Questions tagged [devuan]
A Debian derivative without systemd.
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Grub doesn't show option to boot Devuan
I have Devuan installed and dual-booting with Windows 11, last time I was using my computer (on Devuan) I uninstalled and reinstalled some ncurses packages and libraries and now when I turn on my ...
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Celluloid fails to start, saying "Settings schema ... does not contain a key named 'menubar-accel-enable'"
After dist-upgrade'ing my distribution (Devuan Daedalus to Excalibur), and trying to run celluloid, I get the error:
(io.github.celluloid_player.Celluloid:16054): GLib-GIO-ERROR **:
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Set up Tor Gateway
I have two Devuan virtual machines running on qemu-kvm. How can I get one of them to run in Gateway mode and route all network connections through Tor? How to set up such a system via terminal?
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How to make dhclient run when wlan0 is brought back up (but already has an old address)
With the following configuration on Devuan Chimaera Linux:
/etc/network/interfaces
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
pre-up /sbin/wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/...
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stable package is different to rmadison query
I'm having difficulties with the gpodder application and I'm trying to figure out what's causing the issue. I have installed the package from stable, testing, and backports repositories, and I have ...
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How can I unify my stereo audio output to make it mono?
I use stereo speakers or headphones, and for "accessibility-related" reasons, I need to have the same audio play from both sides. Now, I don't need this for some specific audio file - which ...
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Devuan chimaera apt is not working
Temporary failure resolving 'deb.devuan.org'
Err:5 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera/main i386 libmagickwand-6.q16-6 i386 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3+deb11u1
Temporary failure resolving 'deb.devuan.org'...
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unable to install `wine` in Devuan due to "supposedly identical version of libwine:amd64"
I'm in Devuan Chimaera. I had installed it in two machines before the current one.
So I have also installed WINE before on Devuan.
Somehow, strangely, I get this warning:
sudo apt install wine wine64 ...
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HDMI sound output not coming
I'm on Dell Latitude 3420; it came with pre-installed Ubuntu 20.04.
I am dual booting with Devuan Chimeara
uname -a
Linux devuan-Latitude 5.10.0-22-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.178-3 (2023-04-22) x86_64 ...
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internal microphone detected and working in Ubuntu; not detected in Devuan
I'm on Dell Latitude 3420; it came with pre-installed Ubuntu 20.04.
I am dual booting with Devuan Daedalus
uname -a
Linux devuan-Latitude 6.1.0-10-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.38-2 (2023-07-...
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No inittab.d directory found during boot log?
After upgrading a non-systemd VM from Debian 11 Bullseye to Debian 12 Bookworm, I started seeing upon boot, the message:
init: No inittab.d directory found during boot log
What to do?
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How can I turn off the lights on my Logitech G413 SE keyboard?
I got a Logitech G413 SE keyboard. Its keys are lit when I plug it in; I want to turn that light off; but - there is no "lights off" switch on it! Damn them.
Logitech has all sorts of ...
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apt - local repo - issue with 32-bit debs
I am using Devuan Chimaera 4.0.0 amd64 as my GNU/Linux distro. [It is based on Debian bullseye]
Generally, while installing new software, I use the ISO file [mounted to a location] and a separate ...
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Info about input method and keyboard layout
I'm using Devuan GNU/Linux [based on Debian 11 Bullseye].
I have Xfce as my DE and use ibus-m17n as my input tool.
In Ubuntu, in the I-Bus settings dialog, I used to find the keyboard layout for the ...
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Black screen with i915 driver on newly installed Gentoo system
I am trying to install Gentoo GNU/Linux on my laptop as a dual boot, the other OS being Devuan GNU/Linux (Chimaera).
Devuan is already installed and works properly. In particular, the video card works ...
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How to get default xfce4 color themes
I have switched from Debian with systemd to Devuan without systemd and my quality of life has much improved. Both operating systems have xfce4 as desktop environment. But I have noticed that all the ...
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Cryptsetup not accepting the VALID password
I'm at my wit's end here. I recently updated my distro. Something like 300+ packages were updated so trying to downgrade one by one would be a nightmare and so I'm trying to get this to work but my ...
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Linux Devuan Beowulf apt-get update gives weird message of Skipping acquire of configued file sdklfflj
When I run apt-get update on Linux Devuan Beowulf I get:
Hit:1 http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.devuan.org/...
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Unexpectedly logout from Xfce4 session because of nouveau driver bug
I have an experience noteing regular breaks of xfce4 sessions due to video driver bugs. This always happens when I visit websites overloaded with JavaScript like analytics or some exchanges with trade ...
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"You can now switch to a Let’s Encrypt certificate." - should I?
I recently apt-get dist-upgraded my Devuan GNU/Linux Chimaera machine. after upgrading the package jitsi-meet-web-config to version 1.0.5818-1, I get a message saying:
You can now switch to a Let’s ...
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Google Earth Pro is not working in Gnome 41 wayland session Works fine in Xorg on Devuan Linux
Synaptic, Google Earth, xterm etc are not working in Gnome wayland sessions.
I am using Devuan Daedalus (Testing) and it is stable, except for some offending apps like synaptic, xterm, Google Earth ...
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What's the idiomatic way to allow incoming connections on a TCP port, as of 2021?
It's been years since I last fiddled with firewall rules; and I remember the iptables chains for input, forward and output, and their various rules. But the times, they have a-changed, and today ...
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Can I install another Linux distribution to an extra HDD without rebooting?
I have a computer with a Linux distribution installed on partitions in drive /dev/sda. I also have another physical drive, /dev/sdb.
I want to install Linux to the second physical drive - to later run ...
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How do I create a new locale, based on an existing locale and a different language?
I want to create an en_IL.UTF-8 locale: Languages is English (US English if I need to be specific), but date, number, etc. as is common in Israel/Palestine.
What do I need to do to make this happen?
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PulseAudio changes default device occasionally
I run Devuan GNU/Linux 3 Beowulf. My system uses pulseaudio. I have an on-board audio device, 2 GPUs with their own audio capabilities (e.g. via HDMI) and on-board HDMI which goes to my monitor (that ...
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EFI Installation of Devuan Beowulf?
I have switched to a new computer and tried to install Beowulf 3.1.0 in a pure-EFI setting.
I have tried installing on a SATA SSD as well as a a m.2 PCIe SSD. Originally,
the plan was a dual boot ...
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Audio output busted after installing debian-pulseaudio-config-override
I'm using Devuan GNU/Linux 3 Beowulf. My machine has on-board audio (an Intel board). Audio used to work from most apps, including Chromium, but not including Firefox strangely enough (it wanted ...
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Identical execve causes "Permission denied" for one program but not another
Permission denied shows up when I try to open some attachment in Thunderbird. Yet, it doesn't look as a Thunderbird bug, because when I strace the process I see it issues the correct call. Yet it ...
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why does atril keep webkit2gtk-4.0 processes with ~100GB virtual memory?
I'm using the Cinnamon desktop environment on Devuan GNU/Linux Beowulf (like Debian Buster but without systemd).
I've just brought down all of my browser and other significant apps, but - leaving a ...
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apt complains about change of Suite from testing to stable
I'm trying to apt-get update my Debian or Devuan distribution, but am getting an error:
Get:14 http://deb.devuan.org//merged beowulf InRelease [25.6 kB] ...
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LXC container will start at the command line, but not automatically, from cron's @reboot or from /etc/rc.init
I can always start my container successfully with:
fadedbee@host:~$ sudo lxc-start -n mycontainer
It used to start automatically, until I bound some directories on a local ZFS to it.
I added the ...
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Do I really need to run ntpd to keep my machine clock in synch with the NTP protocol?
I'm using Devuan GNU/Linux (~= Debian Buster without systemd) on my machine. On Debian-based systems, we can install the packages ntpdate, which provides the ntpdate binary - an NTP client that ...
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pip3 install opencv is looking at the wrong URL
I'm trying to install opencv with pip3 on my Devuan GNU/Linux 3, and this is what happens:
$ pip3 install opencv
Collecting opencv
Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: 404 Client ...
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How can I change my webcam's power line frequency setting?
I'm using a Logitech C720 webcam with my PC, which runs Devuan Beowulf GNU/Linux (~= Debian 10 Buster but without systemd).
In a related, but not Linux-specific, question on SuperUser, it turns out ...
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how to see my SD-card peripherials?
I want to know the hardware that reads SD Cards.
I don't have lspci, lsusb, nor internet access to download packages.
System
# uname -a
Linux devuan-droid4 5.4.0 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan 12 19:38:...
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How do I update tor in Devuan
Well, I was trying to enter some onion sites but I wasn't able to, so I checked my tor version and it was Tor version 0.2.9.16 (git-9ef571339967c1e5)., do you guys know how to update on the console?
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How can I get rid of the NetworkManager applet if I use wicd?
I'm running Cinnamon on a Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (Beowulf) machine - which is essentially the same as Debian 10 (Buster).
My distribution uses the wicd daemon for network connection management; and I ...
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The Devuan machine-id patch - solving a problem or blowing smoke?
As reported on SlashDot, Devuan has recently introduced a patch with the following description:
A few days ago Devuan ASCII 2.1 was announced and one update has been overlooked by most media ...
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Do snaps require systemd?
Do snaps and the snapd daemon require systemd? I am running Devuan right now, and wonder about the labor required to install applications from snaps. The snapcraft home page is content-free when it ...
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Chromium won't play any YouTube videos; Firefox plays them
I'm using Devuan Beowulf (~= Debian Buster), freshly installed.
I can play YouTube videos fine using Firefox, but if I try them in Chromium, it keeps showing the loading animation (the circle with the ...
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How should I control audio volume in Cinnamon on Debian Buster / Devuan Beowulf?
I've made a clean installation of Devuan ASCII and upgraded to Beowulf. I've logged in to Cinnamon, and things seem fine - except for controlling audio:
There is no mixer up in the Start Menu by ...
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Is it safe to dpkg --set-selections on a newer version of a distro?
I saved my dpkg --get-selections on my Devuan ASCII (~= Debian Stretch). I've now reinstalled my system cleanly and dist-upgraded to Devuan Beowulf (~= Debian Buster).
Is it safe for me to now dpkg --...
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Why do I have a `/root/.rpmdb` folder on a Debian-based distro?
I just noticed my Devuan ASCII machine has a /root/.rpmdb folder.
Why would it have been created, seeing how I use apt DEB files, not RPMs? And - how safe is it to delete it?
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Where can I get Devuan testing version installation images?
For Debian, you can get weekly-generated ISO installer images of the current "testing" release, from here. But for Devuan, I could only find installation images for the stable and oldstable versions (...
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Cannot start Devuan/Debian installation
I have a problem installing Devuan Linux 2.0 from an USB memory stick.
What happens is that after the first menu, where I have to select graphic/textual installation, all I get is a blank screen.
I ...
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Devuan as a rolling release?
Is it possible to get Devuan Linux as a rolling release?
All I can download seem to be the Jessie and ASCII releases, but I cannot find a link to Beowulf and Ceres.
Can Ceres be defined a rolling ...
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Devuan... Reduce time to wait while internet interfaces being configured during boot
I am using devuan linux for my laptop after leaving debian back due to the first's better sequrity and its simplicity compared to debian.
I am really happy with it but I have the next problem:
When ...
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Brother MFC-L2710DW mysteriously stopped printing
I'm trying to use Brother MFC-L2710DW multifunction printer/scanner with my
Devuan ASCII machine (which is just like Debian Stretch but without systemd).
At first, this seemed to work: I printed a ...
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Devuan RFS. How to automate resolution of internal IP (LAN) addresses
System correctly resolves external hostnames (bbc.co.uk for example) but will not resolve any internal (LAN) ones.
The question here is how to automate LAN lookups without having to modify hosts and ...
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Can't change the default app for opening AVI files
I'm using Cinnamon on Devuan ASCII (which is essentially Debian Stretch without systemd).
I'm trying to change the default player for AVI files from Dragon player to Gnome-MPV.
But - while this ...
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