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OT - Consumer MOBO + CPU - CentOS 5 - Xen
by Tom Brown 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

Hi I want to consolidate some machines at home and so i wonder does anyone have any recommendations for a good consumer rather than server mobo+cpu combination that would be able to run paravirt and fullvirt quests ? thanks

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CD burning issues & questions
by MHR 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

I have been having some strange results trying to burn CDs under CentOS. I don't think they are hardware related because I have had some success, in fact most of this usually works. I use k3b for most of my CD and DVD writing - it seems to work fairly well (well, except for wrecking my installation a few weeks ago when it crashed my installation and I had to reinstall to get it back, but that's old news). Yesterday, of my work desktop (32-bit), I tried to burn a CD with k3b. The system hung as soon as I clicked on the start button in the burn menu. I did not want another case of wrecked system, so I rebooted (no other way to interrupt it) and all went well, except that I didn't even try to burn the CD. (I used my other, backup desktop, and it worked fine over there - hmm....) Then, last night, on my home desktop (64-bit), which is usually solid as a rock, no problems whatsoever (I said "usually"), I had similar problems, though not quite as bad. I was trying to erase some CD-RWs, and I kept getting errors, both from k3b and cdrecord, claiming that they could not lock the drive for exclusive access (because another process was accessing the device). This is really annoying because I've tried this one several CD-RWs, and they all get the same error. Since k3b doesn't include a facility to add data to an already written CD or DVD unless there's a specific project for it (which I don't have 'cuz the CDs were written under Window$ or with projects I didn't keep). Any ideas/suggestions? Thanks. mhr

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Log File Reviewing
by Joseph L. Casale 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

I need to review a logfile with Sed and cut out all the lines that start with a certain word, problem is this word begins after some amount of whitespace and unless I search for whitespace at the beginning followed by "word" I may encounter "word" somewhere legitimately hence why I don't just search for "word" only... Anyone know how to make sed accomplish this? Thanks! jlc

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Anyone got Diskless BOOT working under CentOS ???
by clemens＠dwf.com 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

Im trying to get a diskless boot set up under CentOS 5.2, and having no luck at all. I am to the point of running system-config-netboot, and whatever information I put in, I get an error message. Responding to the 2nd button on the first popup, which asks for NFS info, I put in the IP address of the current machine (the machine that will hold the boot images for the diskless machine) and the root directory for the diskless machine, viz /diskless/i386/CentOS5.2/root Which has a copy of my root file system, and in particular has a /boot subdirectory. When hitting FORWARD, I get the error message: The diskless subdirectory must be NFS exported and contain a boot subdirectory. Now Ive checked, vsftpd is running, nfs is running, and the above directory (and others) are in the /etc/exports file. I did this several years ago under Fedora, and dont remember having problems like this. Has ANYONE done this recently, and do you remember what you had to do??? I would REALLY like to exchange some e-mail with you. It would be nice if there was an example somewhere. -- Reg.Clemens reg(a)dwf.com

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font errors running Fpc v9.3 is a fingerprint database basically
by Goodman, William 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

Anyone, Fpc v9.3 is a fingerprint database basically. http://www.agcol.arizona.edu/ I have downloaded the pre-compiled Linux binaries for 32 and 64 bit when I try to launch them I receive this error: FATAL ERROR (ruid: null, euid: null, nodeid: null, program: null, version: null, file: graphgdk.c, line: 194) - Can't load default font 8x13 When I click exit the program ends. I have also compiled the source code with the required gtk2, glib2, pango, cairo, atk, fontconfig, freetype2 and I still receive the same error. I am running CentOS 5.2 64 bit - kernel 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5 #1 SMP Wed Sep 24 19:32:05 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Can anyone there Help? Has anyone out there have this problem - I sent this message to will(a)agcol.arizona.edu the developer but he has no experience with fonts, and he is running the same kernel version (but using RedHat) Anyone please... working on this for a month now Bill

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kvm, CentOS as guest / recommendations needed
by Michael Kress 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

Hello, I'm still searching for the ideal solution for Matryoshka-ing CentOS, i.e. using it as a guest under qemu/kvm. Given the fact that I'm a victim of this bug http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2912 (5.2 host/5.2 guest) I'm stuck a little bit, so I tried different debian variants as hosts: sid unstable: ok proxmox VE: ok intrepid ibex (8.10): ok hardy heron (8.04): not ok Using an intel-vt capable dual cpu server / x86_64 arc, with the above effect, what would you recommend to me as a host OS if I wanted to run CentOS 4.x/5.x and debian guests with kvm only? I'd like to administer the whole thing with virsh. TIA, regards Michael

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OT: Win XP, English as language, but German in Office suite
by Sven 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

Hi all Please CC me, I am not on the list. Sorry for the Off-topic. In regional settings I setup English as language[0]. I prefer having the OS in English. Now my Office 2003 is also English, but I wish German. Is there any Windows related mailing list? Not usenet! thanks kind regards Sven [0] http://bayimg.com/image/damnhaabm.jpg

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how to make gnu-make stop when using embedded makefiles
by Colonna Francois 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

Hello I apologise for this question not concerning directly CentOS. On all Linux distribution the only makefile tool is gnu-make. Do somebody know how to make gnu-make stop when an error occurs during a compilation using embedded makefiles ? Thanks François Colonna

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BackupPC newbie: a couple more questions
by Timothy Murphy 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

1. I'm running - or trying to run - BackupPC under Centos-5.2, and have been looking at various BackupPC HOWTOs and tutorials. I see that the "Falko" tutorial at <http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_backuppc> recommends (on page 3) that one should enter one's username, "falko" in this case, as the user in /etc/BackupPC/hosts . Other tutorials suggest one should use the user "backuppc", who was indeed created by "yum install BackupPC". 2. This tutorial also suggests at one point that when exchanging SSH keys one should login to the BackupPC server as backuppc . "Yum install BackupPC" did indeed create a user backuppc on the server, but the entry in /etc/passwd reads backuppc:x:101:104::/var/lib/BackupPC:/sbin/nologin so I cannot login as (or su to) backuppc . Should I alter this password entry? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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Problem setting up diskless boot.
by clemens＠dwf.com 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

OK, I did this once, several years ago, but I have to do it again, and I cant figure out what this stupid error message is trying to say. I am executing system-config-netboot trying to create a diskless client for a diskless boot I constantly get a popup, with different error messages. I try to 'fix' something, and I get a different popup. The current one says: You must enter directory of the Operating System Software This directory must include the images/pxeboot directories [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory. Now there is nowhere to ENTER the directory of the OS Software, the popup asks for Operating system identifier Description Select protocol for installation Kickstart Sotware Server IP Address Location So Im at a loss what to do. Anyone done this recently and know WHAT THIS THING IS ASKING FOR??? Reg.Clemens reg(a)dwf.com

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