[DNG] Is it dead yet?

2021-10-25 Thread Hendrik Boom via Dng
I think I may have a clue to the mysterious stoppages of my server. I ssh'd into it today and got the following. It is time to give up on this machine and replace it? -- hendrik hendrik@april:~$ su - Password: april:~# ps | grep lighttpd ^C^C Message from syslogd@april at Oct 25 20:15:48 ... k

Re: [DNG] Clicking website wasRe: Announcing Devuan 4.0: Chimaera!

2021-10-25 Thread ael via Dng
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 09:28:54AM +1100, terryc wrote: > On Sun, 24 Oct 2021 17:49:17 +0200 > > System is a pre-release installation of chimaera (about march?) but > updated. > Sound system is alsa with problem of single focus only; i.e. only one > sound program can be run at a time. So I have to

Re: [DNG] Why do I need libselinux1?

2021-10-25 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Dng
On Mon 25/Oct/2021 13:12:57 +0200 Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote: Alessandro Vesely via Dng writes: Did we have it on Beowulf? Yes. I just checked on my Beowulf laptop and e.g. tar and sed both declare a Pre-Depends: on libselinux1. Since these two are both Essential packages, libselinux1 is

Re: [DNG] etckeeper

2021-10-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi Hendrik, Hendrik Boom writes: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 06:52:05PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote: >> Hi Steve, >> >> Steve Litt writes: >> >> > After that, take a backup of the new system including /etc and >> > $HOME, then restore *strategic* config files from /etc/ and ~ and >> > ~/.c

Re: [DNG] Why do I need libselinux1?

2021-10-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi Alessandro, Alessandro Vesely via Dng writes: > Hi all, > > when I switched to Chimaera, one of the difficulties was an > /etc/selinux directory left over since several years ago. After boot > with the new system, X didn't want to start. It said something about > selinux, so I found the left

Re: [DNG] Chimaera unknown interwork interface

2021-10-25 Thread Antony Stone
On Monday 25 October 2021 at 11:37:47, Haines Brown wrote: > With Beowulf, udev gave my wireless interface the name of a MAC > address rather than wlan0. I thought the renaming would appear again > with Chimaera, but not so. The wireless interface named wlan0. The > ethernet interface remains eth0

[DNG] Chimaera unknown interwork interface

2021-10-25 Thread Haines Brown
With Beowulf, udev gave my wireless interface the name of a MAC address rather than wlan0. I thought the renaming would appear again with Chimaera, but not so. The wireless interface named wlan0. The ethernet interface remains eth0 although I expected it to be given its MAC address as well. My