October 2010 - Grml - lists.mur.at

New Grml developer: Christian Hofstaedtler
by Michael Prokop 12 Oct '10

12 Oct '10

Hi, it's an honor for me to be able to announce a new official Grml developer. Christian Hofstaedtler (AKA ch on IRC) just accepted my offer to join the Grml team as developer. Christian provided not just excellent bugreports but also high quality patches and is known as friendly and helpful user supporter as well. You might also know him from his bugfixes in grml2usb, grml-etc-core, grml-live, grml-terminalserver etc. Actually I can't remember a release where Christian didn't show up as contributor. :) So it was obvious to make Christian an official developer and I'm pleased that Christian joined us. Welcome to the Grml team, Christian! regards, -mika-

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Installing Vmware v71 under grml
by T o n g 12 Oct '10

12 Oct '10

Hi, I'm having difficulties installing Vmware v71 under grml -- I always get gcc and kernel headers must be installed Even though I got everything installed, I think. Please take a look at the last several line of the strace output: 26621 open("/usr/include/linux/version.h", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY) = 0 26621 fstat(0, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=97, ...}) = 0 26621 read(0, "#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 13264"..., 97) = 97 26621 close(0) = 0 26621 write(1, "# 1 \"<stdin>\"\n# 1 \"<built-in>\"\n#"..., 146) = 146 26614 <... read resumed> "# 1 \"<stdin>\"\n# 1 \"<built-in>\"\n#"..., 4096) = 146 26621 close(1 <unfinished ...> 26614 close(8 <unfinished ...> 26621 <... close resumed> ) = 0 26614 <... close resumed> ) = 0 26621 munmap(0x7fcffdd98000, 4096 <unfinished ...> 26614 wait4(26618, <unfinished ...> 26621 <... munmap resumed> ) = 0 26621 exit_group(0) = ? 26620 <... wait4 resumed> [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 26621 26620 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/collect2", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=117968, ...}) = 0 26620 access("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/collect2", X_OK) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", 0x7fff24471c60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 26620 stat("/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/.", 0x7fff24471c60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", 0x7fff24471c60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/bin/.", 0x7fff24471c60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", 0x7fff24471c60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/lib/../lib/.", 0x7fff24471c60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../lib/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=65536, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", 0x7fff24471c60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 26620 stat("/lib/../lib/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/../lib/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=65536, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", 0x7fff24471c60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 26620 stat("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/../lib/.", 0x7fff24471c60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/lib/.", 0x7fff24471c60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=65536, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/lib/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=65536, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 exit_group(0) = ? 26618 <... wait4 resumed> [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 26620 26618 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- 26618 exit_group(0) = ? 26614 <... wait4 resumed> [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 26618 26614 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- 26614 munmap(0x7f6f5d143000, 4096) = 0 26614 write(2, "gcc and kernel headers must be i"..., 41) = 41 I don't know what vmware is trying to do. Seems that it successfully open the version.h file, them moved on probing the directories. This is where I lost. What the code is trying to do? I googled, and seems that VmWare-Workstation 7 has been at least successfully installed on openSUSE 11.2 [1] & openSuSe 11.3 [2]. [1] http://u-random.blogspot.com/2010/01/vmware-workstation-7.html [2] http://communities.vmware.com/message/1576675#1576675 Please help me have vmware installed under grml. The last 84K of trace log is posted in http://paste.grml.org/85/ $ uname -a Linux coral 2.6.35-grml64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Sep 3 22:06:00 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux Thanks a lot. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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Personal grml-Recovery-CD (grml remastered)
by Werner P. Schulz 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

As an alternative to http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=remastering I have done remaster of grml-medium_2010.04.iso using hd-installation in VirtualBox. All steps to create a personal CD within 30 minutes you can find in several scripts as described on http://www.wp-schulz.de/rettung.html Perhaps it may be usefull for some of you. Greetings Werner P. Schulz

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