Hello, See my answer inline below.
On Tue, 2021-12-07 at 08:05 -0600, Kent West via Dng wrote: > Hi! > > Following the instructions > at > https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/install-guides/chimaera/bullseye-to-chimaera > > I've tried it on two VirtualBox VMs (one two different Debian host boxes - a > Dell desktop and a Dell laptop). Both VMs were minimal Debian installs. > > I commented out all the lines in /etc/apt/sources.list and added the > following as the only lines in the file: > > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera main > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-updates main > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main > #deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports main > > Then I ran > > # apt-get update --allow-insecure-repositories > > which generated a dozen or so warnings/errors, which I assume is normal for > the process, so I ignored them. > > Then I ran > > # apt-get install devuan-keyring --allow-unauthenticated > > which generated a warning or two in the process. But the process appeared to > complete properly. > > Then I did > > # apt-get update > > which installed a few things, and appeared to complete properly. > > Then I did > > # apt-get upgrade > > which insisted I type in the phrase, "Yes, do as I say!". This generated > warnings/errors about too many errors processing systemd. > > The next step, > > # apt-get install eudev I think that adding sysvinit-core here will make it work. I will propose changing the document to include that. Also there are several conversion scripts that do the whole thing, but I haven't tested those after bullseye was released and used these instructions instead with sysvinit-core added. As a side note I never did convert a desktop system - only servers... With best regards, b. > > installed "openntpd" and then generated a warning that there is no init > system and policy-rc.d missing. > > The next step, the command to "reboot", resulted with "-bash: reboot: command > not found". Furthermore, the "shutdown" command can not be found. The only > way I could find to reboot was to do a VM reset. > > On reboot, there were messages about recovering the journal and clearing > orphaned inodes, then: > > run-init: can't execute '/sbin/init': No such file or directory > Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init. > run-init: can't execute (/sbin/init, /etc/init/, /bin/init): No such file or > directory > /bin/sh: 0: can't access tty; job control turned off > > The next step > > # apt-get dist-upgrade > > failed, partly because the file system is mounted read-only. Although I can > remount it as read-write, whatever is broken with the system is broken, and > the rest of these instructions aren't going to work. You just run into the > next problem (non-working network). This, too, can be fixed, but then you run > into another problem. Etc. > > > TL;DR - The conversion instructions don't work with Debian Bullseye 11.1, at > least not on minimal Debian VMs using VirtualBox on Debian, for me. > > I can just wipe these two VMs and start from scratch, no problem. But thought > whoever wrote that conversion page might need to know my experience. > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
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