Ayy looks like #gpg borked in #Devuan unstable (silently, too. No apt warnings). I now can't validate the signatures of the packages anymore which means apt upgrade stopped working. Oops? :devuannew: :blobfoxpat:
Decided to play around with #chroot again. But this time I beefed it up considerably. Basically built a mini-Debian stable install on top of #Devuan with debootstrap and started installing some internet-facing utilities on it.
Got to the point where I'm running chrooted firefox, which works pretty transparently, except I get no sound (yet). What could I try next?
Well, let's just say it's a small price to pay for the unclogging of the previous 200+ held back packages. Good thing we have https://snapshot.debian.org/ to "roll back" a little!
Looks like doing one apt full-upgrade to one of my #Devuan Ceres (unstable) machines safely "unclogged" the 200+ packages that had been held back for 2 months now with no apparent breakage anywhere else.
Guess it can be a useful trick (after analyzing carefully what in fact is being updated) despite my usual advice not to do it:
Last I tried screwing around with #zfs, #KVM and #qemu on #slackware I had a bunch of fun with scripts from sbo and dependency hell – since neither is an official slack package.
How does this fare in 2024 if I were to try to get a headless host for my stuff (qubes-like but I like pain)?
Thanks! I'm torn between my current #gentoo and #slackware as a minimal headless host I can host (paravirtualized?) VMs on, like a #devuan desktop, old Windows and perhaps trying different archs.
Devuan maintainer LeePen discusses with vortex and setto about the do-ocracy of #Devuan, the USR merge situation and the similarities between #packaging, #music and the #medicalProfession.
Just when I switch my netbook to #Debian I find out that they too are going to drop 32 bit support. :sadlinux:
Do I take my chances with a community supported Debian port or do I distro hop?
I wish to install #aptitude to try it out over plain apt in Unstable, but the #Devuan package has broken dependencies (libapt-pkg6.0t64 missing) :(
I successfully installed it in #Debian, though. It seems slower when doing large updates, but everyone tells me it's the better way to do so instead of apt. Thoughts?
Looks like deb.devuan.org is down since a while (two days or something now?), luckily we have this great list of mirrors still available to choose from:
#devuan daedalus after update from chimaera on a Thinkpad R61 (Intel Core2Duo): X is crashing shortly after startx. In between it mostly does not react on mouse clicks. X.org.log tells me:
unw_get_proc_name failed: no unwind info found [-10]
two times after several error messages from libc.so.6 and crocus.dri.so, and eventually Caught signal 6 (Aborted) before it crashes.
Additionally, it tells me „client bug: timer event3 trackpoint: scheduled expiry is in the past (-30ms), your system is too slow“, but I'm not sure whether there is a connection.
Over the turn of the year, I had quite an interesting surprise from #Devuan Ceres, in which an attempted update to Linux kernel 6.6.9 broke my install. Thanks to the amazing help on the IRC, though, I was able to fix it on the same day. Here's how: