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00:27.53lfhrwp: the problem is that nothing at all can boot from a livemedia when the disk is plugged in (figuring out the disk was the problem was one of the issues). I was planning to wipe it and use something (debootstrap was suggested) to install from another computer, then plug it in, as others had previously recommended.
00:28.28lfhAnyone's allowed to see anything as a personal attack all they want, of course. Being offended over everything is very fashionable these days.
00:28.50ShorTieyou just need to wipe it i'd guess
00:33.38lfhfollowing rwp's suggestions I'll try doing SMART tests first, but that's the plan. Fingers crossed.
00:33.43fsmithredlfh, maybe the hd-media is what you need. Put these files on hard drive to install to hard drive: https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dists/beowulf/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/
00:33.49fsmithredyeah, test first
00:34.06lfhthanks
00:34.15fsmithredcheck debian docs for how to use hd-media. I don't recall the details.
00:34.26lfhwill do
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00:39.24neutralcan someone help me with the notification-daemon?
00:57.45wizard1smart short test completed without any failure and the recorded data shows no logged errors as well. Time for full tests, then wipe and pray. Hopefully hd-media + debootstrap will do the thing.
00:58.35fsmithredI think the hd-media runs an installer
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10:48.56VLetrmxhi, is my best option for getting sound in firefox with ALSA rather than pulseaudio compiling ff with --enable-alsa? I'm asking in case there's some devuan specific thing already provided that I'm not aware of
10:52.04VLetrmxah ignore me, I think you already compiled it with ALSA support, cool
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13:43.23beagleburtG'day from New Zealand folk! I am doing a fresh install of Beowulf 3.1.0 on a Lenovo B-40 Laptop which has a SSD 860 EVO SATA III 2.5 inch 250 GB MZ-76E250BW. I understand that I need to leave 10% of the SSD Unallocated, but I am wondering if it matters WHERE? End? Middle?..???
13:43.41buZzbeagleburt: you dont need to leave 10% of the ssd unallocated
13:43.55buZzbeagleburt: tell whoever told you that to learn from newer sources ;)
13:44.19buZzssd's already manage -all- that internally without a user needing to do anything
13:44.52lts-AFAIK it is still a good idea to leave some free space within the filesystem, but you can surely allocate all disk for the filesystem just fine
13:45.23lts-(Though I usually cut it a bit short, in case I want to RAID it later with a disk that may be slightly smaller)
13:45.24buZza 250GB SSD will already be 300-350GB of flash
13:45.38buZzit will move around the '250GB FS' you made on it a lot , just to keep functional
13:45.55buZzif a 250GB SSD was actually 250GB , it would have dataloss within a month
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13:46.52buZzwatch this talk ; https://hackaday.com/2013/12/29/hacking-sd-card-flash-memory-controllers/
13:46.57beagleburtbuZz, It is not a very new SSD...?
13:46.59buZzand never trust any flash storage ever again
13:47.04buZzbeagleburt: yes, it is
13:48.33beagleburtbuZz, Hmmm? I am sure that I've had it for quite a while ...1-2 years?
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13:54.23buZzbeagleburt: the 'you must keep free space' on ssd's mantra applies to WAY older ssds
13:54.45buZzever since ~2000 SSD firmwares handle all that themselves
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14:02.12beagleburtbuZz, Oh? I did not realise that...thank you for updating me. :-)
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17:34.17Akuliafter installing another linux distro for dual-boot, devuan boots about 30sec slower than before, it seems to be stuck at something before init starts
17:35.01Akulireplacing 'quiet' with 'text' in the linux line of grub, i get this: (sorry about picture of screen) https://i.imgur.com/FMzFejj.jpg
17:38.58rwpHmm...  That does look odd.  I wonder why?
17:39.53rwpI see that /dev/sdb is removable storage.  Same result without it plugged in?  That's the only idea I have though.
17:40.17Akuliwhere do you see sdb?
17:40.39rwpNine lines up from the bottom of your photo of the boot.
17:40.54Akulihm
17:41.32Akulii wonder what that is :D i don't have usb stick plugged in
17:41.38Akuliand sdb doesn't show up in lsblk
17:41.40rwp"If only I had time..." then I would like to pick apart the initramfs start scripts and understand them in detail.  It would be useful.
17:43.05rwpFor me there is always a pause at LVM start (waiting for lvmetad [lv meta d]) which is annoying.  But happens with all Linux based distros.
17:43.10Akulithis might have something to do with the other distro using lvm
17:43.21Akuliafaik i didn't use lvm when installing devuan
17:44.01rwpHmm...  Regarding my comment...  I always see it saying that it is waiting to contact the lvmetad.  I don't see how the other distro using LVM would affect this one.
17:45.49rwpIs your photo the output with the "debug" kernel command line option?  Did it write a log to /run/initramfs/initramfs.debug ??
17:46.24Akulithe only thing i changed from whatever is default in devuan was replacing "quiet" with "text" in grub
17:46.44Akulithere are two files in /run/initrams.fs, fsck.log and fsck-root
17:47.10Akuliin /run/initramfs/, that is
17:47.43rwpTry adding "debug" to the kernel boot line and then booting and seeing if some clue shows up in the initramfs.debug file.  https://wiki.debian.org/InitramfsDebug#Saving_debug_information
17:48.25rwpAlso this reference suggests exactly what I would suggest: https://askubuntu.com/questions/469246/how-to-debug-initramfs-scripts
17:48.54Akulido i add it to the same grub line as "text" or "quiet"?
17:49.15Akulithe line that says "linux ..."
17:49.25rwpYes.  In place of quiet would be good.  You can do that as a one time on-the-fly thing by booting and editing the grub boot line.
17:49.55rwpIf at the GRUB boot count down screen you hit a key the count down stops.
17:50.31rwpThen you can use the up and down arrows to position on the entry you want to use.  Then 'e' to edit that entry.  Change it as desired.
17:50.34Akuliright, i already did that for "text" parameter
17:50.48rwpThen I think it says at the bottom the funky to use to boot that entry.  C-x???  I don't remember off the top of my head.
17:50.54Akuliyeah
17:51.01Akuliswitching to different computer now
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17:54.53rwpTo make permanent changes of course one can edit the /etc/default/grub file and then run update-grub to have it rebuild the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file for a persistent change.
17:55.35rwpI always get rid of "splash" because it annoys me that people turn these into black boxes.  If something is failing at boot I want to know about it and fix it!
17:56.01Akulicontent of initramfs.debug https://termbin.com/ao1n
17:56.30Akuliunfortunately no output between the repeating lines
17:58.11rwpAnd it is in there that the pause is happening?
17:58.39Akuliyes, it spends most of the time repeating those lines
17:58.42rwpIn that case I would unpack the initramfs, review the scripts, insert debug, and work the problem that way.
18:00.04Akulihm
18:00.30Akulii deleted my swap partition while i installed the other distro
18:00.41Akulii hadn't actually used it for a long time, i just commented it out in devuan fstab
18:00.44rwpHowever as I recall the right command to pack up an initramfs is "find . -print | cpio -R 0:0 -o -H newc | gzip > foo-initrd.gz" but my note says 2012 so that may have changed since then.
18:00.54Akuli:D
18:01.12Akulimy /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume contains the uuid of what used to be the swap partition
18:01.17Akuliand it no longer exists
18:01.19rwpCommenting out a swap partition in /etc/fstab should be okay as far as that goes.
18:01.28rwpOh!
18:01.37rwpYes.  That could be it.
18:01.49Akulii need to be afk for 30min or something like that, i'll continue when i'm back
18:02.16rwpTTYL!  But I think your swap resume finding is very likely on the trail!
18:02.35rwpI had completely forgotten about that reference to swap for suspend and resume operation.
18:03.22rwpBut for various reasons I think it is important and useful to have at least some amount of non-swapfile swap configured.
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18:33.36Akulii disabled swap because oom handling becomes much better
18:34.03Akuliinstead of freezing the world, the memory allocation will fail and the program that tried to allocate a huge amount of memory will crash
18:38.23rwpBut, but, but...  That's not actually how Linux memory overcommit works.
18:39.11Akuli:)
18:39.38Akuliit works in practice, at least in python programs
18:39.50Akulithe most common cause for my system freezing used to be me writing a stupid python program
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18:40.34rwpWell...  I have no time to debate it in #devuan-offtopic at the moment but maybe later. :-)
18:40.50Akuli:)
18:41.58Akulinow it boots faster :D i set RESUME=none in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume and then ran update-initramfs -u
18:41.59Akulithanks!
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20:02.11unixbsdI managed to cure ubuntu, from systemd, and I made a devuan live also. here an example: "https://gitlab.com/openbsd98324/linux-ubuntu-groovy-standard/-/archive/master/linux-ubuntu-groovy-standard-master.zip"
20:02.27unixbsdI noticed that ubuntu with systemd, actually the systemd is such a pain
20:02.40unixbsdsystemd makes sure that you can never get wifi working.
20:03.10unixbsdI was happy to use devuan, but still devuan s**cks for wifi/wireless like all the linux areas.
20:03.26unixbsdBSD rocks with wifi and networking x1000 times better than Linux.
20:03.55unixbsdSystemd and Linux managed to contribute to make Linux even worst - could it be possible? yep, they managed.
20:06.10unixbsddevuan managed with rose and all networking to have 3 to 10 times a single wpa connection, man, devuan is a real danger for routers.
20:10.28unixbsdcd /join #ubuntu
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20:45.00sadsnorkIs it golinux_ that manages the dev1galaxy forums?  If it is of any concern, the time on the host running the forums seems to be about 7 minutes fast.  Just sayin'. :-)
20:46.56golinuxsadsnork: rrq handles the mysteries of the forum's backend.
20:48.01sadsnorkAwesome, thanks for highlighting him/her for me golinux!
20:48.21golinuxHe's just waking up about now . . .
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23:26.37masonsadsnork: I just corrected time on the forum server. Thank you for noting it.
23:27.26sadsnorkThanks mason! :-)
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23:59.30Wafficushey there is Devuan capable of installing Flatpaks?
23:59.35Wafficusdidn't know if this was systemd dependent
23:59.57WafficusI see it present in 'apt' on Devuan, but wanted to confirm if this was ok to install

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