devel January 2007

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Language lists
by Karanbir Singh 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Hi Guys, We've been looking at the idea of starting off local language lists starting with German, Spanish and Portuguese. These, since we have had people ask for lists and we feel there are people around who can help moderate and monitor. While some work has already been done and there are already some ideas floating around, I'd like to ask everyone here on centos-devel what they think about this and if any suggestions they might have. One thing that would be really good is if we can somehow create the environment for local language / regional centos support groups to get started, and then use that common pool to work with all associated resources ( eg, regional / language lists, wiki, web forums, related irc channels (?) etc ) - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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CentOS5 virtual machine image
by Nils Toedtmann 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Dear CentOS developers, there is a demand for ready-to-boot virtual machine images for distros like CentOS. Since i am an afinicado of CentOS and Xen, i would like to build and maintain a CentOS5-image. Is centos.org interested in hosting such a sub-project? Testing and tasting CentOS would get much easier, it would help making CentOS more popular. Planned features: * support for several VMMs (Xen3, VMware player/workstation/server, VirtualBox, UML, KVM, ...; maybe even VirtualPC ;-) * Click&Run for win32-users: 1. download & install vmplayer 2. download & unzip CentOS-desktop-image.zip 3. double-click "centos.vmx" * sparse flat disk image (most VMMs support this image format) containing two or three partitions (swap, /, maybe /boot) * kernels and initrds to run the image fully and para-virtualized * Firstboot script (setting root-password and hostname) * VMM config files, at least for the most popular VMMs (Xen/para, Xen/HVM, VMware player) * Documentation how to boot the image with those VMMs. Special notes on kernel-xen and virt-manager (CentOS5, FC6) * clean: never booted, empty /{tmp,var/{log,spool/mail,cache/*}} * all changes to the pristine image (like customized /etc/fstab, /etc/X11/xorg.conf) properly documented Different flavors: * arch: i386; maybe x86_64 * image: flat disk sparse; maybe flat filesystem sparse * scope: "minimal" (networking, sshd, yum, vim, cron, syslog); "standard desktop"; maybe "standard server" * archive: sparse-aware .tar.bz2; .zip for win32 hosts RoadMap: * wait for CentOS5-beta2 ;-) * create and post a minimal CentOS5-beta2 i386 image with xen- and vmware configs, wait for reviews/bugreport * create and post a standard desktop CentOS5-beta2 i386 image, wait for reviews/bugreport * if there are enough positive reports, repeat for CentOS5-final * release when/if centos.org is pleased with the (bugfixed) images Are you interested in such a project? I am eager for comments. Regards, /nils.

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Update for CentOS-3 GFSCS
by John Newbigin 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

There is an update for clumanager https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0041.html The file is available here: http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/csgfs/i386/clumanager-1.2.34-3.i386.r… This file is signed with my jnewbigin-csgfs(a)ict.swin.edu.au and needs to be resigned with the CentOS-3 key. (bender is now a virtual machine and may not always be available but it is currently running). John. -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

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CentOS 5 ArtWork
by Paul 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

I've cut my artwork on the page to Mockup 3 & 5 and added two new versions of 3. I like both better than my original 3, personally I'm leaning twards the blue band version. Paul

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CentOS SPARC arch
by Kevan Benson 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Any info on availability of an up to date SPARC architecture? I know some nice HW was donated a while back, just wondering if it has yielded anything as of yet. -- - Kevan Benson - A-1 Networks

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CentOS 5 ArtWork
by Karanbir Singh 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Hi Guys, There has been some work going on with the CentOS-5 Artwork stuff on the wiki ( url : http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork ). Now is the time when we are asking for more feedback and larger community involvement. Also, I want to make sure that people understand we are not limited to using only one set of the artwork. We would need to use one default, but further sets might get added into the artwork packages for post install user options. - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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QA version 5
by Patrick S. Harper 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

New to the list and I wanted to say hello. I heard you might be looking for a few people to help QA version 5 and would like to help if I can. I am a regular CentOS user with about 30 box's up mainly for security tools and I maintain a Snort install document for CentOS as well on my site and snort.org.

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testing kernel
by Christoph Maser 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 i've installed 2.6.9-42.37.EL.c4testsmp, installtion worked fine without warnings, bootup looks normal, system is running normal Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with CentOS - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFphoCsLjW0HYht7URAvNQAKDQcQ35MuoWRrZ33BAQeSijJu2kfACcCRA/ AMl6NyJh11jXopUYiFBKurw= =xznD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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New nx/freenx RPMS for CentOS-4 i386 in the Testing Repo
by Johnny Hughes 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

There are new versions of nx and freenx for CentOS-4 i386 in the testing repo: freenx-0.5.0-11.c4.i386.rpm nx-2.1.0-2.c4.i386.rpm I am using this on 3 servers and it seems at least as stable as the previous versions. These RPMS roll in the latest nx-2.1.x server components from nomachine.org (current CentOS-4 version has nx-1.5.x server components). The full screen patch was retained across versions and seems to work OK here as well. If you are using the CentOS version of NX / FreeNX, please test this version and provide feedback on this list. Barring any show stopping negative feedback, these RPMS will replace the current versions in CentOS extras in 2 weeks. Testing repository .repo file: http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/CentOS-Testing.repo Packages can be download manually here: http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/ Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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kernel-2.6.9-42.37.EL.c4test is available for i686 and x86_64 in the Testing Repo
by Johnny Hughes 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

All, I needed to build kernel-2.6.9-42.37.EL.c4test for this bug: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1634 So ... that new kernel is available for others to try as well from the testing repository. It has Xen kernels too. It is not too much different than the 2.6.9-42.35 kernel released on Dec 26th by us to the testing repo (a lot of dm fixes that might help the above bug, which is why I built it). Here is a list of the changes from 2.6.9-42.35 to 2.6.9-42.37: * Wed Jan 03 2007 Jason Baron <jbaron(a)redhat.com> [2.6.9-42.37] -add qlogic iscsi driver (Mike Christie) [180363] -fix laptop shutdown behavior when closing lid (Jim Paradis) [154061] -s390: qeth driver fixes (Jan Glauber) [104646 200166 202047 212176] -add IBM Advanced Management Module 2 to the whitelist for USB storage for devices with multiple LUNs (Konrad Rzeszutek) [196809] -serial fifo fixes (Alan Cox) [168845] -update SCSI blacklist for HP and SEAGATE Tape Devices (Chip Coldwell) [197381] -fix oops in md device stop code (Doug Ledford) [199304] -fix race condition in sys_mincore() (Doug Chapman) [180663] {CVE-2006-4814} -fix console when no "console=" arguments are specified (Chris Lalancette) [220949] -fix oops bug in cdev_put() (Doug Ledford) [164649] -eClipz: CAS call crashing firmware (Janice Girouard) [220486] * Fri Dec 22 2006 Jason Baron <jbaron(a)redhat.com> [2.6.9-42.36] -s390: fix panic in do_sync_write()/do_sync_read() (Jan Glauber) [196348] -tg3: update to 3.64-rh (John Linville) [196786 198003 202063] -dm: add ioctl support for mapped devices (Milan Broz) [168801] -fix "Hardware P-state driver for AMD processors" for up kernel (Bhavana Nagendra) -dm mirror: fix deadlock in kmirrord when dirty log on mirror itself (Milan Broz) [186950] -dm: store and use md pointer in every table (Milan Broz) [199622] -dm: fix overwriting of extra slot in bi_io_vec (Milan Broz) [219615] -dm: fix suspend error path (Milan Broz) [219616] -dm multipath: rr path order is inverted (Milan Broz) [219630] -dm: add common biosets code (Milan Broz) [215939] -dm mirror: remove trailing space from table (Milan Broz) [215941] -revert: nfs: fix permission handling for truncate calls ---------------------- This is a test Kernel ... use at your own risk :-) ---------------------- Testing Repo info: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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Kernel for Oracle
by TEOTONIO 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

When installing oracle (10g for exemple) modifications are need on kernel parameters in file /etc/sysctl.conf. Well :-) --- This modifications cannot be done directy on kernel source code? The kernel source code are prepared for oracle? I am interest on make this modifications, if this needs. Tks -- [S] TEOTONIO http://teotonio.eti.br

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Migrating from RH9 Legacy to CentOS 3
by R P Herrold 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, David Eisner wrote: > R P Herrold wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, David Eisner wrote: >>> With the end of Legacy support for RH9, I'd like to migrate my Fedora >>> Legacified RH9 box to Centos 3. >>> http://www.owlriver.com/tips/centos-31-ex-rhl-9/ >>> Any thoughts on whether this should also work with the .legacy packages? >> As author of the migration instructions in question, let me give an >> unqualified "Yes, probably" .... ;) > 1. The Centos-3.8 isos for CD 1 and 3 both had a > comps-3.8centos.0-0.20060803.i386.rpm package, which were > not identical. I used the CD 3 version. noted, wearing my 'CentOS' hat - thanks for the report -- U9 whould be along in reasonably soon which will get a respin, but we'll look for that in the CentOS build process > "yum -y -t -c /etc/yum-upgrade.conf upgrade rpm kernel", > [Segmentation fault happened here] hmmm --- wish I had more information here -- probably the instructions need to be updated to suggest removing all but the kernel in use; a pre-conversion 'yum -y clean all' would probably be prophylactic as well. > To solve this, I first tried upgrading python from python-2.2.2-26 to > python-2.2.3-26, using an RPM downloaded from www.python.org. This ouch -- python version dependent matters are _so_ integral to a Red Hat derived system, that I consider that pretty 'daring' > 3. Step 8. has one run the same two commands twice. The > second time I ran "rpm -vv --rebuilddb", it was not happy: > I rebooted, and then the rebuilddb worked. The second "yum > -y -t -c /etc/yum-upgrade.conf upgrade rpm kernel" ran and, > not surprisingly, told me there were no upgrades available. We are in terra incognita here with the python version possibly in play; I think my instructions whould suggest the reboot before the first and second rebuilddb's again, not for a known issue, but to make sure we are under the new kernel > 4. Step 9. worked fine, it just took awhile. However, a few > .legacy packages remained: > $ rpm -qa |grep legacy > > sendmail-cf-8.12.11-4.24.1.legacy > fetchmail-6.2.0-3.4.legacy > libpng10-1.0.15-0.9.1.legacy > gettext-0.11.4-7.2.legacy > kernel-2.4.20-46.9.legacy > tcpdump-3.7.2-7.9.4.legacy > libpcap-0.7.2-7.9.4.legacy > kernel-2.4.20-43.9.legacy > zip-2.3-26.1.0.9.legacy > sendmail-8.12.11-4.24.1.legacy I had not considered this later versioned material (when the outline was written, it was in the future, and unknowable as to how this would play out), as the path I outlined from RHL 9 would not encounter it; I will approach other members of the CentOS team in the topic of how we are to offer a path to 'care' for the people orphaned by the EOL of FL. btw, Kudos to Jesse and the folks who kept FL running for the two years or so it ran -- I know how difficult starting and running a distribution is, and a great effort and success were the result. > I removed the legacy kernel packages, and "upgraded" the > rest manually with rpm -Uvh --force. That seems to have > worked. Then I rebooted. I will consider adding a section about 'housekeeping' to identify and get back onto the CentOS main line path for the FL transitioners. seems like a good idea. Thanks for noting this. > Finally I replaced /etc/yum.conf with the sample given in > the Owl River instructions, and it appears to be working > (there were two packages available for updating (GConf and > oaf) which I was able to do with no problems). Great -- Thank You, David. -- Russ Herrold

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RE: [CentOS-devel] Count of mailing list members
by Brett Simpson 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Awesome! Thanks -----Original Message----- From: centos-devel-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-devel-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 3:01 PM To: CentOS-Devel Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Count of mailing list members On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 10:58 -0800, Brett Simpson wrote: > Does anyone have a count of how many list members > there are across all > CentOS mailing lists? > > Brett Yes :) (oh ... do you want to know :P) CentOS: 2514 CentOS-devel: 488 CentOS-Announce: 3233 CentOS-Mirror: 517 CentOS-Docs: 50 Thanks, Johnny Hughes __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Count of mailing list members
by Brett Simpson 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Does anyone have a count of how many list members there are across all CentOS mailing lists? Brett __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [CentOS-devel] [off topic] Oracle Lnux
by Durval Menezes 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hello, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Daouda Lo wrote: > > On 1/5/07, Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> wrote: > > >Oracle REALLY, REALLY, REALLY needs to rethink this policy ... giving > > >away free ISOs that contain packages with known security vulnerabilities > > >and not providing free security updates is wrong headed and ABSOLUTELY > > >IRRESPONSIBLE. > > > > > >I can't understand how they can sleep at night. > > Looking at their security track regarding their flagship product - I > think they're used to it or their drugs are strong enough :) As the fortune program said: "I'm sorry, sir, but you obviously has mistaken them for someone who gives a sh*t" :-) Best Regards, -- Durval Menezes (durval AT tmp DOT com DOT br, http://www.tmp.com.br/)

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[off topic] Oracle Lnux
by TEOTONIO 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hello all, this is my first post. :-) Enterprise Linux Oracle is Centos or is based on Centos??? Sory my bad english :( I am a author of distro Libertas based on Fedora Core 3.0, instaled in plus 9000 PCs on scholl LAN (Belo Horizonte-MG Brazil). Tks on repry. -- [S] TEOTONIO http://libertas.pbh.gov.br http://babel.codigolivre.org.br http://www.advogato.org/person/lercio

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I needed SVN Subversion 1.4 or greater on my centos server
by prabhat kumar 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hi, Please help me.. I needed SVN Subversion 1.4 or greater on my centos server. I enabled CentOSPlus by editing /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo But I got Subversion 1.1.4, which have lots of bugs which is fixed in higher version of subversion 1.4 Release http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.4_releasenotes.html. Subversion 1.4 Release is stable version. Is there any reason why we do not have Subversion 1.4 in the CentOSPlus repo ? Is there any way to use Subversion 1.4 in the CentOSPlus repo. Thanks in Advance. Prabhat ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all time on this earth?

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help needed : Distro migration guides / scripts
by Karanbir Singh 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hello everyone, Firstly, have a great new year everyone! I am sure its going to be an exciting 2007! Secondly, I am looking for some help with creating migration guides and ( if needed ) scripts to help people move from Oracle's Linux to CentOS. There have been a few requests for this, and we know that people who installed Oracle's linux are updating their machines against the CentOS repo's : and we'd like to give them an option of doing the right thing. Its important that we make sure they dont leave behind broken installed tree's ( Oracle does some odd things to the package Release tag's and in some cases these people updating against CentOS will get left with dangling packages, it would be nice if that didnt happen ). So, would anyone like to take up this task ? I will help in whatever way possible, David Parsley has also offered to help along anyone with his experience in doing the TaoLinux to CentOS migration process. What we need is essentially this : 1) A way to get the right config's setup ( and the centos-release package installed ) 2) Check the updates and package management system - get yum installed and ensure up2date is pointing at the right place 3) Check for packages that need updating - and inform the user about them. 4) check for orphans ( packages that have no update path in the new CentOS repo's ) and report them to the user - there is a script in yum-utils that already does this. 5) Check and report on packages which have a EVR > than whats in CentOS and report on what they are ( and maybe some changelog info that the user can see and decide what he wants to do with the? or is that even required ? ) 6) Finally, do whatever is required to either move the machine to CentOS or leave it alone. I suppose the order in which things are done can easily be changed - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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LSI logic controller sym53c8xx and centOS 4.x
by Blair Lowe 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hi, I am having difficulty with a LSI logic Symbios 3ware type device that runs a RAID 5 array on one of our servers. I tried to install centOS 4.4 and the unit stops dead in the installation process during the symbios driver installation. The alt-f3 (I think) screen had the following on it: ... sym0: ABORT operation started. sym0: ABORT operation timed-out. sym0: DEVICE RESET operation started. sym0: DEVICE RESET operation timed-out. sym0: BUS RESET operation started. sym0: BUS RESET operation timed-out. sym0: HOST RESET operation started. sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset. I did some googling, and found that the CentOS 4.1 install disk would work so I tried that and installed a minimal installation. When I boot after the successfull install, I get the same errors as the 4.4 installation cd. Does anyone know how to fix this at least after the install (I can use yum to update everything after that). Thanks in advance, Blair. -- CentOS hosting: http://www.computerengineering.ca/web_hosting_plans/#dedicated_web_hosting

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