libera/#devuan/ Wednesday, 2023-12-20

gnarfacemason: well, they don't, "officially," though now calling it unofficial seems somewhat inaccurate00:00
gnarfacethere's been a devuan channel there probably longer than there has been one here, and there's probably others like it scattered all over the place00:00
masonLately I think I'm in more OFTC channels than Libera, so it'll be useful being there I suspect.00:00
golinuxI understand is is a non-channel of less than 1000:02
golinuxBut still a loose canon. IIUC joerg and gnarface now have ops there and the header is sending them to officual Devuan sources.00:03
golinuxI have never been on OFTC.00:04
masonAlmost all the Debian-related channels are there, with just a relatively minimal presence here.00:04
mason(And yeah, nine there now, including me.)00:05
joergwe been in this discussion a 2 years ago, it doesn't matter who else is where, Devuan is on libera. Period00:07
masonjoerg: If that's case, I think the OFTC folk can turn the channel off there and prevent joins.00:08
masonIf you want, I can find out what's required to do so.00:09
joerg*I* can do this00:10
joergright here and now00:10
masonI have no history, hence no opinion beyond being willing to lurk there providing the occasional bit of tech support, so I'll not contribute to the current conversation after this very line.00:12
golinuxmason: Thanks for your offer to monitor . . .00:28
masongolinux: As I understand it, it's all resolved now.00:28
_ds_Looks like dev1galaxy.org isn't responding via IPv6…02:51
eponyseti@galaxy02:51
_ds_Definitely fine via IPv4 (checked on my phone while watching tcpdump output), but my desktop browser is preferring IPv6.02:53
XenguyThanks <_ds_> , I've passed that along02:55
CEP-stafeGreetings, I need to install a realteck alc3236 sound card. any ideas?04:00
gnarfaceCEP-stafe: usually soundcards don't need extra work, what's going wrong?04:12
gnarfacesorry, that's not literally true. what i mean is usually the basic functionality is installed by default because it's part of the kernel... there's a lot that can go wrong and they often are extra work to completely fix04:13
gnarfacebut start with "speaker-test -c 2 -t wav" and see if that works, if it doesn't, tell us the error you get04:14
CEP-stafeHe doesn't recognize me...04:17
CEP-stafelspci, lists it, but no sound appears. Devuan daedalus, asus notebook  x555la04:17
CEP-stafeoki04:22
gnarfaceCEP-stafe: can you be more specific? does it say command not found, or permission denied?04:49
gnarfacethe most likely answer is that either you're missing the alsa-utils package or you're not in the audio group04:50
gnarfaceit could be both though04:50
gnarfaceif it says it's working but there's just no sound, you just need to unmute it in alsamixer or pavucontrol04:52
gnarfaceCEP-stafe: there's also some slight chance you are missing a firmware package from non-free-firmware but that's rare for realtek soundcards06:12
gnarfaceif that were the case though, it'd be easy to check by running "dmesg |grep firmware" as root06:13
gnarface(or with sudo)06:13
systemdleteI've been playing aisleriot, but frankly, I like pysolfc much better.  Any chance it will be added to the repos for daedalus (it has been in previous releases)08:02
systemdlete?08:02
JackFrosthttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=100870808:06
systemdleteJackFrost, I wonder if this is related (even distantly) with other (security) problems in python that I saw reported recently08:07
systemdlete(and thanks for the link)08:08
JackFrostSure thing.  But, don't bet on it happening.08:19
systemdleteyou mean don't hope for a fix?08:20
JackFrostLook when it was filed, and *any* progress whatsoever?08:21
systemdleteIt's not exactly the end of the world.  But I do see what you mean.08:33
JackFrostBut yeah a bummer because that's less GNOME-y than the other.08:34
systemdletesince it is just python, I suppose we can download the newest version and try it.08:36
systemdleteI'm supposing we have an adequately new version of python available on daedalus08:36
djphsystemdlete: 3.11.2 here11:07
systemdletedoes that mean you are running it now?11:07
systemdletehow did you get it?  devuan repos or from pysolfc's site?11:07
djphyeh, I' have daedalus , just whatever's in the repos...11:08
systemdlete???11:08
djph*whatever python version is in the repos11:08
systemdleteI mean, what version of pysolfc and where did you get it?11:08
systemdleteoh11:08
systemdleteyou are only talking about the python version11:09
djpheh, I must not have something .. you were asking about a version of python ...11:09
systemdletewell, I was also asing about pysolfc11:09
systemdletethe original question, that is.11:09
systemdleteso I forgot I mentioned the python version, yes, that's correct11:09
systemdletethe main thread was about pysolfc and why it wasn't available on daedalus, and that has been resolved.11:10
systemdletepysolfc newest version crashes11:10
systemdletewhich isn't much fun11:10
arepusHi. Are there any tutorials on the systemd->sysv transformation? For example, how to implement RuntimeDirectory (properly) in the sysv script (at least). Optionally another systemd unit directives like ProtectHome, ProtectSystem, NoNewPrivileges, CapabilityBoundingSet12:50
djpharepus: those don't exist in sysvinit13:29
djpherrr, as far as I'm aware anyway...13:29
arepusdjph: since sysvinit is a pile of bash scripts written by package developers it is impossible to say that something exists or not in the sysvinit. For example a random example of approximate RuntimeDirectory is https://paste.debian.net/1301643/15:06
djpharepus: yes, an "approximation" ...15:08
moveMyOldMacBookhello.. i have an old MBP that i like to dual boot macos with devuan and avoid systemd - as i look through this - https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/install-guides/daedalus/install-devuan - i see that manual partitioning is out of scope for this simple installation ... how / where can i get the docs for manual partition or is there a way or15:17
moveMyOldMacBookimg variant of  devuan which has GUI with which i can partition my disk ? i had shrinked my macos partition and have the partition ready for devuan installation - not sure how manual partition on the console / CLI will take me through formatting partitions for /boot and /boot/efi and / partions ...15:17
moveMyOldMacBookany help on this appreciated15:17
moveMyOldMacBooki had no trouble setting up debian / fedora previously because they had GUI partition tools and i can ensure that i can avoid my macos partition..15:18
moveMyOldMacBookis there any wiki / doc / even any video for manual partition walk through on devuan cli installer?15:19
moveMyOldMacBooki searched the community docs for manual partitioning links...15:21
moveMyOldMacBooksadly no clear search results - probably because most devuan users are pro users..15:21
debdogmoveMyOldMacBook: instead of choosing "Install" do "Expert Install" this will give you the option to manually do partitioning. it is self explanatory15:21
moveMyOldMacBooki see...15:22
rrqthe installer uses "partman" which includes manual confgurations. I'm yet to find some help pages for it.15:22
rrqgenerally I thnk it's better to use the plain "Install" variant15:23
rrqunless you want to fiddle15:23
rrqwhen the partitioner pops up, you select the "manual" option15:23
debdogmoveMyOldMacBook:  https://dev.to/brandonwallace/how-to-install-debian-11-bullseye-expert-mode-minimal-install-10pd search for "detect the disks" to have a look at it15:24
moveMyOldMacBooklooking..15:24
debdogoh, I wasn't aware the plain Install offers this option as well.15:25
n4diri'd say you can easily do the partitioning in the usual installer, but it is a bit of clicking back and forth.15:25
n4dirmight want to look in a Virtual Machine how exactly this is done, assuming you have that option15:25
n4dirthough i hardly had anything to do with uefi ever, so that might make things a bit more confusing15:26
n4dirif i recall correct: until you say: "yes, really do what i just told you to do" noting happens to the existing partitions, so it is rather safe to have a look how it works.15:27
rrqdebdog: that "help page" does "guided partitioning", not "manual", doesn't it?15:28
rrqlike the devuan install page moveMyOldMacBook mentioned, which however runs the "Install" process rather than "Expert Install"15:30
debdogrrq: it shows both15:31
rrqok.. too many pictures for me :)15:31
n4dirit sure is much easier to do than to explain or show in pics15:32
moveMyOldMacBookyou guys give me enough confidence... thanks :)15:33
rrqfor a pre-partitioned disk, it has the "manual" route where one just identifies which partitions to use and optionally formatting options15:33
debdogrrq: you're right, but a tleast it shows how the manual one would look like15:33
n4dirmoveMyOldMacBook: if it gets to confusing, just come back. Someone might have a look at it in qemu and give more detailed answers15:33
n4dirrrq: seems to be able to tell it from the top of his head though :-)15:34
debdogmoveMyOldMacBook: most important select "K" (keep) for the UEFI and the OSX partions (instead of "F" (format))15:35
moveMyOldMacBooki did debian installion via gui before 2years and i have vague memory of how smooth it went .. .recently i did a fedora installation where i had to manually set up 3 diff partitions like /boot and /boot/efi and / for installation ... so i have my fingers crossed ... as this is my first time with devuan and also Console or CLI based installation15:36
moveMyOldMacBooklet me open that dev.to page on my phone as well... .. thanks debdog15:36
moveMyOldMacBookK - kthxbye ;)15:37
moveMyOldMacBookhaha.... thanks for the document... i am gonna reboot and check..15:37
moveMyOldMacBookwhile am going thru the dev.to document, i need a recommendation on separating /home, /var, and /tmp partitions. the total size i can allocate to gnu/linux is 50GB ... how much should i allocate for /home, /var and /tmp partitions ?15:51
joergprolly you don't want sdeparate partitions at all for all those15:52
debdogdon't seperate /var and /tmp15:52
n4diri tend to put it all in one partition. If at all i'd seperate /home.15:52
moveMyOldMacBookhmm.. ok.. i see15:52
debdogwith only 50 GB, don't seperate /home as well15:52
n4dir50 Gigs, hmm, depends how much data you got, but 15 Gigs for / should be plenty, if you don't do anything unusual.15:52
n4dirin VM's i get away with 10 Gigs and less.15:53
moveMyOldMacBook"unusual" - hmm.. ok15:54
n4dirif you don't know which apps use unusual amount of disk-size, then you don't use them15:55
moveMyOldMacBookin my fedora installation i did use btrfs ... later my search results for optimizing for disk space led me to believe that XFS is best for low disk space on the file system selection.. should i choose that stick with btrs or the default ext4 ?15:55
moveMyOldMacBooklike IDEs - i know intellij uses 2-3 GB ...15:56
moveMyOldMacBookwow - this image from the link looks as good as GUI that gives a pretty good confirmation on what is about to happen  - https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--fPxYhkUK--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_800/https://i.postimg.cc/15yZQfpy/42.png15:57
moveMyOldMacBookoh.. yeah.. there is primary and logical partioning type as well.. let me check on them quickly15:58
moveMyOldMacBooki currently have gparted installed on my current linux distro - fedora - i am not sure how or where i  can i see what is the type of partition they are .. i just want to keep my current partitions as same and replace fedora with devuan16:01
moveMyOldMacBookalso is that a problem that i dont have /swap - coz i dont plan on suspending to this SSD disk.. if i suspend in RAM which is 8 GB in total .. that is fine for me..16:03
n4dirif it will become a problem you could always add a swap file later.16:03
n4dirmost if not all will recommend to do add swap though, if i observer such discussions correct16:05
debdogsince internet browser can be terrible memory hogs, some kind of swap is recommended16:11
n4diri pretty much never see swap being used, well: i see it never, but don't look that often, but i don't open 80 tabs in a webbrowser or such16:12
golinuxI have multiple desktops running and 3 browsers open at all times so need plenty of swap16:15
plasma41cousin_luigi: Looks pretty good. I'd recommend updating debhelper to compat level 13. Also, rather than overriding dh_installdirs in debian/rules, you can just list the directories to create in debian/voyage-util.dirs16:28
cousin_luigiplasma41: Oh right.16:31
cousin_luigiMy trouble now is with the script itself, which has margin of improvement, to say the least.16:31
cousin_luigiplasma41: Like they told me in -dev, update-rc.d does not distinguish start from stop anymore and reads them as "default". So, which one will be taken if one passes two as per https://gitlab.com/lbaldoni/voyage-util/-/blob/main/debian/rules?ref_type=heads#L15 ?16:32
moveMyOldMacBookn4dir and debdog - yes you are right..most discussions recommend swap which is 2x the RAM.. in may case that is 16GB of disk space.. and since i have only 50GB of disk space for all the linux things .. having 16GB swap is a bit too much.. right?16:33
n4dirmoveMyOldMacBook: i usually, these days, just use whatever the installer chooses. If i were you i'd just not create it, and if that gives problems, then create a swap file later.16:34
cousin_luigiplasma41: Perhaps I should run debuild with the verbose option enabled16:34
n4dirOr make a minimal swap now. moveMyOldMacBook But, i tried to stress it, i don't think too much about such.16:35
n4dirwith 50 Gigs i for one could use any Gig i have at hand for other things than swap16:35
moveMyOldMacBookwow.. i just read this and had a chuckle -  """""   Use the DVD *_-desktop.iso (4 GB) if there is no network available and/or a need for multiple offline installations. The image contains several desktop choices and additional software options. LXQt and KDE are only available on DVD.16:36
moveMyOldMacBookPlease note that the graphical install option is no longer available due to size constraints. """""" .. if multiple DEs can be packed am sure a GUI can be packed too.. given most pen drive USB available these days are at least 8 GB which are cheap in price as wel16:36
n4dirmoveMyOldMacBook: you mentioned an IDE, i don't know about them, relating to swap16:36
unixman_homeHowdy, folks. I am still on Devuan Chimaera with MATE on my Intel NUC desktop and have noticed over the past few months that as I leave Devuan up and running Xorg continues to slowly consume more and more memory. It will do this until the system starts swapping constantly to do anything, which then forces me to log out of X to clear the RAM. I have a FreeBSD box here also running Xorg and MATE that does not exhibit this problem. Has16:39
unixman_homeanyone else here experienced this with Xorg on Devuan?16:39
unixman_homeHints on diagnosing and fixing this are welcome.16:39
moveMyOldMacBooki am choosing 4GB desktop installer and probably go with mate or gnome ...just in case my ethernet driver is not recognized for netinst...and for swap i'll agree with installer says - if it doesnt ask for swap, i'd choose 1 GB swap, if it suggests  >2 GB for swap space.. i'll opt for only 2GB swap.. not more than that16:40
plasma41cousin_luigi: I'm not well versed on the operation of update-rc.d, so I defer to whatever the update-rc.d(8) manpage says.16:41
cousin_luigiSounds sensible.16:42
moveMyOldMacBookany suggestions on chooisng the partition type .. i cannot see my current partition type on gparted .. i have 5 partitions on my disk - 2 - for apple and 3 for linux - /boot - 1 GB, /boot/efi - 128 MB, / - 50GB... how to identify if these are logical type or primary type??16:42
debdogmoveMyOldMacBook: the ones that are inside the "extended" file system are logical ones.16:46
moveMyOldMacBookunixman_home - sounds for garbage collection isnt working well in x11.. just curious, is this the same behaviour on wayland if you had tried on wayland? ... anyway this error would not appear on servers as they usually don't have GUI running a long time... but on desktop running a GUI  for long time is a corner case which is why troubleshooting16:46
moveMyOldMacBookthis across internet searches will be bit difficult..16:46
moveMyOldMacBookdebdog -  but how do i know what's extended on gparted i have only one ext4 FS for /boot.. so does that mean that is the only logical partition?16:47
debdogmoveMyOldMacBook: it says "extended"16:48
debdogmoveMyOldMacBook: https://gparted.org/screens/gparted-main-window.png16:50
moveMyOldMacBookok.. so it should look like this if its extend - https://gparted.org/screenshots.php16:50
debdogright16:50
moveMyOldMacBookyah... i just figured.. thanks debdog - so i have nothing that's extended.. which means i am good with every thing on the primary partition.. thanks much again..16:50
moveMyOldMacBookgparted has always been life saver ever since i started trying out linux...16:51
n4dirtell me about it16:52
unixman_homemoveMyOldMacBook, thanks for the feedback. I do not use Wayland anywhere, yet. I don't run a GUI on the servers @work. ;) I'll post my question on the forum.16:54
moveMyOldMacBookThe “expert install” allows user to opt out of firmware installation and a choice of alternate bootloader. A default install will provide firmware. - since i will have to choose this for manual partition... should i install firmware am not sure how this will be handled by macbook16:58
moveMyOldMacBookor should i opt out?16:59
movingMacBookOkies .. Fingere crossed17:04
moveMyOldMacBookA correction on the documentation is needed - https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/install-guides/daedalus/install-devuan#images - in the verify the images section -17:15
moveMyOldMacBookgpg --verify SHA256SUMS.asc - is suggested but the archives delivers the .txt.asc file - https://www.devuan.org/get-devuan .. so the right command is verify sums.txt.asc17:16
moveMyOldMacBookoh god ...17:25
moveMyOldMacBooki initiated this command - dd if=filename.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=1M && sync17:25
moveMyOldMacBookand then...17:25
moveMyOldMacBookand then i started to read the manual pages for dd.. only to find that bs=BYTES  ... which means that 4 GB iso is being written at 1MB speed to the USB...17:27
moveMyOldMacBooki can cancel and reinstall at 512 as per man pages on dd... but do i have to reformat the disk ??17:28
moveMyOldMacBookwow.. somethings are magical.. it completed at 12.5MB/s though..17:29
moveMyOldMacBookok.. thanks for the info debdog and n4 ... i am rebooting fedora now to install devuan.. hope to see you all from devuan ..17:32
movingMacBookAm on tha partion disks screen - i chose manual partion and pur evrrything on ad suggested andò let teh installerà work - it automagicslly put 1 GB on swap - n4dir -17:56
movingMacBookSo u were right on swap - Now when i try to configure encrypted volumes i chose only the robot / partition - andò tge installerà suggested to encrypt swap as well17:58
movingMacBookAndò chose it top17:58
movingMacBookBit i nave another question - when i installed fedora - it pushed me to have /boot and /boot/EFI out of encryption volumes -18:00
movingMacBookBit the installer is nkt suggestung anything of such kind ?18:00
movingMacBookNow my question is how will system boot the boot loader if it is encrypted18:01
movingMacBookI must really put the /boot and /boot/EFI outsider the encrypted volumes right ? n4dir or debdog ??18:02
masonmovingMacBook: GRUB can deal with LUKS encryption, although I don't use that - I maintain an unencrypted /boot. But if you're feeling adventurous, you can have GRUB access an encrypted /boot.18:02
masonmovingMacBook: Haven't reviewed this in depth, but there's https://cryptsetup-team.pages.debian.net/cryptsetup/encrypted-boot.html18:03
masonThat notes a couple caveats that might make you prefer unencrypted /boot.18:03
movingMacBookI see - but whwre will GRUB sit ? - this is a macbook am trying yi dual boot and i dont wanna touch the mac boot loader EFI partition where GRUB might choose to go18:04
masonmovingMacBook: For (U)EFI systems, GRUB lives on a VFAT-formatted EFI System Partition, and that cannot be encrypted.18:05
movingMacBookSo then i must make a EFI and boot partition out of encrypted volumes18:06
movingMacBookOK - ive partioned the one needed for /boot/EFI - what is tge type i need to choose to boot?18:08
movingMacBookEFI system partion or reserved BIOS boot area ? From teh menu?18:09
movingMacBookAm unable to set linuxhfs+ partition type18:10
movingMacBookCoz it is not listed for this /boot/EFI18:10
movingMacBookand am unable to set mount point forma the partion to /boot/efi18:11
movingMacBookOK - this is complicated - am not gonna choose encryption lol18:13
n4dirif you want encrypted than the most comfortable way is to use lvm too, it gets done automatically. I ones wrote a how-to do it without lvm, the refracta forum should have it archived somewhere, but i sure forgot all the details18:16
n4diryou'd need to get a hand on fsmithred, ask him where the archives are, then search for it, shouldn't be too complicated, and the probably find out it won't help in your case18:17
n4diri did quite some stuff when i still had hope ... :-)18:19
movingMacBookWas there any suggestions ad i went offline ad phone locked??18:20
n4diri kinda confirmed that if you want encryption it complicates things quite a bit, if you don't want to use lvm (which is the same as having to do the partitioning "manual"18:22
n4dirif you can live minus the encryption, i'd go for that18:23
masonmovingMacBook: Reserved BIOS boot area is a partition type for booting a legacy bootloader using GPT partitioning. You probably don't care about that one. /boot/efi usually mounts your ESP, which is the unencrypted vfat. As for getting GRUB of any stripe to understand LUKS, I'd look at the caveats noted on the cryptsetup page I linked. If you follow the bug linked from there, it seems that GRUB has yet to18:23
masonbe updated.18:23
masonThat said, I'm AFK for a bit so I won't be able to respond further for a bit.18:24
movingMacBookI se18:24
movingMacBookThanks @mason - apprecuate the help very much18:25
movingMacBookFinally i think i figured this out and was able to setup encryptiom and partition right ... And the base system is installing ... Hope this works18:33
movingMacBookis it just me who feels tgat GNOME gas become a bloat ?18:50
n4dirthere are not many gnome users left, it seems. Many complain about it, for different reasons, one being the bloat.18:51
movingMacBookOK - am in a dilemma vere on install GRUB boot loader screen18:52
movingMacBookTgere is a warnjng18:52
movingMacBookIf installerà fails to detect anotger OS thatvalso depeends on callback18:53
movingMacBookInstalling GRUB tgere will make that OS temporariky unbootable18:54
movingMacBookI acutuallty pur a sperate partition fot reserved BIOS boot are ad mentioned by mason18:55
movingMacBookshould i force GRUB installation to EFI removable media path ?!18:55
n4diryou probably can add OS X to the grub menu later, after reboot, rather easily. Won't hurt do search the web how to add OS X to grub from linux.18:55
movingMacBookOK - i can do that18:56
n4dirdon't complain i told you to. That is what i would do, but i am more the sledgehammer kinda guy.18:56
movingMacBookso now shoukd i install tge GRUB ?18:56
n4diri sure had OS X and Linux dualboot (on a Mac) and also BSD and Linux. Both cases, pretty sure, grub was the bootloader18:57
movingMacBookAm noto gonna complain - i just font wanna messo up mac partition ans its boot up18:57
movingMacBookthe current screen says the PC is configrued to bokt via EFI and Aldo says that may ne that coniguration will not work fror booting from hard drive18:58
n4diryeah, better wait a bit. Perhaps mason will be back in a bit, or someone else with less sledgehammer approach. Good luck, am on my way to bed (looks good in general, as far i can tell from what you wrote until now)18:58
movingMacBookWhen i boot fedora GRUB did not figure out MacOS .. I had to manually choos to boot into MacOS or GRUB from the defualt Apple firmware or boot loader19:00
fsmithredmovingMacBook, if you run efibootmgr in linux it will show you all the systems that have a bootloader in the efi partition, and it should allow you to change the boot order.19:02
fsmithredIf you have two separate efi partitions, I don't really know what will happen.19:03
fsmithredHere's a good reference for efi booting: https://rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/index.html19:03
movingMacBookHmm thanks19:04
movingMacBookOK - my mac partition andboot loader are safe19:12
movingMacBookBit after reboot i can choode between grub, andò devuan19:12
movingMacBookon choosing devuan i get busy box initramf19:14
movingMacBookdropping to shell19:14
movingMacBookAlert /deve/mapper/sda5crpt does noto exist19:14
fsmithredis /boot on encrypted partition?19:14
movingMacBooknope19:14
movingMacBookI pur it outsider encryption19:14
movingMacBookput it outside encrypted parts and set it to mount point ad /boot19:15
movingMacBookhow to reboot from initramfs screen19:16
movingMacBookOh wait i fan search tgat19:16
movingMacBookVan"19:16
fsmithredcan you post the output of 'fdisk -l' and 'blkid' to paste.debian.net?19:17
movingMacBookSure one moment19:18
movingMacBookOK there is top much yo type let me gran a pic19:19
movingMacBooktoo#19:19
fsmithredok19:19
fsmithredpost it at transfer.sh19:20
fsmithredplease19:20
n4dirmovingMacBook: at least i would "fdisk -l > output_fdisk.txt" ; then pastebinit that.19:20
movingMacBookLookjng up for transfer.sh19:21
n4dirthere is more into it, redirecting error messages too, but if i can get away with redirecting the output without redirecting error messages too, i avoid having to search how to do that19:21
movingMacBookOK the transfer.sh pace isnt loadjng on my phone19:22
fsmithredor output to file like n4dir said and then you can send it to termbin.com with a simple command that gives you a short url19:22
n4dirah, on the phone, i missed that part19:22
movingMacBookis transfer.sh a website to share pics ?19:22
fsmithrednc termbin.com 9999 < fdisk.txt19:22
fsmithredyeah, they're for pics and they don't require a lot of javascript to be allowed.19:23
movingMacBookWhile that is good - the page in itself isn't loading19:23
movingMacBook:(19:23
n4dir   curl -F'file=@yourfile.png' https://0x0.st19:26
n4dirtry that19:26
n4diri got it scripted, that works, not sure if the command works just as well.19:26
fsmithredHere's a video showing the steps to create a single encrypted partition in debian-installer. Note that it took me four takes to get it right, even though I've done it many times.  http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/misc/partition_encrypt-4.ogv19:27
movingMacBookwow19:27
movingMacBookCan't curl from phone19:28
buZzthen use wget? :D19:28
fsmithredyou could email it to me19:28
movingMacBookGimme a moment19:29
movingMacBook90https://postimg.cc/q62MhWSj19:45
movingMacBook90this is fdisk -l19:45
moveMacBookI used USB instaer rescue mode and dropped into a shell19:56
moveMacBookOn fdisk I see this19:57
moveMacBookhttps://i.postimg.cc/26PFtM7t/IMG-20231221-003035-833.jpg19:58
moveMacBooksda1 and sda2 are obvious from apple19:59
moveMacBooksda3 is what I napped to biosboot on installer screen20:00
moveMacBookand sda4 1GB for /boot unencrypt20:00
moveMacBookAnd sda5 for / and sda6 for swap and sda7for home as suggested by installer which I mapped for encryption20:01
moveMacBookTotally sure its grub installation that went wrong20:02
moveMacBookRest things seems fine20:02
moveMacBookdebdog any suggestions when u gt time - thanks20:02
moveMacBooksda4 is something I mapped to reserved bios boot area from partition type20:04
debdogmoveMacBook: I've just started using GRUB (was forced to) and am not an expert. I'd use rescue mode to boot into the installed system (you have to know which parttion, of course – prolly sda5 or sda7) then start the GRUB conf process from there20:06
debdogif you select the wrong parttion nothing bad will happen, just an error message20:06
moveMacBookYes I do know its sda5 for / thanks20:07
moveMacBookI was thinking should I make sda4 into another efi and then reinstall grub20:08
debdogheh... tttttttt20:08
debdogyah... I avoid EFI if possible. so not an expert there either20:09
fsmithredmovingMacBook, what's on each of the two efi partitions you have?20:29
fsmithredPlease don't make another20:30
movingMacBookactually my network broke and I wasn't sure when it will get back20:30
movingMacBookSo instead of waiting on it - I chose to reinstall without any encryption20:30
movingMacBookSorry - I guess its too late now to debug20:31
movingMacBookBut my network came up early that's unexpected20:31
fsmithredIs it working now?20:31
movingMacBookinstalling devuan desktop environment now20:32
movingMacBookthe twist is grub installation section20:32
movingMacBookmost other things worked fine20:33
movingMacBookNow gdm3 vs slim selection20:33
movingMacBookI chose gnome flashback so gdm320:33
movingMacBookplaying with DE is boring stuff these days - a stable machine is all one needs as one grows20:34
movingMacBookmay be for beginners20:35
fsmithredgnome might not be the choice that requires the least amount of playing with20:35
fsmithredin devuan20:35
movingMacBookHmm ...interesting I purposely unselected xfce from installation seems that's alsongettjng installed20:36
fsmithredBut I've not used gnome in a decade or more20:36
movingMacBookI choose GNOME flashback and devuan DE only becoz standard gnome was too big20:36
jonadabMy philosophy on desktop environments is that they should just supply what I actually need (basic window management, task list, panel full of launchers) and otherwise get out of my way and let me do whatever I want.  I've settled on sawfish wm, MATE panel.20:37
movingMacBookI liked i3 on work machine and still prefer x11 - Wayland seems more buggy20:38
movingMacBookAnd a bit too much of resource hog20:38
jonadab80% of what I do is in screen sessions anyway, and accessed in various Konsole windows.20:38
movingMacBookSway on Wayland appealed to me for a bit20:38
jonadabI have not experimented with Wayland at all yet.  Waiting for it to be closer to fully baked.20:39
buZzi did briefly and found it to be slower than xorg20:39
jonadabHuh.  I thought its whole main talking point was being slimmed down and not as heavyweight as X11.20:40
movingMacBookOn default fedora gnome always boots with Wayland and it gave experience with over 2GB ram usage after fresh install20:40
buZzhavent seen that intent reflected in their produce :D20:40
movingMacBookHmmn ... Sysvint or openrc or runit20:40
fsmithredsysvinit has the most support20:40
jonadabWhichever you have the most experience with, or sysvinit if you don't know the difference.20:41
movingMacBookafter the baking a brick with encryption I always choose me the recommended things for devuan20:41
movingMacBookNow the interesting part grub installation20:42
jonadabThe init system is another thing that should mostly just get out of the way.20:42
jonadabAs long as it keeps the services running, it doesn't need really any more features than that.20:43
movingMacBookTotally agree - it wasn't the case with systemd - so I choose devuan20:44
movingMacBookI found devuan from https://distrochooser.de/20:45
movingMacBookThis was nice20:45
movingMacBookBTW should I force grub installation ?20:45
movingMacBookhttps://postimg.cc/gallery/pzyzCGF20:45
movingMacBookfsmithred  - this is most important step for me20:46
movingMacBookI don't understand EFI removable media path!!20:47
movingMacBookdoes that mean from my USB drive ?20:47
fsmithredthat's optional20:48
movingMacBookj think I chose yes for that the first time and that may have messed up20:49
fsmithredit means it will boot as if were a usb drive  i.e. put the bootloader at EFI/BOOT (I think)20:49
fsmithredsometimes you need to do that if it won't boot the other way20:49
movingMacBookBoot success20:51
movingMacBookGNOME running20:51
* jonadab hates EFI so very very much.20:51
fsmithredcool!20:51
movingMacBookThanks all20:51
jonadabI mean, having the limit of four partitions per physical disk lifted, is conceptually nice.  Though not really that important.20:51
fsmithredyw, and enjoy devuan20:51
jonadabEvery single other thing about EFI is terrible.20:52
fsmithredjonadab, you don't need efi to use gpt20:52
movingMacBookTrue20:52
fsmithredjust need to make a bios_grub partition (ef02) at least 1MB and no filesystem20:52
movingMacBookBut fediora force me to separate a /boot/efi out of encryption when it figured there's a diff OS along side during start of installer20:53
jonadabmovingMacBook: I tried that distro chooser thing you linked; and it came up with Devuan as my first recommendation (followed by Gentoo and then Void).20:54
fsmithredI need to go outside for a bit before the sun goes down. Later...20:54
movingMacBookFor Me opensuse came up as well then20:54
movingMacBookCiao and thanks20:54
jonadabfsmithred: Oh?  I was not aware that legacy BIOS firmware supported gpt.20:55
fsmithredgrub just needs some extra space to deal with it20:56
jonadabAh.20:56
jonadabInteresting.20:56
jonadabOne of these years I'm going to look into open source firmware.20:57
fsmithredyou and me both20:57
fsmithredI'm afraid to mess with the bios on an old thinkpad I've got20:58
fsmithredmess with meaning replace20:58
fsmithredbbl20:58
jonadabYeah, it's risky to mess with the firmware on a working system.  I once bricked a motherboard that way.20:59
jonadabStill don't know what I did wrong.20:59
sfoxfsmithred, thinkpad bioses are meant to be messed with21:08
sfoxjust retain a backup of the stock bios because if you ever want to flash the embedded controller that can only be done through an undocumented method with oem firmware21:08
CERAPIOhello22:27
CERAPIOI still couldn't get the audio to work in Daedalus22:28
CERAPIOi am CEP o CEP-stafe22:29
peterrooneyCERAPIO: what did you do after installing the realtek card, what did you expect would happen, and what did happen?22:34
CERAPIOpeterrooney It is an Asus x555la laptop, onboard audio. I installed Daedalus from scratch and it does not recognize it. I installed some firmware, but still no audio devices22:44
gnarfaceCERAPIO: i asked some follow up questions yesterday but you never answered22:46
gnarfacealso, you said it shows up in lspci which suggests your initial diagnosis is inaccurate22:47
gnarfacethere's several things that could still be the issue, we need to check22:47
debdog(lspci -k)22:49
gnarfacethe first one was just that you need to clarify whether you get an error or not when you try to run "speaker-test -c 2 -t wav"22:49
gnarfaceyou just said "he doesn't recognize me" which... could mean anything22:50
CERAPIOgnarface sory, full work22:58
gnarfaceCERAPIO: i assume you mean you're at work and too busy to answer, that's fine. just find your scrollback later and post your answers or new questions here, i'll see it eventually.23:01
CERAPIOlspci -k:23:07
CERAPIOAudio device: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Audio Controller (rev 09)23:07
CERAPIO        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Broadwell-U Audio Controller23:07
CERAPIO        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel23:07
CERAPIO        Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel23:07
CERAPIOand23:07
CERAPIOAudio device: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)23:08
CERAPIO        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller23:08
CERAPIO        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel23:08
CERAPIO        Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel23:08
_ds_Hmm. Seems that that hw has two audio devices – I'd start by pastebinning the content of /proc/asound/cards23:10
_ds_(ah, never mind, both listed)23:11
_ds_(but still possibly useful)23:11
_ds_– then again, probably just four lines; could paste here23:13
gnarfaceCERAPIO: what about the "speaker-test -c 2 -t wav" command test? can you clarify if you get an error or if it says it's working but is just quiet?23:13
gnarfaceit shows up named properly in lspci so at least the driver recognizes it, that's not a guarantee it will work but it's an important qualifier23:14
_ds_Other things: check (via something such as alsamixer) that the audio isn't muted23:14
CERAPIO"speaker-test -c 2 -t wav"  :23:14
CERAPIOPlayback device is default23:14
CERAPIOStream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels23:14
CERAPIOWAV file(s)23:14
CERAPIOPlayback open error: -112,El `host' no está operativo23:14
gnarfacehang on, translate.google.com to the rescue!23:16
_ds_errno 112 == host is down23:16
_ds_(EHOSTDOWN)23:16
gnarfacesounds like a pulseaudio error? i don't recall seeing that before23:16
gnarfaceCERAPIO: try it like this: speaker-test -c 2 -t wav -D hw:0,023:17
bb|hcb_ds_: dev1galaxy.org ipv6 should be good now23:19
_ds_You can substitute other numbers (see the card and device numbers listed by “aplay -l”, e.g. card 1 device 2 = hw:1,2)23:19
CERAPIOSorry, I didn't see that it was in Spanish, I from Argentina23:19
gnarfaceyea, CERAPIO, if -D hw:0,0 doesn't work, try something like -D hw:1,0 next23:20
_ds_bb|hcb, no obvious access problems from here ☺23:20
_ds_hw:1,0 may not exist – see “aplay -l”23:20
bb|hcbDNS propagation takes time...23:20
gnarfaceCERAPIO: yea, "aplay -l" should give you a list of options, though it might be hard to read at first...23:20
_ds_Example:23:21
_ds_card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]23:21
_ds_⇒ hw:1,323:21
CERAPIOThanks, I'm following and writing the commands. Yes, I went to bed last night, I was very tired, a thousand apologies.23:21
CERAPIOpipewire, no pulse23:21
gnarface"host is down" might be a pipewire error too... bare alsa doesn't use networking23:23
gnarfacethis might be easier to debug if you stop pipewire first to make sure alsa is actually working, since either way pipewire will depend on it23:25
_ds_gnarface, https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dsalt/bb6a03e56614b586ed01171c1ab82c14/raw/6012f7956e29be43d1a3935dd84713bce016199b/errno.py – feed that script errno values23:25
_ds_(or, for that matter, names such as ENOENT)23:26
CERAPIOPlayback device is hw:0,023:29
CERAPIOStream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels23:29
CERAPIOWAV file(s)23:29
CERAPIOPlayback open error: -2,the directory does not exist23:29
gnarface_ds_: isn't there something already in the distro that can do this?23:29
_ds_gnarface, haven't looked; probably23:29
gnarfaceCERAPIO: that's a clue! try the other hw:X,Y ones23:30
CERAPIOaplay -l :23:31
CERAPIO**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****23:31
CERAPIOcard 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]23:31
CERAPIO  Subdevices: 1/123:31
CERAPIO  Subdevice #0: subdevice #023:31
CERAPIOcard 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]23:31
CERAPIO  Subdevices: 1/123:31
CERAPIO  Subdevice #0: subdevice #023:31
CERAPIOcard 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]23:31
CERAPIO  Subdevices: 1/123:31
CERAPIO  Subdevice #0: subdevice #023:31
CERAPIOcard 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3236 Analog [ALC3236 Analog]23:31
CERAPIO  Subdevices: 1/123:31
CERAPIO  Subdevice #0: subdevice #023:31
gnarfaceCERAPIO: yep, it needs to be hw:1,0 for sure...23:32
_ds_Was just about to ask whether card 0 was HDMI – here, if it were, hw:0,0 wouldn't exist23:32
_ds_Hopefully that's persistent across reboots.23:32
_ds_Probably will be.23:33
gnarfaceCERAPIO: hw:1,0 is your speakers and headphones, hw:0,3 hw:0,7 and hw:0,8 are all HDMI outputs, so you'd only be using them if you're putting audio through to your display23:33
CERAPIOExcuse me, how do I stop pipewire?23:33
gnarfaceCERAPIO: uh... good question, but if it's not "/etc/init.d/pipewire stop" i don't know23:34
_ds_Laptop… one HDMI socket, so only one of those HDMI outputs will work. You'll need to test to see which one.23:34
gnarfacei'm not using pipewire anywhere23:34
_ds_“invoke-rc.d pipewire stop” (as root), I expect23:34
joergCERAPIO: please use a pastebin for pastes >3 lines23:34
gnarfacejoerg: do you happen to know how to temporarily disable pipwire?23:35
joergsorry, no23:35
CERAPIOPlayback device is hw:1,023:37
CERAPIOleft and right sound is heard23:37
gnarfacehooraaay!23:38
gnarfacewell that's progress23:38
gnarfacenow you just have to make that one the new default23:38
CERAPIOcard 0 is hdmi,23:38
gnarfaceyea, that's correct23:39
gnarfacethe worst part is, we don't know for sure they'll stay in that order on reboot23:40
gnarfacethey probably will in this case, since they're both onboard pci bus devices... but stranger things have happened in alsa23:41
CERAPIOinvoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/pipewire not found.23:41
debdoghuh23:41
CERAPIOjoerg sorry23:41
gnarfaceCERAPIO: don't worry, about stopping pipewire just yet, we already found the problem23:42
gnarfaceCERAPIO: someone just figured out how to fix this issue in another channel i was in, hang on i'll paste their explanation23:42
gnarface<Maeda> gnarface: OK problem solved with something not too tricky (in my opinion). First search for vendorID and productID using lsusb (vid:pid), then edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and add this line `options snd-usb-audio index=1,0 vid=0x####,0x#### pid=0x####,0x####` where first vid si the one of the card to be in second (index 1), followed by vid of main card I want (index 0). Same logic for pid (productID).23:42
_ds_FWIW, I have the following in /etc/modprobe.d/00-local.conf:23:43
_ds_options snd-hda-intel           index=1,-123:43
_ds_That should renumber the HDMI audio as card 1, with the other card defaulting to 023:43
gnarface<Maeda> Do not foget the 0x before pid and vid. A reboot to apply to do of course! Thank you :)23:43
gnarfaceCERAPIO: note that in this example from Maeda he uses /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf but _ds_'s example uses /etc/modprobe.d/00-local.conf, which is probably a better idea so it won't get clobbered by package updates... but all that actually is required is that the file name ends with .conf23:44
_ds_Doesn't have to be a reboot – as root, “modprobe -r snd-hda-intel; modprobe snd-hda-intel” may be sufficient to apply the new configuration23:44
gnarfaceCERAPIO: oh, and sorry, in Maeda's example, he's using snd-usb-audio but for you that would be snd-hda-intel23:44
gnarfaceand yea, a reboot isn't strictly necessary it's just the simplest way23:45
gnarfaceCERAPIO: _ds_'s approach is less specific but probably easier, try that first23:46
CERAPIOvery good, now I try it,23:48
* _ds_ sees no obvious equivalent to snd-usb-audio's vid & pid parameters in snd-hda-intel23:50
gnarfaceoh? it's not something i've ever tested here, but i had assumed it would need to have them23:51
gnarfacebut snd-usb-audio would be the one that's expected to be re-used more commonly i guess23:51
_ds_Might be ’id’, but it's not clear from modinfo output23:51
gnarfacewell, hopefully it won't come to it, but theoretically this could also be taken care of from ~/.asoundrc23:52
gnarfaceor even pavucontrol23:52
gnarface(i think someone told me pavucontrol is also used by pipewire, anyway)23:53
_ds_Ah, just found something: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1405016#p140501623:53
gnarfaceit seemed like pipewire sometimes can be set up to depend on pulseaudio and sometimes not? i'm not clear on the whole picture23:53
gnarface_ds_: ah, yea that looks legit23:54
_ds_In this case, swapping the index numbers over would help: “options snd-hda-intel id=PCH,HDMI index=0,1”23:54
CERAPIOno files in /etc/modprobe.d/23:55
_ds_Create one, then23:55
gnarfaceCERAPIO: just create your own, all that matters is it ends with .conf23:55
gnarfaceCERAPIO: it's better in fact to create your own in there, though weird that there aren't any already...23:55
CERAPIOand what do I write in the new file?23:59
CERAPIO(install from an image on the usb, netinstall)23:59

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