[tde-users] Re: network-manager-tde - dependency issues - update

On Tuesday 01 September 2020 19:14:57 greg wrote: <trinity-users(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net> wrote: Nope, I have been playing nice, so far. When I first upgraded, I preserved my old repo lists, and only changed the lines from jessie to beowulf or buster. (I never did get networking to work at all in ascii/stretch. The change to beowulf/buster has been a breeze by comparison, yet still there are a few issues.) But I think I brought in some sid packages by accident, which were good when running an old jessie system; but buster isn't so far progressed in its development cycle, I believe. When I got that sorted out, things went smoothly, and I was up and running a TDE devuan beowulf system within less than two hours. (It used to take at least five hours, sometimes a day or two.) This is a big improvement. Speaking of which, I managed to get these packages installed, but then had no network. I checked /etc/network/interfaces settings, but the only thing different there is that wlan0 got changed to auto wlx*** [a long string of numbers follow]. Otherwise, I've been running more or less the same system since about 2015, network settings never changed. But as I said earlier -- about 3/4 of the time I cannot use tdenetworkmanager, and end up falling back on some version of wicd. Same thing with using network-manager and network-manager-tde packages: that has never been an issue before now. Once I get something that works, I tend to stick with it, but now suddenly there is some pseudo-systemd dependency? And that's where I am now, back to wicd after messing round with network-manager and network-manager-tde. I managed to get my network managers installed, but they can't seem to manage the job. Anyway, wicd is behaving something like normal again, except that now it won't use my system colors. As long as I can keep a stable network connection, I will move on to the firewall, and see how to get gufw to use my old firestarter rules, which is supposed to be based on iptables. Otherwise, my system runs pretty well; not quite as near-perfectly as my old jessie system, but it's getting better. I'm just mystified why I should have these problems, when nothing has changed. And as Slavek and others point out, they don't have any issues in running tdenetworkmanager and network-manager in a Devuan system. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting