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VMware and 2.6.26-grml kernel
by T o n g 13 Okt '08

13 Okt '08

Hi, Has anyone get any version of VMware working under the 2.6.26-grml kernel? I am trying to install the latest VMware.Workstation.v6.5.0.118166, but get a compilation error -- see http://bts.grml.org/grml/issue553 . According to http://www.archlinux.it/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_VMware "With 2.6.26 and VMWare 6.5 _no_ any-any patch is needed anymore (6.5.0 build-118166). The graphical installer works just fine and all the modules work out of the box" but I'm having difficulties. Please help. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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How to use the .iso image for usb booting
by T o n g 13 Okt '08

13 Okt '08

Hi, How can I put the .iso image on usb so that the usb boots with the latest devel release, grml-medium-devel_2008.09.28.iso for example? The wiki http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=usb & grml2usb uses windoze FAT16 filesystem, but I hope I can put it into (and boot from) native Linux filesystems, using grub if possible. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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msmtp through ssh-tunnel
by John Magolske 10 Okt '08

10 Okt '08

This might be more appropriately directed to msmtp-users, but as there's the following in the ~/.msmtprc that came with grml, I thought I'd check here first. # use ssh-tunnel # ============== # set up tunnel via ssh: # ssh -l mika -L 9999:your.rootserver.tld:25 user(a)sshserver.tld -N -f # # host localhost # port 9999 Wanting to tunnel msmtp through ssh, I tried this in my ~/.msmtprc: from username1(a)mydomain.net ssh -l john -L 9999:mydomain.net:25 username1(a)mydomain.net -N -f host localhost port 9999 And in ~/.muttrc : set sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp" But got the following error when attempting to send a message: msmtp: /home/john/.msmtprc: line 25: unknown command ssh Probably I'm overlooking something(s) obvious regarding the use of ssh and msmtp... Should that ssh command be invoked independently of msmtp somehow, maybe in a wrapper script? Should I be looking at the set_sendmail.sh script? Any pointers much appreciated. John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact

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aufs mount
by T o n g 05 Okt '08

05 Okt '08

Hi, I found my aufs mount behaves not as expected. According to the example from manpage, aufs mount behaves like this: # mount -v -t aufs br:/day0:/base none /u none on /u type aufs (rw,xino=/day0/.aufs.xino,br:/day0=rw:/ base=ro) # mount -v -o remount,\ prepend:/day1,\ xino=/day1/xino,\ mod:/day0=ro,\ del:/day0 \ /u none on /u type aufs (rw,xino=/day1/xino,br:/day1=rw:/base=ro) But mine like this: $ mount -v -t aufs -o br:/day0:/base none /u none on /u type aufs (rw,br:/day0:/base) $ mount -v -o remount,prepend:/day1,mod:/day0=ro,del:/day0 /u none on /u type aufs (rw,br:/day0:/base,prepend:/day1,mod:/day0=ro,del:/ day0) See, /day0 show up 3 times in mtab. But according to the manpage, it should be removed from aufs mount table. Anybody knows why (and fix)? PS. My kernel and aufs are all 2.6.23 $ dpkg -l | grep 2.6.23 ii aufs-modules-2 0+20071211-1+g aufs modules for Linux (kernel 2.6.23-grml). ii kqemu-modules- 1.3.0~pre11-7+ kqemu modules for Linux (kernel 2.6.23-grml) ii linux-image-2. grml.06 Linux kernel binary image for version 2.6.23 $ uname -rm 2.6.23-grml i686 thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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problems with speech, both 64 and 32 bit versions.
by Doug Smith 05 Okt '08

05 Okt '08

Ok, I hate to do this, but here goes. The other night, I downloaded both the new latest devel releases and burned them, hoping to switch this machine over to text-based. Here's what happened with the speech in both versions. First of all, this machine's a 64-bit one, so I tried the 64-bit version of the latest devel release. boot the computer with the disk in it. I kept them separate so that I would know that the one I was starting out with was the 64-bit version. grml swspeak when the disk stops spinning for the first time. The boot procesSmith, you might just have it. Well, I did get it, but what I got was not what I wanted. This was the flite Kal voice coming on with the simple, but rather non-informative message: Fatal Error Setting Up Software Speakup. Well, blast it. I might not get to switch my system over that night. I would have enjoyed that couple of hours when it comes to configuring my system, but not this time. Well, after a little longer, the flite program spoke again. Finished Booting. What is the setup that allows the flite program to speak even if the speakup fails? Well, since it spoke again, I thought I would try it anyway and see what I get. swspeak Sorry, software synthesizer not available, did you boot with swspeak bootoption? Well, of course, I did, but the system is unaware of it. Funny, but I'll try it out. espeak That gets part of the trick done, but not all. Espeak simply echoes all of my commands, so no results from them, except to know that something did, indeed, go horribly wrong. Well, I don't believe this. kill the espeak process to keep it from blocking my terminal. Now, I know that there are actually two software synthesizers, if not more, available, so don't give me that meaningless message. dmesg | espeak This was the only way I could think of to attempt to determine what was going wrong. All I heard was information about configuring and activating every component from the microprocessors to the disk drive and the usb ports, but nothing about an abnormality with speakup. Well, now, 32-bit version on a 64-bit machine, but I'm not going to my lady friend's room and disturb her to borrow her machine, and, besides, this would change another variable in my experiment and I just wanted to know what was happening here. boot the computer with the disk in it. I use the other one this time. grml swspeak Well, the first boot attempt falls flat on its face as the message about ossaudio failing to open an output device. Why is speakup or something still trying to use oss? ALSA, I thought, had become the standard a few years ago. The second boot came up talking. Great!!! However, I'm not going to run 32-bit stuff on here even though I know it will work, at least in part. Now, we've got speech, and it's working reasonably well. Now, fire up elinks and head for a few favorite web sites. It works reasonably well, and I am beginning to ponder the possibilities of using this stuff till the 64-bit one works. Then it happens. Instead of going to another web site, we crash land and explode into flames in glitchville. Speech crashes, and nothing but a reboot will remedy the problem. It worked for a couple of minutes, and I am not sure what kinds of diagnostics might determine the nature of the problem. Anyway, I'm on this thing without speech, and that can be potentially dangerous, especially for the already-installed file system, which I'm using right now to write this. Well, this is the best I can do at present for a but report, since it is the programming I definitely need that caused the problem. I hope this helps in some way and this can be fixed in the 64 and 32 bit versions in the next devel releases or in the rc versions. Hope this helps. Doug Smith

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When will the next release be out, and will the 64-bit version include speech?
by Doug Smith 01 Okt '08

01 Okt '08

Hi, I have been waiting for the new release. I mentioned the spelling problem in the earlier version, and I know that that has all been fixed. However, I have bought a new 64-bit machine since that time, and have had to go to a graphical distribution. It works ok, but I really miss all of my command line favorites. I wish to know when the next release of grml will be availalble. I would also like to know if the new 64-bit version will work with software speech. I tried the current amd64 version, but got neither speech nor sound when running the following: at boot: grml swspeak The system seems to boot ok, but, when it stops, I run swspeak I hear the disk spin, but there is no speech nor is there any sound. It seems to have something to do with the audio on this machine, because the listings of all the controls in aumix indicate that most of the volume settings such as mic, pcm, phin, phout, and more are missing. The only thing I can really tell you about this machine, since I do not know hardware all that well is that it is a Compaq Presario f-700 laptop with a dual-core 64-bit amd processor. The video, which I do not nor cannot use is nvidia or something like that. I do know what kind of sound hardware is on here. Is there anything I am doing wrong. Please help me return from the graphical nightmare world. Thanks. Doug Smith

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JFYI: Migration from Mercurial to Git
by Michael Prokop 01 Okt '08

01 Okt '08

Hi, Over the last few weeks the grml team evaluated the distributed version controll system Git. Git is an open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. The migration from Mercurial to Git took place in the last few days. By today (1st of october 2008) the grml mercurial repositories are deprecated and the official place for grml's sources is: http://git.grml.org/ As usual we provide documentation about our setup and tools: http://grml.org/git/ Further information like reasons for the migration are available at: http://grml.org/2008/10/01/ Special thanks to Michael Gebetsroither for his work and help on migrating. regards, -mika- -- http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc

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JFYI: grml development mailinglists moved
by Michael Prokop 01 Okt '08

01 Okt '08

Hi, I just want to inform you that we just migrated some mailinglists from mlmmj to mailman: | Bugs-changes bug reports in the grml bug tracking system | Git-commits source changes at grml - the Git VCS | Grml-live ISO build reports of daily.grml.org | Grml-testing-changes changes in the grml Debian repository The archives and the list of subscribed members have been migrated to their new home. See http://ml.grml.org/ for more information. Notice: this does *NOT* involve the grml mailinglist I'm writing this message to, it's just the devel lists mentioned above. If you encounter any problems don't hesitate to contact us. Special thanks to Alexander Wirt for his infrastructure work. regards, -mika-

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grml-debootstrap misc questions
by T o n g 01 Okt '08

01 Okt '08

Hi, Several misc questions regarding grml-debootstrap... - Does debootstrap download packages? If yes, where does it place downloaded packages? - Since grml-debootstrap also install packages defined in /etc/debootstrap/packages into the chroot system, is it a good idea to bind mount /var/cache/apt/archives into the chroot system as well, so as to save the downloading and cleaning up? - furthermore, I think over 99% people would have same apt/sources.list and apt/preferences in host and chroot system. If so, would it be a good idea for the same bind-mount option bind mount /etc/apt/sources.list & /etc/apt/preferences into the chroot system as well? - is it a good idea to pre-seed package configurations with dpkg --set-selections thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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bts difficulites
by T o n g 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi mika, I tried to submit a bts to grml Bug Tracking System <submit(a)bugs.grml.org> yesterday. I made 3 attemps (across 7 hours), but today when I check, my bts is still not in the system. I cc you @ mika(a)grml.org in my last 2 attemps. Could you check for me what I'm doing wrong please? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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