We believe that your issue has been closed by the upload of
Version 0.12.0 of grml-live from Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>.
The explanation is attached below

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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:34:43 +0100
Source: grml-live
Binary: grml-live grml-live-addons grml-live-db grml-live-buildd
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.12.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Changed-By: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Description: 
 grml-live  - build system for creating a Grml (based) Linux live system
 grml-live-addons - templates/boot/addons for grml-live
 grml-live-buildd - autobuild daemon for grml-live
 grml-live-db - log package build information of grml-live to database
Changes: 
 grml-live (0.12.0) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   The "give back - get back 2.6.36-grml[64]" Release.
 .
   [ Ulrich Dangel ]
   * [b6a2954] Check version of grml-live against changelog before
     building
   * [e4296db] Overwrite the radeon-kms settings [Closes: issue935]
 .
   [ Michael Prokop ]
   * [8d75e30] config/scripts/GRMLBASE/21-usersetup: add grml user to
     group netdev
   * [822c092] docs: Update FAI-URL references regarding its new home
     (http://fai-project.org/).
   * [bfe370b + 8f57397] Update to bsd4grml v20101001 (thanks to
     Thorsten Glaser).
   * [df6303e] scripts/release_helper.sh: cancel if editing changelog
     returned error, provide cmdline options to git-buildpackage cmd.
   * Software related changes:
     - [b25619d] Drop unavailable fnord package from all grml flavours
       (see #596044).
     - [690257e] Drop libpam* and pamusb-tools packages.
       [Closes: issue920]
     - [704c046] Drop figlet and toilet-fonts (which is a dependency of
       toilet) [Closes: issue915]
     - [29517fe] Drop i386-only-software [Closes: issue923] - thanks to
       Christian Hofstaedtler <ch@grml.org>
     - [9d2d73a] Drop deprecated kqemu-common package from GRML_FULL.
   * [5d4cdf0] Provide /etc/runlevel.conf via grml-live using fcopy and
     its class concept
   * [3e5fb23] Further /etc/runlevel.conf related fixes.
   * [25ea895] Do not set ERROR=2 twice. - thanks to Christian
     Hofstaedtler <ch@grml.org>
   * [da2a27c] Proberly quote $CURRENT_DIR. - thanks to Andreas Marschke
   * [74d9301] support for kernel 2.6.36-grml[64], drop backwards
     compatibility support, adjust depends, update docs
   * [c12baa8] docs: Document how to revert the manifold feature.
   * [f5434b2] Drop qemu and vmware bootoptions as they are not necessary
     any longer.
   * [09667d4] templates/boot/grub/grub.cfg: drop insmod part_{msdos,gpt}
     as it breaks booting - thanks to Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.org>
   * [c686c84] Add script-not-executable ./usr/share/grml-
     live/scripts/bootilnx.mksh to debian/overrides.grml-live.
   * [594972d] Provide nokms bootoption and according menus in the
     graphical bootmenu to disable Kernel Mode-Setting.
 .
   [ Bernd Arnold ]
   * [f4d8e72] Fix typo in grml-cheatcodes.
 .
   [ Thorsten Glaser ]
   * [58a29c5] Update to bsd4grml version 20100815.
   * [7ed3014 + a0ae611 + d222479] Manifold supporting and using
     ISOLINUX now.
 .
   [ Christian Hofstaedtler ]
   * Software related changes:
     - [ba2ebc1] remove packages with unclear live-cd usage case
     - [07409bb] move bibcursed to LATEX class
     - [2794ab4] replace ispell with hunspell
     - [046d13d] drop Essential/Required packages from GRMLBASE
     - [fb91169] remove mgetty
     - [bfd1dd6] replace console-tools with kbd
     - [ed73ede] remove grml-etc dependencies
     - [d4c848e] don't try to install i386-only software on amd64
     - [9034de9] remove no longer available software
     - [c78ef28] remove fvwm-crystal-minimal
   * [535a90f] remove further backup files in /etc
   * [1455f91] fcopy motd instead of relying on grml-etc plus weirdness
   * [ad7a862] allow all users to start X server [Closes: issue926]
   * [987dd5d] grub: memdisk is a "linux16"-style kernel
     [Closes: issue937]
   * [8b54550] update grub to 1.98+20100804-8 [Closes: issue938]
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Fixed in git:

commit 690257e7c7a4fe5b9760bb7d059b6b0bbc1a8279

    SW: Drop libpam* and pamusb-tools packages.
    
    Discussion during developer meeting resulted in the conclusion
    that the packages aren't relevant for the live system. Therefore
    clean up package list and drop all pam related packages.
    
    Closes: issue920

Thanks for the report.
libpam-mount will be removed, in the next release.

When booting today's (2010-11-01) daily Squeeze i386 snapshot in qemu (qemu
-boot d -cdrom grml_squeeze_latest.iso), the boot process hung for quite a while
after starting gpm, then the following two lines showed up:

pam_mount(spawn.c:102): error setting uid to 0
pmvarrun(pmvarrun.c:453): could not unlink /var/run/pam_mount/grml: Permission
denied

gpm worked already at that time.