Discuss April 2009

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5.3 Update Success
by Tim Nelson 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

Greetings CentOS Team- Since the list tends to be filled with "things don't work" and "why did you do it this way" and "complaint X", I thought I'd make a small deviation... I have a production system running on a Dell Poweredge 2650 server. I simply ran 'yum update' and rebooted with no problems. Everything continues to work as rock solid as before. So, I just wanted to say 'Thank You' to all those who put in such hard work into the CentOS project. The time between releases was not a problem here. If it was, I guess I'd just ask for a refund. :-) --Tim

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Mock Questions
by Joseph L. Casale 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

Just started using mock to rebuild some srpms. I have two I want to rebuild, problem is the first creates a dep that is required by the second. Is there an automated way to populate an additional repo/cache that mock would look at when building the second so I could queue both? Although I haven't tried, I presume I could drop the output from the first build into a dir, createrepo it and add that into the config file then build the next package but that's not very slick :) Thanks! jlc

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Is there a way to get these messages in one daily one ?
by rock 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

Hi ! Happy Easter! I have looked on the web however I can't see if I can get the messages sent to me in one daily email rather than immediately. At time I would like to choose that option if I am very busy. Thanks oz :-)

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Desktop update (32 bit) from 5.2 to 5.3 - fuse & ntfs-3g-mount
by Lanny Marcus 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

I just finished updating my Desktop, from CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 (32 bit). There were a lot of error messages (from sbin/ldconfig ?) about 2 files, in usr/lib/lib ending in .so "is not an ELF file - It has the wrong magic bytes at the start." There were also a lot of messages I believe have to do with SELinux. I'd read the Release Notes and thought I was OK, since this box is dual boot with M$ Windows XP, thinking I had the latest and greatest way to access the NTFS partition. However, when I rebooted the box, I saw warning messages: "modprobe fuse as root" and here is the result of that: [root@dell2400 ~]# modprobe fuse [root@dell2400 ~]# exit logout [lanny@dell2400 ~]$ and another message "ntfs-3g-mount fuse device is missing" As expected, after viewing the above messages; I can't see what's on the NTFS partition. I will read the Release Notes, again, in the morning. This box has GNOME and KDE on it and I was getting messages from PUP that 185 packages were available. The update, after updating glibc, was 268 packages. A big thank you, to everyone who spent so much of their valuable and very limited time working on this update!

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Controlling log file sizes
by Anne Wilson 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

My fetchmail and procmail log files are getting rather large, and there's really no reason to keep entries for ever. How do others handle this? I know I could manually delete the older stuff then re-save the file, but it doesn't seem a good method. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase

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powernow-k8 in newer centosplus kernel
by Mark Pryor 11 Apr '09

11 Apr '09

Hello, Using kernel: 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.centos.plus the cpu throttling works as desired (see 2 traces below) ------------- trace snips -------------- dmesg | grep -i pow ACPI: SSDT (v001 PTLTD POWERNOW 0x00000001 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x3fff9b40 powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ processors ( 2 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00) powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x10 (2400 MHz), vid 0x8 powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0xe (2200 MHz), vid 0xa powernow-k8: 2 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0xc powernow-k8: 3 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0xe powernow-k8: 4 : fid 0x2 (1000 MHz), vid 0x12 ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB] #cpufreq-info cpufrequtils 002: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2006 Report errors and bugs to linux(a)brodo.de, please. analyzing CPU 0: driver: powernow-k8 CPUs which need to switch frequency at the same time: 0 1 hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 2.40 GHz available frequency steps: 2.40 GHz, 2.20 GHz, 2.00 GHz, 1.80 GHz, 1000 MHz available cpufreq governors: ondemand, userspace, performance current policy: frequency should be within 1000 MHz and 2.40 GHz. The governor "ondemand" may decide which speed to use within this range. current CPU frequency is 1000 MHz (asserted by call to hardware). (ditto for cpu 1) ------------- end snip ---------- When I update to the newer xx-128.1.6 centosplus kernel all the throttling stops and the box runs at highest speed. I noticed that the 92* kernel has no separate powernow-k8.ko module, while the 128* kernel does. Does this module now need to be force loaded? This box is used as a desktop. -- Mark

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wifi card shows in device manager , but cant configure wifi
by sumit agarwal 11 Apr '09

11 Apr '09

hi , i just finished installing Cent OS 5.2 x64 on my thankpad my hardware list shows the following Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC but when im trying to set up wireless network i cannot find the appropriate wifi card.. when adding wifi connection pls help many thanks, Sumit.

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Error: dev_set_mac_address of dev
by Chris Black 11 Apr '09

11 Apr '09

Hello, I am trying to bond two ethernet cards together, they are listed as e1000e in the modprobe.conf file. However I keep getting this error: bonding: bond1: Error: dev_set_mac_address of dev eth2 failed! ALB mode requires that the base driver support setting the hw address also when the network device's interface is open Does anyone know how to correctly bond them in CentOs 5.2? Thanks!

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installing updates in post kickstart
by Jerry Geis 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

I can do a yum update in my post kickstart (which is what I am doing now actually). However, I want to save network time at installations. If I copy down the files from centos/5.3/updates/x86_64/RPMS and place them in a directory local on my network, can I just "rpm -U /mnt/directory/updates/x86_64/RPMS*" in my post section? Assuming I have nfs mounted the directory of course... Thanks, Jerry

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question on compiling a driver early on at boot
by Jerry Geis 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

I have noticed in /etc/inittab it calls /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and in there ANYTHING with a .modules name in the /etc/sysconfig/modules directory is executed. Would this be a place to put a driver.modules file and recompile my driver BEFORE entering the next run level? Is that how this is done or is there a "prefered" way? My goal is to detect a kernel change after a yum update and recompile my driver before its needed. Thanks, Jerry

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