libera/#devuan/ Thursday, 2024-06-13

paculinoI did that from a kubuntu live boot once00:46
paculinoIsn't there another debootstrap-like thing that uses apt for speed now?00:46
paculinoYeah, multistrap.00:47
gnarfacemaybe 2, but i don't remember the names00:47
gnarfacenot that speed was ever a problem with debootstrap for me...00:47
paculinoIt took three or four hours when I did it00:48
paculinoOf course, I have everything on an external HDD connected with USB 200:48
gnarfacei'm usually not using it for more than a base system install of 500-600MB or so directly from a local caching proxy00:51
onefangYou might be thinking of mmdebstrap.  I use it.  Not heard of multistrap before.00:57
onefangAh systemdlete isn't here right now, so I can't tell them that I've been having no problems running my constant VM installs from an apt-cacher-ng proxy runnnig on Chinaera.  The test VMs are installing FrankenDaedalus.00:59
onefangThe two go together.  I'm using mmdebstrap in my script for installing Deadalus into the VMs it creates, and using apt-cacher-ng on the host so I'm not hitting the network each time I install the test OS, which can be several times a day, and can be a full desktop install sometimes.01:01
onefangAlso thanks fsmithred for pointing out xserver-xephyr, sounds like it might be useful to me.01:04
fsmithredonefang, yw,  paculino - see mmdebstrap01:21
fsmithredoh, onefang already mentioned it.01:22
rrqdoes mmdebstrap also use multiple source points (like multistrap)?01:23
fsmithredI don't know. I've only used it a couple times and didn't look into it much.01:24
fsmithredI know it uses apt.01:24
onefangI think it can do what you ask rrq.01:26
onefangFeed it multiple lines for the sources.list file, and it'll create that file in the chroot for you, then tell apt to use it to install the base system.01:27
rrqsounds good. (wasn't me but was what paculino talked about)01:29
onefangQuick look at the description of multistrap, and it sounds very similar to mmdebstrap.01:29
onefangBut right now isn't the time for me to investigate if it's any better.  I'm happy with mmdebstrap this time around.  And I note that multistrap claims as a feature something I had to workaround in mmdebstrap that is a bug for me.  lol01:32
onefangAs for speed, when I'm testing my distro install script over and over, speed is important.01:33
onefangRight now I'm in the "let the result run in a VM for days, and actually use it for things to test and tweak" mode.01:34
onefangFor the record, I used debootstrap for ASCII and Beowulf, switched to mmdebstrap for Chimaera and now Daedalus.  Chimaera is the super desktop I'm doing all of these tests on.01:37
ted-iousSo what are the differences between debootstrap and multistrap and mmdebstrap?01:50
onefangMostly that mmdebstrap actually uses apt and dpkg inside the chroot it's buillding to install the packages.  multistrap seems to do the same.01:54
spine-o-saurushay what is this linux-base package? i uninstalled it and now the system doesnt boot up12:39
rrqdid you see what else got uninstalled?12:49
rrqall linux-image-* packages depend on linux-base12:50
spine-o-saurusjust that one only12:52
spine-o-saurushad to chroot and install that again now it boots back into os12:53
rrqso it did boot up?12:55
spine-o-saurusya12:56
rrqand you still have a linux-image-xxx installed?12:57
gordonDrogonNot a Devuan specific, but just to check: I want to hibernate laptop but it looks like it needs a swap PARTITION not swap file. Default swap partition as 1GB, so need to resize.12:57
spine-o-saurusya12:57
gordonDrogonthere are guides online for using a swap file, but they all assume a systemd system - e.g. Devian..12:58
rrqspine-o-saurus: doesn't make sense, but whatever.. things work now again  I suppose12:58
gordonDrogonhibernate does work - but only for a short time after boot - after that I guess too much ram (8GB) gets used for the swap partition.12:58
gordonDrogonso before I try to resize stuff - if anynoe knows different I'd appreciate it ...12:59
CueXXIIIshould work with devuan, too, just give resume=/path/to/swapfile and make sure it is mounted via fstab12:59
CueXXIIIand you *need* an initrd mounting the swapfile12:59
* gordonDrogon ponders12:59
CueXXIIInot mounting, swapon it13:00
gordonDrogonaye.13:00
gordonDrogonI guess I've nothing to lose at this point - laptop is relatively newly installed.13:00
gordonDrogonwell... the first part of https://wiki.debian.org/Hibernation/Hibernate_Without_Swap_Partition seems to work...13:11
cousin_luigiHow can I tell if an app or a module is multithreaded?14:08
cousin_luigihtop shows only one of the cores maxing out and it's a slow machine14:08
spine-o-sauruscheck ps14:34
avir327cousin_luigi, as you mention htop: it provides keyboard shortcuts to toggle the visibility of user (H) and kernel (K) threads14:41
cousin_luigiRight14:42
cousin_luigiSo, the problem is with ksoftirqd. I see 4 threads but only one at the time appears to max out, which might affect performance. Would irqbalance help?14:43
avir327Wouldn't this depend of the multithreading ability of the app/module in your original question?15:38
cousin_luigiavir327: I wish I knew more. I'm not sure if this depends form the pppoe module or the nic driver itself16:19
cousin_luigiOr something else inbetween16:19
AlexLikeRockgood morning DEVUAN guys17:13
AlexLikeRockow its going  DAEDALUS ?17:14
blizzowmy /etc/apt/sources.list is this line:17:35
blizzowdeb http://us.deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main contrib non-free non-free-firmware17:35
blizzowI haven't seen a package update in months. Only additional repos like mozilla, signal, spotify, brave, seem to be updating.17:36
Xenguyblizzow, See devuan.org/os/packages17:43
XenguyYou may need to add some additional lines17:44
AlexLikeRockblizzow,  maybe you are allready UPDATE17:50
AlexLikeRockblizzow,  could you paste your /etc/apt/sources.list  to https://pastebin.mozilla.org17:52
golinuxHello AlexLikeRock! I seem to keep missing you!!17:55
golinuxAlways nice to see you here . . .17:56
AlexLikeRockjejeje, thsnks  so much!  ^_^18:02
AlexLikeRockyou make me blush18:03
AlexLikeRockyou make me blush ^_^18:03
blizzowAlexLikeRock, my entire sources.list is the one line above. I think I figured it out. removing contrib and using just deb.devuan.org instead of us.deb.devuan.org seems to have gotten me to a place where I see lots of updates.19:06
* Xenguy shrugs...19:43

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