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04:01.00donut-assassinHello guys!
04:02.06donut-assassinI have an old thinkpad with Devuan installed on it, I dropped it while running, the disk is OK, but now has 5 bad sectors, and has lost the eudev program.
04:03.40donut-assassinon bootup it boot sto runlevel 2. Enters Slim login manager, but (probably since [e]udev is missing) now no longer detects keyboard. On REISUB i can drop into a root shell.
04:05.31donut-assassin..however it appears the hard-drive is locked as read-only, since eudev is missing, I can no longer detect plugged in USB's for backup. I have a 30GIG virtual image I need to recover, the disk is fully-encrypted with LVM. What other options do I have, or can I repair the system by booting in with a Devuan USB live-installer?
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04:17.52fluffywolfI'm not familiar with encrypted lvm, so I don't know how hard it is to decrypt without booting it.  you could try booting the drive in something that could have a second non-usb drive installed and copy it there.
04:20.28fluffywolfbut, any drive that now has 5 bad sectors, might be seconds away from being a brick.  imaging it would be the first thing I'd do.  but, as I said, I know nothing about encryption, so I don't know if that'd work.
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04:34.12donut-assassinfuffywolf: thank you!
04:39.56fluffywolfglad to help, although I'm not sure I did.  :)
04:40.00fluffywolfbbl, bedtime
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04:49.44donut-assassingoodnight :)
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07:23.57gnarfacewith kde maybe not...
07:24.37gnarfacedid you try just purging the konqueror package?
07:25.20gnarfaceyou could try disabling recommends during upgrades.
07:25.41gnarfacethat'll cut down on extra stuff anyway, maybe not kde specific
07:27.46deldenzenis there any way to uninstall all the packages which were recommended?
07:29.41gnarfacehmm, there should be but i forget exactly
07:30.06gnarfaceusually what i do is directly remove one of the ones i see it install, then run "apt-get --purge autoremove" on what's left over
07:30.11gnarfacesometimes i'll have to repeat that a couple times
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07:35.00gnarfacewhen you upgrade, upgrade like this to keep it lean: apt-get update && apt-get --no-install-recommends upgrade
07:35.20gnarfaceyou can add it to some config file to make it permanent but i forget the details on that too
07:35.25gnarfaceit's in the man page somewhere i think
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10:24.10walexall those settings are in '/etc/apt/apt.conf' or '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*.conf'
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17:17.14Xenguyapt-get update && apt-get upgrade -s gave this output:
17:17.17Xenguyhttps://paste.debian.net/hidden/eb347aad/
17:17.44Xenguy^^ Quite a bunch of software to be updated.  This is on Beowulf.
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17:18.06XenguyIs anyone seeing similar upgrades?
17:18.56fsmithred58 packages today
17:19.08fsmithredand I just did it a few days ago
17:19.35XenguyThanks fsmithred, just checking to make sure
17:19.38fsmithredand another new kernel
17:19.41onefangSimiliar to what I got yesterday.  Most of it is bits of Libre Office.
17:19.52Xenguyfsmithred, yep, here too
17:19.56Xenguyonefang, yeah
17:19.57fsmithredmy uptime was only 18 days, and I upgraded from -14 to -16
17:20.12golinuxLibre Office is a hog
17:20.27fsmithredso there was -15 in there. -14 was from Jan 30
17:20.31onefangMono is much worse.  lol
17:20.49fsmithredwelcome to kernel of the month club
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17:48.51Xenguygolinux, While I think of it, I just ran across this image manipulation program called 'krita' yesterday.  Installing it now to have a look.  Might be a useful compliment to GIMP.
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17:53.46Xenguy"As you learn about Krita, keep in mind that it is not intended as a replacement for Photoshop. This means that the other programs may have more features than Krita for image manipulation tasks, such as stitching together photos, while Krita’s tools are most relevant to digital painting, concept art, illustration, and texturing. This fact accounts for a great deal of Krita’s design."
18:26.07golinuxXenguy: Thanks.  I'll check it out.
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21:14.48melodiehi
21:15.04melodiea lady handed me a laptop Asus
21:15.26melodieI looked into the bios : the machine date is 2002!
21:16.09melodieI changed the cmos battery, changed the RAM for PC 2700 1GBx2 and added a 32GB PATA SSD
21:16.33melodiesince yesterday I tried more than half a dozen 32bits distros presented as light, on the web
21:16.44melodietried them in virtualbox
21:17.23melodiealso I tried some light antiX spinoffs too but could not even start youtube and listen to music (lags too much).
21:17.44melodiefinally I installed Devuan which brings much more joy in that oldie!
21:19.01melodieI meet with a little annoyance, I hope someone can help me with that : Synaptic won't start, it is setup to use pkexec and pkexec works better with systemd. So I don't want to add systemd so I tried the antiX trick : "su-to-root -X -c synaptic"
21:19.07melodiethat works, however
21:19.26melodiewhat is funny, it triggers the Terminal to prompt me for the password.
21:19.47melodieany idea how I could get a regular x window to prompt for the password?
21:20.11melodieI have tried several options, but no luck yet
21:24.47rrqour mxlinux friends have a short forum thread on this: https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=558705
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21:29.15melodierrq I look thanks!
21:31.43fsmithredmelodie, pkexec should work correctly in devuan. Is policykit-1-gnome installed?
21:31.56melodiefsmithred let me check
21:32.57fsmithredare you keeping this for yourself or returning it to the original user?
21:33.04melodiefsmithred yes it is, version 0.105-7
21:33.23melodieneither nor, it's for another end user, why?
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21:34.45melodieI already have met with some kind of trouble around pkexec lately, I had heard there was a bug in some versions of policykit gnome
21:35.22melodieI can find a turn around, but I'd rather ask for advice this time
21:38.03fsmithredI was thinking maybe you would do better to use command line instead of synaptic
21:38.38fsmithredbut that depends on the user
21:38.50melodieI do use command line, a lot, however I am trying to get the linux boxes I hand over to end users as graphical as possible
21:39.16melodieso typing a root password in a terminal feels not right
21:39.20fsmithredI just 'su' and then run graphical apps
21:39.29fsmithredbut I messed with root's path to get that to work
21:39.43fsmithredand yes, I have to type root's password
21:39.54fsmithredmight work better with sudo, but I don't use that much
21:39.54melodiethis is what I have done to try to get as close as possible to what is desirable:
21:40.05melodieneither su not sudo
21:40.22melodiethese are potentiel sources of trouble and security issues
21:40.29melodieI have installed menu
21:40.46melodiewhich brought in the "su-to-root" command as the one antiX uses
21:41.02melodieI have used the exact same command line as them in the synaptic.desktop file:
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21:41.13melodieExec=su-to-root -X -c synaptic
21:41.23melodieman su-to-root says the same
21:42.02melodiebut now when I start synaptic from the menus it prompts a terminal instead of prompting a graphical window, which is a bit strange
21:42.14melodieit should trigger a window
21:42.18fsmithredwhat window?
21:42.20melodieI mean a X window
21:42.30fsmithredare you thinking of gksu window?
21:42.47melodiefsmithred any window, gksu does not exist anymore right?
21:42.55fsmithredright
21:43.01fsmithredpkexec has replaced it
21:43.13melodiebut if thers is no systemd maybe.. I don't know, gksu still exists in antiX
21:43.29melodiemaybe I try to install gksu from antiX ? :D
21:43.36fsmithredprobably an old version forward-ported
21:43.41fsmithredyou could try
21:43.52fsmithreduse dpkg, not apt
21:43.53melodieok why not
21:44.01melodieyes, sure
21:44.10melodieI'll have to dpkg-repack first
21:44.17fsmithredwhy?
21:44.21melodieI have a antiX with Openbox installed in the same machine
21:44.40melodieto get a gksu package to install
21:45.19melodieor maybe I boot one in vbox on my regular machine
21:45.19fsmithredI mean what needs to be changed in the package?
21:45.39melodieI don't understand why you are asking htis
21:45.40melodiethis
21:46.01fsmithredmaybe I don't understand what dkpg-repack does
21:46.11melodieit seems if I don't get a gui window to prompt for password in Devuan is because there is neither gksu nor systemd
21:46.27melodiedpkg-repack rebuilds a package from an installed program
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21:46.47fsmithredyeah, thanks. I just read that and it makes sense now.
21:46.48melodieit makes it rise again from it's ashes! Like the phenix!
21:47.29fsmithredare you saing menu only creates a window for the password if systemd is installed?
21:47.40melodieor if gksu is installed
21:47.50melodiethe window looks a bit different for both
21:48.18melodieone is simple, the other one, when having systemd informs of what policykit rule it is using
21:49.19sgageJust for a data point, pkexec works fine for me on all Devuan versions from
21:49.25melodieanother solution would be to tweak the rule I tried, but I still can't get it to prompt for a password, when using that rule I just start it with privileges without password
21:49.34melodiesgage ok
21:49.35sgageascii to ceres.
21:50.05melodiesgage how does synaptic start in your install?
21:50.25melodieor other gui admin tools such as "Users and Groups" ?
21:50.53melodieceres : is a terminal admin tool?
21:51.03fsmithredhere they start from the apps menu. A pkexec window comes up for the password.
21:51.18melodiefsmithred ook
21:51.25fsmithredor from terminal, 'synaptic-pkexec' gives me the same
21:51.40melodiefsmithred from a root terminal, isn't it so?
21:51.50fsmithredI just installed and tried menu, and it does the same as for you - a terminal comes up for the password.
21:52.04fsmithredno, synaptic-pkexec is run as unpriv user
21:52.06fsmithrednot root
21:52.10melodieaha
21:52.20fsmithredthe graphical pkexec window asks for root pass
21:53.00fsmithredI like terminals and think there's nothing wrong with a terminal asking for root password.
21:53.07melodiewhen I tried the regular way I had a terminal window prompting for a password, and asking with which users I should use
21:53.29fsmithredtried exactly what?
21:53.48melodiestarted normally from menus
21:54.11melodiewithout tweaking the synaptic.desktop file
21:54.18melodiewithout menu installed
21:54.20sgagemelodie, 'Exec=synaptic-pkexec' in the .desktop file
21:54.34melodiesgage I know I have commented it to keep it
21:54.52melodiein fact
21:55.05melodiewhen starting from menus it would not do anything
21:55.16fsmithredis elogind installed?
21:55.17melodieso I tried invoking as user
21:55.23melodiefsmithred I check
21:55.39fsmithredand libpam-elogind
21:56.01fsmithredand maybe a display-manager (e.g. lightdm)
21:56.16melodieyes, and slim is the default dm I think
21:56.28melodieyes, it's slim
21:56.39melodiewould it be better to install lightdm?
21:56.44fsmithredyeah, and pkexec should work with that
21:56.46fsmithredno
21:56.51melodie?
21:57.01fsmithredyou did a full desktop install from install iso?
21:57.22melodieyes, the one with Xfce4
21:57.31fsmithredthen it should work
21:57.40fsmithredi.e. starting synaptic from the menu should work
21:57.42melodielet me check the list of removals
21:59.07sgageoff to a zoom meeting. good luck melodie.
22:01.19melodiethks sgage
22:02.11melodieis there a forum of some kind dedicated to Devuan?
22:07.30fsmithreddev1galaxy.org
22:07.34fsmithredmelodie, ^^^
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22:10.04melodieyes?
22:10.39melodiethanks fsmithred
22:10.46melodieI have bookmarked it
22:10.47fsmithredyw
22:10.50melodie:)
22:10.52fsmithredsee you there
22:10.56melodiesure
22:11.18fsmithredhow much did you remove?
22:11.19melodieI also have a few more questions about what is the thing related to users when installing
22:11.24melodielots
22:11.28fsmithreddon't paste a lot of lines here
22:11.32melodielet me show you on a pastebin
22:11.36fsmithredok
22:11.37melodiedon't worry
22:11.42fsmithredor paste.debian.net
22:11.49fsmithred(no javascript there)
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22:12.30melodiehttp://pastebin.fr/89216
22:12.55melodiefsmithred I am scrutinizing in it to reinstall a few packages which might help
22:13.39fsmithredme too
22:14.02fsmithredwas this an upgrade from ascii?
22:15.10melodiewhat is ascii ?
22:16.45melodieso far I reinstalled gir1.2-polkit-1.0 packagekit packagekit-tools and their depends
22:19.27fsmithredascii=stretch (oldstable)
22:20.19melodieno I downloaded the ISO yesterday
22:20.20fsmithredmaybe you need to keep some pinentry stuff
22:20.36melodiethere is pinentry-gnome installed
22:20.40fsmithredoh, ok
22:20.47melodieand all of them are presented as x windows for gpg
22:20.58fsmithredso you know that's working
22:21.24melodieno i don't, I haven't used any gpg passphrase in that machine
22:21.48melodieI'll reboot it, I haven't, since the update, and I just reinstalled a few packages
22:21.56melodielet me see how it goes after reboot
22:21.58fsmithredok
22:22.08fsmithredI couldn't find anyting obvious
22:22.20melodieneither did I
22:22.36melodiehow old is yesterday's iso? (the one with Xfce4)
22:22.45fsmithred3.1.1?
22:22.49fsmithredfew days old
22:23.05melodieso it might have some bugs
22:23.14melodieI'll test it again in Virtualbox
22:23.16fsmithredwhat bugs?
22:23.37fsmithredyou used a mirror during the install?
22:23.44melodieI have provided a user name and password at the end of the install
22:24.09melodieand it has created a user "devuan" associated with my user name, but no user of the name I gave
22:24.14fsmithreddid you install from the desktop-live iso?
22:24.21melodieno /home/something, just /home/devuan
22:24.29melodielet me check the name of the ISO
22:24.32fsmithredyou did
22:24.40fsmithredunless you chose the name devuan
22:24.48melodiedevuan_beowulf_3.1.1_i386_desktop-live.iso
22:25.24melodiealso the way things are presented for the names and users lacks clarity
22:25.31melodieit is confusing
22:26.21melodieI will just replay the install in Virtualbox and ask questions at the forum from the Virtualbox experience
22:26.34fsmithredcheck the install guide, too
22:26.38fsmithredI'll get the link
22:26.51fsmithredoh, I think it's on the desktop in the live iso, too
22:27.45melodienow I would like to solve this thing around rights and permissions, for the "Users and Groups" tool as well, as I have installed gnome-system-tools and the users tool does not provide me with a choice of providing a password
22:27.53fsmithredhttps://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/install-guides/beowulf/live-gui
22:28.06melodiejust had an idea : I'll check if gnome-keyring is installed
22:28.22fsmithredalso, 'id devuan'
22:28.27melodiethank you
22:28.30melodieyes?
22:28.51fsmithredhow many users are there and what are their uid:gid and groups?
22:29.02fsmithredsounds like something got messed up in the install
22:29.19melodieyes, possible
22:29.46melodiethere is "root" and there is "devuan" who also calls himself by the user name I provided at the end of the install
22:30.00fsmithredok, that does not make sense to me
22:30.07melodiethis is why I'll check the doc you just gave me, and redo the install in virtualbox tomorrow
22:30.18fsmithredls /home
22:30.27fsmithredhow many user directories are there?
22:30.28melodiefsmithred I confess it doesn't for me either
22:30.36melodieone : /home/devuan
22:30.40fsmithredid devuan
22:30.46melodie1000
22:30.47fsmithredshould be 1000
22:30.51melodieit is
22:31.01fsmithredso where is this other name you're talking about
22:31.03fsmithred?
22:31.31fsmithredis that just the user's "Real name"?
22:31.37melodieat the end of the install I have never told it to name the user devuan I thought I would name the machine devuan, not the user
22:31.59fsmithredthe hostname is devuan, the user name is devuan and the user password is devuan.
22:32.00melodiethe other user is a generic one I use a lot
22:32.09fsmithredthe installer asks if you want to chage all of those
22:32.22melodieI will double check tomorrow
22:32.25fsmithredyeah, but does that other user exist?
22:32.29melodieand fix it in the install
22:32.34melodienot it doesn't
22:32.35fsmithredgrep otheruser /etc/passwd
22:33.01fsmithredyeah, reinstall can take 10 minutes
22:33.38melodiefsmithred no, it's an old machine, with a pata ssd
22:33.53melodiewhere I have already done a lot of writings
22:34.02melodiein /etc/password :
22:34.11melodielet's say the user is me: melodie
22:34.53melodiedevuan:x:1000:1000:melodie,,,:/home/devuan:/bin/bash
22:35.02melodieI don't understand :-(
22:35.38fsmithredyou could drop to console, login as root, kill the xsession, deluser melodie, rm -r /home/devuan
22:35.44fsmithredand then adduser melodie
22:36.05fsmithredassuming there's no user named devuan in /etc/passwd
22:36.14fsmithredor group devuan in /etc/group
22:36.43fsmithredoh
22:36.45melodie<PROTECTED>
22:36.50fsmithreduser is devuan group is melodie
22:36.51fsmithredyeah
22:36.56fsmithredI read it wrong the first time
22:36.59melodievery strange
22:37.15fsmithreddeluser devuan, delgroup melodie, rm -r /home/devuan, adduser melodie
22:37.16melodieok fsmithred I'll see you on the forum
22:37.35melodiewhat is better, deluser or userdel ?
22:37.50fsmithreddeluser is a debian script, userdel is the underlying command
22:38.00fsmithreddeluser and adduser are easier
22:38.07fsmithredthey do more
22:38.10melodieok
22:38.28fsmithredyou can modify the behavior in /etc/adduser.conf
22:39.15fsmithredif you can save /var/log/refractainstaller.log from this installation, I'd like to see it.
22:39.53fsmithredyou can email me through the forum
22:40.24crashoverridegosh, UEFI is so terribad...
22:41.32fsmithredit would be less bad if motherboard manufacturers stuck to the specs
22:41.57fsmithredtime for food
22:42.01melodieuefi are a pain
22:42.08fsmithredtell me about it
22:42.10fsmithredlol
22:42.12melodieyes
22:42.22fsmithredsee you later
22:42.28melodiecheers
22:45.43melodiefsmithred new user : starting synaptic now triggers a window!
22:45.49melodiea gui window!
22:45.53melodieI'm happy!
22:46.29melodieI bet the packagekit packages reinstalls have done the trick
22:46.38melodienext on to the other little issues
22:50.54crashoverridemelodie: are you melodie from #gandi?
22:51.56melodiehi crashoverride I am one of their clients
22:52.42crashoverridenah I meant on the IRC channel; but yes, then, I suppose that answers my question :P
22:52.48crashoverrideand so, bonsoir :)
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22:56.00melodiebonsoir crashoverride :)
22:58.05melodiethis Devuan distro is incredible
22:58.56melodieI am playing the stream of a Swiss radio in mpv, by just dropping the URL into it, it does not lag or anyting : the machine is Asus 4000 A4D : 18 years old
22:59.11melodiewith cpu AMD 3000+ 32bits 1.8Ghz
22:59.36melodieand RAM (added by myself) PC 2700 333Mhz 2x1 GB
22:59.59melodiethe hard drive replaced with a 32GB PATA SSD Kingston
23:00.09melodiethat's a challenge! \o/
23:00.41melodiegoing to make pancakes to celebrate now ^^
23:08.09specingwhy would playing music lag?
23:09.42melodiespecing on youtube in a web browser in a 18 years old laptop?
23:10.01specing> web browser
23:10.04specingthere's your problem #1
23:10.11specingand youtube is #2
23:10.35melodieon youtube, in epiphany-browser the music does not lag, only the video
23:10.43melodiethis can be turned around by dl the video
23:11.15melodiewhat light audio reader is there for Devuan? I looked for deadbeef but it's not in the repos
23:11.15crashoverridemelodie: devuan is essentially what linux distros should be.
23:11.31melodienor xmms legacy.
23:11.38melodiecrashoverride agreed
23:11.38crashoverridemelodie: but people don't value FOSS, and there are good reasons for that: free means doomed, eventually.
23:11.52melodiedoomed how?
23:12.01crashoverridethere's no income to power the development.
23:12.08crashoverrideso it always starts with someone skilled
23:12.17crashoverrideand eventually they need money or to stop
23:12.17golinuxAppropriated and monetized you mean
23:12.23melodieI have pushed my clients into linux boxes for years and even more the last 3 years, they won't go back to windows unless forced
23:12.25crashoverridemainly, because they got stuff to pay on their end.
23:12.27crashoverrideright?
23:12.31crashoverrideand so, they gotta stop.
23:12.38crashoverrideand who can afford to continue? students.
23:12.49melodiecrashoverride it's mostly true
23:12.51crashoverrideFOSS is essentially software development from interns as a service.
23:13.18crashoverride(if you ignore the few diehards like fsmithred here)
23:13.47crashoverridegosh, I'm never gonna be able to boot that encrypted stuff...
23:14.28crashoverrideit's not devuan, it's a rescue system from another distro (alpine), but if anyon knows how to manually boot into an encrypted lvm volume...
23:14.31crashoverrideI'm really interested. :)
23:14.54crashoverrideor, simply, how to switch grub to debug, because it really crashes
23:17.43crashoverridedaaaamnit
23:18.46melodiedo you have your password ?
23:19.07melodieif the answer is yes, then do you have the right keyboard layout?
23:19.18crashoverrideit really hangs.
23:19.23crashoverridelike, I don't even get to the passphrase.
23:19.32crashoverrideI have `(grub)> boot`
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23:19.35melodiehave you passed a smart test on the drive?
23:19.38crashoverrideand that's the last thing on the screen.
23:19.44crashoverrideyeah it's all good.
23:19.53crashoverrideshould do more than that anyway, even with a bad drive.
23:20.26melodietry booting my bento openbox version, and when prompted the password provide it. https://downloads.linuxvillage.org
23:20.47melodiethe polkit authorization is meant to ease access to hard drive volumes
23:21.06melodiesame with gvfs and gvfs-backends installed
23:21.13melodiethe file manager is pcmanfm
23:21.23crashoverrideit's not possible, that's a VM, I can change a few parameters, but not use a custom iso right up
23:22.09melodiewhy can't you start an iso in another vm you setup as slave or whatever and mount the other vm?
23:22.47crashoverrideas slave?
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23:27.29fsmithredcrashoverride, yes I know how to mount encrypted lvm
23:28.28fsmithredyou can boot an iso with the virtual hard disk attached?
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23:30.09crashoverrideyeah I can
23:30.10crashoverrideone sec'
23:30.54crashoverrideso it kinda worked out, but it says "booting in blind mode" and I have literally no idea why.
23:31.03crashoverrideI inserted the right modules.
23:31.07crashoverridealso, hangs, again v_v
23:31.16crashoverridegotta reboot I guess.
23:31.17fsmithredin qemu or something else?
23:31.23crashoverridesmartos, bhyve
23:31.35fsmithred?
23:31.47crashoverrideillumos
23:31.54melodielol
23:32.00crashoverridewhy lol?
23:32.02melodiegreat!
23:32.21crashoverridebut I mean I can boot things on it.
23:32.25melodiebecause it's so rare to hear about it I didn't even know other people still knew it existed
23:32.27crashoverridemy problem is grub with a linux. :)
23:32.35crashoverrideah?
23:32.40crashoverridewell, I mean, I work with BSD a lot, too
23:33.06melodieisn't BSD and family supposed to have their own bootloader that superseeds all others?
23:33.19melodieI mean that are *the* master of the game?
23:33.49crashoverridewell, it's a linux VM
23:33.50crashoverrideso it's not BSD.
23:33.53fsmithredcryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdxY <label>
23:34.00crashoverridefsmithred: I don't even get there...
23:34.06fsmithredvgdisplay, lvdisplay to get names
23:34.08crashoverrideI can totally mount it from the rescue drive...
23:34.16fsmithredyeah, but I need to return to the kitchen
23:34.20crashoverrideI know about vgscan and vgchange -a y
23:34.23fsmithredok, cool
23:34.28crashoverrideI used that a lot
23:34.33crashoverridebut right now, my problem is:
23:34.50crashoverrideI boot the VM, I get a screen... grub menu... I can drop to the shell or anything
23:34.53crashoverrideand then, nothing
23:34.55melodieexcuse me : what small audio reader is there for Devuan? Small with a light footprint?
23:34.57crashoverrideand it hangs.
23:35.06crashoverridempg321?
23:35.16crashoverridethere's also mpg123
23:35.21crashoverridemplayer, I guess.
23:35.23fsmithredmoc
23:35.24crashoverrideffmpeg could work
23:35.27fsmithredmocp
23:35.28melodiecrashoverride that would be text mode I guess I need gui for end users
23:35.30crashoverrideah, I didn't know moc
23:35.33crashoverridealso, aplay :D
23:35.35crashoverridehides
23:35.43fsmithredaudacious is light
23:35.46crashoverridemelodie: ah ok
23:35.53melodiefsmithred yes, I'll do that
23:35.58buZzmp3blaster
23:36.03buZz<PROTECTED>
23:36.09melodiebuZz I'll have a look, thank you
23:36.34fsmithredcrashoverride, do you know your way around booting from grub prompt?
23:36.44melodieMp3blaster is an audio player for the text console
23:36.50melodienot for the end users then
23:37.03melodieunless they are geeks, which they often are not
23:37.04crashoverridegosh darn it
23:37.05buZzwhy not?
23:37.11crashoverrideI REALLY can't fix that...
23:37.22melodiebuZz because they get scared
23:37.29buZzthats good
23:37.36crashoverridefear is never good.
23:37.40melodiebuZz why is it?
23:37.43crashoverrideit can save your life, but it never is.
23:37.48crashoverrideit's a safety net.
23:37.55crashoverrideand hitting the safety net is never good.
23:38.03melodiefor now let's save the computers
23:38.13crashoverrideI know our society is complacent about being lying down in safety nets...
23:38.20buZzmelodie: you cant grow remaining in safe zones
23:38.21melodiefrom being dismantled, poor machines
23:38.21crashoverridebut that's not because it's popular that it's a good example :D
23:38.34melodiebuZz I'm not concerned
23:38.38melodiemy users are
23:38.57golinuxIsn't this getting a little far from devuan support?
23:39.06melodiebuZz I'll try mp3blaster for myself though
23:39.09golinuxtry #devuan-offtopic
23:39.18melodiegolinux fully in the topic
23:39.26crashoverridemaybe I should do screenshots to show you guys what is happening...
23:39.41melodieI am getting help finish polishing my very first Devuan install for a very old laptop
23:40.13golinuxArmchair psychology?
23:40.31melodie?
23:40.51golinuxfear and safety nets and  . . .
23:41.11melodie…
23:41.48melodiegolinux I save old machines for end users this time it's thanks to Devuan
23:42.31fsmithredcrashoverride, were you talking about full-disk-encryption earlier?
23:43.24golinuxmelodie: That's a good project.
23:43.44melodiethanks golinux
23:44.07adhocongoing support for older machines is always a challenge
23:44.48adhocI moced most my older machines from a variety of out of support debian to devuan last winter
23:44.49crashoverrideyeah.
23:44.57crashoverridefsmithred: I have a UEFI partition that has a EFI binary
23:45.13crashoverridefsmithred: I have a boot partition with a grub setup, an initramfs, vmlinuz and some other files
23:45.19crashoverride(configuration and modules)
23:45.47fsmithredboot partition is not encrypted?
23:45.53melodieadhoc I tried many in vbox yesterday, I even tried my own spins in the machine, but my spins work less well!
23:46.07melodieeven though they have openbox as desktop
23:46.25adhocmelodie: well with practice comes understanding =)
23:46.51crashoverridefsmithred: no
23:46.52adhocI am on my nine spin up of a flatcar install on a VM so the install to metal will be easier
23:47.07crashoverridefsmithred: it's a system I'm migrating from syslinux
23:47.24crashoverrideI made screenshots of the problem
23:47.31crashoverrideI'm trying to find a place to push them
23:47.43adhocmelodie: I know flatcar has nothing to do with devuan, but work has different needs =)
23:54.27melodie?
23:54.55adhocmelodie: the more you work with these systems, the faster you skills with it will grow =)
23:55.22melodieI still can't learn howto code, I can't find time for that kind of thing
23:55.38adhocyou can build up your skills.
23:55.39crashoverridefsmithred: https://pasteboard.co/JUM7RX7.png https://pasteboard.co/JUM8m9E.png https://pasteboard.co/JUM8Bh3.png
23:55.41melodieso I just remix and tweak with the same refined recipe
23:55.52crashoverridein the order the screens are in.
23:55.54adhocmelodie: that is the beginning of it all =)
23:56.18melodieadhoc yes, almost 12 years now ^^
23:56.30melodiefrom pclinuxos to ubuntu and lately antiX
23:56.37crashoverridefsmithred: ok apparently the uploads didn't work
23:56.41crashoverrideone sec'
23:56.49melodieisn't there a remix / snapshot script in Devuan?
23:57.11fsmithredmelodie, yes. refractasnapshot
23:57.18adhocmelodie: "remix" script ?
23:57.23melodiefsmithred I'll give it a whirl!
23:57.28fsmithredrefractasnapshot-base and refractasnapshot-gui
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23:57.45melodienice to know!
23:58.02fsmithredhttps://refracta.org/docs/readme.refractasnapshot.txt
23:58.16melodieI'll bookmark it for now, thank you very much

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