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Re: [Grml] some problems in using grml-live
by covici＠ccs.covici.com 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

When I tried to run apt-get install linux-source-4.1 from your repository, I get a file which will not unpack. What do I need to do to fix this problem? gilberto dos santos alves <gsavix(a)gmail.com> wrote: > sorry but i do not have permission to write files. please fill an issue of > broken url. what is url of broken file? could you publish log file of > messages and erros? > > 2016-01-16 23:11 GMT-02:00 <covici(a)ccs.covici.com>: > > > Can you fix the linux-source-4.1 tar ball so its not broken? Right now > > when I do the apt-get install I get a file I cannot unpack. > > > > gilberto dos santos alves <gsavix(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > If i understand what grml blog say, at moment using grml versions it is > > not > > > possible, until udev regressions solved [1]. but i am not sure 100%. > > > imho you could use qemu to play with this tests. more easy is work use > > some > > > gui qemu to test things. > > > [1] http://blog.grml.org/archives/2016/01.html > > > > > > 2016-01-16 20:37 GMT-02:00 <covici(a)ccs.covici.com>: > > > > > > > I have seen similar posts and read the documentation. But as to my > > > > original questions -- can I build a sid based version on a jessie box? > > > > Also, can you fix the linux-source-4.1 package and explain to me how to > > > > install the linux-headers package which will not install? > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > gilberto dos santos alves <gsavix(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > hi! please have you already see this grml blog with related > > information > > > > > about new versions [1] > > > > > > > > > > [1] > > > > > > > > > > > http://blog.grml.org/archives/255-grml-live-create-your-own-grml-ISO.html > > > > > > > > > > 2016-01-15 17:57 GMT-02:00 <covici(a)ccs.covici.com>: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi. I want to make a grml cd with some kernel changes and adding > > some > > > > > > packages. Now, I am using a system based on Jessie, but I want to > > > > build > > > > > > based on sid. I tried to install the linux-header package, but it > > > > would > > > > > > not install saying it needed kbuild4.1 which cannot be installed. > > > > Also, > > > > > > I tried to install the linux-source-4.1 package, but ehe .xz file > > is > > > > > > broken (unrecognized file format) when using tar Jxvf . > > > > > > > > > > > > How to solve these problems? > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question > > is: > > > > > > How do > > > > > > you spend it? > > > > > > > > > > > > John Covici > > > > > > covici(a)ccs.covici.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Grml mailing list - Grml(a)ml.grml.org > > > > > > http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml > > > > > > join #grml on irc.freenode.org > > > > > > grml-devel-blog: http://blog.grml.org/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > gilberto dos santos alves > > > > > +55(11)9-8646-5049 > > > > > sao paulo - sp - brasil > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > > > Alternatives: > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: > > > > How do > > > > you spend it? > > > > > > > > John Covici > > > > covici(a)ccs.covici.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > gilberto dos santos alves > > > +55(11)9-8646-5049 > > > sao paulo - sp - brasil > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > Alternatives: > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- > > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: > > How do > > you spend it? > > > > John Covici > > covici(a)ccs.covici.com > > > > > > -- > gilberto dos santos alves > +55(11)9-8646-5049 > sao paulo - sp - brasil > > ---------------------------------------------------- > Alternatives: > > ---------------------------------------------------- -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici(a)ccs.covici.com

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ssh=password doesn't work
by John G Heim 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

When the syslinux boot screen comes up, am I supposed to type "ssh=password" to start the ssh server? Or is it "grml ssh=password". I've tried both and neither seems to work. I am using grml-full_2014.11.iso. -- John Heim, jheim(a)math.wisc.edu, 608-263-4189, skype:john.g.heim, sip:jheim@sip.linphone.org

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how to enable boot from hd after timeout?
by Gregor Zattler 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

Hi grml users, I remastered the grml cdrom in order to backup a windows computer. It should boot Windows form hard disk if the user does not hit any key within a certain amount of time. This is necessary in order to enable remote administration of the windows computer even if the cd rom is in the cd tray. There is this statement: ontimeout chain.32 hd0 0 in isolinux.cfg but instead when the countdown reaches zero one hears a beep and the count down beginns again (for 100 seconds). chain.32 is in boot/isolinux as is isolinux.cfg. Any ideas on how to achive boot from hard drive when no key was pressed? Ciao, Gregor -- -... --- .-. . -.. ..--.. ...-.-

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Devuan, anyone?
by Pierre 29 Mai '15

29 Mai '15

The rather bold and (AFAIK) unasked for Debian switch to systemd is, to me as a sysadmin, problematic. Debian used to be THE stable sysadmin go-to distro, and now I have to choose between multi-user OR LVM; back to Windows pre-RT it is. In Stable, too. Me is sad panda. Or was I, until I switched my main systems to the kfreeBSD Debian port, and my "explore" systems to Devuan (aka "Debian without the systemd madness"). I have been using grml, as a rescue and analysis system, for a while now. I Keep a copy of the old version with all the cruft and the "cave" background photo just for fun ;-) so I'm all for tradition but seriously, isn't now the time to switch grml to a Devuan base, if only to show that sysadmins aren't quite dead yet? Hugs and stuff, -- Pierre

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grml-live with custom kernel
by John G Heim 05 Mai '15

05 Mai '15

I believe I have successfully built a grml kernel patched for hardware speech synthesizers. I need to get that into grml-live somehow. What I was thinking of doing was to create a local repository and then modifying the FAI configuration for grml-live to install the kernel from my local repository. Is there an easier way? It looks like you can specify files to be copied to your custom grml image by putting them into a directory tree and then pointing the CHROOT_INSTALL parameter at the tree. But there is no easy way to add/remove packages like that, right? I want to make it as easy as possible for me to make a new custom image whenever the grml development team releases a new version of grml.

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new mirror at ftp.icm.edu.pl
by Rafal Maszkowski 29 Apr '15

29 Apr '15

Is it the right place to ask if you are interested in new GRML mirror? The http://grml.org/download/mirrors/ page redirects to multitude of contacts on http://grml.org/contact/ , none of which is marked as prefered for new mirrors. Anyway - out data are below. Is there any archive you could recomend us to mirror from? I started with rsync://mirror.nl.leaseweb.net/grml . FTP: ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/distributions/grml/ HTTP: http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/distributions/grml/ rsync: rsync://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/distributions/grml/ gopher: gopher://ftp.icm.edu.pl/1/pub/Linux/distributions/grml/ Sync schedule: Every 12 hrs Bandwidth: 10 Gbps Location: Poland, Warszawa, Pawińskiego 5A Sponsor: ICM UW, http://www.icm.edu.pl/ IP to authorize if necessary: 193.219.28.2, 2001:6A0:0:31::2 Email contact: sunsite(a)icm.edu.pl R. -- „Walczy on z całym zapamiętaniem przeciwko intelektowi” - z akt personalnych prof. A. Baeumlera

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grml-live
by John G. Heim 26 Apr '15

26 Apr '15

I want to make myself a custom grml disk that starts the speakup screen reader automatically. I successfully built a grml iso via grml-live but none of my customizations seem to have made it into the iso. The one thing that made it in is that the iso has my own name. Instead of it being grml_0.0-1.iso, it is vigrml_0.0-1.iso. But the hostname and username I set in /etc/grml/grml-live.local did not take. I don't really care too much about that. What I really want to do is to load the speakup_soft kernel module and run the espeakup command as early as possible in the boot process. Debian puts speakup_soft in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and runs espeakup via /etc/rcS.d/S19espeakup. I am familiar with fai so I added a class, VIGRML, to the list of classes in /etc/grml/grml-liv.local. It appears to have worked up to a point. My modified /etc/nitramfs-tools/modules file made it onto the grml-chroot. But the module is not loaded when I boot from the iso so I am going to say it did not make it into the initramfs. So this leads me to my next question ... What is the proper use of the grml-live command to tell it to run the fai scripts, then generate an initramfs, then build an iso? I suspect that it cannot be done. I am guessing grml-live installs initramfs-tools and builds the initramfs and *then* runs the fai scripts. So my fai script to put the /etc/initramfs-tools/modules file there was irrelevant. I have to chroot to /grml/grml-live/grml-chroot and rebuild the initramfs via the initramfs -u command. Well, back to the hosthame and username problem... Here is my grml-liv.local: # Local settings for grml-live CLASSES="GRMLBASE,GRML_FULL,AMD64,VIGRML" VERSION="0.0-1" RELEASENAME="grml-live" GRML_NAME="vigrml" HOSTNAME=vigrml USERNAME=vigrml # EOF

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grml virtualbox
by John G. Heim 20 Apr '15

20 Apr '15

I am trying to create a grml virtualbox virtual machine. My problem is that it hangs during the boot from the live iso image. I'm blind so I can't see the screen but I took a screen shot and ran an ocr on it. The last 2 lines say this: a it ganr sgsten hangs nan, disahie udeu uith buutuptiun "nuudeu . a starting the hutplug euents dispatcher: udeud. When grml is booting, at some point it says something like, "If your system hangs now disable something or other". I am thinking that is what is happening. But the ocr is so bad I don't know what to disable. Can somebody tell me what that whole message says? I created the vm with vboxmanage at the command line. So there might be something wrong with the vm itself. Here is the output from showvminfo if it helps: Name: grml Groups: / Guest OS: Debian (32 bit) UUID: 0c3d9b10-476c-4d44-984c-672223bd593d Config file: /home/john/VirtualBox VMs/grml/grml.vbox Snapshot folder: /home/john/VirtualBox VMs/grml/Snapshots Log folder: /home/john/VirtualBox VMs/grml/Logs Hardware UUID: 0c3d9b10-476c-4d44-984c-672223bd593d Memory size: 1024MB Page Fusion: off VRAM size: 128MB CPU exec cap: 100% HPET: off Chipset: piix3 Firmware: BIOS Number of CPUs: 1 PAE: on Long Mode: off Synthetic CPU: off CPUID overrides: None Boot menu mode: message and menu Boot Device (1): DVD Boot Device (2): HardDisk Boot Device (3): Not Assigned Boot Device (4): Not Assigned ACPI: on IOAPIC: on Time offset: 0ms RTC: local time Hardw. virt.ext: on Nested Paging: on Large Pages: off VT-x VPID: on VT-x unr. exec.: on State: running (since 2015-04-17T02:38:37.290000000) Monitor count: 1 3D Acceleration: off 2D Video Acceleration: off Teleporter Enabled: off Teleporter Port: 0 Teleporter Address: Teleporter Password: Tracing Enabled: off Allow Tracing to Access VM: off Tracing Configuration: Autostart Enabled: off Autostart Delay: 0 Default Frontend: Storage Controller Name (0): SATA Controller Storage Controller Type (0): IntelAhci Storage Controller Instance Number (0): 0 Storage Controller Max Port Count (0): 30 Storage Controller Port Count (0): 30 Storage Controller Bootable (0): on Storage Controller Name (1): IDE Controller Storage Controller Type (1): PIIX4 Storage Controller Instance Number (1): 0 Storage Controller Max Port Count (1): 2 Storage Controller Port Count (1): 2 Storage Controller Bootable (1): on SATA Controller (0, 0): /home/john/grml.vdi (UUID: 660b5876-7d75-4c46-93a1-53b448acbfb5) IDE Controller (0, 0): /home/john/Downloads/grml32-full_2014.11.iso (UUID: eef9e9b9-0bd1-44c9-b94b-d07b190d09c6) NIC 1: MAC: 0800273EB948, Attachment: Bridged Interface 'eth0', Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: 82540EM, Reported speed: 0 Mbps, Boot priority: 0, Promisc Policy: deny, Bandwidth group: none NIC 2: disabled NIC 3: disabled NIC 4: disabled NIC 5: disabled NIC 6: disabled NIC 7: disabled NIC 8: disabled Pointing Device: PS/2 Mouse Keyboard Device: PS/2 Keyboard UART 1: disabled UART 2: disabled LPT 1: disabled LPT 2: disabled Audio: enabled (Driver: ALSA, Controller: SB16) Clipboard Mode: disabled Drag'n'drop Mode: disabled Session type: GUI/Qt Video mode: 1024x768x16 at 0,0 VRDE: disabled USB: disabled EHCI: disabled USB Device Filters: <none> Available remote USB devices: <none> Currently Attached USB Devices: <none> Bandwidth groups: <none> Shared folders: <none> VRDE Connection: not active Clients so far: 0 Video capturing: not active Capture screens: 0 Capture file: /home/john/VirtualBox VMs/grml/grml.webm Capture dimensions: 1024x768 Capture rate: 512 kbps Capture FPS: 25 Guest: Configured memory balloon size: 0 MB OS type: Debian Additions run level: 0 Guest Facilities: No active facilities.

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Persisteny feature not working
by Michael Hekel 09 Apr '15

09 Apr '15

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Remove dmraid package from GRML?
by Eric Thirolle 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

I noticed the following error printed to console during bootup of my custom GRML Live CD: modprobde: module dm-raid45 not found in modules.dep I did a bit of research into this module, and found it is called "dmraid" in the Debian package repositories. This package is available for wheezy/jessie, but not installed by default. However, "dmraid" *is* included in GRML's FAI classes: # grep -R dmraid /etc/grml/fai/* /etc/grml/fai/config/package_config/GRML_XL:dmraid /etc/grml/fai/config/package_config/GRML_MEDIUM:dmraid /etc/grml/fai/config/package_config/GRML_SMALL:dmraid /etc/grml/fai/config/package_config/GRML_FULL:dmraid The dmraid package is responsible for support for so-called "ATARAID", which is RAID for IDE drives provided by a number of old hardware RAID cards (details here: https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/dmraid & https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ataraid&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD… ). Given how old this RAID driver is... should dmraid be removed from the GRML FAI classes? Or is there something else that needs to be done to correct the "module dm-raid45 not found in modules.dep" error on the custom Live CD? Thanks! Eric

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