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rebuilding anaconda for centos 4.0
by David Thompson 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Continuing the thread, if there's anyone out there who has successfully completed an anaconda rebuild (buildinstall & genhdlist), please let me know that it can be done, either privately or to the list. Having solved the kernel/loopback mount problem, I now have an anaconda that whose installer process dies at the point where it tries to install the first RPM. I have diffed the contents of the various file system images against the stock images, and I see nothing that would indicate a problem. Again, any information, hacks, or debugging tips are very much appreciated. -- Dave Thompson ( thomas(at)cs(dot)wisc(dot)edu ) Associate Researcher Department of Computer Science University of Wisconsin-Madison http://www.cs.wisc.edu/(twiddle)thomas 1210 West Dayton Street Madison, WI 53706-1685 --

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Laptop issues
by Mickael Maddison 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Hello CentOS, I'm trying to isolate a problem with a notebook. I've tried to install CentOS from CD - but once I get the start screen, I type 'enter' to begin installing. The installer starts to load but only gets as far as: running install running /sbin/loader That's it. Nothing beyond that... locks up solid. The equipment is ECS 736, P4 2.6Ghz /1024MB RAM, 40GB HDD. Ultimate boot cd boots up fine and all tests appear to be fine. -- Best regards, Mickael mailto:mike@kamloopsbc.com

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General question on QA from a Fedora Core fan
by Steve Bergman 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Apologies if this ends up a dup, but there seems to have been a problem with my original subscription. ------------------------------ Hello, I am currently using Fedora on most of my servers. It does pretty well. I do have occasional problems which seem to me to stem from poor QA. For example, /usr/bin/enable <queue> coming back with "Enable: I don't know what to do!" after a cups errata upgrade when I would try to re-enable a printer. The "-c#" (multiple copies) option to lpr not working for serial printers due to a bug in the "serial" backend. (But to which a patch is applied to fix the same problem in the parallel backend). Finding my first flaw in the OS when I try to check the CD media during the install. The media check always fails. (Yes, there are going to be bugs, but finding the first one before you even get the installation media checked looks really bad. And, yes, the ide=nodma workaround fixes it.) I was very hopeful about CentOS shielding me and my clients from silly stuff like this. However, looking at the RHEL source for the serial backend to cups, it looks as though the patch to make "-c#" work on it has not been applied to serial.c. And the media check still fails with CentOS unless I use "ide=nodma", just like with Fedora. This is disappointing. Now, I wish to make it perfectly clear that I *DO NOT* consider this to be the fault of CentOS, as I understand that the policy is to remain faithfully compatible to RHEL. But if I ask RH about this, I know that I will get an "oh so politically correct" answer. On the positive side, looking at the errata, it looks as though CentOS has drastically fewer notices than Fedora, and I assume that is because there really are more problems (security of otherwise) shaken out during testing. Obviously, not being forced to upgrade due to withdrawal of support with regards to security patches every 1.5 years is a plus. So I welcome comments. If I switch my clients from Fedora to CentOS, they don't have the latest and greatest (and, for example, I need OpenOffice 2.0 ASAP for one of my clients due to it's Access-like interface to PostgreSQL), but how much advantage am I really looking at with regards to stability? i.e. I know all the reasons that CentOS *should* be more rock solid stable. But is there a noticeable difference in reality? Thanks For Any Input. Sincerely, Steve Bergman

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Booting CentOS with LILO?
by Juan Pablo Espino 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Hello all! I would like to know if is possible to use LILO as the boot loader instead of the default GRUB. My question comes because I tried to run lilo command but the message "command not found" appear. It sounds like my only boot loader option in CentOS is GRUB ¿?. I found lilo.conf.anaconda, but not the lilo command. From already thanks. Regards, Juan P. Espino

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fsckcheck
by Lee Parmeter 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

While working on getting software raid working, I was unable to shutdown CentOS normally. After a forced power shutdown, I noticed that my gnome background was missing and I could not change the background image or color. Trying to shutdown the server normally did not work either, it would just hang. I suspected that the file system was damaged and was not fixed automaticly on boot. I tried the old Red Hat trick of creating an empty file with the name "fsckcheck" in the root directory and then forcing a reboot of the server. This seems to fix the problem with the file system. Any comments? -- Lee Parmeter Emperor, linXos - The Flying Penguin http://www.linXos.com Linux Registered User #337161 'It's free. It works. Duh.'" - Eric Harrison The United States is NOT a democracy, it was founded as a Republic! God is not a republican or a democrat nor is His government a democracy! - Lee Parmeter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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RedHat Bugzilla
by John Newbigin 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Does anyone here have access to the RedHat Bugzilla bug number 113233? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113233 I get "You are not authorized to access bug #113233." which kind of makes it hard to know what they think they have fixed. PS. CentOS-2 Update 7 is currently being built and will be ready soon. 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 4 install problems debug info
by Pascal Van Puymbroeck 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

For those who are intrested, some debug info that appears on the screen while installing: An unhandles exception has occurred. This is most likely a bug. Traceback: (last line most recent call) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-10.1.1.13//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1074 in handleRenderCallback self.currentWindow.renderCallback() ... .... ... File "/usr/lib/anaconda/hdrlist.py", line 343 in mergeFullHeaders rpm.mergeHeaderListFromFD(self.hdlist,fd,1000004) IndexError: list index out of range Hope this helps in finding the bug.

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Re: vsftp 500 OOPS: SSL: cannot load RSA key
by James B. Byrne 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 01:51:19 +0200, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@uni- x.org> wrote: > Both certificate files must be 1 file. > > cat /usr/share/ssl/certs/inet06cert.pem > /usr/share/ssl/private/inet06key.pem > > /usr/share/ssl/certs/vsftpd.pem > > In vsftpd.conf: > > rsa_cert_file=/usr/share/ssl/certs/vsftpd.conf I did this and I get the exact same error. However, I do not understand what this accomplishes. It is my understanding that the rsa privste key certificate contains both PKI primes and the resulting public key. What do I misapprehend? Regards, Jim -- *** e-mail is not a secure channel *** mailto:byrnejb.<token>@harte-lyne.ca James B. Byrne Harte & Lyne Limited vox: +1 905 561 1241 9 Brockley Drive fax: +1 905 561 0757 Hamilton, Ontario <token> = hal Canada L8E 3C3

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Re: [CentOS] vsftp 500 OOPS: SSL: cannot load RSA key To:
by James B. Byrne 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:08:53 +0200 (CEST) Maciej Zenczykowski <maze(a)cela.pl> wrote: > > Are there any audits being logged in /var/log/messages with > SELinux security errors? No. Jim -- *** e-mail is not a secure channel *** mailto:byrnejb.<token>@harte-lyne.ca James B. Byrne Harte & Lyne Limited vox: +1 905 561 1241 9 Brockley Drive fax: +1 905 561 0757 Hamilton, Ontario <token> = hal Canada L8E 3C3

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 2, Issue 15
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-announce-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-announce-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS-announce digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CESA-2005:405 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 php - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2005:405 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 PHP - security update (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2005:405 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 PHP - security update (Tru Huynh) 4. CESA-2005:405 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) php - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2005:384 Important CentOS 3 x86_64 mozilla - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2005:384 Important CentOS 3 ia64 mozilla - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2005:384 Important CentOS 3 i386 mozilla - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2005:261-01: Low CentOS 2 i386 glibc security update (John Newbigin) 9. CESA-2005:283-01: Important CentOS 2 i386 kernel security update (John Newbigin) 10. CentOS4 cannot shutdown (kenkensmile(a)netscape.net) 11. CESA-2005:384 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) mozilla - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 01:58:33 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)iki.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:405 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 php - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20050428225833.GS11443(a)core.upi.iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:405 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-405.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: files: updates/ia64/RPMS/php-4.3.2-23.ent.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/php-devel-4.3.2-23.ent.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/php-imap-4.3.2-23.ent.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/php-ldap-4.3.2-23.ent.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/php-mysql-4.3.2-23.ent.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/php-odbc-4.3.2-23.ent.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/php-pgsql-4.3.2-23.ent.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/

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