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Re: [CentOS] How should I reinstall CentOS?
by Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

> -----Original Message----- > From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 5:25 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How should I reinstall CentOS? > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Michael Hennebry > <hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > > <SNIP> > > > I'm not willing to put in another week of > > effort out of a probably vain hope of discovery. > > You might try running 'rpm -Va' to see if there are any surprises in > the list of differences between the current state and what was > installed. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell(a)gmail.com Note on the rpm -Va... I had an issue recently where a package (openoffice) would not work correctly and: yum reinstall openoffice\* #did not help rpm -Va #did not find ANY issues (which surprised me when I did figure out what was wrong) however doing a (I did a more restricted, to openoffice files, version of) find /usr/ -not -perm -o+r -exec ls -lhd {} + find /usr/ -type d -not -perm -g+x -exec ls -lhd {} + find /usr/ -type d -not -perm -o+x -exec ls -lhd {} + found files that were not even set to write for ROOT (and in general had NO permission for anyone else)! The idea is basically that almost all files in /usr/ should be READABLE by any user and almost all directories should be READABLE & EXECUTABLE by all so that they can list and read the files in them. I don't know if the commands at http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/reset-rhel-centos-fedora-package-file-perm ission.html would have fixed the issue, because I brute forced the perms to root writeable and then reinstalled the packages again. BTW, I still feel a little confused on what the OP's original problem was and why they are headed in the direction of a 'reinstall the system'. Seems a bit overkill for most problems. Even when this disclaimer is not here: I am not a contracting officer. I do not have authority to make or modify the terms of any contract.

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ZFS on Linux in production?
by Lists 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

We are a CentOS shop, and have the lucky, fortunate problem of having ever-increasing amounts of data to manage. EXT3/4 becomes tough to manage when you start climbing, especially when you have to upgrade, so we're contemplating switching to ZFS. As of last spring, it appears that ZFS On Linux http://zfsonlinux.org/ calls itself production ready despite a version number of 0.6.2, and being acknowledged as unstable on 32 bit systems. However, given the need to do backups, zfs send sounds like a godsend over rsync which is running into scaling problems of its own. (EG: Nightly backups are being threatened by the possibility of taking over 24 hours per backup) Was wondering if anybody here could weigh in with real-life experience? Performance/scalability? -Ben PS: I joined their mailing list recently, will be watching there as well. We will, of course, be testing for a while before "making the switch".

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What the heck is a "text/html decoder"
by Frank Cox 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

My phone service provider offers a way to check my voicemail via a webpage. However, when I go to that webpage with Firefox and try to play back a saved message, a window pops up that says this: "The following plugin is required: text/html decoder" What is it looking for and how can I install it? I already have these totem rpms: totem-nautilus-2.28.6-2.el6.x86_64 totem-pl-parser-2.28.3-1.el6.x86_64 totem-mozplugin-2.28.6-2.el6.x86_64 totem-2.28.6-2.el6.x86_64 and the following gstreamer rpms: gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.11-2.el6.x86_64 gstreamer-0.10.29-1.el6.x86_64 gstreamer-devel-0.10.29-1.el6.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.23-1.el6.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.19-2.el6.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras-0.10.19-2.el6.x86_64 phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.2-26.el6_4.x86_64 gstreamer-tools-0.10.29-1.el6.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.29-2.el6.x86_64 PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.5.8-21.el6.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.18-4.el6.x86_64 -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com

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Firefox ESR and Coldfusion
by James B. Byrne 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

CentOS-6.4 x86_64 Firefox-17.0.10ESR I am getting a missing plugin report from Firefox when trying to load this url: http://yyyy.xxx.net//sco_launchv5.1.cfm?regKey=22349&CFID=0&CFTOKEN=1ED09F3… A Firefox search for plugins reports none found. I believe that this URL refers to a Coldfusion script. Given the context I am working in I believe that this script is an interactive training audio-visual. What client or plugin do I need for Firefox to run this script? Where do I get it? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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extremely slow NFS performance under 6.x [SOLVED]
by m.roth＠5-cent.us 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

I've posted here about this a number of times. The other admin I work with had been playing with it recently, with some real problems we'd been having, and this time, with a year or so's more stuff to google, and newer documentation, found the problem. What we'd been seeing: cd to an NFS-mounted directory, and from an NFS-mounted directory, tar -xzvf a 25M or so tar.gz, which unpacks to about 105M. Under CentOS 5, on a local drive, seconds; doing the above, about 35 seconds. Mount options included sync. Under 6.x, from the beginning, it was 6.5 to 7 *minutes*. The result was that we'd been keeping our home directory servers on 5. What he found was the mount option barrier. According to one or two hits I found, googling, it's not clear that 5.x even recognizes this option. From upstream docs, <https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux…>, it's enabled by default, and affects *all* journalled filesystems. Remounting the drive with -o nobarrier, I just NFS mounted an exported directory... and it took 20 seconds. Since most of our systems are all on UPSes, we're not worried about sudden power loss... and my manager did a jig, and we're starting to talk about migrating the rest of our home directory servers.... mark

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Re: [CentOS] yum update --skip-broken failure
by m.roth＠5-cent.us 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

ken wrote: > Though I've used it countless times in the past, "yum update > --skip-broken" doesn't work anymore... it doesn't skip over updates which have dependency problems. Is this a known issue? Is there a work-around for it? Has anyone else experienced this? > One thing that provokes that, in my experience, is repos from other repositories, where it's not a dependency on this, but that repo does have it as a dependency. mark

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root password required
by Valeri Shibaev 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

Hi, I've lost private key for my instance. So I've generated new Private/Public Keys, Created Image from my instance, and Launched new instance. Now I can ssh to this new instance: but it ask me for root password (which it did not on original instance): It looks like this is problem with MarketPlace AMI I was using originally: CentOS-6-x86_64-20120527-EBS-03-adc4348e-1dc3-41df-b833-e86ba57a33d6-ami-8f9af1e6.1 (ami-83cd5eb9). Any help with fixing this unexpected root password required problem?

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yum update --skip-broken failure
by ken 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

Though I've used it countless times in the past, "yum update --skip-broken" doesn't work anymore... it doesn't skip over updates which have dependency problems. Is this a known issue? Is there a work-around for it? Has anyone else experienced this? tnx.

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Converting an installed and configured system into live-cd/dvd
by Rajagopal Swaminathan 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

Greetings, Can somebody point me in this direction with some links please? -- Regards, Rajagopal

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update from local repo mirror
by zGreenfelder 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

so this may be an odd question, but my google fu seems to be failing me. I've created a local mirror of centos 5 & 6 with various instructions across the net, it seems to be functional, syncs on a regular basis,and is generally usable (I've built machines with kickstart/netboot from it and they seem generally workable). my difficulty comes up when I try to use the local mirror for system updates. if I use the originally installed repo configs and run yum check-update, I get a list of 10-15 RPMs for updates, if I change the repo files, do a yum clean all, comment out mirrorlist and uncommenting/chang baseurl= http://localmirror/path/to/repo and run a check, I get nothing. if I look in localmirror:/path/to/repo and do a find for the version numbers I got as available updates from the remote repositories, I find appropriate files in seemingly reasonably named directory paths. my current best guess is that my repodata/repomd.xml file needs some sort of update/rebuild via the createrepo script, but I can't seem to find the 'right' way to this. does anyone have any pointers? thanks. -- Even the Magic 8 ball has an opinion on email clients: Outlook not so good.

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