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workspace switcher
by Jerry Geis 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

Hi all, I added the "workspace switcher" and I now have 4 virtual screens. When I do "vncviewer machine" works and shows me the current 1-4 display. however, I want to go directly to one of the 1-4 displays. when I do "vncviewer machine:1" it says "unable to connect to host" How do I get the displays 1-4 to accept the vnc connection? I have module vnc loaded in my xorg.conf file. Again vnc works into the machine but I want to go directly to one of the 4 available virtual screens. Thanks, Jerry

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Problem with RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet
by ArcosCom Linux User 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

Hi guys; I'm having a problem with a new pc that has an Realtec ethernet device. Don't know why the driver is not loading and is not detected during installation process. I tried to load r8169.ko unsuccessfully. It load but no device is detected. No dmesg or /var/log/message. ¿Any help on how I can configure correctly this ethernet device? This are the data that I have: # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) More detailed: 01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device e000 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 I/O ports at a000 [size=256] Memory at e1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 20000000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

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SELinux and rsync permission on /bin
by James B. Byrne 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

I am getting this error from the SELinux troubleshooter SELinux is preventing rsync (/usr/bin/rsync) "search" to bin (bin_t) I can fix this easily enough but I want to ask why is rsync searching /bin as a repository? Is this a bug in the program or is the default SELinux configuration wrong for rsync? Regards, -- *** 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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Help with dump/restore
by Scott Ehrlich 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

So I recently installed an Overland Arcvault 12 tape library on a server to back up /var/log/ and /home. The server is an out-of-box RHEL 5 install, with all packages selected, in an isolated lan, with no package updates. Also, this is a live server that cannot be brought down for backups, and some files may be actively in use during the dump - just gotta live with it. Since I know EL5 and C5 are the same, and the level of support I get from RH is actually less effective and slower than resources such as this list, I'm looking here, first. Up to this point I was backing up to a USB-mounted external 1 TB hard drive. I was using a script containing: /sbin/dump -0v -z2 -f /media/usb_drive/dump0 /home I played with restore on that, and it tested fine. For the tape, I thought it would be nice to add /var/log (should have done it before, but didn't think of it...) Trying to adapt the knowledge to a tape library... /sbin/dump -0 -v -z2 -f /dev/nst0 /var/log /sbin/dump -0u -v -z2 -f /dev/nst0 /home I have a cron job that dumps the results to /var/log/dump.log, and a review of the log file claims all went well. Now for the restore... I just tried playing with different options of restore, but could not successfully restore anything. I ensured I was in a scratch area so as to hopefully not overwrite current files. What is the proper procedure for dumping and restoring now? Should I be dumping to /dev/nst0/dump? What restore commands would I use to recall a file? I'd like to keep things as simple as possible - people have suggested legato and amanda, but for now, I would think/hope dump and restore would work. Thanks. Scott

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kickstart editor
by Jerry Geis 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

I thought there used to be a kickstart editor? I am on centos 5.1 and am not seeing one in the menus. Not even sure what the executable was called. Is there a package I no longer have installed? What is it called? Thanks, Jerry

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RE: [CentOS] Net install from behind webproxy
by McGlue, Ronan 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

I am now in the prediciment of getting as far as downloading the rpms from the installation website( a local repository I created on same switch). The installation progresses through downloading the various image / xml files etc from the server , formats and partitions the harddrive accordingly. But when it gets to downloading and installing the rpms it throws a wobbler. As per my post on forums a few hours ago [quote] ronanOZ wrote: Ok, I sort of guessed that after checking out the parameters. Now I'm one step on from that. I have set up Xserver on my win box and have pointed the installer to it and it gets as far as starting to copy the rpms down to the target machine. IE it can see and download images/stage2.img etc but it balks at the first rpm, which happens to be system-config-services... saying it ".. missing or corrupt file, or corrupt media.." The <alt>F3 debug output simply states that it fails to get http://<IP>/./Centos/system-config-services.. trying 1-10 then fails. The only thing I can think of is the permissions on the NTFS file system but if it can see the images folder contents etc how come not the CentOS subfolder. Could it be that the centos installer is looking for a folder which is case sensitive whereas NTFS isn't!? TIA Ronan[/quote] Now I have subsequently tried using a ks file and a basic core install and it performs as expected until it too gets grumpy at the same stage of the installation. I can however wget the files on the target machine from the repository using the shell provided when I <alt>F2. The Xserver httpd log files show 200 codes for the rpm downloads. Would it be possible that I have a corrupted net-install cd. I have verified that the CD and the repository are both i386/5.1 I am at a loss to explain this. Can anyone else!? TIA Ronan -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Fabian Arrotin Sent: Friday, 28 December 2007 12:18 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Net install from behind webproxy _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Australia Post is committed to providing our customers with excellent service. If we can assist you in any way please telephone 13 13 18 or visit our website. The information contained in this e-mail communication may be proprietary, confidential or legally professionally privileged. It is intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. You should only read, disclose, re-transmit, copy, distribute, act in reliance on or commercialise the information if you are authorised to do so. Australia Post does not represent, warrant or guarantee the integrity of this e-mail communication has been maintained nor that the communication is free of errors, virus or interference. If you are not the addressee or intended recipient please notify us by replying direct to the sender and then destroy any electronic or paper copy of this message. Any views expressed in this e-mail communication are taken to be those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically attributes those views to Australia Post and is authorised to do so.

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CentOS on laptops - TuxBox?
by Bart Schaefer 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

RedHat magazine this month has an article about the TuxBox M750: http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/12/06/hardware-review-tuxbox-computers-s… Has anyone bought one of these? I'm particularly interested in estimated battery life, which that review doesn't mention. The M750 is comparable in most other ways to an HP that I was about to buy, but the HP's battery life is supposedly unusually good (5+ hours).

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boot hangs on trying to start sendmail
by Robert Moskowitz 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

I am building a new server. It will be a temporary firewall of sorts. I am well into the config, made a lot of changes; almost ready to set it up in the target networks, but now.... The system hangs trying to start sendmail. I was thinking hard about disabling sendmail, but thought I needed it for internal functions, so did not. yet. So is there someway to get the system working so I can change something like disable sendmail? The system has no cdrom, diskette, etc. In fact the kybd/monitor require a special temp setup. Perhaps I can edit the kernel line in grub to disable something? If necessary, I can pull the drive and put it in a system that does support cdrom. That is the way I did the initial harddrive install.

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Failed to enable keyboard
by Robert Moskowitz 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

I have a set of systems that I have to build that cannot be booted from CD. So I put the drive in another system, do the install, move the drive, and fix the video with system-config-display. But seems perhaps there is another (small) problem. The build system has a PS/2 keyboard interface (and mouse). The target system has NO PS/2 interfaces. Only USB is available. So at boot I get the message: atkbd.c: Failed to enable keyboard on isa0060/serio0 What do I do to remove this?

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OT? Creative Zen player not registering as a USB device
by MHR 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

I plugged my son's new (Christmas) Zen V player into my CentOS 5.1 box and it doesn't register as a device that the system can see or mount. If I lsusb, it shows up as bus 2, device 8, but there is no corresponding /dev/??? device for it, so the system can't get at it. (I tried my flash drive in the same USB port and it works fine, so it's not the hardware.) How do I get around this? Thanks. mhr

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Issues installing x86_64 5.1 on Ultra 40
by Ray Van Dolson 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

Hi all, we're trying to install CentOS 5.1 on a Sun Ultra 40. This is an AMD-powered machine and we're using the x86_64 version of CentOS 5.1. The machine is using the NVidia CK804 chipset and has SATA disks. It also has 16GB's of memory which prompted us to upgrade the BIOS on the machine from 1.1 to 1.6 per this (we also have the two quadro cards): http://docs.sun.com/source/819-3954-18/index.html#0_37092 The install goes fine up until the installer is trying to format the disks. Part of the way through it simply dies and pops up an error saying that the installer couldn't format the LVM volume and we have to reboot. An examination of dmesg output shows that there are many SATA errors occuring at this point. Timeouts and such. After a reboot, the SATA drive no longer shows up -- not even in BIOS. It's as if the formatting has instructed the drive to deactivate itself. :) A hard reset and reseat of the drive in the SATA enclosure brings it back again. First thought was that the slot or SATA port was bad, so we have moved to others with the same result. Solaris 10 x86 installs perfectly on this machine, so I'm starting to think that the sata_nv driver is to blame here. We're in the process of trying 32-bit CentOS 5.1 on the system just for giggles, and may try Fedora 8 as well or RHEL 5.1 and use our paid support to track this issue down, but thought I'd run it by everyone here. Didn't see any existing issues in bugzilla.redhat.com or bugs.centos.org. Any insights on this? I will get the exact error messages posted up here soon (output from dmesg, etc). TIA, Ray

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libata and PMP (Port Multiplier) support in CentOS
by Timothy Selivanow 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

I'm looking at buying a NORCO DS-1220 and it comes with a NORCO 4618 PCI-X card (4 port eSATA, with a port multiplier on the card or the chassis). I've been trying to pin down whether or not CentOS will see all 12 drives, and I haven't seen anything that is definitive. I see that the kernel module sata_sil24 supports the SiI3124 chip on the NORCO 4618 card, but I haven't found whether or not the default kernel will support the SiI3726 (PMP) without the libata-tj patch. I'm just trying to determine the easiest route to go with minimal cost. I've found another enclosure that uses 4 mini-SAS connectors, but in addition to the extra $320 for the enclosure, I'd need to buy a $300 card and at least one $120 cable (either SFF-8088 to SFF-8470 or a straight SFF-8088). While this is for at home, I would consider this a "mission critical" device and don't want a flakey setup, which is what I have now...I've become an expert at recovering from a 2 drive failure in a 4 drive RAID5 setup using mdadm. Any ideas, suggestions, or authoritative comments? --Tim ________________________________________________________________________________ < You're definitely on their list. The question to ask next is what list it is. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \ \ \ \ /\ ( ) .( o ).

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Solved - Re: [CentOS] boot hangs on trying to start sendmail
by Robert Moskowitz 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

After a wait of about 5 min, the boot moved on to hang on sm-client. When that finally timed out, I was able to log in. The problem was indirectly DNS. When I had configured the 2nd interface (which I added in the last reboot), I included a gateway address. Then when I booted, there were two interfaces each with their gateway address. Well the second (non-existant) one was used, so no access to the DNS server. It is those beartraps you know about that get you every time. replies-lists-a1z2-centos(a)listmail.innovate.net wrote: > the sendmail hang is generally a dns issue -- sendmail is trying to > resolve the hostname. it will timeout past this after a bit. having > the appropriate entries in /etc/hosts should resolve this. > > > - Rick > > > ------------ Original Message ------------ > >> Date: Thursday, December 27, 2007 10:03:52 AM -0500 >> From: Robert Moskowitz <rgm(a)htt-consult.com> >> To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> >> Subject: [CentOS] boot hangs on trying to start sendmail >> >> I am building a new server. It will be a temporary firewall of >> sorts. >> >> I am well into the config, made a lot of changes; almost ready to >> set it up in the target networks, but now.... >> >> The system hangs trying to start sendmail. I was thinking hard >> about disabling sendmail, but thought I needed it for internal >> functions, so did not. yet. >> >> So is there someway to get the system working so I can change >> something like disable sendmail? >> >> The system has no cdrom, diskette, etc. In fact the kybd/monitor >> require a special temp setup. Perhaps I can edit the kernel line >> in grub to disable something? >> >> If necessary, I can pull the drive and put it in a system that does >> support cdrom. That is the way I did the initial harddrive install. >> >> > > > ---------- End Original Message ---------- > > >

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Linux vs Windows Drivers
by Bit 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

What is so fundamentally different about drivers in Linux and Windows? Specifically, video card drivers have always frustrated my understanding of what's going on under the hood. Say I have a nice video card from ATI. I need to install some cool drivers from ATI in order to make the card work at its best and in order to do any cool things like dual monitors. I download these drivers from the company's website, install them on my machine, and I'm off and running. Assuming all goes according to plan. That's all fine. Now, this is what confuses me. In Windows, I'm done forever at this point. I've never had a problem, nor heard of a problem, where I had to mysteriously reinstall the drivers for my video card after an Automatic Update. Not so in Linux. Every kernel update has me wondering if I'll have to reinstall the drivers for my video card. It seems like sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. I just reboot and pray that my video card is still working afterwards. Not knowing a great deal about how drivers really work in Linux or Windows, I can only really conclude that either Microsoft never updates the Windows kernel (at least not in a way that screws with driver interfaces), or there is something very different about how the two operating systems handle drivers. Can anyone shed some light on the subject for me? Thanks, bit

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Regd: Iptables SNAT issue in Cluster Suite Setup
by Balaji 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

Dear All, I have configured Cluster Suite with 2 servers Server 1 : 192.168.13.110 IP Address Server 2 : 192.168.13.179 IP Address Floating : 192.168.13.83 IP Address (Assumed by currently active server) I want all snmp packets going out through the active server to be stamped with floating IP So i have added a iptables rules as "iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p udp -s 192.168.13.179 --dport 161 -j SNAT --to-source 192.168.13.83:161 iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p udp -s 192.168.13.110 --dport 161 -j SNAT --to-source 192.168.13.83:161" I have written a script to continuously poll an agent using snmpgetnext. This script works for some time and then snmpgetnext fails giving the following message "Fri Dec 21 19:10:20 IST 2007 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3769.1.2.3.1.0 = "" Fri Dec 21 19:10:20 IST 2007 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3769.1.2.3.1.0 = "" Fri Dec 21 19:10:20 IST 2007 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3769.1.2.3.1.0 = "" Fri Dec 21 19:10:20 IST 2007 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3769.1.2.3.1.0 = "" Fri Dec 21 19:10:21 IST 2007 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3769.1.2.3.1.0 = "" snmpgetnext: Failure in sendto (Operation not permitted) Fri Dec 21 19:10:21 IST 2007 snmpgetnext: Failure in sendto (Operation not permitted) Fri Dec 21 19:10:21 IST 2007 snmpgetnext: Failure in sendto (Operation not permitted) Fri Dec 21 19:10:21 IST 2007 snmpgetnext: Failure in sendto (Operation not permitted) Fri Dec 21 19:10:21 IST 2007 snmpgetnext: Failure in sendto (Operation not permitted) Fri Dec 21 19:13:20 IST 2007 snmpgetnext: Failure in sendto (Operation not permitted) Fri Dec 21 19:13:20 IST 2007 snmpgetnext: Failure in sendto (Operation not permitted) Fri Dec 21 19:13:21 IST 2007 snmpgetnext: Failure in sendto (Operation not permitted) Fri Dec 21 19:13:21 IST 2007 snmpgetnext: Failure in sendto (Operation not permitted) Fri Dec 21 19:13:21 IST 2007 Fri Dec 21 19:13:21 IST 2007 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3769.1.2.3.1.0 = "" Fri Dec 21 19:13:21 IST 2007 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3769.1.2.3.1.0 = "" Fri Dec 21 19:13:21 IST 2007 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3769.1.2.3.1.0 = "" Fri Dec 21 19:13:21 IST 2007 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3769.1.2.3.1.0 = "" Fri Dec 21 19:13:21 IST 2007 SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.3769.1.2.3.1.0 = "" " If i remove the above iptables rule it works continuously and if i restarted iptables (with rule) then it works for some time and before the same problem repeats Can some one throw light on this particular problem Regards S.Balaji P.S: Same thing happen when a rule for rsync, ssh and telnet i.e they works some time and some times does not e.g rsync,ssh and telnet iptables SNAT rule "iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp -s 192.168.13.179 --dport 873 -j SNAT --to-source 192.168.13.83:873 iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp -s 192.168.13.179 --dport 22 -j SNAT --to-source 192.168.13.83:22 iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp -s 192.168.13.179 --dport 23 -j SNAT --to-source 192.168.13.83:23" rsync Success message is "receiving file list ... done Log/ Log/20070619.dbg.zip Log/20070619.log.zip Log/20070620.dbg.zip Log/20070620.log.zip Log/20070621.dbg.zip Log/20070621.log.zip sent 190 bytes received 211940 bytes 84852.00 bytes/sec total size is 211421 speedup is 1.00" rsync Failure message is "rsync: failed to connect to 192.168.13.100: Connection timed out (110) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(94) " *ssh Failure *Message is "ssh: connect to host 192.168.13.100 port 22: Connection timed out" telnet Failure Message is "telnet: connect to address 192.168.13.100: Connection timed out"

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Net install from behind webproxy
by McGlue, Ronan 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

I am behind a webproxy and am wondering if I can pass the webproxy's details to the boot time kernel so that I can install centos 5.1 from the net boot CD I have downloaded!? Thanks Ronan Australia Post is committed to providing our customers with excellent service. If we can assist you in any way please telephone 13 13 18 or visit our website. The information contained in this e-mail communication may be proprietary, confidential or legally professionally privileged. It is intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. You should only read, disclose, re-transmit, copy, distribute, act in reliance on or commercialise the information if you are authorised to do so. Australia Post does not represent, warrant or guarantee the integrity of this e-mail communication has been maintained nor that the communication is free of errors, virus or interference. If you are not the addressee or intended recipient please notify us by replying direct to the sender and then destroy any electronic or paper copy of this message. Any views expressed in this e-mail communication are taken to be those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically attributes those views to Australia Post and is authorised to do so.

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Re: [CentOS] Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks
by Robert Moskowitz 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

Frank Cox wrote: > On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:37:32 -0500 > Robert Moskowitz <rgm(a)htt-consult.com> wrote: > > >> Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0 >> > > Get some canned air and blow the dirt off of the sensor in the drive. No change. The drive is the coffee mug tray style. so even opening the plastic housing for the drive does not let me 'see' the sensor, but I used a lot of canned air and no change in behaviour.... Perhaps I have to go out to the drug store and buy one of those drive lens cleaner disks?

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centos 5.1 vnc server
by Jerry Geis 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

Any one using vnc server on centos 5.1? on 4.6 I had no issue. on 5.1 I am having times when on connetion the VNC serveris crashing and logs me out of all my open'ed items. I can relog in. But I was wondering if others are seeing this and if there is something to do about it. THanks, Jerry

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Channel Bonding issue in Cluster Suite Setup
by Balaji 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

Dear All, I have configured RHEL Cluster Suite with 2 servers Server 1 : 192.168.13.110 IP Address and hostname is primary Server 2 : 192.168.13.179 IP Address and hostname is secondary Floating : 192.168.13.83 IP Address (Assumed by currently active server) In am followed the RHEL Cluster Suite Configuration document "rh-cs-en-4.pdf" and I have configured Ethernet Channel Bonding in Each Cluster Nodes Channel Bonding Configuration Details are 1) Created bonding devices in "/etc/modprobe.conf" file alias bond0 bonding options bonding miimon=100 mode=1 2) Edit the "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1" configuration DEVICE=eth0 USERCTL= no ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes BOOTPROTO=none DEVICE=eth1 USERCTL= no ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes BOOTPROTO=none 3) Created a network script for the bonding device is "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0" DEVICE=bond0 USERCTL=no ONBOOT=yes NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=192.168.13.1 IPADDR=192.168.13.110 4) Reboot the system for the changes to take effect. After i am rebooted both the server then cluster node becomes simplex and Services are started on both the nodes The cluster output in primary node Member Status: Quorate Member Name Status ----------- ------- --------- primary Online, Local, rgmanager secondary Offline Service Name Owner (Last) State --------- -------- ----------------- -------- Service primary started The cluster output in secondary node Member Status: Quorate Member Name Status ----------- ------- --------- primary Offline secondary Online, Local, rgmanager Service Name Owner (Last) State --------- -------- ----------------- -------- Service secondary started Before Ethernet Channel Bonding cluster services are active in one node and other nodes acts as passive node and member status is Online for both the nodes But after Ethernet Channel Bonding cluster services are active on both the nodes and member status is current node is Online and other node is Offline We are not sure why this is happening. Can some one throw light on this. Regards -S.Balaji

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Re: [CentOS] centos 5.1 vnc server
by Frank Cox 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:23:33 -0500 Jerry Geis <geisj(a)MessageNetSystems.com> wrote: > The only other item is I am using the NVIDIA binary driver are you? Nope. I actively avoid anything other than Intel video. Perhaps that will change after the ATI open-source thing has a change to develop a bit, but at the moment I stay with Intel stuff. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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BitTorrent
by centos＠911networks.com 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

Any suggestion for a 'good' bittorrent client with Centos5.1? -- Thanks

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Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks
by Robert Moskowitz 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

When I try to burn anything to cd, I get a message to insert a CD large enough for my file (normally an ISO image). Doesn't matter if the iso image is a 600Mb Centos ISO or a 48Mb DSL ISO. Same warning. My CD-Rs are Memorex 700MB/80min 52x disks that work just fine on XP systems. So what am I missing configuration-wise?

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Re: [CentOS] Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks
by Robert Moskowitz 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

Definetly trouble right here in River City... Joe Pruett wrote: > so you can read burned disks ok on the drive under linux? > I shut down the server, unplugged the CDRW, rebooted, set up a tail -f /var/log/messages then plugged in the CDRW and got: Dec 26 12:43:09 onlo kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 Dec 26 12:43:10 onlo kernel: usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Dec 26 12:43:10 onlo kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Dec 26 12:43:14 onlo kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Dec 26 12:43:14 onlo kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage Dec 26 12:43:14 onlo kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. Dec 26 12:43:19 onlo kernel: Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 8200f Rev: 1.0A Dec 26 12:43:19 onlo kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Dec 26 12:43:19 onlo kernel: scsi 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5 Dec 26 12:43:19 onlo kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Then I put in a of pics and movies of my daugther's graduation and the light on the drive flashes green then red. Nothing. I move the cd (oh and this is one taken from my disk supply last summer) and put it into the IDE cdrom reader and that little icon came up on the top system tray in Gnome telling me that I might want to mount the cdrom by left clicking on the icon. Once mounted, I get a CD icon on the desktop and this lets me open nautilus to the CD. And nothing like this happened with the external CDRW drive. Opening a terminal window and issuing mount, I see the /dev/hdc is on /media/060622_2133 type iso9660 Now lets test all this on the external again... so I insert the CD and again the light is flashing red. mkdir /media/cdrw mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrw and get the response: mount: No medium found I am going to dig out my portable CDRW from my notebook backpack (for my real work notebook that I am typing from now, not my 'corp' notebook!).

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Regd: Ethernet Channel Bonding issue in Cluster
by Balaji 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

Dear All, I have configured Cluster Suite with 2 servers Server 1 : 192.168.13.110 IP Address and hostname is primary Server 2 : 192.168.13.179 IP Address and hostname is secondary Floating : 192.168.13.83 IP Address (Assumed by currently active server) I have configured Ethernet Channel Bonding in Each Cluster Nodes and Channel Bonding Configuration Details are 1) Created bonding devices in "/etc/modprobe.conf" file alias bond0 bonding options bonding miimon=100 mode=1 2) Edit the "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1" configuration DEVICE=eth0 USERCTL= no ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes BOOTPROTO=none DEVICE=eth1 USERCTL= no ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes BOOTPROTO=none 3) Created a network script for the bonding device is "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0" DEVICE=bond0 USERCTL=no ONBOOT=yes NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=192.168.13.1 IPADDR=192.168.13.110 4) Reboot the system for the changes to take effect. After i am rebooted both the server then cluster node becomes simplex and Services are started on both the nodes The cluster ouput in primary node Member Status: Quorate Member Name Status ----------- ------- --------- primary Online, Local, rgmanager secondary Offline Service Name Owner (Last) State --------- -------- ----------------- -------- Service primary started The cluster ouput in secondary node Member Status: Quorate Member Name Status ----------- ------- --------- primary Offline secondary Online, Local, rgmanager Service Name Owner (Last) State --------- -------- ----------------- -------- Service secondary started Before Ethernet Channel Bonding cluster services are active in one node and other nodes acts as passive node. But after Ethernet Channel Bonding cluster services are active on both the nodes I need to solve the following issue and services are run only active node. Can some one throw light on this peculiar problem Regards -S.Balaji

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system hibernating?
by Jeffrey Ross 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

I'm in the process of setting up a new system and I have found that the system is hibernating when its sitting idle for a long period of time. How do I stop this? TIA, Jeff

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problems building appletalk module with new kernel
by Craig White 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

I've been doing this on CentOS 4 and CentOS 5 but after installing 2.6.18-53.1.4el kernel, I'm having a bit of a struggle... # make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.4.el5/build \ SUBDIRS=/usr/src/appletalk modules make: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.4.el5-i686' CC [M] /usr/src/appletalk/aarp.o CC [M] /usr/src/appletalk/ddp.o CC [M] /usr/src/appletalk/dev.o CC [M] /usr/src/appletalk/atalk_proc.o CC [M] /usr/src/appletalk/sysctl_net_atalk.o LD [M] /usr/src/appletalk/appletalk.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST CC /usr/src/appletalk/appletalk.mod.o LD [M] /usr/src/appletalk/appletalk.ko make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.4.el5-i686' # make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.4.el5/build \ SUBDIRS=/usr/src/appletalk modules_install make: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.4.el5-i686' INSTALL /usr/src/appletalk/appletalk.ko DEPMOD 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.4.el5-i686' and here is my problem... # insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.4.el5/extra/appletalk.ko insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.4.el5/extra/appletalk.ko': -1 Invalid module format The above reflects an adjustment in my Makefile but it didn't seem to help why all of a sudden, this 'Invalid module format' ? Craig my Makefile that I have been using for quite some time but not the one used above is... # # Makefile for the Linux AppleTalk layer. # CONFIG_ATALK=m obj-$(CONFIG_IPDDP) += ipddp.o obj-$(CONFIG_COPS) += cops.o obj-$(CONFIG_LTPC) += ltpc.o

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happy holidays
by Karanbir Singh 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

hi, Just want to wish everyone a happy holiday season and a good new year ahead. Its been a great year for CentOS and for everyone involved with it including the developers, supporters, contributors, editors, bug reporters, everyone. You all know who you are. And I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you for the time and efforts that you have put into the project. 2008 will be bigger, better, noisier and even more fun! Enjoy. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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Prelink: Something's happening here
by Benjamin Smith 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

Can anybody explain to me what's going on here? This is a CentOS 4 i386 system. [root@edison ~]# rm -f /etc/prelink.cache [root@edison ~]# /etc/cron.daily/prelink [root@edison ~]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/sqlite3 sqlite-3.3.6-2 [root@edison ~]# rpm --verify sqlite prelink: /usr/bin/sqlite3: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking S.?..... /usr/bin/sqlite3 [root@edison ~]# rpm -q --dump sqlite | grep "bin/sqlite3" /usr/bin/sqlite3 29044 1178360479 70e7158185e01e23dd2a62fa00f0f752 0100755 root root 0 0 0 X [root@edison ~]# md5sum /usr/bin/sqlite3 6e4b1dc7b0b5ade26448ed700c33e05f /usr/bin/sqlite3 [root@edison ~]# prelink -u /usr/bin/sqlite3 [root@edison ~]# md5sum /usr/bin/sqlite3 70e7158185e01e23dd2a62fa00f0f752 /usr/bin/sqlite3 [root@edison ~]# rpm --verify sqlite [root@edison ~]# prelink -f /usr/bin/sqlite3 prelink: /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.4: .debug_loc adjusting unfinished [root@edison etc]# md5sum /usr/bin/sqlite3 70e7158185e01e23dd2a62fa00f0f752 /usr/bin/sqlite3 [root@edison etc]# How did the RPM database have the right values for the sqlite3 file before prelink was run? Or, another way, why was the file different in the first place, that running prelink against it fixed it? And if "undoing" the prelink changed something, why wasn't it "changed back" when I ran prelink against the sqlite3 file the second time? Finding this confusing as H__L. I have *alot* of files on this system with this issue - I discovered this while debugging a problem with MailScanner. And, why do I see similar behavior on another system that's freshly built? EG: just ran the installer and "yum update" and see the same issue with a smaller number of files? -Ben -- Only those who reach toward a goal are likely to achieve it. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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"yum --security" and staying with 5.0
by Amos Shapira 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

Hello, So I've watched a few threads about the new 5.0 vs. 5.1 upgrade and have a couple of (hopefully) practical questions about this: Context - I'd like to stick to 5.0 at least for a while until the dust around 5.1 settles down (and I'm back from holidays). As an example - In Debian, as long as I stick to "stable" I can be sure that the only updates I receive there are for heavily tested very important bugs and security issues, so I should generally apply them. 1. If I read the FAQ correctly, in order to force yum to stay with 5.0 should I just manually edit /etc/redhat-release from: CentOS release 5 (Final) to: CentOS release 5.0 (Final) (i.e. add ".0" to the version)? If not then what should I do? 2. I am hoping that yum-security will allow me to stick to the latest security updates for 5.0 without forcing me to upgrade to 5.1 until the dust settles down. Am I correct that this is possible with yum-security and the repositories provided by CentOS? Will "yum update --security" update packages with later versions only if those versions fix security issues? Are security updates maintained for 5.0? Here is what I get right now on one of my systems (without doing the change I asked about in (1)): # yum --security list updates Loading "security" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up repositories base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files Limiting package lists to security relevant ones No packages needed, for security, 196 available If I drop the "--security" flag I indeed get a list of196 packages to upgrade. So to clarify my question - is my system secure (in terms of package versions) by sticking to "yum update --security"? Thanks, --Amos

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Debug symbols for CentOS server
by Tom Laramee 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

is there a repository of build symbols for the various packages i have installed on my CentOS 5 server? here's a use case - i'm developing an apache/httpd plugin module - it's not loading properly - i want to run apache in single-process mode (httpd -X), attach gdb to it, set a break point just before my module is loaded, and step through the code to find out why my module is not being loaded properly. ideally, i could do something like so: yum install httpd-symbols (same question for any/all packages on my server, not just httpd). thanks --tom

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Creating a local repo
by Joseph L. Casale 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

I have created a local repo, set its priority highest, and populated it with xen-3.1.0-1.i386.rpm and kernel-xen-2.6.18-3.1.0.i386.rpm yet when I do a yum list *xen* I don't see those rpm's? Can someone shed some light on this for me? Thanks! jlc

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CentOS-5 Need Help With Serial Ports
by James B. Byrne 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

I have been struggling with setting up two serial ports on an HP/Compaq D512S (Intel P4) under CentOS-5. I am not at all sure why these things were not auto-configured when I initially installed the CentOS system from CDs but they were not. I have found various resources on the web and from them uncovered the setserial utility. What I need from somebody is guidance on how to use this utility to properly configure the ports. Currently in /dev/ I have: crw------- 1 uucp uucp 4, 64 Dec 21 12:14 ttyS0 crw------- 1 root root 4, 65 Dec 20 17:36 ttyS1 crw------- 1 root root 4, 66 Dec 20 17:36 ttyS2 crw------- 1 root root 4, 67 Dec 20 17:36 ttyS3 When I run setserial -g ttyS* I get this: # setserial -g ttyS* Cannot get serial info: Invalid argument ttyS1: No such device or address ttyS2: No such device or address ttyS3: No such device or address Can someone walk me through this? I setup hylafax previously on our existing CentOS-4.5 server and never had this difficulty nor had to use setserial, so far as I can recall. Sincerely, -- *** 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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Update repo rsync but no new repodata?
by Robert Moskowitz 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

I just did a manual resync of my local update repo from mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.1/updates/i386/ I got a new version of Thunderbird, but not a new set of files in the repodata directory. Thus when I did a yum update against my local repo, I did not get the new version of Thunderbird. I will note that the files on my local repo are dated Dec 20th and the ones on mirrors are dated Dec 21st. The command I am using is: #!/bin/sh rsync -auv rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.1/updates/i386/ \ --delete --exclude=debug/ /repos/centos/5.1/updates/i386 Oh, and the old version of Thunderbird was not deleted....

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 34, Issue 15
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

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. CESA-2007:1104 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) kernel - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2007:1083 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) thunderbird - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2007:1222-001 Important CentOS 4 i386 mysql - security update (CENTOSPLUS Only) (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2007:1222-001 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 mysql - security update (CENTOSPLUS Only) (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2007:1083 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 thunderbird Update (Karanbir Singh) 6. CESA-2007:1083 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 thunderbird Update (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:17:20 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:1104 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) kernel - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20071222141720.GE16424(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:1104 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1104.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/kernel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/kernel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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sandisk mp3 player
by Dave 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Hello, Got a 2gb mp3 player. The issue is it needs a usb2 card and the only available one is on a centos 5.1 box. I was wondering how do i get this device to show up? I'd like to share it's directories via samba, so that windows users can manipulate it's files, add more, etc. Thanks. Dave.

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Install question
by Jeffrey Ross 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

I have been running Fedora for a number of years and have decided that for my mailserver system (which doubles as a small time web server) I want to go to an OS that has a supported lifespan of more than a year, especially since this machine has in the past been up longer than a year without reboots. The machine that it will ultimately host the OS is a dual processor P3 machine with 2GB of RAM (the machine was free and is normally running idle so cpu isn't an issue), I also plan on (continuing to) running software RAID 1 on this system. So I'm not rushed into an install I plan on installing the OS on different hardware My questions are several. 1) The build hardware is only a single processor with 768MB of memory (also a P3) what if anything will I need to do to enable the second processor? (I'll make provisions for a larger swap space at build time) 2) The build hardware won't have a second disk usable for RAID, is it possible to build the RAID as degraded during the install? Or am I better off building it as a non RAID system and transfer everything to a RAID disk later? 3) The system bios will allow me to boot off the network, can I do an install from that boot? there is no CD/DVD reader in the box, nor is there a floppy drive. USB (flash?) may possible, but it is USB1.0 (1.1?) and quite slow and I'm not 100% positive the BIOS will support booting from a USB device. Any other caveats to be aware of? My experience with linux has been several Fedora (core) releases some Redhad releases prior to that, and many many many years ago slackware (when the install was a stack of diskettes!) TIA, Jeff

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Request on Cent OS insight
by stephen goldman 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

Hello List, I am getting familar with CentOS and using Rel 4.6. My goal is to get a automated update *(email)* of system updates. I found the link below in the WIKI. Additionally I have enable "yum" to run as a service int 345 and started it. yum update from the command line works fine- There are three scripts indicated on the web link below : http://wiki.centos.org/YumCheckOrInstallUpdates usr/bin/yum-check ( not on the machine) /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron: ( not on the machine) there a is file named yum.cron at this location- [root@bmc-4 cron.daily]# cat yum.cron #!/bin/sh if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/yum ]; then /usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -y update yum /usr/bin/yum -R 10 -e 0 -d 0 -y shell /etc/yum/yum-daily.yum fi etc/sysconfig/yum-check: (not on the machine) I am not sure what to do with the information provided. Can others point me in a direction please.. The documentation is not clear. Thanks, Stephen Stephen Goldman Systems Administrator MIT Biology 617-452-2595 sgoldman(a)mit.edu

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saslauth in postfix 2.2 on CentOS 4
by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

Hi All, I have a mail server with CentOS 4 (fully updated) running dovecot and postfix. I have a couple of virtual domains, so I've setup postfix and dovecot accordingly. That is, dovecot is doing the auth for internal hosts, and postfix is handling sending/receiving for both domains. What I want to do now is open up pop3s and smtp over TLS, which will give me access to my two domains from external clients. The pop3s bit was easy, and my tests have been successful. The hard bit is the smtp over TLS. Since I'm using dovecot to handle the authentication, how do I tell postfix that the sasl auth should be passed to dovecot? I know how to do this in CentOS 5 since it has postfix 2.3, and that version has support for dovecot authentication. So far, I haven't been able to figure out how to do the same thing in CentOS 4 and postfix 2.2. Any tips? Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.22.9-61.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux 14:41:05 up 4 days, 13:10, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.06, 0.07

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System freezes with i8042_panic_blink on suspend
by Olaf Mueller 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

Hello, I am using CentOS 4.6 (2.6.9-67.plus.c4) on a toshiba tecra 8000 notebook. If closing the panel, "Panel Power On/Off" is enabled in bios, the notebook does suspend. But after opening the panel, the notebook completely freezes. If the suspend only takes a few minutes, then everything is working fine. But if the suspend takes a time more than five or ten minutes, the system completely freezes. The error message is: [<c032bbe7>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb [<c032007b>] xfrm_find_acq_byseq+0x100/0x10f Badness in i8042_panic_blink at drivers/input/serio/i8042.c:992 [<c0254fe6>] i8042_panic_blink+0x188/0x1a0 [<c0123ea2>] panic+0xf7/0x142 [<c010cd7a>] set_rtc_mmss+0x6c/0x204 My system: # cat /etc/grub.conf | grep kernel kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.plus.c4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 noapic acpi=off rhgb quiet # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 02) 00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicGraph 256AV] (rev 12) 00:05.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:05.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:05.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:05.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:09.0 Communication controller: Toshiba America Info Systems FIR Port (rev 23) 00:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 05) 00:0b.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC97 (rev 05) 05:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI The system freezes too, if com-ports and sound is disabled in bios. Could the network controller 'RaLink' causes this problem? I am using the centosplus kernel cause of its support for isa sound cards. Is there an other kernel with that I could avoid this panic? Thank you very much! regards Olaf

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 34, Issue 14
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

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. CESA-2007:1166 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 libexif - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2007:1166 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 libexif - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2007:1177 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 autofs5 - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2007:1177 Important CentOS 4 i386 autofs5 - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2007:1083 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 thunderbird - security update (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2007:1083 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 thunderbird - security update (Johnny Hughes) 7. CESA-2007:1104 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 kernel - security update (Johnny Hughes) 8. CESA-2007:1104 Important CentOS 4 i386 kernel - security update (Johnny Hughes) 9. CESA-2007:1104 Important CentOS 4 ia64 kernel - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 10. CESA-2007:1083 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 thunderbird - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:13:17 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:1166 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 libexif - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <476BE61D.4080708(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:1166 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1166.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: libexif-0.5.12-5.1.0.2.el4_6.1.i386.rpm libexif-devel-0.5.12-5.1.0.2.el4_6.1.i386.rpm src: libexif-0.5.12-5.1.0.2.el4_6.1.src.rpm

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centos 5.1 vnc crashing
by Jerry Geis 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

Hi all, I was running centos 4.5 with not issues on my main box. I updated to (fresh install) to 5.1 Things run fine except I use vnc alot from home to connect back into my machine and sometimes on connecting it is crashing the vnc session and then it kills my entire login session. Is anyone else having this on 5.1? This is my modules section in xorg.conf Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "dri" Load "vnc" EndSection It worked flawlessly on centos 4.5. Any ideas about how to get it not to crash. Jerry

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4.6 update overwrote my /usr/lib/python2.3/site.py file
by Jeff Larsen 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

We had some custom additions to our site.py file for a third party application. 'yum update' to 4.6 overwrote the file with no backup or warning. Not hard to repair, but it did have me worried there for a few minutes when the application failed to start. Is this a python issue, an upstream issue or a CentOS issue? Can something be done about it going forward? Jeff

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SCSI bad block table display
by Hugh E Cruickshank 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hi All: Is there a utility available that will allow for the dump/display of the bad track table of a SCSI drive. We had this capability on SCO OSR5 but I have not been able to locate anything similar for Linux. The closest I have found is the badblocks utility that is part of the e2fsprogs package but this appears to only test for bad blocks not display the current bad block table contents. I have done quite a bit of searching with Google but either it does not exist or (more than likely) I am using the wrong search parameters. TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

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yum updates
by centos＠911networks.com 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hi, Is there a way to still do the yum updates but not update the openoffice. Right now, I do it one at a time. -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work

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5.0->5.1 upgrade problems
by Andreas Kuntzagk 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hi, I try to upgrade a 5.0 desktop to 5.1. Some packages give me errors. Most important the kernel and e2fsprogs: [root@scarbo9 ~]# yum update kernel Loading "allowdowngrade" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Reading repository metadata in from local files Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 set to be installed --> Running transaction check --> Processing Conflict: kernel conflicts e2fsprogs < 1.37-4 --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package e2fsprogs.x86_64 0:1.39-10.el5 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Conflict: kernel conflicts e2fsprogs < 1.37-4 Error: No Package Matching kernel.x86_64 I'm a little bit confused about this error. Any hints? regards, Andreas

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Peter Kastegård is out of the office.
by Peter.Kastegard＠cygrids.com 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

I will be out of the office starting 2007-12-21 and will not return until 2008-01-07. If you have any questions or technical issues please contact the support at support(a)cygrids.com or call +46-(0)413-19280. Cheers, //Peter

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Monitor Blanking
by Manuel Leon 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hi to everyone. I would like to control the timing of the automatic blanking of the monitor (occurs within few minutes of inactivity). I have been unable to find where or how to control it. Can someone help me? Thanks in advance. Manuel Leon

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File description left open in LVM
by Reuben D. Budiardja 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hello, I used to have LVM on my machine to combine the capacity of a hard drive and a partition on a different drive as one volume group. I had problem with one of the disk but I was able to remove all the data of the computer, and replace the disk, and add another disk Now I want to start over and create LVM again. However, I keep getting this message: # vgdisplay File descriptor 128 left open File descriptor 129 left open No volume groups found # pvdisplay File descriptor 128 left open File descriptor 129 left open What does this mean ? Also, in /etc/lvm I found archive/ and backup/ directory which seems to refer to my old LVM, and also .cache. Are they safe to remove ? Thank you for any help. RDB

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 34, Issue 13
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

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Console during Install of 5.1
by Joseph L. Casale 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Is it possible during install to open a console window and perform some simple tasks such as lspci and mount. If so what text file editor exists in this console? Thank you, jlc

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