devel January 2012

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forums + portal for {lang}.centos.org sites
by Karanbir Singh 16 Aug '24

16 Aug '24

Hi, Earlier in the evening today Ralph, Fabian and I had a chat about the present state of the language subsites. This email sort of summarises the main issue ( s/w ). We seem to have run into a slight technical hitch with punbb/fluxbb. They dont support LDAP as a backend. And we had decided a few months back that all new rollouts must have ldap backend so we can rollin CentOS-DS / openldap based backend. So we need to look at alternatives, and since the primary focus of these international sites is going be forums : Here is a shortlist ( if there is anything else that people are aware of, please add to this list ) - phpBB - SMF - Fudforum - phorum - fluxbb Requirements: - Must be able to scale ( couple of hundred thousand msgs ) - Must be able to handle ldap auth ( if it cant, whats involved in writing the ldap-auth portion ) - Must address the specific requirements raised by the present www.centos.org forum users ( Can you please fill this section in ? ) - Must support all languages we need ( pure utf8 support would be good ) - Secure - Skin'able Nice to have: - Capable of running multiple instances from a single deployment - responsive community :D Things we will need to do: - Decide on what s/w to use. - Give the ArtWork people enough time to get the look & feel sorted. - Migrate newbb forums from www.centos.org to $system ( hey, english is a language too :D ). - Migrate fr.centos.org into the final s/w - setup {de/es/ja/it/pt_br}.centos.org Actions: Ralph and Fabian are going to work on setting up a test ldap server, once that is online we will then start by installing into our test-vm-farm the various s/w to eval them. If anyone would like to help, please feel free to jump right in. I'll setup a wiki page for this issue, which might be a good place to track progress. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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Interested in IA64 build.
by James A. Peltier 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

I noticed on the SIG that people interested in other ports of interest. I'd like to express interest in the IA64 port. What is the best way to get started? I have two SGI Itanium 2 based machines. One 64 processor x 64GB SGI Altix and a 32 processor x 32GB RAM SGI Prism. They are currently running CentOS 4.8 and I would love to be able to run CentOS 5.5 on them to get them into compliance with the rest of the cluster. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier(a)sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam(a)hotmail.com Does your OS has a man 8 lart? http://www.xinu.nl/unix/humour/asr-manpages/lart.html

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qaweb dashboard and dates displayed
by Gianluca Cecchi 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

Hello, hope that this could be correct target to post, as I don't find any link directly on the web site. I notice that going to http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/dashboard some posts don't get updated with the correct timestamp as days pass through. For example when you click on the article First CentOS 6.2 Tree and ISOs make it to QA you can see that the comment from Jeff " As of last night we have an installable x86_64 tree for testing. The i386 tree has some issues with the installer that need to be fixed. " keeps getting marked as "4:42pm Today" HIH giving better information, Gianluca

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Promo Stuff request management
by Karanbir Singh 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

hi Guys, the last time we had some TShirts sponsored, I asked for who wanted it - and had to parse emails coming in, match sizes, check postage issues and email followups to people. It wasent easy, and took a fair bit of time. And in the end, I had to limit emails down to only those people who actually got Tshirts sent to them. For the 70 odd Tshirts I had, there were 500+ requests. We are going to be getting some more TShirts in the next few days - and this time they are split between two designs, and multiple colours and different sizes (ofcourse). It would be great if there was some s/w that could be installed on one of our machines that would allow us to add the tshirt quantities and sizes and colours in, and then let people essentially check-out. The shirts are sponsored, the postage + packaging isnt. So people would still need to come up with a bit of money ( it should be quite nominal ). I'm also talking to someone locally about sponsoring beer and coffee mugs and a few other things ( its essentially what they do - make glassware for large brands ). So this might be an ongoing thing. So, my questions : is there anyone who can help with the online admin side of things ? is there any recommended software that we can use ?[1] regards, - KB [1]: I did think of a github repo, and ask people to merge request and do it in that way, but that has no way for people to find out if their size / colour / style is available and also most people would not want their postal address and contact details in a public repo. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

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AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) elrepo no driver (Maybe OT)
by Phil Savoie 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

Hi All, This wireless device came with this hp pavilion g4 laptop and noticed that elrepo has no driver for this. I know enough how to compile and install modules but not how to build a kmod package. I got the drivers from here: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k and used this snapshot compat-wireless-2012-01-19.tar.bz2 to build and load the module which works fine on this laptop. I was wondering if the folks at elrepo would consider building a kmod package for this? Phil

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pulp as a private mirror resource
by Karanbir Singh 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

hi guys, I've been looking at using pulp ( pulpproject.org ) as a means to promote rpms into the evolving repos ( updates/ extras/ plus/ etc ) as opposed to static repos ( os/ ). So that people running large infra do not need to rely on the msync targets, leaving those available for public mirror use. This is very much a spike test to see if pulp is usable for such a role. The thinking is that there is a .centos.org hosted pulp master ( or a few ) and Content nodes in various geo distributed places, with every one wanting to run a private mirror just bringing up a content node, associating it with the repo's they care about and letting that content instance sync on schedule. removing the need to repo-manage completely. The pulp project guys have been very very receptive of constructive criticism and have even offered to take up some of the recommendations I had, as feature requests. So even if we do find there are massive holes that are not filled in a way by pulp today, there might be scope for them to find workarounds or even see if they can find suitable fix's I have asked on IRC and the main list for people who might be willing to help trial and evaluate this process, but havent been able to get much support. So asking here as well, anyone with a few machines willing to spend a few hours working out the issues that such a setup might have ? - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

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Re: [CentOS-devel] need help to build livecd and create success iso file but it hang
by ha do 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

Hi all i finally know where is the problem and my problem is same with the bud_id: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757818 "" grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template grubby: doing this would leave no kernel entries. Not writing out new config. "" there is a work around Thank you and my livecd-tools version: [root@fedora ~]# rpm -qi livecd-tools Name : livecd-tools Epoch : 1 Version : 16.10 Release : 1.fc16 my python-imgcreator version: [root@fedora ~]# rpm -qi python-imgcreate Name : python-imgcreate Epoch : 1 Version : 16.10 Release : 1.fc16 =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= PuTTY log 2012.01.28 09:00:19 =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= livecd-creator --config=fedora.ks --fslabel=fedor a-base. warning: fontpackages-filesystem-1.44-2.fc15.noarch: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID a82ba4b7: NOKEY Installing: fontpackages-filesystem ##################### [ 1/824] ..... Installing: setup ##################### [ 2/824] ..... Installing: plymouth ##################### [461/824] Need 'inst' function, try setting PLYMOUTH_POPULATE_SOURCE_FUNCTIONS to a file that defines it Installing: dracut [462/824]warning: /etc/dracut.conf created as /etc/dracut.conf.rpmnew ..... Installing: ypbind ##################### [508/824] Running in chroot, ignoring request. .... Installing: lldpad ##################### [564/824] ln -s '/lib/systemd/system/lldpad.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/lldpad.service' warning: %post(lldpad-0.9.43-1.fc16.i686) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 ..... Installing: fcoe-utils ##################### [565/824] ln -s '/lib/systemd/system/fcoe.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/fcoe.service' warning: %post(fcoe-utils-1.0.20-2.fc16.i686) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 ... Installing: mesa-dri-drivers [566/824] Installing: vconfig ##################### [824/824] grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template grubby: doing this would leave no kernel entries. Not writing out new config. Removing password for user root. passwd: Success Note: Forwarding request to 'systemctl enable NetworkManager.service'. Note: Forwarding request to 'systemctl disable sshd.service'. rm '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/sshd.service' Packages within this LiveCD psacct-6.5.5-3.fc16.i686 ..... vim-minimal-7.3.315-1.fc16.i686 /usr/bin/mandb: warning: $PATH not set Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man... .... 98.44% done, estimate finish Fri Jan 27 21:41:45 2012 Total translation table size: 2048 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 3072 Total directory bytes: 8192 Path table size(bytes): 64 Max brk space used 1a000 218415 extents written (426 MB) Inserting md5sum into iso image... md5 = 32e80008b9d55795261e00516f772d0d Inserting fragment md5sums into iso image... fragmd5 = a4cafba1613ac6ef812292e5fc6fa23554ab714ad1c99edfe97daec463ce frags = 20 Setting supported flag to 0 umount: /var/tmp/imgcreate-Vxod75/install_root/sys/fs/selinux/load: not found --- On Fri, 1/27/12, ha do <haloha201(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > From: ha do <haloha201(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: need help to build livecd and create success iso file but it hang > To: centos(a)centos.org > Date: Friday, January 27, 2012, 7:23 AM > Hi all > > my environment: > 1/ windows 7 OS system > 2/ use virtual box install the host > centos system > > > i try to make a centos livecd and i follow the step > 1/ create file: vi /etc/yum.repos.d/centos-livecd.repo > and the content of file: > # Name: CentOS LiveCD repository > [livecd] > name = CentOS $releasever - LiveCD > baseurl = http://www.nanotechnologies.qc.ca/propos/linux/centos-live/$basearch/live > enabled=1 > protect=0 > gpgkey = http://www.nanotechnologies.qc.ca/propos/linux/RPM-GPG-KEY-PGuay2010 > 2/ yum install livecd-tools syslinux anaconda-runtime > > 3/ create file alochym.ks and content of file: > lang en_US.UTF-8 > keyboard us > timezone US/Eastern > auth --useshadow --enablemd5 > selinux --enforcing > firewall --disabled > repo --name=a-base --baseurl=http://mirror-fpt-telecom.fpt.net/centos/5/os/$basearch > repo --name=a-updates --baseurl=http://mirror-fpt-telecom.fpt.net/centos/5/updates/$basearch > repo --name=a-extras --baseurl=http://mirror-fpt-telecom.fpt.net/centos/5/extras/$basearch > repo --name=a-live --baseurl=http://www.nanotechnologies.qc.ca/propos/linux/centos-live/$basearch/live > %packages > bash > kernel > syslinux > passwd > policycoreutils > chkconfig > authconfig > rootfiles > comps-extras > xkeyboard-config > openssh > > 4/ run command : LANG=C livecd-creator > --config=/mnt/alochym.ks --fslabel=CentOS-mini > > 5/ download the file CentOS-mini.iso to windows 7 > > 6/ use virtual box create new virtual machine with > CentOS-mini.iso as cdrom > > the log of create livecd : http://pastebin.com/Z5BFASXa > > the problem is when i use the CentOS-mini.iso with new > virtual machine and the virtual manchine hang when automatic > boot to 0 second > > can somebody help me > > Thank you >

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need help to build livecd and create success but it hang
by ha do 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Hi all my environment: 1/ windows 7 OS system 2/ use virtual box install the host centos system i try to make a centos livecd and i follow the step 1/ create file: vi /etc/yum.repos.d/centos-livecd.repo and the content of file: # Name: CentOS LiveCD repository [livecd] name = CentOS $releasever - LiveCD baseurl = http://www.nanotechnologies.qc.ca/propos/linux/centos-live/$basearch/live enabled=1 protect=0 gpgkey = http://www.nanotechnologies.qc.ca/propos/linux/RPM-GPG-KEY-PGuay2010 2/ yum install livecd-tools syslinux anaconda-runtime 3/ create file alochym.ks and content of file: lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us timezone US/Eastern auth --useshadow --enablemd5 selinux --enforcing firewall --disabled repo --name=a-base --baseurl=http://mirror-fpt-telecom.fpt.net/centos/5/os/$basearch repo --name=a-updates --baseurl=http://mirror-fpt-telecom.fpt.net/centos/5/updates/$basearch repo --name=a-extras --baseurl=http://mirror-fpt-telecom.fpt.net/centos/5/extras/$basearch repo --name=a-live --baseurl=http://www.nanotechnologies.qc.ca/propos/linux/centos-live/$basearch/live %packages bash kernel syslinux passwd policycoreutils chkconfig authconfig rootfiles comps-extras xkeyboard-config openssh 4/ run command : LANG=C livecd-creator --config=/mnt/alochym.ks --fslabel=CentOS-mini 5/ download the file CentOS-mini.iso to windows 7 6/ use virtual box create new virtual machine with CentOS-mini.iso as cdrom the log of create livecd : http://pastebin.com/Z5BFASXa the problem is when i use the CentOS-mini.iso with new virtual machine and the virtual manchine hang when automatic boot to 0 second can somebody help me Thank you

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centOS 6.0 custom kernel load fails
by kasi viswanath 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

HI, I'm trying to build centOS6.0 custom kernel using the steps given at URL http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel Kernel: 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64. I'm following centOS5.0 steps for building custom kernel (This is the latest one to refer). After I get rpms in `/rpmbuild/RPMS' i installed the following RPMS to boot with the new custom kernel. su -c "rpm -ivh $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/kernel-2.6.32-71.el6.kasivj.x86_64.rpm \ $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/kernel-firmware-2.6.32-71.el6.kasivj.x86_64.rpm \ $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/kernel-headers-2.6.32-71.el6.kasivj.x86_64.rpm \ $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/kernel-devel-2.6.32-71.el6.kasivj.x86_64.rpm" This will add a new kernel entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst along with oldone. (default 0) followed by new kenel. I checked for initramfs, vmlinuz, config, system-map files created for new kernel as shown below. bash-4.1$ ls /boot/ ============= config-2.6.32-71.el6.kasivj.x86_64 symvers-2.6.32-71.el6.kasivj.x86_64.gz config-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 symvers-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64.gz efi System.map-2.6.32-71.el6.kasivj.x86_64 grub System.map-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 initramfs-2.6.32-71.el6.kasivj.x86_64.img vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.el6.kasivj.x86_64 initramfs-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64.img vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 initrd-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64kdump.img menu.lst:- ======== default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS Linux (2.6.32-71.el6.kasivj.x86_64) root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.el6.kasivj.x86_64 ro root=UUID=d755a526-1318-4ee0-91e5-439b978c1d80 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us crashkernel=auto rhgb initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32-71.el6.kasivj.x86_64.img title CentOS Linux (2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64) root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 ro root=UUID=d755a526-1318-4ee0-91e5-439b978c1d80 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us crashkernel=auto rhgb initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64.img two questions:- 1. Grub menu centOS6-2.6.32-71.el6.kasivj is not displayed 2. If I remove old kernel and keep the new kenel, then new kernel is not booting. I suspect that below step given in the URL I was not able to do it for centOS6.0. [[[Starting at line 698, there is a 25 line block of code that needs to be commented out to build customised CentOS-5 kernels ( This step is not required to build customised CentOS-4 kernels): ]]]]] Am I missing somethign here to build custom kernel centOS6.0 Reason for building: LKLM modules built on 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 i'm not able to load them. thanks and regards, Viswa

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Re: [CentOS-devel] What name would be acceptable for Desktop version of CentOS?
by Ljubomir Ljubojevic 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

On 01/24/2012 12:03 AM, Andreas Kasenides wrote: > > @LL > I have been toying with the idea of a CentOS DT edition (or Desktop > Modification edition) for several months now. As Original Poster, I urge, plead and ask EVERYONE to stop going off-topic. This IS development mailing list, not even General mailing list. My question was THE NAME of fork (or guidance) that will be acceptable for CentOS project. Period. I will prepare the draft of what I think should be done, with all the pros and cons, and will see with project leaders where to hold debate, either on one of the CentOS ml's, or we will find neutral/acceptable mailing list or forums thread to start the debate and contemplation about further steps. Thank you for your understanding, -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant

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What name would be acceptable for Desktop version of CentOS?
by Ljubomir Ljubojevic 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Dear developers of CentOS, I plan to create/start Desktop version/fork/respin of CentOS, practically just to add useful packages, modified repository with prioritized third-party repositories, maybe few tweaks, and built ISO and repositories, so we are not limited to messing with manually adding third-party repositories and dealing with dependency problems. Basic repositories will remain from CentOS project. I plan to latter on ask about endorsement, maybe even hosting/mirroring project or even running it under the CentOS project flag. I will have to formulate my goals for the project and see how it resonates with you, developers of CentOS. For the time being, to keep the ball rolling, I have question about the name that you find acceptable (even in the case that I can not find common ground with CentOS project and it remains on the sidelines): 1. CentDOS (Community Enterprize Desktop Operating System) 2. DentOS (Desktop Enterprize Operating System) 3. CentOS-DE (Community Enterprize Operating System - Desktop Edition) 4. Any new suggestion? I personally and few other people like the first name, CentDOS. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant

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(no subject)
by Julio Martinez 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

> Till such time as a package manifest is published, the name and content > are a bit academic to discuss </opinion> Even though I agree with Karanbir I do love the name DesCentOS J

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mirror setup/layout
by Ferry Huberts 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

Hi list I'm mirroring some centos trees for my site. I've seen that currently the (for example) 6 directory links to the 6.2 directory. How about reversing that: let 6 always contain the latest and let 6.2 (latest) link to the 6 (base)? There is at least the advantage (for me) that I only have to rsync a single tree (base). Also I think it's much clearer :-) -- Ferry Huberts

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missing debuginfo packages
by Manuel Wolfshant 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

Hello Several debuginfo packages ( at least db4-4.7.25-16.el6.x86_64 expat-2.0.1-9.1.el6.x86_64 libselinux-2.0.94-5.2.el6.x86_64 libuuid-2.17.2-12.4.el6.x86_64 nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.9-11.el6.x86_64 pcre-7.8-3.1.el6.x86_64 but probably more ) are missing from http://debuginfo.c.o Can you please fix that? A bug in either httpd or phpmyadmin lead to a SIG11 which is harder to debug without the proper debug information. Thank you wolfy

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custom iso spin
by Larry Brigman 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

I see the small ISO images but I would like to build something custom but not a live image. What tools do you use to create these images? Is there some documentation on building a custom iso spin? I would also like to be able to drive the tools.

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