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Door not hitting me on my way out
by Nico Kadel-Garcia 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Sorry, folks. I wish our release developers well, and hope that they can open up their processes to allow much needed community involvment. But I've hopped to Scientific Linux and find it much more usable due to their willingness to publish updates even without the entire new release bundled, and the much timelier updates from the upstream vendor. php53 and bind97 are directly available for their verison 5.x release, and their version 6.0 has now taken over my testing environments. This makes EPEL's version of drupal, and various Samba 4 testing accessible, and I don't have to waste my time on backports that will be replaced by a release that is further, and further, and further behind. Perhaps in the future the configuration of the build and patch environments can be opened up, or the patching going on for the package rebundling can be published in just the way people with RHEL would publish their kernel patches, rather than presenting merely the results. But such ideas have been rejected as unnecessary, and even the suggestion was rejected with hostility. I know very well how much work such projects take, and regret that I was unable to assist further. My tweaks and bundles will now be going over to Fedora and Scientific Linux, rather than here or in the developer's list. Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel(a)gmail.com>

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lvm and kickstart issues deploying CentOS5.5
by Machin, Greg 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Hi. I'm currently trying to configure a kickstart script to do auto installs. We split up the partitions so that we have control on the mount security like setting no execute on the tmp portions etc . I keep hitting the same error : "Could not stat /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol_root --- No Such file or directory The device apparently does not exist; did you specify is correctly " Even after doing a manual install to generate the file lvm configuration I'm getting the same results. I have also deleted the whole virtual machine and started from scratch. Any suggestions on how I can resolve this ? >From ks.cfg bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda clearpart --linux part /boot --size=101 --fstype ext3 part swap --size=2048 --asprimary part pv.22 --size=100 --grow volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.22 logvol /var/log --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol_var_log --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=2048 logvol /home --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol_home --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=2048 logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol_var --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=2048 logvol /usr --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol_usr --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=2048 logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol_root --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=2048 logvol /tmp --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol_tmp --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=2048 logvol /var/tmp --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol_var_tmp --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=2048 logvol /opt --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol_opt --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=2048

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Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?
by John R. Dennison 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 01:39:33AM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > but to send out an email to the list, for every bloody thing the devs > do (even make coffee, but the sounds of the of the demands here?) do > eventually add-up. An update every couple of days, however, really isn't asking a lot. > And, judging by some of the comments it looks like the devs would have > to start doing some of these people's work for them as well.... Can't argue that. > P.S. What I'm getting at is that many of the demands form some people > are getting ridiculous Concur 100%. There's a difference in wishing things would change and demanding that same change. John -- Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Thirty-fourth President of the USA

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Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?
by Brian Mathis 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi(a)softdux.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Brian Mathis > <brian.mathis+centos(a)betteradmin.com> wrote: >> Appreciate your efforts, but let's make one thing clear: >> >> The SINGLE source of ALL the current community issues (or "whining" as >> you put it) is: >> ***LACK OF INFORMATION*** >> ***LACK OF INFORMATION*** >> ***LACK OF INFORMATION*** >> about what is going on. >> >> No one cares if it's going to take another 3 months. >> >> All that is needed to stop the weekly explosions are some regular >> updates about the process. Something like "Working on xyz package but >> ran into this problem. Still have to look at packages abc and def" >> would more than satisfy a vast majority of people complaining here. >> It's mind boggling that the project just doesn't seem to understand >> that. >> >> >> // Brian Mathis > > > and prolong development even further.......... > > > -- > Rudi Ahlers > SoftDux Rudi, the most professional thing I can think of to say about this argument, which is continually used, is that it's complete BS. Any developer who doesn't already use some type of status tracking tool is such a beginner that they have probably not yet completed primary school. Clearly this is NOT the level of the CentOS devs. Also, this gets into a much deeper discussion of what is the work product of any IT person. The thing preventing you from doing more work is not how fast you can type, but working out problems. To say that keeping track of your status slows down problem solving is completely ignorant -- in fact it's the opposite since you need to sleep sometime and status tracking will help you get back up to speed faster the next day. // Brian Mathis

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interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working
by ken 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos. I've done the "try this!" and "try that!" method and it hasn't worked well. So I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on Firefox working. Currently it works for me with short videos-- up to two or three minutes long. However, when Shockwave is enabled, CPU usage jumps to 99%, sometimes even 100%! If I disable it CPU usage goes down to 1 - 5%. (For those who speak load avg, I've seen highs of 6 and 8... as opposed to the no Shockwave-now of 0.14 to 0.45.) So with the CPU already buried just by having Shockwave is enabled, if a video lasts longer than four minutes, gaps in the video's continuity begin to appear, and by ten minutes in the video is locked up altogether. What's everyone else's experience with this? Does anyone have a setup where they can view a 1.5-hour video normally... and maybe even work in their editor alongside it at the same time? If so, would you be open to explaining what hardware and software etc. you've got so that this works so well? Thanks. -- Anything is easy if you know how to do it.

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Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working
by m.roth＠5-cent.us 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Robert Heller wrote: > At Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:39:30 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> wrote: >> Robert Heller wrote: >> > At Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:39:04 -0400 CentOS mailing list >> <centos(a)centos.org> >> > wrote: >> <snip> >> > And yes, the 64-bit flash 'preview' plugin and yes, it plays flash videos just fine there. [*I* have no use for nVidia's drive -- I don't do 3D modeling or video games, etc.] >> >> Unfortunately, you *do* need nVidia's proprietary driver if you've got dual monitors, like a lot of places I've worked in the last few years. > > I have just the one 17" VGA monitor. Don't have room for either a larger monitor or a second one. And I am not sure what I would do with a second monitor if I had one. Lessee, last place I worked, not sure about the one before that, and where I work now, almost everyone has dual monitors. It's the "in thing". (We won't talk about my co-worker, who seems to remember fondly when he was in the NOC, with three? four? monitors....) mark "only has two eyeballs"

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Is Centos 5.5 too old fro Google Chrome?
by Todd Cary 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

I tried to install Google Chrome and received the dependencies error. Is Centos too old for the new Chrome or is there an older Chrome version that is compatible? Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com

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Re: [CentOS] about:plugins <-Re: interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working
by m.roth＠5-cent.us 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Sorin Srbu wrote: >>Of ken >> >>Under "Tools..." I have "Adobe Reader 9.3", "Adobe Reader 9.4" >>(temporarily disabled due to testing), "Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 >>Plug-in Compatible", "NPAPI Plugins Wrapper 1.3.0", and "Shockwave Flash >>10 0 r153", that's all. >> >>Now looking at about:plugins under "Shockwave Flash" it says: >> >> File: nswrapper_32_32.libflashplayer.so >> Version: >> Shockwave Flash 10.2 r153 >> >>So to your question, the evidence seems to be saying that, yes, >>Shockwave is the same as Flash, at least on Linux. Or do you see >>something different? > > Well, kinda' different over here, at least on Firefox4 running on WinXP. > > Shockwave Flash > File: NPSWF32.dll > Shockwave Flash 10.2 r152 > > Shockwave for Director > File: np32dsw.dll > Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.5.8.612 > > Some differences are expected I guess, platform-wise. Just wasn't sure if > Shockwave and Flash were the same thing. Will be quiet now. 8-) Are you sure the latter isn't the Expen$ive flash video creator (like Acrobat vs. acroread)? mark

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Run from usb
by mattias 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Are it possible? With full root access? And gnome etc

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Tips for motherboard with multiple PCI / PCI-e slots
by robert mena 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Hi, I need to fit at least three NICs and I was looking for motherboard models that contain 3 or 4 CPI (or PCI-e) slots and works with CentOS. I had a problem in the past with some models that had a bug and did not work well with linux (ok with windows) so that's way I am asking this here.

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