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"Grml packages in Debian"
by Lupe Christoph 12 Okt '11

12 Okt '11

Hi! My RSS feed just alerted me to the article "Grml packages in Debian" on the developer blog. http://blog.grml.org/archives/358-Grml-packages-in-Debian.html I would like to point out that removing the packages from grml-testing leaves many people out of updates for a long time (until the packages have arrived in Debian Stable and some Ubuntu release). Plus, the grml2usb page http://grml.org/grml2usb/ still points to grml-testing. Please put the packages back into grml-testing and find a way to avoid a clash with Debian and Ubuntu repositories. Thank you, Lupe Christoph -- | It is a well-known fact in any organisation that, if you want a job | | done, you should give it to someone who is already very busy. | | Terry Pratchett, "Unseen Academicals" |

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Using grub2-dev in grml2usb suggestion for me.
by Charles Hewson 06 Okt '11

06 Okt '11

Hi, I work off two USB's when on the road. First is created with grml2usb on 2011.05 and a GRMLCFG partition for persistence. Second is created with grml-crypto for for /home/someuser and /etc/vault. I was about to re-script what I do manually at boot when I discovered grub2 development tree now has a luks.mod (testing needed & i'm willing). I have built it from src and installed into grml-chroot on a squeeze host. I expect to use grml-live per remastering instructions and then grml2usb. GOAL; Phase 1 usb layout; 1 Meg unencrypted boot/decrypt area remainder fat16 encrypted /boot. grml & grml64. Phase 2 Unencrypted boot/decrypt area Remanider lvm2/luks encrypted (for single passphrase at boot) grml2usb partition with several flavors GRMLCFG partition home-rw live-rw home-sn (live-snapshots) live-sn. I plan to contribute it back as either a --luks option on grml2usb or seporate script. Have I missed any issues in reasearch you are aware of ? Is this approach logical ? Any pointers on how to proceede from chroot to usb ? I'm open to any suggestions and could post bata of process as it would need to be tested on more hardware than I have available. Thanks for your input, Charles

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grml2usb install script failure
by Geordie 03 Okt '11

03 Okt '11

Hi I ran into a little trouble trying to install grml onto a usb stick When I ran grml2usb/tarball.sh the first time it was looking for fakeroot so I installed that package and then ran it again I get this error # /home/geordie/grml2usb/tarball.sh awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: cannot open file `grml2usb' for reading (Invalid argument) /usr/bin/fakeroot: line 178: debian/rules: No such file or directory installed grml2usb (0.9.34) unstable; System: Host SatelliteA100 Kernel 2.6.39-1.dmz.2-liquorix-686 i686 (32 bit) Desktop KDE 4.6.4 Distro Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid I tried finding the grml2usb in testing however # apt-cache search grml grml-debootstrap - wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian grml-rescueboot - Integrates ISO-booting into grub so I downloaded the git version. I also tired the tarball version and see no changes. I was also surprised to see this loaded into my home folder. I may have done something wrong. Many thanks Geordie

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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/

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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

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