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dvb modules not in CentOS plus kernel for target=i686
by Tony 05 Sep '07

05 Sep '07

I'm just trying to setup my hauppauge nova-T freeview card under Centos 5. It works on the same hardware under CentOS 4.x using the CentOS plus kernel. Having installed the latest CentOS Plus kernel for CentOS 5.0 (2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.centos.plus) I've found that various kernel modules are missing- specifically dvb_core cx88_dvb and cx22702 that were used by my system under CentOS 4.x I've downloaded the srpm and had a bit of a hack. I note with interest that the source file kernel-2.6.18-i686.config has the line "# CONFIG_DVB is not set" whereas in kernel-2.6.18-ia64.config it is switched on: with CONFIG_DVB=y and there is also CONFIG_VIDEO_CX88_DVB=m amongst various other references to DVB in there. Does anyone know the background to this- do the DVB modules fail to build under i686 and are therefore deliberately turned off? I guess I may have a hack at the config file and then leave my machine to do some serious rpm building. -- Cheers, Tony

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Promise VTrak and CentOS 5
by Bart Schaefer 05 Sep '07

05 Sep '07

We're having a problem with Linux and/or the SCSI controller failing to access an external RAID device. Components are: SuperMicro 6025B-TR+V CentOS 5.0 with yum update as of a week or two ago (kernel 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5) Promise Vtrak M310p Adaptec 29320 LPE -- aic79xx module Sometimes this fails on the initial device probing (before the kernel even begins to boot); sometimes the device is recognized ok and then we get a failure later on in the boot sequence (and then the device disappears). RedHat Linux is in the compatibility list for that Adaptec card, and the card is listed as compatible with the Promise VTrak. We were able to get this combination to work by giving up on the Ultra320 setting and dropping back to 160 in the controller setup, but if anyone has suggestions or info it would be appreciated. Here's the dmesg output: sd 2:0:0:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message:CDB: 0x1a 0x0 0x5c 0x0 0x40 0x0 scsi2: At time of recovery, card was not paused >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dump Card State Begins <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< scsi2: Dumping Card State at program address 0x4 Mode 0x22 Card was paused INTSTAT[0x0] SELOID[0x0] SELID[0x0] HS_MAILBOX[0x0] INTCTL[0x80] SEQINTSTAT[0x0] SAVED_MODE[0x11] DFFSTAT[0x33] SCSISIGI[0x24] SCSIPHASE[0x0] SCSIBUS[0x0] LASTPHASE[0x1] SCSISEQ0[0x0] SCSISEQ1[0x12] SEQCTL0[0x0] SEQINTCTL[0x0] SEQ_FLAGS[0x0] SEQ_FLAGS2[0x4] QFREEZE_COUNT[0x0] KERNEL_QFREEZE_COUNT[0x0] MK_MESSAGE_SCB[0xff00] MK_MESSAGE_SCSIID[0xff] SSTAT0[0x0] SSTAT1[0x8] SSTAT2[0x0] SSTAT3[0x0] PERRDIAG[0xc0] SIMODE1[0xa4] LQISTAT0[0x0] LQISTAT1[0x0] LQISTAT2[0x80] LQOSTAT0[0x0] LQOSTAT1[0x0] LQOSTAT2[0xe1] SCB Count = 4 CMDS_PENDING = 1 LASTSCB 0xffff CURRSCB 0x2 NEXTSCB 0xffc0 qinstart = 85 qinfifonext = 85 QINFIFO: WAITING_TID_QUEUES: Pending list: 2 FIFO_USE[0x0] SCB_CONTROL[0x60] SCB_SCSIID[0x7] Total 1 Kernel Free SCB list: 1 3 0 Sequencer Complete DMA-inprog list: Sequencer Complete list: Sequencer DMA-Up and Complete list: Sequencer On QFreeze and Complete list: scsi2: FIFO0 Free, LONGJMP == 0x825a, SCB 0x2 SEQIMODE[0x3f] SEQINTSRC[0x0] DFCNTRL[0x0] DFSTATUS[0x89] SG_CACHE_SHADOW[0x2] SG_STATE[0x0] DFFSXFRCTL[0x0] SOFFCNT[0x0] MDFFSTAT[0x5] SHADDR = 0x00, SHCNT = 0x0 HADDR = 0x00, HCNT = 0x0 CCSGCTL[0x10] scsi2: FIFO1 Free, LONGJMP == 0x8063, SCB 0x3 SEQIMODE[0x3f] SEQINTSRC[0x0] DFCNTRL[0x0] DFSTATUS[0x89] SG_CACHE_SHADOW[0x2] SG_STATE[0x0] DFFSXFRCTL[0x0] SOFFCNT[0x0] MDFFSTAT[0x5] SHADDR = 0x00, SHCNT = 0x0 HADDR = 0x00, HCNT = 0x0 CCSGCTL[0x10] LQIN: 0x8 0x0 0x0 0x2 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x 0 0x0 scsi2: LQISTATE = 0x1, LQOSTATE = 0x0, OPTIONMODE = 0x52 scsi2: OS_SPACE_CNT = 0x20 MAXCMDCNT = 0x1 scsi2: SAVED_SCSIID = 0x0 SAVED_LUN = 0x0 SIMODE0[0xc] CCSCBCTL[0x4] scsi2: REG0 == 0x2, SINDEX = 0x102, DINDEX = 0x102 scsi2: SCBPTR == 0xff02, SCB_NEXT == 0xff00, SCB_NEXT2 == 0x0 CDB 2 1 0 0 0 0 STACK: 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Dump Card State Ends >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sd 2:0:0:0: Unable to deliver message scsi2: Command abort returning 0x2003 sd 2:0:0:0: Attempting to queue a TARGET RESET message:CDB: 0x1a 0x0 0x5c 0x0 0x 40 0x0 scsi2: Device reset code sleeping scsi2: Device reset timer expired (active 2) scsi2: Device reset returning 0x2003 Recovery SCB completes sd 2:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery

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Chrooting SFTP over SSH2
by Nigel Kendrick 05 Sep '07

05 Sep '07

Hi, As per the subject line - if I look up setting up chroot jails for SFTP over SSH2 I'm led to various Web sites and patches and also to a CentOS wiki page dated 2005, but what's the 'best' or 'correct' way to set this up for Centos 4.5 and 5? Thanks

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xfs 0.4-1 kernel modules CentOS 4/5
by David Thompson 05 Sep '07

05 Sep '07

Is anyone else having difficulty with the kmod-xfs-*0.4-1* rpms from the centosplus repositories? For several years I have used a patched anaconda to get xfs file systems into the initial install for non-root file systems. With the 0.4-1 rpms, The subsequent reboot immediately reports file system xfs errors, and the system is unusable. I'm finding this with both CentOS 4 and CentOS 5. A rebuild of the old kernel-module-xfs* rpms (the version 0.2-1 rpms) for CentOS 4 for the new kernel (55.0.2.EL) works fine. I've tried both the standard kernel (with rebuilt 0.4-1 rpms), and the centosplus kernels for CentOS 4. I haven't yet tried to rebuild the 0.2-1 xfs modules with CentOS 5. Anyone else have experience with the new xfs modules? Thanks much. Dave Thompson UW-Madison

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CPAN Question
by Al Sparks 05 Sep '07

05 Sep '07

Maybe a little off-topic. But using cpan, I tried to install IO::Compress::Base 2.006. I already had 2.005 installed. For the life of me, I couldn't get it to upgrade. It finally occurred to me to download the ".tgz" file, and install it that way. That worked. But does anyone have any hints on how to force cpan to upgrade? I even tried the "upgrade" command, and that didn't work. === Al

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 31, Issue 3
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 05 Sep '07

05 Sep '07

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-2007:0873 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 star - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2007:0873 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 star - security update (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2007:0878 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 cyrus-sasl - security update (Tru Huynh) 4. CESA-2007:0878 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 cyrus-sasl - security update (Tru Huynh) 5. CESA-2007:0878 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 cyrus-sasl - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2007:0873 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 star - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2007:0795 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 cyrus-sasl - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2007:0873 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 star - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 9. CESA-2007:0539 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 aide Update (Karanbir Singh) 10. CESA-2007:0539 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 aide Update (Karanbir Singh) 11. CESA-2007:0873 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) star - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 12. CESA-2007:0878 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 cyrus-sasl - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 13. CESA-2007:0873 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 star Update (Karanbir Singh) 14. CESA-2007:0873 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 star Update (Karanbir Singh) 15. CESA-2007:0858 Important CentOS 5 i386 krb5 Update (Karanbir Singh) 16. CESA-2007:0858 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 krb5 Update (Karanbir Singh) 17. CESA-2007:0795 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) cyrus-sasl - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 18. CESA-2007:0873 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) star - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 23:30:08 +0200 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0873 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 star - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20070904213008.GA27588(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0873 star security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0873.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/star-1.5a08-5.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/star-1.5a08-5.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: yum update star Tru -- Tru Huynh (CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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SysVinit guidance, please
by Robert 05 Sep '07

05 Sep '07

I have experienced a couple of power failures since installing CentOS 5, both while I was working on the system. The first time, several weeks ago, I thought there was some "feature" that I had never seen before but couldn't really put my finger on it. The power came back on after a few seconds and I never missed a beat. I also shrewdly forgot about the anomaly that I had almost noticed. I had a real power failure 2 days ago and tried to be more observant. What had gotten my attention earlier is that the once-familiar banner displayed on about everything except my room's ceiling was missing. After some red herrings and blind alleys (hey, you don't have to worry about mixed metaphors when you're an illiterate old coot!) I decided that the missing banners and the fact that the power was killed while a graphical page was displayed was what I saw. Anyhow, it seems that these extinct banners were a function of the /bin/shutdown routine in SysVinit because banners happen in CentOS 4.x whether the shutdown command is issued by fingers or by a UPS monitoring daemon. And I have since found that they're gone from CentOS 5, no matter how shutdown is invoked. After all of this, my question boils down to one of replacing the current SysVinit package, SysVinit-2.86-14.i386.rpm with the one from CentOS 4.x, SysVinit-2.85-34.3.i386.rpm Would that be courting disaster?

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Hard-set network via ifup scripts...
by Ray Van Dolson 05 Sep '07

05 Sep '07

Anyone know off the top of their head the "right" way to hard set a link automatically to 100Mbps Full Duplex, etc using the ifup or ifcfg files? Don't see options in the scripts that might cover this, but maybe there's a more elegant way to do it than to do something in rc.local or hack up the ifup files myself... Ray

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shrink LV with ext3 filesystem
by Thomas Antony 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

Hi. I want to make a snapshot from a logical volume and noticed that there must be enough free disk space in the volume group. Actually there is no free disk space left. How do i shrink online /var without losing any data or restore from backup? I do not have physical access to the server. Specs: Dell PE SC1430 with a 5/i RAID Controller one RAID 1 array from the Dell RAID controller 2 partitons (boot and LVM) 1 VG 3 LV (swap, /var (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02) and / formatted with ext3) /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 211G 39G 162G 20% /var Thank you in advance. Thomas Antony

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CPAN error
by Mark Quitoriano 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

Hi all im not sure if this is the right mailing list but im using centos anyway. i run CPAN by perl -MCPAN -e shell and got through the first time configuration and after selecting the mirror sites i got this error and i can't get any modules to be installed. I haven't encountered this before and not very familiar with cpan. Constant subroutine __USE_POSIX undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 8, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine __USE_POSIX2 undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 9, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine __USE_POSIX199309 undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 10, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine __USE_POSIX199506 undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 11, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine __USE_XOPEN undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 12, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine __USE_XOPEN_EXTENDED undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 13, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine __USE_UNIX98 undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 14, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine __USE_LARGEFILE undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 16, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine __USE_LARGEFILE64 undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 17, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine __USE_FILE_OFFSET64 undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 18, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine __USE_BSD undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 19, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine __USE_SVID undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 20, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine __USE_MISC undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 21, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine __USE_GNU undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 22, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine __USE_REENTRANT undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 23, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine _POSIX_SOURCE undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 48, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine _POSIX_C_SOURCE undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 50, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine _XOPEN_SOURCE undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 52, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 54, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 56, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine _LARGEFILE_SOURCE undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 98, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine __USE_ISOC99 undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 102, <STDIN> line 33. Constant subroutine __GNU_LIBRARY__ undefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/features.ph line 147, <STDIN> line 33. cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.7602) ReadLine support enabled Can't ioctl TIOCGETP: Invalid argument Consider installing Term::ReadKey from CPAN site nearby at http://www.perl.com/CPAN Or use perl -MCPAN -e shell to reach CPAN. Falling back to 'stty'. If you do not want to see this warning, set PERL_READLINE_NOWARN in your environment.

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