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Opera browser
by Matej Rehak 25 Jul '07

25 Jul '07

Hello, Today I have tried to install Opera web browser via Aptitude, and I didn't find it. Will it be available for GRML in the future ? Thanx, M.Rehak

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Problem with make mrproper
by Charles Hewson 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

I did install of kernel source tree (linux-source-2.6.20-grml) and make mrproper still can not find parts of the amos1100 driver. Console output is attached. What am I missing? Charles ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/

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noon initrd question
by martin yazdzik 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

Dear Friends, On my explerimental partition, just for fun, and to test drivers, &c, I sometimes do things either adventursome or stupid, depending upon one's point of view. I should like to install the grml 2.6.22 kernel, but, having installed the image, sources, some modules I use, &c, after mkinitrdramfs while the package is built and installed, lilo is correct, upon boot everything fails because, at least according to the running text, it does not find /lib/modules...? Now, lib modules 2.6.22 is there, but very sparsely populated. Could someone, forgiving my inexperience and inadequacy, tell me, step by step, how to make this kernel work, as I am either failing to install something necessary, or failing to create the proper initrd image? I apologise for the inconvenience. All good wishes, martin In caecus terrae, luscus rex est.

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nfs - impossible to mount a remote nfs-share
by Frank Eisenblaetter 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

I have a Ubuntu-Server with a configured NFS-Share. It's possible to mount this share on an other host which run's kubuntu. If I try to mount the share with my grml hd installation with # mount -t nfs server:/share /mnt/server I get the following error: mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking Either use "-o nolocks" to keep locks local, or start statd. If I try to start rpc.statd with # /etc/init.d/nfs-common it takes about 1 minute to finish "Starting NFS common utilities: statd.", but id doesn't change anything. # ps ax | grep statd gives no output # rpcinfo -p localhost rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - Connection timed out # ps ax | grep portmap 4410 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/portmap -i 127.0.0.1 Installed versions: - portmap 6.0-2 - nfs-common 1:1.1.0-6 Any Ideas why I cannot start nfs-common? Regards, Frank

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how to turn off / control the usb led display?
by Andri Handoko 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

Hi, I'm using the grml small 0.4. I created a hotplug event that automatically copy files to the USB stick when it's plugin. The stick is Sandisk micro cruzer 2G USB stick. Here is the dilema: I don't know when the copy will be completed without looking at the monitor, and I'm planning not to use any monitor. Is there a way to control the led; make it blinks every second when files are being copy to the stick, and/or (the most importance part) to turn OFF the led when the device is unmounted? (the "other" popular OS turns off the led when the "Safely remove hardware" is selected). Can Grml do the same action? Another question, since I need to recompile the kernel to support more than 4 serial ports (haven't have a big success yet, newbie :) ), is there a default date configuration that I can modify to make the kernel date start from Jan 1, 2007? so it will keep running for 50+ years from now :P Thanks and Cheers Andri ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121

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Re: [Grml] how to turn off / control the usb led display?
by Andri Handoko 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

Hi Moritz, What is the brand and model of the USB stick that you use? Mine doesn't work with the eject command. I was able to switch usb sandisk cruzer stick led off by "rmmod usb_storage". See my previous post for detail. Cheers Andri --- Moritz Augsburger <grml(a)moritz.augsburger.name> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 05:45:07PM -0700, Andri Handoko wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using the grml small 0.4. I created a hotplug event that > automatically > > copy files to the USB stick when it's plugin. The stick is Sandisk micro > > cruzer 2G USB stick. Here is the dilema: I don't know when the copy will > be > > completed without looking at the monitor, and I'm planning not to use > any > > monitor. Is there a way to control the led; make it blinks every second > when > > files are being copy to the stick, and/or (the most importance part) to > turn > > OFF the led when the device is unmounted? (the "other" popular OS turns > off > > the led when the "Safely remove hardware" is selected). Can Grml do the > same > > action? > > With my USB stick, I can use "eject /dev/whatevermystickis" and then the > LED turns off. > > Greets > momo > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added security of spyware protection. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/norton/index.php

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Help needed for OLPC-Austria - School on a Stick
by Andreas.Trawoeger＠wgkk.at 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

Hi to everybody! Is anybody from the grml community interested to help the 'school on a stick' project from OLPC-Austria ( http://olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/School_on_a_stick)? The idea is to provide every pupil in a class with its own bootable usb-stick running Linux. Currently we have: - A school in Vienna for testing - 18 brand new PCs which will be delivered next week. - A bunch of kids who will return from hiding on 3.Sep.2007. So everything that is left to do is buying a couple of usb-sticks and finding a Linux distribution that is able to boot from an usb-stick :-)) cu andreas

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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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Re: screenreader and grml
by cbrannon＠itlnet.net.net 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

Hi, The screenreader that you get when booting with swspeak is called speakup. The homepage is http://linux-speakup.org. There is a user's guide on that site. If you cannot find it, I'll be more than glad to send a copy via email. PS. there have been a couple of new blind grml'ers in the last week or so; very cool.

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screenreader and grml
by Adam Thompson 03 Jun '07

03 Jun '07

Hi all, My name is adam and I am completely blind. I am extremely interested in using grml and have had a go all ready. I don't own a hardware synth and so have had to use swspeak, however I am not intirely sure how to use the screenreader (and indeed, not entirely sure what screenreader it is), so I was just wondering if anyone can help me with the basics (for example is there an equivalent to the "JAWS cursor" in this screenreader?). Also I was wondering how you use the screenreader with anything which has a gui. Please can someone point me in the direction of a manual, or give some basic keystroke information? Thanks in advance, from Adam.

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grml on USB flash drive or CF through cardbus adaptor.
by gary ng 02 Jun '07

02 Jun '07

Hi, I am wondering if there anyone has experience with this kind of usage, both in terms of performance and possibility to boot(in the case of cardbus) In the case of USB(most newer machine with 2.0 can boot without any problem), I believe it would be slower to boot comparing with USB HD(throughput difference but would still be much faster than CD) but would it be faster to use once boot as ReadyBoost on Vista relies on the much faster seek time ? As for the cardbus mode, if it cannot be boot from there, is there any support in grml boot mode where I can boot from a CD(which is slow) yet with the real meat pull from another device say USB drive or cardbus ? This can be quite useful for some older notebook/machine where the boot option is very limited(just CD or IDE). thanks for any pointer in advance. regards, gary PS. please CC if possible as I am not on the list but do read it from the archive. ____________________________________________________________________________________Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz

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DBUS <--> FILE-RC
by v.klemt＠online.de 31 Mai '07

31 Mai '07

Hi everybody! Is DBUS compatible with FILE-RC? On my system, originally generated with grml2hd (grml 0.9), kernel 2.6.18-grml, I got: root@acergrml: apt-get install dbus Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: dbus-x11 The following NEW packages will be installed: dbus dbus-x11 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/535kB of archives. After unpacking 983kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Selecting previously deselected package dbus-x11. (Reading database ... 173918 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking dbus-x11 (from .../dbus-x11_1.0.2-5_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package dbus. Unpacking dbus (from .../archives/dbus_1.0.2-5_i386.deb) ... Setting up dbus-x11 (1.0.2-5) ... Setting up dbus (1.0.2-5) ... Starting system message bus: dbus. grep: /etc/rc2.d/S??*: No such file or directory root@acergrml: Adding the missing softlink in /etc/rc2.d, ln -s ../init.d/dbus S20dbus by hand solved the problem for me (for the time being), but certainly can't be the appropriate solution. Best regards, Vilmar Klemt v.klemt(a)online.de

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grml 1.0: grml-network hickups
by Werner Flamme 30 Mai '07

30 Mai '07

Hi all, I installed grml i386 via grml2hd onto my laptop that ran with grml 0.9 before. It is a IBM ThinkPad T23. After booting from harddisk, I used grml-network to set up a static IP address for the on-board eth card. Now I can access the laptop via ssh, everything works fine. Several hours later, my ssh connection is down, the laptop does not respond to pings. I use the console and - much to my astonishment - the static IP address was exchanged with an address from the DHCP range of my router! I used grml-network again to enter the static IP address - and next morning, it again was away and a dynamic IP address was used! Well, since that first surprise this happens all few hours. I always chose "enable at boot" at the last prompt. What can I do do have my system remember the static IP address assigned via grml-network instead of looking for a DHCP address? Regards, Werner

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followup to boot-hang
by yazdzik 30 Mai '07

30 Mai '07

Dear M and friends, So, I did the quick and ugly, violent and disgusting solution: I changed fstab first line to plain old /dev/sda4 and got rid of the uuid stuff in the lilo append. Now, I am writing from the new fangled grml 1.0. However, having done this, aside from the schuldgefuehl, I would like to know what went wrong with mounting via the uuid, why we do so in the first place, and so on. Since there are stupid things that do not work on my .9 box, like axiom(really!) and everything works here, for now, I would like to move all production laptops to grml 1, but need to know that everything will work. So, the question is: what changed to disable the mounting via uuid? I suspect it is something I disabled in the runlevel.conf to speed booting along. Also, while on that topic, there has to be a way to complete disable and remove all raid like things from boot-up for laptops, no? Warm regards to all, Martin

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boot hangs
by martin yazdzik 29 Mai '07

29 Mai '07

Dear M and friends, Can anyone think of a reason why boot hangs at: "begin searching for root file system" It worked yesteday, not today. Obviously, without being able to mount /, there is no log. Other than installing k3b, there were no changes. Best, m

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TTYS 4 and 5
by Andri Handoko 26 Mai '07

26 Mai '07

Hi, I'm using the grml-small 0.3. There are only 4 serials, ttyS0 - ttyS3, in /dev folder, and I'm trying to use /dev/ttyS4 and /dev/ttyS5. I created the ttyS4 and ttyS5 manually in /etc/init.d/bootlocal.last. Use the mknod to create the device and setserial to assign the port and interrupt channel. Please see the list of commands below: mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS4 c 4 68 chown root.dialout /dev/ttyS4 mknod -m 660 /dev/ttyS5 c 4 69 chown root.dialout /dev/ttyS5 setserial /dev/ttyS4 irq 5 port 0x1c0 ^fourport autoconfigure baud_base 115200 -v low_latency setserial /dev/ttyS5 irq 0 port 0x1c8 ^fourport autoconfigure baud_base 115200 -v low_latency The setserial command returns "/dev/ttyS#: No such file or directory" for both devices where # is 4 and 5. Is this because the kernel only support up to 4 serial devices? if this is the case, is CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS is the variable that I have to change, "CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS=4" to "CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS=6" in the grml-small kernel configuration? Thanks a bunch.. Cheers Andri ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php

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