Discuss June 2007

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Fedora Core 5 EOL on 2007-06-29
by Akemi Yagi 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Ahem, I know this is a CentOS mailing list. BUT, as more and more people migrate from FC to CentOS, I thought placing this reminder here was worthwhile. [I am still running *cough* FC5 on my own desktop, so I am also running out of time] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-June/msg00006.html Happy Centosing! Akemi

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CentOS4 and older megaraid
by Craig White 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

Release notes say no support for the RAID card in a box I just picked up...is there no hope for this box running 2.6 kernel? http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/release- notes/as-x86/ The kernel shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 includes the new megaraid_mbox driver from LSI Logic, which replaces the megaraid driver. The megaraid_mbox driver has an improved design, is compatible with the 2.6 kernel, and includes support for the latest hardware. However, megaraid_mbox does not support some of the older hardware that was supported by the megaraid driver. Adapters with the following PCI vendor ID and device ID pairs are not supported by the megaraid_mbox driver: vendor, device 0x101E, 0x9010 0x101E, 0x9060 0x8086, 0x1960 <--- my card ---< The lspci -n command can be used to display the IDs for adapters installed in a particular machine. Products with these IDs are known by (but not limited to) the following model names: * Dell PERC (dual-channel fast/wide SCSI) RAID controller * Dell PERC2/SC (single-channel Ultra SCSI) RAID controller * Dell PERC2/DC (dual-channel Ultra SCSI) RAID controller * Dell CERC (four-channel ATA/100) RAID controller * MegaRAID 428 * MegaRAID 466 * MegaRAID Express 500 * HP NetRAID 3Si and 1M Both Dell and LSI Logic have indicated that they no longer support these models in the 2.6 kernel. As a result, these adapters are not supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Craig

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disabling SELinux on CentOS: a good idea?
by Rogelio Bastardo 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

I was banging my head against the wall trying to figure out why my Nagios install wasn't working on CentOS 4.5 (I'm used to Debian), and so I disabled SELinux and everything magically started working. Is this a good long term idea? Or is there a better way of doing things?

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Re: [CentOS] How to add to EPEL wishlist?
by Radu-Cristian FOTESCU 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

> What's amazing is that he got his problem resolved, I would never have > thought to post to this list to get something on the fedora wiki fixed. > It's kinda like posting to a MS Word list a problem about OpenOffice. Well, thank you all, but Paul, you're not correct. My first mail asked for advice. It was not "hey, I want those packages in EPEL!", but rather "does anyone know how one can suggest packages to be added to EPEL?" I thought that was clear enough, and since EPEL users are RHEL users + CentOS users + SL users + StartCom users, I also believed [some of] you should already be using EPEL, some of you needing more, and some of you already *knowing* how to add suggestions for EPEL! To me, it was a very logical thing to do: ask people who NEED those packages, not people who are not actually using them! (Fedora guys use Fedora, right?) It's amazing indeed how things moved towards a solution, however it's also amazing how in A.D. 2007 people always rush to cry "wrong list! wrong list!", w/o even making the i++; logical iteration to realize _why_ the post was made on this list! When I first used a mailing list 12 years ago, discussions were absolutely frank, open, polite and low-stress, but now on almost all lists there are wars, flame wars, nervous people and "bad karma". Thank you, R-C Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com

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Installing VMWare Server 1.0.3 on CentOS 5
by Mark Rose 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

I was in the process of installing VMWare Server 1.0.3 via the tarball I downloaded from their site. When it asked for the C header files for my installed kernel (2.6.18-6), hey could not be found. When I initially installed CentOS, I made sure everything was included, so I am at a loss why they can not be found. I haven't tried installing it via the RPM, but I don't think it will make a difference. Any and all thoughts are appreciated. Thanks! Mark

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where is smbmount on centOS 5
by Indunil Jayasooriya 01 Jul '07

01 Jul '07

Hi, I am searching smbmount command on centOS 5. On, CENTOS 4.4, I used it as follows to backup data to a window PC. I want to do it on CentOS 5 now. mount -t smbfs -o ip=192.168.5.225,username=mailbackup,password=secret //server/mail_backups /mnt/maildaily I can not issue such command on centos 5. When I try , It gives below error. [root@mail ~]# mount -t smbfs -o ip=192.168.5.225,username=mailbackup,password=secret //server/mail_backups /mnt/maildaily mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs' help needed. -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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Install XGL under CentOS 5 with ATI X600 and dual-head configuration
by ArcosCom Linux User 01 Jul '07

01 Jul '07

Hi again. I've got a laptop with an ATI X600 inside, perfectly working xorg with dual head configuration, 2 desktops (without xinerama). I've got 2 xorg.conf files, one for propietary ATI (fglrx) driver, and other to use the open source driver. The difference is very notorious. The problem I have is that I read (Saint Google) that to work with compiz/beryl and dual-head configuration, I need to install XGL. That is why I wrote this message. Has anyone been installed XGL under Centos 6 using dual-head configuration and fglrx driver? Does anyone know links to tutorials/repositoris that I can use to install XGL? Does anyone know information on How-to configure XGL to allow the dual-head configuration use? My system is updated and is working perfectly with xorg. But I want to know how to run beryl in my system and make a mini how-to to configure it with xgl+fglrx+dual-head and send it to centos wiki. I have been reading info about the same, but under Ubuntu or FC distros, but it is incomplete or difficult to translate on Centos distro (at least for me). Thanks you for any start point (links, howtos, repositories, etc...) that help me in this documentation/configuration process. Regards === Spanish version === Hola de nuevo, colisteros. Tengo un portátil con una ATI X600 en el cuál tengo perfectamente configurado las Xorg para el uso de 2 monitores con escritorios independientes, sin Xinerama. Tengo 2 xorg.conf, uno para usar el driver propietario ATI (fglrx) y otro para el uso del driver de código abierto y, sinceramente, se nota mucho la diferencia entre el uso de uno y otro. El tema es que para que beryl/compiz funcione con el driver propietario de ATI y con 2 monitores, se ve que necesito hacerlo usando XGL. Por ello es por lo que os escribo el siguiente e-mail. ¿Alguno ha instalado XGL bajo CentOS 5 usando fglrx y 2 monitores? ¿Alguno conoce links hacia tutoriales/repositorios que pueda usar para instalar XGL? ¿Información sobre cómo configurar XGL para usar 2 monitores? Indicaros que el sistema está actualizado y está funcionando perfectamente con las xorg. El tema es que me apetece probar cómo montar beryl en el mismo y hacer un pequeño HOW-TO para 2 monitores y publicarlo o mandarlo al wiki, ya que he visto información para Ubuntu/FC6, pero o es incompleta o difícil de adaptar (al menos para mí) a Centos 5. Os agradecería mucho cualquier punto de partida que me ayude a documentarme sobre XGL y configurarlo bien para su uso con 2 monitores, ya luego veré cómo meter compiz o beryl. Salu2

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Centos 5 OpenOffice 2.0.4-5.4.17.2
by Ben Mohilef 01 Jul '07

01 Jul '07

Content-type: Multipart/Alternative; boundary="Alt-Boundary-19583.13106888" --Alt-Boundary-19583.13106888 I noticed that there are no openoffice.org-xxx-2.0.4-5.4.17.2 rpms in Centos 5 update. So I tried to build openoffice 2.0.4-5.4.17.2 (sans language packs) on a x86_64 from RH 5 source rpm. The build bombed after an hour elapsed and it used up about 10 GB of space with an error about missing java. So I just blew it off, erased the files written by the build and decided to wait until the rpm showed up in the updates. I don't want to repeat that exercise if 2.0.4-5.4.17.2 is destined to show up in the updates. If not, does anyone have any idea what java it needs (or what changes have be made to the spec file) to successfully build the rpm. Thanks for any information on this problem. --Alt-Boundary-19583.13106888 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><head> <title></title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"/> </head> <body> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style=" font-size:10pt"> I noticed that there are no openoffice.org-xxx-2.0.4-5.4.17.2 rpms in Centos 5  update.  So I tried to build openoffice 2.0.4-5.4.17.2 (sans language packs) on a x86_64 from RH 5 source rpm. The build bombed after an hour elapsed and it used up about 10 GB of space with an error about missing java. </span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style=" font-size:10pt"> <br /> </span> </font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style=" font-size:10pt"> So I just blew it off, erased the files written by the build and decided to wait until the rpm showed up in the updates. I don't want to repeat that exercise if 2.0.4-5.4.17.2 is destined to show up in the updates. </span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style=" font-size:10pt"> <br /> </span> </font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style=" font-size:10pt"> If not, does anyone have any idea  what java it needs (or what changes have be made to the spec file) to successfully build the rpm.</span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style=" font-size:10pt"> <br /> </span> </font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style=" font-size:10pt"> Thanks for any information on this problem.</span></font> </div> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style=" font-size:10pt"> <br /> </span> </font> </div> <div align="left">  </div> </body> </html> --Alt-Boundary-19583.13106888--

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Strange slowdown occasionally in CentOS 5.0
by Mark Hull-Richter 30 Jun '07

30 Jun '07

For some reason, parts of my system are now slowing down to an agonizing crawl from time to time. At first it was my VMWare Server 1.04, which became such a pain that I rebooted. Then, it looked like it was a network-induced thing because the prime culprit was SeaMonkey, particularly with multiple tabs open. I did an ifdown and ifup on my NIC and that seemed to help for a while. But then it hit OO and I'm baffled. It seems that the second time I open any document, particularly with OO Writer, the load and save times are dramatically extended - we're talking five to ten minutes. I don't even know what information I should include here that might help, but here's what I have running at the moment: OS/Hardware Config: OS : CentOS 5.0 (2.6.16-8.1.6 Linux kernel) x86_64 with latest updates CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200+ M/B: ECS NFORCE4M-A ram: 2GB OCZ DDR2 800 (PC6400) hds: 160MB + 120MB Maxtor PATA UDMA-133 (160 is the boot drive) sds: 300GB Seagate SATA-150/300 (/boot and / are here) 320Gb WD SATA-150/300 vid: geFORCE7100gs (nVidia) PCI-E x16 lpr: Minolta QMS PagePro 1100 laser printer on /dev/lp0 mod: Agere Systems 56k WinModem (Lucent) nic: onboard (mobo-nvidia) Any suggestions or more information needed? Thanks. mhr

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CentOS5: Can't Access the Web Using Firefox Web Browser
by Robert Thompson 30 Jun '07

30 Jun '07

Many times (not always) when I click on a URL in an email, the cursor (rotating arrow) lasts for 5-10 seconds, then nada. If I exit email to the desktop,nether the tool-bar icon, nor the Applications->Internet->Firefox Web Browser route will get me unto the web although the cursor shows a rotating arrow for a few seconds. Some other task may be executing as the hard disk is working away. Yet,I can get into Email without waiting (higher priority interrupt?). 1. Shouldn't there be a way of re-assigning priorities to the interrupts? 2. If my request has to wait, why should it be dropped completely making me re-enter the request every 5 seconds? Thanks -- Bob T.

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