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Reinstall boot lodear.
by Ashish Shaligram 18 Sep '11

18 Sep '11

Hi, I have install 2 os, windows & centos6.0 x86. and after format of windows os cent os bootlodear not showing, how can i active my cent os with healp of centos dvd ? Thank You.... -- *Regards,* Ashish A. Shaigram All-Tech Computer Solutions 9722537772

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Depsolving errors whilst upgrading Centos 5.6 -> 5.7
by Dave Cross 18 Sep '11

18 Sep '11

I have a dedicated server from 1&1 (http://1and1.co.uk/) A 'yum list updates' today showed me that the 5.7 update was available (it's probably been there for a while, I don't check that often). But running 'yum update' gives the following error: Running rpm_check_debug ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve: kernel(rhel5_fs_proc_ga) is needed by (installed) kmod-xfs-xen-0.4-2.x86_64 kernel(rhel5_arch_x86_64_kernel_ga) is needed by (installed) kmod-xfs-xen-0.4-2.x86_64 kernel(rhel5_fs_partitions_ga) is needed by (installed) kmod-xfs-xen-0.4-2.x86_64 kernel(rhel5_vmlinux_ga) is needed by (installed) kmod-xfs-xen-0.4-2.x86_64 kernel(rhel5_kernel_u2) is needed by (installed) kmod-xfs-xen-0.4-2.x86_64 kernel(rhel5_fs_u2) is needed by (installed) kmod-xfs-xen-0.4-2.x86_64 kernel(rhel5_drivers_xen_core_ga) is needed by (installed) kmod-xfs-xen-0.4-2.x86_64 kernel(rhel5_block_u2) is needed by (installed) kmod-xfs-xen-0.4-2.x86_64 kernel(rhel5_kernel_ga) is needed by (installed) kmod-xfs-xen-0.4-2.x86_64 kernel(rhel5_security_ga) is needed by (installed) kmod-xfs-xen-0.4-2.x86_64 kernel(rhel5_block_ga) is needed by (installed) kmod-xfs-xen-0.4-2.x86_64 kernel(rhel5_kernel_module_ga) is needed by (installed) kmod-xfs-xen-0.4-2.x86_64 kernel(rhel5_fs_ga) is needed by (installed) kmod-xfs-xen-0.4-2.x86_64 kernel(rhel5_mm_ga) is needed by (installed) kmod-xfs-xen-0.4-2.x86_64 kernel(rhel5_lib_ga) is needed by (installed) kmod-xfs-xen-0.4-2.x86_64 kernel(rhel5_mm_u2) is needed by (installed) kmod-xfs-xen-0.4-2.x86_64 Complete! (1, [u'Please report this error in http://bugs.centos.org/set_project.php?project_id=16&ref=http://bugs.centos…']) I haven't reported the bug yet. I thought I'd see if anyone here had seen anything similar first. Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: dave(a)dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg

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centos product specification
by Janez Kosmrlj 18 Sep '11

18 Sep '11

The page http://www.centos.org/product.html has product specifications for all centos releases except for centos6. Is there a reason why or did the site maintainers just forget about it.

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centos-release 5.7 srpm where?
by me＠tdiehl.org 18 Sep '11

18 Sep '11

Hi, Is the centos-release srpm for 5.7 available anywhere. I have looked at several mirrors but no srpms are to be found. I realize everyone is busy but it would be nice to have at least the srpms that were specific to the centos project with the release. Regards, -- Tom me(a)tdiehl.org Spamtrap address me123(a)tdiehl.org

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 to 5.7 upgrade
by fred smith 18 Sep '11

18 Sep '11

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 08:53:44AM +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: > Hi all, > > Almost wish I had something more exciting to say regarding the 5.6 to 5.7 > upgrade, but it just worked flawlessly. Physical as well as virtual > machines. > > Thanks CentOS-team for your good work! Seconded! My update went very well. booted right back up an everthing seems to be working--except... for some reason it overwrote my sendmail.cf rather than dropping in a sendmail.cf.rpmnew as it has done in the past, so after several hours I noticed I wasn't getting any incoming email. after a little flailing this morning (not having yet had any caffeine) I realized I should look at that. copied my version in, bounced sendmail and off to the races! Fred -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. --Roger Ebert, December, 1996 ----------------------------- The Boulder Pledge -----------------------------

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Thank you!!
by Thomas Dukes 17 Sep '11

17 Sep '11

Just wanted to thank everyone for helping me get my new machine up and running. I thought I had bought a boat anchor. Not sure what's up with my DVD drive on my 5.7 machine but I will be phasing/retiring it out over the next few days. Again thanks for your help and most of all your patience. Eddie

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Upgrade from 5.6 => 5.7
by Thomas Dukes 17 Sep '11

17 Sep '11

SUCCESS!! Everything working, even the 'roll your own' apps!! Thanks!!

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OT : ARIN Apologies .....
by Always Learning 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

For those who use Centos and have problems with ARIN, here is today's apology from ARIN's Chief Engineer Andy Newton posted on ARIN-Tech. Follow-ups, if any, off-list please. Thank you. Paul -------------------------------------- All, We appreciate your patience and willingness to work with us through issues and questions that have arisen with regard to Reg-RWS, our RESTful provisioning and resource management interface. We recognize that our current documentation is deficient, and we are working to correct that problem. Poor or inadequate documentation can be frustrating, and for that we apologize. While the Reg-RWS documentation addresses specific method calls and payloads, there is no good reference to the broader ARIN business rules nor how they apply to the RESTful interface or any of the other ARIN systems. We are working to address this gap. Again, thank you for your patience and willingness to work through questions and issues. Andy Newton Chief Engineer, ARIN

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Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7
by Sebastiano Pilla 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

I'm trying to update my CentOS 5.6 boxes to 5.7, and on every single one of them yum is failing with a segmentation fault: the error happens when yum is checking the 'base' repository. [root@picard yum]# yum update Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities Determining fastest mirrors * base: mirrors.ircam.fr * extras: mirrors.ircam.fr * updates: mirror.opendoc.net base | 1.1 kB 00:00 base/primary | 961 kB 00:00 Segmentation fault Running yum under strace produces lots of output, the last lines are: access("/var/cache/yum/base/primary.xml.gz.sqlite-journal", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=20480, ...}) = 0 _llseek(5, 0, [0], SEEK_SET) = 0 read(5, "SQLite format 3\0\4\0\1\1\0@ \0\0\0\21\0\0\0\0"..., 1024) = 1024 _llseek(5, 2048, [2048], SEEK_SET) = 0 read(5, "\r\0\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 1024) = 1024 fcntl64(5, F_SETLK64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xbf86a1c4) = 0 futex(0x7ba0918, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 stat64("/var/cache/yum/base/primary.xml.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=983757, ...}) = 0 stat64("/var/cache/yum/base/primary.xml.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=983757, ...}) = 0 stat64("/var/cache/yum/base/primary.xml.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=983757, ...}) = 0 open("/var/cache/yum/base/primary.xml.gz", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 6 _llseek(6, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0 read(6, "\37\213\10\10\0\0\0\0\2\377/home/buildcentos/CENT"..., 8192) = 8192 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ It seems that the primary.xml.gz file is somehow corrupted, but I've already tried a "yum clean all" and a "rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*" without success. Apart from being at CentOS 5.6 and all having this problem, the boxes have very few in common: - 2 physical machine running 5.6 32-bit, one in my office, the other in a datacenter - 1 physical machine running 5.6 64-bit in another datacenter - 2 KVM VPS running 5.6 32-bit in a third datacenter - 1 Xen VPS running 5.6 64-bit in a fourth datacenter There was a thread on the forum some months ago which mentioned this same problem, but the original poster didn't find a solution (or if he did, he didn't share it with the forum). Any suggestion is appreciated, I cannot reinstall those boxes with 6.0 for at least 4/5 months.

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CentOS 6.0 Heartbeat missing logd??
by Ken Dechick 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

Hello list, Working on migrating my existing High-Availability setups from CentOS 5.3 to 6.0, both x86_64. I generally setup a fairly simple 2 node active/passive cluster using DRBD , Heartbeat, and Pacemaker. Use these clusters to run our proprietary Medical software plus a few key services ( openvpn , Digi PortServer Daemon, etc.). I had a procedure in place for doing all of this under 5.3 and was hoping to basically duplicate the same thing on CentOS 6 as an early step in moving all the servers we build to EL6. I expected some hurdles along the way. New versions of the needed software, the new ext4 file system, my move from standard partitioning to LVM , ect . Biggest issue up till now was that the pacemaker package from CentOS base (pacemaker-1.1.2-7.el6.x86_64.rpm) was built with no support for Heartbeat , surprisingly. That was easy to fix with a quick source rpm rebuild, but now I have run into a new wall I am hoping someone can help me with. The latest Heartbeat package from EPEL (heartbeat-3.0.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm) I thought would be the easy way to go for EL6 (was using v3.0.3 on EL5), but it appears to be missing the logd daemon that it is supposed to include. Heartbeat logd With Heartbeat v3.0.3 I had the daemon installed as expected as: /etc/ init .d/ logd . In CentOS 6, I installed the v3.0.4 from EPEL and there is no logd installed. Of course heartbeat is complaining that logd is not running, but giving me no more info. So I snagged the source rpm and dug around thinking maybe I had to rebuild that myself too, but I find no mention of logd is these sources anywhere. Surely I am not the first to try to run a Heartbeat/Pacemaker cluster in CentOS 6, am I?? Can anyone shed some light on this? Googled around most of the afternoon yesterday but found no answers, or even anyone else having the same issue. Moving to another messaging layer is not something I really want to consider here. We only build a dozen of so HA setups a year so I try to keep them as similar as possible to make supporting them easier on my team. I used to work directly with Linbit on issues like this but last year the higher-ups in my company decided I knew enough about this stuff already and we dropped our support contract with them, doh ! Any help would be much appreciated! Thank You Kenneth Dechick Linux Systems Administrator Community Computer Services, Inc. This message and any attachments may contain information that is protected by law as privileged and confidential, and is transmitted for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, copying or retention of this e-mail or the information contained herein is strictly prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail, and permanently delete this e-mail.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 to 5.7 upgrade
by m.roth＠5-cent.us 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

Sorin Srbu wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf >>Of m.roth(a)5-cent.us >>Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 4:04 PM >>To: CentOS mailing list >>Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 to 5.7 upgrade >> >>For us, it's breaking an ssh-restrict script we use with rsync for >>backups, mangling some passed wildcards. > > Is this a homebrew backup solution? > > I use BackupPC, and so far I haven't seen any problems Yep. The ssh-restrict only allows certain accounts to issue only certain commands when coming in through ssh, sorta like sudoers, for another layer of security. That security is *required* by law: some data from some systems contains HIPAA and PII. mark

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Dedup (again)
by Fajar Priyanto 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

Hi all, Back in March someone asked about deduplication in Centos and I replied I'm using LessFS. I want to report that my overall experience is that I have performance issue up to the point that I would like to abandon it. The OP was asking http://www.opendedup.org/ How is it? Thanks Fajar

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Cons of disabling *.i386 and *.i686 in a 64bit Distribution
by James Nguyen 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

Can anybody give me a reason why this would be a bad idea. So the premise for this question is that I setup an exclude=*.i368,*.i686 in my yum.conf. While doing a yum update I come across missing package dependencies for instance mkinitrd for the i386 package. I noticed there is already one for x86_64. I realized during the kickstart install that some of these *.i386 got installed before I could enable the exclude in the yum.conf. So the questions I pose is... why are some of these *.i386 packages getting installed on a 64bit distro? is there any harm is removing them all? I guess I could spin up a virtual and try, but wanted to see what the census already knows about this matter as well. Thanks! -- james h nguyen | lead systems architect | www.callfire.com | 1.949.625.4263

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trouble booting install CD on old machine
by Keith Keller 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

Hi all, I'm having a bit of an issue booting the full 5.7 install CD on an older machine. I downloaded the ISOs earlier today, checked the sha1sums, and burned the CDs with no reported errors. But when I try to boot, the isolinux banner comes up quickly, but then instead of the boot prompt, I get a completely blank screen. After 30-60 seconds, I get a message in purple, the exact wording I don't recall, but something like "can't boot, please restart". Many years ago I put CentOS 4 on this machine, so I know it can boot CD media, and earlier today I booted an older UBCD, so I know that it can successfully boot from CD at the present time. (I didn't have time to test the CD I burned in another box; I will do that next time I have the CD.) What other options do I have for getting 5.7 on this box? I have a few ideas: --do some troubleshooting with the 5.7 CD. I don't really know how to go about this, and there's no guarantee it'll end up with being able to boot in the end. --perhaps an older CentOS 5 ISO will work better? Testing this will be fairly quick but is not sure to work. --remove the system disk, put it into another system that is known to boot the 5.7 CD, install there, then put the disk back. This could be somewhat time consuming (the machine is in a rack, and the system drive is buried in the chassis, not hot-swappable), but is pretty sure to work. --try to boot from USB. As I said, it's an old box, so I'm not sure it supports booting over USB media. There were no "boot from USB" options in the BIOS; I could try to flash the firmware, but that seems excessive for this sort of issue. Other thoughts/suggestions? Any ideas why I'd be seeing this particular boot behavior? It's not something I've seen before; either booting fails before even reaching isolinux, or the kernel panics on finding some exotic and/or broken piece of hardware. --keith -- kkeller(a)wombat.san-francisco.ca.us

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Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-5.7 i386 and x86_64
by Always Learning 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 00:33 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5.7 for > i386 and x86_64 Architectures. Thank you for all the hard dedicated work. -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU.

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distro pkg update messages only email lists or website too?
by R - elists 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

greetings are distro pkg update messages only email lists or website too? i see that CentOS 5 kernel stuff is pushed 2x in past coupla days and just wanna make sure what differences are... or was it just a move from CR to mainline difference and upgrading same things again? - rh

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Error in updating to 5.7
by Alain Péan 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

Hi all, I have a Dell server, CentOS 5.6 64 bits, on which I configured the CR repository. I just tried to update to 5.7, and had this error : # yum update .... http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/cr/x86_64/repodata/filelists.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. Error: failure: repodata/filelists.sqlite.bz2 from cr: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: package-cleanup --problems package-cleanup --dupes rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest The program package-cleanup is found in the yum-utils package. My repolist is this one : # yum repolist Loaded plugins: dellsysid, fastestmirror, refresh-updatesd Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons: distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr * base: distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr * epel: fr2.rpmfind.net * extras: centos.crazyfrogs.org * updates: centos.crazyfrogs.org repo id repo name status addons CentOS-5 - Addons enabled: 0 base CentOS-5 - Base enabled: 3535 cr CentOS-5 - CR enabled: 573 dell-omsa-indep Dell OMSA repository - Hardware independent enabled: 719 dell-omsa-specific Dell OMSA repository - Hardware specific enabled: 2 epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - x86_64 enabled: 6700 extras CentOS-5 - Extras enabled: 233 updates CentOS-5 - Updates enabled: 150 repolist: 11912 Other information : # cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.6 (Final) # uname -a Linux xxxxxxx 2.6.18-274.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jul 22 04:43:29 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Does anybody has an idea why I have this error ? Thanks for the help. -- ========================================================== Alain Péan - LPP/CNRS Administrateur Système/Réseau Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas - UMR 7648 Observatoire de Saint-Maur 4, av de Neptune, Bat. A 94100 Saint-Maur des Fossés Tel : 01-45-11-42-39 - Fax : 01-48-89-44-33 ==========================================================

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CentOS 5.6 to 5.7 upgrade
by Sorin Srbu 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

Hi all, Almost wish I had something more exciting to say regarding the 5.6 to 5.7 upgrade, but it just worked flawlessly. Physical as well as virtual machines. Thanks CentOS-team for your good work! -- BW, Sorin ----------------------------------------------------------- # Sorin Srbu [Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >3 rings> GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem, Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se ----------------------------------------------------------- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ http://www.asciiribbon.org # # This message was not sent from an iProduct! # # MotD follows: # "God, root, what is difference?" -Pitr from http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/pitr/

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Yum update to 5.7 unexpected results
by b.j. mcclure 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

I have a couple machines running 5.6 fully updated from cr repo. When I did 'yum update' this morning it found 8 updates: centos-release-5-7.el5 centos-release-notes-5.7-0 ghostscript 8.70-6.el5_7.3 nspr 4.8.8-1.el5_7 nss 3.12.10-4.el5 nss-tools 3.12.10-4.el5 ntp-4.2.2p1-15.el5 initscripts-8.45.38-2.el5 However yum reported 404 on everything but ntp and initscripts. I installed ntp and initscripts individually and yum continued to report 404 on the rest of the updates on both machines. One machine i386, the other x86_64. I did a 'yum clean all' followed by 'yum update' and it installed centos-release and centos-release-notes but not nss, nss-tools, ghostscript or nspr updates. []# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.7 (Final) []# rpm -q nss nss-tools ghostscript nspr nss-3.12.8-4.el5_6 nss-tools-3.12.8-4.el5_6 ghostscript-8.70-6.el5 nspr-4.8.6-1.el5_5 Both machines had identical results and appear to be fully updated to 5.7 but with at least four packages not updated. I don't think this is an intended result. Any thoughts much appreciated. B.J. CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final)

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Run commands automatically when bringing up/down network interfaces?
by Edward Morbius 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

I'm looking for a capability similar to Debian/Ubuntu's pre/post up/down network commands capability. The problem: we've got a colo in which hosts talk directly to the hosting provider's router (through a bridging firewall) and hence our hosts MAC addresses are cached by the router. We should be able to solve this by pinging the router directly when bringing up the interface, rather than waiting (a day) for the router's ARP cache to expire. Yes, this means we're switching which hosts respond to a specific IP address, yes, we have to do this periodically. An alternative would be to remap the MAC address, though pinging the router seems cleaner, and the MAC remap would /still/ have to run when the interface is brought up/down. -- Dr. Ed Morbius Chief Scientist / Philologist / Robot Wrangler / Powerplant Operator Krell Power Systems Unlimited

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TIP for broken ARIN whois
by Always Learning 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

This works for me on Centos 5.6. It may assist newcomers to the Linux world of Centos. whois 51.51.51.51 produces a normal and conventional display of data. However since ARIN, the North American registrar of IP addresses, "modernised" its WHOIS processing, a query to whois 64.64.64.64 will produce a one line summary of possible matches, which always includes ARIN, but omits the details we used to receive before ARIN implemented its much criticised "improved" service. A one line script solves it for me (but only for ARIN network entries). #!/bin/bash whois -h whois.arin.net n + $1 I call my script .arin .arin 64.64.64.64 produces a normal output. Paul.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 79, Issue 5
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

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. Release for CentOS-5.7 i386 and x86_64 (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:33:50 +0100 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-5.7 i386 and x86_64 To: CentOS Announcements List <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <4E6FE85E.5080703(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5.7 for i386 and x86_64 Architectures. CentOS-5.7 is based on the upstream release EL 5.7 and includes packages from all variants including Server and Client. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, to make it easier for end users to work with. This is just an announcement email, not the release notes. The Release Notes for CentOS-5.7 can be found on-line at : http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.7 and everyone is encouraged to look through them once. Also worth browsing through are the CentOS FAQs at http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ +++++++++++++++++++++++ Upgrading from CentOS-5.6 ( or CentOS-5.0/5.1/5.2/5.3/5.4/5.5): If you are already running CentOS-5.6 or an older CentOS-5 distro, all you need to do is update your machine via yum by running : 'yum update' Running 'yum list updates' before doing the update is recommended, so you can get a list of packages that are going to be updated. To check you are indeed on CentOS-5.7, run : 'rpm -q centos-release' and that should return: 'centos-release-5-7.el5.centos.1' If you are running CentOS-5.6 and have the CR repo enabled, a simple 'yum update' will still move your machine to 5.7. But since the CR repo already contained all the 5.7 updates, there will only be a handful of rpms that need to be installed for the 5.6 to 5.7 upgrade. If you are not running the CR repo, we highly encourage everyone to install and run this repository on their machines. More details on the CR repo can be found online at http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR +++++++++++++++++++++++ Downloading CentOS-5.7 for new installs: When possible, consider using torrents to run the downloads. Not only does it help the community and keeps mirrors from running up high bandwidth bills, in most cases you will find its also the fastest means to download the distro. There are currently over a hundred people seeding CentOS-5 and it's possible to get upto 100mbps downloads via these torrents. - -- Via BitTorrent : CD: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/isos/i386/CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-1to8.torr… http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-1to8.… DVD: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/isos/i386/CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-DVD.torre… http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-DVD.t… md5sum's for these torrent files: 8e29e525f45c4a7b3a963cc01ec3459a CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-1to8.torrent 32c9e0826b50d6be44823523be403c7f CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-1to8.torrent 795d6c11b5ef8907653360af52b9f317 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-DVD.torrent 04c563f2c838bf6b255fcc5fcc18cf66 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-DVD.torrent sha1sum's for these torrent files: 8a945ba89b03328480fde20eaa0b638ceb7f4509 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-1to8.torrent b1a18ba25e77543c4df9078dfafba990fbd58601 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-1to8.torrent d3c4ed0d14fe1873bbcee931224e5e8819f779dc CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-DVD.torrent 302850dd4f9a8198b303f872c83a5a16ec1c40c2 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-DVD.torrent While torrent files will do their own content checks, and only the right torrent will register and download from torrent.centos.org - its very important for your own security that an md5/sha1sum check is done on the .torrent file itself, and ensure that only the torrent.centos.org tracker is being used. Sha1sum's are more secure than md5's. Whenever possible, use sha1sum's instead of md5. - -- Via direct download: Due to bandwidth considerations the CentOS Project does not publish ISOs directly from our network machines. However direct downloads are available from external mirrors over http, ftp and rsync. A geoip based list is available at http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/ to give you the best predictable match ( and only lists mirrors that are updated already, so you don't need to waste time looking for a sync'd mirror ) Some mirrors also publish DVD images that can be downloaded directly. Refer to the mirrors list page at http://www.centos.org/mirrors for more details Mirrors that offer DVDs are clearly marked on the page. +++++++++++++++++++++++ sha1sum for these ISOS: i386: 6acbf1db3f4dce6dce7df15c54394a7cef6c3a7d CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-1of8.iso 241e5ea801b449ff59191c620db0a6b00b4aaaf5 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-2of8.iso 0955c2029c1839b1e3601bb4238a2cd6c84e9aca CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-3of8.iso 7e094a60e2ddb7904e425487b8c4936e464f10a5 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-4of8.iso 3eb0ee0b146140c4ef812d69fbc8712da1c0661d CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-5of8.iso 31b689247da34a58119b91821b13f70424e85a16 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-6of8.iso 468eb403bd111c77e47bf31693c544ecba2fac97 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-7of8.iso 18a43be42e159bf37deb87ce8636930ba7856f75 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-8of8.iso e0eab4dd77c3ecc73080428beaa4ffe28984dc4b CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-DVD-1of2.iso 29158f1fc82022164a1617ce625bce4cee2480e7 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-DVD-2of2.iso 3155e9f36dfccda5ce6cb1d60d07972b69ee6f0f CentOS-5.7-i386-netinstall.iso x86_64: cb01b0fa28367e6179a6498c52e014c43188ca86 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-1of8.iso fb76b1bdf39d0130fc774c086e26da4a36584ce4 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-2of8.iso d0f56df3c0756649f8068fac81c1402784fc506e CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-3of8.iso 1c7c77100b30c6fec3ad824bc25526a48417d3df CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-4of8.iso 79f8dd2de38455418aae2eaa4a404314d0c3cfa7 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-5of8.iso 1d387fbfaf380c30ea90753c8311bf961e0f8394 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-6of8.iso 324540e8266bdb10649e07f27f1717342a3e66c4 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-7of8.iso 88c23f2d2dd78607e48041dc764ee6e6c1c11104 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-8of8.iso 53be2b60dfebeded1d5a0a81cab2845579a952eb CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso 60a0e6093230c50f2d18730106ec5b8b3a200aa3 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso a50f28edeb6835ecb478406de1568993a128f208 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-netinstall.iso +++++++++++++++++++++++ md5sum for these ISOS: i386: dc856604d09a3b6777aa1bb512a1935f CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-1of8.iso 6c6bfc2e10c3e801783ff1c5597f46dc CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-2of8.iso 49589116dccf75fbd9649ec7fb3b99b4 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-3of8.iso 27261f30d80d91673dfb4bbf1f4aa3f5 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-4of8.iso 2bb5e1bf2aa6a783e36337e713f92437 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-5of8.iso c3ae081765767c8e5a63f809502c1004 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-6of8.iso 83c55db138f03302f68c3d5364ca5e73 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-7of8.iso 8b28bf769035010a2142e73a408705ff CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-8of8.iso f64544635a0e1198899eb756072622f5 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-DVD-1of2.iso 048110b6c42ac84c1cf8408b75202e16 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-DVD-2of2.iso 11222d9134cdfc101f6f91fe544254c9 CentOS-5.7-i386-netinstall.iso x86_64: 53d5f304659a9191da45e0ccb1f661f7 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-1of8.iso 9620981e376f04d1473f7dc13937cf9b CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-2of8.iso b2d3bab3cef53da372bf95a3ac0ef16b CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-3of8.iso 09328f8fe5b0165b170dcdf1d4875edd CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-4of8.iso 0d1a88ca346e29018c3215edd34df1d1 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-5of8.iso 166d128cb7256b388bbb31b49f690e3e CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-6of8.iso 9950dfb79e42dc42ef2b38da7580f9db CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-7of8.iso 5f6c110adacacaf83a43d73e5bda0ce1 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-8of8.iso 55eadec0a6e87c5f2883f734d43fdb58 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso d123b70711c8222364c0ea9a5e4a11e7 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso 5db3d49ba7a2c56810822914fadc1edf CentOS-5.7-x86_64-netinstall.iso +++++++++++++++++++++++ Note about media: We have tried to standardise on the media between the i386 and x86_64 architectures. Each now has the same number of CD images and the same number of DVD images. CD #8 on i386 contains no rpms, and is not needed for any install type. DVD #2 on both i386 and x86_64 only contain Openoffice langpacks for languages others than english. Therefore DVD#2 is only needed when doing a desktop install, with the openoffice components selected with other than English language support. +++++++++++++++++++++++ Sources and Debuginfo packages: srpms and debuginfo packages are still making their way to the CentOS mirrors and should be online by the 20th September. We are considering changing the way we handle sources and debuginfo rpms in order to better manage publishing them and to free up mirror space. For now there will be no change to the way things are running. Any change will be communicated clearly, and we will do our best to make sure it has as little user impact as possible. +++++++++++++++++++++++ Getting Help: The best place to start when looking for help with CentOS is at the wiki ( http://wiki.centos.org/GettingHelp ) which lists various options and communities who might be able to help. If you think there is a bug in the system, do report it at http://bugs.centos.org/ - but keep in mind that the bugs system is *not* a support mechanism. Some Friendly URLs : http://www.centos.org/ http://wiki.centos.org/ http://lists.centos.org/ http://bugs.centos.org/ irc://#centos@irc.freenode.net +++++++++++++++++++++++ A big thanks to everyone who contributed towards this release, including the translation teams, the qa team, the artwork team, the CentOS Developers and all the users out there. And a special shout out to all the donors who have contributed machines, bandwidth and infrastructure towards the CentOS Project. Enjoy! - -- Karanbir Singh The CentOS Project irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk5v6F4ACgkQqKRH3OhWKJcaigCbBoHxSLnjbKtDsSZl121WABUu nNwAn1ZjSwCKhn5uxJUK/od8bnh1A+s3 =mPjF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 79, Issue 5 **********************************************

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how to stop an in-progress fsck that runs at boot?
by Matt Garman 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

I can't seem to find the answer to this question via web search... I changed some hardware on a server, and upon powering it back on, got the "/dev/xxx has gone 40 days without being check, check forced" message. Now it's running fsck on a huge (2 TB) ext3 filesystem (5400 RPM drives no less). How can I stop this in-progress check? Ctrl-C doesn't seem to have any effect. Is the only answer to wait it out? Also, as a side question: I always do this---let my servers run for a very long time, power down to change/upgrade hardware, then forget about the forced fsck, then pull my hair out waiting for it to finish (because I can't figure out how to stop it once it starts). I know about tune2fs -c and -i, and also the last (or is it second to last?) column in /etc/fstab. My question is more along the lines of "best practices"---what are most people doing with regards to regular fsck's of ext2/3/4 filesystems? Do you just take the defaults, and let it delay the boot process by however long it takes? Disable it completely? Or do something like taking the filesystem offline on a running system? Something else? Thanks, Matt

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copying data to CF card
by Jerry Geis 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

Hi all, under centos 5 x86_64 - I was able to run fdisk to partition a CF card, make the filesystem, copy data to the filesystem, run grub from an x86_64 system to make the CF card bootable with grub. That all worked fine. Now since switching to centos 6 x86_64 I run the exact same script to program the CF card and when I insert that CF card into the end device I get a Grub error 2. I thought maybe a bad CF card... I tried 4 more times with 4 different CF cards. Same result Grub error 2. I then thought to try going back to centos 5 and try it with one of the 4 CF cards that did not work. It works under centos 5. What might be happening here???? I can use fdisk after the script and see the partitions, I can mount the partition all files are there, Running grub gives no errors. Just at boot I get "error 2". Thanks, Jerry

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Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-5.7 i386 and x86_64
by James A. Peltier 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

Any reason why 5 is not a symlink to 5.7 whereas 4 is a symlink to 4.8? Looks like the same applies to 6!?! ----- Original Message ----- | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- | Hash: SHA1 | | We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5.7 | for | i386 and x86_64 Architectures. | | CentOS-5.7 is based on the upstream release EL 5.7 and includes | packages from all variants including Server and Client. All upstream | repositories have been combined into one, to make it easier for end | users to work with. | | This is just an announcement email, not the release notes. The Release | Notes for CentOS-5.7 can be found on-line at : | http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.7 and everyone is | encouraged to look through them once. Also worth browsing through are | the CentOS FAQs at http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ | | +++++++++++++++++++++++ | Upgrading from CentOS-5.6 ( or CentOS-5.0/5.1/5.2/5.3/5.4/5.5): | | If you are already running CentOS-5.6 or an older CentOS-5 distro, all | you need to do is update your machine via yum by running : | | 'yum update' | | Running 'yum list updates' before doing the update is recommended, so | you can get a list of packages that are going to be updated. To check | you are indeed on CentOS-5.7, run : 'rpm -q centos-release' and that | should return: 'centos-release-5-7.el5.centos.1' | | If you are running CentOS-5.6 and have the CR repo enabled, a simple | 'yum update' will still move your machine to 5.7. But since the CR | repo | already contained all the 5.7 updates, there will only be a handful of | rpms that need to be installed for the 5.6 to 5.7 upgrade. If you are | not running the CR repo, we highly encourage everyone to install and | run | this repository on their machines. More details on the CR repo can be | found online at | http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR | | +++++++++++++++++++++++ | Downloading CentOS-5.7 for new installs: | | When possible, consider using torrents to run the downloads. Not only | does it help the community and keeps mirrors from running up high | bandwidth bills, in most cases you will find its also the fastest | means | to download the distro. There are currently over a hundred people | seeding CentOS-5 and it's possible to get upto 100mbps downloads via | these torrents. | | - -- Via BitTorrent : | CD: | http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/isos/i386/CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-1to8.torr… | http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-1to8.… | | DVD: | http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/isos/i386/CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-DVD.torre… | http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-DVD.t… | | md5sum's for these torrent files: | | 8e29e525f45c4a7b3a963cc01ec3459a CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-1to8.torrent | 32c9e0826b50d6be44823523be403c7f CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-1to8.torrent | 795d6c11b5ef8907653360af52b9f317 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-DVD.torrent | 04c563f2c838bf6b255fcc5fcc18cf66 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-DVD.torrent | | sha1sum's for these torrent files: | | 8a945ba89b03328480fde20eaa0b638ceb7f4509 | CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-1to8.torrent | b1a18ba25e77543c4df9078dfafba990fbd58601 | CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-1to8.torrent | d3c4ed0d14fe1873bbcee931224e5e8819f779dc | CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-DVD.torrent | 302850dd4f9a8198b303f872c83a5a16ec1c40c2 | CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-DVD.torrent | | | While torrent files will do their own content checks, and only the | right | torrent will register and download from torrent.centos.org - its very | important for your own security that an md5/sha1sum check is done on | the | .torrent file itself, and ensure that only the torrent.centos.org | tracker is being used. Sha1sum's are more secure than md5's. Whenever | possible, use sha1sum's instead of md5. | | - -- Via direct download: | Due to bandwidth considerations the CentOS Project does not publish | ISOs | directly from our network machines. However direct downloads are | available from external mirrors over http, ftp and rsync. A geoip | based list is available at | http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/ | to give you the best predictable match ( and only lists mirrors that | are | updated already, so you don't need to waste time looking for a sync'd | mirror ) | | Some mirrors also publish DVD images that can be downloaded directly. | Refer to the mirrors list page at http://www.centos.org/mirrors for | more | details Mirrors that offer DVDs are clearly marked on the page. | | +++++++++++++++++++++++ | sha1sum for these ISOS: | | i386: | 6acbf1db3f4dce6dce7df15c54394a7cef6c3a7d CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-1of8.iso | 241e5ea801b449ff59191c620db0a6b00b4aaaf5 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-2of8.iso | 0955c2029c1839b1e3601bb4238a2cd6c84e9aca CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-3of8.iso | 7e094a60e2ddb7904e425487b8c4936e464f10a5 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-4of8.iso | 3eb0ee0b146140c4ef812d69fbc8712da1c0661d CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-5of8.iso | 31b689247da34a58119b91821b13f70424e85a16 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-6of8.iso | 468eb403bd111c77e47bf31693c544ecba2fac97 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-7of8.iso | 18a43be42e159bf37deb87ce8636930ba7856f75 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-8of8.iso | e0eab4dd77c3ecc73080428beaa4ffe28984dc4b | CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-DVD-1of2.iso | 29158f1fc82022164a1617ce625bce4cee2480e7 | CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-DVD-2of2.iso | 3155e9f36dfccda5ce6cb1d60d07972b69ee6f0f | CentOS-5.7-i386-netinstall.iso | | x86_64: | cb01b0fa28367e6179a6498c52e014c43188ca86 | CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-1of8.iso | fb76b1bdf39d0130fc774c086e26da4a36584ce4 | CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-2of8.iso | d0f56df3c0756649f8068fac81c1402784fc506e | CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-3of8.iso | 1c7c77100b30c6fec3ad824bc25526a48417d3df | CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-4of8.iso | 79f8dd2de38455418aae2eaa4a404314d0c3cfa7 | CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-5of8.iso | 1d387fbfaf380c30ea90753c8311bf961e0f8394 | CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-6of8.iso | 324540e8266bdb10649e07f27f1717342a3e66c4 | CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-7of8.iso | 88c23f2d2dd78607e48041dc764ee6e6c1c11104 | CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-8of8.iso | 53be2b60dfebeded1d5a0a81cab2845579a952eb | CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso | 60a0e6093230c50f2d18730106ec5b8b3a200aa3 | CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso | a50f28edeb6835ecb478406de1568993a128f208 | CentOS-5.7-x86_64-netinstall.iso | | | +++++++++++++++++++++++ | md5sum for these ISOS: | | i386: | dc856604d09a3b6777aa1bb512a1935f CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-1of8.iso | 6c6bfc2e10c3e801783ff1c5597f46dc CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-2of8.iso | 49589116dccf75fbd9649ec7fb3b99b4 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-3of8.iso | 27261f30d80d91673dfb4bbf1f4aa3f5 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-4of8.iso | 2bb5e1bf2aa6a783e36337e713f92437 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-5of8.iso | c3ae081765767c8e5a63f809502c1004 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-6of8.iso | 83c55db138f03302f68c3d5364ca5e73 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-7of8.iso | 8b28bf769035010a2142e73a408705ff CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-8of8.iso | f64544635a0e1198899eb756072622f5 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-DVD-1of2.iso | 048110b6c42ac84c1cf8408b75202e16 CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-DVD-2of2.iso | 11222d9134cdfc101f6f91fe544254c9 CentOS-5.7-i386-netinstall.iso | | x86_64: | 53d5f304659a9191da45e0ccb1f661f7 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-1of8.iso | 9620981e376f04d1473f7dc13937cf9b CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-2of8.iso | b2d3bab3cef53da372bf95a3ac0ef16b CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-3of8.iso | 09328f8fe5b0165b170dcdf1d4875edd CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-4of8.iso | 0d1a88ca346e29018c3215edd34df1d1 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-5of8.iso | 166d128cb7256b388bbb31b49f690e3e CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-6of8.iso | 9950dfb79e42dc42ef2b38da7580f9db CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-7of8.iso | 5f6c110adacacaf83a43d73e5bda0ce1 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-8of8.iso | 55eadec0a6e87c5f2883f734d43fdb58 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso | d123b70711c8222364c0ea9a5e4a11e7 CentOS-5.7-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso | 5db3d49ba7a2c56810822914fadc1edf CentOS-5.7-x86_64-netinstall.iso | | +++++++++++++++++++++++ | Note about media: | | We have tried to standardise on the media between the i386 and x86_64 | architectures. Each now has the same number of CD images and the same | number of DVD images. CD #8 on i386 contains no rpms, and is not | needed | for any install type. DVD #2 on both i386 and x86_64 only contain | Openoffice langpacks for languages others than english. Therefore | DVD#2 | is only needed when doing a desktop install, with the openoffice | components selected with other than English language support. | | +++++++++++++++++++++++ | Sources and Debuginfo packages: | | srpms and debuginfo packages are still making their way to the CentOS | mirrors and should be online by the 20th September. We are considering | changing the way we handle sources and debuginfo rpms in order to | better | manage publishing them and to free up mirror space. For now there will | be no change to the way things are running. Any change will be | communicated clearly, and we will do our best to make sure it has as | little user impact as possible. | | +++++++++++++++++++++++ | Getting Help: | | The best place to start when looking for help with CentOS is at the | wiki | ( http://wiki.centos.org/GettingHelp ) which lists various options and | communities who might be able to help. If you think there is a bug in | the system, do report it at http://bugs.centos.org/ - but keep in mind | that the bugs system is *not* a support mechanism. | | Some Friendly URLs : | http://www.centos.org/ | http://wiki.centos.org/ | http://lists.centos.org/ | http://bugs.centos.org/ | irc://#centos@irc.freenode.net | | | +++++++++++++++++++++++ | A big thanks to everyone who contributed towards this release, | including | the translation teams, the qa team, the artwork team, the CentOS | Developers and all the users out there. And a special shout out to all | the donors who have contributed machines, bandwidth and infrastructure | towards the CentOS Project. | | Enjoy! | | - -- | Karanbir Singh | The CentOS Project | irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- | Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) | | iEYEARECAAYFAk5v6F4ACgkQqKRH3OhWKJcaigCbBoHxSLnjbKtDsSZl121WABUu | nNwAn1ZjSwCKhn5uxJUK/od8bnh1A+s3 | =mPjF | -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- | _______________________________________________ | CentOS-announce mailing list | CentOS-announce(a)centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier(a)sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier I will do the best I can with the talent I have

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Missing ipa-server package on centos6?
by Armin Herbert 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

Hi, I can't seem to find the ipa-server package in centos 6; it is not available on my favourite mirrors, nor do the release notes mention its absence. Has it been overlooked when assembling the distribution? Thanks & best wishes Armin

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Flesh Playerproblem
by Ashish Shaligram 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

Hello, I have installed centos 6, i have already installed flesh player, browser ask for flesh player. how can i solve the problem? Thank You. -- *Regards,* Ashish A. Shaigram

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No MySQL password in ps aux!
by Dotan Cohen 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

I just noticed that some CentOS 4 or 5 machine that I don't admin but have root access to hides MySQL passwords from ps: Console 1: $ mysql -u root -pSECRET mysql > Console2: # ps aux root 32165 0.0 0.1 109408 2204 pts/1 Ss+ 11:19 0:00 mysql -u root -px xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx That is really nice, is it a MySQL feature or a CentOS feature? I have some other servers that I _do_ admin and I'd like to enable this. Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com

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audit centos.org!
by lancebaynes87 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

Recently hacked sites..: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/ http://www.utorrent.com/ http://kernel.org/ http://www.linux.com/ Has the CentOS site ever been hacked? Are there any good audit processes to check the servers? CentOS team, please be aware, there are many script-kiddies OR pro's out there who want websites like yours! I love CentOS, and I don't want it to fail like kernel.org: http://blackhats.com/infosuck/0x007c.png Please pay more attention than in normal case! :\ /just an anxious CentOS user/ Thanks and sry for this e-mail.

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CentOS 6: "ip link" ignores wlan0
by Michael D. Berger 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

On my CentOS 6 laptop, in which the wireless hardware is known to be functional (because it works in the WinXP partition): # ip link shows lo and eth0, but nothing else. Why might this be? Thanks, Mike.

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testing
by Diego 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

hello

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Vitualization and Partitioning
by Thomas Dukes 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

Hello, OK, getting ready to order a new machine and had some questions about 6.0. It will have a single 500GB HD. When I do the install, do I or should I setup a separate partition for guest OS's? From the redhat docs, it looks like the guest OS's reside at /var/lib/libvirt/images/. I may combine my windoze XP on the CentOS machine so would I need to create a partition and format that at installation? If I decide to wait and go with Windoze 7 can I still create the partition later? I would like a partition scheme that allows for easier upgrades or installs without losing data. Thanks, I'm more confused now that when I started reading about this stuf.. Eddie

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Cannot mount NTFS filesystems under Xfce4
by Keith Roberts 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

I have installed the following 2 packages on Centos 5.6, and used GParted to successfully create an 8GB NTFS partition, on some unused HDD space. Installed Packages Name : ntfsprogs Arch : i386 Version : 1.13.1 Release : 6.el5 Size : 1.1 M Repo : installed Summary : NTFS filesystem libraries and utilities URL : http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ Name : ntfsprogs-gnomevfs Arch : i386 Version : 1.13.1 Release : 6.el5 Size : 20 k Repo : installed Summary : NTFS GNOME virtual filesystem module URL : http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ I'm running Xfce 4, and when I try to mount the NTFS file system, I get an error box with 'ntfs - unknown filetype' I've done a complete reboot of this box. Are there some packages I have missing? Kind Regards, Keith Roberts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------

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sox: Failed reading obd-demo.mp3: Do not understand format type: mp3
by Kaushal Shriyan 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

Hi, Can someone please comment about the below issue [root@host0040 kaushal]# file obd-demo.mp3 obd-demo.mp3: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1, 256 kBits, 44.1 kHz, Monaural [root@host0040 kaushal]# sox obd-demo.mp3 -e stat sox: Failed reading obd-demo.mp3: Do not understand format type: mp3 [root@host0040 kaushal]# sox -V obd-demo.mp3 -r 8000 -c 1 -t ul -w vm-intro.ulaw sox: Failed reading obd-demo.mp3: Do not understand format type: mp3 [root@host0040 kaushal]# sox -v 0.125 -V <obd-demo.mp3> -t au -r 8000 -U -b -c 1 <obd-demo.ulaw> resample -ql -bash: obd-demo.ulaw: No such file or directory [root@host0040 kaushal]# sox -V obd-demo.mp3 -t au -r 8000 -U -b -c 1 obd-demo.ulaw resample -ql sox: Failed reading obd-demo.mp3: Do not understand foReply rmat type: mp3 [root@host0040 kaushal]# When i invoke the same obd-demo.mp3 it works perfectly fine host0040*CLI> channel originate DAHDI/g0/xxxxxxxxxx Application MP3Player /home/kaushal/obd-demo.mp3 [Sep 9 16:44:56] DEBUG[12691]: sig_pri.c:985 sig_pri_request: sig_pri_request 1 [Sep 9 16:44:56] DEBUG[12691]: sig_pri.c:6427 sig_pri_call: CALLER NAME: NUM: -- Requested transfer capability: 0x00 - SPEECH -- Launching MP3Player(/home/kaushal/obd-demo.mp3) on DAHDI/i1/9833754756-1 [root@host0040 ~]# rpm -qa | grep sox sox-12.18.1-1.el5_5.1 [root@host0040 ~]# rpm -qa | grep lame lame-3.98.4-1.el5.rf lame-devel-3.98.4-1.el5.rf [root@host0040 ~]# MP3 support in SoX is optional and requires access to either or both the external libmad and libmp3lame libraries. To see if there is support for Mp3 run sox -h and look for it under the list of supported file formats as "mp3". [root@host0040 ~]# sox -h sox: Version 12.18.1 Usage: [ gopts ] [ fopts ] ifile [ fopts ] ofile [ effect [ effopts ] ] gopts: -e -h -p -q -S -V fopts: -r rate -c channels -s/-u/-U/-A/-a/-i/-g/-f -b/-w/-l/-d -v volume -x effect: avg band bandpass bandreject chorus compand copy dcshift deemph earwax echo echos fade filter flanger highp highpass lowp lowpass mask mcompand noiseprof noisered pan phaser pick pitch polyphase rate repeat resample reverb reverse silence speed stat stretch swap synth trim vibro vol effopts: depends on effect Supported file formats: aiff al alsa au auto avr cdr cvs dat vms gsm hcom la lu maud nul ossdsp prc raw sb sf sl smp sndt sph 8svx sw txw ub ul uw voc vorbis vox wav wve Which package contains libmad and libmp3lame libraries available on CentOS 5.6 Regards, Kaushal

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Re: [CentOS] Issues with successfully completing rsync with msync. centos.org
by Christopher Hawker 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

The rsync command on the CentOS website, on the page that tells you how to setup a mirror. -- If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me on +61 478 241 896. Regards, Christopher Hawker - original message - Subject: Re: [CentOS] Issues with successfully completing rsync with msync.centos.org From: John Doe <jdmls(a)yahoo.com> Date: 13/09/2011 9:04 am From: Christopher Hawker <cwhawker1(a)gmail.com> > I am trying to establish a mirror, and when I execute the rsync command, it only > creates the directories and selected files. It does not download the entire iso > collection or repo files. And which rsync command? JD _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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vim access
by Ashish Shaligram 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

Hello, I have install a cent os 6 x64, and i cant use vim command. Can you help me to how to access file more easily or more reliably. -- *Regards,* Ashish

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CentOS 6: file and directory permissions
by Helmut Drodofsky 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

Hi, I fear I am too stupid: I find nowhere the explanation of the dot in file permissions like: -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 457 Aug 4 17:27 config I have searched in forums, Red Hat deployment guide, storage administration guide etc Thank you for help in advance. Best regards Helmut

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trouble building an rpm
by Jon Detert 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

i'm a newbie at building rpms. I made a few rpms years ago, but can't now make one on Centos 5. In /usr/local/rpmbuild, there are 5 subdirs: BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS tmp When I type: rpmbuild -ba /usr/local/rpmbuild/SPECS/centos-release-cr-ihc.spec I get 'file not found' errors, for paths in /usr/local/rpmbuild/tmp: error: File not found: /usr/local/rpmbuild/tmp/centos-release-cr-ihc-buildroot/etc/yum.repos.d error: File not found: /usr/local/rpmbuild/tmp/centos-release-cr-ihc-buildroot/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-cr.repo RPM build errors: File not found: /usr/local/rpmbuild/tmp/centos-release-cr-ihc-buildroot/etc/yum.repos.d File not found: /usr/local/rpmbuild/tmp/centos-release-cr-ihc-buildroot/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-cr.repo All i did was to: 1) put a tarball in SOURCES, 2) put a spec file in SPECS, 3) rpmbuild -ba my spec file Did I miss a step? If not, here's the contents of my tarball and spec file: The tarball in SOURCES is named: centos-release-cr-ihc-1.tar.gz the contents of which are: drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2011-09-09 15:40:01 centos-release-cr-ihc-1/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2011-09-09 15:39:57 centos-release-cr-ihc-1/etc/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2011-09-09 15:40:39 centos-release-cr-ihc-1/etc/yum.repos.d/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 523 2011-09-09 15:35:59 centos-release-cr-ihc-1/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-cr.repo my spec file is /usr/local/rpmbuild/SPECS/centos-release-cr-ihc.spec the contents of which are: Summary: Package to set up IHC use of the centos-cr repository Name: centos-release-cr-ihc Version: 1 Release: 1 Source0: centos-release-cr-ihc-1.tar.gz License: GPL Group: IHC-config BuildArch: noarch BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-buildroot %description Package to set up IHC use of the centos-cr repository %prep %setup -q %build %install install -m 0755 -d /etc/yum.repos.d install -m 0755 etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-cr.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-cr.repo %clean rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT %post echo " " echo "Yay IHC IS Team!" %files %dir /etc/yum.repos.d /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-cr.repo Thanks, Jon

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Issues with successfully completing rsync with msync.centos.org
by Christopher Hawker 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

Hello, I am trying to establish a mirror, and when I execute the rsync command, it only creates the directories and selected files. It does not download the entire iso collection or repo files. I am running CentOS 5.4 (which i will update soon as my host does not have a 5.6 or 6 image), and my IP address is 125.7.120.87, being hosted in Sydney, AU. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. -- If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me on +61 478 241 896. Regards, Christopher Hawker

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fax over ip?
by hadi motamedi 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

Dear All I have upgraded to centos 6.0 and I installed ekiga as my sip phone client for centos. What application can I install as fax over ip client for centos 6.0? Thank you

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(5.6) Kernel Link Error
by Always Learning 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

Installing VirtualBox-4.1* on Centos 5.6 X64, I get at the end:- Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 2.6.18-274.el5 cannot be found at /lib/modules/2.6.18-274.el5/build or /lib/modules/2.6.18-274.el5/source. In /lib/modules/2.6.18-274.el5/ I find two broken links:- build -> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-274.el5-x86_64 source -> ditto The reason why they are broken appears to be the current address is actually /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-274.3.1.el5-x86_64 Show I reset the links in /lib/modules/2.6.18-274.el5 to point to /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-274.3.1.el5-x86_64 or is their a bigger problem that needs attention ? -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU.

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C6 continuous release repo
by James B. Byrne 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

Where on the CentOS website does one find the CentOS-6 CR repo install package? I can find the one for CentOS-5 but not for 6. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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CentOS 6, Broadcom, missing wlan0
by Michael D. Berger 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

This is a continuation of my previous thread: "Broadcom Wifi Problem" Following a post from "James A. Peltier", who said: You can use the rpmforge version or compile it yourself. I've used this one with success using the details described earlier. http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php I did however have to patch it with http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/5_100_82_38.patch the driver built and installed fine. In fact, I'm using it on my laptop as we speak. On my CentOS 6, with BCM4311 802.11b/g. I installed: hybrid-portsrc_x86_32-v5_100_82_38.tar.gz With NetworkManager shut off, I see: #lsmod | grep "b43\|ssb\|wl" wl 2635904 0 lib80211 4858 1 wl and I try to start with: ifup wlan0 I put debug in the script, following into nested scripts, and see that it ultimately fails because: ip -o link fails to return wlan0 . I rechecked the MAC address, which is correct. Also ifconfig and iwconfig do not see wlan0 . Also, the wlan0 light on the box doesn't turn from red to green. If, however, I reenable b43, the light does turn green. Also, on this dual boot box, the WinXP partition runs WLAN0 with no problem. Thanks for your suggestions. Mike.

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Installing RPM using --prefix and possible libvirt patch
by Trey Dockendorf 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

I'm trying to install libvirt to /opt/libvirt, in order to test a patch I've worked into the current release, but it seems RPM is ignoring the --prefix command. The RPM I built has "Prefix: /opt/libvirt" in the spec, and correctly shows as relocatable by RPM... # rpm -qpi libvirt-0.8.1-27.el6.6.x86_64.rpm Name : libvirt Relocations: /opt/libvirt Version : 0.8.1 Vendor: (none) Release : 27.el6.6 Build Date: Fri 09 Sep 2011 07:30:28 PM CDT Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: itsclinuxdev.tamu.edu Group : Development/Libraries Source RPM: libvirt-0.8.1-27.el6.6.src.rpm Size : 2538412 License: LGPLv2+ Signature : (none) URL : http://libvirt.org/ Summary : Library providing a simple API virtualization Description : Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The main package includes the libvirtd server exporting the virtualization support. However when I issue the RPM command it will throw errors about conflicting with the current install of libvirt. # rpm -ivh --prefix /opt/libvirt libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6.6.x86_64.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] file /usr/lib64/libvirt.so.0.8.1 from install of libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6.6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.x86_64 file /usr/share/man/man1/virsh.1.gz from install of libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6.6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.x86_64 file /usr/share/man/man1/virt-pki-validate.1.gz from install of libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6.6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.x86_64 file /usr/share/man/man1/virt-xml-validate.1.gz from install of libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6.6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libvirt-client-0.8.1-27.el6_0.6.x86_64 The patch I worked into libvirt is here, http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-July/msg00480.html (not my posting), to add ESXi and ESX 4.1 support , in my case to virt-v2v. I'd like to install it without possibly breaking my current install of libvirt and just use the patched virt-v2v binary. As a side note, where should I direct my patch to possibly have it put into the official centos release? I had to slightly modify what was posted in the above link to make it work with 0.8.1. Thanks - Trey

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lftp mirror replication
by John R Pierce 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

so I have an internal mirror I was replicating off mirrors.kernel.org via lftp, using a script... /usr/local/bin/lftp -c 'open ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/pub/ && \ lcd /export/mirror && \ mirror --continue --verbose=1 -x ia64 -x s390 -x s390x \ -x alpha -x SRPMS centos' well, kernel.org is down now, due to their being hacked, grrrr. if I switch this to another source archive, will it 'just work' or will there be any differences in the file dates that will end up causing massive new downloads of the same data? and, is it just me, or is the mirror list on http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30 a lot smaller than it used to be? -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Installation on Thinkpad X220
by Janne TH. Nyman 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

>> I might be wrong, but is it possible that this port is USB3? That way the >> BIOS would be able to boot the CD from it, but neither linux nor windows is >> likely to have suitable drivers for using it. >> jh That may be the reason :) I thought it was me going nuts. Again, thanks all for you assistance. Cheers, Janne "Janski" Nyman E: jnyman(a)jbtec.org

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Installation on Intel DH67BL motherboard failed
by Sanjay Arora 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

Hello all I tried to install Centos 6 on Intel DH67BL motherboard with i7-2600 processor and a PCI Parallel/Serial port Card. This machine is running Win7, Ubuntu & Fedora 15. Booting from DVD, the machine boots up in text mode & loads vmlinuz and then the screen goes grey. Pressing a keyboard key does some dvd/hdd activity, so the machine is not hung. So the issue is obviously the graphics chipset. Research in CentOS forums shows that this may be supported by CentOS 6.1 machine. Can I install graphics/network support from some other repo, till 6.1 arrives and then again I can reinstall with only CentOS repos. My skillset is limited to compiling from source if instructions are there, but not trial & error otherwise. Any pointers? With best regards. Sanjay.

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disk duplication question
by Jerry Geis 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

I have need to duplicate centos 6 on 133 computers. I purchased a disk duplicator make my master and the duplicator does 11 at a time. All is good so far... When I take a duplicated disk and stick it in the "new" box which is different than the master machine of course all seems to work except the network. So of course the MAC address for the NIC doesn't match so the network doesn't work. My solution was to edit ifcfg-eth0 and remove the HDADDR line and edit udev/70-persistant-net.rules and remove the MAC address from the network SUBSYSTEM line. The network does come back on and everything seems fine. Is this the correct way to do this? Making a master and being able to stick the duplicated disk in another machine? Thanks, Jerry

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Installation on Thinkpad X220
by Janne TH. Nyman 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

> And she changed it from AHCI to compatibility mode (had to change itto > that mode to make the drive being recognized?), which is not the best > setting regarding speed. Alexander: The she is actually a he :) > Quite right, sorry, I'd read it backwards. So presumably either a bug > in the > AHCI support, or a limitation/bug of the kernel driver? > jh John: Actually, this is a complete false alarm. Actual Solution: You don't have to change anything on these laptops. But it is a good tip that when installing from external cd/dvdrom, if it first does not work, change usb port and try again. I changed back the BIOS to AHCI. I was previously plugged into the top left USB port I.e. the one on the left hand side closes to the monitor or back side. When lenovo's external CDROM/DVD is plugged into this port, I am unable to install linux in general or other OS's. Once I plug it into any of the other USB ports bottom left or right, it works perfectly. No wonder I haven't found any problem posts regarding x220 and CentOS/RHEL. Thanks for all your time supporting me. Fantastic responses on this mailing list. Use external CD/DVD ROM, just ensure to plug it into the right port :) Cheers, Janne "Janski" Nyman E: jnyman(a)jbtec.org

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gnumeric
by ken 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

Where do I find a gnumeric rpm? I must not have enough repos listed. (I recently had to rebuild my system pretty much from scratch. :( )

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