We believe that your issue has been closed by the upload of
Version 0.99.2 of grml-terminalserver from Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>.
The explanation is attached below

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Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Michael Gebetsroither <gebi@grml.org>
Changed-By: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Description: 
 grml-terminalserver - terminalserver for grml
Changes: 
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We believe that your issue has been closed by the upload of
Version 0.99.2 of grml-terminalserver from Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>.
The explanation is attached below

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Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Michael Gebetsroither <gebi@grml.org>
Changed-By: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Description: 
 grml-terminalserver - terminalserver for grml
Changes: 
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 .
   * Fix usage of dirname if no files can be located. [Closes: issue575]
   * Adjust configuration for new grml2usb layout.
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Hi Christian,

hm that's bad :) but thanks for testing and reporting! The cryptsetup message 
is "usual", though the dirname warning shouldn't be present of course.

regards,
-mika-

I've now tested this with grml 2008.11 booted from an usb-stick as created with
grml2usb 0.9.2(pre), and I still get the dirname warning. Also, cryptsetup now
complains that it can't find a root device in /etc/fstab (not sure if this is a
new warning or not).

The new grml2usb script shouldn't suffer from this problem anymore:

http://grml.org/grml2usb/

Though I'd like to see it working in reallife before I'll close the bug. :)

regards,
-mika-

Alright, as this seems to be just a cosmetic bug I'd like to defer it for now 
because we want to improve the directory layout within grml2usb anyway (see for 
example http://bts.grml.org/grml/issue466) post grml 2008.11 This way we don't 
break any toolchains by accident but instead improve the overall situation as 
soon as the stable release has been published.

thx && regards,
-mika-

verified, it's just an output issue, as the missing directory has a special case
handling in the next line doing the right (tm) thing.

initrd creation is not affected; the created initrd works fine. I'm not sure
about booting off grml-terminalserver directly, as I can't really test this.

but grml-terminalserver can boot clients just fine, right?

grml 2008.11 rc2 (i386) booted from USB media, created with grml2usb (from git,
e5d76fc36d463a20a00153d39e6e9767329718c3).

When running `grml-terminalserver-config initrd`, the following message gets
printed, before the expected messages:
---
dirname: missing operand
Try `dirname --help` for more information.
---

I believe this happens because the invocation of find(1) in the assignment to
MULTIBOOT_PATH_ in /usr/share/grml-terminalserver/default_config generates an
empty result list; because it looks for linux26 in /live/image/boot, but on
grml2usb media linux26 is in /live/image.