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Upgrade install using CentOS-3.1 ISO images
by Bart Schaefer 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Cutting straight to the chase: When, if ever, does the installer offer an option to upgrade an existing installation, rather than wanting to reformat the disks? More details than you may want: I recently acquired a new PC chassis, with no operating system but with a Serial-ATA disk (which I was not expecting when I ordered it). I set the BIOS for legacy IDE mode and installed RedHat 9, then attempted to upgrade the kernel to add SATA support, without much luck. Searching for the SATA driver modules I found CentOS and decided to try it. I downloaded the three ISO images to another PC, burned CDs, and set about to upgrade my RH9. However, the installer never offered me the option of upgrading (keeping my existing filesystems) -- no matter what steps I tried using when starting the installer, by the time it got to the page for disk partitioning it always wanted to start from scratch and blow the existing partitions away. I finally concluded that I hadn't put anything important on the disks during my struggle with RH9, so I went ahead with the clean install. Everything is working nicely at this point, so thanks for that. However, there are some other RH9 systems around the office that may need to be upgraded at some point, and they definitely can't be wiped clean in the process. Is there a way to upgrade from RH9 to CentOS? Any remarks about upgrading from even older RedHat releases?

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Install additional packages from CD
by Yayan 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

Hi, Newbie here... :) I've installed Centos 3.1 with selecting Custom Packages. Now, I want to install some packages not installed the first time. The manual says that I can use redhat-config-packages but there are no packages that's not installed, just installed packages. So, I can only remove packages.... So, how do I install addtional packages from CD without having to reinstall? I've tried installing manually by opening the RPMs but it always complain about dependency... Thanks, Yayan

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CentOS GPG key import process
by R P Herrold 28 Apr '04

28 Apr '04

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Jacob Robert Wilkins wrote: > > I just installed the latest Centos and Yum keeps reporting that the > > correct GPG key are not installed. How do I install them? rpm --import http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.1/i386/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-3 > It's a common question. We need to do a better job of making the solution > known. now present at: http://caosity.org/index.php?option=faq&task=viewfaq&artid=24&Itemid=5 -- Russ Herrold

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Segmentation Fault when using dig, nslookup, host...
by Tom DE BLENDE (GCC) 28 Apr '04

28 Apr '04

I have setup Centos-3.1 on a Dell Optiplex GX1 this week. It has to replace an old Compaq Deskpro I used as a firewall/router running the no longer supported RedHat 7.1. I have the NAT firewall up and running, and it works OK. However, there is one thing bugging me. I cannot use any client software that queries a nameserver. I tried to use "dig", "host" and "nslookup", and they all segfault on me. As all these applications suffer from the same problem, I think it has to be a general problem. Name resolution itself works correct, and other than this I cannot find any real indications of problems. On the console I get this message: "request_module[net-pf-10]: fork failed errno 1" When I check /var/log/ksymoops/20040428.log, I see these two lines added: "20040428 091551 start /sbin/modprobe -s -k -- net-pf-10 safemode=1 20040428 091551 probe ended" When doing a strace I get this: "[root@vuurmuur root]# strace nslookup execve("/usr/bin/nslookup", ["nslookup"], [/* 23 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="vuurmuur", ...}) = 0 brk(0) = 0x80566e8 open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=58585, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 58585, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40016000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libdns.so.8", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\300\35"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1021048, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40025000 old_mmap(NULL, 1021244, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40026000 old_mmap(0x4011c000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0xf6000) = 0x4011c000 old_mmap(0x4011f000, 1340, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4011f000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libcrypto.so.4", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\360\252"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=976252, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 989464, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40120000 old_mmap(0x401fd000, 73728, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0xdd000) = 0x401fd000 old_mmap(0x4020f000, 10520, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4020f000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libisc.so.4", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0Pw\0\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=216216, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 215168, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40212000 old_mmap(0x40246000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x34000) = 0x40246000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libnsl.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0000<\0\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=91316, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 85184, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40247000 old_mmap(0x40259000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x11000) = 0x40259000 old_mmap(0x4025a000, 7360, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4025a000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/tls/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\300F\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=97576, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 64852, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4025c000 old_mmap(0x40269000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0xc000) = 0x40269000 old_mmap(0x4026a000, 7508, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4026a000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/tls/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0000X\1\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1567484, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 1276748, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4026c000 old_mmap(0x4039e000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x131000) = 0x4039e000 old_mmap(0x403a2000, 6988, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x403a2000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/kerberos/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0 H\0\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=73692, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x403a4000 old_mmap(NULL, 76664, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x403a5000 old_mmap(0x403b7000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x11000) = 0x403b7000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/kerberos/lib/libkrb5.so.3", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\340\360"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=385220, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 384604, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x403b8000 old_mmap(0x40414000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x5c000) = 0x40414000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/kerberos/lib/libcom_err.so.3", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\300\t\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=5572, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4552, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40416000 old_mmap(0x40417000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x1000) = 0x40417000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/kerberos/lib/libk5crypto.so.3", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\220\"\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=63880, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 64436, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40418000 old_mmap(0x40427000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0xf000) = 0x40427000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libresolv.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\360(\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=76452, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 73604, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40428000 old_mmap(0x40437000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0xf000) = 0x40437000 old_mmap(0x40438000, 8068, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40438000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0P\32\0\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=14672, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 12148, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4043a000 old_mmap(0x4043c000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x1000) = 0x4043c000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/libz.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\340\31"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=52584, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4043d000 old_mmap(NULL, 55564, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4043e000 old_mmap(0x4044a000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0xb000) = 0x4044a000 close(3) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4044c000 set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> -1, base_addr:0x4044c080, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) modify_ldt(1, {entry_number:0, base_addr:0x4044c080, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}, 16) = 0 munmap(0x40016000, 58585) = 0 set_tid_address(0x4044c0c8) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) rt_sigaction(SIGRTMIN, {0x40260620, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_SIGINFO, 0x40266e40}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [RTMIN], NULL, 8) = 0 getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, {rlim_cur=8192*1024, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x40230290, ~[RTMIN], SA_RESTORER, 0x40266e48}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0x40230290, ~[RTMIN], SA_RESTORER, 0x40266e48}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [HUP INT TERM], NULL, 8) = 0 getpid() = 2791 socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 3 close(3) = 0 socket(PF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = -1 EAFNOSUPPORT (Address family not supported by protocol) futex(0x402461f0, FUTEX_WAKE, 2147483647) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) brk(0) = 0x80566e8 brk(0x80776e8) = 0x80776e8 brk(0) = 0x80776e8 brk(0x8078000) = 0x8078000 mmap2(NULL, 8392704, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4044d000 mprotect(0x4044d000, 4096, PROT_NONE) = 0 clone(child_stack=0x40c4db08, flags=CLONE_VM|CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_SETTLS|CLONE_PARENT_SETTID|CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_DETACHED, parent_tidptr=0x40c4dbf8, {entry_number:0, base_addr:0x40c4dbb0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}, child_tidptr=0x40c4dbf8) = 2792 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++" I don't really have a clue where to look next, and Google doesn't make me much wiser either... Thanks for any help I can get! Tom

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ThinkPad R40 Centrino Wireless NIC Success
by Sorisio, Chris 27 Apr '04

27 Apr '04

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[CentOS-devel] Updated kernel package fixes security vulnerabilities.
by Lance Davis 27 Apr '04

27 Apr '04

There is an updated kernel for CentOS-3.1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-183.html refers. Updated files are :- all in updates/i386/RPMS/ kernel-2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0.athlon.rpm kernel-2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0.i686.rpm kernel-BOOT-2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0.i386.rpm kernel-doc-2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0.i386.rpm kernel-hugemem-2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0.i686.rpm kernel-hugemem-unsupported-2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0.i686.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0.athlon.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0.i686.rpm kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0.athlon.rpm kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0.i686.rpm kernel-source-2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0.i386.rpm kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0.athlon.rpm kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-9.0.3.EL.c0.i686.rpm These are available at http://mirror.centos.org/3.1/ and should be on all mirrors within a few hours. To update to the latest version 'yum update kernel' should be sufficient. In addition CentOS now has a set of i586 rpms in the new 'contrib directory' To access contrib add the following stanza to yum.conf :- [contrib] name=CentOS-$releasever - Contrib baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/contrib/$basearch/ gpgcheck=0 Note that [contrib] rpms are provided by third parties and not necessarily tested by cAos/CentOS developers. They are not signed and thus gpgcheck is 0 for the stanza. Lance

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updates with RedHat packages?
by Ismael Simoes 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Hello, Maybe I'm going to ask something stupid : is-it possible to update Centos with RPMS from RedHat update? IS

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Kernel for Pentium MMX
by Jakub Wojtanowski 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

But since most of packages are i386, why not include i586 Kernel as Tao Linux distro team did http://wopr.mind.ilstu.edu/taolinux/tao-1.0/updates/kernel-2.4.21-9.0.3.TL.… Best Regards Cooba

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Kernel for Pentium MMX
by Jakub Wojtanowski 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Thanks Johnny! I'll download it ASAP and give it a try. Best Regards Cooba

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Fonts
by scty Library 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Hello all, I have just installed Centos 3 and I can't help notices that the fonts are blurry. I have been using RH9 and then Fedora and the fonts there are fine, But Whitebox and Centos seem to be blurie. Can anyone tell if Cents has the Byte-code interpreter enabled in Freetype? Thanks all. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25�

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