On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 19:32:46 -0700, Se7en wrote in message <20181223023245.6jirxk6nvs7qjgx7@lappy.thinkpad>:
> To whom it may concern, > > I have had many issues with an upgrade from Jessie to ASCII, and have > voiced my complaints in IRC. Some of these issues are also reported > in Debian Proper with no proposed solutions. I feel the need to voice > them. > > First issue (Reported in Debian): X11 doesn't start up without root > permissions. The issue is reported at > <http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=130587> and the solution is > a work-around to change a conf file to run as root. ..drop the sudo, log in as whatever user you use, and issue 'startx ', if that fails, 'less /var/log/Xorg.0.log ' and dmesg tells you how and (often why) it failed. > Second issue: Torsocks does not work for several applications, notably > fetchmail. I do not know if this is an issue with Devuan or Torsocks. > It gives a permission denied error. Specific error is sh: > 1: /usr/bin/procmail: Operation not permitted. It exits status 6. ..logs? > This is also an issue with mutt. Torifying mutt produces > "mutt_dotlock: operation not permited". ..anyone? > Third issue: My loopback address is not automatically brought up. I > have to run `ifconfig lo up` on every boot. Attachment is > my /etc/network/interfaces ..which has "source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* " in it. ..try comment it out (# source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* ) and then restart the way you usually restart things. ..if that fails, show us your /etc/network/interfaces.d/* . > Fourth issue: My swap space is not correct. I had to fiddle with it, > and am unable to correct it. I use LUKS+Cryptswap. I used the Jessie > guided paritioner and it worked well before the upgrade. ..failing hardware messing up your install? > There are more issues I can not recall at this moment. I am very > upset that there are no solutions to this problem. Does anyone know > what is happening? ..generally, you wanna do one post per issue, unless you suspect you have a _chain_ of failures causing the next issues... -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
