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Issues booting centos7 [dracut is failing to enable centos/root, centos/swap LVs]
by Yannis Milios 01 Feb '25

01 Feb '25

Hello, I'm having a strange problem booting a new centos7 installation. Below some background on this. [I have attached the tech details at the bottom of this message] I started a new CentOS7 installation on a VM, so far all good, o/s boots fine. Then I decided to increase VM disk size (initially was 10G) to 13G. Powered off the VM, increased the vhd via the hypervisor, booted from CentOS livecd, selected "recover my centos installation". Then I used the following sequence of commands to make … [View More]the new vhd size "visible" to the o/s ... - ran fdisk /dev/sda and deleted partition 2. (This is the LVM partition where the o/s is stored. The first partition is /boot [xfs] partition *non lvm*.) - created a new partition with same starting sector as before deleting it, but a different ending sector (to reflect to the increased space). - set partition type to 8e (lvm), saved settings and exit. - ran pvresize and lvresize to make new space visible to the o/s.All good, I can see the space increase on 'lvdisplay centos/root'. - ran 'mount /dev/mapper/centos-root /mnt/root' to temporarily mount the o/s partition. - ran 'xfs_growfs /mnt/root' to resize the o/s fs to the new size. It was successful and I could actually chroot to the o/s and verify new disk size. - rebooted and tried to boot from hdd this time. Grub menu shows up and loads default kernel (3.10.0-862.9.1.el7.x86_64). - after initial kernel boot up process, booting continues to initrd and then it's where the problem starts... - looks like dracut has issues locating/enabling /dev/mapper/centos-root (lv) and as a result it cannot boot to the 'real' root fs (/). - while in dracut shell, I execute the following command sequence: 1. lvm lvchange -ay /dev/centos/root 2. lvm lvchange -ay /dev/centos/swap 3. ln -s /dev/mapper/centos-root /dev/root 4. exit ...and the o/s boots fine...so looks like the pv,vg,lv is detected properly while in initrd, but somehow dracut has difficulties enabling the root,swap LVs ? - While in o/s, I rebuild initrd by using: 'dracut -f -v -a lvm' Note, I have to use '-a lvm' as for some reason, if don't, the lvm utils (lvm,lvm_scan) are not being included to the initrd, not sure why this happens. After rebooting, same thing happens, I have to manually boot the system via dracut shell. I'm a bit stuck at this point, any clues what I'm doing wrong in here ? As I previously said, this is a new installation, so I could simply reinstall the whole thing, but I would rather try to find out some answer to why is this happening ... :-) [curiosity] Some additional details: ================== I've attached /run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt file [generated while in inird] here: https://privatebin.net/?fdc4052c0c402884#gdB/QYR3IeR55SxUbjfrkZPQfJ7jMxiUxq… o/s ver=CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core) [root@localhost ~]# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 13G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 500M 0 part /boot └─sda2 8:2 0 12.5G 0 part ├─centos-root 253:0 0 11.5G 0 lvm / └─centos-swap 253:1 0 1G 0 lvm [SWAP] [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/default/grub GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)" GRUB_DEFAULT=saved GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.lvm.lv=centos/root rd.lvm.lv=centos/swap rd.shell rhgb" GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true" [View Less]

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MATE 1.20 test build for CentOS 7 available
by Greg Bailey 14 Oct '21

14 Oct '21

Hi everyone, There's been discussions in the past about updating MATE RPMs in EPEL-7: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436260 https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-August/173154.html (and lots of others...) As a proof-of-concept, I've written some scripts that clone specific commits from the Fedora master branches, and then runs a tool to re-apply RPM scriptlets that are required by EL7 but removed from the Fedora .spec files. The scripts are available at: https://… [View More]

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CentOS advisories for 8 release
by Olivier Bonhomme 16 Dec '20

16 Dec '20

Hello dear CentOS community, I'm writing on this mailing list because I'm discovering CentOS 8 after several years of practice on CentOS 7. One of my main concern about a distribution is Bug Fixes and Security Fixes. For CentOS 7, all fixes where identified on CentOS-Announces lists with CESA, CEBA and CEEA which is a good thing in order to identify how a distribution can be broken, vulnerable. However, I didn't find any announcement for CentOS 8. I tried to investigate about any … [View More]

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Learning to build applications
by H 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

I have managed to get through the qtmake stage of compiling the current github version of pgmodeler on CentOS 7 but make && make install fails with: make && make install cd libutils/ && ( test -e Makefile || /bin/qmake-qt5 -o Makefile /home/h/pgmodeler/libutils/libutils.pro CONFIG+=release PREFIX= BINDIR= PRIVATEBINDIR= PRIVATELIBDIR=/lib ) && make -f Makefile make[1]: Entering directory /home/h/pgmodeler/libutils' g++ -c -pipe -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-… [View More]D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -O2 -std=gnu++1y -Wall -W -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -DBUILDNUM=\"20201030\" -DBINDIR=\"\" -DPLUGINSDIR=\"/lib/pgmodeler/plugins\" -DPRIVATEBINDIR=\"\" -DCONFDIR=\"/share/pgmodeler/conf\" -DDOCDIR=\"/share/pgmodeler\" -DLANGDIR=\"/share/pgmodeler/lang\" -DSAMPLESDIR=\"/share/pgmodeler/samples\" -DSCHEMASDIR=\"/share/pgmodeler/schemas\" -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_PRINTSUPPORT_LIB -DQT_SVG_LIB -DQT_WIDGETS_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -I. -isystem /usr/include/libxml2 -isystem /usr/include/qt5 -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtPrintSupport -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtSvg -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtWidgets -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtGui -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtNetwork -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtCore -Imoc -isystem /usr/include/libdrm -I/usr/lib64/qt5/mkspecs/linux-g++ -o obj/exception.o src/exception.cpp In file included from src/exception.cpp:18:0: src/exception.h:41:11: error: ‘underlying_type_t’ in namespace ‘std’ does not name a type constexpr std::underlying_type_t<Enum> enum_cast (Enum obj_type) noexcept ^ src/exception.cpp: In constructor ‘Exception::Exception(ErrorCode, const QString&, const QString&, int, Exception*, const QString&)’: src/exception.cpp:295:86: error: ‘enum_cast’ was not declared in this scope configureException(QApplication::translate("Exception",messages[enum_cast(error_code)][ErrorMessage].toStdString().c_str(),"", -1), ^ src/exception.cpp: In constructor ‘Exception::Exception(ErrorCode, const QString&, const QString&, int, std::vector<Exception>&, const QString&)’: src/exception.cpp:314:86: error: ‘enum_cast’ was not declared in this scope configureException(QApplication::translate("Exception",messages[enum_cast(error_code)][ErrorMessage].toStdString().c_str(),"",-1), ^ src/exception.cpp: In static member function ‘static QString Exception::getErrorMessage(ErrorCode)’: src/exception.cpp:371:25: error: ‘enum_cast’ was not declared in this scope if(enum_cast(error_code) < ErrorCount) ^ src/exception.cpp: In static member function ‘static QString Exception::getErrorCode(ErrorCode)’: src/exception.cpp:382:25: error: ‘enum_cast’ was not declared in this scope if(enum_cast(error_code) < ErrorCount) ^ src/exception.cpp: In static member function ‘static QString Exception::getErrorMessage(ErrorCode)’: src/exception.cpp:378:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type] } ^ src/exception.cpp: In static member function ‘static QString Exception::getErrorCode(ErrorCode)’: src/exception.cpp:386:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type] } ^ make[1]: *** [obj/exception.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory /home/hakan/pgmodeler/libutils' make: *** [sub-libutils-make_first-ordered] Error 2 I am a beginner when it comes to compiling applications and would appreciate suggestion how to fix the above. Thank you. [View Less]

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Retrieving files from dd backup
by H 06 Dec '20

06 Dec '20

Running CentOS 7 I have a previously combined backup of a disk with three partitions using dd. I now need to restore one single file from this backup and after perusing the internet, specifically https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/31669/is-it-possible-to-mount-a-gz…, I have done the following: - installed squashfs-tools - installed kpartx - made a squash image of the dd backup and mounted it - used kpartx to create devices for the three partitions under /dev/mapper/loopNpP - I can … [View More]

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Logitech C922 webcam
by H 06 Dec '20

06 Dec '20

Just installed the above USB webcam but it is not recognized by dmesg | grep usb, nor does Zoom recognize it. I was under the understanding it should not require a driver, or? I am running CentOS 7. Thanks.

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Table *** is marked as crashed and should be repaired
by Александр Кириллов 03 Dec '20

03 Dec '20

Hi, I've started migrating my sites to mariadb which is supposed to be a drop-in replacement of mysql. Both run on the same C6 box. DB folders were moved to a new location after both DB servers were stopped and properly upgraded. There were no reboots or power failures. Nevertheless I see these error messages in the logs: # cat /var/opt/rh/rh-mariadb102/log/mariadb/mariadb.log ... 2020-11-29 16:38:23 139882501732320 [Note] /opt/rh/rh-mariadb102/root/usr/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections. … [View More]Version: '10.2.22-MariaDB' socket: '/var/opt/rh/rh-mariadb102/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' port: 3307 MariaDB Server 2020-11-29 16:38:23 139882394105600 [Warning] Access denied for user 'UNKNOWN_MYSQL_USER'@'localhost' (using password: NO) 2020-11-29 16:39:37 139882394105600 [ERROR] mysqld: Table './wordpress@002dstorefront/wp_wc_customer_lookup' is marked as crashed and should be repaired 2020-11-29 16:39:37 139882394105600 [ERROR] mysqld: Table 'wp_wc_customer_lookup' is marked as crashed and should be repaired 2020-11-29 16:39:37 139882394105600 [ERROR] mysqld: Table './wordpress@002dstorefront/wp_wc_customer_lookup' is marked as crashed and should be repaired 2020-11-29 16:39:37 139882394105600 [ERROR] mysqld: Table 'wp_wc_customer_lookup' is marked as crashed and should be repaired 2020-11-29 16:39:37 139882394105600 [Warning] Checking table: './wordpress@002dstorefront/wp_wc_customer_lookup' ... 2020-11-29 17:16:17 140059421116384 [Note] /opt/rh/rh-mariadb102/root/usr/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '10.2.22-MariaDB' socket: '/var/opt/rh/rh-mariadb102/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' port: 3307 MariaDB Server 2020-11-29 17:16:18 140059356550912 [Warning] Access denied for user 'UNKNOWN_MYSQL_USER'@'localhost' (using password: NO) 2020-11-29 17:20:01 140059356550912 [ERROR] mysqld: Table './wordpress@002dstorefront/wp_options' is marked as crashed and should be repaired 2020-11-29 17:20:01 140059356550912 [ERROR] mysqld: Table 'wp_options' is marked as crashed and should be repaired 2020-11-29 17:20:01 140059356550912 [Warning] Checking table: './wordpress@002dstorefront/wp_options' 2020-11-29 17:20:02 140059356550912 [ERROR] mysqld: Table './wordpress@002dstorefront/wp_posts' is marked as crashed and should be repaired 2020-11-29 17:20:02 140059356550912 [ERROR] mysqld: Table 'wp_posts' is marked as crashed and should be repaired 2020-11-29 17:20:02 140059356550912 [Warning] Checking table: './wordpress@002dstorefront/wp_posts' 2020-11-29 17:20:02 140059356550912 [ERROR] mysqld: Table './wordpress@002dstorefront/wp_actionscheduler_claims' is marked as crashed and should be repaired 2020-11-29 17:20:02 140059356550912 [ERROR] mysqld: Table 'wp_actionscheduler_claims' is marked as crashed and should be repaired 2020-11-29 17:20:02 140059356550912 [Warning] Checking table: './wordpress@002dstorefront/wp_actionscheduler_claims' 2020-11-29 17:22:28 140059356550912 [ERROR] mysqld: Table './wordpress@002dstorefront/wp_usermeta' is marked as crashed and should be repaired 2020-11-29 17:22:28 140059356550912 [ERROR] mysqld: Table 'wp_usermeta' is marked as crashed and should be repaired 2020-11-29 17:22:28 140059356550912 [Warning] Checking table: './wordpress@002dstorefront/wp_usermeta' 2020-11-29 17:22:31 140059356550912 [ERROR] mysqld: Table './wordpress@002dstorefront/wp_woocommerce_sessions' is marked as crashed and should be repaired 2020-11-29 17:22:31 140059356550912 [ERROR] mysqld: Table 'wp_woocommerce_sessions' is marked as crashed and should be repaired 2020-11-29 17:22:31 140059356247808 [ERROR] mysqld: Table './wordpress@002dstorefront/wp_woocommerce_sessions' is marked as crashed and should be repaired 2020-11-29 17:22:31 140059356247808 [ERROR] mysqld: Table 'wp_woocommerce_sessions' is marked as crashed and should be repaired 2020-11-29 17:22:31 140059356550912 [Warning] Checking table: './wordpress@002dstorefront/wp_woocommerce_sessions' ... Note that after the crashed table was repaired mariadb reported multiple crashed tables in the same DB after restart. Any pointers? Never had such problems with mysqld. Is mariadb reliable and stable at all? # cat /etc/centos-release CentOS release 6.10 (Final) # rpm -qa '*maria*' rh-mariadb102-mariadb-server-utils-10.2.22-1.el6.x86_64 rh-mariadb102-mariadb-common-10.2.22-1.el6.x86_64 rh-mariadb102-mariadb-10.2.22-1.el6.x86_64 rh-mariadb102-mariadb-server-10.2.22-1.el6.x86_64 rh-mariadb102-mariadb-config-10.2.22-1.el6.x86_64 rh-mariadb102-mariadb-errmsg-10.2.22-1.el6.x86_64 rh-mariadb102-runtime-3.0-5.el6.x86_64 TIA, AK [View Less]

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Reminder: CentOS 6 EOL on 30 November 2020
by Johnny Hughes 02 Dec '20

02 Dec '20

All, This is a friendly reminder. CentOS 6.10 will EOL at the end of November 2020. During the first week in December 2020, the 6.10 directory will move to vault.centos.org Packages will still be available at: http://vault.centos.org/centos/6.10/ However, once moved, there will be no more updates pushed to vault.centos.org. Therefore, security issues will no longer be fixed, etc. You should take the rest of the month to either move to a newer versoin of CentOS Linux ... or to … [View More]

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Physical position of swap partition on the disk
by Nicolas Kovacs 01 Dec '20

01 Dec '20

Hi, Here's a question to the fine-tuning gurus. Yesterday while installing a fresh CentOS server, I wondered how big of a deal the physical position of the swap partition on the disk is. Here's an example of a simple MBR partitioning scheme on a legacy BIOS machine with a 60 GB SSD: * /dev/sda1: 500 MB /boot ext2 * /dev/sda2: 4 GB swap * /dev/sda3: 55 GB / ext4 In the old (Slackware) days, I created the partitions manually using fdisk. Now when I do something similar in Anaconda, I … [View More]

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Anaconda : MBR vs. GPT
by Nicolas Kovacs 28 Nov '20

28 Nov '20

Hi, I've always been a bit puzzled by the fact that Anaconda provides no option to manually create a partition table and specify if it's MBR or GPT. >From what I can tell - at least under CentOS 7.x - Anaconda will default to MBR, even if I specify a BIOS Boot partition. Maybe it switches automatically to GPT if the disk size requires it ( > 2 TB IIRC) though I don't have any corresponding hardware here to test it. Is this documented somewhere? Or is there a nifty little trick to tell … [View More]

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