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Centos 6.2 x64 after GRUB menu, black screen with blinking cursor
by David McGiven 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

Dear CentOS users, I installed CentOS 6.2 x64 in a Sun Fire X4450 machine, it has 4 disks and I configured them to be a single volume (no RAID). The installer sees the volume perfectly, its 570Gb. I created two ext3 partitions, /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2. In the logs I see they are formated correctly. All the files are installed. Then when I reboot, I get to the GRUB menu. Choose the first and only option, and immediately after that I only see a black screen with blinking cursor on top left. I've tried recreating the grub manually with : find /boot/grub/stage1 (reported it on hd0,0) root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) quit Then I try to boot and I get the same blinking cursor. I tried another approach with no luck either : replacing root=LABEL=UUID for root=/dev/sda1 just to see if this could help ... but I have the same problem. I don't really now what's going on. Is there anyway to put grub into verbose mode so I can see what exactly it is doing or looking for ? Thanks in advance. Regards.

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by Nux! 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

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Issue installing Centos server on Vmware Fusion/Server
by Madhurranjan Mohaan 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

Hi All, I've had issues over the last few days trying to create a Centos server image . I've tried with Vmware fusion and Vmware server and it skips directly to the default desktop install and doesn't give me the option to run the linux server. I am not sure if you've seen this earlier. I've tried with Centos 5.8 and 6.0 but the installer seems to work in that manner . Thoughts around how to fix this ? Thanks Mamu

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Gnome Screensaver - not functioning as advertised
by Rob Kampen 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

Hi List, Currently running a couple of CentOS 6.3 workstations / laptops with gnome as the default window manager. Since the original 6.1 install the behaviour of the screensaver has changed. I use the cosmos theme and have this activate after five minutes of idle. Initially, when the five minutes were up, the screen would start to dim and if one moved the mouse or hit a key on the keyboard it would drop out of screensave and return to full bright screen. With one of the updates since then, the behaviour has changed - now once the 5 minutes are up - one has to wait until the gradual dimming of the screen is complete (a couple of seconds) and only then move the mouse or hit a key to show the password dialog - enter password and then get a working screen - all quite time consuming. So I thought, remove the "Lock screen when screensaver is active" - I have unchecked this option, logged in and out, and it just ignores it and insists on a password - always. I guess there is some option buried deep within the gnome system panel that needs some attention - any ideas? My preference is to have it back to the original behaviour, once the screen begins to fade, a mouse movement or key click prevents the screensaver from gaining complete control and needing the password entry dialog etc. all my precious seconds being wasted - especially as I have a 5 minute idle setting. Suggestions welcome TIA Rob

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Network issue - Windows works but CentOS does not
by xrx 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

I am having an extremely strange issue with a BL460c1 (G1) blade on a c7000 enclosure. I could not for the life of me get the machine to ping the gateway or any other blade on the same enclosure (yes, the subnet mask was correct & quadruple-checked); although pinging to the local IP works. I was almost convinced that it was a network or hardware issue; until I asked someone to try installing Windows on that blade to verify that it was not working as well; however to my surprise it worked fine in Windows after installing the network driver; by just setting the IP address (which was the same IP I was trying to configure CentOS with). The interfaces come up fine (eth0 & eth1); the cards are: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708S Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12) 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708S Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12) NetworkManager is disabled. There is no bonding configured. The network firmware is the latest available from the HP website (bootcode 4.4.1, CLP 1.3.6). The network is supposed to be simple; if I do a: ifconfig eth0 172.12.34.112 netmask 255.255.255.0 I am supposed to be able to: ping 172.12.34.1 However, I get: PING 172.12.34.1 (172.12.34.1) 56(84) bytes of data. From 172.12.34.112 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable From 172.12.34.112 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable From 172.12.34.112 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable From 172.12.34.112 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable I cannot even ping blades in the same enclosure. Yet in windows server 2008 after putting the same IP pinging the same IPs works. I tried: - the disable_msi=1 parameter of the bnx2 driver - a fresh install of CentOS 6.3 - a fresh install of RHEL 6.2 - a live CD of CentOS 5.5 - Clonezilla-ubuntu and systemrescuecd (kernel 3.2) live CDs - CentOS 6.3 with the kernel(-headers,-firmware,-devel) updated to the latest (RPMs were copied with a USB/iLO) - the bnx2 network driver available from the HP website - the bnx2 network driver available from Broadcom Other than a check_ncic warning with the stock 6.3 driver (doesn't appear when trying other drivers); the bnx2 isn't logging anything problematic when I checked with dmesg or /var/log/messages. With tcpdump; strangely, I get random traffic destined to different IPs (probably from the same enclosure), but those IPs do not ping either. However, I got a feeling of deja vu in the midst of all this; as I recall setting up an RHEL machine somewhere else 2-3 years ago; and had the issue of the network working with Windows but not Linux; it turned out that it was because Autonegotiation was disabled with the gigabit network (the few attempts with playing with ethtool did not work); and searching online led me to people saying it ought to be enabled anyway as a standard requires it for gigabit. When the network guys enabled autoneg; it started working in Linux. I am wondering if I'm facing the same issue here, as I see ethtool saying: Advertised auto-negotiation: No Speed: 1000Mb/s I tried doing some ethtool settings (setting autoneg off and forcing 1000, other random options, etc) but it didn't help; but possibly I was trying the wrong things. I am not very familiar with HP blades; but it seems I cannot enable Autoneg for this blade (?); I do not have direct access to the hardware though (everything was done through iLO). Any of you faced issues with a gigabit network with Autoneg disabled? Or any other ideas? This is the only Linux machine in the entire network. Here are some extra info: > ethtool eth0: Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ FIBRE ] Supported link modes: 1000baseT/Full 2500baseX/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 1000baseT/Full 2500baseX/Full Advertised pause frame use: No Advertised auto-negotiation: No Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: FIBRE PHYAD: 2 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: g Wake-on: g Link detected: yes ----------------------- > modinfo bnx2: filename: /lib/modules/2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/bnx2.ko ... version: 2.2.1 license: GPL description: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706/5708/5709/5716 Driver ... vermagic: 2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions ... ----------------------- > route -n: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 172.12.34.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1002 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 172.12.34.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 --------------------- > ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:BB:34:FA:70 inet addr:172.12.34.112 Bcast:172.12.34.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::219:bbff:fe34:fa70/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:6800 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:4616962 (4.4 MiB) TX bytes:4827 (4.7 KiB) Interrupt:16 Memory:f6000000-f6012800 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:BB:34:FA:78 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:16 Memory:fa000000-fa012800 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 .... > traceroute 172.12.34.1: traceroute to 172.12.34.1 (172.12.34.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 172.12.34.112 (172.12.34.112) 3000.686 ms !H 3000.673 ms !H 3000.661 ms !H .... > traceroute 172.12.34.112 traceroute to 172.12.34.112 (172.12.34.112), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 172.12.34.112 (172.12.34.112) 0.041 ms 0.011 ms 0.009 ms -xrx

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Patch Management Server in CentOS 5
by Kaushal Shriyan 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Hi, Is there a patch management server option in CentOS Linux version 5 and documentation or manuals to set it up? Regards Kaushal

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 92, Issue 21
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://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-2012:1413 Important CentOS 5 thunderbird Update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2012:1413 Important CentOS 6 thunderbird Update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 03:07:34 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2012:1413 Important CentOS 5 thunderbird Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20121030030734.GA19524(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2012:1413 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1413.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386: 9f016ba63b0980ddf4355c0cf56cc79c3ed68f18e59b693f5db862ed4645bde4 thunderbird-10.0.10-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm x86_64: 92b59ac5c11685fc6f5468bc0e9bda74fafdde930e1f9f32b3b4ccda0211602a thunderbird-10.0.10-1.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm Source: bede21c9f106cecc158407c4c89cbf6a9c4dd05b563407e06c5b5c3af73eb3b4 thunderbird-10.0.10-1.el5.centos.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:46:18 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2012:1413 Important CentOS 6 thunderbird Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20121030104618.GA9168(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2012:1413 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1413.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386: 91ede5966de441eba302bd659447f5efc2b7183aedcda117376edf62fdc9cb4a thunderbird-10.0.10-1.el6.centos.i686.rpm x86_64: 043cdc5dd7042ce32f99de86223aa888f2f3f04aef4f8dbbb55e4773cfe6ea52 thunderbird-10.0.10-1.el6.centos.x86_64.rpm Source: dbe2d9aacfc23d42ce2649778e4c03db5fa67cdb05162f3e0a36459faca2d047 thunderbird-10.0.10-1.el6.centos.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 92, Issue 21 ***********************************************

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full image backup
by Hossein Lanjanian 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Hi every body I am a new centos user. I installed centos 6 on my laptop and add some software to it. How can I create a full image (boot able) back up of it. ( some thing like windows full image backup). please help! -- With The Best H.Lanjanian

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RPM file download
by Mark LaPierre 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

I see a package "x246-0.120-5.20120303.el6 (i686)" available in my Add/Remove Software tool. I can't find said package in any of the repos I've searched through. Can anyone point me to a link where I can download that package to my local repo? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registerd Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ****

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 92, Issue 20
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://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. CEBA-2012:1411 CentOS 5 perl Update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CEBA-2012:1409 CentOS 6 mt-st FASTTRACK Update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:28:19 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2012:1411 CentOS 5 perl Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20121029102819.GA1326(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2012:1411 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-1411.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386: 24081b99412aee2fd7d43ccd0a661dd5e197c4c55d68c850309186fa2246cf6e perl-5.8.8-38.el5_8.i386.rpm 84290d921e45c6425bbd595d72398458074b306938ad9c9e7c352b27f24a1b87 perl-suidperl-5.8.8-38.el5_8.i386.rpm x86_64: e51507a9828202aaf346c4b6d8530942157e029b67ed1b91bd7c3d0c3865452b perl-5.8.8-38.el5_8.x86_64.rpm 03cca64f455488fbd32394404ae9a9eeed43a324a9466cefb4f0b550c07c8786 perl-suidperl-5.8.8-38.el5_8.x86_64.rpm Source: a5f9f2733154326657b7d9c8fa0f8857ba052452ab5a6d4bcce03f6df8134b9c perl-5.8.8-38.el5_8.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:13:21 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2012:1409 CentOS 6 mt-st FASTTRACK Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20121029121321.GA7255(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2012:1409 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-1409.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386: 073a6206cedecbf2602816b3e06129688c891f45b460335aa390e164396e5712 mt-st-1.1-5.el6.i686.rpm x86_64: 6660763209ee2f92af6314fefe73d10bd129cfdd04735f8ad419f917977ba930 mt-st-1.1-5.el6.x86_64.rpm Source: c7e6ee8c19e00d9d859ce142dfda7f9c988f4a7950ba60fa9c6063d77dd232c8 mt-st-1.1-5.el6.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 92, Issue 20 ***********************************************

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