June 2007 - Grml - lists.mur.at

adp94xx driver
by David Koski 28 Jun '07

28 Jun '07

I thought that grml has the adp94xx driver so I downloaded version 1.0, burned the iso to CD and mounted it. I noticed there is no driver adp94* in /lib/modules/2.6.20-grml/* recursive. Is it supported or not? The README for version 0.9 shows it should be there: http://grml.org/files/README-0.9.php Has adp94xx been dropped? If so, where can I get it? I am looking for a way to install generic Debian on hardware that requires adp94xx and grml seemed to be a good path. Best Regards, David Koski david(a)kosmosisland.com

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Anyone using maple on grml 1.0?
by Lars Schimmer 25 Jun '07

25 Jun '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Is there anyone out there who is using maple on grml 1.0 (HD install) ? 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 v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGeTOAmWhuE0qbFyMRAkUwAJ4lq+9qRmJt7Tdh2L63QEU0jevV1ACfdKq4 NKQR1ngnF7f6mLdk4WA2jHY= =UFam -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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grml 1.0 grml2hd issues
by Lars Schimmer 24 Jun '07

24 Jun '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I just installed grml 1.0 to 5 PCs with grml2hd. I let it run, added root pwd, username,userpwd, deleted the apache server, added hal, choosed grub in mbr and waited til it was done and rebooted. After reboot, it couldn´t mount /root, because "device not found or busy". I tried it with UUID and with /dev/sda3 in grub.... 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 v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGfS54mWhuE0qbFyMRAsKNAJ98AESKr3xYMPoyKu9KYHf64C2QpACghBM7 CBF2dEXYcj8BnNMEHNFcUv4= =afXW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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REMASTER with modified squashfs
by Charles A. Hewson 22 Jun '07

22 Jun '07

Hi All, I am new to GRML but, have been linux admin for years. I have attempted remaster example from V1.0 both live and installed. When I try "make menuconfig" in /lib/modules/2.6.20/build it gives many errors mostly undefined variables. This happens even without a patch on clean install. Is some cheetcode required? I have copied config from /boot and attemped "make oldconfig" that does same. I would attach specific messages but, we keep machines off net until security modules are installed and configered. If you have suggestions please post to mail list as I am in Seattle. Thanks, Charles

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technical information website http://grml.org
by stappers＠stappers.nl 22 Jun '07

22 Jun '07

Hello, The website http://grml.org is a nice looking one. My intension is to use the same skeleton. But does it has a skeleton? Or other framework? In other words: Could someone provide technical information about the GRML website? Cheers Geert Stappers

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Keyboard does not work in 1.0
by Alexander Skwar 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

Good evening! I burned grml 1.0 to a CD and booted my Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro V2010 notebook (a 32bit system) with it. When boot was finished, I was not able to type anything at all. Not even Alt+F1... worked - not even ctrl+alt+del worked! In isolinux, ie. at the "boot prompt", keyboard still works. I booted grml also without "modifying" anything with the help of the isolinux prompt. Ie. just defaults. With the help of the mouse, I selected "x" at the menu presented when grml finished booting. I started fvwm-crystal. Even in X, keyboard does not work. Keyboard worked just fine in previous releases of grml. It worked for sure in 0.8. Keyboard also works just fine right now; I'm typing this message on the same computer (booted into Mandriva). Best regards, Alexander Skwar -- We are using Linux daily to UP our productivity - so UP yours! (Adapted from Pat Paulsen by Joe Sloan)

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Grml Beta Test Coordination
by Mark 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

> I really appreciate your feedback but you seem to prefer writing > mails instead of trying what I wrote. [Mika] Because 2.6.21 is not going to help us even if it works; I need more data; it's not the only test; and Linux ++ fixes anything but is not a distro. My users need grml repos, 0.9 or 1.0. They can't function with 2.6.21. Communication & research is all that's possible anyway. Memorial Day vacation - I'm packing now. (Incidentally: verified as kernel regression under Ubuntu 7.04; same problems.) During beta I would have done as requested to improve 1.0 final. Grml gave me no task, no suspect kernel config flags to isolate, etc. Radio silence made me hungry for info-crumbs... But a broken (from our standpoint) final release makes me ask how grml beta cycles are supposed to work. I just need to know what grml does/thinks so I can work with, or around the philosophy & constraints involved. Beta cycles are meant to catch bugs before release. Kernel regression is just another bug category. A kernel regression which, for instance, broke your laptop, would prevent a grml release. And that is how it should be. Re bisect: Other people do that coordinated by -stable. My job is sysadmin, not kernel dev. The whole point of Linux for us, rather than BSD or Open Solaris or Nexenta or whatever, is hardware support. If we have to become kernel devs too, supporting/debugging our own hardware, then we would consider other kernels to develop, with possibly more rational code. Note about USB in Linux, "the in-kernel USB interfaces have undergone at least three different reworks over the lifetime of this subsystem" (Greg Kroah-Hartman). Anyway it's not my call. The last thing my boss will allow is debugging Linux hardware drivers. What I'm asking is, do you inspect a grml bug report, and then talk to -stable to see if they have anything related in their pipeline, and then decide whether grml should wait for a patch? Looking at -stable patch-2.6.20.12, I see USB fixes relating to mutexes, IRQs, etc. - the big stuff. What -stable version is 2.6.20-grml in grml 1.0 final? Next, how does Debian fit into all this? Grml tracks Debian unstable. But grml releases are tied to Linus's kernel releases, not Debian kernel work, right? Correct me on anything. Does grml kernel customization include the possibility of using a -stable release that is not yet incorporated into Debian? Or is Debian a limiting factor? Dumb question maybe, but if I compile my own 2.6.20-x using grml source and patched from -stable, will it work with grml 2.6.20-grml repos? I'm willing to compile a kernel but if I start having to build repos too, I've already become a custom distro, and I'd rather not. Thanks - see you a week from now. Mark

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sambastart
by gareth 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

Hi people. Can anyone tell me if there is an equivalent for the script 'sambastart' in knoppix. It's one of the things I use all the time to automatically share drives and then copy data off from another machine. Thanks. -- Gareth ----------- Randomly Generated Fortune: "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?" Microsoft spel chekar vor sail, worgs grate !! -- Felix von Leitner, leitner(a)inf.fu-berlin.de

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building elinks with javascript support
by Doug Smith 17 Jun '07

17 Jun '07

Ok, I hate to do this. I really don't like to ask questions before finding the answer, but this one seems to be limited by information that does not seem to be true. It's probably outdated. I need to build elinks with javascript support. I am one of your blind grmlers. I heard that it wasn't built into the stock Debian binary so I went testing. I went to: http://www.rfbd.org This is a library from which I get a lot of the textbooks I do my research out of. Well, sure enough, the information I had received was true. I received a page with a header about scripts needed for data processing. Well, I went googling. First of all, I found a mail message at the speakup mailing list archives from a year or two ago about installing a spidermonkey and spidermonkey-dev package. Neither of these existed when I tried to install them. Well, I went hunting again. Out comes the weapon, the google site. Well, no big game this time neither. However, I found a manual at the elinks site. It appears to be incomplete and possibly unmaintained. It said to do the following, so I did it. First of all install libmozjs-dev, so that this install would pull in the library packages that go with this package. This was successful. Next, when finished doing this, you were supposed to do an apt-build install elinks. The program wєnt to the source site at the Debian archives and pulled down the package and built the binary. It successfully installed it, but there was still no javascript support. I tried it again, rebuilding the elinks package so that I might have a clean, new install incase I had done something wrong. Still no javascript support. Well, I tried reconfiguring the elinks package: dpkg-reconfigure elinks after the binary was built. Nothing yet. I would appreciate any info I can get. I guess I will go googling again, plowing through the mass of data to try to ┴unt it up and apply the correct procedure. Any help would be appreciated. -- Doug Smith: C.S.F.C. Computer Scientist For CHRIST

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JFYI: results of grml user survey available
by Michael Prokop 10 Jun '07

10 Jun '07

Hi, I just wanted to inform you that the results of the grml user survey are available now. Find the details in the grml wiki: http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=survey07 Thanks to everyone who participated! 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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