Re: [DNG] Weird network issue - slow to resolve IPs

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 04:35:17PM -0500, goli...@dyne.org wrote: > Thanks for the responses. I suspect that IPv6 might indeed be the culprit. I doubt it, since both traceroutes are using IPv4, and both have odd delays. > $ traceroute google.com > traceroute to google.com (74.125.129.102), 30

Re: [DNG] bug reporting on unmodified Debian packages?

On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 09:11:33AM +0200, Alexander Bochmann wrote: > I recently used Devuan reportbug on an ascii system against a package that > comes unmodified from Debian. The bug itself is unrelated to Devuan (missing > backport of a change that fixes a broken external dependency). > >

Re: [DNG] Banana Pi M2 Ultra

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 06:25:23PM +0200, Mike wrote: > I tried to run Devuan on a Banana Pi M2 Ultra. I followed the instuctions > in devuan_ascii/embedded/README.txt and dd'd > devuan_ascii_2.0.0_armhf_sunxi.img.xz and tried all of these > Bananapi_defconfig.bin You probably want to uncompress

Re: [DNG] Devuan 1.0 Installation Problem

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 09:42:55AM +0200, KatolaZ wrote: > More information about this issue, and a log of the installation would > be very useful to try to solve the problem. If what Gaston provided isn't enough, I'll try to spin up a VirtualBox guest, and provide an installation log by next

Re: [DNG] Devuan 1.0 Installation Problem

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 12:47:44AM +0200, Antony Stone wrote: > On Friday 24 August 2018 at 00:30:01, David Hoff Jr wrote: > > > I am trying to install Devuan 1.0 32 bit with the net install ISO. The > > install goes fine until I reach the option to choose a repository. > > There are 3 options

Re: [DNG] Why no ipv6 privacy extensions?

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 09:44:08PM -0400, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > I disable ipv6 since there is no reason for me to use it (and my isp > doesn't offer it anyways) but I noticed that there is a lack of ipv6 > privacy extensions enabled in devuan and I believe this is an issue. This is inherited

[DNG] rpi3 wifi, was: Re: I need your help or another developer's help with the project devuan with the children

On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 09:17:00AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > The one problem I've had with my Raspberry pi 3 is getting the wifi to work. > I simply haven't been able to find the right device driver. > It works out of the box with Raspbian, so there has to be one. > > Does anyone know what to

Re: [DNG] what has gone wrong with networking in ascii?

On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 12:53:08PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > But software is another story. On ascii: > > my client laptops can connect to the wifi modem, but never get an IP > number assigned. The change I'm aware of for dhcpd between jessie and Ascii is that dhcpd on Ascii automatically

Re: [DNG] systemd and wlan0 interface problem

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 02:34:52PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > allow hotplug eth0 I believe that should be allow-hotplug but since I'm still running jessie, it's possible this has changed in Ascii. > iface inet eth0 dhcp > > auto wlx2824ff1a1794 You might want to replace that auto

Re: [DNG] nonexistent partition as swap drive.

On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 09:55:53AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > One line only: RESUME=/dev/hdc1 > > Looks like it's been there since at lease May 16, 2006. > I presume I can just delete that file entirely? > This machine never gets powered down with intent to resume instead of > to restart from

Re: [DNG] nonexistent partition as swap drive.

On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 09:46:45PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > update-initramfs sets a nonexistent disk as a swap device. Check /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required,

Re: [DNG] accessibility for new blind user

On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 03:35:31PM +0200, KatolaZ wrote: > I would warmly suggest your friend to contact the linux-speakup > project: > > http://linux-speakup.org/ > > That's a bunch of cool people who have been writing quality software > for blind and visually impaired users under GNU/Linux.

Re: [DNG] Error with upgrading Pi2 from Raspbian Wheezy to Devuan Jessie

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 09:34:01PM +0200, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: > I am trying to update one of my older Pi's 2 from Raspbian Wheezy to > Devuan Jessie and have this strange error message: Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Raspbian jessie is armel based for compatibility with the

Re: [DNG] installer on serial console / qemu

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 07:23:47PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > console=ttyS0,115200 DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text If you're doing an automatic install, I just realized you might want DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive instead of text. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: h

Re: [DNG] installer on serial console / qemu

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 04:15:02AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > could anyone give me a hint on how to run the installer on > serial console ? If I just add conosole=tty0, the installer > suddenly asks me for the language. console=ttyS0,115200 DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text Greg --

Re: [DNG] jessie installer bug

On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 02:20:32PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > dbus depends on libcap-ng0, which isn't available. apt-cache policy libcap-ng0 libcap-ng0: Installed: 0.7.4-2 Candidate: 0.7.4-2 Version table: *** 0.7.4-2 0 500 http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/

Re: [DNG] Unbootable system due to cryptsetup depending to two libs in /usr

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 11:22:24AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > How appropriate is it for me to report a bug directly to Debian > when I have no Debian system to test it on? If you have no doubt that the bug you're seeing in devuan also exists in debian, then report it within devuan to debian's

Re: [DNG] Seeding Torrents for Devuan

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 02:24:24PM +1100, terryc wrote: > Is anyone actually seeding any torrent for Devuan? Yes, I've been seeding the full torrent for jessie stable since it became stable. I have also noted that it is uploading from time to time. I am on a slow connection by today's standards,

[DNG] my observations on accessibility in Ascii

Hello all. I had a chance to play with the amd64 netinst for Ascii in a virtualbox vm. I thought I would share what I found. For all of the following, I started the accessible install with s at the boot prompt. 1. On my first attempt, I chose the default of install devuan-desktop, mate, print

Re: [DNG] clamd.conf: systemd overide in debian package

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 08:48:44AM +, leloft wrote: > 1) the clamd.conf defaults installed automatically configure it > for systemd; and I can't speak to a fresh install. However, after my dist-upgrade to Ascii the configuration was brought over without problems, and other than libsystemd0, I

Re: [DNG] ASCII screen reader for both GUI Desktop and text console

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 09:46:43AM -0800, dhof...@att.net wrote: > I installed the ASCII netinstall 32 bit version to my older Acer netbook > using the install with speech option since I need a screen reader for the GUI > desktop and the text console. I installed the default desktop as well as

Re: [DNG] clamd.conf: systemd overide in debian package

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 09:28:02AM +, leloft wrote: > # dpkg-reconfigure clamav-daemon > [ ok ] Stopping ClamAV daemon: clamd. > Configuring clamav-daemon > - > > Some options must be configured for clamav-daemon. > > The ClamAV suite won't work if it isn't

[DNG] solved, Re: upgraded to Ascii, but now sqwebmail isn't working

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 05:03:54PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > The bad news is that now sqwebmail isn't working, and it still did > after my upgrade to jessie. I have this solved thanks to a tip from the courier-sqwebmail listwhich pointed me in the right direction. The sqwebmaoil cgi

[DNG] upgraded to Ascii, but now sqwebmail isn't working

Hi again. Thanks to KatolaZ for your reply to my libapache-mod-mono issue. Your comment that I'd be surprised how many production systems are running Ascii stuck with me, and so I took the plunge, and upgraded my production system again from jessie to Ascii. The good news is that the upgrade

[DNG] libapache2-mod-mono not in jessie

Hi all, I've been upgrading my very last machine from wheezy to devuan jessie, and am running into a couple of problems. I was trying to figure out why a asp.net site was just displaying directory contents instead of loading. After some troubleshooting, and web searching, I found this:

Re: [DNG] Official devuan works on raspberry pi 3 B.

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:49:47PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > My microSD card is a lot larger than the root partition. You should be able to resize the file system to take advantage of the full second partition. I'm not sure what the status of raspiconfig is in devuan. If that's usable, you

Re: [DNG] raspberry pi 3

On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 09:06:29PM +0100, J. Fahrner wrote: > I had no luck with the images from Devuan. But you can install Raspbian and > then migrate to Devuan following this guide: Another option if you know what you're doing is to debootstrap your own install from a x86/x86_64 system. This

Re: [DNG] Controlling screen brightness

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:20:06AM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: >     The brightness is controlled through 3 files in > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight, named actual_brightness, brightness > and max_brightness. > >     The brightness can be controlled by writing to these files. But these >

Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 11:34:54PM +1100, Fulano Diego Perez wrote: > i don't get it, meaning why so many issues im having The only issue that I'm aware of is that the kernel modules wouldn't build for you. Installing linux-headers-amd64 should have fixed that for you. Is this not the case? Are

Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 03:16:58PM +1100, Fulano Diego Perez wrote: > linux-headers-3.16.0-4-all > linux-headers-3.16.0-4-all-amd64 > linux-headers-amd64 > linux-source-3.16 > virtualbox-dkms - previously installed > > i dont get it What don't you get exactly, which one to install, or something

Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 05:44:17PM -0500, zap wrote: > > I do have one question though, what ascii/stretch package name(s) should > > I pass to `apt-get install`? Here's what I get for APT sources that > > only reference `ascii{,-security,-updates,-backports}`. > > > > $ apt-cache search

Re: [DNG] Virtualbox?

On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 10:55:42AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > The only issue I have at the moment is that the box' clock runs behind > at the pace of 20 seconds to the minute! That's despite the fact that > both the host OS and the Vagrant box have ntp/openntpd installed. The > host OS'

Re: [DNG] Allwinner Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) Devuan Jessie no Ethernet

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 09:42:17PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 09:01:05PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > The Pi is unreliable with > > a USB hard drive what with its USB and Ethernet being on shared > > interrupts. BTDT, lost the data once. >

Re: [DNG] Allwinner Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) Devuan Jessie no Ethernet

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 09:01:05PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > The Pi is unreliable with > a USB hard drive what with its USB and Ethernet being on shared > interrupts. BTDT, lost the data once. Interesting. I've been using a pi3 for almost two years 24/7 with a usb drive, and have seen no

Re: [DNG] jessie keyring

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 03:36:32AM +, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > is there a package (in dng jessie) w/ the current repo pubkey ? Yes. Install devuan-keyring, and run apt-get update again. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key:

Re: [DNG] using os-prober

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 06:37:04PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Now I can't figure out how to set options so that update-grub uses > os-prober. You do have the os-prober package installed, yes? Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype:

Re: [DNG] auto.mirror.devuan.org or us.mirror.devuan.org

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 09:17:58AM +0200, Evilham wrote: > IIRC, when the package mirror network is setup (plans are for it to > start soon), auto.mirror would send you to the closest mirror, so if you > move around, that'd be best for you; if you'd rather use a specific > country mirror, you

Re: [DNG] Proposed change in behaviour for ascii: eudev net.ifnames logic reversing proposal

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 01:38:00AM +1200, Daniel Reurich wrote: > This would lead network interface names default to the old "eth0" or > "wlan0" scheme, rather than the new(?) "enp0s3"-like scheme. It implies > having "net.ifnames=1" in the kernel cmdline to get the "enp0s3"-like > scheme and not

[DNG] auto.mirror.devuan.org or us.mirror.devuan.org

Hi all, I've been wondering this for a while now, so finally figure I'd ask. For those of us in the U.S. is there a difference if we use us.mirror.devuan.org, or auto.mirror.devuan.org? If there is a difference, then what is it exactly? Is one recommended more than the other? Thanks. Greg --

Re: [DNG] [Desktop-Environment] Cinnamon and MATE

On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 03:51:54PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting KatolaZ (kato...@freaknet.org): > > All those users are being left without any other choice than throwing > > their hw away by many distributions, without a concrete motivation > > (well, except the usual "it's old so it must be

Re: [DNG] virtualbox-dkms fails to build on Devuan

On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 03:35:24PM -0500, Thaddeus Nielsen wrote: > Setting up virtualbox-dkms (5.1.8-dfsg-6~bpo8+2) ... This isn't from jessie, it's from backports. > Building for 4.9.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 This is also from backports, not from jessie. From the vbox changelog: "* Linux hosts:

Re: [DNG] Why did it take Devuan 2 years to replace systemd?

On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 09:35:06PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Rather than argue the exact amount of time, I took his question at face > value and answered why it's so dam hard to alt-init a systemd-infested > system. You can see my answer here: > >

Re: [DNG] Listserver configuration

On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 07:09:29PM +0200, Joachim Fahrner wrote: > I get lots of those errors in my postfix log: > > Jul 3 18:09:16 server postfix/smtpd[2840]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT > from tupac2.dyne.org[178.62.188.7]: 450 4.7.1 : > Helo command rejected: Host not found; >

Re: [DNG] Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable LTS

Awesome, and great news! The torrent is downloading as I type, and I plan to seed all of it 24/7. Thanks to all those who made Jessie possible. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts

[DNG] 403 forbidden on installer-iso

Hi all, I'm getting a "403 Forbidden" message on: Can anyone else confirm this? Thanks. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts

Re: [DNG] Adjusting LCD backlight in XFCE4

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 03:48:14PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > Any hints would be appreciated. Did you try what I suggested: Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype:

Re: [DNG] apt-get update issues today

On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 06:07:40AM -0500, hal wrote: > Thank you, it appears now there is some problem with libudev1 and a package > that was placed on hold. > >E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. >(new paste) https://pastebin.com/ky1EVGgL > > Could this be due

Re: [DNG] apt-get update issues today

On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 05:41:44PM -0500, hal wrote: > I tried apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade today and not > sure what's going on. Some kind of issue with makedev or udev > along with a warning about the kernel and initramfs-tools > > Can somone offer some insight on how to resolve the

Re: [DNG] GTK3 and systemd

On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 02:12:28PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > Aren't these things that naturally belong into X or the input itself, It would be nice if x itself implemented an accessibility framework, but it currently doesn't as far as I know. If it did, people with

Re: [DNG] Adjusting LCD backlight in XFCE4

On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 03:42:54PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > I've also tried adding "acpi_backlight=vendor" to the kernel boot options. Try: acpi-backlight=vendor instead of acpi_backlight=vendor If that still doesn't work, then try: acpi-backlight=vendor acpi_osi=Linux Greg -- web site:

Re: [DNG] GTK3 and systemd

On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 04:15:15PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > What exactly does that 'accessibility' stuff actually do ? It does for people with various disabilities what a screen, keyboard and mouse do for people without disabilities. Greg -- web site:

Re: [DNG] reportbug, unable to connect to devuan bts

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 07:36:11PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > thanks for your patience. Your issue was already in bugs.devuan.org > (since the 24th March): Thanks KatolaZ for pointing it out. That also explains why searching against apt-cacher-ng didn't come back with any results. Greg -- web

Re: [DNG] reportbug, unable to connect to devuan bts

On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 10:09:39PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > all the known outstanding issues which were not just bare comments > have been already imported in bugs.devuan.org (and most of them have > also been fixed and closed). Here's one example why I asked about this. I filed an issue on gitlab

[DNG] reportbug, unable to connect to devuan bts

Hi all, I'm trying to run reportbug, and it tells me it can't connect to devuan bts. I can connect to it just fine from the machine in question using lynx over http and https. When I run tcpdump while running reportbug, I see it's trying to connect to dyne.servus.at over https. When I try to

Re: [DNG] /etc/debian_version

On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 01:06:53PM +0200, Jaromil wrote: > Yet I believe we should file this as a bug as /etc/debian_version is > not there on new installs. The /etc/debian_version file is checked by > an enormous quantity of scripts in all sorts of deployements, we have > encountered this problem

[DNG] /etc/debian_version

Hi all. So I noticed that on systems upgraded to devuan jessie from debian wheezy, I still have a /etc/debian_version. I don't have this file on a couple devuan systems installed from scratch. I figured I didn't need a /etc/debian_version reading 7.1.1 anymore, so I blew it away on one of my

Re: [DNG] We need to speak up

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 01:19:18PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > You can include me in your list if you want. But I think for a Debian user > who is currently questioning the need for systemd, knowing his alternatives > is much more useful than knowing that I (some guy they don't know) stopped >

Re: [DNG] We need to speak up

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 09:37:45PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Can somebody please make a list, that we can put our names on, of > people who left Debian because of systemd? And put the name Steve Litt > on it please. You can add Gregory Nowak to that too. I was for the most part qu

Re: [DNG] Gtk3-theme

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:32:48AM +0100, Jochen Fahrner wrote: > If you want to completely avoid Gtk, you have to go without many > non-gnome apps like LXDE and Xfce desktop environments, Claws Mail, > AbiWord, Chrome, Firefox, Midori, Pidgin and many more. I'll add orca to that list, given

[DNG] can't clone from git.devuan.org

Hi all. I can't clone from git.devuan.org: git clone --depth=1 https://git.devuan.org/sdk/arm-sdk.git Cloning into 'arm-sdk'... fatal: unable to access 'https://git.devuan.org/sdk/arm-sdk.git/': Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?) Is this not an anonymous repo, do I need to

[DNG] is there a better place to report these issues

Hello everyone. I reported the following issues during the first beta of devuan. They are still unresolved in the current beta iteration, and haven't been acknowledged since I reported them. Is there a better place for me to report these:

Re: [DNG] [OT] setnet v0.2: a shell script for network config

On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 10:44:34AM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > Does it shiw correctly with "iw dev"? That's iw from > http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/iw/ Yes, iw dev works nicely. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc

Re: [DNG] [OT] setnet.sh version 0.2.1 released

On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 12:38:45AM +, KatolaZ wrote: > P.S.: For Greg: I would relaly appreciate your feedback on setnet. If > you find it useful, we can start putting together something similar > for audio devices... ;) Sounds good. I'll try to take a look at it, and get back to you soon,

Re: [DNG] [OT] setnet v0.2: a shell script for network config

On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 10:44:34AM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > Does it shiw correctly with "iw dev"? That's iw from > http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/iw/ I'm currently running the armhf image testing another issue I'm preparing to report. If someone doesn't answer before I

Re: [DNG] [OT] setnet v0.2: a shell script for network config

On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 10:08:52PM +, KatolaZ wrote: > Steve, that's already been fixed. The detection of interface type is > implemented using iwconfig now, and is not based on interface names > any more. That isn't going to work everywhere unfortunately. As of now, the built-in wifi adapter

Re: [DNG] how to clear DNS cache

On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 12:42:48PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > I would suggest, if the installing sysadmin has opted to not configure > any DNS nameservice at all, i.e., was prompted for nameserver IP and > provided none, and also had did not opt to have one given to the host > with a DHCP lease,

Re: [DNG] rpi3 serial console

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:04:59PM -0500, Christopher Clements wrote: > First of all, this might help you with the GPIO stuff: > https://pinout.xyz/pinout/uart Thanks Christopher. According to the above, the GPIO for the rpi2 and rpi3 are indeed the same ... good. > You might need to make sure

[DNG] rpi3 serial console

Hi all. Can anyone out there with a raspberry pi 3 and a pl2303 cable please confirm that the devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta2_arm64_raspi3.img.xz image actually has a working serial console? I do see that cmdline.txt in the first fat partition defines ttyAMA0, so it should work, but doesn't seem to

Re: [DNG] Devuan GNU+Linux Beta2 release

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 08:53:41AM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > Just to make sure I've not made a mess of things (been a while since > I've done the debian-style inplace update), someone mind > double-checking the result of my dist-upgrade / sources.list? Looks good to me. Greg -- web site:

Re: [DNG] devuan-discuss is not useful, quite the opposite

On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 01:05:27PM +0100, hellekin wrote: > The devuan-discuss mailing list was created to harmonize the lists: > devuan-announce, devuan-discuss, and devuan-dev, and to move away from > the "Debian is Not GNOME" antagonist pattern. If you wouldn't have just mentioned "the "Debian

Re: [DNG] Why does systemd do such stupid things

On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 06:11:23PM +, Rowland Penny wrote: > I don't really object to re-naming a newly found ethernet card, what > concerned me was the fact it happened silently. Not that silently, the dmesg output told you exactly what happened. This has also been how udev informed of the

Re: [DNG] Firefox nightly [now] requires Pulse Audio

On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 12:37:16AM +, Go Linux wrote: > I hope that someone will be able to devise a way to keep alsa a viable > alternative. You can read the sad news here . . . > > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20=130028 > As someone in that discussion points out, debian may

Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:09:20PM +0100, Dave Turner wrote: > Traffic on ye olde dng@lists.dyne.org has gone down a lot. > Is it because of this new-fangled Discourse thing? I'll admit I don't miss the traffic. In fact, I had considered switching over to the announce list, but then the traffic

Re: [DNG] F1 and special usernames on the login screen

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 11:07:01AM +0900, Simon Walter wrote: > I am pretty sure it's trivial to install a different login manager > if SLiM is not to your liking. Or has systemd crept into the rest of > them? No, lightdm is installable and systemd free on devuan. That along with

Re: [DNG] devuan installer and overheating

On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 11:01:42PM +0200, Paweł Cholewiński wrote: > Look here https://git.devuan.org/devuan-packages/debian-installer/issues > Some issues have 1.0.0-beta2 milestone and they are going to be resolved > with beta2. Ok, thanks. I didn't see that in my search, and filed installer

Re: [DNG] devuan installer and overheating

On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 09:24:56AM +0200, Jaromil wrote: > please remember critical feedback and insights are welcome! we need > to improve things still. but perhaps not in the d-i installer, which > is quite of an hairball. Does that mean that feedback issues open against the installer aren't

Re: [DNG] apt-get upgrade does nothing

On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 08:17:08PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 29 May 2016 20:21:54 +0100 > KatolaZ wrote: > > Do you have jessie-updates and jessie-security in your sources.list? > > > I don't know. My /etc/apt/sources.list is shown at > http://lpaste.net/164802 .

Re: [DNG] encryption

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 07:34:11AM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > Maybe we had this discussion before and I missed it. I did a Google search > and didn't find it. Anyway, here is my question... > > I want to create one encrypted folder on my hard drive. I don't necessarily > need heavy-duty

Re: [DNG] Signature verification

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 09:43:37PM +0200, Paweł Cholewiński wrote: > How to check integrity of this SHA256SUMS file and how to ensure the > data is the same as it was when it was originally created - how to > verify digital signature of this file (if it have digital signature). I > never verified

Re: [DNG] devuan-minimal brief review notes

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 09:52:57AM -0400, fsmithred wrote: > I think it's also removed in the boot menu of my unofficial live beta, but > it's still there in refractasnapshot. No plans to get rid of that. Ok, I'm confused. Is the mini live image that KatolaZ produced a small version of your

Re: [DNG] Unofficial Devuan Jessie Beta Live Minimal

On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 12:56:53AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > I don't know whether you are correct or not :) It includes all the > drivers shipped with the standatrd Devuan kernel (including alsa), but > being a minimal image it does not have alsa-utils or other > sound-related amenities (yet!). > >

Re: [DNG] dealing with wifi

On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 09:27:17PM +0200, emnin...@riseup.net wrote: > Principally, to avoid wicd from starting automatically > i'll have to pull out the wicd script out of /etc/init.d/ , correct? Not necessarily. Simply doing: update-rc.d wicd disable will prevent wicd from being started or

Re: [DNG] Unofficial Devuan Jessie Beta Live Minimal

On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 09:25:10PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > OK guys, I am happy to announce that after having put the default > initramfs on a strict diet (basically, removing useless modules and > libraries unnecessary at boot), the unofficial minimal live is able to > boot on just 96 MB of RAM :)

Re: [DNG] Meaningful and concise posts: was Dng Digest, Vol 19, Issue 76

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:05:01AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > I see you receive the digest version of this list's posts. Many people > do. People on the digest have a responsibility to change the subject > line to the subject of the post to which they're responding. They also > have the

Re: [DNG] Printing -- now even pdf works. I have no idea why.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 07:05:06PM +, Noel Torres wrote: > Just curious... > > Why not using CUPS ? Too bulky and cumbersome. Go to a web interface. Follow link to install device. Choose device from a list ... I prefer to read up on the syntax of a config file or two, and just edit them, or

Re: [DNG] Printing -- now works.

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 06:27:26PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I'm using the driver from Brother, and lpr from lprng. I found the > lprng-doc package. I suppose the next thing is to read it, While I haven't used a brother printer, I do seem to have a recollection of doing lpr file.pdf, and

Re: [DNG] asteroids and release names.

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 08:36:13PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Ascii will be the name of version 1, won't it? That will be jessie as far as I know. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your

Re: [DNG] Fw: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 09:00:44PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > I know many of you are using Devuan in production and as your Daily > Driver. Patrick from debian-user expressed some trepidation about > moving to Devuan in his impending escape from a systemd-encumbered > Debian, and I figure maybe if

Re: [DNG] Raspberry Pi 2 image

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 09:26:23PM +0100, Antonio Trkdz.tab wrote: > can some of you be so kind to point out in a clear form (and possibly link > it to uname outputs) the architectures needed by each raspberry version, > namely 1,2 and 3? > Thank you in advance!

Re: [DNG] Raspberry Pi 2 image

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 05:44:16PM +0200, parazyd wrote: > The image I would like people to test can be found here: Thanks for your work. I unfortunately can't test ATM because I have only one rpi2 acting as a router. I plan to get another unit to play with (possibly a rpi3) in the future. If

Re: [DNG] devuan installer main menu access

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 06:30:42PM -0400, Boruch Baum wrote: > 4.1] Was it a case of 'fat-fingerng'? I don't think so, but it's asking > a lot to attempt to re-create this because with slow bandwidth, each > install attempt takes a long time to get to this stage. Today's > connection was

Re: [DNG] Raspberry Pi 2 devuan image

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 06:24:08AM +1100, Ozi Traveller wrote: > I'm hoping you might be able to tell me how move passed this error? I have > devuan-keyring installed, it should build otherwise. I've already built a > bootable debian image with the script so I know it works. > > Thanks I'm not

Re: [DNG] Accessibility: Does the devuan installer default to ALSA?

On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 08:53:06AM +1300, Daniel Reurich wrote: > On 08/03/16 06:45, Joel Roth wrote: > > Hi Devuan, > > > > I'm following the blinux mailing list, for blind users of > > Linux, and there is a report of someone having trouble with > > pulse audio. So that leads me to ask, will

Re: [DNG] Migration to devuan Jessie failed on rpi-zero

On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 07:26:27PM +, KatolaZ wrote: > I recently got one of those new raspberry pi zero. The little thing > should have exactly the same hw of the first version of rpi. Hence, I > thought I could have migrated it swiftly from raspbian (jessie) to > devuan, and I was eager to

Re: [DNG] Migration to devuan Jessie failed on rpi-zero

On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 01:27:19PM +1100, Simon Wise wrote: > raspbian is in between armel and armhf because debian armel is (or > was then) compiled without hard float support while debian armhf is > compiled for arm7 ... so since PIs are arm6 with FPU neither is > suitable Just to be clear, the

Re: [DNG] Vote for/against netman name change

On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 08:03:24AM +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote: > Do you agree to renaming netman? no Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch

Re: [DNG] Purchasing a new computer/laptop.

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:43:40AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 07:46:40PM +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Call me paranoid but I am noticing big companies like Microsoft making > > it very difficult to buy a computer or laptop without Windows > > installed.

Re: [DNG] "Common knowledge?"-question

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 09:34:28PM +, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Can the effect of the following C function > > static void print_start(char const *name, char const *what) > { > char *buf, *p; > unsigned name_len, what_len, total; > > name_len = strlen(name); > what_len =

Re: [DNG] I've got the automounter running

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 01:29:29PM +, Simon Hobson wrote: > A couple of years ago, I surprised a group I'd given a presentation to by > "Safely removing" hardware before I yanked my USB stick ! Yeah. I noticed a tech savvy friend of mine yanking his flash drive whenever he pleases. I told

Re: [DNG] Preferred automounter behavior?

On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 10:20:36PM -0600, d_pridge wrote: > Would  /mnt/[label]/sdd1  help ID the drive? I'm not sure what you're asking. It could however solve the problem of what to do if two drives are plugged in that have the same label. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public

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