Upgraded Devuan to Daedalus, and PHP to PHP8.2.7

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Hello, I am incompetent.

Since PHP8.x was available in the Devuan Daedalus repository, I decided to upgrade the entire OS this time.
I remember seeing it in a developer or test repository around June this year, and when I tried to install it then, it failed, so when it came down to the main repository, I jumped on it and became a guinea pig again.

It's simple, but as described later, in my case, I needed to make some adjustments after execution.

There are instructions from the official source.
https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/install-guides/daedalus/upgrade-to-daedalus

Open /etc/apt/sources.list with Vim, comment out the existing repositories with #, and copy-paste this.

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-updates main
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security main
#deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-backports main

Run apt update, apt upgrade, apt dist-upgrade, and finish while responding to questions occasionally.

Remove unnecessary items with apt autoremove --purge, apt autoclean, and reboot.

Here, I encountered a small problem.
I also work with GUI for verification, but when I ran startx, the desktop screen would freeze after displaying.

If you install a desktop environment on a server PC, you might get a lot of comments from important people...

I found the following information.

https://gihyo.jp/article/2023/08/daily-linux-230816

>Devuan, which forked from Debian in 2015 with the aim of providing a "systemd-free Debian," adopts SysVinit as its default boot system (init), and its development progresses by following Debian's stable releases. In Devuan 5.0, the libseat1 library is used to run startx rootless (running startx as a regular user), which removes DBus dependencies from the xserver-xorg-core package, making it possible to choose seatd or elogind as the backend. Also, Wayland GUI has been improved, and by installing libpam-ck-connector, sway, and seatd, Wayland can be enabled without using elogind.

Thinking _Wayland_ might be causing trouble?, I tried to make it execute Xfce4 directly.

So, I edited /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, the file executed by startx, to the following.

exec startxfce4

As a result, the symptom remained unchanged.

Finally, I wondered if it was a driver issue...

apt install xserver-xorg-input-all

After executing this, it was resolved!

Also, I tried renaming and regenerating the ._Xauthority_ file, which tends to get corrupted after changing the environment, in the previous step.

Wireguard is not working...

Wireguard somehow stopped working.
Looking at netstat -nr, it seems the routing table is not being generated correctly.

It took me several hours to realize that the network driver might be loading unnecessary things and causing conflicts, so I tried removing something called connman.

apt remove connman

It worked! Yay! (^o^)!!!

PHP8.2.7 is now available!

I'm not an expert, so I haven't checked all the changes, but it seems to be about 20% faster than PHP7.4, and I certainly feel it's faster by experience.
I was wondering, are there any methods for PHP benchmarking?

Although there were various parts I had to tweak, I will record them in a later article so that it's easy to understand by searching.

Well then.

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