On 08/14/2016 08:12 PM, aitor wrote:
>
> Hi fsmithred,
>
> On 08/15/2016 12:36 AM, fsmithred <fsmithred@???> wrote:
>> richard lucassen wrote on 15/08/16 06:49:
>>> >On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 15:09:54 -0400
>>> >fsmithred<fsmithred@???> wrote:
>>> >

>>>> >>Moved /etc/vdev/vdev (a symlink) up one level -
>>>> >>     I don't think that changed anything.

>>> >
>>> >It should be at /etc/vdev
>>> >

>>>> >>Changed pid file to /run/vdevd.pid -
>>>> >>     fdisk now shows the removable drive, I can mount and unmount it.
>>>> >>     mouse still doesn't work.
>>>> >>     vdev still fails at boot, but if I start it after logging in,
>>>> >>     it starts without error.

>>> >
>>> >Hmm, that worked for me and Ralph IIRC. I don't have the Devuan machine
>> Oops. I completely forgot about the required edits of
>> /usr/etc/vdev/vdevd.conf which is present in the snapshot but not in the
>> debs. I've added:
>>
>> cp {vdev-snapshot,}/usr/etc/vdev/vdevd.conf
>>
>> to the script. My apologies.
>>
>> Ralph.
>
> The content of the /root/vdev-initramfs is for regenerating the
> initrd.img; this is the reason why our keayboard and mouses still haven't
> control. Jude Nelson wrote:
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________
>
> /NOTE: These instructions are Debian- and Devuan-specific, and very
> hacky. Use at your own risk.//
> //
> //WARNING: Readers are expected to know how to fix a broken initramfs and
> a broken bootsystem if they try this.//
> //
> //Running `make && sudo make install` will get you most of the way towards
> installing vdev.//
> //But to use it, you will need to disable udev,//
> //enable vdev, and rebuild your initramfs to include vdev instead of udev.//
> //
> //On Debian and most Debian-derived distributions,//
> //it is possible to generate an initramfs image with this command://
> //
> //$ cd example/ && make initramfs//
> //
> //This will generate an initramfs image in `example/`, which can be
> installed with your bootloader of choice.//
> //
> //To enable vdev and disable udev in the init system, the command is //
> //
> //$ cd example/ && make install-initscript//
> //
> //I'm still working on the packaging scripts that will do all of this
> automatically./
>
> _______________________________________________________________
>
>
>
> I'm working on that. Now i have a computer rebuilding the packages of
> linux-libre-4.6.2 with libudeb-compat-dev instead of libudev-dev, and i
> also rebuilt initramfs-tools [*]
>
> Hope it works :)
>
> Aitor.
>
> [*] You can generate the initrd.img running the
> /root/vdev-initramfs/tools/mkinitramfs of the snapshot sent by Ralph.
>
>
>
>

:) :) :)
In the words of the apache foundation... It works!
Congrats to all those who did the work.

I made a new installation of devuan to start over.

I got an error from the latest make-initramfs.sh about a missing
/root/vdev-initramfs. The actual location of the script is in
/root/vdev-snapshot/root/vdev-initramfs/tools, so I made a symlink:
ln -s /root/vdev-snapshot/root/vdev-initramfs /root/vdev-initramfs

Mouse and keyboard now work in X, removable drives can be
mounted/unmounted. I'm going to test the scanner next. Can't test my
printer now, because there's no parallel port on this laptop.

What else should be tested?

-fsr