Re: [DNG] any gotchas in a new install?

2022-06-20 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 19/6/22 01:57, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > Greetings > > Am having entirely too much fun (doa psu followed by the mobo) but > hoping to be very soon installing Devuan testing (daedalus - - - - > sic!) on a AMD 5800X cpu with a Radeon 570X gpu. > > When I've been looking for info there seems

Re: [DNG] Shutdown/halt versus WiFi and NFS

2022-05-28 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 28/5/22 18:44, d...@d404.nl wrote: > On 28-05-2022 10:23, Brad Campbell via Dng wrote: >> On 24/9/20 03:55, Michael S. Keller via Dng wrote: >>> My desktop is running Chimaera, and I saw this with Beowulf, but didn't >>> spend much time on it then. >>> &

Re: [DNG] Shutdown/halt versus WiFi and NFS

2022-05-28 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 24/9/20 03:55, Michael S. Keller via Dng wrote: > My desktop is running Chimaera, and I saw this with Beowulf, but didn't spend > much time on it then. > > My network connection is via WiFi, and I have permanent NFS mounts in place. > I run SysV init. > > During halt or shutdown via init

Re: [DNG] Beowulf to Chimaera update breaks suspend on laptop

2022-04-09 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 7/4/22 20:58, Brad Campbell via Dng wrote: > G'day, > > I could use a bit of advice if anyone has the relevant experience. > > My laptop is running Devuan Beowulf currently, but this suspend config goes > back at least 10 years. > It suspends / hibernates using pm-utils

Re: [DNG] Beowulf to Chimaera update breaks suspend on laptop

2022-04-08 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 8/4/22 07:45, Adrian Zaugg wrote: > Hi Brad > > In der Nachricht vom Thursday, 7 April 2022 14:58:36 CEST schrieb Brad > Campbell via Dng: >> So, I'm asking for either : >> - Experience in making the in-kernel mechanisms work; or preferably > Updating the BIO

Re: [DNG] Beowulf to Chimaera update breaks suspend on laptop

2022-04-07 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 8/4/22 08:15, Ralph Ronnquist wrote: > afaik on chimaera xfce4 relies on elogind for handling "suspend on lid > close", and this is something you may disable by a slight edit of > /etc/elogind/logind.conf, to have the three assignments: > HandleLidSwitch=ignore >

[DNG] Beowulf to Chimaera update breaks suspend on laptop

2022-04-07 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
G'day, I could use a bit of advice if anyone has the relevant experience. My laptop is running Devuan Beowulf currently, but this suspend config goes back at least 10 years. It suspends / hibernates using pm-utils with the uswsusp back-end onto a dmycrypted swap partition. The kernel is

Re: [DNG] Installing on a Raspberry or a Banana?

2022-02-08 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 8/2/22 5:17 am, Antony Stone wrote: > On Monday 07 February 2022 at 22:14:32, d...@d404.nl wrote: > >> On 07-02-2022 22:03, Antony Stone wrote: >>> >>> I want to install Devuan on a Raspberry Pi Zero W, and also on a Banana >>> Pi R1. > >> Last time I needed an RPi image I used this link >>

Re: [DNG] [OT] Jörg Schilling has passed away

2021-10-12 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 12/10/21 04:16, Steve Litt wrote: hal said on Mon, 11 Oct 2021 10:59:26 -0500 Just thought I'd mention it. There was a time when Jörg's software was the only way to burn a CD on Solaris. I was grateful for his contributions as it saved me a lot of time moving things to tape. RIP Jörg, and

Re: [DNG] random sudden stops

2021-08-25 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 26/8/21 8:10 am, Hendrik Boom wrote: > For the past few months my home server (running an ascii installation > physically moved from another computer) has been suddenly stopping all > processing about once a month. apparently at random. It seems to stop > instantly, leaving power on and

Re: [DNG] Err; hardware!

2021-08-08 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 9/8/21 8:13 am, terryc wrote: > On Sat, 7 Aug 2021 18:36:19 +0800 > Brad Campbell via Dng wrote: > >> >> I honestly can't see who in their right mind would use a base system >> of that age, > > > My 2c, hardware? > > If it has lasted that long,

Re: [DNG] ..a viable basis for Devuan as a hypervisor?, was: libvirt package without X11 and DBus

2021-08-08 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 7/8/21 4:25 am, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > <4f39fd8f-64a5-4488-6640-668d3ceec...@fnarfbargle.com>: > >> I'm still running my self-compiled libvirt because I've progressively >> upgraded from Debian Wheezy > > ..dangit, you started precisely where we|Devuan _should_ have started. > Too lazy to

Re: [DNG] ..a viable basis for Devuan as a hypervisor?, was: libvirt package without X11 and DBus

2021-08-08 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 7/8/21 5:26 am, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 20:20:15 +0800, Brad wrote in message > : > >> On 6/8/21 5:12 pm, Andrzej Peszynski wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 06.08.2021 06:25, Brad Campbell via Dng wrote: >>>> >>>>

Re: [DNG] ..a viable basis for Devuan as a hypervisor?, was: libvirt package without X11 and DBus

2021-08-06 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 6/8/21 5:12 pm, Andrzej Peszynski wrote: > > > On 06.08.2021 06:25, Brad Campbell via Dng wrote: >> >> Why do you even need/want libvirt? I have several machines which run qemu >> guests just using simple bash scripts to bring them up (and all the bash >&g

Re: [DNG] ..a viable basis for Devuan as a hypervisor?, was: libvirt package without X11 and DBus

2021-08-05 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 6/8/21 1:04 am, AP wrote: On 05.08.2021 12:37, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..any of you guys wanting to package what you have running? To me, this sounds like a viable basis for the bare metal hypervisor idea in the "[DNG] Devuan as a hypervisor?" thread. I like the idea of this, if the DEVUAN

Re: [DNG] ..a viable basis for Devuan as a hypervisor?, was: libvirt package without X11 and DBus

2021-08-05 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 5/8/21 6:37 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 11:13:06 +0800, Brad wrote in message > <184151f6-16e3-f59c-1d07-47394f30f...@fnarfbargle.com>: > >> On 5/8/21 4:40 am, AP wrote: >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> first I thank all DEVUAN people for the pure pleasure of running my >>> system

Re: [DNG] libvirt package without X11 and DBus

2021-08-04 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 5/8/21 4:40 am, AP wrote: Hi everyone, first I thank all DEVUAN people for the pure pleasure of running my system (since ASCII 2018) without a bloatware. This is my first message and I am sorry, that my search did not give me the answer about: maintenance of the libvirt package without

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

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

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

2021-05-18 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 17/5/21 9:31 pm, terryc wrote: > I am hoping there is a simple config/number change in the grub > config files, but I can not find it in the doco I've read. > > In the past, the list of kernel images just grew each time you > loaded/updated the linux-image files. But the current system >

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

2021-05-11 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 11/5/21 2:36 pm, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 11/05/2021 à 06:57, Brad Campbell via Dng a écrit : 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

[DNG] Ascii to Beowulf upgrade borked with eudev

2021-05-10 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
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 .../25-eudev_3.2.9-8~beowulf1_amd64.deb ... Since release 198, udev requires support for the

Re: [DNG] exim4 packages 4.92-8+deb10u6 in beowulf-security?

2021-05-07 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 8/5/21 11:13 am, Gastón via Dng wrote: > On Sat, May 08, 2021 at 10:20:23AM +0800, Brad Campbell via Dng wrote: >> On 7/5/21 2:21 pm, Thomas Besser via Dng wrote: >>> Am 06.05.21 um 20:53 schrieb Ludovic Bellière: >>>> You mean this[1] package? >>>>

Re: [DNG] exim4 packages 4.92-8+deb10u6 in beowulf-security?

2021-05-07 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 7/5/21 2:21 pm, Thomas Besser via Dng wrote: > Am 06.05.21 um 20:53 schrieb Ludovic Bellière: >> You mean this[1] package? >> >> [1]: >> https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/package-query.html?c=package=exim4=4.92-8+deb10u6 > > It's a platform independent ('all') package. > > Look at >

Re: [DNG] Odd issue with busybox dc in beowulf

2021-05-07 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 29/4/21 8:14 pm, tito via Dng wrote: > Hi, > by looking at the latest git code: > > static const struct op operators[] ALIGN_PTR = { > #if ENABLE_FEATURE_DC_LIBM > {"^", power}, > //{"exp", power}, > //{"pow", power}, > #endif > {"%", mod}, > //{"mod", mod}, >

[DNG] Odd issue with busybox dc in beowulf

2021-04-28 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
G'day All, I've upgraded a staging server from Jessie to Beowulf and find a script in my initramfs is now broken, tracking it down it is a huge change in behaviour in the busybox version of dc and I can't find any reference to what I'm missing. Has anyone bumped up against this? I've tried

Re: [DNG] Your system is not supported by certbot-auto anymore.

2020-12-15 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 8/12/20 5:02 pm, Martin Steigerwald wrote: I am still using dehydrated. It is a simple shell script which just depends on curl, openssl and ca-certificates. There is an additional package for apache2 support, which just contains the site configuration for the web challenge thing, and one for

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-09 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 10/9/20 2:04 pm, Simon Walter wrote: On 2020-09-09 15:53, Brad Campbell via Dng wrote: It really doesn't. It'll mark a sector as "pending" (as in, I can't read from it so I'll mark it for later). What does the OS get at this point? Is that a short read error? Yep. I have some

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-09 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 5/9/20 10:38 pm, Simon Walter wrote: On 9/5/20 12:50 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 05, 2020 at 12:26:21PM +0900, Simon Walter wrote: Reallocation, to my knowledge, should happen in the background. It's *possible* that the reallocation event and the FS corruption are unrelated. My

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-09 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 30/8/20 8:19 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: There's also the badblocks program, which can be set up either to do a nondestructive read-only test for bad blocks, or a more throrough destructive test, where it writes every block and later checks tht it can read it correctly again, using a variety of

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-09 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 5/9/20 10:38 pm, Simon Walter wrote: On 9/5/20 12:50 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 05, 2020 at 12:26:21PM +0900, Simon Walter wrote: Reallocation, to my knowledge, should happen in the background. It's *possible* that the reallocation event and the FS corruption are unrelated. My

Re: [DNG] Raspberry Pi 4 (Brad Campbell)

2019-07-07 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
On 6/7/19 21:57, . via Dng wrote: I tried what you've described --- put a fresh copy of "devuan_ascii_2.0.0_arm64_raspi3.img" on an 8GB microSD card, then copied the parts of Raspbian Buster over; but I end up with an error "/sbin/init exists, but is not executable (error -8)", possibly

[DNG] Raspberry Pi 4

2019-07-06 Thread Brad Campbell via Dng
G'day all, I have an old RPI3 running Jessie that I wanted to replace with a 4 (wanted USB3 & GbE) Not wanting to re-configure or re-install I downloaded the latest Raspbian for the Pi4 (Buster) to use for parts. I replaced the boot partition contents straight from the Buster image. Had