libera/#devuan/ Thursday, 2024-04-18

rrqI believe it was one of devuan_excalibur/installer-iso/*.iso (from "The Download Zone"). Source for those is in https://git.devuan.org/devuan/installer-iso.git .. and the installer does not run as "devuan".00:01
rrqpossibly there is some use case where an automatic "devuan" user is added, but then that user would/should have persisted into the installation as well.00:02
fsmithred_rrq, mason, my /etc/subuid says 'user:100000:65536' which is not my primary user's name but is the primary user's name in the refracta live-iso I used to install this system. I think maybe he did install with the live iso, and that's where the devuan username came from.00:16
masonfsmithred_: That sounds likely.00:16
fsmithred_do I need to change that to my actual user name?00:16
masonFWIW, unless you're doing something with unpriv'd virtualization, it's safe to rearrange those files at will. But it'll be scary for users.00:16
masonIt's not wholly clear to me that every user *should* have a subuid range, fwiw.00:17
fsmithred_un, I run qemu or vbox frequently00:17
masonfsmithred_: Those are heavyweight virtualization. If you're running a kernel, it's maintaining its own internal mappings.00:18
fsmithred_ah, ok00:18
masonThe subuid stuff only applies to things like LXC, Docker, podman, parts of LXD, etc.00:18
systemdleteonce again, same old problem with thunderbird:  There is no http or https entry in the attachments/mime list in settings.   I've run into this in the past.02:44
systemdleteWhat's odd is that all the other thunderbird profiles seem to have these.  It's just this one profile on the same installation of thunderbird.02:45
systemdleteIs there a way to create the entries for https (and maybe http)?02:46
systemdlete(any reasonable user would expect there to be a prompt or control to "add" a new entry--and maybe even to delete one!)02:46
systemdleteThe other possiblitiy is to just start over again with a fresh profile, but that's annoying.02:47
systemdlete*possibility02:48
systemdletejust fyi:  I did search and browse around mozillazine pages a bit.  Found some near-answers, but nothing this specific.  One note is that a poster replied that linux users should consult their distros rather than mozilla support because of the variations etc.02:56
systemdlete(so here I am)02:56
systemdleteI should also mention that I do NOT get the usual prompt the first time I click on a link asking me how I want to open the link (that's the behavior in the past when setting up a new firefox or tbird installation, as I recall).02:58
systemdletebut that isn't the behavior nowadays.02:58
systemdleteor so it seems...02:59
gnarfacewhich thunderbird version and which devuan release?03:03
gnarfacesystemdlete: ^03:06
systemdleteIt's beowulf (starlinux) and tbird 115.9.003:10
systemdletestarlinux kirk, and I believe that may be beowulf03:12
systemdleteand I know that's rather old, but since the other profiles on that system work, I assume it is not a problem, per se, with beowulf03:13
systemdleteand that system has all the updates to current.03:13
gnarfacehmm, is that the thunderbird version that's supposed to go with it?03:14
gnarfacebecause 115.9.0 is current stable (daedalus)03:14
systemdleteinstalled from the repos, so yes03:14
systemdleteas far as I can tell03:14
gnarfacei see it here on mine, but maybe that profile got corrupted, there's precedent for that03:14
systemdletewe have seen this before, some years ago I think03:15
systemdleteas I said, I could just go away and start that profile from scratch.  At this point, I am sensing that might be the simplest for everyone (except me, of course, but I am only one person)03:15
systemdleteI think I am going to file a request to add a feature to add/delete mime types.  I don't know why that doesn't exist already... after all these years.03:16
gnarfacedoes seem strange03:19
gnarfacei wonder how hard it would be to find where they're actually stored and insert them manually?03:20
gnarfaceit occurs to me that perhaps they're actually present in the profile but just not being rendered due to some parsing bug only triggered by whatever you've set them to before03:20
systemdletewell, maybe this:  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57383203:21
systemdleteso perhaps I can just copy the rdf file, or edit it03:22
gnarfaceoh03:23
gnarfaceit's just a XML file03:23
systemdletethat bug, btw, is 13 years old... and seemingly unresolved.03:23
gnarfaceyou can probably edit it03:23
systemdleteaha!03:23
systemdleteyes03:23
gnarfacei noticed something in my profile just now that might be relevant03:23
systemdleteunless it is checksumeed and kept in another file that is binary03:23
systemdletelol03:23
systemdletej/k03:23
gnarfacei seem to have multiple of these files and one is marked "....rdf.backup_thunderbird_migration-2017..."03:23
gnarfaceso, see if some update also made multiple copies of yours too03:24
gnarfacethat might give a clue as to when it broke03:24
systemdleteyeah, I am SURE we have encountered this already.03:24
gnarfaceyou might just be able to edit it or copy another working one (or parts of one anyway) from elsewhere03:25
systemdleteThere was some "weirdness" for a time about 2 or 3 months ago, right around when I created this profile... where the calendar or tasks lists were not getting pulled through  correctly from older releases03:25
systemdleteit looks like they are all caught up now, but they were not being updated correctly for a while there.03:25
systemdleteHeck, I can just copy it from another profile.03:26
systemdleteLet me try that.03:26
gnarfaceif you diff them it'll probably be obvious why it broke03:26
systemdletewell this is interesting.  I have about 8 profiles (which I DO NOT USE ALL AT ONCE for petes sake, ok?).  (In fact, I rarely use most of them)03:28
systemdleteBUT03:28
systemdletemost of them do not even have that file!03:28
systemdleteI'm going to try shutting down that profile, copy over one of the others that do exist, and restart tbird with that profile03:29
gnarfacegood luck03:30
onefang13 year old bug?  Soon the bugs will be old enough to drink, then there will be chaos!03:30
systemdletewell, the https entry now appears in the list...03:32
systemdleteyuppers. That was it!03:32
systemdleteit works now.03:33
systemdleteI hate all the changes they've been making to tbird in the last year or so.   The UI was the last thing that needed work.03:33
systemdleteIssues like THIS one need attention more than the silly and (IMO) useless "improvements" to the UI03:34
systemdleteThank you for your help, as always.03:35
gnarfaceno problem03:35
onefangSame as I hate some of the changes to neomutt email client, I'm still using the ASCII version, coz later ones have this horrid delete bug.  It'll mark several random emails as to be deleted, then ask you if you want to purge them when you switch folders.  If you are not paying attention and you actually marked something to be deleted, you'll purge those extra random ones to.03:39
gnarfaceyikes03:45
systemdleteone thing I have been learning to do, slowly, as I get older and (hopefully) more astute with software, is to READ *all* the dang messages that programs pop at me.  I am finding it rather tedious, but also saving my s.03:45
onefangThis is interesting.  I'm going through my logs, looking at the IP addresses that are being reported for various nefarious activity on my servers.  Usually I'll do a dig -x on them, find out who they are, and add them to my firewall if they are not some cloud being used temporarily.  Now I'm getting "rcode=REFUSED" for some of them, even trying from several different computers.  A quick search suggest that peopl can block reverse IP lookups on04:06
onefangtheir IPs?  That's nasty!04:06
onefangIn case you are wondering, fail2ban fails to ban.  I think coz no actually useful rules are activated by default, which seems odd.  The only rule I have ever seen actually do anything, was the one I wrote myself.  So I have to do this shit manually.  I have a TODO to go over fail2ban again and see if it can be convinced to actually ban.04:08
gnarfaceit's been a long time since you could trust the reverse lookups to be true anyway04:11
gnarfaceyou can still whois them04:11
gnarface(which can also be full of bogus data, but at least international law prohibits that, so usually it's true)04:12
onefangMy own name server offers whois privacy, they put their contact details instead of mine.04:17
onefangWhich I think is legal.04:17
systemdleteSo I filed an enhancement request at mozilla bugs.  Hopefully they will consider including the idea in the future and they don't give that BS "WONTFIX" crap.  What I'm requesting should be fairly straightforward; no complicated logic.04:22
onefangDoes anyone know where the Ctrl-Alt-Fx keys are defined, so I can switch them to some other keystroke in my test VM?  So I can have different keys for the guest and the host, otherwise the host switches, not the guest.05:23
onefangYes, I know, I can just get the VM to grab input, I don't like it when it does that.05:25
onefangFor the same reason I hate it when "fullscreen" means "grab input".05:25
gnarfacegood question, i'd guess maybe the init has to handle it?05:37
gnarfacemaybe both the init and xorg though05:37
gnarfacewell, either way, maybe you can make the window manger in the VM capture some other sequence and translate it to ctrl+alt+fx locally05:45
gnarfacei guess that doesn't really leave you with a way to get back though, hmmm05:45
rrqthe VT switch action is a kernel thingy, and the kernel recignises them in in text mode at least05:50
rrqthen I think in graphical mode the window manager grabs kb events and captures those, mapping them to chvt actions05:52
rrqI guess the "easy way" would be to define new/different kb events for the VM window manager, and map those to chvt actions for the VM05:54
rrqthough the VM in text mode wouldn't have the kb event capture05:56
rrqI suppose alternatively the host window manager could capture those new kb events and map them to "sendkey" commands on the qemu monitor channel05:59
rrq(provided the mouse is within the VM display window maybe)05:59
onefangI need to be root for chvt to work?  Getting "Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console." but works fine if I sudo it.07:01
CueXXIIIonefang: the ctrl+alt+fn in X is handled by xorg directly, acc. to xorg(1) configurable via the xkb config. alt+fn on the virtual consoles without x is handled by the kernel07:02
CueXXIIIonefang: yeah, you need to be root07:03
systemdleteanyone here fairly expert on git?07:04
systemdlete(not sure if this is the right devuan venue, or if I need to #git the f out of here with this question)07:04
onefangOK needing to be root wont work for roconfiguring my window manager to do that.  I'd have to open up a terminal, so I can type in my sudo password.  Pfft.07:05
onefangWhere is this xkb config?07:05
CueXXIIIonefang: you could give sudo permission to run chvt without password07:06
CueXXIIIthe xkb config - it depends. basically nowhere, it may be changed by your desktop, or you have to run xmodmap manually07:07
onefangToo much fucking around.  Simple thing to do would be to edit "Alt" to "Mod4" in some config file somewhere.  That'd be my preference.07:07
CueXXIIIonefang: looks like you could adapt the last answer of https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/414071/how-do-i-switch-to-linux-terminal-from-xorg-via-xf86switch-vt-1-controlaltf107:11
joergonefang: man sudoers07:12
onefangAh where it says "this is definitely an ugly hack"  lol07:14
CueXXIIIsystemdlete: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html07:14
onefangI know how to do sudoers.07:15
CueXXIIIonefang: for the issue of the original question, yes it is07:16
onefangI had already tried the first half, but then got stuck wit "where do I put this".  I'll try it now.07:17
systemdleteCueXXIII, ???07:18
systemdleteI'm just trying to get some help that's all.  Nothing complicated.07:18
CueXXIIIsystemdlete: well, nobody would ever answer yes to your original question07:18
systemdleteI'm over on #git with my question07:19
CueXXIIItl;dr: don't ask if you can ask07:19
systemdlete(not true, CueXXIII, I get plenty of responses here)07:19
systemdleteCueXXIII, you seeem to misunderstand.   I simply didn't know if git is off-topic here.07:19
systemdleteNothing to do with how to ask or asking to ask07:19
systemdletesee?07:20
systemdleteAnd yes, I've read that page more than once in my lifetime!07:20
CueXXIIInah, i meant: "<systemdlete> anyone here fairly expert on git?" is not a question anyone would answer with yes, unless they are paid to do git support07:22
systemdleteCueXXIII, I think this part of the convo here should move to -offtopic07:27
masonsystemdlete: Hitting the sack, but "don't ask to ask" - toss up your question and it might get a response.07:51
masonI'll check for it in the AM.07:51
systemdletemason:  Thanks, but I have decided that git is probably off-topic here.  If I do post anything, I'll do it in offtopic.  Or can I pm you?08:02
systemdleteand, mason, as I mentioned, I just didn't want to ask in the wrong place.  And I think this was not the right place to ask.  My bad.08:03
systemdleteI have posted my question over in #git.  It is about 8 lines now, which I think might be a bit spammy for devuan support.08:04
fonky123hi all11:26
onefangG'day.11:26
fonky123anyways installing 1.0 -> upgrade 2 beowulf works -> upgrade that 2 daedalus libc6 dependancies fail11:27
fonky123using only base install and going from there on11:27
fonky123and no screen shananigans11:27
fonky123works like a charm11:27
fonky123if going directly from jessie 2 daedalus shit happens and cannot log in11:28
fonky123prolly elogind11:28
fonky123nor root nor basic user11:28
gnarfacethat's basically expected11:29
fonky123:))11:29
onefangWas that straight beowulf to daedulas?  We generally recommend upgrading one version at a time, so that would have been beowulf -> chiwaera -> daedulas.11:29
fonky123reboot inbetween11:29
gnarfacedebian's official documentation even says you can't skip releases between upgrades11:29
fonky123same from jessie 2 beowulf11:29
fonky123this one worked11:29
fonky123but in installer non graphical i didnt perform choice of installing additional software and kept it at base11:30
gnarfaceit can usually be made to work, it's just not advised11:30
brocashelmdon't do that11:30
fonky123im trying workarounds because i cant get graphical installer working in 5.01 and 6.011:30
brocashelmthere is no devuan 6.0 yet11:31
fonky123there is some sort of iso i think11:31
gnarfaceusually that's a kernel/driver issue11:31
fonky123codename excalibur11:31
brocashelmthat's testing11:31
brocashelmeven further than daedalus11:31
brocashelmyou would want to upgrade to the next release each time11:32
brocashelma lot of configs and packages have changed within two years11:32
fonky123nah i like oldoldoldstable11:32
brocashelmand that's fine11:33
brocashelmjust don't jump ahead of releases if upgrading11:33
fonky123the trick is, it should not be some of that kernel/driver but then again live works perfectly11:33
fonky123with live 6.1.0-10-amd64 works like a breeze11:34
gnarfacefonky123: note that as of 5.0 (daedalus), they've moved all the non-free drivers and firmware from "non-free" to "non-free-firmware"11:34
gnarfacenon-free still exists, it's just not for drivers and firmware anymore11:34
fonky123oh, neat11:35
brocashelmdebian decision11:35
gnarfaceif your video hardware needs non-free stuff to work, that's probably why it doesn't work after 4.x11:35
fonky123im trying newer versions because silly nvidia drivers like those11:35
fonky123there is a deb non-free-firmware i suppose11:35
fonky123seen that installed but not sure if i was playing with live or not11:36
fonky123let me try that11:36
fonky123brb11:36
fonky123hi all15:07
fonky123if installing lxde from base on beowulf there are dependancy problems15:07
fonky123using only beowulf repo + updates + security15:08
fonky123over and out :)15:08
fonky123oh x6415:08
fonky123install was done from jessie (base only) -> beowulf (base only) dist-upgrade and from there on some desktop15:10
ted-iousSo you started with debian jessie and upgraded it to beowulf?15:12
ted-iousI'm surprised that worked at all.15:12
ted-iousI think I would keep upgrading beowulf to chimaera to daedalus before trying to install anything else.15:13
fsmithredthere was a devuan jessie15:13
fsmithredwhy do you want beowulf?15:14
fonky1232 daedalus it does not compute15:14
fonky123locks you out15:14
gnarfacewhy skip ascii? we already said upstream doesn't support skipping releases during upgrades...15:14
fonky123cant login on tty1-x15:14
fonky123nor in a graphical environment15:14
fonky123even if you slightly offer a daedalus dvd 2 get stuff from it15:15
fonky123fsmithred nlamia drivers15:15
fonky123llvm and some other libs15:16
fsmithrednever heard of it15:16
fonky123never tried with non-latest15:16
fonky123right now im using intel igpu15:17
ted-iousfsmithred: I think nlamia is negative slang for nvidia. :)15:17
fonky123nlamia equates 2 nvidia15:17
fonky123yes15:17
fonky123:)15:17
fonky123its a bit nasty this nvidia official driver15:18
fsmithredok, google told me about a child-eating monster named Lamia, so maybe there's a connection.15:18
fonky123the card is sold as overclocked and the driver still pushes that overclock 19% further15:18
fonky123not sure why but i will have to read some stuff how2 disable overclocking out of the box via driver15:19
ted-iousfonky123: If daedalus doens't work with your nvidia card I think the best way to handle that is to solve the driver problem in daedalus.15:19
fonky123was playing some game over wine15:19
ted-iousNot downgrading 4 or 5 versions.15:19
fonky123installed from jessie, so everything is an upgrade15:19
ted-iousI think you are missing the point. :)15:20
fonky123the thing is i dont really need that card, not playing anything15:20
ted-iousIt's a downgrade compared to running daedalus.15:20
fonky123and it does suck additional 175w when used15:20
fsmithredyou have jessie just a base system or a full desktop system?15:20
fonky123just base15:20
fonky123installed from iso-dvd15:20
fonky123no package manager choices15:20
fonky123no additional software installed from installer15:21
fonky123straight 2 lilo and reboot15:21
fsmithredok, but why jessie?15:21
fonky123because im not missing the point :)15:21
fonky123daedalus15:21
fonky123does not work with intel igpu15:21
fonky123at preamble.gz15:21
fonky123when expected 2 get installer options like language and keyboard i get a fuzzy picture15:22
fsmithredwhat qualifies as igpu? I have several intel boxes here.15:22
fonky123intel sandy brigde 2600 non k integrated in2 cpu15:22
fonky123h67m motherboard brand asrock15:23
ted-iousOh ok this is the same problem from a few days ago.15:23
fonky123using 1.4 hdmi cable and aoc g2778v screen15:23
fonky123yeah :)15:23
fonky123same problem15:23
fonky123but jessie works graphically15:23
fonky123and so does beowulf15:23
fonky123and yes i do have 2 use 3.14 kernel15:24
ted-iousSo the same hardware works fine with jessie and beowulf but not anything newer?15:24
fonky123daedalus live dvd works like a charm15:24
ted-iousOk then there was a regression in a driver or some kernel behavior.15:25
fonky123noapic and nolapic entered via installer on iso-dvd gets me some kernel panic15:25
fonky123no matter what vga=<was entered> i still get screen distortion15:26
fonky123ill just happily sit this one out and wait for lxde-base on beowulf15:26
fonky123on a live :)15:26
ted-iousWhat is this computer supposed to be used for?15:29
fonky123oh, not related but kali live 2023 gets me also some sort of error while trying 2 install inxi15:29
fsmithredfonky123, I might have one of those (lxde beowulf live)15:29
fonky123errors around libc-bin15:29
fsmithredbut if daedalus desktop-live works, then daedalus installed should work.15:30
fonky123nah its fine15:30
fonky123never used refracta15:30
fonky123and its a bit :)15:31
fonky123i do miss sorely textual installer, what debian 6 had15:31
fonky123and previous15:31
ted-iousDevuan server has that.15:31
fonky123oh :)15:32
ted-iousSo does debian server as of the last time I tried.15:32
fonky123then there should be no problems15:32
fonky123will try that out, have tons of empty media15:32
ted-iousThe problem I had with those installers is they won't let you install into an existing or custom formatted filesystem.15:33
ted-iousSo you can't make a good ext4 image without a journal for your vm's running on a ssd host.15:33
fonky123if empty and linux partition provided chown root and chmod 777 should work15:33
fonky123but i never tried, hypothetically15:34
ted-iousShould is not the same as does. :)15:34
fsmithredyou can select existing partitions and choose not to format them with d-i15:34
ted-iousI spend dozens of hours trying every combination I could find.15:34
ted-iousfsmithred: What is d-i?15:34
fsmithreddebian/devuan-installer15:35
fonky123debian installer?15:35
fsmithredyeah15:35
fonky123:)15:35
ted-iousIs that debootstrap?15:35
fsmithredthe one that's in the installer isos15:35
fsmithreddebootstrap is a command-line method to make a base install15:35
fsmithredI don't think d-i uses debootstrap, but I could be wrong.15:36
fonky123ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE=2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller15:36
fonky123let me get some pretier codename15:37
fonky123Intel HD 2000 graphics sollution15:38
fonky123solution*15:39
fonky123oh, i have only 400w psu, need 600w for the nvidia 106015:41
fonky123and that 400w is something like athlon xp had15:41
fonky123PR rating15:41
fonky123and the 6v rail cable is way 2 short15:42
fonky123and i canot get it under the gpu15:42
fonky123so over is the only way15:42
fonky123the 8pin cpu yes please more juice from the psu cable15:43
fonky123those also started popping up the time around athlon xp15:44
fonky123one last rant, also around when those cpu popped, the athlons even a microsoft os was os15:46
fonky123first time i tried xp was 201215:51
fonky123sweet lpr is in the repos :)15:52
fonky123was it not in the installer one could choose role of  pre-selected-packages2_be_installed15:59
fonky123oh, one more do i have to update ca-certificates in order 4 connecting 2 irc.libera.chat:669716:01
fonky123on irssi16:02
fonky123is any desktop-environment besides lxde that does not have pulseaudio dependancy?16:37
fonky123on devuan16:37
golinuxI have never used pulseaudio on Devuan not ever.16:40
fonky123neither did i :)16:40
amarsh04fonky - I'm on Devuan unstable (Ceres) and am running with pipewire and no actual pulseaudio, just some pulseaudio related stuff for those apps that expect it16:41
fonky123but for mate desktop, cinnamon desktop, gnome-desktop, kde prolly aswell the list of 2_be installed is amongst others pulseaudio16:41
fonky123amarsh is the repo deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged ceres main?16:41
fonky123just asking as i would give it a try16:42
fonky123oh, actually no16:43
amarsh04the trick is that you have to set up start-up scripts for pipewire16:43
amarsh04I have: deb http://sledjhamr.org/devuan/merged ceres main contrib non-free non-free-firmware16:43
fonky123the prefered choise for me is alsa16:43
fonky123i really dont want any other audio than alsa16:44
fonky123but you have prolly used and compiled things on your own16:44
amarsh04a bit of discussion here: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=47569#p4756916:46
fonky123i kind of dont like doing it by myself as it is tedious because any "package" needs 2 be archived and baked for safe keeping16:46
fonky123i like it the mcdonalds drive in way :D16:47
* fonky123 pets apt16:47
fonky123if not archived it ends up the way kernel.org did16:47
fonky123besides the mess on a filesystem and paths all the way16:48
amarsh04I use aptitude mainly, plus a little bit of dpkg -i for packages that I have built myself (kernels, c-kermit mainly)16:50
fonky123o(_ _)o16:53
fonky123got any 2.x era kernels?16:54
amarsh04not any more, first installed Linux (Debian) in June 2004 at home16:54
fonky123it was 1998 when i first saw debian16:55
amarsh04had used Debian before at work16:55
fonky123paps was into linux back then, and chose mandriva/mandrake/redhat over debian16:55
fonky123he didnt like debian16:56
fonky123and i instantly loved it16:56
fonky123not 2 be a rebel, but it looked best16:56
fonky123was using windows at that time16:56
fonky123i think it had gnome as default16:56
fonky123it was like kde is more european and gnome more american16:57
fonky123that was his rant16:57
djphkde is ... well, something16:57
fonky123kde is very nice16:57
djphbut probably a tick OT for here16:57
fonky123haha :)16:57
fonky123k3b was a darling16:58
fonky123when hard drives were up to 60GB16:58
fonky123it took half a day, but it was managable16:58
fonky123thanks for all the help and have a nice day all17:01
golinuxThis is getting OT. Please continue on #devuan-offtopic17:02
golinuxOr maybe it has already ended . . .17:03

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