August 2006 - Grml - lists.mur.at

RE: Grml Website Down
by Jeff 26 Aug '06

26 Aug '06

The grml website is still down at 0700 CDT here in the US. Maybe we should all make a donation to help support the web space. Jeff _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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Re: [Grml] grml 0.8: how to use my 3com pcmcia card?
by Michael Prokop 26 Aug '06

26 Aug '06

[Redirecting to the list] * Werner Flamme <werner.flamme(a)ufz.de> [20060815 14:15]: > Michael Prokop schrieb am 15.08.2006 11:30: > > * Werner Flamme <werner.flamme(a)ufz.de> [20060815 11:12]: > >> BTW, it took more than 3 hours to boot from CD. Especially the > >> creation of /etc/fstab seemed to work endless. [...] > >> Does it scan the whole disk? Shouldn't it be enough to read the > >> partition table? > > No, it does not scan the whole disk of course. scanpartitions just takes > > a look at /proc/partitions, tries to identify the filesystems on the > > available partitions and reports them in an appropriate format for > > rebuildfstab, which tries to build an appropriate /etc/fstab then. > > I'd like to find out what's going on on your system. Can you please boot > > your system with 'grml nofstab', run grml-hwinfo and send me the > > resulting info.tar.bz2 (off the list)? If you manually run > > 'scanpartitions' - is it what runs that long? > Well, boot from disk takes about one minute, and 'scanpartitions' takes > about 3 seconds to complete after logging in. It's just the time between > the output "scanning for partitions" and the next line that made me assume > the wohle disk ist scanned... Ok. > Booting with 'grml nofstab keyboard=de lang=de' causes "Waitung for /dev to > be fully populated... done" to be the last line on the screen for a long > time (> 15 min.). After 40 minutes I read "ACPI Bios found", but now I have > to go to a colleague's farewell party ;-) Ok, seems to be a problem with a specific driver. Does booting with "grml noudev nofstab lang=de" work for you? Disclaimer: many drivers won't be loaded automatically then. I'm not yet sure whether it's udev (with a specific driver) or another startup script causing the problems. This screenshot shows a typical startup of grml: http://grml.org/tmp/gkrellShoot_08-15-06_223409.png Can you please point me to the line which you see right before it's hanging? JFYI: If you use lang=de you don't need keyboard=de anymore. :) 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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grml website down
by Mark 26 Aug '06

26 Aug '06

The website http://grml.org/ which resolves to http://81.223.126.153/ has been down all day. The grml package repositories are unaccessible, too. Is anyone in North/South America having the same problem? Maybe bandwidth quota was exceeded with the 0.8 release. If so, it would be nice for grml's provider to show a specific error message. Thanks grml-team, M.

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When has dhclient finished?
by Christian Kollmann 26 Aug '06

26 Aug '06

Hi! In grml dhclient is running in background to obtain an DHCP address on startup. But how do I know, when it has finished, and how can I execute some custom commands afterwards? Regards, Christian

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glx Problems with fglrx 8.27.10-1 on t60 with grml on HD
by Lars Schimmer 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! A kind of a special problem... I installed grml 0.7 on my thinpad t60 (ATI X1400 board) and today I made kinda big upgrade with KDE 3.5.3/4 and xorg. And I updated fglrx to the grml.org version 8.27-10.1. Because I built my own kernel (take grml-config and threw off some unneeded parts) I built the kernel-module of fglrx and installed the fglrx-driver package. Now I rebooted. System is coming up and works. But I don´t have hardware-3d. fgl_glxgears just hits some error: Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer Major Opcode of failed request: 130 (GLX) Minor Opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent) Serial number of failed request: 35 Current Serial number in output stream: 35 I´m kinda helpless. And yes, xorg.config is the grml.org confed one. Is anyone using this version with kernel 2.6.17 with success? MfG, Lars Schimmer - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------- TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik & WissensVisualisierung Tel: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: l.schimmer(a)cgv.tugraz.at Fax: +43 316 873-5402 PGP-Key-ID: 0x4A9B1723 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQFE6ht2mWhuE0qbFyMRAi35AJ4z+NrOK/vFu3WGjlYA3TmOud3HKACfdRi7 lCh0PI814+sHAxziDoEZ33g= =UEV5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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save important data with grml
by johannes swoboda 20 Aug '06

20 Aug '06

Hi! I wanted to Install Windows on a computer where debian was already installed. after istalling (no error messages), I didn't see any boot manager, just "NTLDR is missing"* I installed windows again. I saw my partitions, but then the same error happened again. I tried to install debian. I didn't see my partitions(!) I ran knoppix 4.0.2 DVD and grml 0.8. I saw my partitions, but they seemed to be emty. (how) can I save my important data? *two notes: 1# the error "NTLDR is missing" is my personal translation of "NTLDR fehlt(german)" maybe this tanslation is not correct. 2# when I ran "cfdisk" on grml when it worked, it crashed with a error I don't rember... I think it was "irregular size" or anything like that. greethings johannes

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Congrats on 0.8, enjoy a restful vacation
by Mark 19 Aug '06

19 Aug '06

Mika, please enjoy a well-deserved restful summer holiday, you and the whole grml team. Your responsiveness and help to users and beta testers is the best. The team really pays attention to user requests and interests. Other Linux distributions should be using grml as a foundation. "For the record, in case anyone googles this, the install from zero to full flash, java, 3d accel, network, and all codecs working in browsers, is, on my 2.16g pentium m, is only twenty-seven minutes (not including the dreadful kde install, which takes of course, at least half an hour)." http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/41 Grml quality is so high that it puts its own version number to shame. It should be "8.0" instead of "0.8." That would give a better idea of the quality level. Grml is an up-to-date, capable, flexible, and rock-solid distribution. All the stability of Debian with up-to-date packages and regular release cycles. And very easy to install thanks to the scripts. I don't even feel like a sysadmin when I use grml! Mark

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fluxbox auto raise
by T 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

[redirected from gmane.linux.debian.user, because I now think that this might be a grml specific question] > > Upgraded from Debian stable into testing, I notice one most important > > feature missing from fluxbox -- the SloppyFocus mode. Ie, the mode of > > traditional X behaviour -- auto raise the window when the mouse stay > > on a window for a while. > > > > Anybody else misses the feature? what's the workaround? > > > > thank. > > > > PS my fluxbox: > > Installed: 0.9.14-1.2 > > Candidate: 0.9.14-1.2 > > Running Sid, same version of fluxbox, and I can get that behavior by > choosing Configuration > Focus Model > Auto Raise. As said in OP, I can't get auto raise works for fluxbox. Anybody can do that? This is what I tried: create a new user. In its home directory, there are no .x* .X* files, nor the .fluxbox directory. echo exec fluxbox > ~/.xsession then startx. Ie, in above X/fluxbox setting, everything is taken from system. However, having choosing Configuration > Focus Model > Auto Raise, I still can't get the auto raise feature. So I think that this issue is related to how grml configure X/fluxbox by default. Please help. I can't do without the auto raise feature. Thanks

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Re: [Grml] ndiswrapper solved
by Peter G. 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Martin Yazdzik <yazdzik(a)nyct.net> wrote: > bcm43xx-fwcutter can cut the firmware out > of /mnt/sda1/DRIVERS/NETWORK/ADDON/BCMWL5.SYS > > filename : bcmwl5.sys > version : 3.100.35.0 > MD5 : c3ab2d6954c7b5103770832a3a6a591b > > extracting bcm43xx_microcode2.fw ... > extracting bcm43xx_microcode4.fw ... > extracting bcm43xx_microcode5.fw ... > *****: Sorry, it's not possible to extract "bcm43xx_microcode11.fw". fw-cutter keeps complaining about bcm43xx_microcode11.fw here too, and I have tried about seven different .sys files, always the same warning/error. However, it appears the kernel module only needs the bcm43xx_microcode5.fw to be available, in any case that is what I provide in /lib/firmware and the driver is loading and working well. That is for an 04:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) So maybe its worth to try out the firmware files fwcutter *can* extract, depite the error. Good Luck, Peter -- "I do not think the way you think I think." -- Kai, last of the Brunnen G

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Missing lo device
by Werner Schuster (murphee) 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

howdy, after an apt-get upgrade to grml 0.8 I seem to be missing my loopback lo device (ifconfig just shows my eth0 device after startup). My /etc/network/interfaces contains: # The loopback interface automatically added when upgrading auto lo iface lo inet loopback Has anybody else seen this? I only noticed this because thunderbird and firefox started behaving oddly and Java debugging stopped working (Java debugging needs to listen to a localhost port). Thanks, murphee PS: thanks for the 0.8 release... I'm having fun getting the people round here to pronounce the Funkenzutzler name; -- Blog @ http://jroller.com/page/murphee Maintainer of EclipseShell @ http://eclipse-shell.sourceforge.net/

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