I'm trying to use Brother MFC-L2710DW multifunction printer/scanner with my Devuan ASCII machine (which is just like Debian Stretch but without systemd). At first, this seemed to work: I printed a couple of test pages, I scanned, life was good. (This was over wireless with a fixed IP address for the printer.) Now, a few days later, I'm trying to print again - and nothing gets printed! The notices which come up (I use Cinnamon, CUPS) say the job has been sent to the printer, and the queue is empty, but the printer says it's sleeping and does nothing. The printer responds to pinging to its IP address. It also manages to scan images just fine. I tried connecting the printer via USB, and supposedly this succeeded - but again, no pages come out. I used the printer's test print function (not through the computer), and that's fine too. Finally, I've now used my laptop (running Lubuntu 18.04) to test: Made the same installation, and a test page prints. What's going on and how can I get my Devuan system to print again? **Edit:** Still seeing this all the way to 2025. I often have to reinstall the printer driver, which often works; then the newly-reinstalled printer stops printing again after a while.

For the past couple of weeks or so, I've noticed that, often, when I press the Tab key to try and complete a command in a bash shell in a terminal, I get an error message. It says:

bash: _split_longopt: command not found

What could cause this, and how can I fix it? Notes: * The file /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion is present, and I haven't modified it myself. It has a function named _comp__split_longopt. Note: I'm using Devuan Excalibur (~= Debian Trixie without systemd).

I just ran apt-get upgrade on my system, and as part of the installation (which includes many hundreds of packages), apt-listchanges brought up some text document. Unfortunately, I dismissed it before reading it, and now - I don't know what the maintainer wanted to tell me, nor which package it relates to ! :-( Is there a way I could bring up that changelog / notifications document, again? Notes: * You may assume I've not used apt again since this happened. * I'm using Devuan GNU/Linux Exaclibur, although that should probably not matter. apt version is: 2.9.33devuan1

I'm using a Debian-based OS distribution (Devuan, to be specific). I'm trying to use the apt-add-repository Python-based program, which is part of the software-properties-common package . Unfortunately, running it - fails, and I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apt-add-repository", line 361, in 
    addaptrepo = AddAptRepository()
  File "/usr/bin/apt-add-repository", line 39, in __init__
    self.distro.get_sources(self.sourceslist)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 92, in get_sources
    raise NoDistroTemplateException(
    ......
    )
aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException: Error: could not find a distribution template for devuan/excalibur ceres

I've gone over the script itself - the "templates" are not there; I've also looked through a couple of potential files it imports, also no luck, or perhaps I've missed something. My questions: * Where are those "distribution templates" actually located? * How can I add a template to suit my distribution?

Temporary failure resolving 'deb.devuan.org' Err:5 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera/main i386 libmagickwand-6.q16-6 i386 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3+deb11u1 Temporary failure resolving 'deb.devuan.org' E: Failed to fetch http://deb.devuan.org/merged/pool/DEBIAN/main/libh/libheif/libheif1_1.11.0-1_i386.deb Temporary failure resolving 'deb.devuan.org' E: Failed to fetch http://deb.devuan.org/merged/pool/DEBIAN/main/libl/liblqr/liblqr-1-0_0.4.2-2.1_i386.deb Temporary failure resolving 'deb.devuan.org' E: Failed to fetch http://deb.devuan.org/merged/pool/DEBIAN-SECURITY/updates/main/i/imagemagick/imagemagick-6-common_6.9.11.60%2bdfsg-1.3%2bdeb11u1_all.deb Temporary failure resolving 'deb.devuan.org' E: Failed to fetch http://deb.devuan.org/merged/pool/DEBIAN-SECURITY/updates/main/i/imagemagick/libmagickcore-6.q16-6_6.9.11.60%2bdfsg-1.3%2bdeb11u1_i386.deb Temporary failure resolving 'deb.devuan.org' E: Failed to fetch http://deb.devuan.org/merged/pool/DEBIAN/main/c/chafa/chafa_1.6.0-1_i386.deb Temporary failure resolving 'deb.devuan.org' E: Failed to fetch http://deb.devuan.org/merged/pool/DEBIAN/main/n/neofetch/neofetch_7.1.0-2_all.deb Temporary failure resolving 'deb.devuan.org' E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? and this with any package what i want install

Got a ~10 year old laptop that sometimes has problems with monitor coming back from sleep requiring battery to be pulled to fix. Forums mentioned Lightdm and lightlocker possibly being issues. I swapped Lightdm to LXDM fine, but it looks like light locker is still there. I'm trying to figure out where light locker fits in the proccess, but I can't even recall where the script LXDM kicks off my desktop session resides, so I'm asking you guys. Thnaks

At some point in the lifetime of my present Devuan (stable) installation, I edited an entry in /etc/init.d, in this specific case, /etc/init.d/halt. This may have been as early as Jesse or Beowulf, dist upgraded now to Daedalus via Chimaera. It has been a good while so I cannot recall but I may have used jed (my usual), nano or the mc editor. The thing is that, as a result, I ended up with two entries:

/etc/init.d/halt

/etc/init.d/halt~

At that time and thinking that the newly generated entry (obviously a backup) would just stay there, I left it at that. ie: by *stay there* I mean oblivious as to what was going on within the system and *not* taken into account.

~$ ls -1 /etc/init.d
--- snip ---
halt
--- snip ---
halt~
--- snip ---
~$

While I have a look at my log files every fortnight or so to see if I catch anything strange, I don't do the same with running services unless it is warranted. eg: something seems to be amiss or the latest CUPS/cups-browsed CVE thing which had everyone scrambling. So I had a look at and, to my surprise, found this:

~$ sudo service --status-all
--- snip ---
 [ - ]  halt~     <- this is the *backup* file being loaded.
--- snip ---
~$

As I have explained, both files are present in /etc/init.d and have the same attributes. They also have the same size because, for testing purposes, I have edited the original file to reflect the contents of the backup file.

~$ ls -l /etc/init.d/halt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1417 Sep 29 08:01 /etc/init.d/halt
~$

~$ ls -l /etc/init.d/halt~
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1417 Sep 28 07:56 /etc/init.d/halt~
~$

Can anyone tell me *why* the backup file is being loaded instead of the edited file? ie: /etc/init.d/halt~ instead of /etc/init.d/halt. What have I missed / done the *wrong* way? Where should I be looking?

**Synaptic, Google Earth, xterm etc are not working in Gnome wayland sessions.** I am using Devuan Daedalus (Testing) and it is stable, except for some offending apps like synaptic, xterm, Google Earth Pro etc which are not working. I can see these processes are running in the background, but no drawing (UI) works. However, these apps works fine in X11 (Xorg) session. On Ubuntu 21.04 with the same Gnome-40, these apps are working. :~# ps aux |grep earth devuan 6623 0.0 0.0 6768 3176 pts/1 S+ 11:55 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/google-earth-pro devuan 6626 20.2 2.2 3425868 178644 pts/1 Sl+ 11:55 0:01 /opt/google/earth/pro/googleearth-bin :~# ps aux |grep xterm devuan 6741 0.3 0.1 24588 10296 pts/1 S+ 11:56 0:00 xterm :~# ps aux |grep synaptic devuan 6781 0.0 0.0 2432 672 pts/1 S+ 11:57 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/synaptic-pkexec root 6782 8.7 1.4 475756 119188 pts/1 Sl+ 11:57 0:01 /usr/sbin/synaptic

After upgrading a non-systemd VM from Debian 11 Bullseye to Debian 12 Bookworm, I started seeing upon boot, the message: init: No inittab.d directory found during boot log What to do?

I am using GNU/Linux (Devuan) with the mate desktop and with i3wm. I would like to assign mod1 to Meta_L. If I show the current assignment with $ xmodmap I get mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Meta_L (0xcd) So I tried the following: $ xmodmap -e "clear mod1" $ xmodmap xmodmap: up to 4 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses): ... mod1 and then $ xmodmap -e "add mod1 = Meta_L" $ xmodmap ... mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Meta_L (0xcd) So, I am getting the old assignment back. I am not sure what is happening. Am I doing something wrong or is xmodmap or some other program ignoring / overriding my assignment?

I run Devuan GNU/Linux Excalibur (i.e. Debian trixie without systemd), with Firefox v123. Recently, I've been getting errors trying to browse content involving videos (yes, from the accursed social media sites, e.g. twitter) in browser windows. I get a gray area and the message: "No video with supported format and MIME type found". Now, first, I'm not even told what MIME type + format combinations _were_ found; how can I figure that out? And second - how can I stack up on more MIME+format combination support?

Trying to install wireguard / wireguard-tools on a Raspberry Pi3b running Devuan Chimaera. Get blocked in generating the system images --- see below: dpkg: error processing package linux-image-rt-arm64 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-5.10.0-27-rt-arm64 linux-image-rt-arm64 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) root@there:~# dpkg --configure linux-image-5.10.0-27-rt-arm64 Setting up linux-image-5.10.0-27-rt-arm64 (5.10.205-2) ... /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms: dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 5.10.0-27-rt-arm64:. /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-27-rt-arm64 Creating initrd.gz. cp: target '/boot/initrd.gz': No such file or directory run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//99-initrd exited with return code 1 run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1 dpkg: error processing package linux-image-5.10.0-27-rt-arm64 (--configure): installed linux-image-5.10.0-27-rt-arm64 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-5.10.0-27-rt-arm64 --- This after several runs through, tried after using apt-get satisfy, or dpkg --configure. I end up with the trace above or similar - but always failing to build linux-image-5.10.0-27-rt-arm64 I eventually will just rebuild but I'd hate to have to reinstall all the stuff on that little box :-( Thanks!

I have a few dozen cron jobs, which run every day, for backups. - I don't want to receive an email for only failed jobs, as I won't know when the email fails. - I don't want to receive an email for every job, as that would be too many to check. I would like a single daily email report of the exit codes of those jobs. Ideally the subject line will change if any of the exit codes are non-zero. My current thought is that I will turn these jobs into a single shell script which can collect the return codes and then send the email. Getting a single daily report from cron seems like a common requirement. Are there already tools or settings which will do this for me?

I'm on Dell Latitude 3420, Devuan Daedalus GNU/Linux (based on Debian Bookworm, without systemd), I connect to internet via mobile hotspot (using Android Phone's mobile data) at home and through a router installed by a service provider at office. Recently, I have not been able to connect to internet at office, both ethernet and WiFi. WiFi and LAN icons show that they are connected to the router, but no internet access. Can someone please help me out? What further information would be needed from my end? I'm a Linux user since 2010. Quite used to CLI commands. Windows OS on other office PCs connect well to the router. Please edit tags if necessary. Regards, **EDIT** *resolvconf.conf*

# Configuration for resolvconf(8)
# See resolvconf.conf(5) for details

resolv_conf=/etc/resolv.conf
# If you run a local name server, you should uncomment the below line and
# configure your subscribers configuration files below.
#name_servers=127.0.0.1


# Mirror the Debian package defaults for the below resolvers
# so that resolvconf integrates seemlessly.
dnsmasq_resolv=/var/run/dnsmasq/resolv.conf
pdnsd_conf=/etc/pdnsd.conf
unbound_conf=/etc/unbound/unbound.conf.d/resolvconf_resolvers.conf

If I download and try to build GCC 8.x on a newer machine, e.g. Devuan Excalibur GNU/Linux (i.e. Debian Trixie without systemd) - this fails, with the error going something like this:

libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.30' not found

If I manually copy my system's libstdc++6.so over the file missing the relevant [?] - and repeat the process a few times - I get to a different error:

make: Entering directory '/usr/local/src/gcc-8.5.0/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/32/libitm'
In file included from /usr/include/linux/fs.h:19,
                 from ../../.././libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_platform_limits_posix.cc:68:
/usr/include/linux/mount.h:96:6: error: multiple definition of ‘enum fsconfig_command’
 enum fsconfig_command {
      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from ../../.././libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_platform_limits_posix.cc:55:
/usr/local/src/gcc-8.5.0/host-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc/include-fixed/sys/mount.h:249:6: note: previous definition here
 enum fsconfig_command
      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /usr/include/linux/fs.h:19,
                 from ../../.././libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_platform_limits_posix.cc:68:
/usr/include/linux/mount.h:130:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct mount_attr’
 struct mount_attr {
        ^~~~~~~~~~
In file included from ../../.././libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_platform_limits_posix.cc:55:
/usr/local/src/gcc-8.5.0/host-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc/include-fixed/sys/mount.h:219:8: note: previous definition of ‘struct mount_attr’
 struct mount_attr
        ^~~~~~~~~~

which is weird, but perhaps my fault for trying to force the library version. Anyway - how can I GCC 8.5.0 to actually build on my machine? Note: * The configuration is: ./configure --disable-bootstrap --enable-languages=c,c++. * Any additional information will be provided per request.

I want to install some Python package pandasql system-wide, on a Devuan (or Debian) system. It's in the Python Package Index, but - there doesn't seem to be a (dpkg) package for it; let's assume that there actually isn't. Now, if I try to pip install pandasql, I get a message suggesting I use a virtual environment:

× This environment is externally managed
╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install
    python3-xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to
    install.
    
    If you wish to install a non-Debian-packaged Python package,
    create a virtual environment using python3 -m venv path/to/venv.
    Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and path/to/venv/bin/pip. Make
    sure you have python3-full installed.
    
    If you wish to install a non-Debian packaged Python application,
    it may be easiest to use pipx install xyz, which will manage a
    virtual environment for you. Make sure you have pipx installed.
    
    See /usr/share/doc/python3.11/README.venv for more information.

... but virtual environments are not what I want to do: I want to install foo system-wide. How can I do that? *Notes*: * If possible, please answer more generally than just regarding pandasql. * Devuan Excalibur (~= Debian Trixie), Python 3.11.6, x86_64 machine

After dist-upgrade'ing my distribution (Devuan Daedalus to Excalibur), and trying to run celluloid, I get the error:

(io.github.celluloid_player.Celluloid:16054): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: 
17:33:53.331: Settings schema 'io.github.celluloid-player.Celluloid' does not contain
a key named 'menubar-accel-enable'

How can I fix, or ignore, this problem? The celluloid version is 0.25. **edit:** Currently seeing this with 0.26 .

I need to install a Linux system I will not provide support for, on an old laptop that's going to be donated. It has a Core Duo T3400 processor (2-core, 2.16 GHz), 4 GB of RAM, and a 320 GB HDD (and a noisy fan... ) If it were a 2 GB machine, I would probably install anti-X on it. But with 4 GB... would it be responsive enough and bear the load of a (64-bit) Devuan installation? And if so - shall I choose a more lightweight window manager, or will XFCE4 or Cinnamon be ok? PS - If you only have experience with Debian, that would also be acceptable as an answer.

Suppose I want to install a Python package system-wide on a Debian/Devuan system. Some PyPI packages have DEB packages available via the repository's apt sources, with package names prefixed by python3- (or python-, depending on Debian version). But - not all of them do. Now, I can always roll my own DEB package , but - how do I know whether my package of interest is: * actually missing; * available, but under another name (shorter form, longer-form, traditional name now changed on PyPI etc.); or * available, but bundled with other PyPI packages ? Is there a simple mapping rule, or someplace I could query with a PyPI package name and get the apt package name?

Let's make a jump in the past,coming back to the network configuration of the old ARM Chromebook model xe303c12. Today I've bought the "pugable usb to ethernet adapter" and yes,I think that it may work out of the box. Infact I can see that when plugged in,Linux is able to create the network adapter,called "enx8cae4cd6c871" (renamed to eth0) and the device is listed between the dmesg messages : # dmesg | grep eth0 [1.416705] ax88179_178a 4-1:1.0 eth0: register 'ax88179_178a' at usb-xhci-hcd.1.auto-1, ASIX AX88179 USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet, 8c:ae:4c:d6:c8:71 [3.773464] ax88179_178a 4-1:1.0 enx8cae4cd6c871: renamed from eth0 this is the /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Ethernet-eth0.nmconnection : [connection] id=Ethernet uuid=cef595d5-43d9-4ae3-b5d4-55920ebdee39 type=ethernet interface-name=eth0 [ethernet] mac-address=8C:AE:4C:D6:C8:71 [ipv4] method=auto [ipv6] addr-gen-mode=stable-privacy method=auto [proxy] Do you see some mistakes ? this is how looks eth0 : enx8cae4cd6c871: flags=4099 mtu 1500 ether 8c:ae:4c:d6:c8:71 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 I tried : # dhclient enx8cae4cd6c871 but an IP is not assigned and I'm not connected to the Internet using that adapter. It makes no difference to add this to /etc/network/interfaces or not : auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 (or enx8cae4cd6c871) iface eth0 (or enx8cae4cd6c871) inet dhcp you may consider useful to know this : # nmcli d s DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION mlan0 wifi collegato ziomario (connected) lo loopback connected (externally) lo (connected) p2p-dev-mlan0 wifi-p2p disconnesso -- (disconnected) enx8cae4cd6c871 ethernet non disponibile -- (not available) sit0 iptunnel non gestito -- (not managed)