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Problem with yum update of device-mapper
by James B. Byrne 28 May '10

28 May '10

I am seeing the following behaviour on all my ix86 CentOS-5.5 hosts: Downloading Packages: (1/2): device-mapper-event-1.02.39-1.el5_5.2.i386.rpm | 20 kB 00:00 (2/2): device-mapper-1.02.39-1.el5_5.2.i386.rpm | 724 kB 00:02 http://centos.mirror.iweb.ca/5.5/updates/i386/RPMS/device-mapper-1.02.39-1.…: [Errno -1] Package does not match intended download Trying other mirror. The step 2 download repeats until the maximum number of mirrors has been tried and then the update fails. I had previously run yum clean all before attempting the update. Can anyone enlighten me as to the cause and remedial action required? The favour of a direct response is requested as I am a digest subscriber. -- *** 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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metadata cache corruption: cleared -> fixing in progress
by Tru Huynh 28 May '10

28 May '10

Hi, The big mess today in the 5.5/updates tree was caused by a cache corruption in the master CentOS tree during the metadata creation. <tech> createrepo is run with the --cachedir flag. Something went bad :( </tech> The wrong cached metadata for the last updates (see centos-announce mailing list) caused the issue you have all noticed today. We are sorry for that. I initially though that it was a out of sync issue, but I was wrong. The cachedir was cleared, new metadata generated and pushed to the main centos.org server and going down to the public mirrors. All should be back to normal soon. Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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Stop annoying kernel message
by José Christian Iñiguez Bonilla 28 May '10

28 May '10

Hi Everyone! This is my problem: I´m using Nagios tool to monitor my servers with Cent OS 5, and I recently added the script for check nfs. This script makes an rpc request in the server, but every time that script makes this request, I have this message in /var/log/messages: "kernel: svc: unknown version (0)" I´m not sure if this message is only a message or a problem that I have to fix. Could you guys help me to stop this annoying message?? Thanks in advance! Best Regards _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969

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permanently add md device
by Wessel | Postoffice 28 May '10

28 May '10

Hi All Currently i'm setting up a 5.4 server and try to create a 3rd raid device, when i run: $mdadm --create /dev/md2 -v --raid-devices=15 --chunk=32 --level=raid6 /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg /dev/sdh /dev/sdi /dev/sdj /dev/sdk /dev/sdl /dev/sdm /dev/sdn /dev/sdo /dev/sdp /dev/sdq the device file "md2" is created and the raid is being configured. but somehow /dev/md2 is flushed when i reboot the system , same story if i create the file by mknod or MAKEDEV. does anyone know a way to solve this issue and permanently add md2 to devices? Thanks, Wessel

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5.4-->5.5 Upgrade broke OO 3.2.0
by David McGuffey 28 May '10

28 May '10

In order to get an OpenOffice configuration that is closer in compatibility with MS Office 2007, I removed the standard OO in 5.4 via yum and installed the latest (3.2.0) from OpenOffice.org. Ran that config for many months without a problem. However, when I allowed the upgrade to 5.5, OO broke. I finally had to remove all traces of OO 3.2.0, and start over. That worked...until yum tells me that there are updates to apply, which includes an OO update. Not thinking, I allowed the updates and the OO update broke OO 3.2.0 again. The update is: openoffice.org-ure-3.1.1-19.5.el5.x86_64 updates openoffice.org-ure-1.6.0-9483.x86_64 I had to repeat the removal and reinstallation of OO to recover. Now I watch the updates more closely and don't allow the OO update to come in. Not complaining...just a warning to the community of the challenge one often encounters by running software that is not part of the standard distribution. Dave M

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Calendar server software suggestions
by sync 28 May '10

28 May '10

Hello,guys: I've seen several suggestions for alternatives to exchange for mail, which I will be trying. My question is, does anyone know of any good open source shared calendar systems?

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newer (2.7) Postfix RPM packages for RH
by Florin Andrei 28 May '10

28 May '10

Postfix 2.3.3 that comes with RH/CentOS is very old, there are lots of new features in newer versions that appear to be very useful (revised queue manager with better scheduler as far back as v2.5, etc.). Latest stable version is 2.7. I was looking for RPM packages and I've found this site: http://ftp.wl0.org/official/ Anybody using it? Good things, bad things?... Anybody using Postfix 2.7 on CentOS by the way? Do you have any observations? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

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Xen guest does not autostart
by Jussi Hirvi 28 May '10

28 May '10

I have a virtual machine stack which was purely Centos 5.4 the last time I rebooted and experienced this problem: one of the guests does not start automatically after reboot. [root@farm1 xen]# pwd /etc/xen [root@farm1 xen]# ls -l auto total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Dec 11 17:25 name1 -> ../name1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 5 21:10 name2 -> ../name2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Nov 26 11:43 name3 -> ../name3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Oct 29 2009 name4 -> ../name4 (I retyped the names there.) [root@farm1 xen]# ls -l total 88 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 3 15:15 auto -rw------- 1 root root 430 Dec 11 13:14 name1 -rw------- 1 root root 610 May 7 12:07 name2 -rw------- 1 root root 303 Nov 4 2009 name3 -rw------- 1 root root 295 Oct 29 2009 name4 (...) Here is one guest that works: name = "name3" uuid = "958f8695-95e0-b43c-512e-2ca8950d35de" maxmem = 900 memory = 900 vcpus = 1 bootloader = "/usr/bin/pygrub" on_poweroff = "destroy" on_reboot = "restart" on_crash = "restart" disk = [ "tap:aio:/vm/mail3.img,xvda,w" ] vif = [ "mac=00:16:36:4f:d6:11,bridge=xenbr1,script=vif-bridge" ] ~ The next one does not autostart (but starts ok with "xm create name2"). This is the only guest that has two bridges. There is only 500M RAM, but a third guest starts fine with 500M): name = "name2" uuid = "68e33ec6-ef36-9eac-27d7-65a709684551" maxmem = 500 memory = 500 vcpus = 1 bootloader = "/usr/bin/pygrub" # kernel = "/var/lib/xen/boot_kernel.5g5MLq" # ramdisk = "/var/lib/xen/boot_ramdisk.1pSOoP" # extra = "ro root=LABEL=/ console=xvc0" on_poweroff = "destroy" on_reboot = "restart" on_crash = "restart" disk = [ "tap:aio:/vm/mail2.img,xvda,w" ] vif = [ "mac=00:16:36:24:67:3c,bridge=xenbr0","mac=00:16:36:24:67:3d,bridge=xenbr1" ] ~ What might be the problem?? - Jussi -- Jussi Hirvi * Green Spot Topeliuksenkatu 15 C * 00250 Helsinki * Finland Tel. +358 9 493 981 * Mobile +358 40 771 2098 (only sms) jussi.hirvi(a)greenspot.fi * http://www.greenspot.fi

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Multipathing with Sun 7310
by Jens Neu 28 May '10

28 May '10

Dear list, we have a relatively new Sun Storage 7310, where we connect CentOS 5.5 Servers (IBM LS21/LS41 Blades) via Brocade Switches, 4GBit FC. The Blades boot from SAN via qla2xxx, and have no harddisks at all. We want them to use multipathing from the very beginning, so /boot and / are already seen by multipathd. Problem is, that the Sun 7310 has two storage heads which run in active/passive mode. BUT the multipathd thinks, they are active/active and therefor shows half the available paths as faulty (multipath -ll below) While this probably gives me the redundancy that is desired, it is a relatively messy situation, since it will be unnecessary hard to detect real path failures and the OS is complaining about "readsector0 checker reports path is down" which gives me >40M/24h /var/log/messages garbage. Any hints for a reasonable configuration? Unfortunately the Sun 7310 is rather new, so almost nothing shows up on google... even less for RHEL/CentOS :-( regards from Berlin Jens [root@dev-db1 tmp]# multipath -ll sdaa: checker msg is "readsector0 checker reports path is down" sdab: checker msg is "readsector0 checker reports path is down" sdac: checker msg is "readsector0 checker reports path is down" sdad: checker msg is "readsector0 checker reports path is down" sdd: checker msg is "readsector0 checker reports path is down" sdh: checker msg is "readsector0 checker reports path is down" sdl: checker msg is "readsector0 checker reports path is down" sdp: checker msg is "readsector0 checker reports path is down" sdq: checker msg is "readsector0 checker reports path is down" sdr: checker msg is "readsector0 checker reports path is down" sds: checker msg is "readsector0 checker reports path is down" sdt: checker msg is "readsector0 checker reports path is down" sdu: checker msg is "readsector0 checker reports path is down" sdv: checker msg is "readsector0 checker reports path is down" sdx: checker msg is "readsector0 checker reports path is down" sdz: checker msg is "readsector0 checker reports path is down" mpath0 (3600144f0fdf58b5c00004bc738070001) dm-0 SUN,Sun Storage 7310 [size=50G][features=0][hwhandler=0][rw] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][active] \_ 0:0:1:0 sda 8:0 [active][ready] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][enabled] \_ 1:0:0:0 sde 8:64 [active][ready] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][enabled] \_ 0:0:2:0 sdi 8:128 [active][ready] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=1][enabled] \_ 1:0:1:0 sdm 8:192 [active][ready] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][enabled] \_ 0:0:3:0 sdq 65:0 [failed][faulty] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][enabled] \_ 1:0:2:0 sdr 65:16 [failed][faulty] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][enabled] \_ 0:0:4:0 sdx 65:112 [failed][faulty] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][enabled] \_ 1:0:3:0 sdz 65:144 [failed][faulty]

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Replacement tape drive configuration
by Hugh E Cruickshank 28 May '10

28 May '10

CentOS 4.8 Hi All: We recently had a Sony SDX-500V tape drive fail on one of our servers running CentOS 4.8. I have now replaced it with a spare SDX-500C. The problem that I am having now is that the failed drive had ceased responding to SCSI commands and we have since rebooted the system which resulted in the tape drive being removed from our current hardware configuration and the system does not recognize the new tape drive. I know that I can just reboot the system and kudzu will add the tape drive back in during the boot process however I was wondering if it would be possible to manually run kudzu to add the drive or am I just "borrowing trouble" by trying to do this? TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

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