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Why does the speech system like to spell instead of read words?
by Doug Smith 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

Hello, once more, and probably for the last time for a while. I know I am really bothering people on here, so I will leave it alone after this one. I have to use the speech on here so I have to make sure that it is really working well. It is except for one minor thing. How do I keep the speech system from jumkping into this strange mode where it likes to spell everything letter by letter, and, rather slowly, at that, rather than just read the words. Is there a way to correct this? I will get it done. Thank you. -- I use grml (http://grml.org/)

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remastering a live cd, Can someone explain it to me?
by Doug Smith 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

I knownow this is a real strange one. I am, however, feeling more and more comfortable on this list, and I thought it might be possible to understand something that I have wondered about for a couple of years. What I want to know is how do you actually make a live cd? What I mean is this, and I will explain what I mean in more detail. Ok, starting from a running grml system on your development machine, all the programs are on there, the bugs are out, to the best of your knowledge, and you are ready to make a new release. What is done to get from that to the iso file system with its large compressed file system, and the other files that are with it. I know how to make an iso-9660 file system, at least, well enough to make a cd, but how do you make the thing bootable? How does the technology work that is used to compress the software and documentation down? How does the thing know which parts of this large file to use when accessing programs? Why I wonder this is, I like to add in a few packages that I use. I would like to have my own disk with config files, new packages and more so that I can just set up on any machine and rock and roll. If you don't have the time to explain this to me in full detail, do you know of a good reference where I can just read about it and get all the detæils? I really appreciate this, because the person who tried to explain this to me before, didn't put on a lievl where I could understand it. I am sorry to come on here with such strange questions, but I hope there is a simply-understood answer for this one. Thank you. -- I use grml (http://grml.org/)

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txt2tags
by Mark 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

http://txt2tags.sourceforge.net/docs.html definitely a text tool..related, http://txt2tags.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/wixi-a-desktop-wiki-powered-by-txt…

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vim, grml 0.9 on hd - strange characters after using backspace
by Frank Eisenblaetter 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

I have a strange problem with vim. When I use backspace to delete some characters while I am in instering mode, there appear blanks or other characters which I definitely not typed. example: [a], [backspace], [a] results in the folowing character å Maybe it has something to do with unicode. I use unicode_start in /etc/zsh/zlogin. Regards, Frank

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One more question I have to ask, sorry.
by Doug Smith 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

- Ok, let's try this one again. This time, a little more careful with vim and it should be fine. Now, I believe I can get the vim problem solved here. I will just be careful with it. I have one more question, rather couple of questions to ask about the mkpersistenthome script. It appears to me, and I may be totally wrong, that the mkpersistenthome script does not work. When I try to make my persistent home directory on the usb device I have, I cannot get past the part of the script where it asks you for the partition to put the image file onto. How do I move and select the item in the menu for the partition /dev/sda1 and make it go on past that? Now, the only other question I have is this. I used to use a knoppix knock-off. This is what the Oralux distribution is based on. However, there appear to be many more packages here than in this version. The good thing I miss is this: On Oralux, and you can try it by downloading the file: http://oralux.rs.sr/Oralux_0.7.iso You have this program called knoppix-mkimage, which allows you to create this kind of virtual hard disk image of your entire system. Then, through the wonders of unionfs, you can have the usb device mounted, boot the cd, and you can have this image where you can install your favorite packages on the hard drive, and the unionfs will bring it all together and put the files into the right directories. Does grml do this with þhe mkpersistenthome script? Thank you for your information. I look forward to hearing from you about this. Thank you. - I use grml (http://grml.org/)

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Well, blast, I'll have to try that one again.
by Doug Smith 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

To whom it may concern: My name is Doug Smith. I just want to let you know that I am really enjoying my new grml system. However, I have a few quick questions I need to ask you so that I can still get more out of it. First of all, I wish to thank you for including speech output in the system. This is the only way I have of using computers at all. I am blind, and, of course, a monitor will do me no good at all. You solved that one for me. I would also like to thank you for including brltty in here as well. This is very good for people who like to use computers by means of a braille monitor. This is the message I meant to send out last night, but, wow, I found myself trapped inside the editor with no way out. I discovered, much to my surprise, that the environment variable EDITOR is set to vim which is fine with me, except for the small problem I have of not knowing how to use vim. How, when using vim with mutt, the mail client I use, do you get into the menu which allows you to send the message. I wrote the last night's message with nano, which I can use, then tried to send it out and found myself trapped inside vim with no way to get back into mutt. Well, now that you know why you received a blank message last evening, let me continue. The next question concerns the install I did, with grml2hd, on a usb hard drive. When I did the install, I made the initrd as instructed. Now, there was something in a previous message about which file in the initrd needs to be edited to make the usb boot work as it should. Which file is that, and what needs to be changed. I have never done this before. Now, the third and final question I have has to do with the compression technology used to make the compressed GRML file. How does that work? How can so much data be put onto the cd and, then, the system know which parts to decompress to get the programs you want to use? This leads me to a new idea. Is it possible to make a new way to install software into the system? The way it would work is this: Just put the system onto the hard drive with grml tohd. Now, we need to boot with grml fromhd and we can get started. Ok, let's select a piece of software to install, for this example, the missing binary codecs for mplayer. Can this somehow be done? Why can't the image file on the hard drive have the relevant parts decompressed, just as in memory, written back to the drive, the new files introduced into these directories, then the compressed image file re-made just as it was before, except with the new files. Is this possible, using the same decompression scenario as is used with the decompression of needed programs in memory for use? Well, that's about it for now. I hope to get this one out with no problems. I appollogize for the messiness of this letter. Until I can use mutt with vim, I have to use the emulated mailx composition mode and try to press returnin the proper positions before running off the lines and losing data. Once more thank you for such a wonderful system. I am more than glad to have it. I just want to learn more about it to be able to use it better. Thank you. Doug Smith

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Network devices - stop automatic connection
by Frank Eisenblaetter 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

I use grml on hd. 1) I have configured my networdevices at /etc/network/interfaces. There is no automatic ifup configured in it, but if I am connected to my router the networkconnection get's automatically established on startup of the system: * Network device eth0 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP (Backgrounding) I think the connection get's established because an init script detects my networkdevice an runs a DHCP-client butI dont't know which script it is. How can i stop the autoconnection of my network device(s)? Or is there an other grml/debian way of configuring network devices? 2) On system startup I get the message: EXT3-fs warning: maximal mountcount The message tells me that I should run e2fsck. Why isn't this done automatical as it is on any other linux I uses before? Frank

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Thank you for such a wonderful system, I just have a few questions
by Doug Smith 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

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Sendmail hostname error
by ][ 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

Hi, I wasn't able to use sendmail recently. I've now track it down that the hostname that my Sendmail uses is wrong. How can I fix it? % /usr/sbin/sendmail -bi WARNING: local host name (;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I? /etc/mail/aliases: 24 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 233 bytes total % grep 'WHO AM I' -r /etc/mail/* || echo no found no found Please help. FYI, this is the respond that I got explaining why it is happening. _________________________________________________________________ You seem to be a victim of the same broken "helpfulness" as described in the (apparently misthreaded by google) thread at http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.sendmail/browse_frm/thread/7095fe4… - i.e. some install script or whatever has "configured" your sendmail with a *host name* of literally ";; connection timed out; no servers could be reached"! This is actually an error message from the 'dig' command - i.e. the script probably tries to use 'dig' to get the fully-qualified host name, and blindly accepts any output from 'dig'. The slightly different greeting comes from the fact that sendmail inserts the "ESMTP" there as the second word, under the reasonable assumption that the host name is a single word... _________________________________________________________________ -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sf.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sf.net/tools/

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Grml initrd
by ][ 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

Hi, I've been trying for several weeks to make my grml USB pen bootable. I think I finally found the problem, quite a simple one -- I need a initrd which has findfs to find the root device. However, I didn't find a initrd in my grml2hd disk, and neither the minirt26.gz borrowed from grml_small_0.3.iso works. So, is there anywhere I can get a grml initrd, or I have to build one myself? If so, any good source of info for the building? thanks PS. Here is what I get: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) My grub menu.lst: title Debian Live root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=UUID=b53f0a8b-deab-40b3-a84c-0779cb8b7772 ro initrd /boot/minirt26.gz boot title From grml.live root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=LABEL=grml.live ro initrd /boot/minirt26.gz boot -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sf.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sf.net/tools/

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Loop mount not automatically cleaned
by ][ 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

Hi, I noticed that loop mounts are not automatically cleaned in my system. Is there any way that I can fix it? Each time after I loop mount, the loop device number increased. When I do ps, I found that there are many loop process in execution: $ ps -eaf | grep loop root 5566 1 0 Jan05 ? 00:01:44 [loop0] root 5597 1 0 Jan05 ? 00:00:00 [loop1] root 5603 1 0 Jan05 ? 00:00:00 [loop2] root 10995 1 0 00:28 ? 00:01:41 [loop3] root 26656 1 0 11:42 ? 00:01:40 [loop4] root 6234 1 0 17:45 ? 00:00:00 [loop5] Previously, the loop process will be gone after I umount the loop mount. As the result, my disk space did not re-gain after deleting loop mounted iso files: sudo mount -o loop my-big.iso /mnt/tmp1 $ df /dev/sda14 79631676 52241640 27390036 66% /lfs/cache12 /dev/loop3 4571190 4571190 0 100% /mnt/tmp1 sudo umount /mnt/tmp1 $ lsof | grep my-big rm my-big.iso $ df /dev/sda14 79631676 52241640 27390036 66% /lfs/cache12 The my-big.iso is over 4G in size, but there is no space increase after it being deleted. I've checked with lsof that no one is using it. please help. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sf.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sf.net/tools/

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interfaces
by harry meyers 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

My wireless interface is eth1 In /etc/network/interfaces the according lines are simply: ,---- | iface eth1 inet dhcp | wpa-passphrase waaskaaner | wpa-ssid irgdnwoos `---- Under debian I had no problems with this configuration. But under grml the interfaces are often changed, so eth0 comes up instead fo eth1, which of course doesn't work. As a workaround I wrote a small script which changes everything and restarts networking but gradually it became quit annoying. What can I do? harry

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Boot by UUID or disk label
by ][ 03 Feb '07

03 Feb '07

Hi, Grml wiki indicates that grml can use disk labels/UUIDs as root= option for booting [1]. What's the correct syntax for that? [1] http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=usb&DokuWiki=88eb0d5110993c6c4d0ca5992abee… I searched hard and came up with the following, trying to boot my USB key: title GRML on 1st HD root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/b53f0a8b-deab-40b3-a84c-0779cb8b7772 ro boot title GRML on 1st HD root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-label/grml.boot ro boot title GRML on 2nd HD root (hd1,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/b53f0a8b-deab-40b3-a84c-0779cb8b7772 ro boot But all gave me root filesystem not found error (grub boot normally, just can't find root fs). I'm sure the uuid and disk label are correct. What else could be the problem? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sf.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sf.net/tools/

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nohwcap
by Erich Minderlein 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Hello I refer to my posting http://www.mail-archive.com/grml@mur.at/msg00781.html in which a whole discussion thread deals with the subject. It had also been relayed to the maintainers of x-servers x.org IMHO the nohwcap issue shall be dealt with only by the kernel and / or any other hardware related software, which are currently the Xserver and the drivers only (in case of insertion / removal of hw). No application should try to find something out about hardware. Kernel shall do it once after booting, insertion or removal of hw only and then hold the data in its virtual filesystem. then such a weird device as /etc/ld.so.nohwcap is at best not existing or second best once read updated during system boot, insertion or removal of hw. best regards a system engineer -- Erich Minderlein <erminderlein(a)locoware.de> MARC Mannheim Rail Commerce GmbH

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sarge and kernel 2.6.18-grml
by Erich Minderlein 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

Am Freitag, den 26.01.2007, 12:00 +0100 schrieb grml-request(a)mur.at: > sarge and kernel 2.6.18-grml (Erich Minderlein) Hello I repeat this mail _console and keyboard_ I did not post a question in this mail, so it has been overlooked. I removed console-terminus from the stable(sarge) package(250 kByte) and installed console-terminus from the testing(etch) package(565 kByte). Adding SCREEN_FONT=Lat15-Terminus16 in /etc/console-tools/config did not help; rebooting, prompt login as root, the normal font with serifs shows up, if I type unicode_start: answer : already in UTF8 mode after some fiddling around, I remove /etc/console-tools/config.d/fonty and /etc/console-tools/config.d/ and now it boots and changes to Terminus 16 for all consoles. This will probably not survive an update of package fonty! --Meanwhile fonty removed without negative consequences. Small Umlaut "ae,oe,ue" is properly printed on the console Capital Umlaut "Ae,Oe,Ue" and "scharf S"or (sz) like greek beta is not printed on the console, but results in circumflex accent ^^^^ dpkg-reconfigure console-common and dpkg-reconfigure console-data do not help, sometimes after testing these umlauts the console crashes and I get a new boot-prompt. regards I think the events described are severe: pressing Capital Umlauts Ae Oe Ue leads to console possibly exit or crash Is is a bug in the console-terminus package or is it a bug in the keyboard driver or is it a bug in the interfaces associated with these packages and the kernel ? Is it a bug between sarge and etch ? Is it a bug in front of the display ? All that is possible. I believe that I have exhausted all combinations of rebooting, installing fonts and keyboard drivers, .... Do I have to adapt /etc/console-tools/remap ? I add the result of showkey > somefile kb Modus war UNICODE Taste drücken (Programm beendet sich 10s nach dem letzten Tastendruck)...) 0x9c There are two funktion keys on the keyboard: Key Enveloppe press 0x00 0x81 0x9b release 0x80 0x81 0x9b key (i) Information symbol 0x00 0x81 0x96 0x80 0x81 0x96 kb Modus war UNICODE Taste drücken (Programm beendet sich 10s nach dem letzten Tastendruck)...) key "Ae" 0x28 0xa8 key "Oe" 0x27 0xa7 key "Ue" 0x1a 0x9a key Return 0x1c 0x9c Now from comparing the latter with the first, .. first UTF8 then UNICODE The latter was today immediately after a system boot. Small äöü (ae oe ue) work fine, capital Ae Oe Ue dont show on the console and result in three circumflex accent ^^^. Console specialists, what are the consequences ? Thanks -- Erich Minderlein <erminderlein(a)locoware.de> MARC Mannheim Rail Commerce GmbH

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T2 Linux build harness
by Mark 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

OK, this tip might not be exactly right for grml, but still: since grml is working on new processor architectures like PPC and 64-bit x86 (and don't forget 64-bit PowerPC!). T2 Linux is all about re-targeting. It impressed us by booting obscure machines on which other "ported" distributions croak. It runs many OEM eval boards. There might be ideas here to help porting work. Just fyi. http://www.t2-project.org/about.html "T2 is highly portable. Adding new architectures is easy and can be done within a day!"

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Brittle init.d scripts - tmpfs ramfs
by Mark 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

I never thought Linux was so breakable. We're moving mount points into RAM for performance ( /var/log /var/run /var/lock etc. ). Tmpfs or ramfs can stop disk thrashing and speedup a system. (Flash USB needs it even more, to minimize writes.) Example fstab, http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/179 But....brittle /etc/init.d scripts fail without having their private subdirectories persist across boots, in certain places like /var/log and /var/run. If you write or test init.d scripts, please test with tmpfs and ramfs - do not assume pre-existence of application directories. (P.S. Ubuntu Dapper btw already defaults to tmpfs for such directories, though not /var/log. Dapper uses old style init, Edgy/Feisty have something new.) M

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grml-quickconfig?
by Michael Schierl 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

Hi, when I use grml (the live cd), there are a few tasks that I do quite often directly after boot. For example, loading keyboard layout (always), configuring non-dhcp network (sometimes) or starting X or running grml-info for looking something up (rarely). Using cheatcodes for configuring it does not "help", since I have to type the kernel name first, and sometimes I am not even there when it boots (I give the CD to the friend/relative that has problems and tell him that he should boot from it until I am back, and just press Return when "an image of a huge keyboard" appears). So, I'd like to write a script (grml-quickconfig) started at bootup on console 1 that shows a nice screen (with highlighted letters) that allows to do things like that by pressing a single key; the Return key will exit it. Like: Welcome to GRML. Press one of the highlighted keys. Press Return to exit this menu. Configure keyboard language: [d]e [a]t [c]h Configure your [n]etwork card. Show [i]nformation Start [x] d: grml-lang de a: grml-lang at c: grml-lang ch n: netcardconfig i: grml-info x: grml-x (asking for the windowmanager) Windowmanager would be (taken from the completion menu): [d]wm [e]vilwm [f]luxbox f[v]wm fvwm[2] fvwm-[c]rystal ion[3] [j]wm pe[k]wm [p]wm3 [r]atpoison [t]wm w[9]wm [w]indowlab w[m]i wm[i]i wm-[n]g I guess even for people that type really fast this is an improvement (if not, it requires a single keystroke to get out) - and even better for those that cannot type that fast (typing »su grml -c 'grml-x fluxbox'« is a bit more than typing »xf«). The main question now is if something like that would be included into grml and if yes, what other things to add to it (there are still some keys "free"). Michael PS: Recently I tried the "soundtest" script (I wanted to test if a sound card is supported by Linux) and unfortunately it worked... Unfortunately because it got me into a discussion about bad pronunciation of English. I don't want to say that my English pronunciation is much better, but if any native English speaker could re-record the sample file, it would be great. In the meantime, I'm going to use the emacspeak intro sound for such tests...

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grml user survey - please participate
by Michael Prokop 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

Hi, I am pleased to announce that I am running a grml user survey. The purpose of this is to help grml developers gain a better idea of what the grml user community is really doing and using, and what aspects people would most like to see improved. This user survey is heavily based on the survey done by Bryan O'Sullivan for the Mercurial Project: http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2006-April/007513.html Mercurial is a great distributed version control system used at grml, see http://grml.org/mercurial/ Please participate! If you know grml users who do not read the grml mailing list, please forward the survey to them and ask them to take part. The more people that respond, the more useful the survey will be! The user survey itself is available online at: http://grml.org/user-survey/grml.txt as well. Please send your responses directly to me (mika(a)grml.org), and do *not* CC the mailing list. Regarding privacy: I will not share your name or contact information with anyone else unless you explicitly allow me to, but I may quote you anonymously (unless you would prefer me not to). At the end of February 2007 I will post a detailed report to the grml mailing list and the grml wiki. Thanks again for taking part! regards, -mika- ---->8 cut here 8<---- About you 1. What country are you in? What is your preferred language? Getting started with grml 1. How did you hear about grml? 2. Did you encounter any problems with grml when starting to use it and if so which ones? 3. Since which release do you use grml? 4. Which version(s) of grml do you currently use? Your habits 1. Do you use grml for private use, work, unpaid projects, or even all of them? 2. How do you obtain grml? Internet (http, ftp, bittorent or rsync?), magazines (Linux-Magazin, Linux-User,...), CD from friends? 3. Do you use any other Live-CDs? * If yes: which ones and why? * If yes: how does grml compare to other Live-CDs you have used? 4. Which operating systems/distribution do you usually work with? 5. Do you use any platforms not x86 based? * If yes, which ones and how often? (daily, weekly,...) 6. Which languages do you speak and which ones do you use via lang=... bootoption with grml? What you think of grml 1. Overall, how happy are you with grml? 2. What do you like about using grml? 3. What would you most like to see improved about grml? (features, bugs, plugins, documentation, ... - whatever you think of) 4. If you want to see grml more widely used, what do you think we could do to make this happen? Documentation 1. Do you use the grml wiki? If yes, do you find it useful? 2. Do you find available documentation useful? 3. What is your favourite user documentation for any software projects or products you have used? Which tools do you use 1. Which tools do you use most frequently on grml? 2. Which scripts of the following ones do you use? [add yes/no] * grml-ap: * grml-bridge: * grml-crypt: * grml-debootstrap: * grml-network: * grml-router: * grml-vpn: * grml-x: 3. Do you use grml as harddisk installation (grml2hd)? * If yes: why? 4. Do you use grml on your usb device through grml2usb? 5. Do you use any special bootoption on regular base? Getting help, staying in touch 1. Have you tried to get grml help from other people? * If yes, did you get these problems resolved quickly and to your liking? 2. Have you used the bug database? * If yes, did you find it useful, easy to use? 3. Do you subscribe to the mailing list? * If yes, do you find it useful, and traffic levels OK? 4. Do you use the IRC channel (#grml on irc.freenode.net)? * If no, did you know that grml developers use IRC, and that there's almost 24-hour help available? Open forum 1. What other comments or suggestions do you have that are not covered by the questions above?

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udev rule for usb boot device
by Mark 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

What is the best/approved udev rule for a usb hard drive to escape random drive letter variations /dev/sd[a|b|c|d]. The drives have ATTRS{serial} but I want to walk carefully amidst grml's built-in rules. For example, if sandwiched between other grml rules, what lexical filename to use. Second question: will the udev name work from /etc/fstab during boot, or should we stick to mount-by-label. (Idea for grml2hd - use hostname to auto-generate a related udev naming rule for the drive.)

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sarge and kernel 2.6.18-grml
by Erich Minderlein 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

_console and keyboard_ Hallo , I removed console-terminus from the stable(sarge) package(250 kByte) and installed console-terminus from the testing(etch) package(565 kByte). Adding SCREEN_FONT=Lat15-Terminus16 in /etc/console-tools/config did not help; rebooting, prompt login as root, the normal font with serifs shows up, if I type unicode_start: answer : already in UTF8 mode after some fiddling around, I remove /etc/console-tools/config.d/fonty and /etc/console-tools/config.d/ and now it boots and changes to Terminus 16 for all consoles. This will probably not survive an update of package fonty! Small Umlaut äöü is properly printed on the console Capital Umlaut ÄÖÜ and "scharf S"~ß is not printed on the console, but results in ^^^^ dpkg-reconfigure console-common and dpkg-reconfigure console-data do not help, sometimes after testing these umlauts the console crashes and I get a new boot-prompt. regards -- Erich Minderlein <erminderlein(a)locoware.de> MARC Mannheim Rail Commerce GmbH

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Write barriers for journaling filesystems
by Mark 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Testing exercises with XFS, ext3, and power failure. I found advice to use write barriers. It appears that any journaling file system (XFS/Reiser/ext3) will benefit w.r.t. power failures. Almost all hard drives, IDE, SATA, USB, SCSI have a ~multimegabyte write cache nowadays. "OK, enough theory. Do this: mount all of your filesystems with I/O barrier turned on. Something like this (example line from my /etc/fstab): /dev/sda5 / ext3 defaults,barrier=1 1 1" http://kerneltrap.org/node/6173#comment-193357 "Fortunately, you can have your cake and eat it too. The trick is to implement IO barriers using the CACHE FLUSH and/or FUA commands. That way you can have the performance and MTBF benefits of write-back caching while still having a safe fsync() (safe as in doesn't return before data is on the platters)." http://lwn.net/Articles/181393/ It seems like maybe a good default setting for journaled filesystems, especially on USB (which users often yank out...). M P.S. Update on ZFS. Apple will include it in their next OS release (mika: not as default/boot, still HFS+ for that). Also, Sun may release ZFS under GPLv3 "eventually." http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/06/12/18/1155226.shtml http://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news/2172823/sun-kills-gpl3-rumours

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GRUB 2 & LILO delays
by Mark 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

The grml FAQ says LILO is used because it works. I have no problem with that and have been using LILO. The problem is that during grml boot, messages appear about sleeping for X seconds to fix problems with LILO. Boot delays I do not enjoy. Would grub be better? What about grub version 2, is anyone using that with grml? Thank you, M

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sarge and kernel 2.6.18-grml: console and keyboard
by Erich Minderlein 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

console and keyboard: man zsh*(something) creates some unexpected special characters in the output instead of the foreseen text manipulations like e.g. underscore or ?? (bold works.) Keys Home (Pos1), End, Insert (Einfg) and Delete (Entf) dont work, but give a tilde on the console. Umlaute äöü ÄÖÜ dont work. Tried not very hard to find Lat15-Terminus16 in the repos-pool, did not succeed. where is it ? What is the fitting console font ? and where is it in repos? (booting with lang=de) Thanks -- Erich Minderlein <erminderlein(a)locoware.de> MARC Mannheim Rail Commerce GmbH

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sarge and kernel 2.6.18-grml on amilopro : LAN , zsh
by Erich Minderlein 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Hello _LAN a lot of the difficulty arose from not having known the new udev system. now with inserting a module list in /etc/modules, a consistent booting of network devices can be achieved. the udev solution is still in work. _zsh has been modified with the grml zshrc text hilighting is fine, (done also for vim) however there is a complaint when login : line 779 histring not found. also _console and keyboard_: man zsh* creates some unexpected special characters instead of the foreseen text manipulations like underscore?? Keys Home (Pos1), End, Insert (Einfg) and Delete (Entf) dont work, but give a tilde on the console. Tried not very hard to find Lat15-Terminus16 in the repos-pool, did not succeed. where is it ? What is the fitting console font ? and where is it in repos? Thanks for the patience in this forum. best regards -- Erich Minderlein <erminderlein(a)locoware.de> MARC Mannheim Rail Commerce GmbH

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