September 2011 - Grml - lists.mur.at

Using development version of grub2
by Charles A. Hewson 27 Sep '11

27 Sep '11

Hi all, I need to test with grub from the developers repository. I have it cleanly compiled on grml-2011.05. How do I "grub-install" it to /usr/share/grml-live/templates/boot/grub? I think from there grml-live will include it in iso for my work. Grub-install wants a /dev/*** to write mbr and I can't do that on this box. Charles -- Charles Hewson <cahewson(a)eskimo.com> Seattle, WA. U.S.A.

1 0

libvdpau_nvidia.so is missing -- 2nd posting
by v.klemt＠online.de 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

Hallo Will, Thank you for drawing my attention to ... > However, I see that error every time I run mplayer. I too use an Intel > GPU, so for me it is just a warning message--even if I had the library > mplayer is warning about, I would not be able to take advantage of > MPlayer's capability to use recent nvidia cards' VDPAU rendering > subsystem. In my case it does not prevent mplayer from working, and it In fact, starting Mplayer (standalone, I don't use the Gecko plugin in Iceweasel) from the command line, I also get the message "Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared ..." which I had overlooked all the time. It is really a warning only. The aforementioned problem with Mozilla (resulting in segmention fault) had never before occurred to me in any other PC. My first guess was a hardware problem (defective memory), but why then should it always happen exactly on he same occasion? Best regards, Vilmar

1 0

libvdpau_nvidia.so is missing -- Update
by v.klemt＠online.de 17 Sep '11

17 Sep '11

Hallo, Updating my recent letter: My old notebook, Asus A3521 with Pentium-M CPU, 1.6 GHz, 512MB memory, and Intel 855 GM graphics -- this I forgot to mention yesterday, is running well with Grml 2011.05 (as well as with older versions), either with Fluxbox or Ratpoison, except for a problem with Mozilla: The Grml homepage already present, Iceweasel crashes immediately when I try to open any other website, in case it needs video capabilities. The error message is: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open \ shared object file: No such file or directory with segmentation fault to follow. Google search shows that the error message is well known when using Mplayer, but in my case this problem does not exist. Can anybody give a hint to a solution? Thanks in advance, Vilmar Klemt

2 1

libvdpau_nvidia.so is missing
by v.klemt＠online.de 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

Hallo, My old notebook, Asus A3521 with Pentium-M CPU and 512MB memory, is running well with Grml 2011.05 (as well as with older versions), either with Fluxbox or Ratpoison, except for a problem with Mozilla: The Grml homepage already present, Iceweasel crashes immediately when I try to open any other website, in case it needs video capabilities. The error message is: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open \ shared object file: No such file or directory with segmentation fault to follow. Google search shows that the error message is well known when using Mplayer, but in my case this problem does not exist. Can anybody give a hint to a solution? Thanks in advance, Vilmar Klemt

1 0

grml usb sticks
by Albert Dengg 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

hi, a while ago i bought one of the nice 32/64bit dual usb keys and since it is now a bit outdated (the version is from the beginning of 2010 or so) i would like to update it, but i haven't found a procedure in the wiki or anywhere else...and i would like to avoid having to do to much reading of docs and/or doing it by trial and error the hard way. can anybody point me in the right direction? thx yours, albert

3 2

Firewall holes
by T o n g 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

Hi, Is there any way I can know which outbound port is not blocked by our company's firewall? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

1 0

image all disks of a raid array in one stept to a single image(dd)
by bill evergreen 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

Hello, I heard that GRML does automatically recognize RAID-arrays and in addition is able to copy/image all disks of a RAID array to a single image(dd). Is that really the case? How can that be achieved? Thank's a lot in advance for any feedback! Bill

2 1

How to setup Xorg keyboard layout ?
by Frédéric Boiteux 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

Hello, I'm trying to use the GRML iso image (with grml-rescueboot package) on computers with a special keyboard layout, a french-targeted dvorak-like layout called « bépo ». I found how to setup the console layout, giving « keyboard=dvorak-fr-bepo » in CUSTOM_BOOTOPTIONS variable of /etc/default/grml-rescueboot, but didn't found how to setup the Xorg layout : it's a flavor/variant of « fr » Xorg layout (though it very different from classical french Azerty) ; I can setup in a shell with : setxkbmap fr bepo and following grml's FAQ, I tried « xkeyboard=bepo », « xkeyboard=fr(bepo) » without luck. Could you tell me what syntax can we use in xkeyboard definition, or how to setup my Bépo keyboard layout (if possible) ? Thanks, Fred.

2 3

Problem with grml autoconfig
by Bojan Sukalo 06 Sep '11

06 Sep '11

Hello everyone! Maybe this is not the right way to ask general user question (wrong mail list or something) so I'm sorry if made any problems. I have an urgent situation to make ad-hoc openvpn server from usb stick. Using grml for some time as a live cd and recovery tool I think this can be done with grml. So I have openvpn folder with all the necesary stuff, I formatted usb stick in following way: 1. 3GB FAT32 wiht grml on it (grml2usb --bootoptions="nodhcp") /dev/sdb1 2 1GB ext3 with GRMLCFG label with scripts dir and inside it grml.sh script /dev/sdb5 grml.sh script is chmod 755, so executable and readable by everyone. basicaly the content of script is: #!/bin/bash ip link set dev eth0 up ip addr add dev eth0 192.168.1.253/24 ip route add default via 192.168.1.254 #now I wont to copy the folder to rw fs in order to write status files and logs so cp -r /mnt/grmlcfg/openvpn /root/ cd /root/openvpn openvpn --config /root/openvpn/server.conf & echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward #and to start ssh server to access the box /etc/init.d/ssh start The debug output says that GRMLCFG is detected and mounted to /mnt/grmlcfg as ro When booting finished, nothing has happened, as the script had not been run. Can anybody shed some light on this please? Thank You.

3 7