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Is anyone using the Orca screenreader?
by John J. Boyer 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Orca is a daemon written in Python and C which presents the contents of a Gnome screen to a blind person in speech or braille. It is on the CentOS 5.6 disks. Has anyone on this list used it? If so, what was your experience? I am developing the BrailleBlaster tactile literacy application. Since I am both blind and deaf, I will be using a braille display. I also need to make sure that the application is usable by other blind people. Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities

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Howto create a VPN connection on desktop (CentOS 6)
by Mark Weaver 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Hi List, I'd like to be able to create VPN connections on my laptop to connect to client locations and I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction for this information. I've checked on the wiki, but didn't find anything. Info appreciated... -- Mark Weaver Computer Information Systems& Services, Inc. mweaver(a)compinfosystems.com (717) 512-9718

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OT: USB3 drive occasionally not detected
by Timothy Kesten 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Hi Folks, CentOS 5.5 x86_64 Asrock-Board with 2 USB3 plugs. Normally USB3-drive is detected. But occasionaly after "umount" next time this drive or other ones will not be detected. I have to boot the PC - than it works - till next unrecognition. On USB2 plugs all works correct. No messages in /var/log/messages nor dmesg. What happens here? Board failure - or other reasons? Some hints welcome. Timothy

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Asterisk binaries on CentOS version 6
by Kaushal Shriyan 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Hi, Any time line of availability of Asterisk binaries on CentOS version 6. Regards Kaushal

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php-5.3.6 fails on CentOS 5.6 64 bit
by Nguyen Vu Hung (VNC) 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Hello all, # I am quite new to 64 bit Linux I am trying to build php-5.3.6 on CentOS 5.6, 64 bit. When I run ./configure under php-5.3.6, I get the following error: ----- Error ----- If configure fails try --with-jpeg-dir=<DIR> configure: error: libpng.(a|so) not found. ----- Error ----- Though libpng-devel and libjpeg-devel (both i386 and x64 rpms) are installed, it seems that configure could not find them. (I guess) I've fixed the errors by: 1. Adding /usr/lib64 to /etc/so.ld.conf, and 2. Specify jpeg lib dir that configure has to look: ./configure --with-jpeg-dir=/usr So, php 5.3.6 did compile fine but, curiously, I want to ask: 3. Why /usr/lib64 is not in ldconfig by default? 4. Why it is "--with-jpeg-dir=/usr" but not "--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib64"? BR, Nguyễn Vũ Hưng

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Gnome System Monitor crashes on Centos 6 x86_64
by Frank Cox 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Has anyone else had this problem? I tried it as a brand new username and it happens every time. Add to panel - System Monitor System Monitor shows up in the panel bar for a split second as a black box, then crashes with the following message: Package: gnome-applets-2.28.0-7.el6 Latest Crash: Mon 11 Jul 2011 03:52:52 PM Command: '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' '' Reason: Process /usr/libexec/multiload-applet-2 was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV) Comment: None Bug Reports: -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER!

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CentOS 6 DVD install "Unable to read group information from repositories"
by Trey Dockendorf 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Tried my first CentOS 6 install on a system currently running 5.6. My attempt was not an upgrade, but a full re-format. I have verified the checksums of the ISO and did the pre-install disk verify and everything checked out. However after the screen for setting up the bootloader I get the following error "Unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with the generation of your install tree" With my only options being "Exit Install" and "Retry", but of course "Retry" continues to fail with the same message. Basically I chose the first option in the menu for the DVD, install / upgrade, went through all the settings, did a custom layout for partitioning. I basically told the installer to re-format my ext3 partitions to ext4 and set the mount points for / , /boot and swap. Then after selecting "Next" from the bootloader configuration is when I get the above error. Thanks - Trey

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6.0 text-mode installer broken?
by Florin Andrei 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

(I'm doing tests in a VirtualBox instance, so take this with a grain of salt.) If you give the VM only 512 MB of RAM, the text-mode installer kicks in. It does not prompt you to configure anything related to the network or hostname. The system boots up without a network interface configured. Also, it won't let you choose the install mode, I guess it defaults to Minimal (which is fine by me, but still it's a bug). If you give the VM 768 MB of RAM, the GUI installer is launched, and this one allows you to configure the hostname, the networking details, and choose the install mode. The system boots up with networking and all the niceties enabled. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

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CentOS 6: the ongoing saga
by m.roth＠5-cent.us 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

We'll ignore that the group name for KDE changed, and so, since we had it on the same line as X, neither was installed. However, more of an annoyance: to get nfs working, I had to install: pam-krb5 ncsd then fix /etc/init.d/autofs (when I did a service restart, it told me automount was running, and did not stop it), then after some research, found I had to manually start rpcbind, *then* I could run nfslock. Any comments, folks? The admin I work with said he does not believe he had to do some of that with RHEL 6. mark "he also says that I shouldn't discount the possibility that he's crazy"

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Installing OS on Flash Drive on Server
by Muhammad Panji 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Hi All, On my gateway server I'm Installing CentOS on a flashdrive. is that a bad idea? the server keep hang, I can ping the server from the LAN and from the internet, the internet connection from LAN to internet is OK but another service is down, ssh, VPN (PPTPD) and another service. Even the console is unresponsive so I have to reset the server. Last time when I still can do SSH to server the / drive is mounted read only, when I try to remount rw it said error write protected but the flash drive itself have no write protection. I'm wondering is using Flashdrive on server OS is a bad idea? anyone have similar experience? thank you. regards, -- ----- Muhammad Panji http://www.panji.web.id http://www.kurungsiku.com http://sumodirjo.wordpress.com http://www.kurungsiku.web.id http://www.linuxbox.web.id

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