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Strange screen-blanking problem
by Bart Schaefer 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

My desktop at work is CentOS 3.8, using the motherboard's onboard Intel 865 (82865G) graphics controller. Most of the day today I've been having sporadic instances where the screen simply goes black for about 2 seconds. It has nothing to do with whether I'm using the mouse or keyboard (or not) and the delay before it comes back on is not correlated to whether I *continue* to use the mouse or keyboard. This has happened a few times before. Sometimes the system is up for weeks at a time without showing any sign of this, sometimes it re-appears every few days. I've tried shutting down and restarting X11, but that doesn't get rid of it -- it seems only a full reboot will do so. And the longer I wait to reboot, the more often it happens. It doesn't seem to be related to the clock or to ntp (I've seen ntp clock syncs trip the screen saver in X11 before), I've tried shutting down ntpd without any change in the behavior and the system clock is not drifting from other machines on the LAN either way. There's nothing in the log files indicating any activity that might be connected. Anyone have a clue where I might begin looking? Having to reboot a linux machine with only 6 days of uptime galls me.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 19, Issue 10
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

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-2006:0676 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 seamonkey - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2006:0675 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 firefox - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2006:0677 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 thunderbird - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2006:0677 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 thunderbird - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2006:0676 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:34:05 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0676 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 seamonkey - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1158341645.23226.219.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0676 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0676.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: devhelp-0.10-0.4.el4.x86_64.rpm devhelp-devel-0.10-0.4.el4.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.x86_64.rpm src: devhelp-0.10-0.4.el4.src.rpm seamonkey-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.src.rpm

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Using CentOS 3 in and LVS?
by Bart Schaefer 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

Is it possible? For LVS you have to deal with something called the ARP problem (viz., the realservers should not respond to ARP requests for the hardware address associated with the virtual IP). This is solved with some sysctl stuff for kernel 2.2.x and for 2.4.26+, but of course CentOS 3 is 2.4.21. There's a kernel module "noarp" that's suppoed to work for all 2.4.x kernels but I can't get its configure to work properly. Does anyone have any experience with this module? Is there an RPM somewhere?

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CentOS 3 fails yum update
by Benjamin Smith 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

Here's what I get: [root@socrates root]# yum update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: CentOS-3 - Addons Server: CentOS-3 - Base Server: CentOS-3 - Extras Server: CentOS-3 - Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies .IOError - # 2 - No such file or directory I've tried yum clean and yum clean all, rpm --rebuilddb. Any ideas? -Ben -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978

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RE: [CentOS] yam help
by Bowie Bailey 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

Bowie Bailey wrote: > Dag Wieers wrote: > > yOn Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > > > I am trying to use yam to create a repo based on the 4.4 CDs. I > > > have copied the contents of the CDs to /var/dist/CentOS-4.4-i386. > > > No matter what I try, yam always creates an emtpy repo. > > > > This is the wrong mailinglist. See the Yam website for the correct > > mailinglist. > > > > > > > This is my current yam.conf file: > > > > > > [main] > > > srcdir = /var/yam > > > wwwdir = /var/www/yam > > > arch = i386 > > > > > > [centos] > > > name = CentOS $release ($arch) > > > release = 4 > > > arch = i386 > > > metadata = repomd > > > os = file:///var/dist/CentOS-4.4-i386/CentOS/ > > > > Yam can handle the ISO files directly. Look at the examples that > > come with Yam. There is no need to copy the file from the ISO files. > > I'll try that again. The first time I tried it, I was intending to > share the repo with nfs and the ISO mounts caused problems with that. > I've since switched to http. > > But shouldn't there be a way to do this with the directory? I thought > that was what the file:// format was for? Ok, I tried again with the ISO files. My yam.conf is identical to above except that I've removed the 'os' line and added this: iso = CentOS-$release-$arch-disc?.iso Yam now populates the RPMS.os directory with links into the ISO mounts, but it does not create the repodata directory. I'm going to attempt to create it myself with the createrepo command, but it should happen automatically, right? -- Bowie

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Server Manager
by Rajeev R Veedu 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

Hi, I have 4 Centos machines, (32 and 64) and wondering if there any way I could administer them centrally. I would like to have graphical interface and open source. Thanks Rajeev

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CentOS "upgrade" from fedora core ?
by Karl Hanzel 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

'Trying to figure out if it might be possible to set things up such that i could "upgrade" (rather than an "install") from a Fedora Core installation to CentOS. 'Had guessed that perhaps changing/faking the contents of /etc/redhat-release might do the job, but ... that didn't seem to go. Anyone know how it might be accomplished? Or perhaps this isn't a reasonable thing to do(?). Thanks *----->

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RE: [CentOS] yam help
by Bowie Bailey 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Dag Wieers wrote: > yOn Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > I am trying to use yam to create a repo based on the 4.4 CDs. I > > have copied the contents of the CDs to /var/dist/CentOS-4.4-i386. > > No matter what I try, yam always creates an emtpy repo. > > This is the wrong mailinglist. See the Yam website for the correct > mailinglist. > > > > This is my current yam.conf file: > > > > [main] > > srcdir = /var/yam > > wwwdir = /var/www/yam > > arch = i386 > > > > [centos] > > name = CentOS $release ($arch) > > release = 4 > > arch = i386 > > metadata = repomd > > os = file:///var/dist/CentOS-4.4-i386/CentOS/ > > Yam can handle the ISO files directly. Look at the examples that come > with Yam. There is no need to copy the file from the ISO files. I'll try that again. The first time I tried it, I was intending to share the repo with nfs and the ISO mounts caused problems with that. I've since switched to http. But shouldn't there be a way to do this with the directory? I thought that was what the file:// format was for? -- Bowie

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convert files with ghostscript to tiff gets black page with xview
by Jerry Geis 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

I am using oowriter to just type a couple lines, export that as PDF, use ghostscript to convert to tiff then view with xview and my page is all black. I use the command to convert to tiff. gs -q -sDEVICE=tiffg3 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -r204x196 -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=/tmp/faxme.g3 -- file.pdf xview /tmp/faxme.g3 The resulting file size is 9788 for faxme.g3 Have I done something wrong? I would have thought that would work. Thanks, for any suggestions. Jerry

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yam help
by Bowie Bailey 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

I am trying to use yam to create a repo based on the 4.4 CDs. I have copied the contents of the CDs to /var/dist/CentOS-4.4-i386. No matter what I try, yam always creates an emtpy repo. This is my current yam.conf file: [main] srcdir = /var/yam wwwdir = /var/www/yam arch = i386 [centos] name = CentOS $release ($arch) release = 4 arch = i386 metadata = repomd os = file:///var/dist/CentOS-4.4-i386/CentOS/ And this is the directory structure after running 'yam -ug': /var/yam /var/yam/CentOS-4-i386-disc4.iso /var/yam/CentOS-4-i386-disc2.iso /var/yam/CentOS-4-i386-disc3.iso /var/yam/centos-i386 /var/yam/centos-i386/os /var/yam/CentOS-4-i386-disc1.iso /var/www/yam /var/www/yam/HEADER.shtml.yambak /var/www/yam/README.shtml.yambak /var/www/yam/HEADER.shtml /var/www/yam/README.shtml /var/www/yam/centos-i386 /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.os /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.os/.sha1sum /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.os/repodata /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.os/repodata/filelists.xml.gz /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.os/repodata/primary.xml.gz /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.os/repodata/repomd.xml /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.os/repodata/other.xml.gz /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.local /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.local/.sha1sum /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.local/repodata /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.local/repodata/filelists.xml.gz /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.local/repodata/primary.xml.gz /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.local/repodata/repomd.xml /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.local/repodata/other.xml.gz /var/www/yam/centos-i386/HEADER.shtml.yambak /var/www/yam/centos-i386/README.shtml.yambak /var/www/yam/centos-i386/HEADER.shtml /var/www/yam/centos-i386/.title /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.all /var/www/yam/centos-i386/README.shtml It simply will not copy or link the RPMs from my distribution directory. What is the correct way to do this? -- Bowie

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