[Grml] First Release Candidate of Grml version 2012.05 released

[Michael Prokop]

Hi,

so we did it again, the first release candidate of the upcoming
version 2012.05, code-named 'Ponyhof' was just released.

For detailed information about the changes between 2011.12 and
2012.05 have a look at the official release announcement:

http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2012.05-rc1/

Several tools that have been reported to be missing on the downsized
2011.12 release have been re-added. This release also brings the
grml-small flavour back to life.

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.

regards,
-mika-
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[Laurent CARON]

Post by Michael Prokop
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.

Hi Michael,

Seems bnx2 firmware is missong. I did try it on a Dell R510 (poweredge).
Only the addin NICS were recognized (not the onboard ones).

Cheers,

Laurent

[Michael Prokop]

Post by Laurent CARON

Post by Michael Prokop
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.

Seems bnx2 firmware is missong. I did try it on a Dell R510
(poweredge). Only the addin NICS were recognized (not the onboard
ones).

Verfied, thanks a lot for the bugreport, I'll re-include the
firmware in the next version of the Grml linux-image again.

regards,
-mika-
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[Laurent CARON]

Post by Michael Prokop

Post by Laurent CARON

Post by Michael Prokop
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.

Seems bnx2 firmware is missong. I did try it on a Dell R510
(poweredge). Only the addin NICS were recognized (not the onboard
ones).

Verfied, thanks a lot for the bugreport, I'll re-include the
firmware in the next version of the Grml linux-image again.

Hi Michael,

Another issue.

mdadm is either too old or too new. It doesn't allow creating bitmaps on
arrays with 1.2 style superblocks.

Cheers.

Laurent

[Michael Prokop]

Post by Laurent CARON

Post by Michael Prokop
Verfied, thanks a lot for the bugreport, I'll re-include the
firmware in the next version of the Grml linux-image again.

Another issue.
mdadm is either too old or too new. It doesn't allow creating bitmaps
on arrays with 1.2 style superblocks.

Does upgrading mdadm to v3.2.4-1 via running the following commands
on Grml 2012.05-rc1:

echo "deb http://cdn.debian.net/debian unstable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
apt-get update
apt-get install mdadm

fix this issue?

regards,
-mika-
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[Laurent CARON]

Post by Michael Prokop

Post by Laurent CARON

Post by Michael Prokop
Verfied, thanks a lot for the bugreport, I'll re-include the
firmware in the next version of the Grml linux-image again.

Another issue.
mdadm is either too old or too new. It doesn't allow creating bitmaps
on arrays with 1.2 style superblocks.

Does upgrading mdadm to v3.2.4-1 via running the following commands
echo "deb http://cdn.debian.net/debian unstable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
apt-get update
apt-get install mdadm
fix this issue?

I did in fact take the mdadm binary from another linux system (squeeze)
with success.

Any other mdadm version should make it since this is a known bug.

Cheers,

Laurent

[Michael Prokop]

Post by Laurent CARON

Post by Michael Prokop

Post by Laurent CARON
mdadm is either too old or too new. It doesn't allow creating bitmaps
on arrays with 1.2 style superblocks.

Does upgrading mdadm to v3.2.4-1 via running the following commands
echo "deb http://cdn.debian.net/debian unstable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
apt-get update
apt-get install mdadm
fix this issue?

I did in fact take the mdadm binary from another linux system
(squeeze) with success.
Any other mdadm version should make it since this is a known bug.

Ok great, thanks.

I pinged Michael Tokarev (uploader of recent mdadm versions in
Debian), he might upload the new 3.2.5 upstream release to
Debian/unstable later today.

regards,
-mika-
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[Michael Prokop]

Post by Laurent CARON
mdadm is either too old or too new. It doesn't allow creating bitmaps
on arrays with 1.2 style superblocks.

Addon, I stumbled upon
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673104

So AFAICT we want to see mdadm 3.2.5 in our Grml stable release, can
someone maybe verify that?

regards,
-mika-
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