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First Release Candidate of Grml 2011.05 available
by chris h 21 Mai '11

21 Mai '11

Dear Grml users, We are proud to announce the first release canidate of the upcoming version 2011.05, code-named "Just Mari"! For detailed information about the changes between 2010.12 and 2011.05 have a look at: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2011.05-rc1/ As usual we have different flavours available: the 32bit versions grml, grml-medium and grml-small as well as the 64bit versions grml64, grml64-medium and grml64-small. Known issues can be found at: http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=release_candidate Please test the ISOs and everything you usually use and report back, so we can complete the stable release soon. If no major problems come up, the next iteration will be the stable release, which is scheduled for end of May. DOWNLOAD: Download the ISOs from: http://grml.org/download/prerelease/ CALLING ALL MIRROR ADMINS: If you run a mirror for grml (or plan to do so), please get in touch with us. We would like to improve our mirror setup and offer the possibility for more timely updates with less regular checking involved. Please mail contact at grml.org. SOMETHING PERSONAL: The Grml developers recognize that today is a very special day for our project leader, Michael Prokop. We would like to wish him as well as Marianne all the best. Happy hacking and have fun with Grml! Regards, -ch On behalf of the Grml team.

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grml-debootstrap: troubles with debian keyring
by Michael Gissing 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

Hi list! It happened that I had to install debian squeeze with an old (~1 year) version of grml. When running grml-debootstrap it exited with an error, saying something like "E: Release signed by unknown key (key id AE...)" The solution was to update Debian keyring. apt-get update apt-get install debian-archive-keyring At the first moment I had no clue how to solve the issue. So it would be nice if grml-debootstrap recognizes this error and gives the user a hint on how to fix it. Besides that everything ran fine ;-) greetz, Michael

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Re: [Grml] grml64-small upgrade error
by Ulrich Dangel 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

* Xi Shen wrote [11.04.11 12:32]: Hi, Please always reply to the list (reply to all/list reply) as others may also help you and need the information you provided to me. > Yes, I am using a USB pen drive, and I have persistent setup. > > So, updating grub on usb pen drive is not supposed to work? Then how > can we update it? You can replace the squashfs file direclty with a version from a daily image. Please note that i am no using the persisency feature myself, maybe other have better ideas. Ulrich

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grml64-small upgrade error
by Xi Shen 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

Hi, I ran 'apt-get update' then 'apt-get upgrade', and I got the following error: dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 1728 package 'linux-image-2.6.36-grml64': error in Version string 'grml.02': version number does not start with digit (Reading database ... 21612 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libslang2 2.2.3-2 (using .../libslang2_2.2.3-3_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libslang2 ... dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 1728 package 'linux-image-2.6.36-grml64': error in Version string 'grml.02': version number does not start with digit Setting up libslang2 (2.2.3-3) ... dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 1728 package 'linux-image-2.6.36-grml64': error in Version string 'grml.02': version number does not start with digit (Reading database ... 21612 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace slsh 2.2.3-2 (using .../slsh_2.2.3-3_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement slsh ... Preparing to replace libslang2-modules 2.2.3-2 (using .../libslang2-modules_2.2.3-3_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libslang2-modules ... dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 1728 package 'linux-image-2.6.36-grml64': error in Version string 'grml.02': version number does not start with digit Setting up grub-pc (1.99~rc1-8) ... /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot stat `aufs'. dpkg: error processing grub-pc (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grub: grub depends on grub-pc; however: Package grub-pc is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing grub (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up libslang2-modules (2.2.3-3) ... configured to not write apport reports configured to not write apport reports Setting up slsh (2.2.3-3) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/slsh.rc ... Errors were encountered while processing: grub-pc grub How can I fix? Or I can just wait for an update? -- Best Regards, Xi Shen (David) http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

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Creating Live USB with grml2usb
by Roman Gelfand 17 Mär '11

17 Mär '11

I would like to put grml live cd on usb drive. I created bootable w96 fat32 partition and formatted it using mkfs.vfat. I ran "grml2sub grml.iso /dev/sdb1". I am getting boot error. I tried to create live usb with unetbootin. This worked. Would anyone have an idea what is going wrong? Thanks in advance

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Grml User Survey 2011: results available
by Michael Prokop 11 Mär '11

11 Mär '11

Hi! The results of the Grml user survey we've been running at the beginning of this year are available now: http://grml.org/survey2011-results/ I'd like to thank especially Christian 'ch' Hofstaedtler and Ulrich 'mru' Dangel for their help and support in running and evaluating this survey. Thanks to everyone taking part in our survey, it's refreshing to get such awesome feedback! regards, -mika-

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grml-x, xorg ...
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 07 Mär '11

07 Mär '11

Hello, i have installed grml squeeze on a asus eeepc 1005ha-m. I sue speakup and brltty, because i am blind. Now i want to use gnomes-orca with firefox and openoffice with gnome. At the moment i do not have installed gnome. If i do: grml-x the xserver starts, but i can not come back to the textconsole. ctrl-alt- f(x) will not work, also not the ctrl-alt-bacspace to shutdown the xserver. How can i set the xorg correct for the asus 1005ha-m? How can i start the xserver to console tty7? On my system are only the consoles tty1 to tty6for switching between themself configurede, ist that correct? Can i use orca with fluxbox? Thanks for your help and regards. Dietmar

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A GRML User here
by Rooster Cogburn 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

I have a little respin on based on GRML-small/crunchbang statler that I use. Just thought I'd' add it to the survey even though yall are done. http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/11853/kirin-grml-squeezestatler/ Absolutely love this project.

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grml for hardware inventorying
by Ernesto Domato 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

Hi. Today I received a mail from a friend asking me if I know any tool to make hardware inventorying and I remember using one Linux bootable from floppy that did that but at tis time is too old and obsolete (and I don't remember its name either :-) ). So, I was thinking if grml comes with some kind of this software that could save the information on a USB or through network. Doing a fast search on Debian repository there's something called "ocsinventory" but seems not to be part of grml (maybe I should remaster a CD with it). And the "hardware detection tool" that you can use at boot time is not usable for this since I didn't find a way to save the information to a device not network so is hard to inventory about 50 computers with it. Thanks for all. Ernesto.

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Trying to boot grml ISO image with grml-rescueboot fails
by Frédéric Boiteux 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Hello, I don't know GRML yet, but I've heard about it in Mikas' blog (http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2011/01/07/booting-iso-images-from-within-gru…) and liked to try it, so I installed grml-rescueboot (0.2.0 version) debian package from http://deb.grml.org/ and installed it on my Debian Squeeze system, along with the grml64-medium_2010.12.iso image in /boot/grml directory. I then tried to boot it through the Grub2's menu entry, but it didn't work (using menu, we don't see any error message). I then try to launch every command of the menu entry in Grub2's command line, and it fails in the line : loopback loop "/boot/grml/grml-medium_2010.12.iso" telling it doesn't find this file. I think the 'root' setting is missing, and as I have before Grml a grub menu entry to boot a Windows partition, the last root setting isn't the right one. I've manually set 'root' and then I finally got a new menu, from GRML, and then I tried the 'forensic mode', as I didn't want GRML using my swap partition (I had an hibernated system there), but the debian-live system didn't work. I don't have any clue here as the 'debug' variable wasn't set (and so /live.log was empty), but I'll retry this when I have some spare time). Hope it can help, Fred.

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