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by DTS-Corp (Knowledgebase) 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

I am pretty much a newbie at CentOS, and Linux on client side, I would like to help out occasionally by helping the web development crew in their endeavors and by sorting out some stuff. such as repairing broken links, or just scanning for content and maybe even doing a little bit of consulting. Eric R. Clark Dynamic Technology Systems US Phone: (817) 704-4109 US Cell: (817) 706-8856 Email is the same here.

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Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade
by Alan McKay 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so far today after my upgrade. Could it be one of my plugins I suppose? [amckay@alan ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i firefox firefox-3.0.14-1.el5.centos -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"

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CentOS-5.4 Update?
by James B. Byrne 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

hdwr HPQ DC7700S ix86 Core Duo I have just updated this CentOS-5.3 box to 5.4. This process was not satisfactory. While the update packages all downloaded without problem the update process itself stalled at several points. By stalled I mean that at some point the entire process stopped for hours. The packages at which it stalled included evince, evolution, totem and vinfo. There may have been others but these I seem to recall. Restarting the update process required that the existing update be interrupted with a <ctrl>C and yum-complete-transaction run. It took five iterations to get through to completion and in the end I first installed all the remaining packages one at a time directly from the command line using yum install packagename and then ran yum-complete-transaction until all outstanding transactions were cleaned up. Now, while the system boots I have no gnome desktops for any of the users on this host. When root logs in all that is shown is a deep blue background and a wirefram outline of the Firefox web browser, a wire frame outline of an xterm window and an analogue clock. Left clicking on teh background displays a popup menu labeled "Tvm". The mouse and keyboard work and when one clicks on the wireframs then immediately fill with the application background, the CentOS welcome back for FireFox and a black on white scheme for xterm. All the windows have teal menu bars. Further, it seems that I cannot switch between windows. If I try to enter a command in the xterm window then what I type appears in this compose window for squirrelmail. I would like to get my previous customised desktops back, but first I would like to get the default to display. Are there any ideas on how to proceed? 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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Problems with BCM5709 network
by Toralf Lund 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

I've just installed CentOS 5.4 on an IBM server with a BCM5709 network adapter, and can't get networking to work. It looks like an appropriate driver (bnx2) is installed, lspci and the system log return sensible info on the unit, there are no specific error message anywhere, but I get "no link present" when I try to activate the device. In other words, I see essentially the same behaviour as when the network cable is missing, but I've tried several cables, connection points etc. and also get the appropriate indicator lamps etc. so I'm quite sure the connection is good. Does anyone have any idea what may be wrong? If not, have any of you lot got networking to work with a similar setup? Some extracts from the system log are included below... Thanks, - Toralf --- Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v1.9.3 (March 17, 2009) Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0b:00.0[A] -> GSI 28 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem 92000000, IRQ 169, node addr 00215edbc384 Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0b:00.1[B] -> GSI 40 (level, low) -> IRQ 106 Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: eth1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem 94000000, IRQ 106, node addr 00215edbc386 Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[B] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 114 [ ... ] Oct 23 22:12:53 localhost kernel: bnx2: eth0: using MSIX Oct 23 22:12:53 localhost kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready This e-mail, including any attachments and response string, may contain proprietary information which is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the author by return e-mail and delete this message and any attachment immediately. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, distribute, forward, copy, print or rely on this e-mail in any way except as permitted by the author.

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upgrade to 5.4 openswan broke
by Myron Williams 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Hi All, I upgraded from 5.3 to 5.4 today on a vpn gateway using openswan. After the upgrade the vpn stopped working. From what I could tell the new version of openswan uses NSS. I tried following the instructions in this thead https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508107 without success. # certutil -N -d sql:/etc/ipsec.d certutil: function failed: security library: bad database. If I ran the command without the sql: like this # certutil -N -d sql:/etc/ipsec.d it would create the database files. I would then execute # modutil -fips true -dbdir /etc/ipsec.d followed by # /usr/sbin/ipsec newhostkey --configdir /etc/ipsec.d/nssdb --password password1 --output /etc/ipsec.d/host.secrets After replacing the hostkey in the file I tried to bring the connection up but the connection would not start and the following error message was in the log file. unable to locate my private key for RSA Signature sending notification AUTHENTICATION_FAILED I finally had to downgrade from openswan-2.6.21-5.el5 to openswan-2.6.14-1.el5 to get things to work. Am I missing something that is needed to make this work? Any help would be appreciated. Myron Williams

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Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3
by nate 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

slchavarria(a)iusacell.com.mx wrote: > Hello, > > Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos > 5.3 x_64. Just run yum update and you'll get all of the updates that you need that are available. nate

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update 5.4 problem using yum
by Jens Ahlin 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Hi, I have tried to update one of my servers to 5.4. I read the release notes and ran yum clean all followed by yum update glibc\* without any problem, I then ran yum update glibc\* which failed. Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package python-devel.i386 0:2.4.3-27.el5 set to be updated ---> Package rpm-libs.i386 0:4.4.2.3-18.el5 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: popt = 1.10.2.3-18.el5 for package: rpm-libs ---> Package python.i386 0:2.4.3-27.el5 set to be updated ---> Package yum-metadata-parser.i386 0:1.1.2-3.el5.centos set to be updated ---> Package rpm-python.i386 0:4.4.2.3-18.el5 set to be updated ---> Package rpm-devel.i386 0:4.4.2.3-18.el5 set to be updated ---> Package yum.noarch 0:3.2.22-20.el5.centos set to be updated ---> Package rpm.i386 0:4.4.2.3-18.el5 set to be updated ---> Package rpm-build.i386 0:4.4.2.3-18.el5 set to be updated --> Running transaction check ---> Package popt.i386 0:1.10.2.3-18.el5 set to be updated *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0a98d660 *** *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: double free or corruption (out): 0x092e04c8 *** Now I cannot run yum or rpm to restore the updated glibc packages. Any idea's ? Did I miss something ? Jens

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Persistent desktop icons ?
by Niki Kovacs 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Hi, Is it possible to configure persistent desktop icons, e. g. shortcuts that users can't delete ? On most of my client desktops, I have some home-made shortcuts, like here for example : http://www.microlinux.fr/configurations.html The shortcut on the lower left corner of the screen launches the public library management system. Most of the users are quite computer-illiterate, and more often than not, they tend to erase these shortcuts (and then call me panic-stricken at 07:00 in the morning :oD). To configure the shortcuts themselves, I just edit a .desktop file by hand. I tried various combinations of chown and chmod, but to no avail. Even if there are minimum access rights, the thing can still be erased with a right click. Now I vaguely remember that a standard openSUSE install has something like persistent desktop shortcuts (for the SUSE help center or something like that), and I wonder: how do they do it ? Any suggestions ? Niki

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dependency problem with php-pgsql
by Chris Gow 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Hi: I'm running into a dependency problem when I try to install the php-pgsql package on CentOS 5.4 64bit. I have php 5.2.9 and when I try to do a yum install php-pgsql I get the following dep errors: Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package php-pgsql.x86_64 0:5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 for package: php-pgsql --> Finished Dependency Resolution php-pgsql-5.1.6-23.2.el5_3.x86_64 from base has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 is needed by package php-pgsql-5.1.6-23.2.el5_3.x86_64 (base) Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 is needed by package php-pgsql-5.1.6-23.2.el5_3.x86_64 (base) Any ideas? Is there no official php-pgsql package? Or what have I borked? Thanks Chris

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5.4 docs
by Ron Loftin 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

First off, I'm glad that 5.4 is now available, and a big "Thank you" to the development team for all of their hard work. I have noticed that the docs for 5.4 appear to be accessible on the CentOS Web site, but some of them seem to have some issues. In the "Technical Notes", everything after the first page of Chapter 1 gives a 404 error. I've tried to send in a report with the contact form on the Web site, but so far this situation has not changed. Hopefully somebody on the team can look into this after a bit of rest and recuperation from their efforts on our behalf. -- Ron Loftin reloftin(a)twcny.rr.com "God, root, what is difference ?" Piter from UserFriendly

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