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Re: [CentOS] upg. CentOS 7.5 to 7.6: unable to mount smb shares - samba NT domain member using ldap
by Gordon Messmer 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

On 1/2/19 12:09 PM, Miroslav Geisselreiter wrote: > some parameters from smb.conf: > [global] > workgroup = NT4DOMAIN > netbios name = nt4member > security = domain > passdb backend = ldapsam:"ldap://ldap1server.intranet.xx > ldap://ldap2server.intranet.xx" I'm not sure it makes sense to use "security = domain" with an ldap passdb backend. If you're using a real NT4 domain, then you shouldn't need a passdb backend at all. If you're not in an NT4 domain, then you should set "security = USER". The man page for smb.conf notes "This mode will only work correctly if net(8) has been used to add this machine into a Windows NT Domain." Did you add this host to a Windows NT domain, using "net join ..."?

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CentOS 7.6 1810 vs. VirtualBox : bug with keyboard layout selection
by Nicolas Kovacs 20 Jan '20

20 Jan '20

Hi, I'm currently working on my next Linux book, which will be an elementary course about CentOS administration. I'm using VirtualBox for all the installer screenshots. Since CentOS has recently been upgraded to version 7.6, I thought I might as well base all book references on this version. So I downloaded the 7.6 1810 minimal ISO and started a fresh installation in VirtualBox. I'm using a Swiss French keyboard layout (ch-fr or fr_CH-latin1), so one of the first things I do in the installer is replace the default French AZERTY keyboard (since I use the french language) by a swiss french QWERTZ layout. Now when I reach this dialog in the installer and try do define my new layout, the slider in the selection window doesn't appear, and clicking on any of the first layouts doesn't do anything, so I'm basically stuck there. I'm running OpenSUSE Leap 15.0 KDE on my workstation, so I tried the same thing with the previous CentOS 7.5 1804 minimal ISO, and the keyboard selection dialog works perfectly. So my intuition would tell me that there's a nasty bug in the CentOS 7.6 installer. Maybe it went unnoticed, since most folks stick to the default keyboard layout selected in their language. Any suggestions ? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Site : https://www.microlinux.fr Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr Mail : info(a)microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32

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CentOS 7 as a Fibre Channel SAN Target
by Steffan A. Cline 02 Jan '20

02 Jan '20

For quite some time I’ve been using FreeNAS to provide services as a NAS over ethernet and SAN over Fibre Channel to CentOS 7 servers each using their own export, not sharing the same one. It’s time for me to replace my hardware and I have a new R720XD that I’d like to use in the same capacity but configure CentOS 7 as a Fibre Channel target rather than use FreeNAS any further. I’m doing virtualization and this will allow me to have failover from one node to the other since they’ll all be sharing the same export rather than me simply backing up to the FreeNAS server the way I am now. Does anyone know of any really good current articles that explain how to set up CentOS 7 as the target in such a configuration and also setting up CLVMd so they can all share an export over Fibre Channel from CentOS 7? Steffan A. Cline steffan(a)hldns.com 602-793-0014

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UEFI and PXE
by isdtor 25 Oct '19

25 Oct '19

We have a working PXE setup. I've tried to adapt it to UEFI as per RHEL6 manual, but the client won't boot. Strangely, tcpdump shows that the client tries to download all files via tftp from the dhcp server rather than the tftp server (they are different). next-server is pointing to the tftp server. Any clues?

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Centos 7 on Dell Latitude E6500
by Rainer Fügenstein 09 Oct '19

09 Oct '19

Hi, I tried to install Centos7 x86_64 minimal 1503-01 from an USB flash drive on my old Dell Latitude E6500 laptop. boots up in text mode, switches text resolution, writes: Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen Reached Target Paths Reached Target Basic System. then hangs for some time, eventually starting dracut emergency shell. log says: multipathd: sdb: spurious uevent, path already in pathvec multipathd: sda: spurious uevent, path already in pathvec interesting: sdb is the internal 240GB kingston SSD drive (existing ntfs bitlocker partition recognized as sdb1) sda is the write protected USB stick, recognised as CDROM drive. 4GB rom intel 45 express chipset mobile intel GMA 4500MHD graphics intel 5100AGN wifi what to try next? any additional infos I can give you? thnx in advance. -- Best regards, Rainer mailto:rfu@oudeis.org

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/boot partition too small
by KM 02 Oct '19

02 Oct '19

First off - let me say I am not an administrator. I need to know if there is an easy way to increase my /boot partition. When I installed CentOS 6 after running 5, it was my oversight not to increase the /boot size. it's too small and I can't do yum updates. if it's not easy to actually increase it, is it safe to take a chunk in my root filesystem (like /new.boot or something) and just mount it as /boot from now on so it uses the space or is that not a good idea? I am sure I could easily copy the rpms/kernel stuff over to it and then unmounts the real /boot and mount this new area as /boot. Can you administrators let me know what you think of all this? Thanks in advance. KM

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NFSv4: Using fsid=0 but *not* exporting the root filesystem
by Frank Thommen 12 Jun '19

12 Jun '19

Hi, I would like to use the NFSv4 ability to create a "root" filesystem with fsid=0, so that I don't have to refer to the whole path of the exported filesystem when I mount it. However I do *not* want this root filesystem to be mountable by any host. Is that possible and how? E.g Filesystem: /exports/data1 /exports/data2 /exports/data3 /etc/exports: /exports *(ro,no_subtree_check,fsid=0) /exports/data1 host1(rw) /exports/data2 host1(rw) /exports/data3 host2(rw) host1 and host2 can mount fileserver:/ and access any of the dataN directories at least read-only. That is unwanted. I'd like /exports/data1 and /exports/data2 to be exclusively accessible by host1 and /exports/data3 by host2. But I'd still like to be able to mount e.f. as fileserver:/data1 instead of fileserver:/exports/data1. I've search around a lot and I have found the question several times, but no solution yet. Cheers frank

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anaconda / min_luks_entropy
by Leon Fauster 16 May '19

16 May '19

I'am running into this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1206101 while trying to handcraft a kickstart file for CentOS7. Does anybody knowns a workaround? -- LF

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weird RPM dependency error; '/bin/sh' needed, but is provided
by Brian Reichert 14 May '19

14 May '19

First off, I have to admit that I'm uncertain if this is the appropriate forum; I'd be happy for suggestions about where else to look. I'm doing this work on a stock install of CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1810.iso, with no updates. I'm trying to create an RPM database from a custom set of RPMs. One RPM ('openldap-ltb' from the LDAP Tool Box project (ltb-project.org) has a dependency on '/bin/sh'. The bash RPM is demonstratedly present, yet the the 'rpm' utility thinks this dependency is not met. I'm open to any advice as to how to progress. It pretty easy to demonstrate what's going wrong, rather than trying to describe it. Straightforward to reproduce: Here, I collect the misc bits from the net: $ wget --quiet http://mirrors.mit.edu/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1810.iso $ wget --quiet http://mirrors.mit.edu/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/libtool-ltdl-2.4.2-22.el… $ wget --quiet https://ltb-project.org/archives/berkeleydb-ltb-4.6.21.NC-4.el7.patch4.x86_… $ wget --quiet https://ltb-project.org/archives/openldap-ltb-2.4.47-1.el7.x86_64.rpm Now, I try to make an RPM database of these packages. The last step fails with an unmet dependency: $ sudo mount ~/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1810.iso -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt $ mkdir -p ~/local_rpm_db $ rpm --initdb --dbpath ~/local_rpm_db $ rpm --justdb --ignoresize --dbpath ~/local_rpm_db -Uvh /mnt/Packages/*.rpm *.rpm warning: /mnt/cdrom/Packages/acl-2.2.51-14.el7.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID f4a80eb5: NOKEY warning: berkeleydb-ltb-4.6.21.NC-4.el7.patch4.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 6d45bfc5: NOKEY error: Failed dependencies: /bin/sh is needed by openldap-ltb-2.4.47-1.el7.x86_64 Which is weird, as the 'bash' RPM is clearly part of the set, and 'provides' the needed feature: $ rpm -q -provides -p /mnt/Packages/bash-4.2.46-31.el7.x86_64.rpm | egrep 'sh$' /bin/bash /bin/sh Further, it's not among the list of files in the payload of the RPM: $ rpm -q -l -p /mnt/Packages/bash-4.2.46-31.el7.x86_64.rpm | egrep 'sh$' /usr/bin/bash /usr/bin/sh These tactics did work with the related bits for CentOS 6. Here are some details of my environment; I'm happy to provide more, if anyone has any questions: $ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/rpm rpm-4.11.3-35.el7.x86_64 -- Brian Reichert <reichert(a)numachi.com> BSD admin/developer at large

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Wine Gecko 32-bit packages
by Sandeep Khanna 08 May '19

08 May '19

With reference to the email thread: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2017-October/166709.html <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2017-October/166709.html> Can we have the 32-bit Wine Gecko package(s) built and published to the repository: https://harbottle.gitlab.io/wine32/7/i386/ <https://harbottle.gitlab.io/wine32/7/i386/> Seems like someone has already built wine-gecko-2.47-alt2.noarch.rpm <http://wine-gecko-2.47-alt2.noarch.rpm/> At the moment, I have to click on the 'Install' button the first time Wine detects missing Gecko while viewing an Application's Help.

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