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Can't get JRE to install so that FireFox sees it
by Dave Gutteridge 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

Hot on the heels of the success of getting sound to work with FireFox, I am on to getting Java applets to run. When I go to a page with a Java applet, I get the little Rubik's cube- like icon that says I can click to download. So I do, but FireFox says it can't find it, so I have to install manually. I click on Manual install and I'm taken to a page that allows me to download the RPM within a ".bin" file. That's new to me, but I'm game. I download it and follow the install instructions. It makes me create a /usr/java directory, and open the .bin file there. I have to go through a whole license text file, but in the end it says it's installed. I check in the directory, and there's a jre directory and an RPM file. I wonder why the RPM file is there if it's already installed. I try to install using RPM, and it says it's already installed, so I decide I believe it. I re-open FireFox... and going to the same web page I was at before with the Java applet, I'm presented with the same screen saying I need to install the plug in. What am I doing wrong with the installation? Dave

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Just can't get sound working in Firefox
by Dave Gutteridge 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

I have been all up and down my Firefox options, and all up and down whatever sound card configurations I could find in Gnome. And I just can't get sound to work. Whether it's a Flash animation, a Quicktime movie, or anything, they all run, but no sound. All other applications that run sound, like Xine or XMMS, work fine (although mysteriously XMMS every now and again loses it's connection to my sound device.) When I look on Google for help, every FireFox related page ultimately says "check your sound configuration" without much more to offer. I'm totally stumped. I'm not even sure where to look anymore. Any suggestions? Dave

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Safe to use gstreamer repository for RH or Fedora?
by Dave Gutteridge 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

I'd like to install "Gstreamer" so that I can get MP3 support in Rhythmbox. At least, I'm led to believe MP3 support comes with installing Gstreamer from Rhythmbox's FAQ. But when I get to the Gstreamer download page: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/ ... it says: "Do not compile from source yourself unless you are certain you have to or want to" Okay, fine. So I look for an RPM. But it doesn't have those, it only has repositories for Fedora and Red Hat. A while back I messed up my system by installing repositories for Fedora, so I'm wary of doing that kind of thing again. I tried a YUM search for gstreamer to see if it was available on DAG, but no luck there. Does this mean I fall into the category of compiling myself because I have to? The warning on the web site makes it sound like this is something for experts to do. Dave

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Uniprocessor kernel booted after YUM update
by Dr R L Oswald 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

Mystery Solved! Karanbir Singh gave a clue by suggesting the dsiabling of the splash screen at which point the magic word "LILO" flashed up briefly on the screen. It appears that the machines which were affected all had lilo installed but not configured as bootloader. These machines are all configured identically using a kickstart script. This script does not have lilo enabled in the bootloader. How they actually came to have lilo installed is a bit of a mystery as all the rest plainly do not have it. However when the kernel update was installed by yum, it looked for a bootloader & picked on lilo instead of grub in machines with lilo installed. I the log files of affected systems: Kernel Updated/Installed, checking for bootloader Lilo found - adding kernel to lilo and making it the default Thanks for help Les

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is there a possible solution to convert intel pro 2200 dsl winmodem to run under CentOS / linux?
by Robert 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

greetings the subject says it all and i asked this back in June and i still have not found anything or useful direction in my searching... so i need to ask again. where is big Bryan when you need him? :-) ummm i am willing to "emulate" if i have to yet i would still just need some pointers or directions... anything please. these Intel Pro 2200 DSL modems are just so inexpensive that i cannot leave any stone unturned. has anyone done this before where you run linux project MS emulation opsys under linux to utilize hardware such as this that only runs under MS opsys? any help will surely be appreciated. tia and kind regards, - rh -- Robert - Abba Communications Computers & Internet Sales/Service www.abbacomm.net

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Mixing SCSI devices on a single i/f
by James B. Byrne 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

I have an external HP SureStore DLT VS80 with a SCSI LVD 68 pin interface and an external HP SureStore DAT24 with a SCSI Centronics 50 pin Narrow SE interface. The cable for the DAT has a Centronics connector at one end and a 68 Pin Wide to Narrow terminated connector at the other. The cable for the DLT has a LVD/SE 68 pin connector at both ends. I have terminator blocks for both devices. If I connect the devices thus: terminator --> DAT --> DLT --> scsi_hostadapter (boot hangs) Then the system hangs when booting. I can get the system to boot up form this point by turning off both external tape drives. If I connect the devices individually then the host boots and the system can access which ever is attached to the host. terminator --> DLT --> scsi_hostadapter (boots, device accessible) terminator --> DAT --> scsi_hostadapter (boots, device accessible) My question is: Is it possible to daisy-chain these two devices to the host in manner that permits the system to boot and access both; and if so, how does one accomplish this? 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] Recommendation for HTML editor (a better approach?)
by Bowie Bailey 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

From: Scot L. Harris [mailto:webid@cfl.rr.com] > > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 23:45, Greg Knaddison wrote: > > On 9/20/05, Dave Gutteridge <dave(a)tokyocomedy.com> wrote: > > > Which is my long winded way of coming around to asking - what would be > > > the best approach to uploading data from my machine in this > > > circumstance? Is there an FTP utility that, like GoLive, will track > > > which documents have been modified since last upload and send only > > > those? > > > > Why not use find and -mtime to get a list of files that were modified > > and then FTP that? > > > > If you combined that with a "touch" of all files at the end you could > > keep good track of what needed to be uploaded. > > > > Really though, everyone else is right, rsync is probably the way to go. > > > > Sorry if this was already suggested, but Quanta plus will do what you > are asking. It tracks the files being edited and uploads only those > that have been changed. I believe they moved Quanta plus into one of > the kde packages but it runs under gnome just fine. If you use Eclipse for editing, there is a plugin that will let you use the "export" option to ftp (or sftp) only the changed files. Bowie

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CentOS4 and Apache-DBI
by David Hiltz 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

Has anybody gotten Apache-DBI to work under CentOS4? My installed rpms are: httpd-2.0.52-12.1.ent.centos4 (came with CentOS4) mod_perl-1.99_16-4.centos4 (came with CentOS4) perl-Apache-DBI-0.94-1.2.el4.rf (from Dag's site) --this includes Apache::DBI and Apache::AuthDBI In my '/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf' file, I added: PerlModule Apache::DBI PerlModule Apache::AuthDBI ..but when I restart Apache I get: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Can't locate Apache/Constants.pm in @INC... ... BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Apache/AuthDBI.pm line 21. ... Can't load Perl module Apache::AuthDBI ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I read that there is a conflict between Apache2 (httpd-2.0.52-12.1) and mod_perl which v1.99 (still pre-v2). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Any help would be greatly appreciated. ---- David Hiltz dhiltz(a)whsun1.wh.whoi.edu

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Uniprocessor kernel booted after YUM update
by Dr R L Oswald 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

We have Xeon IA32 dual-processor servers running Centos 3.5 in an HPC batch-only compute grid configuration . We have yum update operating automatically with default updates being applied weekly. Because of the workload pattern of long-runing jobs, the servers tend to stay up without a reboot for very long periods. Recently, yum installed an updated kernel 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp; when we got around to rebooting, we found that some of the machines were running the uniprocessor kernel 2.4.21-32.0.1.EL , showing only a single cpu. The grub.conf file had been modified in the usual pushdown manner but the default kernel had been set at #2 instead of #0. Bizzarely, some of the systems DID boot the upgraded SMP kernel as expected. Here is the grub.conf from an affected server: default=2 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title CentOS (2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp.img title CentOS (2.4.21-32.0.1.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL.img title CentOS-3 (2.4.21-32.ELsmp) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-32.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.4.21-32.ELsmp.img title CentOS-3-up (2.4.21-32.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-32.EL ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.4.21-32.EL.img Changing the default back to 0 has no effect, it still boots the 2.4.21-32.0.1.EL kernel and not the required SMP one. However, if we use the interactive GRUB boot menu & select the correct kernel interactively, it then boots SMP OK with both processors and all memory available. I tried the obvious ploy of removing the last three kernel entries in grub.conf & setting default=0 but it still manages to boot the 2.4.21-32.0.1.EL UP kernel even though it is no longer in the kernel menu list. We think we will disable automatic yum kernel updates in future , but meanwhile, has anyone any suggestions or experiences to share on this apart from a complete re-install of each affected node? Les Oswald

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upgrade release to upstream to CentOS timeframes?
by Robert 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

greetings i used to use slackware years ago. i would still use it in conjunction with CentOS etc if i had more time and extra financial resources. thing is, years ago i used to subscribe to reminder emails from packages like Apache httpd etc and they would tickle me when new releases or betas were available. i still get emails from them... anyways, the question i am wondering is... when a mainstream package like Apache httpd is upgraded to a newer version and released by the package maintainers, how long does it take for that to be picked up by our "upstream" and then incorporated and pushed to CentOS availability? thanks in advance - rh -- Robert - Abba Communications Computers & Internet Sales/Service www.abbacomm.net

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