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Repost: System crash on loading gdm revisited
by Debbie Tropiano 01 Sep '06

01 Sep '06

Hello - I never heard back on this and continue to experience this bug. Can someone help me to locate the patch for this so that I can be sure it's included in my source? It's not happening on every boot, but about every other or third. And just as described in the bug report (the boot works OK, but at the end rather than GDM starting nicely, I get a "fuzzy" screen and the system crashes requiring a power cycle) but I don't get the "kernel BUG" message in my logs. If I should submit this a but report to bugs.centos.org, please let me know. Thanks, Debbie ----- Forwarded message from Debbie Tropiano <debbiet(a)arlut.utexas.edu> ----- > Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:47:56 -0500 > From: Debbie Tropiano <debbiet(a)arlut.utexas.edu> > To: centos(a)centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] System crash on loading gdm revisited > > Hello - > > I've been seeing system crashes similar to this > (http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1045) on my > Rocks head node. Instead of the standard kernel, > I've got a SNARE patched 2.6.9-34 kernel running. > Initially I'd used the RHEL kernel source to build > it (due to laziness ... it was easier to track down :-), > but have just rebuilt with the CentOS kernel source > and am now seeing these crashes. > > Can someone point me to the specific patch that fixes > this problem? I'd like to confirm that it's part of > my source before looking at other things. > > Thanks, > Debbie > -- > | Debbie Tropiano | debbiet(a)arlut.utexas.edu | > | Environmental Sciences Laboratory | +1 512 835 3367 w | > | Applied Research Laboratories of UT Austin | +1 512 835 3544 fax | > | P.O. Box 8029, Austin, TX 78713-8029 | home email: debbie(a)icus.com | > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ----- End forwarded message ----- -- | Debbie Tropiano | debbiet(a)arlut.utexas.edu | | Environmental Sciences Laboratory | +1 512 835 3367 w | | Applied Research Laboratories of UT Austin | +1 512 835 3544 fax | | P.O. Box 8029, Austin, TX 78713-8029 | home email: debbie(a)icus.com |

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PHP5?
by Devraj Mukherjee 01 Sep '06

01 Sep '06

Hi everyone, I wish to run PHP5 on my web servers. Does CentOS support PHP5 yet or does this have to be manually built? Thanks.

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How with selinux postgresql run at non default port
by Eddy Setyawan 01 Sep '06

01 Sep '06

Hello, how to run postgresql at different port with selinux enabled ? thanks for any help -- regards, Eddy Setyawan http://eddysetyawan.web.id YIM: eddy.setyawan

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Re: [CentOS] Release 4.4 and MPC51 ethernet controller
by David Thompson 01 Sep '06

01 Sep '06

Johnny Hughes wrote: > >According to the upstream release notes ... this is supposed to be fixed >on 4.4=20 > >=46rom rom the kernel changelog and release notes: > >-amd74xx: add pci ids for Nvidia MCP51 >-Update 4 adds Nvidia nForce 430/MCP51 IDE support This continues to be a problem for us as of 4.4/i386 (haven't tried 4.4/x86_64). The BIOS for our motherboard (asus A8N-VM-CSM) does not appear to have a switch to make the ethernet appear as an ethernet class device. Dave Thompson UW-Madison

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CentOS 4.3 - MySQL - NIS user issue
by Tom Brown 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hi I have what i think is a strange issue - All my users are NIS users and they can access this box fine. I have a MySQL server running on this box that is running fine. The OS 'root' user can authenticate and use MySQL fine e.g. [root@xxxxxxx]# mysql -u bugs -pxxxx bugs Reading table information for completion of table and column names You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 5 to server version: 3.23.58 Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql> Yes i know thats an ancient MySQL version but this is an app requirement, dont get me started! now when a NIS user tries to use the db [root@xxxx]# su - bugzilla bugzilla@xxxx$ mysql -u bugs -pxxxx bugs ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13) any ideas why this is or what i can do to make it work? thanks

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CentOS 4.3 & Mysql 5.0 install dependency error
by Aloysius Thevarajah Lloyd 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hi, CentOS 4.3 minimal install enable centos plus yum update then yum install mysql-server GET THE FOLLOWING ERROR MESSAGE: Erro: Missing Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.14 is need by php-mysql It is a repostery error. How can reolve this. Any help appreciated. Thanks Lloyd

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Yum choosing remote repositories first
by Rodrigo Barbosa 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Okey, here is something interesting. So I finished downloading all CentOS 4.4 images (CDs and DVD) before anything else. Now I have the dvd iso mounted (-o loop), and changed CentOS-Base.repo so the [base] repo will point to it. # yum update Boom! Yum tries to use the [update] repository (not local) to upgrade to 4.4. What I ended up doing is: # yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=base update Which, of course, works fine and uses my local (file://) repository. Is this the only way to do it, or did I miss something ? []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE9whlpdyWzQ5b5ckRAu7XAJ9Xn6q0D2P4oOTBw+hwPZLrx4CV8QCghcUH on6Yc6YILDprCWVX5tZ3Vs4= =ynf5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Minor 4.4 upgrade oddity
by Bart Schaefer 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

I ran "yum upgrade" early yesterday from a remote ssh login, but upon looking at the set of packages I decided to wait until I could sit at the console to reboot. So I declined to proceed with the upgrade when prompted. Later when I ran "yum ugrade" again, it found no packages to update. After some poking around checking the mirrors, running "yum clean headers", etc., I finally tried "yum clean all" and thereafter "yum ugrade" worked flawlessly. I've never seen this happen with "yum update", so I don't know why it would be different with "upgrade", but there you are.

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LVM chown issues
by Devraj Mukherjee 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hi Everyone, I have got CentOS 64bit running on a Dell PowerEdge SC1850 with hardware raid 1. My LVM partions donot seem to honour chown commands for symbolic links. Is this normal? All other files and directories honour it.

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CentOS Cluter on SunFire X4100s
by Hollen Streit 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Greetings! Just joined the list, after looking at the mail archives and such. I have a few SunFire X4100s on the way, and I was wondering if anyone here has ever ran CentOS in a cluster environment? (I'm looking in Oscar's general direction.)

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RE: [CentOS] Yum upgrade to 4.4 problem
by Bowie Bailey 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Will McDonald wrote: > On 31/08/06, Julio E. Gonzalez P. <jegp(a)netvision.com.py> wrote: > > I have the same problem here... > > Anyone has something to say about this? > > Thanks. > > Julio. > > Try strace-ing the process ID of the yum process to see if it's stuck > at the "futex" call/stage. I tried blithely "yum update"-ing my test > system earlier and it hung on this. > > http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=strace+futex&meta= > > Now the system's in a little bit of a state consistency-wise. > Fortunately, we've covered this ground before. :) > > *cuts* > *pastes* > > Check the list archives for : > > "futex.. How to remove lots of duplicate packages" > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-March/thread.html#62319 > > "yum update killed on cleanup stage - anything to worry about?" > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-March/thread.html#62568 >From your second link: Yes, I did get lots of duplicate packages but I've already fixed that. Basically, what I did was to run Adam Stoke's script to remove duplcate packages. It can be located at http://astokes.org/?q=node/49 That website is no longer working. Is there still a copy of this script floating around? -- Bowie

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No problems in 4.3-to-4.4 upgrade
by Steve Snyder 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Another data point: I updated 2 machines, one a P3-UP machine and the other a P3-SMP machine. Both were fully updated with the CentOS 4.3 errata releases. I did this on each machine: yum clean all yum -y update yum yum clean all yum upgrade No errors or warnings (beyond a few config files installed as .rpmnew) were seen during the upgrade process. I rebooted immediately after the upgrade was complete. In the 3 hours since upgrading I have seen no problems with the upgraded software. Good job, Johnny!

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Upgrade 4.3 to 4.4 appeared to die half-way through
by Max H. 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Interesting problem here...perhaps. I just upgraded about 6 machines this morning after syncing a local yum server with no problems...until I get to my personal laptop of course. I did the usual: yum update yum yum update It went about half way through and then the terminal seemed to just die. It just sat there stuck in limbo. I let it go for about 30 minutes and it never moved, so I killed the terminal, but yet yum was still running as a process which I had to kill. Reluctantly I rebooted, and everything came up ok, but I'm very hesitant to believe that things are tip-top. Is there anything I can do or anyway I can check anything to double check things are actually fine? The /etc/redhat-release shows ok: cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 4.4 (Final) I've been watching top and all that good stuff. All my services appear ok as well, but call me paranoid because I'm convinced something has to be wrong. Should I stop with my paranoia and just chalk it up to my bash session died, yum completed ok, but hung afterwards? Thanks! Max

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no yum update problems
by Email Lists 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

FWIW this has served me very well when any new update comes out, whether there is a yum upgrade or not. yum clean all yum update yum yum clean all yum update or yum check-update | more and make choices later... etc man yum can help of course... I tend to wait until the highest traffic is gone too unless there is something specific I need bug or security wise. Also, it is a good idea to make wise use of your yum.conf and specifically the exclude= area (see below yum.conf file listing) [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest exclude=clam* exim perl* postfix sendmail spamassassin distroverpkg=centos-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=20 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=1 # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo # in /etc/yum.repos.d - rh -- Robert - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net

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CentOS-4.4 update: don't forget those rpmsave and rpmnew files folks!
by William L. Maltby 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

After you do your update, done forget to do updatedb, makewhatis, ... The locate for rpmnew has a couple items of interest and the locate for rpmsave returns one that occupies 24MB of your precious disks - /var/lib/Pegasus/prev-repository*. It compresses nicely to appx. 1MB, cpio bzipped --best. Change in your rndc key too, for DNS.

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proftpd and iptables problem
by Mark Quitoriano 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hi list, im having a problem with proftpd access when my firewall is running. Im using centos 4.3 with proftpd-1.2.10-10.2.el4.rf i haven't done any modification from my proftpd i just run the server. my iptables ruleset is very simple i use stateful routing. iptables -A INPUT -i ! $WAN -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i $WAN -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT -- Regards, Mark Quitoriano, CCNA Fan the flame... http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=user/register&r=19441

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Wiki: CentOS Media Sightings
by Ralph Angenendt 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hi, I just started a new page on the CentOS wiki called "InTheMedia" <http://wiki.centos.org/InTheMedia>. I'd like to collect sightings of CentOS in all (linkable) media formats on that page, like newspapers, news tickers, magazines on the web or even TV and Radio. If you've seen some report on the news about CentOS and you have a link - send this link and a short description to me, I'll add those to this page. If you have TV and Radio "sightings" and there's no linkable stuff, a short description (Where? Which station? What was said?) would be great. A more common interface to the wiki (like: You can edit stuff yourself) is still in the discussion. Oh, and I don't think several distrowatch pages or osnews will count. But I can be convinced otherwise :) Oh, and please - don't go backwards through your browsers history (well okay, if you have something *really* great, do so - a link to the Tuttle video with a date would be in this category). I'd like to start from now. Cheers, Ralph -- Ralph Angenendt......ra(a)br-online.de | .."Text processing has made it possible Bayerischer Rundfunk...80300 München | ....to right-justify any idea, even one Programmbereich.Bayern 3, Jugend und | .which cannot be justified on any other Multimedia.........Tl:089.5900.16023 | ..........grounds." -- J. Finnegan, USC

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Yum updates packages for other arch too
by Christian Huegel 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hi, I have the x86_64 arch on my server so therfore i expect that yum updates only x86_64 packages. With the last *yum update* i´ve noticed a strange behaviour while retrieving the needed packeges. As you you see, yum wants install packages for different architectures: glibc x86_64 2.3.4-2.25 base 4.9 M glibc i686 2.3.4-2.25 base 5.1 M . . . dmraid i386 1.0.0.rc11-3_RHEL4_U4 base 396 k and the list continues. This ends with an bunch of unresolved dependencies. ################################# My yum.conf: [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=centos-release tolerant=1 #exclude=kernel* exactarch=1 retries=20 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=1 # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo # in /etc/yum.repos.d ############################ and here the CentOS-Base.repo: ############################################################# [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch… baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 #released updates [update] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch… baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 #packages used/produced in the build but not released [addons] name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch… baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 #additional packages that may be useful [extras] name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch… baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 #additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages [centosplus] name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch… baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 #contrib - packages by Centos Users [contrib] name=CentOS-$releasever - Contrib mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch… baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/contrib/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 ################################### How can be this possible? Thanks in advance, Chris

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Impossible update wine package.
by Josep M. 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hello. Any idea how to update wine package? I´m havig this problem from several days, or maybe is better get wine package from other repository? Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 8 Package(s) Update 181 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 572 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/1): wine-core-0.9.19-1 100% |=========================| 6.8 MB 02:23 http://centos.karan.org/el4/extras/stable/i386/RPMS/wine-core-0.9.19-1.el4.…: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. Error Downloading Packages: wine-core - 0.9.19-1.el4.kb.i386: failure: wine-core-0.9.19-1.el4.kb.i386.rpm from kbs-CentOS-Extras: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. --------------------------------- LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com

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Remote upload apache files
by Tom Elsesser 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hi all, I need to upload files to /var/www/html on our remote centos box. The perms on /var/www/html are stock from the install, (drwxr-xr-x root.root). I set the box for ftp, but (obviously) normal users can't write to that directory. I don't want to allow root ftp logins (I've also disabled root ssh logins, so scp doesn't work either), and I don't know how secure it is to change ownership of the html directory. Can someone float me a couple of hints on how to accomplish this? TIA, -- Tom

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Up2date-Problems
by Timothy Kesten 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hi Folks, as recommended I have only updated up2date , up2date-gnome.# All other packages deselected. Run uptodate - okay. But now I have no channels in up2date - I can't update my system. If I try to start up2date I get this error message: Exception type exceptions.ValueError Exception Handler Information Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet.py", line 521, in refresh self.model.refresh(force) File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet_model.py", line 450, in refresh source.refresh(force) File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet_source.py", line 35, in refresh self._do_refresh() File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet_rpc.py", line 209, in _do_refresh server = self.create_server() File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet_rpc.py", line 87, in create_server s.add_trusted_cert(self.__cert__) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 466, in add_trusted_cert self._transport.add_trusted_cert(certfile) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 294, in add_trusted_cert raise ValueError, "Certificate file %s is not accessible" % certfile ValueError: Certificate file /usr/share/rhn/CNS-CA-CERT is not accessible No channels visible. Up2date says system is uptodate But it isn't so because I only updated up2date. And now???? Timothy

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centos 4.4: up2date rpm post scriptlet fail ?
by Martin Hamant 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hi, I got this in yum update process : /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.43939: line 12: restorecon: command not found error: %post(up2date-4.4.69-25.centos4.5.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 127 "restorecon" is from package "policycoreutils", this last one has never been installed on my system ... Any ideas ? -- Martin

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How to download only packages?
by Josep M. 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hello. I tried update but have some connection breaks and I would like download only packages and when all will be downloaded install them. I tried --download-only feature but is not accepted in thiss version of Yum. Any other ideas? Thanks --------------------------------- LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com

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Key mishmash
by Milan Keršláger 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hi, copy your key from /etc/rndc.conf to /var/named/chroot/etc/rndc.key if you are unable to contact your bind (DNS) server after the last update. For more info, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203070#c4 Secret must be the same or chrooted bind is unable to talk to rndc (ie: '/etc/init.d/named status' for example). -- Milan Kerslager E-mail: milan.kerslager(a)pslib.cz WWW: http://www.pslib.cz/ke/

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CentOS needs some love at DistroRankings.com
by Johnny Hughes 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Guys, CentOS is not doing very well at this ranking site: http://www.distrorankings.com/ We need some good foo there, so if you like CentOS, go there and rank us ... {If you don't like CentOS then you are getting sleepy .... sleepy ..... You will not remember anything you read in this message} Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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OT: CentOS hosting recommendations
by first last 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hi everyone, I am looking for a dedicated server with CentOS. Any recommendations? Ideally I would like to use one of the CentOS sponsors, but I think that there are far too many to be able to compare them all by refreshing (maybe there is a page with just a list of links to sponsors but I couldn't find it). Thanks Gabriel ___________________________________________________________ Inbox full of spam? Get leading spam protection and 1GB storage with All New Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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grep question
by Jerry Geis 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

if I have a file that has more than these two entries bats@tt net-bats@tt and I do a "grep -v bats" (intention was to get everything except bats but net-bats was mistakenly grepped) How do I specify the beginning of the line and match after that so bats is caught not net-bats? THanks for any suggestions. Jerry

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New on CentOS and update to 4.4
by Timothy Kesten 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Hi Folks, I've been using CentOS for 2 month and I'm very pleased about this nice distro. But now there a the new version 4.4 and my question: I'm using the kernel from centosplus because of reiserfs. What have I to do now? Waiting for an update from centosplus? Please give me a hint. Thx Timothy

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CentOS-4.4: I likke the new look! ... uh and everyhing's good too.
by William L. Maltby 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Downloaded 290/290 and kernel panic, not syncing. Same old Linux. Fortunately, hadn't started updates, /home had been unmounted by some forward-looking individual and there was a sync;sync and blockdev -- flushbufs running every 15 seconds. =>:-o Pucker factor went from {O} to {o} to }{ the max! Anyway, a quick reboot, fsck, split the check-update into 2 arbitrary pieces and do it again. Part 2 is running as beads of sweat drip due to a recently arrived y \thunderstorm ... but I finished first, powered all down. Back up and everything is working. I like the new look. The flicker when scrolling the virtual desktop around *seems* reduced (I'm sure it'll leave when I activate DRI again, turned off by the stupid Xorg update). Anyway, congrats from this old workstation. Looks good.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 18, Issue 19
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

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. CentOS 4.4 is released for i386 and x86_64 (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:49:22 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CentOS 4.4 is released for i386 and x86_64 To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Cc: distro(a)distrowatch.com Message-ID: <1156956562.15242.60.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the release of CentOS 4.4 for i386 and x86_64. It is available on all CentOS.org mirrors and via bittorrent. This release corresponds to the upstream vendor U4 release together with updates through August 26th, 2006. The LiveCD version (1 cdrom) is available for i386. The work for the i386 and x86_64 ServerCDs and all other arches is in progress. If you are currently using another version CentOS-4, using this command will upgrade you to CentOS-4.4: yum update -------------------------------------------------------------------- Major changes for this version are: Mozilla has been replaced by Seamonkey, Ethereal has been replaced by Wireshark. Firefox and Thunderbird have moved from the 1.0.x to 1.5.x versions. Openoffice.org has moved from the 1.1.2-x to the 1.1.5-x version. Please see the CentOS specific release notes here: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.4/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html and the detailed release notes here: http://www.centos.org/docs/4/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- All previous released CentOS versions are available at: http://vault.centos.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- To stay current with CentOS: Visit our website at http://www.centos.org Join the CentOS mailing list at: http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Join various team members on IRC at irc.freenode.net #centos -------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: It may take a couple days for some of the external mirrors to catch up. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoy, The CentOS Development Team

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disabling console blanking ?
by Martin Hamant 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Hi! Some of my centos's servers (poweredge 850/ centos 4.3) are crashing for any reason, and so i wanna get screen (kernel) output afterward. Problem is when the server is crashed and the screen blanked, a keypress doesn't do anything at all. Here it is what i've tried _from a ssh session_ : - setterm -blank 0 and many combinations. - "noacpi" boot option ... Any ideas ? Thanks ! -- Martin

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problem with rebootning on recen centos kernels
by Daniel Staněk 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

hi friends, maybe you could help me with following problem: We have one SuperMicro dual xenon machine running Centos 4.3 ia32 version and we have problem with reboting this machine remotely (command reboot from ssh connection). After upgrade to kernel versions 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp and 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp the machine hangs right after the: md: md0 switched to read-only mode. message and does not reboot. Other systems says at this moment something like "Rebooting ..." and do reboot. With kernel version 2.6.9-34.0.1.ELsmp and older everything is ok, so that there must be some change in 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp and later. I have tried to boot with reboot=bios, reboot=force, reboot=triple, acpi=off - unfortunately with no success. Does anybody seen od solved this issue? Dan

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[Fwd: Centos/RHEL with MGE UPS Protection Centers (usb)]
by J.J. Garcia 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Hi all folks, Don't know if there's a copy of this notes in the CentOs mail-list, i include it for further references due it has important notes, Thanks Antoine Brenner for comments and suggestions, Have good day Jose.

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Can ONLY log in as root-console perms problem
by fredex 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

I did yum update the other day and it downloaded and installed a bunch of stuff, including a kernel. Didn't have time to reboot until today. today when I reboot, I get a message something like this during boot (from memory since it doesn't seem to be saved in dmesg anywhere): CRITICAL unknown class console at line 23 in /etc/security/console.perms and when the system finishes booting, only root can log in. X won't start, keeps erroring out because, well, I can't be sure. whenever I try to log in as myself it thinks for a few seconds then I get a blue screen saying there already seems to be a ":0" running, would I like to start ":1". If I say yes it tries to start another one and fails the same way. here's an excerpt from /etc/security/console: <mainboard>=/dev/apm_bios <pmu>=/dev/pmu <bluetooth>=/dev/rfcomm* <raw1394>=/dev/raw1394 # permission definitions <console> 0660 <floppy> 0660 root.floppy <===== line 23 <console> 0600 <sound> 0600 root <console> 0600 <cdrom> 0660 root.disk <console> 0600 <pilot> 0660 root.uucp <console> 0600 <jaz> 0660 root.disk I cannot log in on a text console either, only root can. When I try it instantly returns to the login prompt. Sometimes I'll see a short message flash for a hundredth of a second that looks like it might be the same one approximated above. I saw a series of messages from someone else saying he had to back out to the previous kernel, apparently because of a NVIDIA driver issue, so I tried that and it made no difference. He also suggested adding "pci=noacpi pci=biosirq" to the grub boot command, but the thing wouldn't even boot when I tried that. so, this must be some other problem. This is centos-4 32-bit xi6 on an Athlon XP 2600+, Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 motherboard that has been running either Tao or Centos for 2 1/2 years. Advice would be appreciated! Fred -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever." ------------------------------- Isaiah 9:7 (niv) ------------------------------

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upgrade to kernel 2.6.9.42.02
by Rajeev R Veedu 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Dear all, I have upgraded the kernel and it took my 3w-9550sx-8LP sata raid card out of the box. It also fixed the problem of getting obsolete channel (my posting last week). Thanks for all your help and your support. Thanks Rajeev

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smbmount
by Al Sparks 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

Is there a method or way that will allow one to automagically mount samba shares requiring a password w/o using a plain text password? Even if I have to store the plaintext password in a file, is there at least a way to keep plain text passwords going over the network (IPSec perhaps)? === Al

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Re: [CentOS] smbmount
by Al Sparks 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

New to samba, didn't know that. I'll rtfm from here. Thanks. === Al ----- Original Message ---- From: Craig White <craigwhite(a)azapple.com> To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 2:17:07 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] smbmount On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 14:39 -0700, Al Sparks wrote: > Is there a method or way that will allow one to automagically mount > samba shares requiring a password w/o using a plain text password? > > Even if I have to store the plaintext password in a file, is there at > least a way to keep plain text passwords going over the network > (IPSec perhaps)? ---- not sure to what you are referring...by default, Samba, uses a hashed password and doesn't transmit a plain text password to a Windows / smbfs or cifs server. Craig _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Any one have a good example...
by Scott Silva 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

...of a shell script for rsync that won't start again if it is already running? I thought of using a lock file, but what if it is killed mid script or bombs? -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

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centosplus kernel packages and compiler versions
by Bart Schaefer 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

I just installed the updated kernel packages for centos 4.4 from the centosplus repository. When I run vmware-config.pl to rebuild the vmware modules, it warns me that the kernel was compiled with gcc 3.4.6, whereas my compiler is gcc 3.4.5, and recommends that I not rebuild the modules unless I have exactly the same compiler version. I ignored this and built the modules anyway and they work fine, but why are the plus kernels not built with the stock centos4 compiler suite?

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RE: [CentOS] Which kernel package?
by Bowie Bailey 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 11:46:04AM -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > I am building a new system which will have a pair of dual-core > > Opterons and 16GB memory. Should I use kernel-smp or > > kernel-hugemem? > > With that much RAM, you almost certainly want to run in 64-bit mode, > where that question is moot. Yes, I'm definitely going to run in 64-bit mode. I guess there's not a hugemem version for 64-bit, so I'll just go with kernel-smp. I forgot about that minor detail. Most of my machines are only 32-bit. -- Bowie

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 18, Issue 18
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

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-2006:0633 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 ImageMagick - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2006:0633 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 ImageMagick - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2006:0648-01: Moderate CentOS 2 i386 kdegraphics security update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:06:57 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0633 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 ImageMagick - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1156792017.15080.243.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0633 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0633.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: ImageMagick-6.0.7.1-16.x86_64.rpm ImageMagick-c++-6.0.7.1-16.x86_64.rpm ImageMagick-c++-devel-6.0.7.1-16.x86_64.rpm ImageMagick-devel-6.0.7.1-16.x86_64.rpm ImageMagick-perl-6.0.7.1-16.x86_64.rpm src: ImageMagick-6.0.7.1-16.x86_64.rpm

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VSFTPD problem ?
by Denis Croombs 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

I have 1 Centos server V4.x already running VSFTPD and when the user logs in they get chrooted to the home directory, I have installed the same config files to a second server (again Centos V4.x) and have setup the same user on the second server but the user does not get chrooted to the home directory but is placed in /var/ftp/pub and cannot upload file. The files I copied are:- /etc/vsftpd.user_list /etc/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf /etc/vsftpd.ftpusers /etc/vsftpd.chroot_list Any clues ? Thanks Denis

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Which kernel package?
by Bowie Bailey 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

I am building a new system which will have a pair of dual-core Opterons and 16GB memory. Should I use kernel-smp or kernel-hugemem? I see that RH recommends the hugemem kernel if you have more than 16GB (and we may upgrade at some point, the MB supports 32GB). Any comments on this? The only difference that the descriptions show is the 4GB/4GB split with the hugemem kernel and I'm not quite clear on what that does. -- Bowie

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question on lokkit
by Jerry Geis 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

I am wanting to pass arguments to lokkit to set up the iptables config file with an entry like this: ( i dont want to manually edit it - I want to do it automatically) iptables -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 10000:20000 -j ACCEPT I have a small script file that has in it the ports I want enabled, like: ------------------- PORT_SSH="--port=22:tcp" PORT_HTTP="--port=http:tcp" /usr/sbin/lokkit -q --high --dhcp -t lo -t eth0 -t eth1 $PORT_SSH $PORT_HTTP ------------------- I want to add another line to enable ports 10000 - 20000. however the ":tdp" or ":udp" conflict with 10000:20000. I tried useing something like "10000,20000:udp" but did not work. THanks for any suggestions. Jerry

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32bit versus 64bit memory usage?
by Christian Nygaard 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

I'm planning for new Centos 4 computers using the 64bit distribution and is wondering if there is a difference on how much RAM memory you should use on a 32bit versus 64bit operating system? Will processes such as for example KDE, Firefox use more memory on the 64bit architecture than on the 32bit and if so by how much as a rule of thumb? Kind regards, Christian

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hi can anybody send me the SER installation step by step?
by hykin power 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

hi i am configuring the SER on centos please can anybody knows abt this if yes please send me the step by spey ser+mysql_rtpproxy+nathelper i want all thies modules thanx and regards prabhakar.G _________________________________________________________________ Get the new Windows Live Messenger! http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=…

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web based mail packages for CentOS
by James Marcinek 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

Hello Everyone, I was using OpenGroupware but just hosed my system. Since I'm starting from scratch I would like to know what everyone's using for web based mail. I currently implemented cyrus-imapd and postfix which I used before. I was going to give dovecot a try but it wouldn't start even though it was supposed to be easier. I would like to move my postfix to a chroot but have never done a chroot so I would appreciate any examples. Also how to get spamassassin working or any alternatives. I have the mail server up and can access email with a client so I guess it's up. Thanks, James BTW - I'm running the latest CentOS distro

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Can't update kernel, says not enough space
by techlist 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

I'm trying to update my server. I have serveral packages to do, but I tried the kernel first: Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.9-42.0.2.EL set to be installed --> Running transaction check Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: kernel i686 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL update 11 M Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 1 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 11 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Check Error: installing package kernel-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL needs 6MB on the / filesystem But I have much more than 6M: [root@mail /]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 145M 116M 21M 85% / /dev/sda1 168M 7.0M 152M 5% /boot /dev/sda9 8.2G 3.9G 3.9G 50% /home /dev/sda8 2.0G 341M 1.5G 19% /home/root none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda7 92M 4.1M 83M 5% /tmp /dev/sda5 4.2G 1.5G 2.5G 37% /usr /dev/sda3 981M 743M 189M 80% /var /dev/shm 53M 0 53M 0% /var/amavis/tmp What to do? Thanks, Scott

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3.8 update/x86_64 kernel?
by Les Mikesell 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

After updating a very old x86_64 3.x install to 3.8 it still has kernel-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL. Then if I repeat the yum update command, it offers to install kernel 2.4.21-47.EL.ia32e. Neither of these situations seems quite right. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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Does irqbalance actually do anything?
by Steve Snyder 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

I've got several SMP machines, some running CentOS 4.3 and some running Fedora Core 4. All machine are kept fully updated. A few are Pentium3-based and a few are Pentium4-based. They are all running the irqbalance daemon. The distribution of interrupts across CPUs is indeed kept balanced, yet even after months of uptime ps shows no CPU use whatsoever by irqbalance. This from a program that is supposed to wake up every 10 (?) seconds and examine the interrupt counts. Given that there is an IRQ balancing scheme in the kernel, I have to wonder if irqbalance is actually being used. The man page for this program consists of a single-sentence description of what the program does. Nice. Does irqbalance really do anything on contemporary Red Hat-based systems? Thanks.

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