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App for burning CD from MP3s
by Mark Hull-Richter 29 May '07

29 May '07

I would like to be able to make an audio CD directly from some mp3 files I have. I know that isn't the best way due to the lossy nature of the MP3 format, but that's ok for this purpose. K3b is supposed to be able to do this, but I got an unsupported file type error when I tried this. I installed the python-mad decoder that is listed in the k3b document, but I don't see how to get k3b to us it.... Thanks. -- Mark Hull-Richter DATAllegro (www.datallegro.com) 85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 949-680-3082 - Office 949-680-3001 - fax

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VT6420 sata_via problem
by Oren Held 28 May '07

28 May '07

Hello, A message was already posted here regarding this issue- I experience the same problem with 6 machines, all with Hitachi harddrive, VIA Motherboard which uses the sata_via driver: Once every few days each machine freezes or just stops reading from the HD and throws i/o error messages as pasted below. Note that the first "ata exception Emask" errors apear right after booting, when harddisks plays smoothly. the I/O errors apear only after few hours-days. Is it a known problem? (Already two posts regarding this)? Any solution or at least a way to check it? (I'm using CentOS5 with the latest updates) =============== ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) ata1: EH complete SCSI device sda: 160834367 512-byte hdwr sectors (82347 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back nfsd: last server has exited nfsd: unexporting all filesystems NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory NFSD: starting 90-second grace period ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: (BMDMA stat 0x24) ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xca Emask 0x4 stat 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout) ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) ata1.00: disabled ata1: EH complete sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 4840645 Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 578975 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 5065613 Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 607096 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 17800565 Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 2198965 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 4835797 Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 578369 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 4840653 Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 578976 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 578977 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 578978 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 578979 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 578980 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 578981 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 4841541 ========================= etc, etc.. Thanks - Oren

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New freenx-0.6.0 and NX-2.1.0
by Johnny Hughes 28 May '07

28 May '07

All, I have put in the testing repository a new version of freenx-0.6.0 and nx-2.1.0 for both CentOS-4 and CentOS-5. This is using one set of SRPMS to build on either CentOS-4 or CentOS-5 RPMS. To get files from the testing repository, see: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories Make sure you have the .el4 packages if testing on CentOS-4 or the .el5 packages if testing in CentOS-5. Please submit comments to this tracker: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1307 Please test and report on these RPMS so we can move them into extras. Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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Problems setting up legacy NVidia card
by Niki Kovacs 28 May '07

28 May '07

Hi, Here's my video card: $ lspci | grep -i vga 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV15 [GeForce2 GTS/Pro] (rev a3) Until now, I've used it on Slackware (10.0, 10.2, 11.0) and Debian (Sarge, Etch), and I've always managed to set it up fine. First, I checked if there were any precompiled nvidia drivers in the various repos (rpmforge, ...), but there seemed to be only recent drivers. So I went to the nvidia site and downloaded the corresponding driver for my card: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7185-pkg1.run I also updated my kernel, and then 'yum install kernel-devel gcc'. After doing this, it was time for 'init 3'. I started the installer: # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7185-pkg1.run I went through the steps like I've done a few times before, and it didn't complain about anything. I then opened /etc/X11/xorg.conf, searched for the Driver section and replaced "nv" by "nvidia". To be on the safe side, I rebooted. (I've had some strange GDM problems before when simply doing init 5). My default screen resolution on my 17'' flat monitor is 1024x768. (The CentOS installer defaulted to 1280x1024, but I manually edited xorg.conf to change it). Now, after starting X with the "nvidia" driver, curiously I had a resolution that looked more like 800x600 (and curiously reminded me of a default Windows 95 install :o)) I opened a console with Ctrl-Alt-F6, opened /etc/X11/xorg.conf to look for a mistake... and noticed something strange. xorg.conf looks now curiously amputated. Here's the whole file, or what's left of it: --8<------------------------------------------------- # Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "ch" Option "XkbVariant" "fr" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection --8<------------------------------------------------- This leaves me a bit clueless. Where has my original xorg.conf (the long version) gone? Is there a way to get it back somehow? And where does this new - and severely truncated xorg.conf file come from? Any suggestions? Niki -- Dyslexics have more fnu.

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Dependency problems
by Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale 28 May '07

28 May '07

Hi folks, I use mock quite extensively to build RPM packages for CentOS (actually I use the plague build system, which in turn uses mock). I have a mirror of the whole CentOS tree (on mirrors.ircam.fr, which syncs directly from msync.centos.org), which my mock configs uses exclusively. When populating the mock chroot, I consistently get these errors for packages in updates (and not in the base tree): --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: freetype = 2.2.1-16.el5 for package: freetype-devel --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: freetype = 2.2.1-16.el5 is needed by package freetype-devel Cleaning up... Of course, both freetype and freetype-devel (in this instance, but I get the same error with other packages) are on the mirror server, and both are the same version. The problem goes away if I rebuild the repository metadata locally: createrepo /var/ftp/pub/CentOS/5/updates/x86_64 createrepo /var/ftp/pub/CentOS/5/updates/i386 I cannot really say how different my local metadata are from upstream; diff outputs so much data it is quite useless with this kind of files. So I guess the metadata are incomplete in some way on the master server, as I don't usually modify them in any way on my server; can anyone confirm this or tell me what I am doing wrong? I can supply the whole mock config files and the command used for populating the mirror server if needed. -- Arnaud

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Squid +Yum = apt-cacher?
by Lorenzo 28 May '07

28 May '07

Hi all, I was wondering if would be possible to configure squid to co ope with yum so it recognize mirrors and it can cache rpm packages based on package name and maybe some other parameter to be sure that is the right package. Any ideas? Cheers, Lorenzo

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Firefox
by centos＠911networks.com 28 May '07

28 May '07

Any good set of instructions for upgrading from Firefox 1.5.0.10 to 2.0.0.3? -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work

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Slightly OT: Debian and CentOS multiboot: menu.lst problem
by Niki Kovacs 28 May '07

28 May '07

Hi, I want to slowly migrate from Debian to CentOS, so I setup a multiboot on my main machine. There's a Debian Etch install on /dev/hda, and GRUB is also installed on the Debian side. On /dev/hdb, I have CentOS 5. I fdisked the drive manually, then chose manual partitioning during install. The setup for CentOS is: hdb1 -> swap hdb2 -> /boot, ext2 hdb3 -> / , ext3 After completing the install, I rebooted on the Debian side and edited menu.lst like this: <snip> title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18 root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18 root=/dev/hda3 vga=788 ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.18 title CentOS 5 sur hdb3 root (hd1,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 root=/dev/hdb3 ro initrd /initrd-2.6.18-8.el5 Now when I try to reboot on CentOS, I get an 'Error 15: file not found'. I add that I've done many multiboot configurations before, so it's not the first time I have such a scenario. I thought, aha, maybe a typo. So I entered the GRUB shell and booted CentOS without problems, using tab completion. I double- and triple-checked after this, but I can't seem to find the error. The stanza seems OK, but still it won't work. Do you see a mistake that I don't see? Niki Kovacs -- Dyslexics have more fnu.

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NTPD ?
by jarmo 27 May '07

27 May '07

Have used Centos 5 now couple of weeks and started to find pieces on places, ie. found logs :D Now, these ntpd errors strances me. Anyone else getting these? Errors frequency error 500 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM: 1 time(s) frequency error 503 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM: 1 time(s) frequency error 504 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM: 1 time(s) frequency error 505 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM: 1 time(s) frequency error 509 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM: 3 time(s) frequency error 512 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM: 203 time(s) I compiled vanilla kernel 2.6.21.2 into use, just by oldfasion way "make menuconfig, make, make install", used .config from original kernel, came with distro. Only changed prosessor type into K7. Running x86 system, with 512M ram. Some about 200G HD space.. Syncing time into ntp1.funet.fi, but I think that's not the reason, because tried some other servers too, and got somewhat same results... Despite of errors, all seems to work, or do I imagine that? Jarmo

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Re: SOLVED [CentOS] recompiling kernel results in error: .../linux-2.6.18.i686/arch//Makefile: No such file or directory
by dcw 27 May '07

27 May '07

On Saturday 26 May 2007 6:52 pm, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On 5/26/07, dcw <dwoody1(a)charter.net> wrote: > > I copied the kernel rpm to the gateway computer, did a 'rpm -ivh' for the > > new kernel and rebooted. > > > > I then ran system-config-network and was able to setup the ne2000 card in > > less time than I takes to write about it. > > > > Thanks for all your help, especially Akemi for staying with me during all > > this. > > > > David > > Congratulations on your successful rebuilding. I am so happy for you. > And don't forget to thank CentOS and, especially, Johnny Hughes whose > input was indispensable in this endeavor. Yes! Thanks also goes to the CentOS team and Johnny Hughes, without which none of this would be possible. David > Akemi > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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