Chimaera didn't help, though the symptoms changed.
I booted from the chimaera live desktop, and it started looking hopeful,
but before much was running it had a kernel panic -- attempt to kill init.
Yes, I checked the checksum on the download.
And when I used chimaera to boot another computer (a Purism laptop) it
worked flawlessly.

I'm once more suspecting hardware.
Next stop -- memtest.

And memtest shows an enormous number of memory failures. Which makes me
suspect something systemic, not just a bit here or there.

I'll have to replace the RAM, I guess. Or find out what memory bus is
failing.

-- hendrik

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 11:26 AM tempforever <dev1@???> wrote:

> Download links are available on the devuan download page
> https://www.devuan.org/get-devuan
>
> choose a mirror (for example, mirror.leaseweb.com/devuan/) then navigate
> to the devuan_chimaera/ directory where you will hopefully find a
> desktop-live/ directory which should contain
> devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_[amd64|i386]_desktop-live.iso along with the
> shasums files. If you prefer not to use http(s), there are ftp mirrors
> and torrent on that same download page.
>
> Hendrik Boom via Dng wrote:
> > Then I'd have to figure out how to get a new kernel into it while it
> crashes during bootup, > which it now does quite consistently. > > If I had
> made recent
> changes (such as upgrades) I'd consider a kernel problem more likely. >
> But it has been running for months with only occasional problems, and
> now I get problems > every time I boot. Since I haven't done an upgrade
> at all yet this month, I'll suspect hardware. > > Still, I will try,
> say, a chimaera live CD if I can find one. Where are the Devuan live
> CD's? > I seem to remember that they were called something other than
> "devuan". > (Yes, I'm aware that the live CD will likely be a USB stick)
> > > -- hendrik > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 7:47 AM Boian Bonev
> <bbonev@??? <mailto:bbonev@ipacct.com>> wrote: >
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