Discuss August 2009

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gcc: fork: can not allocate memory
by Dave 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

Hello, The above is on a CentOS 5.3 machine, a vps actually. I started seeing it a few weeks ago when i was trying to get an ssh-key program called keychain going. It required an entry in ~/.bash_profile after that i started seeing the above error and compiles kept failing or tasks wouldn't complete. I commented out the lines that started keychain, and for measure rebooted the box. For the second time in the past 24 hours i'm seeing this error again. I've never seen it before and am open to suggestions. Thanks a lot. Dave.

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centos 5.3 with dkms-nvidia-x11-drv and gnome power manager sleep
by Ryan Pugatch 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

Hi all, On my ThinkPad T61, I am trying to get gnome power manager's sleep function to work properly. When I bring my machine back up after sleep, I end up with just a black screen and nothing responding.. no capslock light when I hit capslock for example. I am running the latest nvidia driver from rpmforge (I'm suspecting the nvidia driver isn't playing nice). With Ubuntu I had to make a change in /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/20-video-quirk-pm-el5-lenovo.fdi to get it to work. This, unfortunately, didn't help in CentOS. 'echo mem > /sys/power/state' seems to work properly - the machine actually comes back up. Whatever method G-P-M is using is not. Can I make G-P-M use that command to suspend? Or any ideas on how to make G-P-M's method work? Thanks, Ryan

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Anyone know a good VMWare hosting provider?
by Sean Carolan 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

I've got a custom VMWare image that I need to find a host for. Anyone know of a good ISP that offers VMWare hosting packages?

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how to install rrdtool, if it keeps failing?
by Rudi Ahlers 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

Hi all, I'm trying to install rrdtool on CentOS 5.3 x64, but it keeps failing with dependency problems: root@pluto:[~]$ yum install rrdtool* Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * freshrpms: ayo.uk3.freshrpms.net * rpmforge: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de Excluding Packages in global exclude list Finished Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies There are unfinished transactions remaining. You mightconsider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them. --> Running transaction check ---> Package rrdtool.x86_64 0:1.3.8-2.el5.rf set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: ruby for package: rrdtool --> Processing Dependency: perl(RRDs) for package: rrdtool --> Processing Dependency: perl(RRDp) for package: rrdtool --> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 for package: rrdtool ---> Package rrdtool-devel.x86_64 0:1.3.8-2.el5.rf set to be updated --> Running transaction check ---> Package rrdtool.x86_64 0:1.3.8-2.el5.rf set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: ruby for package: rrdtool --> Processing Dependency: perl(RRDs) for package: rrdtool --> Processing Dependency: perl(RRDp) for package: rrdtool ---> Package xorg-x11-fonts-Type1.noarch 0:7.1-2.1.el5 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution rrdtool-1.3.8-2.el5.rf.x86_64 from rpmforge has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: ruby is needed by package rrdtool-1.3.8-2.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) rrdtool-1.3.8-2.el5.rf.x86_64 from rpmforge has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: ruby is needed by package rrdtool-1.3.8-2.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) rrdtool-1.3.8-2.el5.rf.x86_64 from rpmforge has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: perl(RRDp) is needed by package rrdtool-1.3.8-2.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) rrdtool-1.3.8-2.el5.rf.x86_64 from rpmforge has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: perl(RRDs) is needed by package rrdtool-1.3.8-2.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) rrdtool-1.3.8-2.el5.rf.x86_64 from rpmforge has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: perl(RRDp) is needed by package rrdtool-1.3.8-2.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) rrdtool-1.3.8-2.el5.rf.x86_64 from rpmforge has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: perl(RRDs) is needed by package rrdtool-1.3.8-2.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Error: Missing Dependency: perl(RRDs) is needed by package rrdtool-1.3.8-2.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Error: Missing Dependency: ruby is needed by package rrdtool-1.3.8-2.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Error: Missing Dependency: perl(RRDp) is needed by package rrdtool-1.3.8-2.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) So, from what I gather, there's dependency problems, but shouldn't these be resolved automatically? I have googled this a bit, and it seems a lot of people end up installing a the tar ball manually - which I don't want todo. So, does anyone know how to install the RPM successful? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Hosting Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532

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using Linux as a NAS / SAN device
by Rudi Ahlers 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

Hi, I'm looking at using Linux as a NAS / SAN device, and would like some input from other's who have done this before? How would it compare to commercial SAN devices, Thecus N8800SAS (http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=11&pid=177&set_language=english) or something similar to these? I would probably use hardware RAID 10, and could go with either SAS / SATA, and then probably offer iSCSI, Samba. NFS & rsync. In terms of servers hardware, well either Tyan / SuperMicro / Intel / Dell would be fine as well. But, my question is rather from a linux point of view, how would Linux compare to dedicated NAS devices, in terms of the OS managing the device? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Hosting Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532

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Upgrading Centos 5.3 23Bit -> 64Bit
by Götz Reinicke 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

Hi, has anybody done an upgrade from an installed 32bit version to a 64bit? If so, how? Installing the 64bit version from scratch is an option, but I'm interested also, if an upgrade is possible. Thanks and best regards, Götz

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kernel-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.i686 update breaks AMD onboard sound
by Mike A. Harris 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The new kernel-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.i686 kernel breaks audio support on my onboard audio on an AMD Solo motherboard. 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 AC97 Audio (rev 03) After upgrading to the new kernel from kernel-2.6.18-128.4.1.el5.i686, I quickly noticed audio not working in Flash in firefox, then after some tinkering realized audio didn't work at all, not even the mixer, although the sound card drivers were loaded. I ran system-config-soundcard and got no audio as well, it was unable to open the device. Running ogg123 from the commandline gave me an ALSA error about being unable to open a sound device before SEGV'ing. An strace revealed that /dev/snd/* was missing a device node. I rebooted into the prior kernel (kernel-2.6.18-128.4.1.el5.i686) and sound came back. The missing device node was back, along with several others that are missing in the new kernel as well. Here is the kernel rpm changelog between the working and non-working kernels: * Mon Aug 24 2009 Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> [2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.centos] - - Roll in CentOS Branding * Wed Aug 19 2009 Jiri Pirko <jpirko(a)redhat.com> [2.6.18-128.7.1.el5] - - [net] prevent null pointer dereference in udp_sendmsg (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [518047 518043] {CVE-2009-2698} * Sat Aug 15 2009 Jiri Pirko <jpirko(a)redhat.com> [2.6.18-128.6.1.el5] - - [net] make sock_sendpage use kernel_sendpage (Jiri Pirko ) [517445 516955] {CVE-2009-2692} * Tue Aug 04 2009 Jiri Pirko <jpirko(a)redhat.com> [2.6.18-128.5.1.el5] - - [dlm] free socket in error exit path (David Teigland ) [515432 508829] It'd be nice to try the Red Hat kernel to see if it is a CentOS specific glitch or not, but I suspect it isn't. Can't do that easily unfortunately. Are there existing CentOS builds of the 128.5/128.6 kernels archived somewhere? I had a quick scan through Red Hat and CentOS bugzillas, and did not see anything reported about this yet. I'm still investigating the problem before filing a bug report myself, but wanted to get some feedback from other users to determine how wide the problem might be, and hopefully narrow it down. - -- Mike A. Harris http://mharris.ca | https://twitter.com/mikeaharris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFKmSe+4RNf2rTIeUARApzRAJ0R5CPbM9ROrPAPHL5A9O5nR3hUIwCgqXuw UJVV78sylEqZM4QjpqlP2U8= =JUf4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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my fonts look horrible (centos5.3/xfce)
by Ryan Pugatch 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

Hi all, I can't seem to get my fonts to look decent under CentOS. I was able to make them look pretty good under Ubuntu, but for the life of me I can't make them look decent on CentOS. Screenshots: http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/8563/ss1rzo.jpg http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/7655/ss2ocf.jpg http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/6040/ss3j.jpg http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/466/uiprefs.jpg Any advice is appreciated because this sucks :) Ryan

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virtual ftp users, web permissions
by Dave 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

Hello, I'm running CentOS 5.3. I've got an ftp server set up a pure ftpd server using virtualchroot so that sym links are followed. One user i'll call him user1 in the ftpuser/ftpgroup which is the user and group the server is running under has a symlink in his home directory pointing to the documentroot of a web site. I've got the sticky bit set on the documentroot and have permissions set so that users in the webdev group can write to this area, the pure-ftpd virtual user, which is a system user with a password in /etc/passwd, is in this group. On upload the user1 can upload to the web documentroot. However, the server is unable to display the pages. On checking the status of the uploaded file i see that permissions are not sticky instead of being owned and in a group of apache:webdev which is what they should be permissions are ftpuser:ftpgroup with permission bits 600 which means there's no way the web server will see these files. If i haven't lost anyone options for simplifying this would be appreciated, and suggestions as what i can try to get the permissions to be able to be set up in the docroot. Thanks. Dave.

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Need httpd / apache RPM > 2.2.3 for 5.3
by Alan McKay 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

Hey folks, It looks to me like the httpd on CentOS is stuck at 2.2.2 - what's up with that? Even after a yum upgrade. I need 2.2.10 or greater, and would prefer to get it via yum or at very last an RPM if at all possible. But I cannot even find an RPM out there. For some reason both EPEL and Dag Wieers do not even seem to have an httpd RPM for RHEL5 Any idea where to look? Why are we stuck at 2.2.3 which was a 2006 release? thanks, -Alan -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"

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