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Anaconda crashing on new machine
by fred smith 20 Jul '09

20 Jul '09

Hi! I'm building up a new computer and this evening have had several events during installation in which Anaconda has crashed. It's not clear that there is a lot of commonality between the different crashes. the first time I got all the way through package selection (selecting at the individual package level) before it crashed. the second time I made a mistake in partitioning and did BACK several screens to fix it, then when clicking NEXT several times to go forward to where I had been, it blew up. then it blew up while partitioning. then it blew up there again, though at a different place. I don't think there should be any problem with making /home 200 gigs,... doesn't ext3 have a limit something more like a terabyte or more? it's a gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 board with an AMD Phenom II X2 550 clocked at 3.1 Ghz, and 4 gigs of g.skill ram (which has run for several hours under memtest86+ with no problems.) Anyone got any helpful suggestions! BTW, I ran 3 different live-Cd distros on it today, for several hours, just looking for problems, and didn't find any, so I'm thinking the hardware is reasonably stable. (one always wonders, when it's all brand-new.) Thanks! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 ---------------------------------

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Cassandra and thrift...
by John Doe 20 Jul '09

20 Jul '09

Hi, anyone have any experience compiling/installing Cassandra and thrift on CentOS? Thx, JD

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Upgrade 4.7 > 5.3 poorer 'performance'
by Tom Brown 20 Jul '09

20 Jul '09

Hi During a test upgrade of a number of hosts in a pool i have found that exactly the same JVM based app runs more efficiently on the 4.7 systems than it does on the 5.3 on identical hardware. Specifically the apps seems to exhibit about 10% more 'load' on the CPU's for the same workload - before i start digging deep has anyone seen anything similar ? thanks

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CentOS, laptop & DLP
by MHR 20 Jul '09

20 Jul '09

I have an old Toshiba Tecra 8100 that I run CentOS on - it's running 5.3 although not completely up to date at the moment. About a year ago, a club I help administer bought a BenQ DLP so we could show movies and do other projector things more easily than lugging around a 27" TV set. It worked just fine, but the behavior of the system with it has changed over the year and I'm curious if anyone might know why. When I first connected the DLP, the laptop (and CentOS) recognized it immediately, and there was absolutely no trouble with it at all. I plugged it in, turned it on, hooked it up, and voila, it worked. Now the laptop doesn't recognize the DLP unless I plug it in either before booting, or reboot after it's plugged in, and I can't play with the <function>-F5 combination (that switches between LCD, DLP, LCD+DLP, no video) until I'm logged in unless I want to be stuck in whichever mode it lands in. I usually set it for both and wait until my login is complete, then I can flip between all the settings just fine. One of the things I really liked about CentOS with this DLP at first was that I did NOT need to reboot for the system to recognize and use the DLP, just like any other hot-plug add-on. I connect it via the external 15-pin video port, same as day 1. Am I missing something, like "be sure the projector is on (or off) when I connect it to the laptop? I think I've tried all possible combinations of this and it just doesn't function at all unless I (re)boot after the DLP is on and connected. The only change I know for certain that happened over this year is that I upgraded from 5.2 to 5.3, but I can't remember if this had anything to do with the change in behavior or not (I don't think so, but it's been over the course of a year...). Thanks. mhr

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Gallery2 under CentOS-5.3
by Timothy Murphy 19 Jul '09

19 Jul '09

I asked about 18 months ago if gallery2 was available in any of the CentOS repositories, and it seemed that at that time it was not. However, there was some talk of putting it in epel or epel-testing. But I looked just now, and did not find it there. I actually installed gallery2 on my server by following the instructions at <http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Preinstaller>. But I've had a slight http problem on the server which might be related to gallery2 (wireshark seemed to show some odd calls on gallery2); so I was wondering if there was yet an official CentOS implementation? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin

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good small registrar?
by Eugene Vilensky 19 Jul '09

19 Jul '09

Greetings, What are some registrars that members of this list have had good experience with? I was stepping through the godaddy checkout process, and being opted-in to a dozen different upsell features just left a bad impression. But I have no clue who else to go with. -Eugene

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recent rsyslog package available for CentOS?
by Eric B. 19 Jul '09

19 Jul '09

Hi, I'm looking for a recent version of rsyslog. The yum repositories only show me a version that is 2.0.6. According to the www.rsyslog.com site, they are up to version 5 (dev), which means that I would think/assume that there would at least be v3 or v4 available somewhere. Does anyone know if/where I can find something more recent than 2.0.6? Thanks, Eric

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Network guru please help: baffled by missing file
by Timothy Murphy 18 Jul '09

18 Jul '09

The mirrorlist entry in my Fedora-11 /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-update.repo reads: mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released- f$releasever&arch=$basearch As far as I can see, this means that yum is looking for the file metalink at mirrors.fedoraproject.org ? If I try "sudo yum update" I get: ----------------------------------- [tim@elizabeth ~]$ sudo yum update Loaded plugins: aliases, allowdowngrade, auto-update-debuginfo, basearchonly, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, filter- : data, keys, list-data, merge-conf, post-transaction-actions, presto, priorities, protect-packages, : protectbase, refresh-packagekit, refresh-updatesd, remove- with-leaves, rpm-warm-cache, security, show-leaves, : tsflags, upgrade-helper, verify, versionlock Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: updates. Please verify its path and try again ----------------------------------- Adding --noplugins does not help: ----------------------------------- [tim@elizabeth ~]$ sudo yum --noplugins update Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: updates. Please verify its path and try again ----------------------------------- Trying to get the file with wget: ----------------------------------- [tim@elizabeth ~]$ wget https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink --2009-07-17 13:04:41-- https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink Resolving mirrors.fedoraproject.org... 209.132.176.122 Connecting to mirrors.fedoraproject.org|209.132.176.122|:443... connected. ERROR: certificate common name `fedoraproject.org' doesn't match requested host name `mirrors.fedoraproject.org'. To connect to mirrors.fedoraproject.org insecurely, use `--no-check- certificate'. Unable to establish SSL connection. ----------------------------------- Adding --no-check-certificate does not seem to help: ----------------------------------- [tim@elizabeth ~]$ wget --no-check-certificate https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink --2009-07-17 13:06:22-- https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink Resolving mirrors.fedoraproject.org... 209.132.176.122 Connecting to mirrors.fedoraproject.org|209.132.176.122|:443... connected. WARNING: certificate common name `fedoraproject.org' doesn't match requested host name `mirrors.fedoraproject.org'. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2009-07-17 13:06:23 ERROR 404: Not Found. ----------------------------------- When I look at the http traffic on my server with wireshark the file-request seems to be properly sent, but the file is not found. The symptoms seem to me (no http expert) to suggest that there is some condition for seeing this file that my system is not fulfilling. Any and all suggestions gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin

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OT - Sensa Fuze
by Ed Donahue 17 Jul '09

17 Jul '09

Anyone have experience with using a Sensa Fuze mp3/ogg player on CentOS 5.x? I'm looking for a player that plays vorbis and isn't a M$/DRM/Apple slave and this one looks like a good one to buy. Thanks for any help!

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My server reboots every hour! Help please!
by Marko Vojinovic 17 Jul '09

17 Jul '09

I have a machine here that resets itself every one hour (without my intention, of course): # cat /var/log/messages | grep "sith kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5" Jul 14 22:29:41 sith kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5 (mockbuild(a)builder16.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 30 06:10:28 EDT 2009 Jul 14 23:30:09 sith kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5 (mockbuild(a)builder16.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 30 06:10:28 EDT 2009 Jul 15 00:30:36 sith kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5 (mockbuild(a)builder16.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 30 06:10:28 EDT 2009 Jul 15 01:31:04 sith kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5 (mockbuild(a)builder16.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 30 06:10:28 EDT 2009 Jul 15 02:31:31 sith kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5 (mockbuild(a)builder16.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 30 06:10:28 EDT 2009 Jul 15 03:32:01 sith kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5 (mockbuild(a)builder16.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 30 06:10:28 EDT 2009 Jul 15 04:32:30 sith kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5 (mockbuild(a)builder16.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 30 06:10:28 EDT 2009 Jul 15 05:32:58 sith kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5 (mockbuild(a)builder16.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 30 06:10:28 EDT 2009 Jul 15 06:33:26 sith kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5 (mockbuild(a)builder16.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 30 06:10:28 EDT 2009 Jul 15 07:33:56 sith kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5 (mockbuild(a)builder16.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 30 06:10:28 EDT 2009 Jul 15 08:34:21 sith kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5 (mockbuild(a)builder16.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 30 06:10:28 EDT 2009 Jul 15 09:34:52 sith kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5 (mockbuild(a)builder16.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 30 06:10:28 EDT 2009 Jul 15 10:38:48 sith kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5 (mockbuild(a)builder16.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 30 06:10:28 EDT 2009 Jul 15 11:35:47 sith kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5 (mockbuild(a)builder16.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 30 06:10:28 EDT 2009 Jul 15 12:36:17 sith kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5 (mockbuild(a)builder16.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 30 06:10:28 EDT 2009 Jul 15 13:36:46 sith kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5 (mockbuild(a)builder16.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 30 06:10:28 EDT 2009 The machine is supposed to be up 24/7 and after each reset the system reboots again, and works normally only to reset again one hour later. However, the only unusual thing I am able to recognize in the logs is winbind daemon whining about something I don't understand: # tail -f /var/log/messages Jul 15 13:47:39 sith winbindd[3353]: [2009/07/15 13:47:39, 0] nsswitch/idmap.c:idmap_alloc_init(820) Jul 15 13:47:39 sith winbindd[3353]: ERROR: Initialization failed for alloc backend, deferred! Jul 15 13:47:39 sith smbd[3373]: [2009/07/15 13:47:39, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(810) Jul 15 13:47:39 sith smbd[3373]: create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users Jul 15 13:47:39 sith winbindd[2927]: [2009/07/15 13:47:39, 0] nsswitch/winbindd_passdb.c:sid_to_name(126) Jul 15 13:47:39 sith winbindd[2927]: Possible deadlock: Trying to lookup SID S-1-22-1-99 with passdb backend Jul 15 13:47:39 sith winbindd[2927]: [2009/07/15 13:47:39, 0] nsswitch/winbindd_passdb.c:sid_to_name(126) Jul 15 13:47:39 sith winbindd[2927]: Possible deadlock: Trying to lookup SID S-1-1-0 with passdb backend Jul 15 13:47:39 sith winbindd[2927]: [2009/07/15 13:47:39, 0] nsswitch/winbindd_passdb.c:sid_to_name(126) Jul 15 13:47:39 sith winbindd[2927]: Possible deadlock: Trying to lookup SID S-1-5-2 with passdb backend Nevertheless, samba server seems to be running ok, so I am not sure this is related to reboots, and there is nothing else suspicious in the logs AFAICT. How do I troubleshoot these restarts? I suspected hardware failure (power supply, cooling fans, etc.) but somehow the restarts happen way too periodically, so I have second thoughts on software as well. CentOS 5.3, fully updated. Btw, I don't have physical access to the machine until September, so diagnosing hardware is pretty limited atm. Only remote ssh available. I would really appreciate any advice on this! Best, :-) Marko

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