Lost sound

On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 06:21:12PM +1000, terryc wrote: > YMMN, but that is all I need as I do not have any HDMI speakers or USB > speakers, or bluetooth speakers. My solution was to simply blacklist the module for the HDMI audio. Glad you got it to a state that works for you. > > This fixed it

Re: [DNG] Chimaera; Lost sound

On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 12:52:29PM +1000, terryc wrote: > I carried out the install from the recommended(last) chimera iso and > all basically was well. Sounds was there, but I didn't want pulseaudio > and removed it and installed alsa, alsaplayer, alsamixer, etc. > > But I have no sound. It

Re: [DNG] Beowulf; Increasing the number of boot options under grub. How To?

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 12:15:50PM +1000, terryc wrote: > I understand the easiest method to install chimaera is a minimal > beowulf install and the the usual dist-grade route. As outline by > Florian about a month ago. (TY) There is a netinst image available for both amd64 and x86 of Chimaera on

Re: [DNG] Default logins for ARM images?

On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 10:47:48AM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote: > - Link arm-files.devuan.org from the main site as Greg suggests. > - Make a sticky thread in the forum pointing to arm-files.devuan.org Yes, I think that would be perfect. Both actions would make folks aware of

Re: [DNG] Default logins for ARM images?

On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 07:57:21PM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > Greg, > > Have you not seen this thread on the forum? Because it is not a community > project, it is presented differently that the official devuan isos. > > Location is: Index » ARM Builds » Installer images for armel, armhf

Re: [DNG] Default logins for ARM images?

On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 03:24:30PM +0200, Joril via Dng wrote: > Strange, I can see a https://arm-files.devuan.org/README.txt, it contains > this annotation: > > Beowulf 3.0.0 credentials: > devuan:'devuan' > root :'toor' > > Beowulf 3.1.0 credentials (rpi-img-builder based): >

Re: [DNG] adding raspi to sources.list

On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 03:59:01AM +0100, tux...@sapo.pt wrote: > >In the SBC world, kernels are tailored to specific hardware.. > > > >Installing a generic kernel without having the correct Device tree Source, > >or Binary files,or even the needed kernel drivers, will probably render > >your

Re: [DNG] adding raspi to sources.list

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 09:44:24PM +0200, d...@d404.nl wrote: > For my regular Pi's i just have the following in my apt sources > > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main > deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security main > > and

Re: [DNG] adding raspi to sources.list

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 11:42:00AM +0300, Dimitris via Dng wrote: > this package is ascii (not beowulf), so you probably need : > > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii raspi > > d. I guess that would explain why it's not indexed in Beowulf. When I add the above to my sources.list and apt-get

Re: [DNG] adding raspi to sources.list

On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 09:04:11AM +, g4sra via Dng wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Sunday, March 28, 2021 12:59 AM, Gregory Nowak via Dng > wrote: > <-snip-> > > > > > Is there a way to do what I want, or do I need to download the correct

[DNG] adding raspi to sources.list

Hi all. I want to add: to my sources.list. However, this seems to be a dangling directory with no references to it in the package indexes. I've tried two forms in sources.list: deb http://deb.devuan.org/devuan pool/raspi/l/linux-raspi/

Re: [DNG] Default logins for ARM images?

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 12:30:45PM +0200, Lars Noodén via Dng wrote: > I'm looking at an ARM image for Beowulf, but cannot find where the > default password is annotated. It's not on either of these pages: > > https://arm-files.devuan.org/ > https://www.devuan.org/get-devuan > > And

Re: [DNG] install in private partition scheme ?

On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 04:57:35PM +0100, rad via Dng wrote: > I have no problem with a curses version but i suspect that i use the wrong > program. Sometimes I fill blind. > The programm calls refrectinstaller-wrapper.sh OK, it sounds like you're using Refracta, which is another distribution

Re: [DNG] install in private partition scheme ?

wrote: > > Gesendet: Montag, 01. Februar 2021 um 03:33 Uhr > > Von: "Gregory Nowak" > > An: radisso...@gmx.de, dng@lists.dyne.org > > Betreff: Re: Re: [DNG] install in private partition scheme ? > > > > Redirecting back to the list. > > >

Re: [DNG] install in private partition scheme ?

Redirecting back to the list. On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 04:34:56PM +0100, radisso...@gmx.de wrote: > > Gesendet: Sonntag, 31. Januar 2021 um 04:09 Uhr > > Von: "Gregory Nowak via Dng" > > An: "Radisson via Dng" > > Betreff: Re: [DNG] install in priva

Re: [DNG] install in private partition scheme ?

On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 06:15:53PM +0100, Radisson via Dng wrote: > Hello list, > > i have installed beowulf from USB-Stick. > > I worked so far but my private partition setup was ignored. I can tell you that using the text based installer for Beowulf, I was able to do manual partitioning

Re: [DNG] Beowulf: 32bit or 64 bit?

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 05:34:16PM -0700, Fred wrote: > I think Debian Jessie is 32 bit. To upgrade to Beowulf I just followed > instructions that didn't say anything about 32 or 64. I just assumed > Beowulf was 64 bit. Debian jessie was available in i386 and amd64 as far as I recall. > > My

Re: [DNG] Configuring cron and exim4 to send e-mail after running cronjob

On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 04:38:46PM -0800, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: > I tried running "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config".  I selected "Mail sent by > smarthost; no local mail" and then took all of the defaults.  I then tried > to send a test e-mail using the command shown in the link you sent.  I

Re: [DNG] Missing /run/user/$uid

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 01:41:25PM +0100, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote: > I create a terminal window for a different user using a script like so: > #! /bin/bash > # > # Extract auth of current user and run x-terminal-emulator in new user > > printf -v altgksu 'export DISPLAY=:0; touch

Re: [DNG] No Sound in XFCE Beowulf - Pulsaudio

On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 10:57:52PM +0100, David Kuehling via Dng wrote: > However, I think the proper fix, as pointed out by Ken, is > to edit > > /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf > > and comment out the "autospawn=no" line. This is the solution that I'm > currently using on

Re: [DNG] X11: safe to remove?

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 09:57:07PM -0400, tempforever via Dng wrote: > I manage a few remote servers that are running Devuan. Recently (last > week) I noticed a couple updates to some x11 libraries. I went ahead > and updated. But now, I'm wondering if it's okay to remove them > altogether? I

Re: [DNG] (Almost) no sound under Beowulf

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 10:54:14PM -0700, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: > The issue that I am having is with sound.  My daughter reported that it was > not working.  I tried playing a video (in Firefox) from my login and also > got no sound. You've already gotten good suggestions in this thread.

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 11:25:21PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Delete the contents all you want, but keep the lost and found directory. If you delete lost+found by accident, you can recreate it with mklost+found(8). On Sat, Sep 05, 2020 at 12:26:21PM +0900, Simon Walter wrote: > Reallocation,

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 09:19:42PM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === > SMART Status command failed: scsi error medium or hardware error (serious) > SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED > Warning: This result is based on an Attribute

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 03:03:55PM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > This particular drive has no data that is not backed up elsewhere so I am > comfortable experimenting with it a bit as a learning experience. OTOH, > trashing the remaining life it has for no reason wouldn't make sense. You're

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 10:36:26PM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > On 2020-08-29 22:15, Gregory Nowak wrote: > >On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 09:15:13PM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > >>dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M of=/dev/sdx > > > >That will just erase the first

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 09:15:13PM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M of=/dev/sda That will just erase the first megabyte of the drive, leaving utilities like cfdisk to think the drive is new and unformatted. It won't attempt to over write the bad sector(s) though. See the

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 04:35:01PM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > What are the chances of fsck repairing the bad sectors? I shamefully admit I > have not thought about fsck for years. This looks to be at the media level, so is most likely beyond fsck. Since you said you can afford to lose

Re: [DNG] How to mount NTFS

On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 04:01:09PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Nothing in logs. But I don't unserstand this DBus syslog message that > comes up every second or so: > > Aug 7 09:29:26 engels brltty[720]: DBus error: send message: > org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name

Re: [DNG] Devuan 3.0 Orca Problem

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 07:04:25PM -0700, David Hoff Jr wrote: > I have install Beowulf to a 32 bit Acer netbook using the text > >installer with speech. I have speech in the text console but no speech > >with Orca in the GUI desktop including the login screen. In the GUI > >Desktop terminal I can

Re: [DNG] net-install troubles

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 06:20:19PM +, Curtis Maurand via Dng wrote: > I've been trying to use the net-install from a USB stick on a system that > does not have a CD-ROM attacted. It has been a failure. I assume that by net-install, you mean an amd64 netinst of beowulf, right? If not, then

Re: [DNG] no shutdown by pressing power button

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 11:49:39PM +0200, ippaket via Dng wrote: > after the upgrade from ascii to beowulf I can't shutdown my machine > (64bit intel atom) by pressing the power button anymore. You do have acpi-support, and acpi-support-base installed, right? You might also need acpi-fakekey, but

Re: [DNG] Devuan 3 running hot

On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 02:30:39PM +0200, d...@d404.nl wrote: > Which is still quiet high. I would advise to renew the thermal paste on > your processor. I can recommend Arctic Silver 5 AS5-3.5G Thermal Paste. > Made a difference of another 20°C on idle on my old i5. If the system ran cool before

[DNG] release status, was: Re: Devuan Beowulf 3.0.0 released.

On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 10:04:37AM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 10:56:50AM +0200, Dario Niedermann wrote: > > * how long will Devuan 2 ASCII keep receiving security updates? > > At least as long as Debian stretch has LTS. That is TBC in 2022 according to >

Re: [DNG] beowulf-stable-announce 404

On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 11:45:44AM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > Not enough hands on deck. The new website was release while I was sleeping > so that page hasn't been created yet and I won't be able to get to it for > several hours. You are welcome to join the Devuan development team at any

Re: [DNG] kernel instabilities

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 07:35:16PM +1000, wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote: > There’s also a slightly newer version 4.19 available from backports > repository. While not as new as the most recent stable kernel, it might be > quicker and easier to test out than compiling as it’s available through

Re: [DNG] DNG] Waterfox issues under Devuan ASCII

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:40:56AM +0200, Riccardo Mottola via Dng wrote: > I don't have a fast enough i686 machine with Devuan.. it needs 1.5GB of ram > at least. Maybe a version compiled on Ubuntu 16 works? Setup a i686 chroot on amd64. Either that, or a virtual machine with a i686 guest. No

Re: [DNG] Beowulf Beta is here!

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 08:14:14AM +, dal wrote: > The option to uninstall does not resolve the main problem, which should be > fixed upstream. I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree here. If someone connects a braille display which is supposed to work but doesn't, The log messages would

Re: [DNG] Beowulf Beta is here!

On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 09:31:51PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > I never thought about this before, but I think all packages for blind > people should come with all standard packages. Doing so avoids the > buried shovel situation where the blind person could install the > packages for blind people if

Re: [DNG] more issues (RE: Beowulf Beta is here!)

On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 02:47:27PM +, dal wrote: > When I manually arrange networking and try to use > > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-updates main > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security main > > then the set

Re: [DNG] A way of holding telephone-conferences with DEVUAN?

On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 09:46:02PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I've been completely unable to get on Zoom from firefox esr. > Is it likely to work with Chrome or chromium? One of my regular > meeetings has chosen Zoom, leaving me little choice. Can you use a smart phone? Also, dialing in

Re: [DNG] Beowulf Beta is here!

On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 05:10:48PM +0100, g4sra via Dng wrote: > Only one issue so far, had to manually run 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' after > reboot. You might want to add to bug 419, so the devs are aware that more than just one person had this issue:

Re: [DNG] couldn't register with accessibility bus in Beowulf (workaround)

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 10:51:18AM +, Mark Hindley wrote: > There are also the most recent comments[1] in Debian bug #911362 which relates > to Buster and lightdm. > > Does installing libatk-adaptor help? No, already installed. > That bug also suggests another workaround of setting

Re: [DNG] couldn't register with accessibility bus in Beowulf (workaround)

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 08:18:12AM +0100, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Stupid question: are you sure this is the showstopper? I have the same error > message, but everything works as normal. I am very, very sure this is the show stopper. Are you using orca, or looking at your monitor? On Wed,

[DNG] couldn't register with accessibility bus in Beowulf

Hi all. I'd like to start a dedicated thread on this issue. Most users are simply annoyed by the message in the subject in their $HOME/.xsession-errors file. However, since one of the services that can't connect to the accessibility bus is gnome-orca (the gtk screen reader software orca for

Re: [DNG] AMD Ryzen?

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 06:24:27PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > Does anyone here have experience of running Devuan on AMD Ryzen CPUs? > > I'm just planning to get a new PC, and I've generally preferred AMD to Intel, > so just wondering whether there's anything I need to look out for with pretty

Re: [DNG] Update successful but video card issue

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 02:28:09AM +, Tim Wallace via Dng wrote: > Yes it was, and thanks for that data point.  I'm more likely to try it on > beowulf, but sounds like there are no major low-level subsystem > incompatibilities. > --Tim The 5.4.14 kernel compiles and runs just fine on

Re: [DNG] why is dist-upgrade trying to remove mate

On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 11:57:02AM +0200, Dimitris via Dng wrote: > had the same issue with mate. > iirc, consolekit is to blame. remove all related consolekit packages > first, and they'll be replaced by elogind ones. (if they don't, install > them by hand). > then dist-upgrade normally. Thanks

Re: [DNG] We need upgrade reports

On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 04:11:11PM -0500, te...@tempforever.dynu.com wrote: > One (minor) irritation that I noticed both on this and my recent VM upgrade, > is root user no longer has /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin, /sbin in PATH Do you mean upon login, or su? If su, then you need to invoke su as su

[DNG] why is dist-upgrade trying to remove mate

Hi All, I just did apt-get update followed by dist-upgrade on a Beowulf system, and I get this: # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... 0% Reading package lists... 100% Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... 0% Building dependency tree... 0% Building dependency

Re: [DNG] ..what version firefox-esr do we get on upgrading to Beowulf?, was: We need upgrade reports

On Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 03:52:28AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..what version firefox-esr do we get on upgrading to Beowulf? As of now, 68.3.0. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your

[DNG] interfaces.d question

Hi All, assume the following: --- start /etc/network/interfaces.d/staticlan --- iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 # no gateway --- end /etc/network/interfaces.d/staticlan --- --- start /etc/network/interfaces/dynamiclan --- iface eth0 inet dhcp --- end

Re: [DNG] Identifying or rsetting a microsd card

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 05:32:46PM +, Simon Hobson wrote: > I would imagine there's a command you can send to the card which tells it to > bulk-erase itself. Function in one of the disk utils ? Yup, hdparm. It works for SSD, I don't know if it would work for SD cards too. Greg -- web

Re: [DNG] Insane defaults on Raspberry Pi images - How to fix corruption/dataloss

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 11:58:06AM -0800, Bruce Ferrell wrote: > There are actually a couple of ways around the SD wear issue, even though > people seem to dearly LOVE SSDs with the exact same issue; I haven't seen anyone mention even once in this entire thread so far that the rpi supports

Re: [DNG] Installation difficulties

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 07:42:52PM +0700, Robert Parker via Dng wrote: > Do questions about problems installing devuan get answered on this list? They do, if someone has the answers. Greg > > > -- > Life is too short to waste time trying to find ways to prolong it. >

Re: [DNG] Solved Re: Upgrade lockedup-How To fix

On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 11:23:57PM +1000, terryc wrote: > Fixed and now I'm back to chasing down HW/memory fault. > A side benefit is that now I have a consistent way of crashing the > system and might finally get to a working solution for this pair of > identical AMD B350 systems. Sounds like

Re: [DNG] Booting devuan on a rasberry pi

On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 03:57:47PM -0500, hal wrote: > Do you use a serial port on your PI 3? I purchased one last week > on Ebay but have no serial output on the UART0_TXD + UART0_RXD pins. > > Some searching says to add "core_freq=250" or "enable_uart=1" but > so far still nothing. Any

Re: [DNG] Weird problem with every kernel update

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 01:10:20AM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > On 25/6/19 10:23 am, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 06:50:48AM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Hardware NUC6i7KYK. > >> > >>

Re: [DNG] Weird problem with every kernel update

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 06:50:48AM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > Hardware NUC6i7KYK. > > Every time I do a kernel upgrade (Devuan ASCII), rebooting loses USB > devices shortly after grub kicks in. Do you have the necessary module entries for your USB controller/hub in

Re: [DNG] upgrade to ascii dkim stopped working

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 05:55:46PM +0100, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: > opendkim (2.11.0~alpha-8) unstable; urgency=medium On systems using > systemd, this version replaces /etc/default/opendkim with the files > /etc/systemd/system/opendkim.service.d/overrride.conf and >

Re: [DNG] upgrade to ascii dkim stopped working

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 10:30:29PM +0100, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: > Apparently opendkim 2.11 has been polluted/infected by systemd. Lots of > systemd bugreports, notes about being a native systemd daemon but simply > not working from postfix. I downgraded opendkim from 2.11 to 2.9

Re: [DNG] Current status of Gnome desktop?

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:16:08AM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > On Monday 25 February 2019 at 00:58:31, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 03:56:33PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > > > I need to set up a machine for someone with Orca for speech output, >

Re: [DNG] Current status of Gnome desktop?

On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 03:56:33PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > I need to set up a machine for someone with Orca for speech output, therefore > it needs to run the Gnome desktop. Uhhhm, no, it doesn't. Gnome works with xfce and mate, though mate provides a more accessible experience for orca

Re: [DNG] upgrade to ascii dkim stopped working

On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 03:55:08PM +0100, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: > After upgrading a production server to ascii from jessie, opendkim > stopped working. When i start opendkim manually i get the error > "Starting OpenDKIM: install: cannot create directory ‘’: No such file or >

Re: [DNG] Devuan for Raspberry Pi fried SD CARD.

On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 11:41:48AM +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote: > The purpose of this email is to ask how to radically minimized write > cycles to the SD CARD when I run Devuan for Raspberry Pi 3. I found a > how-to which uses /tmp fs for frequently modified system files, but > the user uses

[DNG] /usr merged or not in live images, was: Re: /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question??

On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 02:29:43PM -0600, goli...@dyne.org wrote: > So . . . if the choice to avoid the merge is only available with > debian-installer what does that mean for the live isos? Will they be > configured with or without the merge as default? That's a decision that > needs to be

Re: [DNG] English grammar.

On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 10:11:50AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Changed the subject to a more appropriate one. You should have split the thread too, assuming your MUA supports that. Doing so starting with this post. It would be appreciated if we can please keep the replies in a thread properly

Re: [DNG] Online DNS & Bind Refeences.

On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 09:56:21PM +1100, terryc wrote: > 1. What do people recommend as online sources for Bind configuration > these days. The bind9 administrator reference manual, which you can find at isc.org, or as part of the bind9-doc package. > > 2. what programs do you recommend for

Re: [DNG] Devuan on RaspberryPi W Zero segfaults

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 07:27:14PM +0200, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Some additional information: > - booting with devuan rpi1 image gives no serial console, but rpi boots (to > an unknown state) > - adding "enable_uart=1" in config.txt and booting does not work, rpi > activity led goes dark

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