Discuss January 2016

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(OT) Computer seems to have died
by tdukes＠palmettoshopper.com 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Hello, I have an old IBM Netvista. Lately, it would seem to go into sleep mode but I have all that disabled. I would have to power off to wake it up. Now I think its done. I can't even get to the CMOS/BIOS. The power light is on but no beeps or anything spinning up. I have two of these Netvistas and had put on away when I upgraded one of the machines. I pulled the HD from it and installed it in the other. Same thng. I'm fairly certain it was working when I updraded. I've swapped out monitors as well. Power supply or hard drive, any ideas? TIA

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what browser plugin provides Quicktime on 7.2?
by Fred Smith 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Several of the plugins I used on C6 no longer seem to be available, so I can't figure out what to use for Quicktime (apple.com/trailers). Advice appreciated! Fred -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, And my hope is in you all day long. -------------------------- Psalm 25:4-5 (NIV) --------------------------------

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packagekit yumBackend question, perhaps
by Nicholas Geovanis 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Periodically I find the yumBackend python script of packagekit really slows down my CentOS 7 system. I don't invoke anything myself which starts it and I find nothing in crontab which does either, except perhaps /etc/cron.hourly/0yum-hourly.cron. But I can't be sure that is the culprit. I don't find anything at http://www.freedesktop.org/software/PackageKit which helps me to debug this. Would someone point me in a useful direction so that I can find out what /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py is doing, why it is doing it, and how it can be controlled? Many thanks....Nick

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A query on graphic console
by Timothy Murphy 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

I'm only getting a text console with CentOS-7.2 on my (oldish) HP MicroServer. The only explicit error I see in Xorg.0.log is that no driver is found for my Pixart USB optical mouse. My query is: would that be sufficient to prevent a graphic console? Incidentally, I can use X apps, eg xpdf, if I ssh in from my laptop. As always, any advice gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

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SSD drives for the OS - 1 or 2?
by Rob Kampen 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Preparing to build a small replacement server (initially built in 2005) and normally for the OS I would buy 2x500GB drives and deploy in a RAID 1 configuration. Now we have SSD drives available - does just a single SSD drive offer the same reliability or is there advantage in deploying two in a Raid 1 config? Also, what form factor / interface is best for the SSD OS boot device on a server M/B? Anything I should be looking for? It seems most SSD are in laptop drive size, shape and interface - thus not a good fit into a server motherboard unless I'm missing something. - what devices are you using? Thanks in advance. Rob

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(no subject)
by Latifa Benameur 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

Sorry to late response i wich you all a very happy and peaceful year think you so much i love you in god God bless you

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CentOS-7.2 kernel panic
by Timothy Murphy 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

My HP MicroServer crashes with a kernel panic when booted into kernel-3.10.0-327.3.1.el7.x86_64, but runs perfectly under kernel-3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64 . I've been trying to save the panic message with kdump, but am not sure how one can configure kdump to do this, if indeed that is possible. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

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HP OfficeJet Printing
by Chris Olson 02 Jan '16

02 Jan '16

There has been a bit of grumbling recently about HP printer capability in one of our smallest prototyping Labs. We have a single GigE switch connecting a Windows 7 machine and a Dell/CentOS-6 machine. The CentOS machine also has connectivity via another network. Currently, only the Windows 7 machine has been setup for printing on our HP OfficeJet 8615. Our Samba effort on the CentOS system has not been successful so we use Cygwin and ftp to move files to the Windows 7 system for printing. Being able to print directly from the CentOS 6 system would be most convenient. Software supporting the HP OfficeJet Pro 8615 is apparently available as indicated in the links and other information below. We also see that hplip was apparently part of an installation or update performed on the CentOS 6 Dell machine at some point in time. http://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/?source=typ_redirect http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html The current version of the HPLIP solution is: 3.15.11. [user@dell ~]$ uname -a Linux dell 2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Dec 15 21:19:08 2015\ x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [user@dell ~]$ [user@dell ~]$ rpm -qa hplip hplip-3.14.6-3.el6.x86_64 [user@dell ~]$ [user@dell ~]$ which hp-setup /usr/bin/hp-setup Using this open source software seems easy enough, but we have concerns about printing from the Windows 7 machine if the CentOS 6 system is setup for printing. Is there any significant possibility that printer setup or printer use on the CentOS 6 system will negatively impact printing functionality on the Windows 7 machine? Thanks in advance for any help or advice, and Happy New Year.

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Centos 7, grub2-mkconfig, unsupported sector
by m.roth＠5-cent.us 02 Jan '16

02 Jan '16

Hi, folks, Well, I get back from vacation, and three CentOS 7 boxes didn't come up this morning (my manager and the other admin did the update & reboot). On these three - but *not* another one or two, and I don't think those others are Dells, they're supermicro's - the 327 kernel fell into the rdosshell, I guess. I finally got one the three up by going back to the 228.14 kernel. Now, after googling and finding the CentOS bugzilla, 0009860, that referenced the upstream bugzilla, I applied the workaround discussed in it, Adding initcall_blacklist=clocksource_done_booting to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub and then grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2.cfg" On one. On the other, that's got a *large* RAID appliance (a JetStor w/ 42 4TB drives...), it seemed to work... then gave me a dozen or so ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdd. ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sde. 0. Did the grub2-mkconfig actually work correctly? 1. Is it safe to ignore the errors and reboot? 2. This seems to be an old bug in os-prober, that was fixed years ago - has it slipped back in? mark

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NFS problem after 7.2
by Mark2015 01 Jan '16

01 Jan '16

I just updated my fileserver to version 7.2 and got some NFS problems after that. In /etc/exports I have the following line /path hostname(ro,insecure) Now that host can no longer mount that share. I get mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting x Also when I do restart of the NFS server I get following in the logs Dec 30 21:59:33 files systemd[1]: Starting NFS server and services... Dec 30 21:59:33 files nfsdcltrack[31076]: sqlite_query_reclaiming: unable to prepare select statement: no such column: has_session Dec 30 21:59:33 files polkitd[28879]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:31032:12640806 (system bus name :1.635, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_GB.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus) Dec 30 21:59:34 files nfsdcltrack[31412]: sqlite_insert_client: insert statement prepare failed: table clients has 2 columns but 3 values were supplied What to do?

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