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install 5.2 on new dv7z hp laptop
by Jerry Geis 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

I am trying to install 5.2 on a new dv7z hp laptop. I use "linux noapic nolapic iommu=off " and I get a kernel dump on rtl8169. I dont need the network to install? how do I ignore the rtl8169 to install. I tried noprobe and then it doesnt recognize my SATA HD controller and I dont know yet which driver to select as I cant do an lspci to see??? THanks, Jerry

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cpan2rpm
by Joseph L. Casale 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

When you use --no-depchk with this tool, does this actually turn off the dependency check in the final rpm as well? Reading docs about this I am not sure and I just installed an rpm that I know I am missing the deps for and built with this switch and it installed fine? Thanks, jlc

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Kickstart package groups
by Francisco Puente 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Hello, I'm building another kickstart CD, minimal, and creating my own repository. Is there any way I can get the list of files that a group (like @core o @base) will install? The idea is to put only those files in the repository to be included later in the iso file, and only those files, nothing else. Thanks in advance Francisco

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'severe errors' listed in nightly logwatch emails
by Ray Leventhal 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

HI folks, If this is the wrong forum for this question, please let me know (with a gentle pointer to the right place)...TIA for that. I've started to receive some 'Severe Errors' in my nightly logwatch emails. As the system had been initially misconfigured for logwatch emails, I've only recently begun to receive them, so I'm not entirely sure when this started. (long story) Lets start with the basics of the machine: # uname -a Linux generic.example.com 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 5 07:41:53 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux # rpm -qa|grep release centos-release-5-2.el5.centos As the output was verbose, I posted it on pastebin. http://pastebin.com/m1a9eb219 If anyone has any information or suggestions here, I'd be greatly appreciative. TIA, -Ray

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rtl8169 kernel dump
by Jerry Geis 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

I installed 5.2 x86_64 on a new hp dv7z laptop using noprobe on the install line. After rebooting the rtl8169 causes the kernel to dump. Is there a parameter I can pass to it (somehow) to avoid the kernel dump??? Thanks, Jerry

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Sendmail and pmtu discovery
by Sean Carolan 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

We have an issue with some customers who refuse to accept ICMP traffic to their mail servers. It seems that they have put Mordac, preventer of information services in charge of their firewall policy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_characters_in_Dilbert#Mordac). My mail logs are showing that customers who specifically disallow ICMP traffic have many "Connection Reset" entries in our logs: Oct 14 08:00:50 mailsrv sendmail[2024]: m9ED0Yf5002021: to=<customername(a)customer.org>, delay=00:00:16, xdelay=00:00:16, mailer=esmtp, pri=42476, relay=mail.customer.org. [XX.XX.XX.XX], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection reset by mail.customer.org. I have disabled pmtu discovery on our routers as well as on all our outbound mail servers. Is there anything else I can do on our side to help the situation?

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Problem selecting installation drive : 5.2
by Alex H. Vandenham 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

When doing the 5.2 installation the ONLY drive option provided is mapper/nvidia_cbjcdhfe (250G) My system has 2 SATA - 250G drives and I want to use them in a RAID/LVM configuration. My question: How do I get the installer to let me use DiskDruid to create RAID1 arrays and then use LVM for the mount points? What I've done so far: I've verified that both drives are recognized by going to the shell screen and using fdisk to access both /dev/sda and /dev/sdb - so I know they are both available. I've also tried using the Centos 4.7 installer where I can do exactly what I want. I've accepted the default and after a full install of 5.2 there is no raid and total space is 250G. I've looked at the various deployment guides and installation guides but can't find how to do this . . . . puzzled Alex === -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Avantel Systems, and is believed to be clean.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 44, Issue 16
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

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-2008:0965 Important CentOS 5 i386 lynx Update (Karanbir Singh) 2. CESA-2008:0965 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 lynx Update (Karanbir Singh) 3. CESA-2008:0965 Important CentOS 3 i386 lynx - security update (Tru Huynh) 4. CESA-2008:0965 Important CentOS 3 x86_64 lynx - security update (Tru Huynh) 5. CESA-2008:0897 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 ruby - security update (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2008:0897 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 ruby - security update (Johnny Hughes) 7. CESA-2008:0946 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 ed - security update (Johnny Hughes) 8. CESA-2008:0946 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 ed - security update (Johnny Hughes) 9. CESA-2008:0965 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 lynx - security update (Johnny Hughes) 10. CESA-2008:0965 Important CentOS 4 i386 lynx - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:12:24 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0965 Important CentOS 5 i386 lynx Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081027201224.GA16821(a)vkalu.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0965 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0965.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 33d6b0dcfcf87e093470a898d96795ed lynx-2.8.5-28.1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm Source: 81f4dd032d498d3afc4e7d7a056f6c58 lynx-2.8.5-28.1.el5_2.1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:12:24 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0965 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 lynx Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081027201224.GA16836(a)vkalu.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0965 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0965.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 83ec1bcbc4a64c1f6634b6da31a50080 lynx-2.8.5-28.1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm Source: 81f4dd032d498d3afc4e7d7a056f6c58 lynx-2.8.5-28.1.el5_2.1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:24:51 +0100 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0965 Important CentOS 3 i386 lynx - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081027212451.GA1935(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0965 lynx security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0965.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/lynx-2.8.5-11.3.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/lynx-2.8.5-11.3.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: yum update lynx Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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CESA-2008:0965 Important CentOS 4 i386 lynx - security update
by Johnny Hughes 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0965 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0965.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: lynx-2.8.5-18.2.el4_7.1.i386.rpm src: lynx-2.8.5-18.2.el4_7.1.src.rpm

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Apparently no swap configured
by Ian Masters 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Hello, I'm in a slightly unusual situation and I'd really appreciate some advice. I installed CentOS 5.2 on a server about a month ago. Today I happened to check the 'free' command and noticed that the Swap line reads as follows: Swap: 0 0 0 I'm pretty certain that when I installed the OS and created a custom partition table, that I defined a swap partition, but there is no swap line in /etc/fstab either. However the output of 'lvm> lvdisplay' contains the following information (amongst others): --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/swap VG Name VolGroup00 LV UUID 7uOBcj-tN16-uAbO-3nyy-3scZ-SAEA-7HKWPW LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 1.94 GB Current LE 62 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:5 Also 'ls' confirms that logical volume exists: [root@mail ~]# ls -l /dev/VolGroup00/swap lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Sep 30 11:30 /dev/VolGroup00/swap -> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-swap I'd like to know: 1. How can I check how this logical volume is formatted (and if it is formatted)? 2. Is it possible to use this logical volume? If I add a line to /etc/fstab, what are the chances of rendering my system unbootable? The server is in use and presently doesn't have any memory problems, and while it's not mission critical server I'd rather not mess it up with any ill-thought out tinkering. If anyone can give me some advice on this I'd be very grateful. Thanks Ian Masters

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