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VIA C3 Nehemiah Locks Up
by Chris Miller 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hello, I've got an EPIA-M series motherboard in a system that has locked up twice under random conditions. Nothing is logged to the console or logs, the system just hangs. The system is installed with CentOS 4.4 and running the 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL i686 kernel. I am aware that older C3 processors had the CMOV problem, but that is resolved in the later boards (procinfo below). I've seen a few posts about similar problems, but it's not clear whether this is a bad board, or if there's an issue with the kernel. cpuspeed was running, I've since disabled and stopped the service as it's been rumored to cause problems. This was mentioned in this bug report that is still open : http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1270 Can anyone confirm that there are no known problems with the VIA C3 Nehemiah Model 9 and CentOS, or if some (kernel) tweaks are required to make these systems stable? Regards, Chris Board Info : http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_i… # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 9 model name : VIA Nehemiah stepping : 8 cpu MHz : 534.860 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge cmov pat mmx fxsr sse rng rng_en ace ace_en bogomips : 1070.44 # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] 00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105 [Rhine-III] (rev 8b) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03)

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Will Firefox 2.X be included/supported in CentOS 5?
by Alfred von Campe 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

I know this mostly depends on what is/will be done upstream, but with the recent announcement that Firefox 1.5.X will only receive updates until April 24, 2007, is Firefox 2.X in CentOS' future? Alfred

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HP DL585 G2 -- no nics
by Castello, Jean-pierre 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hello try to boot with pci=nommconf kernel option. Regards, Jean-Pierre

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Vsftpd/Centos Issue: Client Time Display Wrong
by Karl R. Balsmeier 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi, We have patched Centos 4.4 to work properly with the recent DST changes, but our customers are reporting wrong FTP client timestamps based on which areas they live in. What are the two main mechanisms in Centos that control time? I know about /etc/localtime and TZDATA, is there something we may have missed? Or is this perhaps a VSFTPd thing and I could go bug that list? To be clear, -i'm asking: How would you verify your Centos system was completely sound and properly set for time changes like DST? I did all of our servers going back all the way to Solaris 7, but this seems uniquely to do with my centos4.3 machines running vsftpd. If you can drop a command line or two on me to determine the time settings are OK, that would be a great start. Notice i'm not asking for a solution to the whole issue, but just a starter set of 'grep this, enter that' forensics, so I can nail down which of the two mechanisms are in error, specific to centos 4.3, 4.4. -karlski

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apache error
by Mark Quitoriano 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi, i restarted my apache and now im getting this error. Stopping httpd: [FAILED] Starting httpd: (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs [FAILED]

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Re: [CentOS] Install and Run mysql 4.x
by Al Sparks 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

> You don't have to initialize mysql db : it will be done > automagically when you'll start the mysqld service for the first > time (service mysqld start) ... > Have a look in the mysqld init script (that rpm/yum provides you > so gently) , especially in the start() function ... Well, I guess that's a DOH on my part. Of course they'd provide and use the init scripts in /etc/init.d. This may have something to do with all the previous things I've attempted after the install, but when I actually invoke the script it says the startup fails. However, the mysql.log shows that the database successfully starts, and I'm able to get a mysql prompt. Thanks for your help. === Al

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Hellllp Pl: Centos 4.4 Default LVM install boot/recovery problem
by Sanjay Arora 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hello all Nill experience with LVM. Have a Default Centos 4.4 install updated till a week ago with three HDDs. System's not booting up since my staff pulled out the plug due to a short circuit nearby. Machine is a PIII 550 MHz, with 3 HDDs 40 GB, 120 GB (Actually is bigger but my bios detects only upto 120 GB) & 20 GB...about half filled with data & the backup server taken out in the short circuit. Upon bootup, the system starts with root, kernel & initrd notices, then says Uncompressing Linux then spits out the Error....CRC Error -- System Halted. Booted from the CD in reinstall mode where anaconda looks for linux installations on the HDD and asks about upgrade, reinstall or fresh partition/create partition/delete partition for reinstall, but the installer does not detect any linux installation on the HDD. I aborted at that stage. Now my system is a default linux installation where I have used the autopartitioning done by the system (LVM2) and almost all of my data is either in /home directory or couple of directories in the / I am willing to do a reinstall if my data is preserved. What do I need to do to diagnose the problem? and pointers to recovering from this problem and various tradeoffs. Can't lose data, as already have lost backup server (smps, motherboard, hdd circuitry all short-circuited, so no hope there). LVM howto was not much of a help as it seems to mostly have how to expand or reduce lvm and similar issues. Please keep in mind that I am a user and not sys-admin, though I can use command-line, if instructions & how-tos are there. Please help. With best regards and thanks in anticipation. Sanjay.

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Install and Run mysql 4.x
by Al Sparks 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

You know, I suppose I could simply install the tarball, I've successfully installed mysql in the past that way. However, I thought I'd use yum, install the redhat/CentOS way, and I am amazed how hard it is to get this thing working. I admit to not having become all that familiar with mysql. Anyway, when I run # mysql_install_db --user=mysql I get a bunch of errors: 070321 11:50:43 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't find file: './mysql/help_topic.frm' (errno: 13) So I find out where the file is, and cd /var/lib/mysql and to confirm I do a ls ./mysql/help_relation.frm I run # mysql_install_db --user=mysql Same error. I'll be glad for some help, but a secondary point I'd like to make is, what's the point in having packages if a lot of this stuff isn't already taken care of? Obviously the yum package manager puts the mysql distro in different places than the mysql tarball does by default. But shouldn't the package's config files take all that into account? Why is this so hard? === Al

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Linux at command
by Frank M. Ramaekers 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

I'm having a problem with the Linux (unix) at command. I have a program/script that needs to run another program/script within seconds. Unfortunately the at command only accepts minutes as input. Therefore, scheduling a command within a minute (i.e. adding 1 minute to the current time), can cause the command to run within 1 to 60 seconds. (Add 1 minute to a time such as 11:43:59 will cause it to run at 11:44:00, one second later.) I don't quite understand why unix has this limitation. Is there something else I should be considering? TIA, Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer; MCP, MCP+I, MCSE & RHCE American Income Life Insurance Company Phone: (254) 761-6649 Fax: (254) 741-5777

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interactive %pre in kickstart?
by Florin Andrei 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Here's what I'm currently doing in ks.cfg: %pre #!/bin/sh echo -n "Please enter blah: " read blah echo $blah > /tmp/ks-blah I know that "read blah" works fine, because after that I see the variable in the /tmp file. The problem is, echo doesn't seem to work at this stage. This pretty much kills the idea of an interactive %pre script. I was thinking to collect in %pre the information that is different from one system to another (and cannot be deduced automatically by kickstart), then the user can walk away and the system is installed and configured completely by kickstart. If %pre cannot be made interactive, then I'll have to move the customization after reboot, which is less than ideal. P.S.: I guess I could automatically generate a whole lot of ks.cfg files on the kickstart server, and just tell the user to point the installer to the appropriate ks.cfg, instead of entering some info manually at the %pre stage. But somehow generating hundreds of ks.cfg files seems very ugly. I'd rather keep that algorithm in one single ks.cfg and let the user enter a couple things in the %pre stage. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

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