libera/#devuan/ Friday, 2021-10-15

mh1994hn4114Hello folk, since this drives me mad for over tha last five hours, I hope to find some assistance here... Could anyone suggest what to do when not finding a fitting "generic epson driver" in the devuan repos? Or what to do, when the manufacturer's Driver is not working (hard to finish debug from the Logs for me...) I've been successful using the gutenprint ppd's for a different model making almost the desired prints, but it's just no00:37
mh1994hn4114t my model so the Output doesnt fit (real quick: sorry for the redundancy). If I'm taking the opensource-driver from EPSON itself i just wont get it done.. /opt/.../espcr-wrapper is just installed by the alienated -so it's a *.deb-file now - *filename*.rpm, aswell as its delivers README and the PPD's. Mine is to be found but yeah... what am I missing without the gutenprint- stuff (which I removed along the way)..?00:37
plasma41mh1994hn4114: What's the model of your printer?00:38
mh1994hn4114it's an "Epson ET-2720"00:38
mh1994hn4114maybe I need to make some symlinks into the 'usr'-directories? :'D I can remember having issues with this model in the past (which i managed to get resolved) on CentOS, as far as I remember.00:40
* blockhead cheers at Chimaera going Stable :)00:42
rwpmh1994hn4114, How are you communicating to it?  It lists USB and Wireless.00:43
mh1994hn4114so I'll try get more precise on the Error's I find after trying something with another ppd i just found on my drive *CHEERING*00:43
mh1994hn4114rwp It's USB00:43
mh1994hn4114@rwp00:43
rwpI have had endless driver trouble with USB connectivity.00:44
rwpNo need for the @ on IRC.  That's a new school thing on Twitter.00:44
mh1994hn4114gotcha00:44
rwpI have had very good luck using the network IPP driver.  That's fairly standard.00:44
rwpI always prefer the ethernet wired connectivity if possible.  But the specs on that list only Wireless.  So I think it's either WiFi or USB with it.00:45
rwpBut anyway you might try connecting to it over the WiFi instead of USB and using the IPP driver.  Since as I mentioned the network IPP driver is more standard.00:45
rwpMeanwhile...  Sounds like you made some progress.  So if that works for you then that is of course great too!  :-)00:46
mh1994hn4114nice suggestion there! what is the package i need for IPP? A standard one I assume?00:46
rwpAll included in the normal CUPS installation.  So probably nothing needed.00:46
rwpNothing beyond talking to cups http://localhost:631/ and doing an add printer from there for it.00:47
mh1994hn4114well it's educational, but not that type of "work" I wanna do atm! :D00:47
plasma41I personally find it frustrating how rarely printers document what their native page description language is. Any printer that doesn't speak raw PostScript is just a pain.00:48
adhocmh1994hn4114: knowing the basics on linux, opens up lots of other "work" opportunities =)00:48
rwpCUPS annoys me because it is both trying to be very dynamic and very dumb about it too.  So sometimes you can search and find the printer on the system automatically and sometimes you must target the printer you want to add.00:48
masonSafer to explicate printers.00:48
adhocplasma41: postscript is a raritty these days, most things are PCL5 or is that HPL5 ... ?00:49
rwpRage against the Machine was never really specific about which type of machine they were furious with but I think it was probably a printer.00:49
* adhoc remembers fondly the HP lasterjet 4m ...00:49
masonexample: lpadmin -p HP -v ipp://my.print.server/printers/HP_LaserJet_Professional_P1109w -m raw -E00:49
adhocrwp: i expect you are right on there...00:49
plasma41It doesn't help that this printer is only explicitly advertised with Windows and macOS support.00:49
adhocrwp: and anything to do with paper in general00:50
mh1994hn4114plasma41 I think its some kind of BASIC what it talks but It might also be just a coupling of some more things I'm not able to interpret atm00:50
rwpPretty sure in mason's example that my.print.server could be changed into the IP address the printer got from DHCP and that would target it.00:50
masonyes00:50
rwpOf course I just look in my DHCP server logs but for most people using a cable modem usually logging into the cable modem admin page will have a page listing devices and IP addresses.00:51
masonand -p HP is my local name for a printer, but could be something else00:51
rwpThat's how I would locate the IP address of something just connected to it by WiFi.00:51
plasma41adhoc: PCL is my second preference. Anything else is usually just some proprietary crap.00:51
plasma41adhoc: I have and regularly use a HP LaserJet 4M. They just don't make printers like they did back in 1993. :-)00:52
rwpMy most recent laserjet (M283fdw) from two years ago does both PCL and Postscript.  But no they are not as solid as the old LJ 4M.00:53
plasma41I even upgraded my LaserJet with a 8MB SIMM for a total of 10MB! (oooh! ahhh!)00:55
golinux(as this thread veers OT . . .)00:56
mh1994hn4114rwp: there's a saying in german that's: The one laughing last (about sth.) is having the most of it..! The lol just got me right now00:57
mh1994hn4114thank you guys for the interesting stuff 'bout that topic!00:58
onefangThe English "He who laughs last, laughs best."00:58
mh1994hn4114Fine by me! ;-)00:58
rwpSpeaking of topics...  I hear that today it is time to change the channel topic!  Cheers to Chimaera! :-)00:58
blockheadyes it went stable - i just checked teh devuan site00:59
blockheadthen did an update, a surprising amount of packages were updated01:00
rwpMajor releases these days are almost always 100% because if nothing else the project is recompiling all of the packages every release now.01:01
rwpSo dpkg -l | wc -l on a full DE system here says 1784 packages installed.  That's how many would upgrade.  Pretty much anyway.01:02
VallHowdy everyone, and congrats to the team on the release of Devuan 4 Chimaera!01:02
VallBTW, the topic for this channel still says "(Beowulf 3.1 stable, ASCII 2.1 old-stable)" :-)01:03
blockheadoopsie01:03
rwpVall, You are too late to the party as we were just talking about exactly that. :-)01:03
plasma41joerg: Would you please update the channel topic?01:04
Vallrwp: better lateto the party  than never, as long as the cocktails are still being served ;-)01:04
* Vall wants his cocktail stirred, not shaken01:05
Vall;-)01:05
joergwhen I tell me the update then I might ponder01:05
joergwhen you*01:05
golinuxChimaera is now stable01:05
Vallgolinux: yay!01:05
joergsorry01:07
joergso, what's the update needed?01:08
joergplease provide verbatim text01:08
VallIt's been over 5 years since Devuan started, and man, it's really nice having it as an alternative without fricking systemd. I use it in all my servers and VPSes, and would really like to run it on my and the wife's notebooks... will prolly try again with Chimaera (with Beowulf, the hardware support was not good enough, unfortunately -- it's a n HP Zbook 17 G4)01:08
blockheaderm: https://www.devuan.org01:09
VallHas anyone here tried Chimaera on an HP notebook already?01:09
plasma41joerg: "Welcome to Devuan! https://devuan.org | Releases: https://files.devuan.org (Chimaera 4.0 stable, Beowulf 3.1 old-stable) | Forum https://dev1galaxy.org | Chanlogs http://reisenweber.net/irclogs/libera/_devuan/ | take offtopic chat to #devuan-offtopic"01:10
* blockhead cheers01:11
fluffywolfoh boy.  should I upgrade now, or wait a week so everyone else can figure out what goes in the point release?  :)01:12
blockheadthe point release?01:13
onefangYou mean would upgrading now be ... pointless?  B-)01:13
* blockhead claps01:13
fluffywolfblockhead:  4point1, for example.01:14
blockheadohhh, i see.  thank you/01:14
* fluffywolf looks for something to throw at onefang. :P01:15
fluffywolfbbl, need to go get kerosene for my heater.01:16
onefangJust don't throw that at me, gonna be a hot day already.01:17
se7enI am upgrading to Chimeria, and apt says there's not enough room /var/cache/apt/archives/. I deleted the entire directory, and it still claims to not have enough room01:21
se7enShould I delete my logs?01:21
plasma41se7en: Try running `apt clean` first?01:22
se7enI have done so01:23
se7enbtw01:23
se7enErr:14 tor+http://devuanfwojg73k6r.onion/merged chimaera-proposed Release01:23
se7en  404  Not Found [IP: 127.0.0.1 9050]01:23
se7en2254 upgraded, 497 newly installed, 194 to remove and 7 not upgraded.01:24
se7enNeed to get 4,642 MB of archives.01:24
se7enAfter this operation, 2,153 MB of additional disk space will be used.01:24
se7enE: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/.01:24
se7enMy /var partition is only 1.3GB01:24
plasma41se7en: Yes, that is the old Tor v2 URL. The new Tor v3 URL is (looking it up...)01:25
se7enThe other v2s resolve properly01:25
se7enAlso, release-notes for chrimera also are v2 tor url01:26
plasma41hmm... is chimaera-proposed supposed to be chimaera-proposed-updates?01:26
plasma41tor+http://devuanauxrkggcowgm2vcs6go3c5pgxdidd5wqjpg7zpfaxkmgspr6id.onion/merged01:27
se7en https://files.devuan.org/devuan_chimaera/Release_notes.txt01:28
plasma41rrq: ^^^ re: tor urls01:28
Unit193+1 for vanity addresses, terrible for verification but great for differentiation.01:29
se7enAgain, my /var is only 1.3GB. Can I change the location apt stores the files temporarily, such as /tmp?01:29
gnarfaceyou can symlink to anywhere...01:30
plasma41se7en: You might be able to due some hacky things with symlinks.01:30
gnarfacethere was an option to make apt take less ram though too wasn't there?01:30
gnarfaceoh if it's about the disk space though not sure01:31
gnarfaceyou could also just update a few packages at a time01:31
se7enThat would take hours01:31
se7enThis is a distribution upgrade that has 1000+ packages to upgrade01:32
se7enErr:32 tor+http://devuanauxrkggcowgm2vcs6go3c5pgxdidd5wqjpg7zpfaxkmgspr6id.onion/merged chimaera-proposed Release01:32
se7en  404  Not Found [IP: 127.0.0.1 9050]01:32
se7enWhat is chimaera-proposed?01:32
plasma41se7en: symlink to a large usb flash drive is probably the easiest (though still somewhat hacky) workaround.01:33
plasma41chimaera-proposed-updates is described at https://www.devuan.org/os/packages#add-stable-proposed-updates-default-no01:35
se7enln -rs /var/cache/apt/archives /tmp/apt-tmp01:35
se7enRight?01:35
se7enStill says not enough space01:35
plasma41se7en: I'm not sure about the -r option.01:35
se7enMy /tmp is only 56k01:38
se7enI'm going to symlink to my /home01:38
plasma41Assuming you want to use /tmp/apt-tmp as additional space (assuming it's on a separate partition to /var/cache/apt/archives) run `cd /tmp/apt-tmp; ln -s /var/cache/apt/archives`.01:39
se7enStill not workng01:40
plasma41You may run into permission issues using /home. Then again, apt will be running as root, so maybe not.01:40
se7en2254 upgraded, 497 newly installed, 194 to remove and 7 not upgraded.01:40
se7enNeed to get 4,642 MB of archives.01:40
se7enAfter this operation, 2,153 MB of additional disk space will be used.01:40
se7enE: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/.01:40
se7en[16:40 root@lappy se7en] > cd apt-tmp/01:40
se7en[16:40 root@lappy apt-tmp] > ln -s /var/cache/apt/archives01:40
plasma41se401:41
plasma41se7en: How are your disk(s) partitioned?01:41
se7enLuks-encrypted01:41
se7enhttp://ix.io/3BM001:42
plasma41se7en: I just realized I had you link in the wrong direction.01:45
joergdf -h /var/cache/01:46
se7enFilesystem                Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on01:47
se7en/dev/mapper/lappy--vg-var ext4  2.7G  1.6G  1.1G  60% /var01:47
joergthere you are - >>Need to get 4,642 MB of archives<<01:47
se7enI'm aware01:48
se7enI already said that01:48
se7enYet symlinking to my home directory still fails01:48
blockheadit's a bit advanced, but lvm partitions can be resized - just not while they are mounted01:48
se7enThat's a good way to get extreme fragmentation01:48
blockheadyes, unfortunately01:49
plasma41se7en: luks and lvm are outside my field of experience.01:49
joergI'd suggest to plug in an USB memstick and symlink or mount that over /var/cache/apt01:49
se7enI don't have one large enough01:49
joergaalso check >>After this operation, 2,153 MB of additional disk space will be used<< on df -h /01:50
joerghmm, I guess you can find better advice than mine in here01:51
* joerg shuts up01:51
gnarfacese7en: got much ram?  there's always zram01:52
se7enI see that my root (/) is 59G with 40G avalible.01:52
rwpOkay to resize partitions bigger and expand the file system on the fly.  Experience taught me never to reduce the file system ever.01:52
se7enSo I made /apt-tmp01:52
se7enBut when I run the ln -s /var/cache/apt/archives in that directory01:52
se7enApt still claims there is not enough space01:52
se7enDid I do the symlink backwards?01:53
gnarfaceyes01:54
rwpAnother option would be to see what is needing that much space, remove those pkgs first, then upgrade, then install them back.01:54
se7enI went to /var/cache/apt/archives and did ln -s /apt-tmp/01:54
se7enStill the same problem01:54
rwpBecause some things like 0AD are very large.  But not critical to "upgrade" so much.01:54
se7enrwp: the space in /var is too small anyway01:54
blockheadjoerg: your idea is more sensible than mine01:54
se7enIt /still/ says it is wrong01:54
gnarfaceyou want to be in /var/cache/apt and replace ./archives with "ln -s /apt-tmp ./archives"01:54
rwpUnfortunately 3GB was a standard installer size for /var at some point, maybe even still.  I have several systems that size.01:55
se7enok, gnarface01:55
rwpBut so far I don't have texlive and 0AD and libreoffice some other huge pigs needed for the upgrade. :-)01:55
joergwhat gnarface said01:56
rwpse7en, After you perform the action please show us ls -ld /var/cache/apt/archives output for verification purposes.01:56
se7enThat worked01:57
se7enlrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Oct 14 16:56 /var/cache/apt/archives -> /apt-tmp01:57
gnarfaceperfect01:57
onefangThis is why I don't do lots of partitions.  The big empty space you need right now is always in the wrong one.01:57
se7enNow running `apt full-upgrade` without issue01:58
se7enGonna take a while, of coursre01:58
* joerg got a reminder to patch the `mount /usr/local/home/root /root/` somewhere into that raspi's init scripts02:00
rwponefang, For a laptop... Just put everything in one partition.  For a server with 15TB of storage... Partitions are useful. Everything in their right place.02:00
joergro /-fs02:00
joergsucks02:00
joergsorry off topic02:00
Vallfolks, gotta go. see y'all tomorrow, have a good one!02:22
* Vall waves02:23
adhocwhats the recommendation about getting ascii dist-upgraded to chimaera ?02:34
adhocone hop?02:34
adhoctwo hops via beowulf ?02:34
golinuxYes02:36
adhochere we go then;02:37
adhoc1197 upgraded, 193 newly installed, 41 to remove and 7 not upgraded.02:37
adhocNeed to get 1,076 MB/1,076 MB of archives.02:37
adhocthe python3 bloat is real...02:38
ksx4systemwell, apparently there's exactly zero problems with PHP build for other release :)03:40
fluffywolfit's php.  it IS a problem.  :P03:41
ksx4systemfluffywolf, it's popular and there's lots of software written in PHP available03:41
* ksx4system does not hate it03:41
fluffywolfyes, I know.  I write too much PHP.03:42
ksx4systemwrote some code too :) ages ago lol03:42
ksx4systembtw I wonder if anyone tried replacing Debian 10 image within Crostini (it's Linux container within Google Chrome OS) with fresh Devuan03:43
ksx4systemI guess I'll have to experiment :)03:43
ksx4systemI really doubt that anything in there explicitely needs systemd to live03:44
adhocksx4system: I am looking at building devuan containers at work at the moment04:02
adhocwondering if it is worth building a root filesystem, how small that could be made04:03
hyrcanushow would i get fonts with incorrect glyphs fixed in devua04:07
hyrcanusn04:07
XenguyThe only time that happened to me I'd just upgraded.  I rebooted and all was well04:12
DarkUraniumHas anyone ever managed to get nvidia-driver installed? I get "installed nvidia-persistenced package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1", and this has been going on for ... a while.08:44
DarkUranium(think years)08:44
DarkUraniumI'm on testing.08:44
DarkUraniumIt's ultimately because /dev/nvidia* is missing apparently, but I've no idea how to fix that.08:46
hyrcanusi had that issue, i think DarkUranium09:03
hyrcanusit was no fun so i quit doing that09:04
DarkUraniumhyrcanus: I tried checking the build log, and this is probably the culprit: /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/470.57.02/build/common/inc/nv-time.h:217:18: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'state'; did you mean '__state'?09:04
hyrcanusit's probably an important issue to fix but i personally am not available to debug it09:05
hyrcanuscould it be related to gcc version DarkUranium ?09:26
DarkUraniumI doubt it, for a struct to have the wrong fields? I suspect a kernel headers issue.09:27
Guest1hi. came here to ask for solution or tips09:29
Guest1devuan testing, booting to terminal (59MB), autologin on tty1, startx to run i3,i3bar,compton takes 160MB of ram09:30
Guest1it is far far too much of ram in my opinion09:31
Guest1devuan stable (same setup) - 129MB09:31
humpelstilzchen[Guest1: How did you measure it?09:32
Guest1htop09:32
Guest1just htop09:32
ltsGuest1: testing (chimaera) just became stable, btw. Testing is now daedalus09:32
Guest1and of course i see errors on tty when I move mouse09:32
Guest1kernel thinks mymouse is block device09:33
Guest1well i use chimaera here09:34
hyrcanusdid you know compton can do keycolor transparency?  for opaque text and icons with transparent backgrounds09:36
Guest1have no idea09:37
hyrcanuswhy do you run compton?  if I may ask09:37
Guest1i have even no idea what is it09:37
Guest1to make xterm transparent09:37
hyrcanusby default the text is also transparent, which impairs contrast09:38
hyrcanusand readability.09:38
Guest1true, but it is good for me09:39
Guest1i think I use 0.9 only09:39
Guest1for active xterm09:39
Guest1and 0.6 or 0.7 for inactive09:40
Guest1ok, upgrading devuan to chimaera stable09:41
tr-amarsh04latest plasma updates in unstable are looking good10:02
jlaheya... in Chimaera, experiencig some audio - mic. trouble while on Jitsi (Firefox)videoconf. . It was working fine and suddenly mic. stopeed working10:32
malade_mentalhappy chimaera release to all the devuaners!11:00
sadoon_albader[mHappy chimaera release to you too!12:09
FaFaS:) Hello! would like to ask, how i can install docker? been following instructions from here https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/debian/ also tried install from script.sh, as i would like to run collaboraoffice CODE, but requires systemd.... Thanks!12:29
BelseruskHi. I have Devuan Beowolf installed in a VM. Should I upgrade to Chimaera or do a fresh install in a new VM?13:01
jlahappy Chimaera :-)13:22
hevidevihello13:27
hevidevi@fsmithred - your gpg is saying it is expired - i downloaded and checked and verified the minimal-live chimaera4 stable iso just now. Key is correct, just thought id let you know although you are probably aware13:28
Atari-FroschJust upgraded a not so important virtual server to Chimaera and encountered this:15:34
Atari-FroschErrors were encountered while processing:15:34
Atari-Frosch python3-reportbug15:34
Atari-Frosch reportbug15:34
Atari-FroschNow I'm not sure whether I can reboot the system safely or better not …15:34
Atari-FroschOK, I tried, and it is now running with Chimaera. I just was not sure whether the upgrade process had stopped in between or it just had problems with those two packets.16:40
gnarfaceit should be safe to run the upgrade again.  if all the packages are upgraded nothing will happen.  if some were left behind it will try them again16:47
lyoshaVERSION17:52
lyoshaTIME17:54
brocashelmthere's a bug with inxi version 3.3.07-1-1: "Not an ARRAY reference at /usr/bin/inxi line 16007"18:40
brocashelmhowever, inxi and inxi -Fx do not display this error18:41
brocashelmsample output on a manjaro machine: https://pastebin.com/5A8yPsLb18:41
golinuxAnd what does that have to do with devuan support?18:56
brocashelmbecause i'm using ceres and this package build is affected. just seeing if anyone else is getting the same problem19:05
joergwas there such a thing like a "no CTCP to channel" flag?19:37
joergmeh, sorry19:38
joergcmode19:38
masonjoerg: thanks19:46
giulianogood afternoon20:10
giulianoi installed nvidia drivers and is appearing a message like this20:12
giulianoudevd[117]: Error running install command 'modprobe -i nvidia-current ' for module nvidia: retcode 120:12
giulianodoes anyone know how to solve?20:12
user____What kinds of pattern does xlocate support? glob? re? ere?23:21
user____Sorry wrong window23:21
masonuser____: Void patterns!23:25
user____https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/15/devuan_4_chimaera_released/23:43
masonnice nice23:43
user____mason: void is for #voidlinux , just set up a vm in qemu23:43
masonuser____: Yeah. I recognized xlocate. It's fun. I'm just more a fan of the Debian tools in the long run.23:45
user____I'm a fan of working tools which have a familiar ui... xlocate is not one of them, and void took me 2 half days to "master".23:46
masonThey're a good crowd of folks.23:46
user____Yes, but the docs are crap, cannot install without irc hints, buggy stuff needs workarounds23:46
user____Small things but they bite.23:46

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