Re: [DNG] How to firewall on Devuan?

2021-02-24 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2021-02-24 13:01, schrieb Steve Litt: Hi all, I'm now at the stage where I need a firewall on my Devuan VM guest, and I don't know how to do it. I have the iptables package installed, and /usr/sbin/iptables is a command, but I have no idea where to go from there. Is there a file that iptables

Re: [DNG] no shutdown by pressing power button

2020-06-19 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-17 23:49, schrieb ippaket via Dng: after the upgrade from ascii to beowulf I can't shutdown my machine (64bit intel atom) by pressing the power button anymore. Any ideas what to do ? That depends on the DE you are using. Most DE's have a configuration option for this. Maybe this h

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 22:54, schrieb g4sra via Dng: How do you know the mount is failing ? It's not mounted after mount command. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-15 05:11, schrieb spiralofhope: I wonder if there's anything S.M.A.R.T. information can tell you. There is a spinup time test, and I wonder if perhaps there is SMART logging within the drive that could reveal a problem with the drive not spinning up as quickly as it should, and maybe

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 21:25, schrieb richard lucassen via Dng: Ok, I missed that, sorry. Maybe 5 is too low, try 10 or 15 I'd say. I don't see why this parameter is so important. When I read the description, this is the delay for scanning usb devices after power up. But as you can see in the logs, th

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 20:48, schrieb richard lucassen: What happens if you change the content of that script: #!/bin/dash echo 5 > /sys/module/usb_storage/parameters/delay_use For what reason? I had it in /boot/boot.ini and that worked. I looked up /sys/module/usb_storage/parameters/delay_use and it

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 20:07, schrieb d...@d404.nl: It is a kernel parameter not a module parameter. You have to add it to your kernel boot line. Ok, I found out how to do that. It's in /boot/boot.ini But that made no difference to my problem. This is my current setup: /etc/fstab has the mount option n

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 19:51, schrieb Tomasz Torcz: Try files in /sys/module/usb_storage/parameters Or you can put in kernel command line: usb_storage.parameter=… as described at https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html Something is wrong her: root@Odroid2:~# modprobe

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 19:39, schrieb d...@d404.nl: Most likely the usb_storage module is compiled in the kernel. How can I set its parameters in this case? sysctl -a lists nothing about storage or usb. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailingli

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 19:30, schrieb richard lucassen: What tells "modinfo g_mass_storage"? $ sudo modinfo g_mass_storage filename: /lib/modules/3.16.82+/kernel/drivers/usb/gadget/g_mass_storage.ko license:GPL author: Michal Nazarewicz description:Mass Storage Gadget depends

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 19:07, schrieb J. Fahrner via Dng: modinfo: ERROR: Module usb_storage not found. Maybe they have their own drivers for usb? # find /lib/modules/3.16.82+/kernel/drivers -name '*storage*' /lib/modules/3.16.82+/kernel/drivers/usb/gadget/g_mass_storage.ko /lib/modul

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 19:05, schrieb richard lucassen: That's rather strange. From "modinfo usb_storage": parm: delay_use:seconds to delay before using a new device (uint) And what happens if you load the module in advance?: echo "usb_storage" >> /etc/modules modinfo: ERROR: Module usb_storage not f

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 17:25, schrieb richard lucassen via Dng: echo "options usb_storage delay_use=5" > /etc/modprobe.d/usb_storage.conf seems not to work. After boot: cat /sys/module/usb_storage/parameters/delay_use 1 ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.or

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 15:09, schrieb Dr. Nikolaus Klepp: Anno domini 2020 Sun, 14 Jun 14:12:21 +0200 J. Fahrner via Dng scripsit: [   22.579214] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk [ 1145.246051] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data I see this on RPi, too, just the delay is smaller

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 13:32, schrieb richard lucassen via Dng: It's weird. What does "dmesg" tell? dmesg > /tmp/dmesg and look if there are any messages there [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuac

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 13:23, schrieb Dr. Nikolaus Klepp: Are you 100% absolutely sure your board is not stuck at the bootloader stage before the kernel is started? Yes. It responds to ping, so network is running. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https:

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 10:11, schrieb richard lucassen: Did you format the disk with a newer system than the system you run it on? So, I wonder what happens if you remove the huge_file option I don't remember on which system I formatted that drive. After playing around the problem is very strange. It's

[DNG] Error in repositories

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
On an "apt-get update" I get the following errors: Err:10 http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged beowulf/main armhf Contents (deb) Hash Sum mismatch Hashes of expected file: - Filesize:31681725 [weak] - SHA256:04dda4a3166f89d6cd274bd662e29997a9c59c0015e3a29537c5918ff35edd01 Hashes of

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-13 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-13 22:10, schrieb richard lucassen via Dng: I have no idea. But mountall is in runlevel S, not 2. What if you mount it explicitely in a temporary script called /etc/rcS.d/99mount.sh ? That is before runlevel 2 starts. Looks like it has something to do with huge_file support: https:

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-13 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-13 21:05, schrieb richard lucassen: No, but I asked you why not create the root filesystem on that disk. If "mount -a" does not work in runlevel 2, why should it work in boot stage 1? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailin

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-13 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-13 20:18, schrieb richard lucassen via Dng: That was the "rootwait" parameter as I said somewhere. Used for USB and MMC disks. "The rootwait kernel parameter only affects the first stage of boot, while the kernel is waiting for its initial root device" https://stackoverflow.com/qu

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-13 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-13 14:19, schrieb Tito via Dng: maybe rather than trying to mount the disk earlier, you could try to spin it up so that it mounts when mountall is run. AFTER boot a "mount -a" waits until the disk is ready and mounts it without any failure. I don't see why this should not be the sam

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-13 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-13 10:31, schrieb richard lucassen: The nofail means that it wil mount automatically, but if the disk is absent it won't give errors. But it does not wait for the device! The disk has itś own power supply and is always connected. I think there is something missing at the boot stage

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-13 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-13 10:05, schrieb richard lucassen via Dng: That is why there is a rootwait option: rootwait[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously (e.g. USB and MMC devices). Thats exactly what I'm expecting, waiting indefin

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-13 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-13 09:49, schrieb richard lucassen: What is on that disk? Why not make that disk the root filesystem and pass "rootwait" to the kernel? I'm afraid that won't work either. If there are problems mounting the disk at this early stage, even the root filesystem will not mount. _

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-13 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-13 09:24, schrieb Didier Kryn:     AFAIU defaults is a placeholder for when there's no option to pass. Therefore, if you specify nofail or noauto, defaults isn't needed. According to the man page of mount: defaults Use the default options: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, n

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-12 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-13 08:25, schrieb J. Fahrner via Dng: nofail was a good hint. Now the system boots, but the usb disk is still not mounted. "mount -a" mounts it without errors after boot. What is the best way to run "mount -a" before any initscripts in runlevel 2? There is

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-12 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-12 20:25, schrieb richard lucassen: Try to add "nofail" or "noauto": nofail was a good hint. Now the system boots, but the usb disk is still not mounted. "mount -a" mounts it without errors after boot. I see no errors in /var/log/boot and dmesg. The only messages concerning this

[DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-12 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Hi, I'm running Devuan Beowulf on an Odroid C2 mini computer. Since it's internal flash disk is limited, I run it with an external usb drive attached. When this disk is active in /etc/fstab the boot process hangs forever. I can ping it, so networking is started, but I cannot login, because sshd

Re: [DNG] darkpurpy-grub theme on Beowulf

2020-03-22 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-03-22 18:16, schrieb goli...@devuan.org: I'm feeling the darkpurpy love! :) You are right :-) But if all else fails you can just replace the cinnabar elements with darkpurpy in /usr/share/desktop-base. That's how I got cinnabar grub working on my jessie. I tried to integrate darkpu

Re: [DNG] Chromium on Beowulf

2020-03-22 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-03-22 13:00, schrieb Mark Hindley: chromium recommends chromium-sandbox. Do you have no-install-recommends configured in apt? Yes, I don't install recommends. When chromium does not run without sandbox, then it should be a must, not a recommend. Jochen ___

[DNG] darkpurpy-grub theme on Beowulf

2020-03-22 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
After upgrade to beowulf I'm missing the darkpurpy-grub theme. The files are yet there, but update-alternatives does not know about them, it only lets me choose cinnabar-grub. Jochen ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.

[DNG] Chromium on Beowulf

2020-03-22 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
On Beowulf Chromium does not start because of missing sandbox. ERROR:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(116)] No usable sandbox! If this is a Debian system, please install the chromium-sandbox package to solve this problem. If you want to live dangerously and need an immediate workaround, you can try u

[DNG] network-manager on Beowulf

2020-03-22 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Hi, after upgrading from Ascii to Beowulf network-manager ist broken. The following packages have unmet dependencies: network-manager : Depends: libpam-systemd Regards Jochen ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bi

Re: [DNG] Which DE?

2020-03-01 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-03-01 23:07, schrieb aitor: My vote is for tint2. I also vote for openbox with tint2. if you don't want to tediously configure it yourself, install Bunsenlabs https://www.bunsenlabs.org/ and then migrate it to Devuan. Bunsenlabs has a nice theme and helper scripts for the openbox me

[DNG] Method https has died unexpectedly!

2019-11-24 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Hi, the emmc card of my Odroid U3 (armhf) has died, so I had to reinstall the whole OS on a spare sd card. I installed the latest Debian Jessie image for that U3, then migrated it to Devuan Ascii. Now there is a problem with the apt https transport. On apt-get update I get the following errors:

Re: [DNG] Insane defaults on Raspberry Pi images - How to fix corruption/dataloss

2019-11-08 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2019-11-08 20:28, schrieb Adam Borowski: I've had an eMMC card that survived 4 years of a constant I/O-bound load with more writes than reads, before starting to fail. On the other hand, you can kill a SD card within a day. A nice example what you should NOT do with flash memory ;-) https

Re: [DNG] Security problem

2019-10-13 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2019-10-14 01:01, schrieb tom: Why in gods name does a centralized instant messenger require root privileges on your machine? Signal uses the electron framework for running in a sandbox. Electron uses the Linux user namespaces feature for building the sandbox, but this seems to be disabled

[DNG] Security problem

2019-09-30 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
I just came across a security problem. The application signal-desktop could not be started anymore because a file from the electron framework did not set a setuid bit (https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/3536). For the sandbox feature this obviously needs root privileges. It cree

Re: [DNG] Systemd depends on random numbers in order to work properly

2019-07-09 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2019-07-09 21:07, schrieb Tomasz Torcz: So why do they need new UUID's at every boot? Not every boot. Every service start: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/4b58153dd22172d817055d2a09a0cdf3f4bd9db3 Are they crazy? ___ Dng mailing list D

Re: [DNG] ASCII on rpi1 & resize root partition?

2019-06-26 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2019-06-26 07:58, schrieb Thomas Besser via Dng: what's the easiest way to resize the root partition to the full size of the sdcard? On raspbian it is done with 'raspi-config' which is not available in devuan. You cannot resize a mounted partition. raspi-config installs a boot script to r

[DNG] systemd Clocks In At More Than 1.2 Million Lines

2019-05-24 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Systemd-1.2-Million I will write you a whole operating system with such a number of code lines! ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] Make Linux Fast Again!

2019-05-16 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
https://make-linux-fast-again.com/ :-D ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] upgrade to ascii dkim stopped working

2019-02-27 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2019-02-27 22:30, schrieb info at smallinnovations dot nl: Apparently opendkim 2.11 has been polluted/infected by systemd. Lots of systemd bugreports, notes about being a native systemd daemon but simply not working from postfix. I downgraded opendkim from 2.11 to 2.9 and everythings is work

Re: [DNG] WAIT_ONLINE_METHOD=none

2019-02-18 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2019-02-18 18:45, schrieb Didier Kryn:     If you reject the software because you distrust the author, try netplug intead, or write your own. The function is the same: react to plugging/unplugging the Ethernet cable. I dunno how these daemons get notified, but they do, and configure/deconfigur

Re: [DNG] WAIT_ONLINE_METHOD=none

2019-02-18 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2019-02-18 18:20, schrieb Didier Kryn:     We all know who made it (-: . But it just does one thing and seems do it well, at least for me - never looked at the source. I had some boot delay because of dhcpdiscover, so I tried ifplugd as it was mentioned in this thread. Boot delay was gone,

Re: [DNG] WAIT_ONLINE_METHOD=none

2019-02-18 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2019-02-18 14:07, schrieb Dr. Nikolaus Klepp: Comming back to the original issue: I tested ifplugd - which turned out to be not very reliable, Guess who made it! L.P. :-D ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin

Re: [DNG] Is NetworkManager supposed to work?

2019-01-08 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2019-01-08 12:45, schrieb Simon Walter: Did it work on a fresh install? Or did you have to configure anything? Yes. The only thing you have to note: the interfaces it should manage must not be listed in /etc/network/interfaces Jochen ___ Dng mai

Re: [DNG] Is NetworkManager supposed to work?

2019-01-08 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2019-01-08 12:12, schrieb Simon Walter: I have a simple question: Is NetworkManager supposed to work? Yes, it works. It has not worked in Jessie and it does not work in Ascii. I have read the manuals and I think I have everything installed that is needed. What problem do you have? What i