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Problems with CentOS 8 kickstart
by Hooton, Gerard 23 Jun '25

23 Jun '25

Hi All, I am having problems with a kickstart install of CentOS 8 When I try to do a completely automated install using PXE/UEFI it get to the point where it reads the kickstart config file. Then I see the following message "kickstart install Started cancel waiting for multipath siblings for nvme0n1" This is what I have in the kickstart file # Clear the Master Boot Record zerombr # Partition clearing information clearpart --all --initlabel autopart --nohome --type=lvm --fstype=xfs ================ When I install from a USB drive it works OK and I have the following in /dev/disk/by-id lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 13 Jul 5 10:28 nvme-SAMSUNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-00BL7_S64KNE0R161810 -> ../../nvme0n1 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 13 Jul 5 10:28 nvme-eui.002538b11102f46d -> ../../nvme0n1 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 15 Jul 5 10:28 wwn-eui.002538b11102f46d-part3 -> ../../nvme0n1p3 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 15 Jul 5 10:28 nvme-SAMSUNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-00BL7_S64KNE0R161810-part3 -> ../../nvme0n1p3 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 15 Jul 5 10:28 nvme-eui.002538b11102f46d-part3 -> ../../nvme0n1p3 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 15 Jul 5 10:28 lvm-pv-uuid-5Dg4mg-saHa-hJJ6-n5a8-MxBS-gdFi-5jPoNn -> ../../nvme0n1p3 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 15 Jul 5 10:28 wwn-eui.002538b11102f46d-part2 UNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-0-> ../../nvme0n1p2 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 15 Jul 5 10:28 nvme-SAMSUNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-00BL7_S64KNE0R161810-part2 -> ../../nvme0n1p2 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 15 Jul 5 10:28 nvme-eui.002538b11102f46d-part2 -> ../../nvme0n1p2 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 400 Jul 5 10:28 . lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 15 Jul 5 10:28 wwn-eui.002538b11102f46d-part1 -> ../../nvme0n1p1 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 15 Jul 5 10:28 nvme-SAMSUNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-00BL7_S64KNE0R161810-part1 -> ../../nvme0n1p1 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 15 Jul 5 10:28 nvme-eui.002538b11102f46d-part1 -> ../../nvme0n1p1 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Jul 5 11:07 dm-uuid-LVM-qQok4M7AOo1TxZZ42GwZcbuVNBs0hnkKtEdtLjwJQyIdxJcSvPv8TEAjwYGMv6yU -> ../../dm-0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Jul 5 11:07 dm-uuid-LVM-qQok4M7AOo1TxZZ42GwZcbuVNBs0hnkKAooqrczySYJyiHvUAUji9oScPN2cVi7J -> ../../dm-1 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Jul 5 11:07 dm-name-cs_uews027-swap -> ../../dm-1 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Jul 5 11:07 dm-name-cs_uews027-root -> ../../dm-0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Jul 5 11:07 dm-uuid-LVM-qQok4M7AOo1TxZZ42GwZcbuVNBs0hnkK5HZXbR2ow5xKGuD7jVe4UPzZm2qRLLXI -> ../../dm-2 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Jul 5 11:07 dm-name-cs_uews027-home -> ../../dm-2 It's looks like that I am not doing the disk drive stuff in the config file correctly. -- Gerard Hooton. Senior Technical Officer School of Engineering. University College Cork. College Road. Cork. Ireland. Loc8: WDR-04-60G Tel: +353 21 4902296 Mobile: +353 852813491

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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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Apache mpm itk
by Gionatan Danti 17 May '23

17 May '23

Hi all, the EPEL repository for CentOS7 contains httpd-itk, an apache module for running different vhosts under specific user/group ID. For RHEL8 I can find it only in 3rd party repos, while I misses it entirely for RHEL9. Is the module deprecated? Can it be re-included into EPEL? Regards. -- Danti Gionatan Supporto Tecnico Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it email: g.danti(a)assyoma.it - info(a)assyoma.it GPG public key ID: FF5F32A8

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Re: [CentOS] Trouble with kernel-3.10.0-1160.80.1.el7.x86_64
by Petko Alov 11 Mar '23

11 Mar '23

> > On 2022-11-08 15:49, Orion Poplawski wrote: > > On 11/8/22 13:12, Simon Matter wrote: > > Is anyone else experiencing trouble with > kernel-3.10.0-1160.80.1.el7.x86_64? > > I'm seeing a kernel panics in the kvm module on one of our VM hosts with > > it. > > I did notice a new libvirt update as well, but it seems to work fine with > > the > older kernel (.76.1). > > Where did you get the .80.1 kernel from? I'm a bit confused because I can > > only see .76.1 on my systems. > > Simon > > I'm actually running Scientific Linux, which seems to be a little ahead here. > > Probably not related, but vmlinuz-4.18.0-372.32.1.el8_6.x86_64 (AlmaLinux 8.6) had a kernel panic > on a Intel Xeon E5504 processor, but works fine on Xeon E56XX processors (5620 specifically in our > tests). * Believe from kernel version, the original email is for Centos 7, possible the same > change that went into the EL8 kernel went also to EL7 Triggered right after I used virsh start to > start the vm. (Caused Black Screen, and reboot. Found this in the crashed kernel logs on > /var/crash) Works fine on vmlinuz-4.18.0-372.26.1.el8_6.x86_64 and > vmlinuz-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.x86_64 In fact, related - on our systems attempt to start qemu-kvm VM under kernel-3.10.0-1160.80.1.el7.x86_64 freezes any of 5 workstations with dual E5507 (all worked OK under kernel-3.10.0-1160.76.1.el7.x86_64 and any previous version). The workstations with E5-2609, E5-2650 or E5-2630 are not affected - all of them run qemu-kvm VM under kernel-3.10.0-1160.80.1.el7.x86_64 without problems. Any ideas? Regards, Petko -- Petko Alov Department of QSAR & Molecular Modelling Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, BAS 21 G. Bontchev Str 1113 Sofia, BULGARIA

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EPEL future model
by Leon Fauster 23 Nov '22

23 Nov '22

JFI: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/epel-10-proposal/44304 -- Leon

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CentOS 7: Missing Thunderbird Updates
by Chris Schanzle 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Hi, Looks like CentOS 7 hasn't shipped Thunderbird updates for a while. The latest I see in repos is: Sep 1 15:22 thunderbird-91.13.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm Perusing through the RHEL announcements, that was from the RHSA-2022:6169-01 on 2022-08-24. Seems none of the 102.x versions have shipped: 2022-09-26 RHSA-2022:6710-01 thunderbird-102.3.0-3.el7_9.x86_64.rpm 2022-10-18 RHSA-2022:6998-01 thunderbird-102.3.0-4.el7_9.x86_64.rpm 2022-10-25 RHSA-2022:7184-01 thunderbird-102.4.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm And for completeness, just announced today: 2022-11-21 RHSA-2022:8555-01 thunderbird-102.5.0-2.el7_9.x86_64.rpm Thanks in advance for efforts to find and clear the blockage!

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CentOS 9 Stream mirrorlist url's
by Jos Vos 19 Nov '22

19 Nov '22

Hi, I'm trying to port a CentOS 8 Stream kickstart file to CentOS 9 Stream, but I cannot find what repo mirrorlist url's I now have to use. For CentOS 8 Stream I had: repo --name=centos-baseos --mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=8-stream&arch=x86_64&repo=BaseOS repo --name=centos-appstream --mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=8-stream&arch=x86_64&repo=AppStream repo --name=centos-extras --mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=8-stream&arch=x86_64&repo=Extras repo --name=centos-powertools --mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=8-stream&arch=x86_64&repo=PowerTools Just replacing the 8 by 9 does not work, as those url's produce an "Invalid release/repo/arch combination" error. UNfortunately I couldn't find info about this on the CentOS site so far. Thanks in advance, -- -- Jos Vos <jos(a)xos.nl> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Mobile: +31 6 26216181

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Install PHP 8.1.12 on CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core).
by Kaushal Shriyan 19 Nov '22

19 Nov '22

Hi, I am running CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core). I have enabled both epel and IUS repositories to install https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-8.php#8.1.12. It is not available. Do I need to install and enable any other repository to install PHP 8.1.12? #php -v PHP 8.1.12 (cli) (built: Oct 25 2022 17:30:00) (NTS gcc x86_64) Copyright (c) The PHP Group Zend Engine v4.1.12, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies with Zend OPcache v8.1.12, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies Please guide me. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Kaushal

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nvme fs block size advice
by Adrian Sevcenco 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

Hi! So, i have nvme which reports the following (lsblk -t): NAME ALIGNMENT MIN-IO OPT-IO PHY-SEC LOG-SEC ROTA SCHED RQ-SIZE RA WSAME nvme0n1 0 131072 131072 32768 4096 0 none 1023 256 0B the nvme ns is formated with LBA=1 (4k) option (which is the second option after 512) but both lsblk and parted report sector size logical/physical as 4k/32k The question is : what block size should i use (is optimal) for file-system? Should i try a 32k blocksize? Thanks a lot! Adrian

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Trouble with kernel-3.10.0-1160.80.1.el7.x86_64
by Orion Poplawski 10 Nov '22

10 Nov '22

Is anyone else experiencing trouble with kernel-3.10.0-1160.80.1.el7.x86_64? I'm seeing a kernel panics in the kvm module on one of our VM hosts with it. I did notice a new libvirt update as well, but it seems to work fine with the older kernel (.76.1). -- Orion Poplawski IT Systems Manager 720-772-5637 NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane orion(a)nwra.com Boulder, CO 80301 https://www.nwra.com/

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set default permission to deployuser:deployuser for nfs common mount point /mnt/test
by Kaushal Shriyan 09 Nov '22

09 Nov '22

Hi, I am running two GCP GCE VM instances running CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core) behind https load balancer. I am using https://cloud.google.com/filestore#documentation to mount the nfs server common mount point to both client servers. #mount 10.0.0.2:/vol1 /mnt/test I did chown -Rc deployuser:deployuser (user:group) /mnt/test. When the php code uploads any file to the /mnt/test folder, the file permission is owned by php-fpm:php-fpm (user:group) Please guide and let me know how to set it to the default permissions of deployuser:deployuser (user:group) for all files and folders created in nfs server common point /mnt/test. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Kaushal

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Re: [CentOS] LibreOffice on CentOS 7
by jefflpost＠twc.com 04 Nov '22

04 Nov '22

Sorry, my misunderstanding. The version I gave is the version of CentOS7, the version of LibreOffice is 5.3.6.1-25.el7_9. -----------------------------------------From: "Pete Geenhuizen" To: "CentOS mailing list", "H" Cc: Sent: Thursday November 3 2022 7:52:59AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] LibreOffice on CentOS 7 Why not simply download the latest and greatest version LibreOffice from their we site I've been doing that for several years on both Centos 7 and now Rocky 8 and it has worked without fail. On 11/3/22 10:46, H wrote: > On 11/02/2022 03:53 PM,jefflpost(a)twc.com wrote: >> 3.10.0-1160.76.1.el7.x86_64. I check for updates every day. >> >> Jeff >> >> -----------------------------------------From: "H" >> To: "CentOS mailing list" >> Cc: >> Sent: Wednesday November 2 2022 6:28:52AM >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] LibreOffice on CentOS 7 >> >> On November 1, 2022 5:13:49 PM EDT, Josh Boyer wrote: >> >On Tue, Nov 1, 2022, 5:05 PM H wrote: >> > >> >> I am running the default version of LibreOffice 5.3.6.1 on CentOS >> 7. >> >This >> >> is quite an old version and has a serious bug in Calc, possibly an >> >errant >> >> pointer, that frequently locks up spreadsheets. >> >> >> >> Has anyone installed a later version of LO on CentOS 7? I would >> >prefer a >> >> version that is not flatpak, snap or appimage etc... >> >> >> > >> >Could you elaborate why you would like to avoid those packaging >> >formats? >> > >> >josh >> >_______________________________________________ >> >CentOS mailing list >> >CentOS(a)centos.org >> >https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos /> >> /> >> A general dislike of anything that gets between the operating system >> and an application potentially introducing its own complications. >> >> Does anyone happen to know what the latest native version for CentOS >> 7 is? >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS(a)centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos /> >> /> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS(a)centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos /> > That seems to be version 3.10.0, or? As I wrote, I am running 5.3.6.1... > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos /> > -- Unencumbered by the thought process. -- Click and Clack the Tappet brothers _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos />

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Re: [CentOS] LibreOffice on CentOS 7
by jefflpost＠twc.com 03 Nov '22

03 Nov '22

3.10.0-1160.76.1.el7.x86_64. I check for updates every day. Jeff -----------------------------------------From: "H" To: "CentOS mailing list" Cc: Sent: Wednesday November 2 2022 6:28:52AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] LibreOffice on CentOS 7 On November 1, 2022 5:13:49 PM EDT, Josh Boyer wrote: >On Tue, Nov 1, 2022, 5:05 PM H wrote: > >> I am running the default version of LibreOffice 5.3.6.1 on CentOS 7. >This >> is quite an old version and has a serious bug in Calc, possibly an >errant >> pointer, that frequently locks up spreadsheets. >> >> Has anyone installed a later version of LO on CentOS 7? I would >prefer a >> version that is not flatpak, snap or appimage etc... >> > >Could you elaborate why you would like to avoid those packaging >formats? > >josh >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS(a)centos.org >https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos /> A general dislike of anything that gets between the operating system and an application potentially introducing its own complications. Does anyone happen to know what the latest native version for CentOS 7 is? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos />

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LibreOffice on CentOS 7
by H 02 Nov '22

02 Nov '22

I am running the default version of LibreOffice 5.3.6.1 on CentOS 7. This is quite an old version and has a serious bug in Calc, possibly an errant pointer, that frequently locks up spreadsheets. Has anyone installed a later version of LO on CentOS 7? I would prefer a version that is not flatpak, snap or appimage etc...

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