August 2006 - Grml - lists.mur.at

Badly need help -- can't get onto network
by T 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Hi I'm using grml 0.7 for quite a while. But this morning I woke up to find that I can't access my Internet anymore. Everything was fine last night and I didn't touch anything... Here are the symptoms: % /etc/init.d/networking restart Reconfiguring network interfaces...ifup: interface lo already configured done. Why the message only says interface lo, but not eth0? $ route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 default 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 $ ping grml.org ping: unknown host grml.org Note that the "default" line from route took a long time to show up, so is the "unknown host" line from ping. % ifconfig eth0 down $ ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:2F:BE:4B:BA inet addr:192.168.2.13 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:185 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 [...] Ie, I tried to shut down the eth0, but, should it be gone from "ifconfig -a" output? I tried to regain dhcp leases but that didn't help. By then, I ran out of ideas so I rebooted. However, same things happened, and I still can't get onto the Internet. Note that the Internet is working fine. The other machine that's using the same router worked fine. Also, AOK when I boot back to Debian. Please help. It's urgent. thanks

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play and its output
by T 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Hi Whenever I use the command "play" to play a sound file, I will get: -------------------- Input Filename : /path/sounds/some.wav Sample Size : 8-bits Sample Encoding: unsigned Channels : 1 Sample Rate : 11025 Comments : GoldWave (C) Chris S. Craig, http://www.goldwave.com Time: 00:00.39 [00:00.00] of 00:00.39 ( 100.0%) Output Buffer: 4.28K -------------------- It's educational at first several times, but is getting more and more annoying now. Is there any way to turn it off? thanks

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pre-configure X
by T 13 Aug '06

13 Aug '06

Hi Which cheet code can allow the Live-CD to pre-configure X after bootup? I want the step of "grml-x fluxbox" to be define in my boot code, so that I can "startx" as normal. thanks

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Bug report options
by T 13 Aug '06

13 Aug '06

Hi I just notice a bug in grep and reported it. However, I noticed that the bug report was submitted to: "GRML Project Bug Tracking System", instead of the official Debian Bug Tracking System. How will the GRML Bug Tracking System handle such case, ie, packages that are not GRML specific? Is there any way to toggle between the Bug Tracking Systems when reporting bugs? thanks

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grml 0.8-rc1, X and ATI
by T 13 Aug '06

13 Aug '06

Hi: I have an ATI card. I was not able to use Xorg in grml 0.7 except after HD install. Yesterday, I tried the grml 0.8-rc1 and found that I was still not able to use X out of box. I was trying to find an appropriate (fallback) driver for X, I tried: grml-x -module ati grml-x -module radeon grml-x -module vesa None can start X. Is it possible to use X without installing anything, ie. the ATI proprietary driver fglrx? thanks

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bitmap fonts
by T 13 Aug '06

13 Aug '06

Hi I read somewhere that DSL (Dam Small Linux) is removing the bitmap fonts entirely from the system. Since so many high quality TrueType fonts are available, it is a waste of space to still have bitmap fonts. Is this on the todo list of grml as well? thanks

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Removal of xprint
by T 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

Hi I noticed that xprint is removed from the 0.8 release. http://grml.org/files/README-0.8-rc1.php Is it superseded by something else? What the suggested alternative to xprint? thanks

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Adjusted packages
by T 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

Hi, mika: I have a suggestion, next time you blog what packages get removed/added, could you add the description to the package names as well? So we get a brief idea what are added/deleted, without to look them up. 2nd, of all the followding deleted packages, are there any alternatives, or they are remove for space-saving purpose? hgrep highlight output of grep numlockx enable NumLock in X11 sessions qtparted A parted frontend using QT tripwire file and directory integrity checker thanks

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ATI proprietary driver fglrx and Xvideo support
by T 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Hi, I'm using the fglrx driver for my ATI card. Does it has Xvideo support? When I tried with mplayer -vo xv moviefile I get: ----------------------- It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available. Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv! See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. ----------------------- Please help thanks PS. - I used to use "mplayer -vo xv" in Sarge, the video driver was ati before. - here is my fglrx related packges (I know the latest should be v8.27.10): ii fglrx-control_8.23.7-1 ii fglrx-driver_8.25.18-1 ii fglrx-kernel-2.6.16-grml_8.25.18-1+grml.05

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adduser and RPC Connection
by T 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

hi whenever I add a user in grml, I get the following error: rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused I've never see this before, and would like to know why adduser need to do some rpc calls/connections. thanks

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