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Ansible repository shenanigans in EL7
by James Hogarth 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

For those not aware ansible has been deprecated in RHEL7 from the extras repository. In the RHEL specific world it's now in an optional "product" (basically an optional subscription) that is part of any RHEL subscription, but it's opt in. As a result ansible is back in the EPEL7 repository for 2.5.0+ , having been removed for ansible 2.4.2 when it got introduced to the RHEL extras repo. I have no idea what, if anything, the CentOS team will do with the ansible in the CentOS7 extras repository.

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Next major version of Firefox on RHEL/CentOS ?
by James Pearson 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

I know CentOS don't have inside info on what Redhat may or may not do in the future - plus Redhat don't usually announce publicly what their future plans are - but on the off-chance that someone on this list may know: Does anyone know what Redhat are likely to do with the next major release of Firefox on RHEL (and hence CentOS) ? The reason I ask, is that RHEL has been supplying the 'ESR' (Extended Support Release) version of Firefox - which Mozilla supports for about a year - and RHEL moves to each new ESR version before Mozilla drops support for the previous version. Up until the current version of ESR (52), the major versions have been mostly compatible, but the next release of ESR (60) has some major changes - which include: * No support for NPAPI plugins - except for Flash - i.e. no support for plugins like Java etc * No support for XUL/XPCOM/legacy add-ons - will only support 'WebExtensions' * Requires gtk3 run-time support - which isn't available with RHEL/CentOS 6 (currently Firefox for both el6 and el7 use the gtk2 run-time libraries) I know it's a long shot, but I'm just trying to work out what changes I will need to make when ESR 52 reaches its EOL in August this year ... Thanks James Pearson

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yum excludes
by Mathy Froeyen 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

dear all Every yum command returns "nvidia excluding" lines, and those items are invisible for installation, see lower. I have no idea where those excludes are defined. Also, the flag "--disableexcludes=all" does not remove the excludes. any ideas? thanks mathy ------------------------------------------------------ [root@gbw-d-l0070 ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: etckeeper, fastestmirror, langpacks, nvidia Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: centos.cu.be * elrepo: ftp.nluug.nl * epel: fedora.cu.be * extras: centos.cu.be * updates: centos.cu.be [nvidia]: excluding kmod-nvidia-367.57-3.el7.elrepo.x86_64 [nvidia]: excluding kmod-nvidia-390.25-1.el7_4.elrepo.x86_64 [nvidia]: excluding kmod-nvidia-390.42-1.el7_4.elrepo.x86_64 [nvidia]: excluding kmod-nvidia-390.48-1.el7_4.elrepo.x86_64 [nvidia]: excluding nvidia-x11-drv-367.57-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 [nvidia]: excluding nvidia-x11-drv-390.25-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 [nvidia]: excluding nvidia-x11-drv-390.42-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 [nvidia]: excluding nvidia-x11-drv-390.48-1.el7_4.elrepo.x86_64 [nvidia]: excluding nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-367.57-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 [nvidia]: excluding nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-390.25-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 [nvidia]: excluding nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-390.42-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 [nvidia]: excluding nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-390.48-1.el7_4.elrepo.x86_64 No packages marked for update

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Semi-OT: install python package in userspace
by m.roth＠5-cent.us 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

CentOS 7 box. As there's no package in any of the repos, we're trying to install scikit-learn in the user's space. It refuses. My late try was, after d/l a .whl from last year, hoping that would work with the numpy package in the regular repos, I did a pip install --user scikit-learn..., and it still seems to want to write to system space: OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/numpy-1.7.1.dist-info Anyone got any pointers? mark

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XScreenSaver
by Nicolas Kovacs 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

Hi, I'm currently moving all our local school's desktop clients from Slackware 14.1 to CentOS 7 + Xfce. Right now I'm fine-tuning the default user profile. I have a problem with XScreenSaver. The application per se works very well. Only there's a hard-coded pop-up window that reminds the user that he's not running the latest version. So, if I'm running version 5.36 as provided by the EPEL repo and not the latest and greatest 5.38 as provided upstream, I get a pestering pop-up window informing me that YOUR VERSION OF XSCREENSAVER IS VERY OLD. This functionality is apparently hard-coded, since there's no way to deactivating it. The Slackware distribution seems to have solved the problem by promising upstream to keep things up-to-date. For the moment I simply work without it, because I'm annoyed by my users phoning me and asking me what's this thing with their screensaver being too old. As far as I can tell, there would be several solutions to this problem. 1. Ask the EPEL maintainers to keep the application up-to-date. 2. Patch the darn thing so I don't get the annoying popup. 3. Maintain my own up-to-date version of XScreenSaver in my private repo. Any thoughts about this? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Site : https://www.microlinux.fr Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr Mail : info(a)microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 158, Issue 1
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://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-2018:0647 Important CentOS 6 thunderbird Security Update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2018:0649 Important CentOS 6 libvorbis Security Update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2018:0648 Important CentOS 7 thunderbird Security Update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 23:34:21 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2018:0647 Important CentOS 6 thunderbird Security Update Message-ID: <20180409233421.GA10451(a)n04.lon1.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2018:0647 Important Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0647 The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386: 8faab804fa19089343fd1e489a02b3d351cec5544ed592b6dbec7a3006af99cf thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6.centos.i686.rpm x86_64: 647747711d64e16d5b2e1529f7e5974464bb0b510cdbcad045f08048dba0d0da thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6.centos.x86_64.rpm Source: 5089b20a8b1521a7ff70fc6ff5f053a6c6ab5ff2f6fa7f4a0a9af812c8774933 thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6.centos.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net Twitter: @JohnnyCentOS ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 23:35:22 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2018:0649 Important CentOS 6 libvorbis Security Update Message-ID: <20180409233522.GA10751(a)n04.lon1.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2018:0649 Important Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0649 The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386: 2e06e17e114f1fb82b38494b2a749d03a24ab1ad4c7bd5802ca8c7d6d604dcdb libvorbis-1.2.3-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm 40e0518e9a1bca52011bbd00605f55bcdc2bf571dfc8b34847b3fa662c7bc55d libvorbis-devel-1.2.3-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm d833b6e19caceb7df39ca2bcc782f73f1b7774d7bd52abd6704ac29d778bb882 libvorbis-devel-docs-1.2.3-5.el6_9.1.noarch.rpm x86_64: 2e06e17e114f1fb82b38494b2a749d03a24ab1ad4c7bd5802ca8c7d6d604dcdb libvorbis-1.2.3-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm e2b276ee079787afa938fc33d26255a167e592670303c74656e84b96c09ace5b libvorbis-1.2.3-5.el6_9.1.x86_64.rpm 40e0518e9a1bca52011bbd00605f55bcdc2bf571dfc8b34847b3fa662c7bc55d libvorbis-devel-1.2.3-5.el6_9.1.i686.rpm e043eec9adabbada05e9229f7669b1f1de85693265dd8fb98366b36ee23886a4 libvorbis-devel-1.2.3-5.el6_9.1.x86_64.rpm d833b6e19caceb7df39ca2bcc782f73f1b7774d7bd52abd6704ac29d778bb882 libvorbis-devel-docs-1.2.3-5.el6_9.1.noarch.rpm Source: cf05cdba31b5c0bd71bbe2e333821dc586a9c2eddd8a6fe762c4d35ee836934d libvorbis-1.2.3-5.el6_9.1.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net Twitter: @JohnnyCentOS ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:06:05 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2018:0648 Important CentOS 7 thunderbird Security Update Message-ID: <20180410000605.GA24381(a)n04.lon1.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2018:0648 Important Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0648 The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) x86_64: 78c170024613cdf14dc70084dda0c83a321f6829959333ee0e6c518bc772c501 thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net Twitter: @JohnnyCentOS ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce ------------------------------ End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 158, Issue 1 ***********************************************

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Do you blog about CentOS?
by Rich Bowen 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

Do you blog about CentOS? Or about Linux in general? We need your voice. As mentioned on https://blog.centos.org/2018/04/seven-centos-org-is-dead-long-life-to-blog-… this morning, authentication for blog.centos.org is tied to accounts.centos.org (through OpenID). So if you have a CentOS account, you have an account on the blog server. We would love to have your articles there - hear about what you're doing on top of this awesome platform. On the other hand, if you have your own blog, and you're writing CentOS content there, please let me know about that, too. Our aggregator - planet.centos.org - is where we collect the various sites with quality CentOS content, and we'd love to add you there. Send me an RSS/Atom URL for your content - preferably one that's filtered by tag/keyword, so that it's just the CentOS/Linux content, and not your posts about your cat and your skiing trip - and we'll get you added. There's a HUGE amount of clickbait/spammy content out there about CentOS ("How to Install Bash On CentOS In Twelve Easy Steps!") and we need to combat that with quality, substantive content. Thanks! -- Rich Bowen - rbowen(a)redhat.com @RDOcommunity // @CentOSProject // @rbowen

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iscsiadm: Could not perform SendTargets discovery: encountered non-retryable iSCSI login failure
by marcos sr 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

Hello I know this not the place to ask help, but i can't send messages to iscsi list. :( I have 3 CentOS 6 connecting to a ISCSI server with Targecli suddenly they lost connection and i receive this error when i performance iscsiadm --mode discovery --type sendtargets --portal x.x.x.x iscsiadm: Could not perform SendTargets discovery: encountered non-retryable iSCSI login failure I have already changed the password for the ACLs. Thanks for attention.

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CentOS 7 + MariaDB + phpMyAdmin
by Frank M. Ramaekers 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

I can't seem to get phpMyAdmin working. I got the ip address problem (permission) resolved, but now I'm getting a "Parallels H-Sphere" error "Error 404: File Not found". I've looked in all the logs and cannot determine what file is not found. Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. | Systems Programmer | Information Technology | American Income Life Insurance Company | 254-761-6649 (732-6649) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message contains information which is privileged and confidential and is solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, please destroy it immediately and notify us at PrivacyAct(a)torchmarkcorp.com.

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DHCPv6 prefix delegation
by Chris Adams 08 Apr '18

08 Apr '18

Is there an DHCPv6 client in CentOS that supports prefix delegation correctly? The old version of dhclient can't set a requested prefix delegation length, so isn't very useful, and I can't get the even-older wide-dhcpv6 from EPEL to work. -- Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>

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