gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user

daily-grml base.tgz file

T o n g — 2008-07-21T04:26:47

Hi, I know there is two version of base.tgz files from http://daily.grml.org/. I downloaded http://daily.grml.org/base.tgz, not the 64b version, but its hostname contains "amd64.grml.org". Is it just the etc/hostname file alone, or there are more problems to the base.tgz file? PS. How do I know if my AMD is running in 32b or 64b mode? Thanks.

qdiff any chance?

T o n g — 2008-07-15T16:05:46

Hi, First of all, thank you mika for answering my previous question. Now, Is there any recommended binary files differ that can detect binary insertions/deletions/substitutions with colorful output? Here is the one that I found most useful. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/qdiff-0.8.2.lsm qdiff - Compare two binary files and print differences in various ways, very colorful output (insertions/deletions/substitutions), simple yet effective syncro engine, may be very slow, useful and fast for large files with few differences (e.g. verifying correctness of grabbed cdda data) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/qdiff-0.8.2.tar.gz any chance to include it in our repo? Thanks

knoppix-like bootfrom in gmrl?

Albretch Mueller — 2008-07-14T04:14:07

Hi, ~ I was looking for a Unicode/utf-8 based LiveCD and apparently gmrl looks like it ~ The thing is that knoppix does not offer Unicode support and I was getting weird results while coding for Unicode data ~ I use knoppix a lot and got used to most of its ways to do things ~ So, where is the old good bootfrom=/dev//knoppix.iso ;-) ~ Based on my personal expirience CDs and CD-ROM drives are heavily taxed by LiveCDs and start failing with cloop I/O errors pretty quickly, that is why I always go for the bootfrom cheatcode, keep a small partition just for the ISO and use lots of RAM ~ Thanks lbrtchx

/dev, udev and backup

T o n g — 2008-07-11T15:45:39

Hi, Do I need to backup the /dev directory when backing up my root fs? FYI, I thought udev would populate it on boot up so I didn't backup the /dev directory. However, I got Warning: unable to open initial console and the boot froze. Going through all the possible reasons in http://kerneltrap.org/node/2205 did I realize that my /dev directory should be backed up & populated. Please comment. Thanks.

grml and booting via pxe

Philipp Flesch — 2008-06-28T20:57:18

Hi! I was wondering how to get grml_1.1.iso booting via pxe. I've already ... ... unpacked the iso to /exports/grml ... access via network to 10.10.0.103:/exports/grml ... read http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=terminalserver and ... downloaded http://grml.org/terminalserver/grml_netboot_package_1.1.tar.bz2 (and installed it) ... found http://www.mail-archive.com/grml< at >mur.at/msg00802.html Now ... that are the right parameters in pxelinux.cfg/default? APPEND root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.10.0.103:/exports/grml boot=live lang=us nomce quiet apm=power-off nodhcp noprompt noeject initrd=grml/minirt26.gz vga=791 ==> can't access tty ==> problem mounting live file system APPEND ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/ram0 rw init=/etc/init nfsdir=10.10.0.103:/exports/grml nodhcp noprompt noeject apm=power-off nomce initrd=grml/minirt26.gz vga=791 ==> brings grml up to "Begin: Waiting for the root file system ..." Where to find the fault? Philipp

grml in a multi-boot environment

2008-06-27T20:42:34

grml newbie

2008-06-27T15:41:06

IRC-log contents related to hardware problem

Keith Hinton — 2008-06-15T01:20:57

Hello all, I have an AMD64-bit box with an interesting hardware quirk. Hear is the contents of and IRC log, and hopefully this helps. Suggestions, please! Hello all. I have an odd quirk in my hardware on another box. I need assistance in troubleshooting the issue, and har it is. hear Note: I only speak english, not German, so.. Hear goes. The GRML CD boots, or starts too, sort of. Then, the CD hangs, at: "Mounting TMPFS." The word "Segmentation Fault" appears next to that. I have had someone read me the screen. The amount of RAM int he other box is 1G or 1024M. But the box does this constantly. I would run memtest86, but have had noone available to read me any possible errors with the RAM. I've ran Memtest multiple times. But I'm not just going to give up without a fight. So I want to know if posible any kernel command-line

[gopher] Unveiling the Overbite Project

Maurice McCarthy — 2008-06-06T09:24:49

For information only. Firefox 3 will end support for the gopher protocol. A firefox addon has been written from scratch over the last few months, as below. Regards Moss ----- Forwarded message from Cameron Kaiser floodgap.com> ----- Subject: [gopher] Unveiling the Overbite Project (and other announcements) From: Cameron Kaiser floodgap.com> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 06:19:30 -0700 (PDT) To: gopher< at >complete.org This message is really, really long. Here goes: ** OverbiteFF for Firefox 3: "RTM" With the release of Firefox 3 RC2, I took the wraps off OverbiteFF. This is the release version, 1.0-1381. It does have some small changes, including a bug fix for port access, additional explicit ports and CSS tweaks, so it is a recommended download if you are still using -1380. We'll see if anyone gets the joke on the build number. ;-) You can now preview the Overbite Project pages. There are HTTP and Gopher versions: http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/ gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/overbite

Setting up grub into lvm and a suggestion

Cleverson — 2008-06-06T02:40:04

Hello I suggest, if possible, that grml2hd detects automatically other OSes on the hard disk and sets up lilo/grub accordingly during the installation. Here I have Windows XP on the first partition - /dev/sda1 - but I don't know how to deal with lilo. I was thinking that grml2hd would prompt me for choosing grub instead of lilo, but it didn not, perhaps because I've installed grml onto a logical partition ? I know how to setup grub for dual-booting and for booting Linux into a primary partition. I guess that setting it up on a logical partition is somewhat different, since I have typed "root(hd0,5)" at the grub console in order to setup the root device to /dev/sda6, and grub has returned "unknown filesystem type". Does anyone have any tip for me? Cheers Cleverson

experiences with dell inspiron 530

Henning Sprang — 2008-06-03T13:40:01

Hi, Some experiences with grml 1.1 on a Dell Inspiron 530(nvidia chipset and graphics system) and a generic issue: when running grml-x with a module option, but without windowmanager, it complains that the windowmanager with the name of the module doesn't exist. I'd expect it just says "you didn't specify a windowmanager", but instead it seems to try to take the last argument as windowmanager name. As of the hardware support for inspiron: grml-x doesn't get an x system loaded - until I start it one time with the -fallback option. _after_ this one start with fallback, I can start it again, without fallback - and then I get a better resolution and can work without the screen-scrolling that happens in fallback mode. Let me know if you need and hints or info on the system. Henning

How To Change Voice Language?

Cleverson — 2008-05-30T16:29:56

Hello I need to use software speech in grml. I have activated speech successfully, but I'd like to change the synthesiser language to Brazilian Portuguese, my native language. I know that the ESpeak synthesiser has portuguese voices. I have changed the default language from "en" to "pt" in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, but what else do I need to do after saving that file? Thanks for any tip Cleverson "The world would be a better place were there not so many people striving to improve it." (Olavo de Carvalho) Abra sua conta no Yahoo! Mail, o único sem limite de espaço para armazenamento! http://br.mail.yahoo.com/

Adding a program to grml-medium on USB-stick

Hubert Gabler — 2008-05-30T11:01:34

Hello, following your excellent instruction I installed grml-medium on a USB-stick thus eliminating the need to insert the grml CD whenever I want to do some minor data manipulations. For backing up partitions I use partimage, but unfortunately this program is not included in grml-medium. I have to "apt-get update" and "apt-get install partimage" each time I want to use it. Is there a way to permanently install this program (or any other) on the USB-stick? Hubert

Install on LVM: some questions

Cleverson — 2008-05-30T02:28:57

Hi all I have one only HD, and was thinking of using LVM to install GRML to one or more logical partitions. But I've read that such setup is more likely to have problems regarding boot and files corrumtion. If someone has installed the entire system onto logical partitions, could please tell whether or not it's really more dangerous? Is it worth to give it a try? Also, I wouldn't like to lose any performance. Is there any slow down in any way? Last for now: during the installation process, does grml2hd allow to place the root directory / in one partition, and /home in another? Many thanks and congratulations for your nice distro. Cleverson "The world would be a better place were there not so many people striving to improve it." (Olavo de Carvalho

Speakup softsynth not talking with grml 1.1 installation

Ernst-Dieter Wedekind — 2008-05-27T17:33:06

Hi listers, I recently installed grml 1.1 on my hard disk and can't seem to get it talking through my softsynth device. I went through all the configuration files of speech-dispatcher and espeak but couldn't find the cause. However if I use the cdrom speakup talks through my hardware apollo synth as well as through software synth. I would like to have it talk through software synth. Any ideas as to what I might do? I'd like to add that I'm blind and therefore can't read the messages coming up when the system started and I enter swspeak! I also entered swspeak as a start parameter on the cdrom and on the hard disk installation. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Ernst

apt-get freeze on install something "Skunk"

Björn Faath — 2008-05-21T06:39:16

Hello I try a apt-get install something and apt get freeze on "Writing extended Status Information". My Grml 1.1 reinstall after this, but the error looks the same as before. The CPU runs in the sky. With aptitude install get the same fault. What is happened! I have no idea. forget: first i do ap-get update that runs ok. apt-get install longrun: ---------------------------------------------- ~~The following NEW packages will be installed: longrun 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1511 not upgraded. Need to get 20.5kB of archives. After unpacking 160kB will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main longrun 0.9-20 [20.5kB] Fetched 20.5kB in 0s (22.9kB/s) ------------------------------------------------ so long, leinex

(Security-Issue) CVE-2008-0166 / DSA-1571-1: openssl -predictable random number generator

Michael Prokop — 2008-05-14T09:28:12

grml medium on HD, no IP info?

Lars Schimmer — 2008-04-30T13:51:40

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Kinda stuck now. I installed grml-medium to disk and it went fine so far. But now I installed the glftpd FTP daemon (yeah, I know) and tried to connect to it. To bad, that daemon always get a unknown< at >0.0.0.0 IP for the user who tries to log in. That works on the machine I try to replace. Is there anythin I forgot (no, the glftpd config kept the same). MfG, Lars Schimmer - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------- TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik & WissensVisualisierung Tel: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: l.schimmer< at >cgv.tugraz.at Fax: +43 316 873-5402 PGP-Key-ID: 0x4A9B1723 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIGHlsmWhuE0qbFyMRAhMAAJ9U3ysMSszTcz/6DzpzmCl6GK2KgACeOTRB 62gbM1gGPfp5Zsi9JX/OpP4= =uAtJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB or ACPI _PSS objects

T o n g — 2008-04-29T03:14:10

Hi, I'm getting the following error when trying to load the powernow-k8 kernel module: % modprobe powernow-k8 FATAL: Error inserting powernow_k8 (/lib/modules/2.6.23-grml/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.ko): No such device % dmesg | tail -2 powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800+ processors (1 cpu cores) (version 2.00.00) powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB or ACPI _PSS objects I think my BIOS supports the AMD PowerNow! technology, why I'm still getting the above? Is there anything on the software side that I'm missing? My box: % lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 01) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8V Deluxe/K8V-X motherboard Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 8 Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [80] AGP version 3.5 Capabilities: [c0] HyperTransport: Slave or Primary Interface Capabilities: [68] Power Management ver

recovery from mkfs error?

John Magolske — 2008-04-20T18:43:02

I've heard grml comes with forensic tools, and so was wondering if there's anything in the toolkit that might help me recover from an unpleasant mistake. Trying to reformat a usb thumbdrive, I overlooked the fact that /dev/sda was my 160GB external hard drive (ext3), and that the thumbdrive was actually /dev/sdb. I issued this command: mkfs -t vfat -I /dev/sda The most important stuff was backed up, but there is some pain involved. Any suggestions (yes, I know... PAY ATTENTION!!) or pointers much appreciated. Regards, John

how to upgrade

Dietmar Segbert — 2008-04-20T15:00:00

Hello, i have installed the latest version of grml to harddisk. If i do the following commands the upgrade of packages will stop with an error of dpkg, if the gkrellmd package will be upgraded. apt-get update apt-get upgrade I have also tested apt-get upgrade -f or apt-get dist-upgrade I have also done apt-get remove gkrellmd* But i become allways the same error. I want to use gnome-orca with gnome-desktop and so i have installed apt-get install gnome-orca apt-get install gnome-desktop. but the command orca -t produces a lot of errors, and so i think it is the best to bring all the installed packages to the newest version. Or is it better to change the distribution from lenny/sid to edge and if yes, how can i do that. Thanks for your help. Regards Dietmar