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KDE login screen configuration problems
by Mike Watson 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

Sorry to be so slow in responding. I've done what you suggested. I created /etc/sysconfig/desktop and entered "$DISPLAYMANAGER=KDM". I rebooted but there was no change. GDM is still being used. Any other suggestions? mw ======================== Just create the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop and put in it: DESKTOP=KDM I believe it's DESKTOP - you can dbl check /etc/X11/prefdm Sent from my phoneMike Watson <mikew at crucis.net <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> wrote:The last reply to this subject said to modify /etc/sysconfig/desktop to change GDM to KDM. This would then enable the KDE login screen instead of the default Gnome. However, when I checked my CentOS 6.3 system, there was no such file, no /etc/sysconfig/desktop. I've not been able to find any method to enable KDE login in 6.3. The method mentioned in the earlier reply was for CentOS 5, not 6. Any further suggestions? mw -- -- "Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee." -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search

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Wacom hotplug Xorg crash
by James Pearson 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

We're seeing a number of Xorg crashes with CentOS 6.2 when using a Wacom tablet shared between two machines (the other machine is running Windows) via a KVM Xorg crashes after switching the KVM back to the CentOS box I've tried googling for this issue - and have found: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/solutions/148183 Which has a similar backtrace (although not identical) to ones we are seeing (see below) - but no further info is given on that webpage - but appears to indicated that more info might (?) be available if I have a Red Hat Subscription login - which I don't ... Would it be possible for someone that does have access to let me know if there is any more Red Hat Knowledge Base information about this issue? A sample backtrace we have seen is: Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x4546f8] 1: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x58429) [0x458429] 2: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x3db6a00000+0xf4a0) [0x3db6a0f4a0] 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so (0x7fc69c2c6000+0x48e6) [0x7fc69c2ca8e6] 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so (0x7fc69c2c6000+0x4ac9) [0x7fc69c2caac9] 5: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so (0x7fc69c2c6000+0x4b2d) [0x7fc69c2cab2d] 6: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x5f077) [0x45f077] 7: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x1158b3) [0x5158b3] 8: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x3db6a00000+0xf4a0) [0x3db6a0f4a0] 9: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (open64+0x10) [0x3db6a0ed10] 10: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so (0x7fc69c2c6000+0x84ec) [0x7fc69c2ce4ec] 11: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x61f41) [0x461f41] 12: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so (0x7fc69c2c6000+0xd746) [0x7fc69c2d3746] 13: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so (0x7fc69c2c6000+0x885b) [0x7fc69c2ce85b] 14: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x61f41) [0x461f41] 15: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x142099) [0x542099] 16: /usr/lib64/libhal.so.1 (0x3dc2c00000+0xbc08) [0x3dc2c0bc08] 17: /lib64/libdbus-1.so.3 (dbus_connection_dispatch+0x336) [0x3db82109d6] 18: /lib64/libdbus-1.so.3 (0x3db8200000+0x10ca9) [0x3db8210ca9] 19: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x13f84b) [0x53f84b] 20: /usr/bin/Xorg (WakeupHandler+0x4b) [0x42421b] 21: /usr/bin/Xorg (WaitForSomething+0x1ef) [0x452d5f] 22: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x2ccf2) [0x42ccf2] 23: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x21ebb) [0x421ebb] 24: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x3db621ecdd] 25: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x21a49) [0x421a49] Segmentation fault at address (nil) Thanks James Pearson

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what might cause iSCSI connection 1:0 error ISCSI_ERR_CONN_FAILED
by Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Hi, I do have a centos 6.x server which accessed two different iscsistorages for a long time without any trouble. The storage-connection is done by a separate NIC and VLAN. The LAN access is on an other NIC. This weekend something broke and I don't have any clue what might be the problem or what caused it. The storages where mounted RO. In /var/loge/messages there are lot of messages; so from dmesg: Dec 10 17:13:21 richter kernel: connection3:0: ping timeout of 5 secs expired, recv timeout 5, last rx 4324582419, last ping 4324587419, now 4324592419 Dec 10 17:13:21 richter kernel: connection3:0: detected conn error (1011) Dec 10 17:13:22 richter iscsid: Kernel reported iSCSI connection 3:0 error (1011 - ISCSI_ERR_CONN_FAILED: iSCSI connection failed) state (3) From dmesg: connection1:0: ping timeout of 5 secs expired, recv timeout 5, last rx 4324597423, last ping 4324602423, now 4324607423 connection1:0: detected conn error (1011) I restarted the server and the filesystems are back online RW, but there are still that messages. Thanks for any suggestion or hint! Regards . Götz -- Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator - Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH

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ionice...
by John Doe 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Hey, anyone has some successful experience with ionice? I tried it with 'idle' (-c 3) parameter. When I did a quick test (find /), it seemed to work with frequent pauses (I guess waiting for idle). But when I used it on my big tar, it made it worse than without... which seems counter-intuitive. Thx, JD

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centos 6.2_x86_64, get black screen with blinking cursor after select item from GRUM menu.
by yihect 09 Dec '12

09 Dec '12

Hi, all: I'm using centos 6.2-x86_64, the built-in kernel version is 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64. Now I compiled kernel of version of linux-2.6.32-220.23.1.el6.x86_64, which get from kernel-2.6.32-220.23.1.el6.src.rpm. I have put vmlinuz and initramfs into /boot directory, as follow: [kdev@panda boot]$ ll /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-* ./initramfs-2.6.32-* -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 3938288 12月 7 2011 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3952816 12月 8 19:23 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-kdev-v1 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 15888573 5月 26 2012 ./initramfs-2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64.img -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 15824301 12月 8 20:17 ./initramfs-2.6.32-kdev-v1 and modified grub.conf like this: #boot=/dev/sdb default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS62 (2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 ro root=UUID=f09cc6eb-99fa-4c90-a1a5-ad15277e8331 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb crashkernel=auto KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64.img title CentOS62 (2.6.32-kdev-v1) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-kdev-v1 ro root=UUID=f09cc6eb-99fa-4c90-a1a5-ad15277e8331 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb crashkernel=auto KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-kdev-v1.img what i do is just copy the original section which beginning with title, and then modified it with different version_string. But at last, after selecting the kdev-v1 item from grub's menu, i got a black screen with a cursor blinking in the top-left, and paused there. If i select the original kernel, namely 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64, all thing is correct. Is the GRUB gets wrong?? My machine is : motherboard: MSI G41M-P26 cpu: Intel Celeron(R) CPU E3400 Thanks ~~!!

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courier mail for Centos
by Robert Moskowitz 09 Dec '12

09 Dec '12

Are there existing rpms for courier mta? I am working from: http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-and-domains-with-postfix-courier-my… And am making progress with postfix and mysql, but looking ahead to other steps. I see squirrelmail is in EPEL.

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gftp ?
by Robert Moskowitz 09 Dec '12

09 Dec '12

Centos 6.3 Just tried to install gftp, and no package found. Where is it? I do have EPEL included in yum. I am rather addictived to using it for SCP-based file moves between systems...

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 94, Issue 5
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 08 Dec '12

08 Dec '12

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-2012:1551 Important CentOS 6 mysql Update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 17:47:08 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2012:1551 Important CentOS 6 mysql Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20121207174708.GA15924(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2012:1551 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1551.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386: e0bc3b51f77413e0f28a632079cca9640e972e31f6f3a62afb6545e1f882fc1b mysql-5.1.66-2.el6_3.i686.rpm a587f8a0f12340b0f41956f4995cbcf33b715f4bb72b1d52a2ff5852f8743fae mysql-bench-5.1.66-2.el6_3.i686.rpm 554036bbceea07c9772a17806e1ae91beb5caab62d43c2d7141d29f6e30d2b30 mysql-devel-5.1.66-2.el6_3.i686.rpm 7aba68a92816ad767ad1b02c4a1822f13aee0a9e7462bfddfbb14888da3c6930 mysql-embedded-5.1.66-2.el6_3.i686.rpm 4f63b081a93f37811a5ad1249fc8c59834b932ba80ecab2561d2279a25db42eb mysql-embedded-devel-5.1.66-2.el6_3.i686.rpm 952eb192bc83ace7ab82f9f0d40d3be8465f63d62407391fa5da00d2052ae407 mysql-libs-5.1.66-2.el6_3.i686.rpm 00836a1baa4598d472c864e6cf4e3f9eade407ca352b80a849902c54e3518d7f mysql-server-5.1.66-2.el6_3.i686.rpm 1c703a811b8e9d6729951c23b73743fd3ddfa929c289ef9468272abee91724ca mysql-test-5.1.66-2.el6_3.i686.rpm x86_64: a14fe6f9b52237d176db2fad1d72727993ee5e0162f26cc62e5333047890f72b mysql-5.1.66-2.el6_3.x86_64.rpm 98b21e189db0053a96e21e022d1d71bd668d64fbfe3dae27d10478b6dec73d5b mysql-bench-5.1.66-2.el6_3.x86_64.rpm 554036bbceea07c9772a17806e1ae91beb5caab62d43c2d7141d29f6e30d2b30 mysql-devel-5.1.66-2.el6_3.i686.rpm 136ca0f88ce49ba983c82cb26205ef20b116714ffcbec7d3868ee673ff46f9c8 mysql-devel-5.1.66-2.el6_3.x86_64.rpm 7aba68a92816ad767ad1b02c4a1822f13aee0a9e7462bfddfbb14888da3c6930 mysql-embedded-5.1.66-2.el6_3.i686.rpm 0ab0c70c6a71cad3f5bb362a74dc5f576fb2a26d89952dfc5486b979a6a00ffa mysql-embedded-5.1.66-2.el6_3.x86_64.rpm 4f63b081a93f37811a5ad1249fc8c59834b932ba80ecab2561d2279a25db42eb mysql-embedded-devel-5.1.66-2.el6_3.i686.rpm 84c9fd01ae4c5ec3221b111fc853c4a90a0876501676c2121b17eba85820dd43 mysql-embedded-devel-5.1.66-2.el6_3.x86_64.rpm 952eb192bc83ace7ab82f9f0d40d3be8465f63d62407391fa5da00d2052ae407 mysql-libs-5.1.66-2.el6_3.i686.rpm 868606258e868d8a95fabc4475c77d7b04c7737e750ed667c57bac97b4d67775 mysql-libs-5.1.66-2.el6_3.x86_64.rpm 9e2fca4ca73a6a52919f5b9431b4e09a8d068548fa34c9c0e226505e0923ed03 mysql-server-5.1.66-2.el6_3.x86_64.rpm e493aa96b7d25c0db7f889865a6b678333dbf5186cb4943b744a517fc308613b mysql-test-5.1.66-2.el6_3.x86_64.rpm Source: 7c9e4297c9a3c16d2373bd977412662ac56511f11bbefe3e77427485fdf0087c mysql-5.1.66-2.el6_3.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 94, Issue 5 **********************************************

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Questions on making a kickstart cfg
by Robert Moskowitz 08 Dec '12

08 Dec '12

So I took the anaconda cfg, commented out the partition/disk pieces and ran it off my repo server and it almost worked. Little things like not including things I had done on network setup. No first boot.... :) So now I am reading up on building a kickstart cfg http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/KickStart http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-howu… So for starters I figured out that the lines prior to the %packages are commands. So I added there: firstboot --enable Oh, but this won't work if firstboot is not installed. I am tempted to assume it will be, as it was from all the packages that got installed in the installation that created this anaconda-ks.cfg. Sounds reasonable? To NOT use firstboot, what do I have to add to the kickstart beyond user --name=something --password=somethingstrong Of course if I don't have the encrypt stuff, this is a first use password that I would change on first login. But what about time setup? And what else is there in firstboot? Then I want some network setup, so I changed to network line from: network --onboot yes --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6 to network --onboot yes --device eth0 --bootproto=query I note that anaconda had "--bootproto dhcp" while the howto shows an = , I assume both forms are valid? Oh, is there a 'bug' in the network section of the howto? =================================== The line for static networking is more complex, as you must include all network configuration information on one line. You must specify the IP address, netmask, gateway, and nameserver. For example: (the "\" indicates that this should be read as one continuous line): network --bootproto=static --ip=10.0.2.15 --netmask=255.255.255.0 \ --gateway=10.0.2.254 --nameserver=10.0.2.1 If you use the static method, be aware of the following two restrictions: All static networking configuration information must be specified on one line; you cannot wrap lines using a backslash, for example. =================================== Wait a sec, their example uses the \ and then it says you can't use the \? Which is it?

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Nautilus "Open With" difference with "Connect to server..." sftp
by Rob Townley 08 Dec '12

08 Dec '12

.PDFs on my local harddrive open by default with acroread Adobe Reader 9. .PDFs on network shares open with evince Document Viewer. Is there some way to force "Open With" to also use acroread for network locations as well? Here are the inconsistencies in the UI: When right clicking a local harddrive .PDF, top line in menu is "Open with Adobe Reader 9" When right clicking a remote harddrive .PDF, top line in menu is "Open with Document Viewer" When right clicking and choosing properties and choosing the "Open With" tab, a .PDF file in both locations indicates "Adobe Reader 9." gdm on CentOS 6.3 32bit with all latest updates. AdobeReader_enu installed from Adobe repository: Name : AdobeReader_enu Arch : i486 Version : 9.5.1 Release : 1 Size : 135 M Repo : installed >From repo : adobe-linux-i386

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