libera/#devuan/ Friday, 2020-09-04

systemdlete2Noop.  That time it worked.00:00
systemdlete2Let me check c1e, bbs.00:00
systemdlete2OK, so I disabled C1e on the testbox.  I see that sensors is installed, but afaik, there is no monitoring going on.00:08
systemdlete2At least, I don't see anything that calls out.00:08
systemdlete2Oh... almost forgot.  I do have xen installed on this system.  But I'm not actively running any VMs with it.00:09
systemdlete2(this is beowulf btw)00:09
systemdlete2kernel is 5.4.000:09
systemdlete2gnarface:  Let's see if/what happens next.00:10
Xelraagave up after 2 hrs trying to compile old libssl and just installed wheezy in 20 mins, those were the good times when debian didnt suck01:02
fsmithredyeah, I liked wheezy01:04
fsmithredXelraa, I have to go out for a few minutes, but I'll be back. I don't understand why you had to compile libssl. I built partimage with no problems, both amd64 and i386. Be back soon..01:06
user11roughly what % of users are against sytemd because they're older/used to sysvinit and what % are against it for other reasons...doing all the things, centralized control by redhat/ibm, binary logs, perhaps privacy or security issues01:13
djphuser11: 10001:13
user11i feel like the avg user here is older/"veteran" linux user, compared to other irc rooms01:13
djphperhaps01:13
systemdlete48.73% favor biden01:13
user11lol01:14
systemdleteabout 33.3% recommend trident sugarless gum for their patients.01:14
systemdlete(last I heard, that is)01:14
user11i mean...jokes aside, maybe debianfork is better channel for this, but Im often seeing ppl with decades experience here01:15
systemdleteThe rest favor outlawing the law of gravity.01:15
rrquser11: there's no "maybe01:15
rrq about that01:15
systemdleteHave you tried googling for this info?01:15
yanmaaniI'm the latter01:15
yanmaanisystemdlete: I don't think there's polling on this lol01:16
brocashelmnot true. i'm still pretty new to gnu/linux (using mint three years ago) and hate systemd. i don't like bloat/security loopholes01:16
systemdleteI just ***LOOOOOVE*** bloat and security holes01:16
systemdleteAnd poorly written code.01:16
systemdleteLove it, love it, love it!01:16
brocashelmrms also loves it because it's """"free software"""" anyway01:17
djph"loves"01:17
yanmaaniThe security is at least OK I think. I just don't trust Lennart Poettering.01:17
user11its also to see if were gaining younger/newer users/devs...01:17
djphI believe he stated he's not familiar enough with the code to comment on it, but "yep, it's free software"01:18
fsmithreduser11, for the first couple years we had people who did not want systemd right from the start.01:18
fsmithredthe last couple years we've gotten a bunch of people who were fine with using systemd until they used for some time, then they came running here.01:18
brocashelmi never understood why devuan shipped with pulseaudio if systemd/poetteringshit is to be avoided01:19
systemdleteme either.  Or avahi daemon01:19
brocashelmpulseaudio is simply broken, unstable shit01:19
fsmithredtask-whatever-desktop packages promote bloat with all the deps01:19
brocashelmit can easily be replaced. avahi is harder because of so many dependencies01:19
fsmithredso you get a FULL desktop experience01:19
yanmaanibrocashelm: because the goal is just to make it possible to avoid systemd01:20
yanmaaniand that needs a distro01:20
brocashelmi understand that01:20
yanmaaniwith patches and stuff01:20
yanmaaniyou can remove pulseaudio, no? You don't need any special patches to anything or so01:20
fsmithredavoiding pulseaudio and avahi are easy - just don't install them01:20
fsmithredor remove, yeah01:20
brocashelmyou can. i was just wondering why they come as defaults01:20
fsmithredinherited defaults from debian01:21
systemdleteFor a while, there was that nasty browsers dependency, but I think the natives got so restless that mozilla et al gave in.01:21
fsmithredff-esr doesn't need PA, but I think regular ff does01:21
systemdleteapulse solved that... mostly.01:22
brocashelmyeah, apulse is good01:22
fsmithredyeah, apulse works with tor-browser01:22
brocashelmi stick with alsa and never had any problems01:22
user11fsmithred: even future ff-esr's like 78 ? still no PA dep?01:22
systemdleteWasn't there some huge, enormous, gargantuan software company that dominated every market space that decided to braze their browser onto their operating system kernel?    It was such a great idea, that Redhat did the same.01:23
user11firefox is annoying me more and more...they're discussing removing user.js, or perhaps requiring a mention in prefs.js to specifically allow it01:23
fsmithredI'm not sure about 7801:23
systemdleteI can no longer order wings at my favorite restaurant because of js01:24
systemdleteLast count they had at least 29 javascripts running on the checkout page -- it no longer accepts the same credit card I've been using there for ages.01:24
user11my govt is sending my medical/citizen data to big tech cloud against my will01:24
brocashelmwhat would be interesting is a debian- or devuan-based distro that not only excluded systemd, but also gnome, pulseaudio, etc. packages01:24
brocashelmi know slackware doesn't provide gnome packages01:24
fsmithredguys... OT01:24
systemdleteI was told to stop blocking their javascripts.   Somehow, I need to give google and Mark Zuckerberg my personal info.01:25
user11brocashelm: theres hyperbola thats real strict about no-poeterring, its arch01:25
yanmaanibrocashelm: To what end? Just don't install them01:25
systemdleteWe'd better shut it before u-no-hoo comes and makes us shut it.01:26
fsmithredI already did that01:27
systemdleteWell, you must say it LOUDER, fsmithred!01:27
brocashelmthe OT wasn't loud enough?01:27
systemdleteseems not...01:28
systemdletesome of us are obedience challenged, sorry.01:28
fsmithredXelraa, are you around?01:30
systemdlete2ntp does not update my clock.  I tried service ntp stop; ntpd -gq; service ntp start, but so far, not results.02:58
systemdlete2I note that the server I specified in /etc/ntp.conf does not seem to be used, or at least the output of ntpd -gq does not indicate it is referencing it.02:58
systemdlete2The time server seems to be working for all of my other clients.02:59
systemdlete2(ntpdate is deprecated)02:59
yanmaanisystemdlete2: what does ntpq -p give you?02:59
yanmaanialso, ntp is slow by design03:00
systemdlete2well, considering ntpd is running, ntpq fails03:00
systemdlete2ah, restarted the daemon03:00
systemdlete2I forgot it was down thanks to all my fiddling trying to make it work03:00
fsmithredntpdate still works03:01
systemdlete2yeah, ntpq does show that it is seeing my LAN time server03:01
systemdlete2fsmithred:  Hasn't the pope declared that ntpdate is no longer holy?03:01
gnarfaceis the time server linux, or BSD?03:01
systemdlete2Linux03:02
gnarfacesame version?03:02
systemdlete2eh... not sure03:02
systemdlete2wouldn't there be errors somewhere showing incompatibility?03:02
gnarfaceyes03:02
systemdlete2I don't see /var/log/ntp.log or anything like it.  Just /var/log/ntpstats, which is empty directory03:03
gnarfacein /var/log or somewhere in ntpq (or both, i would presume)03:03
fsmithredI just ran ntpdate in chmaera 10 seconds ago03:03
danuannever used ntp, but cant it be launched in debug mode and not a service ?03:03
gnarfaceah03:03
gnarfacesystemdlete2: fyi *all* daemons default to outputting to /var/log/daemon.log, just fyi03:03
systemdlete2yeah, ok03:03
systemdlete2that's true03:03
gnarfacesystemdlete2: (a debianism, i think)03:03
systemdlete2kernel reports TIME_ERROR: 0x2041: Clock Unsynchronized03:04
systemdlete2might be the smoking gun03:04
danuanis it not there to synchronize it ?03:05
yanmaanisystemdlete2: Does the delay column in ntpq say anything?03:05
danuan:003:05
systemdlete2the ntp server is 4.2.8p1503:05
systemdlete2delay is .57203:05
yanmaaniWell, is the time server synchronized?03:06
systemdlete2Yes!  I checked it against nist.gov03:06
systemdlete2The server is within a second of the actual time.03:06
gnarfacewell, here's what i would do, i would stop it, then run ntpdate, then start it again, and see if it behaves itself after that, and if not, blame the time server03:07
systemdlete2And other systems on the network are sync'ing fine.  The problem is on beowulf btw03:07
crashoverridefsmithred: could you maybe copy debian/grubx64.efi to BOOT/bootx64.efi during the installation process?03:07
yanmaaniI would consider just adding another server03:07
yanmaanito the ntpd list03:07
yanmaaniand see what happens03:07
crashoverridefsmithred: the standard sets this location ans those names03:07
fsmithredcrashoverride, you probably could do that03:08
fsmithredalt-f2 in the installer will bring you to a root console03:08
crashoverrideI mean, as the installer default03:08
systemdlete2gnarface:  If I had ntpdate installed, I'd have done that already.   But the regime has declared ntpdate an outlaw.  (It's not, I know.  But every web page I hit says don't use it anymore)03:08
systemdlete2yanmaani: I'll try that.03:08
fsmithredprobably, but I don't hack on that installer03:08
fsmithredand it might break secure boot03:09
crashoverridefsmithred: it is verbatim from debian?03:09
fsmithredno, we make changes03:09
crashoverrideso03:09
fsmithredbut the signed grub is from debian03:09
crashoverridehow about an extra screen tp copy that efi file?03:10
crashoverridejust in case03:10
crashoverrides/tp/to/03:10
fsmithredI think the installer already asks about that03:10
crashoverridenope03:10
fsmithredasks to put grub in the removable device something or other03:11
fsmithredI've seen it numerous times but never selected it03:11
systemdlete2yanmaani:  ntpd -gq is hanging forever it seems, unlike when I was hitting my LAN time server03:11
systemdlete2I set server to ntp.pool.org03:11
systemdlete2commented out my LAN ntp server03:12
crashoverride[ -n "$copyefi" ] && mkdir -p /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/ && cp /boot/efi/EFI/debian/grubx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi03:12
crashoverridethat would ensure proper booting with EFI firmware using the hardcoded location from the spec03:13
crashoverridesuch as VM firmwares03:13
crashoverridelike bhyve's03:13
systemdlete2fsmithred:  Where do I find ntpdate for beowulf?03:14
crashoverridethat would definitely not break the signed boot03:14
crashoverrideand it would allow people to boot properly in VMs03:15
fsmithredcrashoverride, maybe file a bug report against the installer03:15
fsmithredthat way the right people will see it03:15
crashoverrideon devuan.org?03:15
gnarfacesystemdlete2: there is literally a ntpdate package03:15
crashoverrideok03:15
systemdlete2apt search ntpdate comes up nil.03:16
systemdlete2repo problem?03:16
crashoverridenight for now03:16
crashoverrideo/03:16
gnarfacehmm, maybe, or they just removed it like assholes03:16
gnarfacei'm not seeing it in ceres either, but pkginfo.devuan.org lists it in beowulf03:16
systemdlete2It is deprecated, officially03:16
fsmithredsystemdlete2, something is wrong with your sources03:16
systemdlete2maybe I need to push the keys harder?03:16
systemdlete2which repo do I need for ntpdate?03:17
gnarfaceit's marked deprecated in the package description but probably just because they replaced it with systemd... i think we still need this03:17
fsmithred*** 1:4.2.8p12+dfsg-4 50003:17
fsmithred        500 http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf/main amd64 Packages03:17
systemdlete2gnarface;  Are you able to install ntpdate on beowulf?03:17
gnarfacesystemdlete2: well at some point i did03:17
systemdlete2deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main contrib non-free03:18
gnarfacesystemdlete2:  https://pkginfo.devuan.org/stage/beowulf/beowulf/ntpdate_4.2.8p12+dfsg-4.html03:18
systemdlete2wait03:18
systemdlete2beowulf main or beowulf/main?03:18
fsmithredyes03:18
systemdlete2yes... which?03:18
fsmithreddepends on where you look03:18
fsmithredI showed the output of 'apt policy ntpdate'03:19
systemdlete2deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main contrib non-free03:19
fsmithredcorrect03:19
systemdlete2ok03:19
systemdlete2but apt search ntpdate comes up nothing03:19
fsmithrednot for me03:19
gnarfacesystemdlete2: make sure you have beowulf-updates and beowulf-security too03:20
systemdlete2I'll try apt update again (even though I just did it a while ago)03:20
systemdlete2now it shows.03:20
systemdlete2??????03:20
systemdlete2Did I catch an incomplete apt update previously maybe?03:20
systemdlete2Like a repo was getting updated and didn't complete the update?03:21
systemdlete2odd...03:22
systemdlete2I run ntpdate on the testbox, but when it completes after several seconds, it still has the wrong time03:23
systemdlete2It's about 7 minutes fast03:23
systemdlete2fsmithred -- any idea how my apt was missing the package?03:24
fsmithrednope03:24
fsmithredunfinished update maybe?03:25
fsmithredmisspelled search term?03:25
systemdlete2that's what I asked -- maybe the update was interrupted due to a repo update?03:25
fsmithredI'd be more concerned with the seven minutes03:26
systemdlete2anyway, neither ntpdate nor ntpd -gq will coerce the clock to the correct time.03:26
systemdlete2(I am, believe me)03:26
fsmithredwhat time server are you using?03:26
fsmithredI use ntpdate-debian sometimes03:26
systemdlete2I've tried a couple.  One is my local time server, which has the correct time and my VM's and other systems have no problems with it03:26
systemdlete2I also tried ntp.pool.org03:27
systemdlete2but that just hung... for many minutes03:27
systemdlete2I tried ntpdate -u myntpserver and that returned, but did not set the date03:28
systemdlete2I just rebooted that box about an hour ago, while investigating a different problem.03:28
systemdlete2I also tried ntpdate-debian, same result03:29
systemdlete2does ntp require an incoming port as well as outgoing -- I mean do I need to open 123 for incoming as well as outgoing?03:30
yanmaanisystemdlete2: I'd advise you to add different NTP servers03:30
yanmaanitry 0.debian.pool.ntp.org03:30
yanmaanibecause ntp.pool.org is not an NTP server03:30
user12on other debian-deriv distros (systemd and not) i usually have to sudo ntpdate-debian or something like that03:31
user12systemdlete2: ^03:31
systemdlete2no, not any better.  Let me see if I open 123 for incoming...03:31
fsmithredonly thing I've ever had to do when installing ntp is edit /etc/ntp.conf to add some time servers03:31
user12sorry if it was already tried im surprised the issue is still unresolved all this time,03:31
systemdlete2gufw does not show anything trying to enter on 12303:33
yanmaanisystemdlete2: does ntpq still hang?03:33
systemdlete2I'm logged in as root, user12, so no need for sudo in this case.  No, normally I don't run as root03:33
yanmaani(and you've reloaded the config)03:34
systemdlete2ntpq worked better with the url you gave me, yes.  But still no time update03:34
yanmaanisystemdlete2: What does it say under 'delay'?03:34
systemdlete2I'm just doing ntpd -gq03:34
systemdlete2not running the daemon as such03:34
yanmaaniif you run ntpq -p03:34
yanmaaniwhat does it tell you about 'delay'03:34
systemdlete2ok, I restarted the daemon and ran -p03:35
yanmaanior no, sorry, offset03:35
systemdlete2delay is still half a second03:35
systemdlete2offset -0.07203:35
user12i dunno, the -debian one is present on antix/mxlinux and is the only one that works there for some reason03:35
yanmaanithose units are milliseconds I think03:35
yanmaaniso delay 0.5 = ping 0.5 ms to your time server03:35
systemdlete2right.  So .531 is half a second03:35
yanmaaniNo, 531.0 is half a seconnd03:36
systemdlete2no?03:36
systemdlete2oh03:36
systemdlete2I see what you are saying03:36
yanmaani.531 = 0.5 milliseconds = 0.0005 seconds03:36
yanmaaniI think it's fine03:36
systemdlete2seems03:36
yanmaaniit probably sees that it's 7 minutes off03:36
yanmaaniand tries to slowly fix it03:36
systemdlete2but now it lists 2 entries, not one03:36
yanmaaniinstead of jerking the time forward03:36
yanmaaniyeah, and both have offset close to 0?03:36
systemdlete2yes, esp the stratum 203:37
systemdlete2it's perfect 003:37
systemdlete2delay, offset, jitter on the stratum 2 is zero03:37
yanmaaniyeah then just wait a day or two. Also why don't you run it as a service03:37
yanmaaniWait, what03:37
yanmaanioh it's on lan?03:37
systemdlete2I do, normally.  I only took it down to investigate this03:37
systemdlete2there are 2 entries, first one my lan ntp server, 2nd is the url you gave03:38
systemdlete2yanmaani: It's only a testbox.03:38
systemdlete2So I can jerk the time forward by a few minutes03:39
systemdlete2but it is still weird it is not updating.03:39
systemdlete2OK, yanmaani:  I see.  I commented out my own ntp server again.  Restarted and ran the ntpq -p again.  Now it shows delay and offset non-zero03:41
systemdlete2also, I'm still seeing the error in the log:  kernel reports TIME_ERROR: 0x2041: Clock Unsynchronized03:43
systemdlete2Could the kernel version be the issue here?  Idk, but https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/ntpd-kernel-reports-time_error-0x2041-clock-unsynchronized-4175636606/ seems to indicate that in some cases, it could be.03:50
systemdlete2(just a thought)03:50
danuanif posting something a bit more extended then a simple post to dev1galaxy.org , is there a simple BBcode editor like mousepad with preview  . tried retext which looked good on screenshots but pulled in too many dependancies and did not deliver on simple BBCode previews that dev1galaxy.org would accept06:11
gnarfacei don't know of anything, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist06:25
gnarfaceyou could install it locally06:25
gnarfacein theory06:25
danuanhuh ? i was just weirded out editing a long howto by hand without instant preview , and to install it locally ?06:29
danuanwhat would that  get me ?06:30
golinuxAll available bb code on the forum is listed at the top of the write screen06:33
golinuxdanuan06:34
golinux^^^06:34
DzwiedziuHello: I've got myself stumped19:35
Dzwiedziue: The repository 'http://deb.devuan.org/merged bewoulf-backports Release' does not have a Release file.19:35
Dzwiedziubewoulf-backports.list : deb     http://deb.devuan.org/merged bewoulf-backports main19:36
rwpI don't know but I ran into that myself a couple of days ago on the main repository.  I was using a proxy and the proxy was in a bad state.19:39
rwpI removed the proxy, ran "apt-get update" again, and it was also later so things may have changed upstream, and things became okay.19:39
Dzwiedziuno proxy here, at least as far as my router goes19:39
rwpFor me I was using my own apt-cacher-ng as I have several systems and they can all share the cache that way.19:40
rwpFor whatever reason I see apt-cacher-ng freak out every six months or so.19:40
rwpI have given up trying to figure out why.  But if I purge it and reinstall it then it resets and becomes happy again.19:40
Dzwiedziuerrr...19:41
Dzwiedziua bit new for me for the apt-cacher-ng to behave like that.19:41
rwpI only mentioned it in the case that you happened to also be using something like it.  But if not then it is something else.19:41
Dzwiedziuwell, I don't have anything better to do, so I'll try the reverse ^^19:42
rwpHmm...  I backed up and read your posting very carefully.  "bewoulf-backports"  Shouldn't that be beowulf-backports ??19:44
rwpSorry I did not notice the spelling on the first reading of it.19:46
DzwiedziuWell of course it is!19:46
Dzwiedziu-_-'19:46
DzwiedziuStrange, now it works \s19:47
rwpA second set of eyes! :-)19:47
DzwiedziuThanks! :D19:47
Dzwiedziubugger, it seems not to have current dropbear versions19:53
rwpDzwiedziu, What version are you looking for and what feature in that newer version is what you are looking for from it?20:01
Dzwiedziued25519 support20:02
Dzwiedziubut I'll revert to RSA as I'm not adventurous today to mix-and-match with testing20:02
rwped25519 isn't in version 2018.76-5 from Buster/Beowulf?  Hmm...20:03
rwpI can see why that would be annoying.  I pretty much have converted to using ed25519 myself.  But I have both it and the previous available too.20:03
DzwiedziuNo, it was patched in 6mo ago, according to their Github.20:04
Dzwiedziuhttps://github.com/mkj/dropbear/pull/91/files20:05
rwpYes but Buster, the basis of Beowulf, was frozen before then.20:06
rwpFor newer you would need to use Ceres.  Which I would not recommend for production units.20:07
Dzwiedziudouble yeah on those; Debian has the 2020 version in testing also20:08
rwpI am curious...  Upon what device are you using dropbear for ssh instead of using openssh-server for it?  (I assume some small dedicated router hardware or something...)20:09
Dzwiedziuremote LUKS unlock20:09
rwpAh...20:09
DzwiedziuWell, at a time I've used a separate RSA key for this.20:10
rwpI haven't set that up myself yet but it is on my todo list for the future.  Is that using mandos too?20:10
rwpI would think that rsa keys should be okay except that large 4k size keys can take a long time on slower devices.  Hence the desire for the more bit efficient ed25519 keys.20:11
DzwiedziuWhat's mandos? Still saying that I'm pretty sure that it doesn't ^^20:11
rwphttps://www.recompile.se/mandos20:12
DzwiedziuInteresting20:12
rwpThat tool seems to be the standard method of people I have asked about this so far.20:13
Dzwiedziuusually, from where I've got most of my experience, the thing was basically as here: https://hamy.io/post/0009/how-to-install-luks-encrypted-ubuntu-18.04.x-server-and-enable-remote-unlocking/20:14
DzwiedziuTL;DR: initramfs with dropbear+key+script, giving you an input to the prompt20:15
DzwiedziuBut Mandos now, this looks way better for a VM farm.20:16
rwpIt's all still on my todo list to learn about and do.  But life and time are what keep everything from happening all at once.20:42
SuaveDandyMentlegen?20:54
DHEladdies?21:06
Dzwiedziuyeah, todo vs life21:07
DzwiedziuAnd about that, I'm off to do something unproductive. Rimworld maybe.21:09
SuaveDandyI just wanted to ask something.21:09
SuaveDandyMoved to #devuan-offtopic21:09

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