A typo inserted itself in the previous message. I obviously meant for y'all to
use 'dpkg -i package.deb' to install the newly acquired package.
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Hello list,
In order to resolve the gpg key being outdated, the following steps needs to be
taken:
wget
http://deb.devuan.org/devuan/pool/main/d/devuan-keyring/devuan-keyring_2022.09.04_all.deb
sudo dpkg devuan-keyring_2022.09.04_all.deb
sudo apt update
Cheers,
On Fri, 29 Jul 2022, o1bigtenor wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 8:23 PM Ludovic Bellière via Dng
wrote:
You need to understand how your Desktop environment is being initialized. It is
started by the Display Manager, thus inherit whatever environment variable is
sourced by the DM. To have
28, 2022 at 8:44 AM Ludovic Bellière wrote:
That would be an environment variable. It has to be written into a file sourced
by your DM, each has their own standard. For KDE/sddm, you can look into
/etc/sddm/Xsession to see which file correspond to your system (it's different
whether you use bash
That would be an environment variable. It has to be written into a file sourced
by your DM, each has their own standard. For KDE/sddm, you can look into
/etc/sddm/Xsession to see which file correspond to your system (it's different
whether you use bash or zsh or whatever else).
Cheers,
Hello list,
Can confirm on my end too, apparently a meeble.net is now involved. That, or I
no longer understand emails anymore.
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Hey marc,
Nothing you wrote made sense to me. Not only my firefox is perfectly capable of
installing extensions, the problem(s) you describe seems from another planet. Or
from somebody having a mental breakdown.
If you load a temporary addons, why would would believe that it ought to be
Hello Stefan,
DNG is definitively sending emails, however some host will silently
filter out emails without telling you why. I'd suggest either contacting
your host, or changing for a service that is more respectful of your
freedoms.
Cheers,
Ludovic
On Thu, 28 Jul 2022, Stefan
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On Sat, 16 Jul 2022, Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 11:11:04PM +1000, onefang wrote:
On 2022-07-16 08:21:13, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I tried installing sharutils using aptitude, and was unable to.
> aptitude told me:
> Temporary failure
Hello Radisson.
SysVinit (package sysv-rc) should comes with the software `startpar` as
dependency. `startpar` is a means to run processes in parallel, which
may be what you are looking for. Please check the manual: `man 1
startpar`.
The software should be used by default by SysVinit. As others
Hello Haines,
Maybe your router is faulty? Contact your vendor.
Cheers,
Ludovic
On Sat, 23 Apr 2022, Haines Brown wrote:
I find that I now cannot access my router administration page. The
router provides access to internet, but when I run 192.168.1.254 (this
IS the correct
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The PATH variable of your environment, or the environment that script is
running in, doesn't seem populated. Presumably, you had other issues
prior to that error and you may not have noticed them.
Now, there is an easy way to resolve a broken update. All you have
Hello Haines,
Mails stop being processed as soon as they are delivered. If you have
matching rules above that one, then the span check will not be reached.
Spamassassin doesn't get involved in this. It is purely filtering. You
must pass the mail through spamassassin before procmail is involved.
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote:
Reading the pipe man page ('man 7 pipe') tells us that there are two
ends to a pipe: read and write. Each of them are affected by the
buffer settings. Most likely 'rsync' outputs is being buffered before
landing on 'tr'.
So I assume that it
Reading stdbuf man page, it tells us that 'dd' is unaffected by its
settings because 'dd' doesn't use streams:
NOTE: If COMMAND adjusts the buffering of its standard streams
('tee' does for example) then that will override corresponding
changes by 'stdbuf'. Also some filters
Hello Florian,
The output isn't going anywhere, it's simply being buffered. It's a
default when a tool doesn't specify buffering behavior for stdout. In a
chained pipe, the output will only start being sent once the buffer gets
full. That is to avoid heavy use of resources in case the tasks
Hello Ken.
Various things that people might find helpful:
1) BleepingComputer talks about CVE-2022-0847, not -0487 which is another
unimportant issue.
2) If you want to be kept aware of security issues involving debian, you
should subscribe to
Hello terryc,
You seem to have a variety of kernel installed. Could you tell us which version
works for you, and which version showed the errors?
In doubt, I would revert back to stable — not backport (bpo). So you want the
latest of the 5.10 series, which should come from security.
Care must
Hello Larry,
On Thu, 13 Jan 2022, Larry Linder via Dng wrote:
I have loaded and it connects up to our network without a problem.
1. I would like to change desktops as default is too dark to be read.
That should be under the look entry of your user settings. Don't know the
actual name, as
Hello Steffen,
The systemd service file does create the necessary directories (see:
https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/blob/master/service/systemd/mosquitto.service.simple).
/run/mosquitto not being created is most likely an issue with debian itself.
Creating the folder from the init file, as
If you do not need your mail system to talk to the world, then you should
replace exim with something that is a lot simpler to use and configure. I would
suggest msmtp (https://marlam.de/msmtp/) as its configuration is a lot more
simpler to the neophyte. If you want to keep exim4, I would then
On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote:
I am getting e-mails like the one below all the time, now. I had this problem
once before and I think that all I had to do was clear the paniclog with '>
paniclog', but that does not seem to be working, now. I cleared it this
morning, and when I
Hello Riccardo,
XFCE is upgrading to GTK3. The inconsistent look of the windows you've seen
might be due to old style windows being used alongside newer style.
XFCE isn't a big monolithical application, instead a compilation of several
softwares that creates your desktop environment. Not all
On Fri, 05 Nov 2021, Steve Litt wrote:
Me too. I'm on the list, and people cc'ing me when replying to the list
or writing to me and cc'ing the list just complexify my life.
One thing to keep in mind is that not everybody contributing to the exchange is,
in fact, subscribed to the list. As
On Wed, 27 Oct 2021, Haines Brown wrote:
Ludovic, thanks for the feedback. The Z590 chipset is new (March
2021), but I did see that someone had installed linux on it and so
assumed it could be done. I don't see Gigabyte's specification of the
video chip.
The lspci command returns
VGA
Hello Haines,
Your issue isn't about the graphic card, but probably linked to your screen. I
do not know what a Gigabyte Z590 machine is, and can't look it up at the moment,
but I would suggest that you'd research compatibility feedbacks for your
hardware. You'll find something if the machine is
Hello Ownen.
If sending a mail to dng-unsubscr...@lists.dyne.org doesn't work, try visiting
https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng.
Ludovic
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Hello golinux.
I found a reference to a dead software used in the *Network Configuration*
section. wicd is recommended as network manager, however it is no longer
distributed by debian. It has been removed because it is written in python2, and
there has been no release since 2014.
As I do not
Hello Haines,
Has stated in other replies, the issues might either be of hardware of software
in nature. If your software stack is problematic, the reasonable path would be
to investigate what aisleriot has for requirements. As it stand, aisleriot is
part of the gnome suite and thus depends on
On Wed, 28 Jul 2021, Hendrik Boom wrote:
I just installed rsyslog, and I'm getting syslog entries again.
Do I also need the other related packages like rsyslog-czmq,
rsyslog-elasticsearch, rsyslog-gnutls, rsyslog-gssapi, rsyslog-hiredis,
rsyslog-kafka, rsyslog-mongodb, rsyslog-mysql,
Hello fsmithred.
* termsaver:: is kind of a joke software, hasn't been a release since 2014 even
though it has been updated to circumvent the reason of removal from debian. No
real alternative either.
* bittornado:: unmaintained. Good alternative would be transmission. If a cli
client is
I was sleeping at the time. Hopefully, the recording of the presentation will be
made available later on.
Ludovic
On Wed, 07 Jul 2021, Steve Litt wrote:
The presentation starts in 50 minutes at http://meet.jit.si/golug
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Hi Jim,
Have you tried:
apt-get download libapt-pkg5.0
However libapt-private.so comes from the apt package, same as apt-cache. Your
system is probably borked and needs full reinstall. The kind of error you got is
related to the ABI (yes, with a B), and means that you have a bunch of
On mer, 19 mai 2021, terryc wrote:
> Normally I wouldn't consider it(risk a working system), but having
> recently received two new boxen following the release of majic smoke
> from the mail server, I'm actually in the position to do this on new
> naked hardware. The global chip shortage meant I
On mar, 18 mai 2021, onefang wrote:
> I recently bought an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT card. Your 5700 might be too
> new for Beowulf, I had to jump through some hoops te get my 5600 working
> fully. Using the 5.10 kernel from Beowulf-backports, Mesa drivers and a
> bunch of related libraries from a
Hello terry,
The packages present in the backports channel comes from the next
unstable (bullseye/chimaera). Where as the proposed-updates (and **not**
upgrades) are the packages who are being prepared for the next stable
point release. It is debian's review process to make sure nothing
breaks.
On ven, 07 mai 2021, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> [snip]
> The phone company now opines that the data rate on the connection is
> barely sufficient for a multiparty zoom connection, and this is because
> of the distance to the exchange.
>
>
>
> Now I'd like to measure what's going on in my
You mean this[1] package?
[1]:
https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/package-query.html?c=package=exim4=4.92-8+deb10u6
On jeu, 06 mai 2021, Thomas Besser via Dng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> asked this already in IRC on #devuan, but perhaps some devs are reading this
> here.
>
> Fixing 21Nails
>
Hi terryc,
Those are *not* systemd libraries. They're services files or helpers
shipped with the various packages you install. It is not possible to get
rid of them without forking nearly all debian packages, which is beyond
the scope of the devuan project. The service files are text files and
You problem seems to be solved upstream. See
https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/releases/tag/v2.1.3
You can always install speedtest in a virtual env.
On ven, 09 avr 2021, al3xu5 wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Today, after last apt-get upgrade, the `speedtest` python script
> (package is
Hi Mate,
On ven, 09 avr 2021, Mate via Dng wrote:
> My own preference is 3rd Gnome. I can't see it in the official
> supported desktop environments list for the Beowulf release, but my
> testing in virtual machine shows that it works.
>
> Could you please advise me if it's stable enough to use
On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 18:10:52 +1100
terryc wrote:
>
> Back in ascii, there was a program "update-pciids" which you could run
> to ensure you had could run to ensure you had the latest device Ids.
>
> However, it doesn't appear in the programs for beowulf (amd64)
>
It is part of pciutils,
Hi Steve,
It's most likely a debian issue. And to be more precise, a Xorg that
may not be up to date. I would advise you to check devuan's Xorg
version and check if the firmware of your laptop is talked about on the
internet. Ubuntu likely uses a more recent version of Xorg than debian,
or any
How do you create those backup archives? Do you use a tool?
On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 18:38:49 -0700
Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote:
>
> These are backup archives. No one is using them after they are
> created (unless I screw up and accidentally wipe out an entire
> partition, again).
>
>
> Marc
On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 20:36:28 -0700
Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote:
> I'm not familiar with sfill. What does it do and what package is it
> in. It is not currently installed here.
>
> Marc
sfill is part of secure-delete. rm doesn't actually remove data, it
just remove all links to it leaving
On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 22:28:32 -0700
Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote:
> > It may also be possible that the files you removed have other
> > references on your file system, aka. hard links. To find them, you
> > would need to know the inode number, either by using `stat` or `ls
> > -i`. You can then
the
inode number. However you could throw a `find $path -size n[cwbkMG]` to
list the files with the matching size.
On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 20:39:51 -0700
Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote:
> On 3/14/21 8:33 PM, Ludovic Bellière wrote:
> > Run fsck to make sure your disk isn't corrupted o
Run fsck to make sure your disk isn't corrupted or damaged. Afterward,
your lost+found might get populated with the stuff that occupies the
space, done so in order for you to review.
On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 20:10:03 -0700
Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote:
> I had some large files (over 200GB in total
Posivite review I presume?
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 13:41:52 +0100
Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote:
> Nice, Devuan made it to the reputable german IT news at heise.de
> (also home of the internet magazine 'telepolis') again:
>
> https://www.heise.de/-5057592
>
> libre Grüße,
> Florian
>
>
Hello Erich,
I don't think either logwatch nor fail2ban is being forked by the folks
at debian. As such, you are using the debian packages. There may be
functionalities depending on systemd, but that's for you to discover.
In any case, what *exactly* is not part of devuan? Please provide a
link
-launcher
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 07:42:29 -0500
Haines Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:24:10PM +0100, Ludovic Bellière wrote:
> > And what is the question?
>
> Sorry that I was unclear: I cannot save the data displayed or
> accessed on my browser. For example I have
Hi Hendrik,
It is most probably because firefox has threads now. It has to be able
to restart a thread if, for some reason, the thread dies. By doing a
killall, you're essentially killing threads before the main process
which then make them respawn.
Maybe this command will be more accurate, as
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:46:31 -0500
Steve Litt wrote:
> Yes. However, Ctrl+C doesn't work everywhere. It doesn't work in gVim
> or xterm. Ctrl+c seems to be a feature that must be built into the
> source application.
Using the X window system, highlighting text puts it in the PRIMARY
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:35:30 +0100
Didier Kryn wrote:
> Thanks a lot for these detailed explanations, though it's missing
> how the SECONDARY is used.
The way we use software on the GNU/Linux environment involve a lot of
bash. That has to be taken into account in the design of the
environment.
Hey Steve,
I believe you have some misconception on how cut and paste
works on the X Window environment. I believe that a proper
understanding on how you host environment behave would help you figure
out an appropriate workflow.
On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 19:07:06 -0500
Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tue, 17
Hello Alessandro,
Consolekit doesn't handle the /run/user stuff quite well.
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR isn't being populated and the user folder not
initialized. A workaround I came up with, to make sure XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
is always populated, is to insert the following lines in
your .xsessionrc:
if [ ! -d
because you're replacing a
library with its counterpart.
On Sat, 07 Nov 2020 16:22:24 -0300
Eike Lantzsch via Dng wrote:
> On Saturday, 7 November 2020 15:52:25 -03 Ludovic Bellière wrote:
> > Hi Eike,
> >
> > Install libelogind0 first, so it takes precedence over syst
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Install libelogind0 first, so it takes precedence over systemd, then
elogind.
On Sat, 07 Nov 2020 10:41:47 -0300
Eike Lantzsch via Dng wrote:
> Hi!Maybe somebody can add some cheese to my whine:
>
> For months I am not able to resolve
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Yes.
Le Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:55:22 +0100,
radisso...@gmx.de a écrit :
> Hi everyone,
> i am new on this list and in search for a place to
> ask for a wired problem with a devuan installation.
>
>
Keep in mind that there are other interests at play, the "leadership"
has to content with your requests and other's.
The one thing that annoys me is the handling of OpenPGP and keys. I
cannot update my keys nor sync them with the ones present on my system.
Which is highly annoying since I sign my
Hello Mark, it seems that you are highly concerned with the path
Thunderbird is taking for the future. Might I suggest to you, and
everyone following this exchange for that matter, to head over the [tb-
planning][1] mailing list. It's purpose is to, quote:
1. *Offer an easy, transparent venue for
Both python and Qt have been upgraded between stretch and buster, as
such you have to expect changes in behavior.
From what you said, it doesn't seem to be breaking.
On 4/10/20 00:45, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote:
> I have a program written in Python 3 that uses a .ui file from QT
> Designer.
There is a growing schism between the Qt Company and the opensource
community.
The Qt Company published a blog post
(https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020) reading:
> From February onward, everyone, including open-source Qt users, will require
> valid Qt accounts to download Qt binary
Hello Marc,
You may have an old funky config left over from ASCII/stretch. I'd
invite you to consult the logs (/var/log) to see how Xorg is failing,
and at the same time checkout /etc/X11 to make sure everything is
"standard". Xorg is supposed to be started by your login manager (slim,
gdm, ...),
Well I'm the best at making farts, if that count for anything.
On 16/09/20 20:38, Antony Stone wrote:
> "Best" and "worst" are horribly subjective terms, and if you read the wording
> at the top of that article, you'll see that they confuse "best" with "most
> popular".
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800 is the number of seconds until Suspend mode (blanked, lower power)
* 2400 is the number of seconds until the screen is turned off.
On 30/08/20 12:03, Frank Streitz wrote:
>
>
> Am 30.08.20 um 11:24 wrote Ludovic Bellière:
>> First thing that comes to mind is that your screen sa
First thing that comes to mind is that your screen saver isn't hindered
and triggers because no user action has taken place.
For mplayer, you can create a .mplayer/config file and insert the
following line in it :
> heartbeat-cmd="xscreensaver-command -deactivate >&- 2>&- &"
Search google for
AFAIK packages.devuan.org doesn't exists. deb.devuan.org is the actual
round robin.
On 28/08/20 19:29, Андрей via Dng wrote:
>> Several things:
>>
>> 1. You should use deb.devuan.org
> Whould you explain why, please?
>
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I use the following
>
> watch -n 30 "ps --sort=-rss -eo pmem,rss,vsz,comm|grep ${software} >>
> ${OUTPUT}"
Where ${software} is a string and ${OUTPUT} is a file. I use the data
stored in the file to plot graphs.
Otherwise, Andy's correct: /proc/${pid}/stat will contain everything you
need.
Several things:
1. You should use deb.devuan.org
2. traceroute both packages.devuan.org and deb.devuan.org, will give you
where in the route the packages dies
3. I read that Russia has been toying with a nation-wide firewall thingy
On 21/08/20 18:53, Андрей via Dng wrote:
> Hello.
>
>
> I
Hi Emiliano,
In conflict resolution, I find aptitude to be superior. You should use
it too :)
On the matter of gwenview, it is part of the KDE desktop, which depends
on elogind. By default, XFCE uses consolekit which is in conflict and
thus fails the install. Thus, you'll have to switch from
Hello kendall.
Running processes aren't stopped (restarted) until the new binaries are
available, so your machine was still behind a firewall if rules were
applied before the upgrade. iptables, ip6tables, and other alternatives
serves as interface to the Netfilter packet filtering framework found
There is a tool called debugfs, with it you can get a list of deleted
files `lsdel', and use the information to restore them with `undel'.
Although lsdel is no longer useful, I'm pretty sure the tool may help
you recreate a link to the existing inodes. I'd recommend reading the
man page.
Excerpt
Hello al3xy5,
That message is informative, telling you something changed upstream and
making sure you are aware of it. It's benign in nature unless you have
done something funky with your own system and you need to be ready
before jumping to stable (like a tool expecting the suite to be testing).
Hello terryc,
When editing a file, try
```
:syntax off
```
Check your .vimrc for the same switch. If it is not what you are
referring to, then I don't know.
Ludovic
On 26/02/20 07:15, terryc wrote:
> This annoyance has crept into my system some time ago and I can not
> figure out how to
Hello Tim,
> Thanks so much for your helpful (and sobering) replies! If I had spent
> $50 (instead of $260) for this card, I would have already trashed it and
> just bought the Nvidia one (Quadro K1200)! Clearly AMD is not a panacea
> for Linux video cards! I may still do that, or maybe try to
Hi temp,
The 5.4 kernel is also available through the backports if you're running
Beowulf.
Ludovic
On 31/01/20 03:20, tempforever wrote:
> I have no idea whether it will help your particular problem, but I can
> report that I've successfully built and run run 5.4 on ascii (if that
> was a
Hello Tim,
First you need to know the chipset name of your card in order to know
it's family. To do that you need to run (or similar):
```
lspci | grep VGA
```
It's output on my desktop shows:
```
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX
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