September 2020 - Discuss - lists.centos.org

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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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 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"

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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://github.com/gebailey/mate-rpms/tree/master/1.20/el7 There's also instructions there if you want to try upgrading to MATE 1.20 w/o rebuilding them yourself. If these packages work for others, perhaps we can revisit the idea of updating the epel7 branches of the Fedora git repos and submitting an official update. There's nothing here (yet) about building MATE 1.22 (which might require a newer gcc for EL7), or building anything on CentOS 8, but thought the CentOS 7 users might find this helpful. -Greg

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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 changes about announcement policies but I didn't find anything reliable. So I'm asking here what is exactly the status about announcements for CentOS 8 ? Is it a thing who totally disappeared replaced by Red Hat advisories or is it something different ? Or maybe it is just not planned yet ? Explanations would be very welcomed. Thanks for your answer Regards, Olivier Bonhomme

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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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LibreOffice locking up
by H 07 Nov '20

07 Nov '20

I am running LibreOffice 5.3.6.1 under the latest update of CentOS 7 and the Mate desktop. Not infrequently LibreOffice Calc locks up and I have to force close the application. Altough the spreadsheet is rather large I would not consider it complex. This has been going on for some time and I am curious if the bug might be in LibreOffice or if there is some interaction with the Mate desktop that might be responsible. Both CentOS, LibreOffice and Mate have been regularly updated from the standard repositories for a long time. Does anyone else have the same problem?

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Login failure with Secure Boot
by isdtor 24 Oct '20

24 Oct '20

Hi all, I have a laptop in UEFI mode running CentOS 8.2. All works fine but when I enable Secure Boot, login via gdm is no longer possible. Console login is ok. I found some related discussions over on Ubuntu forums, suggesting that this could be related to 3rd-party kernel modules, such as nvidia. This laptop has only Intel builtin graphics, and every single module installed is part of the CentOS distribution. This is from a file /tmp/xses-.XXXXXX (random 6-char string) xrdb: Can't open display '' xmodmap: unable to open display '' Failed to import environment: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1 /usr/bin/xmbind: Can't open display Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Something is different in the way Xorg is started. In this situation, the first part of the Xorg log file (under ~/.local) is a dump of X command line options. use: X [:<display>] [options] -a # ... -ac ... ...

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External harddisk
by H 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

I have an old external harddisk, Toshiba 320 Gb, with a USB connector that I wanted to check for contents. It did not start up when connected and I could not hear the motor spinning. After leaving it in the freezer overnight the motor spins but it is not recognized by my computer. I disassembled it and could see that the head assembly rests outside the disk but when it is powered on, the head first moves to the center of the disk, then to the periphery and finally back to the resting position. This happens every few seconds and leaving it connected overnight changed nothing. I installed smartmontools but the disk is not even recognized by my system as a /dev/sd* device and therefore not accessible to smartd (at least as far as I know it.) Any suggestions for what I could try? I am running CentOS 7. Thank you.

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Re: [CentOS] Viewing changelog for packages to be updated
by Akemi Yagi 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 2:54 PM Kenneth Porter <shiva(a)sewingwitch.com> wrote: > > Is there some way to see the RPM changelog entries for a prospective yum > update? Ideally I'd like to see just the entries that are newer than the > version of the package I already have. > > I saw a new kernel in today's yum-cron email and I'd like to know what it's > about and how urgent the issue is for me. You may want to look into git.centos.org. For example, spec file diff for the latest C7 kernel update can be seen here: https://git.centos.org/rpms/kernel/c/c53828b00fb26a7f96b149eef5e220a5ed4cc4… Akemi

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Centos8: Glusterd do not start correctly when I startup or reboot all server together
by Dario Lesca 02 Oct '20

02 Oct '20

I have install and configure on two server centos8 glusterfs in replica mode in this manner: dnf install centos-release-gluster -y dnf install glusterfs-server glusterfs glusterfs-fuse -y systemctl enable --now glusterd gluster peer probe virt1 gluster peer status sh creavolume.sh gfsvol1 301G /gfsvol1 xfs # NOTE: this is a my shell script to create fs on lvm mkdir /gfsvol1/brick1 gluster pool list gluster volume create gfsvol1 replica 2 virt1:/gfsvol1/brick1 virt2:/gfsvol1/brick1 force gluster volume start gfsvol1 gluster volume info gfsvol1 gluster volume status gfsvol1 gluster volume heal gfsvol1 # add to /etc/fstab vi /etc/fstab virt1:/gfsvol2 /virt-gfs glusterfs defaults,noatime,_netdev 0 0 mkdir /virt-gfs mount -a All work fine but when I start or restart all server together glusterd server start but if I try mount the volume, gluster is not working. At this point if I restart the glusterd service and run "mount -a" all work fine. Seem is a boot network problem Then I have try modify glusterd.service with $ sudo systemctl edit glusterd.service --full And modify the unit in this way: #old < After=network.target < Before=network-online.target #new > After=network.target network-online.target > #Before=network-online.target Now all work fine, mostly when I start or restart all server together. There is another solution or this is a Bug? Many thanks for your suggest -- Dario Lesca (inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 32 Workstation)

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No sound after latest Firefox update (firefox-78.3.0-1.el6.centos.x86_64)
by Robert Nichols 02 Oct '20

02 Oct '20

With Firefox updated to firefox-78.3.0-1.el6.centos.x86_64, I cannot get sound from Firefox. I've tried restarting pulseaudio, also logging out and logging back in. No help. Other A/V apps work just fine. Downgrading to firefox-68.12.0-1.el6.centos.x86_64 makes sound work again. For now, I've excluded version firefox-78.3.0-1 from yum updates. Anyone else seeing this? Any hints? -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.

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CentOS 7 (2009) in progress
by Johnny Hughes 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

OK all .. RHEL 7.9 source code updated today. I am currently working to start the build of CentOS 7 based on that [CentOS 7 (2009) ]. Currently, we need to bootstrap and then build llvm-toolset-9.0 and rust-toolset-1.41 as some of the released packages need those toolsets. I also need to check devtoolset-7 and devtoolset-8 and see if we need any updates to pacakges there before we start the main build .. and I need to see of any of the packages need devtoolset-9. Once we have all those prerequisites completed, I can start the main builds. The goal, as usual, is to get the CR repo populated in 7 to 10 days: https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR And the final release completed in less than 40 days. Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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Using CentOS 7 to attempt recovery of failed disk
by Jerry Geis 28 Sep '20

28 Sep '20

I have a disk that is flagging errors, attempting to rescue the data. I tried dd first - if gets about 117G of 320G disk and stops incrementing the save image any more. Now I'm trying ddrescue and it also stops about the same point Thoughts on how to continue past that point ? Thanks, Jerry

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JFS for CentOS 7
by H 28 Sep '20

28 Sep '20

I had installed kmod-jfs in an earlier version of CentOS 7, 7.4 if I remember correctly. I now have a machine running the latest version of jfs module but kmod-jfs does not seem to be available. Is anyone running it on the current version of CentOS?

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Question regarding cent OS 7.8.2003 compatibility with large SAS disks
by Amey Abhyankar 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

Hello, I have a blade server with SAS HDD's of 12TB in total. 3 HDD's of 4TB each. Is it possible to install Cent OS 7.8.2003 on 12TB disk space? I will be installing Cent OS on the bare metal HW. I referred = https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product But slightly confused with the 'maximum file size' row for ext4 FS. Thanks & Regards, Amey.

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system sounds
by R C 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

Hello, after an update, Centos 7, I don't have any system sounds anymore? Sound works, for video etc. (sound left/right speaker test works) is there a setting that I am missing that somehow got messed up? thanks, Ron

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C8 - Register with Red Hat
by Gregory P. Ennis 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

Everyone, I am still in the low end of the learning curve with Centos 8, and keep getting warning messages to register with Red Hat. Is this a requirement for C8. I do not have a user ID with Red Hat; will they give a user ID for a Centos user. "This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register." Thanks, Greg Ennis

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Systemd service unit file needs to wait until a specific interface is up
by Carlos Lopez 24 Sep '20

24 Sep '20

Hi all, With SystemD, how can I make certain service dependent on certain network interfaces being up? For example, I have an 802.1ad bond interface I need to wait on for being up (this interface has no ip address assigned, it is used to capture networks packets with a tcpdump’s script). Every time this service fails because bond interface is not up. I have configured the service as: [Unit] Description=tcpdump capture script After=network.target Wants=network-online.target But it doesn’t work …. Any tip or trick? My host is CentOS8 x86_64. Regards, C. L. Martinez

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nmcli: unwanted secondary ip-address
by Felix Kölzow 24 Sep '20

24 Sep '20

Dear CentOS-Community, we are facing the following issue: A secondary ip address seems to be automatically added to a nic which causes several issues in our setup. This server is equipped with four nics which are currently in use: # nmcli con show NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE eno2 cb6fcb54-be52-4ab6-8324-88091a0ea1a0 ethernet eno2 eno4 dbd95c24-1ed7-4292-8dba-3934bd1476a0 ethernet eno4 eno1 1e382037-fec9-493d-a4f2-ace7d73a1e7b ethernet eno1 eno3 bea2db0f-d366-4f1b-bec8-4fbfb3c0b6d2 ethernet eno3 enp5s0f0 23f56b9f-4625-471e-9ce4-6fe7b8832310 ethernet -- enp5s0f1 f25b9a10-1584-4233-89dd-2dda7c774f0d ethernet -- From time to time, a secondary ip-address is assigned to an interface as show below: 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 3: eno1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:26:b9:78:87:d1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.1.90/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global noprefixroute eno1 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fe80::226:b9ff:fe78:87d1/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 4: eno2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:26:b9:78:87:d3 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 10.10.100.205/24 brd 10.10.100.255 scope global noprefixroute eno2 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet 10.10.100.72/24 brd 10.10.100.255 scope global secondary dynamic eno2 valid_lft 56158sec preferred_lft 56158sec inet6 fe80::226:b9ff:fe78:87d3/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 5: eno3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:26:b9:78:87:d5 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.4.11/24 brd 192.168.4.255 scope global noprefixroute eno3 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fe80::e98b:e064:50d2:535d/64 scope link noprefixroute valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 6: eno4: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:26:b9:78:87:d7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.2.98/24 brd 192.168.2.255 scope global noprefixroute eno4 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet *192.168.137.223/24* brd 192.168.137.255 scope global dynamic eno4 <<----- THIS IS UNWANTED valid_lft 604778sec preferred_lft 604778sec inet6 fe80::9257:5654:b211:8dea/64 scope link noprefixroute valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 7: enp5s0f0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:15:17:59:96:44 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 8: enp5s0f1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:15:17:59:96:45 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 11: wwp0s29f7u1i4: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/none Furthermore, systemctl status NetworkManager says: systemctl status NetworkManager ● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Mon 2020-09-21 17:25:21 CEST; 17h ago Docs: man:NetworkManager(8) Main PID: 1752062 (NetworkManager) Tasks: 3 (limit: 204496) Memory: 8.2M CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service └─1752062 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon NetworkManager[1752062]: <info> [1600751941.1341] agent-manager: agent[0047d0145168a5f3,:1.4726/nmcli-connect/0]: agent registered NetworkManager[1752062]: <info> [1600751941.1360] device (eno4): Activation: starting connection 'eno4' (dbd95c24-1ed7-4292-8dba-3934bd1476a0) NetworkManager[1752062]: <info> [1600751941.1361] audit: op="connection-activate" uuid="dbd95c24-1ed7-4292-8dba-3934bd1476a0" name="eno4" pid=31215> NetworkManager[1752062]: <info> [1600751941.1363] device (eno4): state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed') NetworkManager[1752062]: <info> [1600751941.1371] device (eno4): state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed') NetworkManager[1752062]: <info> [1600751941.1523] device (eno4): state change: config -> ip-config (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed') NetworkManager[1752062]: <info> [1600751941.1552] device (eno4): state change: ip-config -> ip-check (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed') NetworkManager[1752062]: <info> [1600751941.1582] device (eno4): state change: ip-check -> secondaries (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed') NetworkManager[1752062]: <info> [1600751941.1586] device (eno4): state change: secondaries -> activated (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed') NetworkManager[1752062]: <info> [1600751941.1637] device (eno4): Activation: successful, device activated. This behaviour is really! unwanted. What is the reason for this behavior. Packages like keepalived or ctdb are not installed on this machine. Any help is appreciated how to figure out the reason for this behavior. Thanks in advance. Felix

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Chromium 85 does not load any pages
by H 24 Sep '20

24 Sep '20

I just upgraded chromium on my CentOS 7 system and ended up with nothing loading. I tried to downgrade using yum downgrade chromium but there does not seem to be an older version on my system, nor does EPEL seem to have version 84 which is what I ran before. First, does anyone know why chromium 85 does not load /anything/? Firefox runs fine. Second, why is chromium 84 not available in EPEL? Thanks.

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ZFS and encryption on CentOS 7
by H 23 Sep '20

23 Sep '20

Can I ask what the prevailing opinion is on ZFS and encryption on CentOS 7? Is encryption in ZFS stable? If so, I would use it on a new naked drive I just added. If not, I might stick with LUKS and XFS for now. The drive is a 2 Tb SSD. Thanks.

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Forefox on C7 - uses wrong program to view download folder
by Gary Stainburn 23 Sep '20

23 Sep '20

I've got a C7 laptop using the default repo's (installed plus epel). My firefox has decided to use the wrong program to view the downloads folder. If I download and save a file, then click on the Downloads icon and click on view folder containing the file, it opens the MP3 editor EasyTag instead of Dolphin or Konquror. How do I change it back.

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A Request to Add module to CentOS Linux (3.10.0-1127.18.2.el7.x86_64) 7 (Core)
by Dedoep 22 Sep '20

22 Sep '20

Hello, Is it possible to add the mac802154_hwsim module to CentOS Linux (3.10.0-1127.18.2.el7.x86_64) 7 (Core), so that its part of the OS? Thanks Dan

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iptables & voip
by Gregory P. Ennis 22 Sep '20

22 Sep '20

Everyone, I would like to use our gateway linux machine to give bandwidth preference to voip udp packets. Can anyone point me to a tutorial about the use of voip and iptables? I usually prefer to use iptables instead of firewalld. iptables is more intuitive, and easier to understand. Thanks much!!! Greg Ennis

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