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Memory vs. Display Card
by Rick 28 Oct '25

28 Oct '25

Since memory has become quite cheap lately I decided to move from 2 GB to 6. When I installed the memory every thing was fine until I went to run level 5. At that point the screen turned to garbage and the system froze. Is there a way to fix this so I can use the memory I bought? Do I need a new display card? Current hardware: Intel D975XBX2 Motherboard VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV505 [Radeon X1550 64-bit] -- http://www.spinics.net/lists/

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SSD for Centos SWAP /tmp & /var/ partition
by Keith Roberts 03 Sep '25

03 Sep '25

Has anyone actually used a SSD in a Centos setup? My little experiment with a s/h WD drive for /tmp and SWAP partitions kicked the bucket on Wednesday, when the poor WD drive caught the click-of-death. It was a s/h drive to start with and lasted about 4 months. But that was without the /var/log/ partition being written to it, as I mounted that back onto /var/log from the original drive. So I had to install another (WD) drive, and repartion it and rebuild my RPM package database, from the backed-up Packages file. That seems to be all OK now. I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to use a new SSD for moving all the disk i/o to, that Linux likes to do so often. Plus putting SWAP onto a decent SSD should speed things up somewhat. Here's a short video of a laptop fitted with a SSD drive booting macOS, compared to a similar laptop booting from the standard HDD. The laptop with the SSD boots and loads some apps in 28 seconds. The other one takes twice as long. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Mercury_Extreme_Pro_6G/?utm_source=t… Kind Regards, Keith Roberts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Mail Merge data to a pdf file by overlaying the data on the image
by Gregory P. Ennis 07 Jun '15

07 Jun '15

Everyone, I am looking for a utility that I can use to do a mail merge of data to a pdf image file. The image file does not have any active fields, but will be just an image file. I would like to overlay names addresses etc. We currently do this with a pcl file by just overlaying the data with pcl print positions. However, in order to get the pcl file from an original pdf file we have to use gimp to convert the pdf to pcl file, and we always lose a little resolution. I was wondering if anyone knows of a utility to perform this function without first converting the image to a pcl file. Thanks, -- Greg Ennis

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heavy IO load when working with sparse files (centos 6.4)
by Ron E 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Dear List, We have noticed a variety of reproducible conditions working with sparse files on multiple servers under load with CentOS 6.4. The short story is that processes that read / write sparse files with large "holes" can generate an IO storm. Oddly, this only happens with holes and not with the sections of the files that contain data. We have seen extremely high IO load for example copying a 40 or 80gb sparse file that only has a few gigs of data in it. Attempts to lower the io priority and cpu priority of these processes do not make any measurable difference. (ionice, nice) This has been observed with processes such as: cp rsync sha1sum The server does have to be under some load to reproduce the necessary conditions. The cases we have seen involve servers running 10-30 guests under kvm. Load is in acceptable norms when the processes are run, such as load avg 5-15 on a 24 core (12 core with HT enabled) server. We also verify before starting such a process that the spindle with the file we're working on is not being unduly hammered by another process. These servers have one hardware raid controller each (Dell H700 controller with write cache enabled) and multiple raid arrays (separate sets of physical spindles). Interestingly, the IO storm is not limited to the array / spindles where the sparse file resides but affects all IO on that server. We have looked extensively and not found any account of a similar issue. We have seen this on configurations that are 'plain vanilla' enough to think that this is not something specific to our environment. Wondering if anyone else has seen this and if any suggestions on gathering more data / troubleshooting. We wonder if we've found either a raid controller driver issue, an OS issue or some other such thing. What seems to point in this direction is that even with ionice -c3 which should prevent the process from using IO unless the storage is idle, an io storm which appears to saturate the entire raid bus on a given server can occur. Thanks in advance.

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Centos 6.4 on Xserve, IPMI error
by Arno B 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Hello! I'm trying to install Centos 6.4 64 bit on this Xserve: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/xserve/specs/xserve-intel-xeon-2.8-ei… I got a bootloader from: http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/07/23/linux-on-an-apple-xserve-efi-on… as none of the official Centos releases (full, minimal, network 64 bit) boot on this machine. They all crash when loading the bootx64.conf. I have built a USB stick with a working bootx64.efi, grub.cfg, together with an initrd and a vmlinuz from the isolinux folder. These seem to get me into booting a kernel until something called IPMI is starting to throw errors at me: Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device ipmi message handler version 39.2 IPMI System Interface driver. ipmi_si 0000:09:00.4: enable device (0002 -> 0003) ipmi_si 0000:09:00.4: PCI INT C -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 ipmi_si: Adding PCI-specified kcs state machine ipmi_si 0000:09:00.7: enable device (0000 -> 0003) ipmi_si 0000:09:00.7: PCI INT D -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 ipmi_si: Adding PCI-specified bt state machine ipmi_si: Trying PCI-specified kcs state machine at mem address 0x90841000, slave address 0x0 irq 16 IRQ 16/ipmi_si: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs Using irq 16 ipmi: Found new BMC (man_id: 0x00003f, prod_id: 0x0003, dev_id: 0x20) IPMI kcs interface initialized ipmi_si: Trying PCI-specified kcs state machine at mem address 0x90840000, slave address 0x0 irq 17 Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 2792.999 MHz. Switching to clocksource tsc IPMI BT: timeout in XACTION [ B_BUSY ] 1 retries left IPMI BT: timeout in XACTION [ B_BUSY ] failed 2 retries, sending error response IPMI: BT reset (takes 5 secs) IPMI BT: timeout in XACTION [ B_BUSY H2B ] failed 2 retries, sending error response IPMI: BT reset (takes 5 secs) IPMI BT: timeout in XACTION [ B_BUSY H2B ] failed 2 retries, sending error response IPMI: BT reset (takes 5 secs) IPMI BT: timeout in XACTION [ B_BUSY H2B ] failed 2 retries, sending error response IPMI: BT reset (takes 5 secs) IPMI BT: timeout in XACTION [ B_BUSY H2B ] failed 2 retries, sending error response IPMI: BT reset (takes 5 secs) then the screen goes to black and the machine doesn't respond to anything anymore... Can anyone please help me with this? Maybe just point me in a direction where to find a solution? I've been googling for a few days now without much results... thanks in advance Arno Beekman

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chromium-33.0.1750.152-3.el6
by ngeorgop 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

*New version of chromium (33.0.1750.152)*Build by me :-)i686 chromium-33.0.1750.152-3.el6.i686.rpm <https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9RlkKQB1POSWmFiT0REeG1QS28/> SRPM chromium-33.0.1750.152-3.el6.src.rpm <https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9RlkKQB1POSQlZ1OUljT3p6U1U/> -- View this message in context: http://centos.1050465.n5.nabble.com/CentOS-chromium-33-0-1750-152-3-el6-tp5… Sent from the CentOS mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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mixing MX and CNAME
by aurfalien 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

Hi, Has any one had problems with mail clients were your DNS is like this; doman.com MX 50 mail.domain.com domain.com MX 100 mail2.domain.com domain.com CNAME www.domain.com -aurf

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RH developer toolset
by Jerry Geis 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

I saw an article this morning about the RH developer toolset. basically it includes a couple of packages like PHP python mysql (etc) that are later packages than that included in the released version like a 6.4 for example. So instead of php 5.3 with patches it would be php 5.4 and so on. That is great for a couple packages - but what about more up to date libraries like glib. 6.4 is way behind on glib. Like a couple years behind. Are there any plans in the "toolset" to update core libraries also? Thanks, Jerry

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Mailman 2.1.16 RPMs?
by Robert Heller 14 Jun '14

14 Jun '14

Before I go through the hassle of building it myself I want to know if someone else has built RPMS for Mailman 2.1.16. I *need* to update the version of Mailman on my CentOS 5 server to Mailman 2.1.16 in order to be able to use the from_is_list option to deal with DMARC issues with Yahoo, Aol, and Hotmail. -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller(a)deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments

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Create Virtual Machine via HTTP or FTP
by cbulist＠gmail.com 08 Jun '14

08 Jun '14

Hi, I'm trying to create a Virtual Machine using Network Install mode (I tried HTTP and FTP). The HTTP/FTP server where the installation files are located is the Host Machine. The URL that I'm using is: http://192.168.1.104/inst and the Automatic detect option detects the OS without problem. When the installation starts I got an error: Unable to retrieve http://192.168.1.104/inst/images/install.img I tried different path but I always get the same error. The host machine is a Centos 6.2 (2.6.32.-220.el6.x86_64) I really appreciate any help with this problem. Thanks in advance,

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