I am wondering if anybody else has done a fresh installation of Devuan Chimaera recently, or something close to my own OS. My hunch is that this apparent conflict between gtk2 and gtk3 will start to affect other TDE users.
The signficant words here are "fresh installation"; yours, by comparison to mine, is already starting to smell just a bit ripe.
I have installed devuan daedalus on a t470 and on my ryzen, basicly without issues (madness of freedesktop GNOMEs does not count). GTK2 is still there, firfox-esr works as expected. My last chimaera installation was in December
- again without problems. But I have to say that I only use programs from
the repositories, not from 3rd party sites, so palemoon, iceweasle etc. are not installed.
Aside from palemoon, etc., I don't install third-party packages. These browsers, palemoon, vivaldi, etc., are stand-alone items, nothing added. I don't update them until necessary, so their repositories are not enabled in my sources.list. And I might add, if I didn't have palemoon, for example, I would not have been able to use an internet browser at all, unless by booting into the XFCE desktop.
I got my laptop in early December, so your installation is older than my laptop itself.
So I'd suggest you first do "apt-get update && aptitude distupgrade" and then fix/remove any packages not from the repositories. You get a list of offenders via:
I already did an upgrade and dist-upgrade. Now I am attempting to trace any offenders.
$ apt-show-versions | grep --invert-match "(uptodate|not\ installed)"
These packages will survive any upgrade and cause praublems.
Nik
A "fresh" installation would be (for comparison to my own system) sometime within the past few days.
Bill