December 2007 - Grml - lists.mur.at

1.1 rc1 - a small problem with "bouncing window"...
by Andy Elvey 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

Hi all - I'm a first-timer here - just tried grml for the first time, and very impressed! Well done to the devs! :-) ( A bit of background - I'm an intermediate (pushing "advanced")-level user - my PC's been Linux-only for about 4 years or so now. ) I only have one small problem. When I'm running the live-CD, I get an annoying window with a blue border bouncing around the screen - the message in it says "Attention: Input not supported". I can run apps fine, the display is perfectly normal except for that window. Arrgh.... I should say that I have an "AOC" brand LCD screen and it runs fine (except for that window). Absolutely everything works perfectly except for that one small thing, so has anyone come across that before (and have a way of getting rid of it?). Maybe a boot-option or something..... ? Very many thanks in advance, and again - well done to the devs for a great distro! Bye for now - - Andy

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problem installing packages.
by Doug Smith 31 Dec '07

31 Dec '07

Ok, I have a little problem with installing packages on here. I don't know why packages won't install, but the install process just hangs after the packages are downloaded. I wanted, for example, to install gcj on here, but the packages were downloaded, and the process just hung indefinitely. What's the problem and how can I fix it. I like the new release candidate. I have never had this good service from speakup, but you eliminated almost all that stupid spelling. It does jump into it occasionally, but it is not nearly as much as it has been before. The rest of the diestro looks great. All my command line favs are here and in their latest versions. This is good. I just need to know what to do about that failure to install packages. Thank you. -- I use grml (http://grml.org/)

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grml release candidates: grml 1.1-rc1, grml64 0.2-rc1, grml[64]-medium 0.1-rc1
by Michael Prokop 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

Hi! I'm proud to be able to present new grml release candidates. New features? For sure! Including a new grml flavour known as grml-medium. grml 1.1-rc1 - Codename Skunk: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-1.1-rc1/ grml64 0.2-rc1 - Codename Schwammerlklauber: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml64-0.2-rc1/ grml-medium 0.1-rc1 and grml64-medium 0.1-rc1 - Codename Pfuh: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-medium-0.1-rc1/ http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml64-medium-0.1-rc1/ Please consider using bittorrent for downloading the ISOs: http://grml.deb.at/devel/grml_1.1-rc1.iso.torrent http://grml.deb.at/devel/grml64_0.2-rc1.iso.torrent http://grml.deb.at/devel/grml-medium_0.1-rc1.iso.torrent http://grml.deb.at/devel/grml64-medium_0.1-rc1.iso.torrent If you can't use bittorrent then check out the devel/ directory of the HTTP/FTP mirrors listed at: http://grml.org/download/ Known issues can be found at: http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=release_candidate Please report any bug you notice so we can provide stable releases soon! http://grml.org/bugs/ Enjoy 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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Text based bootsplash -- switch to after install?
by John Magolske 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

I just installed grml 1.0 to a hard drive, but forgot to invoke the "splash" boot option before running grml2hd. Is there a way to switch to the text based bootsplash after installation? Thanks, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact

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Grml-live-remaster (boot problem - busybox)
by vadim.blajkun＠ubs.com 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

Hi All. I am quite new to the remastering the GRML live CD. I am trying to remaster the CD based on the grml-small linux 2.6.20 kernel following the procedure described in the "Remastering GRML" HOWTO http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=remastering. Everything went Ok until I have tried to boot from the resulting ISO - it thrown me to the busybox. I have noticed that executing mksqushfs results in the GRML file which is about 0.5 MB smaller than the original GRML file, even though there were absolutely no changes to the original. If I do not run mksquashfs, bit simply recreate ISO using mkisofs, the resulting ISO image works fine. I looks that the problem is somewhere in mksquashfs. I use mksquashfs distributed with squashfs3.3.tgz via http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=63835 Could anyone help? Thanks. -- Vadim

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Installing GRML with Speech
by Jerry Matheny 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Hello, I am a blind computer user, and am trying to install GRML on my laptop computer. My setup is as follows: I'm using the speakup_synth=ltlk boot parameter to start my external synthesizer, however I wish to also use a 2 gb swap partition that I have created just in case. How can I run grml2hd to do this? Also, how do I go about installing TTSynth to have software speech via Speakup afterwards? I have the deb image needed for TTSynth. I just need the library it needs to install. And also, what steps are needed to get Gnome and Orca running? Sorry to ask so many questions, but this is the best Linux distro that has detected all my hardware, and seems to work the best with the sound card, which is a must when you are a blind laptop Linux user. So any help I could get would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance, Jerry

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Having trouble installing packages with apt-get
by Jerry Matheny 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

How can I fix this problem? I try to install packages with apt-get and it wants to remove kernel-headers-grml. But I want to be able to install new packages. What is a good way to fix this? Thanks in advance, Jerry

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system time is too slow on a grml guest inside vmware server on a grml host
by Peter 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Hi I have problems getting the time stable on a grml 1.0 guest running inside a vmware virtual machine on a grml 1.0 host. The host is synchronized via chrony and it works. The guest is getting behind the host system time very rapidly (approx 10 Mins in an hour) I tried various options: 1 with chrony and without vmware tools time sync 2 the inverse 3 some hacks include: kern.hz=100 in lilo.conf nothing works. I also have a grml 1.0 running as guest inside vmware workstation (the commercial product tp vmware server) on a Windows 2000 host (which has no time sync) . Here , the guest has no time sync with the host and uses chrony . Everything works in this case. Any ideas ? Thanks a lot Peter

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