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root-FS readonly after grml2hd
by Tobias Walkowiak 15 Dez '10

15 Dez '10

I just installed latest grml64 sid vi grml2hd and after rebooting from disk /-filesystem ist mounted readonly. Tried it with several combinations of filesystem and bootloader but always the same effect. Any ideas? The boot-option in /etc/fstab says error=remount-ro but there are no errors in dmesg with the harddisk. Tobias -- Tobias Walkowiak grml(a)count0.net

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mdadm error during boot
by Grischa 15 Dez '10

15 Dez '10

Hi there, I installed grml to my harddisk and I'm getting a small error during every boot: "mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically Mount failed for selinuxfs on /selinux: no such file or directory" I don't know how to fix this. Any suggestions? How do I deactivate the software RAID? Best, Grischa

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Boot from iso option not working with grub2
by Theodotos Andreou 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Guys I want to have a grml small iso under the /boot/iso partition in Debian 6.0 with Grub2. My config in /boot/grub/grub.cfg is: menuentry 'grml' { insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root=(hd0,msdos1) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set <uuid> echo 'Loading GRML Small' loopback loop (hd0,0)/iso/grml-small_2010.04.iso echo 'Loading Kernel' linux (loop)/boot/grmlsmall/linux26 boot=live vga=791 noeject noprompt echo 'Loading ramdisk' initrd (loop)/boot/grmlsmall/initrd.gz } When I boot I get: "error: cannot read the Linux header" Any idea what am i doing wrong? Theo

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grml, the No-Frills Linux Rescue CD--USB
by Richard Hartmann 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Hi joe, in your article [1], you mention current grml not recognizing your keyboard. Can you give us any more information so we can look at the issue? Please keep the list CC'ed in your replies. Thanks, Richard [1] http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/7224/2/

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New Grml developer: Christian Hofstaedtler
by Michael Prokop 12 Okt '10

12 Okt '10

Hi, it's an honor for me to be able to announce a new official Grml developer. Christian Hofstaedtler (AKA ch on IRC) just accepted my offer to join the Grml team as developer. Christian provided not just excellent bugreports but also high quality patches and is known as friendly and helpful user supporter as well. You might also know him from his bugfixes in grml2usb, grml-etc-core, grml-live, grml-terminalserver etc. Actually I can't remember a release where Christian didn't show up as contributor. :) So it was obvious to make Christian an official developer and I'm pleased that Christian joined us. Welcome to the Grml team, Christian! regards, -mika-

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Installing Vmware v71 under grml
by T o n g 12 Okt '10

12 Okt '10

Hi, I'm having difficulties installing Vmware v71 under grml -- I always get gcc and kernel headers must be installed Even though I got everything installed, I think. Please take a look at the last several line of the strace output: 26621 open("/usr/include/linux/version.h", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY) = 0 26621 fstat(0, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=97, ...}) = 0 26621 read(0, "#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 13264"..., 97) = 97 26621 close(0) = 0 26621 write(1, "# 1 \"<stdin>\"\n# 1 \"<built-in>\"\n#"..., 146) = 146 26614 <... read resumed> "# 1 \"<stdin>\"\n# 1 \"<built-in>\"\n#"..., 4096) = 146 26621 close(1 <unfinished ...> 26614 close(8 <unfinished ...> 26621 <... close resumed> ) = 0 26614 <... close resumed> ) = 0 26621 munmap(0x7fcffdd98000, 4096 <unfinished ...> 26614 wait4(26618, <unfinished ...> 26621 <... munmap resumed> ) = 0 26621 exit_group(0) = ? 26620 <... wait4 resumed> [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 26621 26620 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/collect2", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=117968, ...}) = 0 26620 access("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/collect2", X_OK) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", 0x7fff24471c60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 26620 stat("/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/.", 0x7fff24471c60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", 0x7fff24471c60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/bin/.", 0x7fff24471c60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", 0x7fff24471c60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/lib/../lib/.", 0x7fff24471c60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../lib/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=65536, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", 0x7fff24471c60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 26620 stat("/lib/../lib/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/../lib/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=65536, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/.", 0x7fff24471c60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 26620 stat("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/../lib/.", 0x7fff24471c60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/lib/.", 0x7fff24471c60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 26620 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=65536, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/lib/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=65536, ...}) = 0 26620 stat("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 26620 exit_group(0) = ? 26618 <... wait4 resumed> [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 26620 26618 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- 26618 exit_group(0) = ? 26614 <... wait4 resumed> [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 26618 26614 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- 26614 munmap(0x7f6f5d143000, 4096) = 0 26614 write(2, "gcc and kernel headers must be i"..., 41) = 41 I don't know what vmware is trying to do. Seems that it successfully open the version.h file, them moved on probing the directories. This is where I lost. What the code is trying to do? I googled, and seems that VmWare-Workstation 7 has been at least successfully installed on openSUSE 11.2 [1] & openSuSe 11.3 [2]. [1] http://u-random.blogspot.com/2010/01/vmware-workstation-7.html [2] http://communities.vmware.com/message/1576675#1576675 Please help me have vmware installed under grml. The last 84K of trace log is posted in http://paste.grml.org/85/ $ uname -a Linux coral 2.6.35-grml64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Sep 3 22:06:00 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux Thanks a lot. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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Personal grml-Recovery-CD (grml remastered)
by Werner P. Schulz 05 Okt '10

05 Okt '10

As an alternative to http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=remastering I have done remaster of grml-medium_2010.04.iso using hd-installation in VirtualBox. All steps to create a personal CD within 30 minutes you can find in several scripts as described on http://www.wp-schulz.de/rettung.html Perhaps it may be usefull for some of you. Greetings Werner P. Schulz

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squashfs-lzma-tools and squashfs-lzma-tools4
by T o n g 25 Sep '10

25 Sep '10

Hi mika, I saw you updated docs/grml-live.txt on Wed, 1 Sep 2010, recommending to use squashfs-lzma-tools4 v4.0-1 for grml-live build: ,----- | squashfs-lzma-tools4 4.0-1 is available via the Grml | repositories. It provides the mksquashfs-lzma4 and | unsquashfs-lzma4 binaries. The package does NOT conflict with | neither Debian's squashfs-tools package nor Grml's | squashfs-lzma-tools package . . . `----- However, I found that the squashfs-lzma-tools4 is actually one version older than my current squashfs-lzma-tools: $ apt-cache policy squashfs-lzma-tools4 squashfs-lzma-tools4: Installed: (none) Candidate: 4.0-1 Version table: 4.0-1 0 683 http://deb.grml.org grml-testing/main Packages $ apt-cache policy squashfs-lzma-tools squashfs-lzma-tools: Installed: 4.0-2 Candidate: 4.0-2 Version table: *** 4.0-2 0 683 http://deb.grml.org grml-testing/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status So, is this squashfs-lzma-tools4 really necessary? Will my squashfs-lzma- tools v4.0-2 be ok with the new grml-live build? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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grml autoconfig and kvm network
by T o n g 25 Sep '10

25 Sep '10

Hi, Whenever I use the '-net user' kvm command-line option, the guest grml will not have the eth0 device. According to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/Networking ,----- | By default, if you enable the usermode networking using the '-net | user' command-line option, the guest OS will get an IP address in | the 10.0.2.0/24 address space and the host OS will be reachable | at 10.0.2.2. `----- However, whenever I use the '-net user' option, there will be no eth0 device. I.e., kvm -net user -boot d -cdrom grml-medium_2010.04.iso This I'll get an eth0 device, and an IP for it. kvm -net user -boot d -cdrom grml-medium_2010.04.iso This I won't get the eth0 device. The /etc/network/interfaces file only contains lo device, no eth0. Is it my kvm problem or grml autoconfig's? FYI, my kvm is just the vanilla one: $ apt-cache policy qemu-kvm qemu-kvm: Installed: 0.12.5+dfsg-3 Candidate: 0.12.5+dfsg-3 Version table: *** 0.12.5+dfsg-3 0 360 http://cdn.debian.net testing/main Packages 50 http://cdn.debian.net unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Please help. Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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GRML HD Install is receiving DHCP address, though static is assigned.
by Brandon McGinty 25 Sep '10

25 Sep '10

List, I've installed GRML on two machines, now. The first went perfectly, updated, everything worked out-of-the-box, and I love it. However, with my second machine, I can't get GRML to allow wlan0 to set a static address (and yes, I have set an address outside of my router's DHCP range). I have changed /etc/network/interfaces to a static address. I have restarted networking, wpa_supplicant, and the machine, and have tripple-checked the interfaces file several times. Eth0's static address worked, and works, like a charm. I have completely commented it out of the interfaces file, to make sure that it was not interfearing with wlan0. In the /var/log/messages file, I noticed a line about Pump being used, though I could find nothing to override or disable it, and no prooff that it was making wlan0 use a DHCP address. Any suggestions you all can provide would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Brandon McGinty

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