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Yum Issues ; Segmentation fault
by Matt 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Tried to run yum this morning on CentOS 5.x 64bit and ran into weird issue this morning: [root@server ~]# yum clean all Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Cleaning up Everything Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors [root@server ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Determining fastest mirrors * base: mirror.unl.edu * extras: mirror.steadfast.net * rpmforge: fr2.rpmfind.net * updates: mirror.unl.edu base | 2.1 kB 00:00 base/primary_db | 2.2 MB 00:00 extras | 2.1 kB 00:00 extras/primary_db | 260 kB 00:00 rpmforge | 1.1 kB 00:00 rpmforge/primary | 3.9 MB 00:02 rpmforge: [##### ] 471/10722Segmentation fault Any ideas?

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[Fwd: [SOLVED] Re: How to test for '.' in a script]
by James B. Byrne 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

On Thu, July 28, 2011 14:30, James B. Byrne wrote: > I am trying to check for a single period '.' in a shell variable. > > $ I=. > $ echo $I > . > $ if [[ "$I" -eq '.' ]]; then echo true; fi > -bash: [[: .: syntax error: operand expected (error token is ".") > . . . > > How does one check to see for this in a bash script? Found it. if [[ "$I" == './' ]]; then echo match; fi match -- *** 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 -- *** 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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i am not qble to install centos 6
by sridhar sri 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Hi CentOS Team, i am not able to install CentOS 6.0 , while installing 1) Insert your CentOS 6.0 installation DVD into DVD drive 2) In the pre-boot phase of system startup <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting> press <F11> to enter UEFI Boot Manager 3) Enter 'UEFI Boot Settings' 4) Choose 'Add Boot Option' 5) Point to 'BOOTX64.efi' file, whose exact path is /EFI/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi on the DVD 6) Add Description (e.g. "CentOS 6.0") and optionally add Optional Data (which is passed to the boot image, not necessary) when i press the F11 i am not able go to boot options , for that i used the del and esc, there i am not able to find the UEFI settings, i tried with enabling the ide configuration to raid and enabling the sata0 and sata1 still i am not able to install CentOs . please guide me to install the centos

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kvm module and boot order
by Jerry Geis 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

I use kvm-amd a lot to do test installs. I am using it with qemu-kvm-0.14 the lastest. I think your supposed to be able to give your command line and add the parameter " -boot dc" so it initially boots with the cdrom (d) and then after reboot will boot do the HD or c. This never works for me. It always boots CDROM. Is anyone using this argument. Is there something special to do in order to get the first boot on CDrom then the next boot going to HD? Thanks, Jerry

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How to test for '.' in a script
by James B. Byrne 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

I am trying to check for a single period '.' in a shell variable. $ I=. $ echo $I . $ if [[ "$I" -eq '.' ]]; then echo true; fi -bash: [[: .: syntax error: operand expected (error token is ".") All other variants of this construct, with and without escape characters, single and double quote combinations, that I can think of all give exactly the same error. How does one check to see for this in a bash script? -- *** 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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Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf
by Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

If anyone really needs to do this, there is a patch in the gdm srpm called plymoth.patch that changes the parameters. It's located on line 225. If you change that to what you need and recompile it, it should work. Not that I recommend this... Regards, Stephen Jamieson -----Original Message----- From: Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4 Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 2:17 PM To: 'centos(a)centos.org' Subject: centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in /etc/gdm/custom.conf such as [server-Standard] name=Standard server command=/usr/bin/Xorg -br -audit 4 -s 15 chooser=false handled=true flexible=true priority=0 After this change, Xorg would run with the -br -audit 4 -s 15 options. Unfortunately in CentOS6 this is not the case. It completely ignores anything put into custom.conf as far as I can tell. It appears to run with -nr -verbose -auth -nolisten tcp by default. Is there any way to modify this? Regards, Stephen Jamieson

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 77, Issue 8
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '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-6.0 LiveDVD i386 and x86_64 (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:01:02 +0100 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-6.0 LiveDVD i386 and x86_64 To: CentOS Announcements List <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <4E3098AE.4050904(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-6.0 LiveDVD for i386 and x86_64 architectures. Detailed Release Notes are available at http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSLiveDVD6.0 +++++++++++++++++++++++ Overview The CentOS-6.0 LiveDVD is meant to be a Linux environment suited to be run directly from either DVD media or USB storage devices. It does not need any persistent storage on a machine, which also makes it a suitable recovery environment. The LiveDVDs are setup to run as full desktop environments and include most of the applications used in this role. +++++++++++++++++++++++ Download SHA256SUMs : CentOS-6.0-x86_64-LiveDVD.iso: e604450174c646a6590156e3c6c29f3eca0d6b2a8d0f9745a4ea11dff35f0abc CentOS-6.0-i386-LiveDVD.iso: cb76a6bcd14c7397d756c5a5fdfede4bd004a7a6f1cef8f35977ba310a4b14aa The CentOS-6.0 LiveDVD is released to all external mirrors and available for download now. List of mirrors is available at these urls : http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/6/isos/i386/ http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/6/isos/x86_64/ Due to the size of these DVDs, torrents have also been released and are being seeded at this time. The torrents are available at the same url as the iso files. Once you download the images, its important to verify contents using the sha256sum utility, against the published sums here. +++++++++++++++++++++++ Notes You can now install the Live environment to your hard disk (which wasn?t possible with the 5.x Live medias). Please note that you need more that 512Mb of ram to be able to use that ?install to hard drive? feature (If you have less than 512Mb of ram, you can install to disk but in text-mode, meaning that instead of clicking on the desktop icon, you have to launch a gnome-terminal and launch the ?liveinst? command from within the terminal) There is no upstream Live media product. The Live media produced within the CentOS Project is based on and around the livemedia tools from the Fedora Project. These LiveDVD only contains content found within the primary CentOS-6.0 distribution. No package from outside the distribution was included and no package has been changed from whats included in the base distribution. We appreciate all forms of feedback about these LiveDVD, including specific application inclusion requests or feature changes in future releases. The best place to provide this feedback is via the centos-devel mailing list ( http://lists.centos.org/ ) and feature requests via the issue tracker ( http://bugs.centos.org/ ). Special thanks to Fabian Arrotin for taking up the LiveCD and LiveDVD efforts, and to everyone on the QA team who worked through the issues and helped build, test and release these images. And to Patrice Guay for his work in setting up the Live Media effort within the CentOS Project. -- Karanbir Singh The CentOS Project irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 77, Issue 8 **********************************************

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non PAE support
by Kevin K 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Does anyone know what I would have to modify in 6 if I wanted to run on an older Pentium M CPU without PAE? Is it just the kernel that needs to be rebuilt (maybe while installed in a system with a supported CPU)? Or are there other components that would cause problems and need to be rebuilt too? Thanks, Kevin

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How to remove Microsoft soft raid?
by David McGuffey 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Have a quad core workstation that was running WinXP_64 that I want to blow away and install CentOS 6. C6 install process finds raid metadata associated with sda and sdb, and then excludes them from the rest of the installation process. There doesn't appear to be an option for disassembling the raid as part of the install process. I think there should be. Any tricks to removing/by-passing the soft raid left over from the previous OS? Dave M

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Kickstart and CentOS 6...
by John Doe 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Hey, I am trying to upgrade my kickstart usb key to 6.0 and I ran into a few issues. I boot with: append initrd=initrd.img ks=hd:sdb2:/ks.cfg repo=hd:sdb2:/centos and in the ks.cfg I have: harddrive --partition=sdb2 --dir=/centos and on sdb2 I have: sdb2:/centos/CentOS-6.0-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso sdb2:/centos/CentOS-6.0-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso It fails from the beginning unless I add /images inside /centos, If I do: sdb2:/centos/CentOS-6.0-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso sdb2:/centos/CentOS-6.0-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso sdb2:/centos/images/install.img it goes all the way until after the pre script and then complain that sdb2:/centos does not contain the installation images... I suspect it does not give a damn about the two DVD isos and expect the unpacked content... But with CentOS 5, it used to work fine with the CD isos... Is it only CD isos allowed? Or not even CDs? Thx, JD

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/usr/sbin/logcheck: line 100: kill: (24333) - No such process
by Andreas Reschke 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

Hello I've installed a new mailserver with CentOS 6.0 x86_64. For the reporting I need logcheck. I've the same problem as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678436 Description of problem: I installed logcheck and now I get mails from cron with the following error message: Subject: Cron <logcheck@genius> if [ -x /usr/sbin/logcheck ]; then nice -n10 /usr/sbin/logcheck; fi [...] /usr/sbin/logcheck: line 100: kill: (24333) - No such process [root@mail ~]# rpm -qi logcheck Name : logcheck Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 1.3.13 Vendor: Fedora Project Release : 2.el6 Build Date: Di 14 Sep 2010 10:53:25 CEST Install Date: Mi 27 Jul 2011 10:32:12 CEST Build Host: ppc05.phx2.fedoraproject.org Group : Applications/System Source RPM: logcheck-1.3.13-2.el6.src.rpm Size : 375904 License: GPLv2 Signature : RSA/8, Di 14 Sep 2010 17:50:20 CEST, Key ID 3b49df2a0608b895 Packager : Fedora Project URL : http://logcheck.org/ Summary : Analyzes log files and sends noticeable events as email [root@mail ~]# ls -l /var/log/maillog -rw-rw-rw- 1 root adm 1040633 28. Jul 11:19 /var/log/maillog [root@mail ~]# ls -l /var/log/secure -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 10342 28. Jul 11:19 /var/log/secure [root@mail ~]# But the solution (chgrp adm /var/log/messages /var/log/secure) did't work for me. Thanks Andreas

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Booting CentOS 6 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu
by Cliff Pratt 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working? When I try to boot the "Live" ISO it starts to do the countdown but when it reaches zero it gets stuck - nothing else happens. No error messages and since the install never really gets going, no logs. I've checked the mailing list archive back a few months, but I've not seen anything related. Cheers, Cliff

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SOLVED Re: Booting CentOS 6 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu
by Cliff Pratt 28 Jul '11

28 Jul '11

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:16 PM, John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien(a)leeds.ac.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Cliff Pratt wrote: > >> I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on >> Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working? >> >> When I try to boot the "Live" ISO it starts to do the countdown but >> when it reaches zero it gets stuck - nothing else happens. No error >> messages and since the install never really gets going, no logs. >> >> I've checked the mailing list archive back a few months, but I've not >> seen anything related. > > I've installed off DVD1 and done kickstart installs off the netinstall CD on > VirtualBox 4 on CentOS5, and that works just fine. I can't see a reason why > Ubuntu would make any real difference. > > I've not tried the Live ISO. > It was a silly error. In the VirtualBox definition I hadn't enabled PAE. After that all went OK. Cheers, Cliff

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running X as root in centos 6
by Jerry Geis 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

When I run X as root in centos 6 I get a nice little message that "your currently trying to run as root super user" and are you sure you want to with a checkbox. I do this for a reason as a post install step, then the system reboots and it never happens again... I am trying to find how to set this checkbox which says "never ask me again" and move on... I was trying to find it in gconf-editor but have not found it. Does anyone know where it is? THanks, Jerry

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missing /dev/dsp
by David Bunt 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

Hey guys, If I needed to get /dev/dsp back on centos 6, how would I go about doing that. Note, I've already uninstalled pulseaudio. I've also edited /etc/modprobe.d/dist-oss.conf and uncommented: /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm && /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-device && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-oss But I'm getting: FATAL: Module snd_pcm_oss not found. Suggestions? -- Head Grunt

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libpri rpm version 1.4.12 for CentOS 5.6
by Kaushal Shriyan 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

Hi, Is libpri rpm version 1.4.12 for CentOS 5.6 made available ? [root@ ~]# rpm -qa | grep libpri libpri-1.4.11.5-1_centos5 [root@ ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.6 (Final) [root@ ~]# [root@ ~]# yum list updates | grep libpri [root@ ~]# Please suggest/guide further. Regards, Kaushal

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Package: virt-goodies - partly solved
by Victor Zele 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

For CentOS KVM migrations use the virt-v2v package part of base. See this link, http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualiz… Am Freitag, 22. Juli 2011, 13:37:08 schrieb Timothy Kesten: > Hi Folks, > > is here someone who knows where to get the package "virt-goodies" for > CentOS6 64bit? > > I'd like to convert VMWare-images to KVM. No answers :-( I've found the sourcecode of "vmware2libvirt" (part of virt-goodies - a python-file) to convert .vmx file to .xm file for using in virt-manager. This programm works fine. Conversion of my VMWare-Image succeeded. For everything, which interests it. Bye Timothy

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HOWTO install CentOS 6 on low memory computer or virtual machine (even 192MB RAM)
by Tomasz Ostrowski 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

I've managed to install CentOS 6 on a 192MB virtual machine using LiveCD install-to-disk graphical method. This is not normally possible because of: - hard-coded minimum supported memory in Anaconda installer - it will show a message "You do not have enough RAM to install CentOS Linux on this machine" if you try or force you to use seriously crippled text installer; - a bug in Anaconda installer, which prevents it from using swap during installation. I think it would be useful to be able to install CentOS 6 (or Scientific Linux 6 or RedHat Enterprise Linux - RHEL 6) on low memory old computer or laptop, as it can be very capable firewall, home www server, proxy etc. So the procedure is as follows: 1. Boot to 32-bit CentOS LiveCD (CentOS-6.0-i386-LiveCD.iso) in graphical mode (if you have at least 256MB RAM) or text mode (if you have less than 256MB RAM). 2. Login as root. 3. Edit a file /usr/sbin/anaconda - using vim in text mode or gedit in graphical mode - search for "within" and modify function "within_available_memory" adding a line "return True" like this: def within_available_memory(needed_ram): return True # kernel binary code estimate that is # not reported in MemTotal by /proc/meminfo epsilon = 15360 # 15 MB return needed_ram < (iutil.memInstalled() + epsilon) This would get rid of artificial hard-coded memory requirement. 4. Edit a file /usr/lib/anaconda/storage/__init__.py - search for 4th occurrence of "swapoff" and modify a fragment of function "umountFilesystems" from: for device in devices: if not device.format.mountable and \ (device.format.type != "swap" or swapoff): continue to: for device in devices: if not (device.format.mountable and \ (device.format.type != "swap" or swapoff)): continue (add parentheses - left one after "if not" and right one after "or swapoff"). This would fix a bug in installer. 5. Run "liveinst" which should start graphical installer. 6. During installation create swap partition so that you have at least 1GB of available memory (RAM+swap) (default setup should suffice, but I personally do not recommend it as it used LVM, which AFAIK prevents disks from using barriers). The bug is reported upstream: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708966 but for Fedora Linux. Regards Tometzky -- ...although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were... Winnie the Pooh

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really large file systems with centos
by John R Pierce 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

I've been asked for ideas on building a rather large archival storage system for inhouse use, on the order of 100-400TB. Probably using CentOS 6. The existing system this would replace is using Solaris 10 and ZFS, but I want to explore using Linux instead. We have our own tomcat based archiving software that would run on this storage server, along with NFS client and server. Its a write once, read almost never kind of application, storing compressed batches of archive files for a year or two. 400TB written over 2 years translates to about 200TB/year or about 7MB/second average write speed. The very rare and occasional read accesses are done by batches where a client makes a webservice call to get a specific set of files, then they are pushed as a batch to staging storage where the user can then browse them, this can take minutes without any problems. My general idea is a 2U server with 1-4 SAS cards connected to strings of about 48 SATA disks (4 x 12 or 3 x 16), all configured as JBOD, so there would potentially be 48 or 96 or 192 drives on this one server. I'm thinking they should be laid as as 4 or 8 or 16 seperate RAID6 sets of 10 disks each, then use LVM to put those into a larger volume. About 10% of the disks would be reserved as global hot spares. So, my questions... A) Can CentOS 6 handle that many JBOD disks in one system? is my upper size too big and I should plan for 2 or more servers? What happens with the device names when you've gone past /dev/sdz ? B) What is the status of large file system support in CentOS 6? I know XFS is frequently mentioned with such systems, but I/we have zero experience with it, its never been natively supported in EL up to 5, anyways. C) Is GFS suitable for this, or is it strictly for clustered storage systems? D) anything important I've neglected? -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast

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Error updating CentOS 6 kernel
by Mark 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

I finally was able to create a VM in which to load and "play" with CentOS 6, and the first time I went to update the kernel I ran into this: Downloading Packages: kernel-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64.rpm | 22 MB 01:11 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing : kernel-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 1/1 grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template What does that mean and how do I fix it?

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Gimp PDF plugin - Centos 5
by Frank Cox 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Gimp on Centos 5 has somehow lost its ability to load a pdf file on three (i386) different computers. I'm pretty sure that this used to work. When I try to load a PDF file I get the initial box titled "Load Postscript" with rendering and antialiasing options, but when I hit OK I get an error message: Opening "filename" failed: Plug-In could not open image." Comparing between Centos 5 and Centos 6 I see that I have a file named file-pdf in the gimp plugins directory on Centos 6 x86_64 (/usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins) but that file is not preset on the Centos 5 boxes.. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER!

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Question about CentOS 6 installation setup
by Mark 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

When I created a CentOS VM (using VMWare WorkStation), I installed with the first DVD, and the disk partitioning and installation was all done automatically with almost no input required from me. The problem with this is that the /boot partition was too small (under 50MB) and I couldn't update the kernel (it blew out with a grubby error, which I did not recognize - separate thread on that). Is this a manifestation of using VMWare for the VM platform, or is this "normal" for a 6.0 installation or what? Thanks in advance.

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RADIUS Questions
by Dan 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

I've been running FreeRadius 2 on Centos 5.5 for a while now. So far so good. I'm now looking to make connecting to our WPA secured wireless easier. The RADIUS server is running in a VM and since the system is in use I have copied the original and used that copy to create a test environment. I have run through all system updates and have upgraded all relevant packages. The test system is at 5.6 now. Currently with Windows machines I can't just connect to the SSID and enter in a username and password. I have to go and manually add the SSID, modify some settings; specifically turning off validating server certificate, turning off automatically use my Windows login, and turning on User or computer authentication mode. We also have some OS X clients. Fortunately connecting via OS X is easier. The catch is that I have to join the machine to our domain. After that it's pretty much username and password, and they are on. Ideally I would like to have a simple "connect to this SSID, enter your username and password and that's it" solution and still have all requests checked against our Active Directory server. On a side note. I'm going through my settings trying to get this working more smoothly and I ran across: wbinfo --a user%password (yes I'm adding in my username and pass) plaintext password authentication succeeded challenge/response password authentication failed error code was NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED (0xc0000022) error messsage was: winbind client not authorized to use winbindd_pam_auth_crap. Ensure permissions on /var/cache/samba/winbindd_privileged are set correctly. Could not authenticate user MYUSERNAME with challenge/response I know the 2 error lines are permissions related. I'm not sure what the permissions should be on this file/folder. Can someone let me know this? The tutorial from FreeRadius says that I should get output similar to: plaintext password authentication failed error code was NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER (0xc0000064) error message was: No such user Could not authenticate user CHSchwartz%mypassword with plaintext password Yet ntlm_auth --request-nt-key --domain=MYDOMAIN --username=MYUSERNAME NT_STATUS_OK: Success (0x0) So the Auth is working. I don't understand though why my AD server is letting cleartext passwords through. It shouldn't right? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Dan <http://www.liai.org> <http://www.liai.org>

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Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0
by Thomas Dukes 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Help! Just ran the installation DVD but there is no option to 'upgrade'. Looked at the RHEL docs, http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installati on_Guide/ch-guimode-x86.html#id4594292 referenced off the CentOS Release notes but the CentOS installation doesn't offer the 'upgrade'. I use to be able to upgrade by doing a 'yum update'. That doesn't work either. Guess I'm stuck with 5.6 as I an not about to install a new version and have to rebuild all non-rpm packages from scratch. This is worse than Microsoft!!

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centos 6 gdm.custom auto login
by Jerry Geis 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Under centos 5 I modified /etc/gdm/custom.conf to auto login with the following: [daemon] AutomaticLoginEnable=true AutomaticLogin=myuser TimedLoginEnable=true TimedLogin=myuser TimedLoginDelay=0 This doesnt seem to work in Centos 6. What is the new way to accomplish auto login under X11. Thanks, Jerry

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Re: [CentOS] what really starts x11
by Jerry Geis 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

lists-centos wrote: > switch inittab to 3. that will get you a line-mode login. after > logging in, issue the command "startx" and debug from there. > > - Richard > > > ------------ Original Message ------------ > >> Date: Monday, July 25, 2011 02:36:02 PM -0400 >> From: Jerry Geis <geisj(a)pagestation.com> >> To: CentOS ML <centos(a)centos.org> >> Subject: [CentOS] what really starts x11 >> >> my inittab file has 5 for starting x on centos 6 >> however x is not starting >> >> what do i look for as why x is not starting ? >> it doesnt even attempt to start that i can tell >> no screen flashing or anything >> >> jerry >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS(a)centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > ------------ End Original Message ------------ > > > > thanks actually i tried that. it does start. it just doesnt start automatically. i can start it manually jerry

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tabs in emacs fundamental mode?
by Devin Reade 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

I'm noticing that under CentOS 6, emacs fundamental mode is no longer inserting tabs at factor-of-8 tabstops, but rather is doing some funky guess-the-intended-tab-distance thing like text mode has done for a while, currently using three spaces per tab key. Has anyone tracked down where this was changed and, more to the point, how to get the old CentOS 5 behavior back? FWIW, I'm invoking it as "emacs -nw filename". LANG is "C". Devin -- He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro

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CentOS6 on EC2
by Richard Shade 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

Anyone successfully got CentOS6 running on EC2. We have bundled a pvgrub image but get to "Initialising Xen virtual ethernet driver." and the system stops outputting? -- Thanks, Richard Shade Integration Engineer RightScale - http://www.rightscale.com/ phone: 8055004164x1018

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nfsv4 and kerberos - fails to mount
by Rob Kampen 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

I have been trying all sorts of things to get this working. nfsv4 works fine if I just use the nfs-v3 form of export i.e. /nfs4exports 192.168.230.237/24(ro,fsid=0,sync,insecure,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,squash_uids=0-99) /nfs4exports/NDG 192.168.230.237/24(rw,insecure,no_subtree_check,nohide,sync,no_root_squash,squash_uids=0-99) but this is inherently open to all on this machine. so then using this recipe http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/kerberos-authentication-with-nf… and many others that hours of google foo shows change exports to /nfs4exports gss/krb5(ro,fsid=0,sync,insecure,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,squash_uids=0-99) /nfs4exports/NDG gss/krb5(rw,insecure,no_subtree_check,nohide,sync,no_root_squash,squash_uids=0-99) now from the client I can see [rkampen@timsws ~]$ showmount -e example.com Export list for example.com: /nfs4exports gss/krb5 /nfs4exports/NDG gss/krb5 but [rkampen@timsws /]$ sudo mount -t nfs4 -o sec=krb5 ndgonline.net:/ /NDG/ mount.nfs4: access denied by server while mounting ndgonline.net:/ and [rkampen@timsws /]$ sudo mount -t nfs4 -o sec=krb5 ndgonline.net:/NDG /NDG/ mount.nfs4: access denied by server while mounting ndgonline.net:/NDG And I cannot find any log entries relating to the kerberos KDC or on the nfs server - two different machines. I have set up all the principals in the KDC and used kadmin/ktadd to load into the client and the server /etc/krb5.keytab as per the above url. How and where do I get logging to occur so I can find out the missing piece in my kerberos setup? Any help or directions appreciated. TIA

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what really starts x11
by Jerry Geis 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

my inittab file has 5 for starting x on centos 6 however x is not starting what do i look for as why x is not starting ? it doesnt even attempt to start that i can tell no screen flashing or anything jerry

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Package: virt-goodies
by Timothy Kesten 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

Hi Folks, is here someone who knows where to get the package "virt-goodies" for CentOS6 64bit? I'd like to convert VMWare-images to KVM. Thx Timothy

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Updated Kernel sensors modules
by Dejan 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

Last week I upgraded my box to CentOS 6 and I'm very impressed so far with it. The only small issue so far is that it doesn't seem to recognize the new Sandy Bridge Core i5 CPU that I have and you can't monitor its temperature. I recompiled the latest coretemp module from the latest 2.6.39 kernel and the latest lm_sensors version however this still wasn't enough as the new module loads fine but still reports that there were no sensors found. I booted a Fedora 15 install and it recognized the CPUs and started reporting the temperatures so obviously the modules are there but maybe the coretemp is not the only thing that is needed. Does anyone know what else is needed for the sensors to be recognized? Thanks, Deyan

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lots of small files in a folder on Linux centos
by yonatan pingle 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

Hello, I have a rather annoying issue on going with one of my centos virtual servers. the server hosts a website using apache and mysql ,there are three persons involved with keeping the site up and running. and i am his root due to the fact he does not know anything with about Linux. there is an php/sql coder , and the site owner which only knows to use the CMS and upload new articles to the website. the coder and the site owner work together for a long time already , i am their new admin ( as the last one was a major ISP which failed to host the site properly ). lately the server is under-preforming and load averages are high, mysql service keeps crashing and the server is hitting max memory usage ( so i added ram .. ) , after looking into the website folders, i have found one folder which from my point of view is one of the causes for the server loads. (sorry for piping ls ). uploads]# ls | wc -l 3123 I have talked with the site owner, which in turn showed this to the coder ,now he throws the ball back claiming: it has nothing to do with server performance. the folder is full of images, about 40K each, and i have good reason to believe this is the problem, as this is not the first time i see that a folder which includes a large amount of files causes a server to under-perform. the coder is not tech savvy as one might expect, so it's really hard for me to explain the issue of having lots of files in one folder to the site owner or to the coder. the hardware is a decent machine dual E5530 24RAM with six hard drives in raid. the virtual server has 2GB of ram and it's own CPU share ( 4 cores 8 threads ). the coder is arguing with facts sadly to say he has the site owner on "his side". long story short, how should i explain in the most simple way in plain english that having that much files in a folder will cause a server to work slower? pros vs cons of having a large amount of small files in the same folder on Linux Centos? -- Best Regards, Yonatan Pingle RHCT | RHCSA | CCNA1

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Centos 6.0 Live CD Now Available
by Always Learning 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

Detailed Release Notes are available at http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSLiveCD6.0 "Special thanks to Fabian Arrotin for taking up the LiveCD and LiveDVD efforts, and to everyone on the QA team who worked through the issues and helped build, test and release these images." Thank you. Well done Guys. Centos is Great. -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU.

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/dev/dsp
by NfoCipher 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

Hey guys, If I needed to get /dev/dsp back on centos 6, how would I go about doing that. Note, I've already uninstalled pulseaudio. I've also edited /etc/modprobe.d/dist-oss.conf and uncommented: /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm && /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-device && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-oss But I'm getting: FATAL: Module snd_pcm_oss not found. Suggestions?

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 77, Issue 7
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '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-6.0 LiveCD i386 and x86_64 (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:48:10 +0100 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-6.0 LiveCD i386 and x86_64 To: CentOS Announcements List <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <4E2D741A.2090604(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-6.0 LiveCD for i386 and x86_64 architectures. Detailed Release Notes are available at http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSLiveCD6.0 +++++++++++++++++++++++ Overview The CentOS-6.0 LiveCD is meant to be a Linux environment suited to be run directly from either CD media or USB storage devices. It does not need any persistent storage on a machine, which also makes it a suitable recovery environment. Due to space constraints, it was not possible to include all the traditional desktop applications on the LiveCD. You can though enjoy a Gnome basic desktop, view and modify pictures with gthumb and the Gimp, browsing the web with Firefox, send emails with Thunderbird and connect to your favorite Instant Messaging network with Pidgin +++++++++++++++++++++++ Download SHA256SUMs : CentOS-6.0-x86_64-LiveCD.iso: f7239593e425ea4c26c5292e23b5e284e64779f54af395486cf1fd4b3e6c7f3b CentOS-6.0-i386-LiveCD.iso: c4e09a2152a8e1b17dc6704eb8d7455c13f615e40432cb0b4b07f65850948628 The CentOS-6.0 LiveCD is released to all external mirrors and available for download now. List of mirrors is available at these urls : http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/6/isos/i386/ http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/6/isos/x86_64/ There are no torrent files for these LiveCD images since the overall size of download is small enough that it can be easily downloaded via http and ftp mirrors. Given the very large and diverse CentOS Mirror network, we expect most people to get fairly good download rates for these iso images. Once you download the images, its important to verify contents using the sha256sum utility, against the published sums here. +++++++++++++++++++++++ Notes You can now install the Live environment to your hard disk (which wasn?t possible with the 5.x Live medias). Please note that you need more that 512Mb of ram to be able to use that ?install to hard drive? feature (If you have less than 512Mb of ram, you can install to disk but in text-mode, meaning that instead of clicking on the desktop icon, you have to launch a gnome-terminal and launch the ?liveinst? command from within the terminal) There is no upstream Live media product. The Live media produced within the CentOS Project is based on and around the livemedia tools from the Fedora Project. These LiveCD?s only contains content found within the primary CentOS-6.0 distribution. No package from outside the distribution was included and no package has been changed from whats included in the base distribution. We appreciate all forms of feedback about these LiveCD, including specific application inclusion requests or feature changes in future releases. The best place to provide this feedback is via the centos-devel mailing list ( http://lists.centos.org/ ) and feature requests via the issue tracker ( http://bugs.centos.org/ ). Special thanks to Fabian Arrotin for taking up the LiveCD and LiveDVD efforts, and to everyone on the QA team who worked through the issues and helped build, test and release these images. -- Karanbir Singh The CentOS Project irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 77, Issue 7 **********************************************

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centos 6 and mingetty for /dev/ttyS1
by Jerry Geis 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

I've been playing with centos 6. Sometimes it gets into a mode when it "seems" like it hangs at boot. At reboot I hit ALT-D for details and the last thing printed is Starting atd. No I can press alt-f2 to get a login. Doing ps ax does not show a mingetty tty1, What might be going on here. What isn't completing to get a full boot. Thanks, Jerry

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cleartpart in kickstart on CentOS 6
by Kevin C 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

Hi List, I use a kickstart file to install my operating systems. In the kickstart file, I put the clearpart options to erase all my partition. But the install failed because the partition aren't erased. Does someone have the same issue ? Regards Kevin C

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/dev/dsp
by David Bunt 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

Hey guys, If I needed to get /dev/dsp back on centos 6, how would I go about doing that. Note, I've already uninstalled pulseaudio. I've also edited /etc/modprobe.d/dist-oss.conf and uncommented: /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm && /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-device && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-oss But I'm getting: FATAL: Module snd_pcm_oss not found. Suggestions?

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VLAN's
by Jennifer Botten 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

Hi, I have a firewall running IPTABLES. I have tried to route sip traffic from my WAN(eth3) interface to a VLAN(eth2.2) interface, however the data will not route to the VLAN it keeps routing to the default interface(eth2). Does anyone have an idea as to what I need to look for? Regards Jennifer Botten ETECH Tel: +2787 150 5285 Fax: 086 638 2412 Mobile: +27 82 496 4009 E-Mail: <mailto:jennifer@etech.co.za> jennifer(a)etech.co.za Website: <http://www.etech.co.za/> www.etech.co.za cid:image001.gif@01CBE895.00AF7120 The views expressed in this email are, unless otherwise stated, those of the author and not those of the Etech or its management. The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted in reliance on this, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Whilst all reasonable steps are taken to ensure the accuracy and integrity of information and data transmitted electronically and to preserve the confidentiality thereof, no liability or responsibility whatsoever is accepted if information or data is, for whatever reason, corrupted or does not reach its intended destination.

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pxe booting questions
by Nathan 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

hello, I have a situation where I am using PXE and kickstart to install my machines. My set up is as follows: i have a cobbler server which is also an mrepo mirror doing the booting. my mrepo tree has both disc1 and disc2 loop mounted, and RPMS.os symlinks both the discs contens to generate the unified os tree. This all works fine. My issue is with the kickstart, if i use the disc1 as the url (like below) when it tries to install a package that is on disc2, it still looks for it in the disc1 location. Below is a snippet of my kickstart file (which works great if i do not select any packages that reside on the disc2 of the centos install (All discs have been verified as working via sha an md5 checksums). url --url=http://mrepo/mrepo/centos6-x86_64/disc1 repo --name=os --baseurl=http://mrepo/mrepo/centos6-x86_64/RPMS.os selinux --permissive install lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us skipx rootpw firewall --disabled authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 %packages redhat-lsb rubygems puppet %end Thanks. Nathan

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Keyboards
by m.roth＠5-cent.us 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

On my new Dell system, it's got a cardreader. More to the point, it's got an idiot menu key... *right* next to the right control key, and just where the annoying keyboard design has it cut down from the oversize space bar ASCII art <ctrl><WinDoze> <tall[ ]<tall<tall<tall <ctrl> Alt>[ tall spacebar ] alt> Win> menu> The result is that just trying to type, I regularly hit the thing. Does anyone have an idea how to disable this forever (if y'all don't, I'm prying the key *off*). Thanks in advance. mark

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centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf
by Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in /etc/gdm/custom.conf such as [server-Standard] name=Standard server command=/usr/bin/Xorg -br -audit 4 -s 15 chooser=false handled=true flexible=true priority=0 After this change, Xorg would run with the -br -audit 4 -s 15 options. Unfortunately in CentOS6 this is not the case. It completely ignores anything put into custom.conf as far as I can tell. It appears to run with -nr -verbose -auth -nolisten tcp by default. Is there any way to modify this? Regards, Stephen Jamieson

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CentOS 6 PXE boot:Unable to download the kickstart file
by Ole Holm Nielsen 25 Jul '11

25 Jul '11

We have CentOS 6 manual installation working by PXE booting from a RHEL5.6 PXE/TFTP server. However, when we add a Kickstart file in the PXE configuration: kernel CentOS-6-i386/vmlinuz append load_ramdisk=1 initrd=CentOS-6-i386/initrd.img network ks=nfs:130.226.86.4:/u/rpm/kickstart/ks-centos-6-clean-i386.cfg then the CentOS 6 client install reports "Unable to download the kickstart file". The console 3 reports "failed to mount nfs source". We believe the NFS server is OK because we can install CentOS5 clients in this way. Perhaps this problem is related to this RHEL6 bug? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=653655 However, on the centos list I see some people who apparently go Kickstart to work with CentOS 6 - but how did they do it? Question: What special configuration is required for either 1) PXE or 2) the DHCP server? Thanks, Ole -- Ole Holm Nielsen Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark

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missing run-parts in /etc/crontab
by thomas veymont 24 Jul '11

24 Jul '11

hello, after a Centos 6 fresh install, I don't see any run-parts scripts in /etc/contab like in the 5.x releases : # run-parts 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly was it moved somewhere else ? am I missing any package ? thanks, Tom

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VLC package(s) for C6 ?
by fred smith 24 Jul '11

24 Jul '11

Hi listees! Just installed C6 (more or less) permanently on my eeepc. I've enabled rpmfusion non-free, rpmfusion free, elrepo, and epel, prior to this point I've been running fedora on it (f10 thru f14) and have always found VLC at rpmfusion. (but finally RHEL/Centos have become modern enough to support the eeepc's funky hardware, so I'm switching back--tired of the version churn of Fedora.) but RpmFusion does not seem to have packaged VLC for EL6, nor have epel or elrepo, Anyone know where to find such packages? thanks! 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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Why are all repos < 5.6 listed?
by Keith Roberts 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

Greetings all. I just enabled all repos on my system, to enable me to find a particular package. This is the first time I have noticed all the Centos repos < 5.6 being listed. Is this a new feature, to include all repos pre 5.6 now? Here's the output of the aforementioned yum command - sorry it's a little bit long: [root@karsites ~]# yum --enablerepo '*' --disablerepo 'c5-media' info textpattern Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, filter-data, keys, list-data, priorities Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons: mirror.netrino.co.uk * base: centos.mirror.evertje.net * centosplus: mirror.netrino.co.uk * contrib: centos.mirror.evertje.net * epel: mirrors.coreix.net * epel-debuginfo: mirrors.coreix.net * epel-source: mirrors.coreix.net * epel-testing: mirrors.coreix.net * epel-testing-debuginfo: mirrors.coreix.net * epel-testing-source: mirrors.coreix.net * extras: centos.mirror.evertje.net * remi: iut-info.univ-reims.fr * rpmforge: apt.sw.be * rpmforge-extras: apt.sw.be * rpmforge-testing: apt.sw.be * updates: mirror.netrino.co.uk C5.0-base | 1.1 kB 00:00 C5.0-base/primary | 798 kB 00:01 C5.0-base 2334/2334 C5.0-centosplus | 951 B 00:00 C5.0-centosplus/primary | 90 kB 00:00 C5.0-centosplus 134/134 C5.0-extras | 1.1 kB 00:00 C5.0-extras/primary | 77 kB 00:00 C5.0-extras 302/302 C5.0-updates | 951 B 00:00 C5.0-updates/primary | 352 kB 00:00 C5.0-updates 764/764 C5.1-base | 1.1 kB 00:00 C5.1-base/primary | 834 kB 00:01 C5.1-base 2400/2400 C5.1-centosplus | 951 B 00:00 C5.1-centosplus/primary | 73 kB 00:00 C5.1-centosplus 174/174 C5.1-extras | 1.1 kB 00:00 C5.1-extras/primary | 113 kB 00:00 C5.1-extras 421/421 C5.1-updates | 951 B 00:00 C5.1-updates/primary | 278 kB 00:00 C5.1-updates 502/502 C5.2-base | 1.1 kB 00:00 C5.2-base/primary | 853 kB 00:01 C5.2-base 2458/2458 C5.2-centosplus | 951 B 00:00 C5.2-centosplus/primary | 72 kB 00:00 C5.2-centosplus 119/119 C5.2-extras | 1.1 kB 00:00 C5.2-extras/primary | 90 kB 00:00 C5.2-extras 298/298 C5.2-updates | 951 B 00:00 C5.2-updates/primary | 374 kB 00:00 C5.2-updates 805/805 C5.3-base | 1.1 kB 00:00 C5.3-base/primary | 878 kB 00:01 C5.3-base 2508/2508 C5.3-centosplus | 951 B 00:00 C5.3-centosplus/primary | 115 kB 00:00 C5.3-centosplus 151/151 C5.3-extras | 1.1 kB 00:00 C5.3-extras/primary | 107 kB 00:00 C5.3-extras 324/324 C5.3-updates | 951 B 00:00 C5.3-updates/primary | 353 kB 00:00 C5.3-updates 528/528 C5.4-base | 2.1 kB 00:00 C5.4-base/primary_db | 1.6 MB 00:02 C5.4-centosplus | 1.9 kB 00:00 C5.4-centosplus/primary_db | 184 kB 00:00 C5.4-extras | 2.1 kB 00:00 C5.4-extras/primary_db | 180 kB 00:00 C5.4-updates | 1.9 kB 00:00 C5.4-updates/primary_db | 616 kB 00:00 C5.5-base | 2.1 kB 00:00 C5.5-base/primary_db | 1.6 MB 00:03 C5.5-centosplus | 1.9 kB 00:00 C5.5-centosplus/primary_db | 127 kB 00:00 C5.5-extras | 2.1 kB 00:00 C5.5-extras/primary_db | 183 kB 00:00 C5.5-updates | 1.9 kB 00:00 C5.5-updates/primary_db | 911 kB 00:01 addons | 951 B 00:00 atrpms | 2.6 kB 00:00 atrpms/primary_db | 1.3 MB 00:02 atrpms-bleeding | 2.9 kB 00:00 atrpms-bleeding/primary_db | 26 kB 00:00 atrpms-bleeding-debuginfo | 2.6 kB 00:00 atrpms-bleeding-debuginfo/primary_db | 6.6 kB 00:00 atrpms-bleeding-source | 2.6 kB 00:00 atrpms-bleeding-source/primary_db | 7.7 kB 00:00 atrpms-debuginfo | 2.6 kB 00:00 atrpms-debuginfo/primary_db | 219 kB 00:00 atrpms-source | 2.6 kB 00:00 atrpms-source/primary_db | 228 kB 00:00 atrpms-testing | 3.0 kB 00:00 atrpms-testing/primary_db | 166 kB 00:00 atrpms-testing-debuginfo | 2.6 kB 00:00 atrpms-testing-debuginfo/primary_db | 31 kB 00:00 atrpms-testing-source | 2.6 kB 00:00 atrpms-testing-source/primary_db | 27 kB 00:00 base | 1.1 kB 00:00 centosplus | 1.9 kB 00:00 centosplus/primary_db | 99 kB 00:00 contrib | 951 B 00:00 debug | 951 B 00:00 debug/primary | 859 kB 00:02 debug 3390/3390 epel | 3.7 kB 00:00 epel-debuginfo | 2.6 kB 00:00 epel-debuginfo/primary_db | 488 kB 00:00 epel-source | 2.9 kB 00:00 epel-source/primary_db | 935 kB 00:01 epel-testing | 3.7 kB 00:00 epel-testing/primary_db | 180 kB 00:00 epel-testing-debuginfo | 2.6 kB 00:00 epel-testing-debuginfo/primary_db | 25 kB 00:00 epel-testing-source | 2.8 kB 00:00 epel-testing-source/primary_db | 47 kB 00:00 extras | 2.1 kB 00:00 remi | 2.5 kB 00:00 remi/primary_db | 259 kB 00:00 remi-test | 2.5 kB 00:00 remi-test/primary_db | 38 kB 00:00 rpmforge | 975 B 00:00 rpmforge-extras | 975 B 00:00 rpmforge-extras/primary | 60 kB 00:00 rpmforge-extras 158/158 rpmforge-testing | 975 B 00:00 rpmforge-testing/primary | 132 kB 00:00 rpmforge-testing 413/413 updates | 1.9 kB 00:00 Excluding Packages in global exclude list Finished 24300 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Error: No matching Packages to list 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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Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf
by Gerhard Schneider 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

> In later Fedora releases, GDM has become less and less functional: > configurability has been removed, more so as releases occur. From my > (known to be flaky) memory, that includes the ability to turn off the > silly list that exposes usernames right on the login screen, the > ability to assign your own wallpaper to the login screen, among other > things. Using gdm is getting harder and harder but you can try: gconftool-2 --direct \ --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \ --type bool --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true There are many features available via gconftool-2 or gconf-editor only. GS -- Gerhard Schneider Institute of Lightweight Design and e-Mail: gs(a)ilsb.tuwien.ac.at Structural Biomechanics (E317) Tel.: +43 664 60 588 3171 Vienna University of Technology / Austria Fax: +43 1 58801 31799 A-1040 Wien, Gusshausstrasse 27-29 http://www.ilsb.tuwien.ac.at/~gs/

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Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf
by Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

> Those options are no longer supported in GDM. I think that they were > removed with GDM 2.24 (at the latest, probably 2.22) and C6 is running > GDM 2.30. That is unfortunate... I suppose I will just have to ignore this issue then. > in "/etc/gdm/custom.conf" to override the "-nolisten tcp" but I have > no idea about "-br -audit 4 -s 15". Thanks for your help. I really wish someone know where I could edit those parameters. Regards, Stephen Jamieson

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nouveau driver one centos 6
by Jerry Geis 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

I "wish" to not load the or even install the nouveau driver by default. I want to use the NVIDIA binary driver. I have tried a number of things: 1) in my kickstart package section add the line: -xorg-x11-drv-nouveau This did not work - it was still installed. 2) use the nvidia installer and it asks to create a modprobe.conf file to blacklist the driver. I said yes thats what I want. I verified the file being present and rebooted. The driver is still loaded "lsmod | grep nou" still showed it present. 3) I tried "rpm -e xorg-x11-drv-nouveau --nodeps". This seeming worked however the files for nouveau were still present. find / | grep nouveau showed driver files and more.... So - anyone know how to get this off of my machine??? I thought the "-" in the kickstart package section would work, but no. Thanks so much for any thoughts. jerry

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