October 2006 - Grml - lists.mur.at

Failure mode testing (network)
by Mark 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

It can be annoying to run grml without a network. When you unplug ethernet and boot grml, various 'strange' things happen. Name resolution and network time fail. That is normal, but the problem is retry/timeout settings. After a couple of minutes the daemon error messages should stop. Some reappear for long periods of time. Suggestion: test grml in this 'failure' mode and adjust the retry/timeout factors. Sometimes, even when you have a working network, the name resolution system is down, giving a similar result.

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grml von Boot-CD starten
by Thomas Mötzing 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

Hallo zusammen, ich versuch seit einigen Tagen mein erstes grml zum Laufen zu bekommen und scheitere am Boot-Vorgang. Ich habe das iso-Image von grml 0.8 und auch das Image von grml_small 0.2 heruntergeladen und beide auf je eine CD gebrannt ( alles unter WXP - Asche auf mein Haupt ). Die CD scheint im ersten Moment zu funktionieren, aber die beiden Zeilen vor dem boot-Prompt und die Meldung nach dem Druck auf die ENTER-Taste kÃ¶nnen mich nicht erfreuen... Unknown keyword in config file Unknown keyword in config file boot: Could not find kernel image: grml Die MD5 Checksummen der beiden Images sind OK. Gibt es eine MÃ¶glichkeit, die gebrannte CD in Ã¤hnlicher Art und Weise zu Ã¼berprÃ¼fen? Beide CD's lassen sich vollstÃ¤ndig und ohne Fehlermeldung lesen. Dass ich das alles unter Windows mache, und ein Image mit Nero brenne, sollte doch kein Problem sein?! Zumindest war es das bei Knoppix oder Debian bis jezt nicht. WeiÃŸ vielleicht jemand von Euch Rat, denn ich gehe davon aus, dass ich irgendetas falsch mache. bis dann Thomas ...und schÃ¶nes Wochenende...

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JFYI: launching hg.grml.org
by Michael Prokop 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

Hoi, mercurial is a fast, lightweight Source Control Management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi The grml-team started using mercurial as main revision control system. We are providing our repositories online: http://hg.grml.org/ This should simplify access to our sources as well as the process of submitting patches against specific packages/files. Documentation regarding our setup and how to work with mercurial can be found online as well: http://grml.org/mercurial/ Notice: not all packages are in the revision control system yet but we are working on that. BTW: we are shipping mercurial on our live-cd since grml 0.5. Starting with the upcoming release you will get a zsh setup providing completion system for mercurial out-of-the-box. Expect to get a rocking system - for use with mercurial. :) JFYI && regards, -mika- -- You like grml? Help us! http://grml.org/donations/ Already on the grml-user-map? http://www.frappr.com/grmlusers The Grml Planet http://planet.grml.org/ Grml Solutions http://solutions.grml.org/

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Remastering GRML with kernel
by roland 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Hello ! IÂ´d like to integrate VMWare Server onto a GRML-CD. The Remastering-Howto at http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=remastering is quite nice - but it doesn`t menation what to bear in mind, if i want to rebuild the grml kernel, too !? When installing vmware server, kernel-source is needed. this doesn`t come with grml, afaik. so - i need to setup a kernel build environment inside my "grml-copied-to-disk", install kernel-source, apply patches install vmware server and build vmware specific kernel modules with "vmware-config.pl". is anybody out there who already did this and likes to share his experience ? any tips would be highly welcome! regards roland

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grml und sarge "zerschossen, amputiert, transplantiert und geflickt", Console scrollt jetzt nicht mehr
by Erich Minderlein 18 Oct '06

18 Oct '06

Hallo Mailingliste grml ich habe hier ein relativ neues Notebook Fujitsu Siemens amilopro V2030, das mit nicht installiertem Knoppix 4.01 (auf DVD) kam. Knoppix hat aber keine gute HDD SystemstabilitÃ¤t. Aber mit debian sarge ist das Geraet nicht zum vollstÃ¤ndigen Leben (kernel!) zu erwecken ist. Aus bekannten Gruenden benÃ¼tze ich jetzt grml 0.8, das mir bei meiner server-reinstallation von grossen Nutzen war. Auf dem server habe ich debian sarge. (mit nur 2 unstable anwendungen) Dort werden auch die grossen Projekt kompiliert. Jetzt brauche ich noch einige sachen von sarge z.B. gcc 3.3.5 auf dem Notebook. Bei dem Versuch, das zu verknÃ¼pfen habe ich einiges zersch..... (Ãœberschrift) und auch nach der RÃ¼ckgÃ¤ngigmachung diverser Massnahmen und der versuchten Wiederherstellung scrollt der Bildschirm nicht mehr, wenn er einmal voll ist. Erst mit z.B. ALT-F2; ALT-F1 sehe ich dann erst die aktualisierte Konsole. Der Bildschirminhalt waechst sozusagen Ã¼ber den unteren Bildschirmrand, statt nach oben wegzugehen. Bin RATLOS, ist nicht gut arbeiten wenn ich nichts mehr sehe. mfG Erich

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ndiswrapper in grml-small?
by Celejar 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hi, grml-small contains 'ndiswrapper.sh', which promptly fails because it can't find '/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper'. Is ndiswrapper in grml-small? Celejar -- ssuds.sourceforge.net - Home of Ssuds and Ssudg, a Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator

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sylog-ng daemon not starting at boot-time ?
by "Robert Zöhrer | pronet.at" 14 Oct '06

14 Oct '06

Hi, could it be syslog-g is not starting at boot-time? I'm wondering because my last syslog entry is from 23. Sep and --------- root@rob-pad /etc # grep "syslog" runlevel.conf 90 0,1,6 - /etc/init.d/syslog-ng --------- looks like it's not starting anymore via runlevel system. Is there a problem with my config or could it be some update issue? TIA -- Regards, Dipl.-Ing. Robert ZÃ–HRER Mail: robert.zoehrer(a)pronet.at GPG Key ID: 0x218139D9 Mobil: +43 699 177 66 380 ______________________________________________ PRONET IT & Security Services Krenngasse 27 | A-8010 Graz | Austria | Europe Tel: +43 316 817218-0 | Fax: +43 316 817218-99 http://www.pronet.at PROfessionell & PROduktiv

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totem, mplayer and security
by Martin Yazdzik 14 Oct '06

14 Oct '06

Synptom: xine media player, gnome cdplayer , vlc all play music cds, totem and mplayer do not, but always did in debian and libranet hint: at first root could play the cd on totem, then next time "** (totem:4639): WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session bus: Did not recei ve a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply , the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. " I would like to disable any part of any security system which prohibits any thing I do from accessing anything. I am well aware that I am choosing convenience over safety. I know grml is not for noobs but sysadmins, and I use the brilliant installer to make a multimedia general purpose laptop, so I am merely begging for a solution. Everything I have googled points to selinux as the culprit. How do I rid myself of any selinux, hardened, secure, anything and get what I need, which is every programme can access whatever it needs to play whatever media I want, irrespective of what a rational sysadmin in a business setting would ever want? Thanks, M

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Re: Locale settings for US
by Michael Prokop 14 Oct '06

14 Oct '06

(Cc:-ing grml-mailinglist) * Mark <27e3kk302(a)sneakemail.com> [20060929 11:02]: > > > Current /etc/default/locale values (the rest undefined): > > > # File generated by grml-setlang > > > LANGUAGE=us > > > LANG=en_US.iso885915 > > > LC_ALL=en_US.iso885915 > > > LC_MESSAGES=en_US.iso885915 > > > COUNTRY=US > > > CHARSET=iso8859-1 > > Ok, and what's inside /etc/sysconfig/keyboard? > This: > # File generated by grml-setkeyboard ... > KEYTABLE="us" > XKEYBOARD="us" > KDEKEYBOARD="us" > KDEKEYBOARDS="us" Ok. > > If X is running: does 'xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap' do what you expect to > > get? > No change. The environment files look ok. How does environment look like in X then? (Just run 'env'.) Does running 'startx 2>~/.xsession-errors' show anything relevant in ~/.xsession-errors? Which grml-version are you using? Output of 'dpkg --list grml-scripts grml-autoconfig grml-etc grml-etc-core' would be interesting as well. > Maybe something like "GTKKEYBOARD" as it's not KDE but XFCE desktop. No. (I don't know of such an environment variable and never set one at grml.) regards, -mika- -- http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc

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Normal user not permitted for pci scan
by T 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Hi, when I tried to use the xvidix driver for mplayer, I get "Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted" error for normal user, but root is ok. How can I fix it? PS. my groups: groups=4(adm),5(tty),6(disk),8(mail),9(news),10(uucp),20(dialout),21(fax),22(voice),24(cdrom),25(floppy),26(tape),27(sudo),29(audio),30(dip),33(www-data),60(games),100(users),110(scanner),118(plugdev),120(camera),135(fuse),143(nvram),65534(nogroup) PPS. Working log: $ gmplayer -dr -vo xvidix "$mfilm" No vidix driver name provided, probing available ones (-v option for details)! [mga] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [mach64] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [rage128] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [SiS] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [mga] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [savage_vid] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [pm3] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [unichrome] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [radeon] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [nvidia_vid] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [cyberblade] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [VO_SUB_VIDIX] Couldn't find working VIDIX driver. Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. Adding the -v option didn't get me much details: [mga] probe [mga] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted vidixlib: PROBING: /usr/lib/mplayer/vidix/mach64_vid.so [mach64] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted [...] $ ls -l /usr/lib/mplayer/vidix/mach64_vid.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14360 08-02 11:44 /usr/lib/mplayer/vidix/mach64_vid.so Here is the result when the above command is ran with root: No vidix driver name provided, probing available ones (-v option for details)! [radeon] Found chip: RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] [radeon] ATI FireGl driver detected libdha: DHA kernelhelper failed: No such file or directory libdha: DHA kernelhelper failed: No such file or directory [radeon] Video memory = 128Mb [radeon] Set write-combining type of video memory [radeon] Saved overlay colorkey settings [VO_SUB_VIDIX] Description: BES driver for Radeon cards. [VO_SUB_VIDIX] Author: Nick Kurshev. thanks

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