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Now I’m back again. Sorry for the downtime of grml.org and michael-prokop.at, the server was running out of mem (thanks to Robert for bringing it up again). A server upgrade will follow in the near future anyway.
Now 3746 unread blogpostings, 716 mails in my inbox, lots of unread mailinglists and newsgroups are waiting for me… [...]

JFYI: I’ll be offline for holidays in the next few days. I won’t be reachable via phone nor via instant messaging nor via irc nor via mail.
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Viel Arbeit war’s, nun ist es soweit: grml gibt es in einer neuen Version.
Wir haben X.org 7.0, es gibt 117 neue Pakete. Eine neue Schriftart macht das Leben auf der Konsole noch angenehmer. Die Window-Manager fvwm-crystal und dwm sind dabei. Wer sich mit dem Thema TPM (Trusted Platform Module) beschäftigen will, kann dies – auch [...]

Given: server with SCSI disk for the system plus a SCSI storage in the back. The SCSI disk uses another driver than the SCSI storage. Installing Debian etch via grml is no problem, the system disk is /dev/sda, the SCSI storage is bound to /dev/sdb. But: who guarantees that /dev/sda is always the systemdisk? Using [...]

Want to install Debian etch? But the Debian etch-ISO does not detect all the necessary hardware? Or it even does not boot at all? Or you just can’t find your Debian etch CD-ROM? Or having $ANOTHER_PROBLEM? Use grml.
Take a look at my Debian etch via grml Howto.
You can get this tip via ‘grml-tips [...]

A RedHat 9 server had problems with its rpm database. Running strace showed that it’s hanging when accessing /var/lib/rpm/Packages (a Berkeley DB, wondering?). No rpm actions were possible anymore. Solution:

# cd /var/lib
# cp -a rpm rpm.backup
# rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
# rpm -vv –rebuilddb

Yes, online resizing isn’t possible just with xfs but starting with Linux kernel 2.6.10 you can do it with ext3 as well. With e2fsprogs >=1.39-1 new filesystems are created with directory indexing and on-line resizing enabled by default (see /etc/mke2fs.conf).
A short demo how online-resizing running on top of LVM works:

cfdisk /dev/hda [...]

Just feeding google and interested readers. DRI worked with X.org 6.9 but with version 7.0 it’s failing?

% LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxgears
libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 1.5.1 i915 (screen 0)
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so
libGL error: dlopen /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
libGL error: unable to find driver: i915_dri.so

Ok, missing libgl1-mesa-dri of course. But when running [...]