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yum --allow-downgrade and versionlocking not working
by Kai Schaetzl 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

with installed version 1.3.7 from rpmforge yum --allow-downgrade update rrdtool-1.2.30-1.el5.rf results in "no packages to update" yum --allow-downgrade install rrdtool-1.2.30-1.el5.rf says "already installed" So, how am I supposed to use --allow-downgrade then? I had to rpm -e --nodeps the newer packages to be able to install the older packages. Now I want to lock the package version. However, again, yum doesn't work as I read from documentation. After adding rrdtool-1.2.30-1.el5.rf perl-rrdtool-1.2.30-1.el5.rf to versionlock.list I get: Error: Package tuple ('rrdtool', 'i386', '0', '1.3.7', '1.el5.rf') could not be found in packagesack where I can't find any fix for. Interestingly, I'm also getting this error on a simple "yum update", that I haven't seen before: Error: Package tuple ('perl-DBD-mysql', 'i386', '0', '4.011', '1.el5.rf') could not be found in packagesack This package was removed quite some time ago the same way because downgrading didn't work. (This package wrongly obsoletes a base package.) What's going on here? Even yum clean all doesn't help. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

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munin stopped working
by Kai Schaetzl 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Just noticed that my munin installation stopped showing any data after the last "big" update. I installed a lot of updates for CentoS, but there was also a munin update coming from rpmforge. However, in yum.log there is no munin listed. But I'm sure I updated munin to 1.2.5-2.el5.rf as well. Does yum log only the centos repo's? The problem seems to be with the creation of the graphs. When running munin-cron manually I get this output: No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig library is not correctly configured. You may need to edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual page and on http://fontconfig.org I don't know at all what I should do. Is anyone else running munin and hit and solved the same problem? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

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Evolution Question?
by Jeff 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

I have a CentOS 5.3 Desktop and use Evolution to read mailing lists . When i move from one read letter to another(either deleting or clicking next the Message pane flickers. How can i stop this because it is hard on my eyes when i have a few emails to read? Jeff

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grep/sed help
by Joseph L. Casale 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

I am rsyncing and remotely doing some work based on a logfile from a windows box from a centos backup server. I get the output from a vss snapshot that has a section like this: * SNAPSHOT ID = {639ef5df-c933-4496-878a-ed57b9d52876} ... - Shadow copy Set: {427ac5db-21be-4c53-8ca4-24e7bac86a1d} - Original count of shadow copies = 2 - Original Volume name: \\?\Volume{787bdf7a-ccff-11dd-9866-806e6f6e6963}\ [D:\] - Creation Time: 6/10/2009 12:12:08 PM - Shadow copy device name: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy11 - Originating machine: milano.example.local - Service machine: milano.example.local - Not Exposed - Provider id: {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5} - Attributes: No_Auto_Release Persistent Differential * SNAPSHOT ID = {fb5996cf-a35b-4110-b83c-45f9c64a75f3} ... - Shadow copy Set: {427ac5db-21be-4c53-8ca4-24e7bac86a1d} - Original count of shadow copies = 2 - Original Volume name: \\?\Volume{787bdf7b-ccff-11dd-9866-806e6f6e6963}\ [E:\] - Creation Time: 6/10/2009 12:12:08 PM - Shadow copy device name: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy12 - Originating machine: milano.example.local - Service machine: milano.example.local - Not Exposed - Provider id: {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5} - Attributes: No_Auto_Release Persistent Differential My current script only uses sed/grep but I never had to deal with this case where now I need to do something based on the grep'ed/sed extraction of the value of "SNAPSHOT ID" based on volume name "D:" or "E:"? To make my script work without rewriting it, is there a sed method to only take the "SNAPSHOT ID" if the text indented beneath it has "D:", then do the same and extract "SNAPSHOT ID" if and only if "E:" follows? Thanks for any help! jlc

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Automounter (?) failing in CentOS 5.3
by MHR 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

I may have asked about this before, but I can't find any records of so doing in my saved mail (which includes almost everything I ever read or write): All of a sudden, I am not getting flash drives automatically mounted in CentOS 5.3 with GNOME - they are recognized by the hardware, but there seems to be a (new?) problem with the maps. Here's the tail end of dmesg: usb 1-10: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 68 usb 1-10: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice scsi53 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 68 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: SanDisk Model: Cruzer Rev: 4.05 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 SCSI device sdd: 8001165 512-byte hdwr sectors (4097 MB) sdd: Write Protect is off sdd: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 sdd: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sdd: 8001165 512-byte hdwr sectors (4097 MB) sdd: Write Protect is off sdd: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 sdd: assuming drive cache: write through sdd: sdd1 sd 53:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdd sd 53:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete usb 1-10: USB disconnect, address 68 usb 1-9: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 69 usb 1-9: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice scsi54 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 69 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: SanDisk Model: Cruzer Rev: 4.05 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 SCSI device sdd: 8001165 512-byte hdwr sectors (4097 MB) sdd: Write Protect is off sdd: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 sdd: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sdd: 8001165 512-byte hdwr sectors (4097 MB) sdd: Write Protect is off sdd: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 sdd: assuming drive cache: write through sdd: sdd1 sd 54:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdd sd 54:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete And here's the tail end of /var/log/messages: Jun 9 14:42:33 mhrichter kernel: usb 1-10: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 68 Jun 9 14:42:33 mhrichter kernel: usb 1-10: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Jun 9 14:42:33 mhrichter kernel: scsi53 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Jun 9 14:42:38 mhrichter kernel: Vendor: SanDisk Model: Cruzer Rev: 4.05 Jun 9 14:42:38 mhrichter kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Jun 9 14:42:38 mhrichter kernel: SCSI device sdd: 8001165 512-byte hdwr sectors (4097 MB) Jun 9 14:42:38 mhrichter kernel: sdd: Write Protect is off Jun 9 14:42:38 mhrichter kernel: sdd: assuming drive cache: write through Jun 9 14:42:38 mhrichter kernel: SCSI device sdd: 8001165 512-byte hdwr sectors (4097 MB) Jun 9 14:42:38 mhrichter kernel: sdd: Write Protect is off Jun 9 14:42:38 mhrichter kernel: sdd: assuming drive cache: write through Jun 9 14:42:38 mhrichter kernel: sdd: sdd1 Jun 9 14:42:38 mhrichter kernel: sd 53:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdd Jun 9 14:42:38 mhrichter kernel: sd 53:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 Jun 9 14:43:04 mhrichter kernel: usb 1-10: USB disconnect, address 68 Jun 9 14:43:12 mhrichter kernel: usb 1-9: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 69 Jun 9 14:43:12 mhrichter kernel: usb 1-9: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Jun 9 14:43:12 mhrichter kernel: scsi54 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Jun 9 14:43:17 mhrichter kernel: Vendor: SanDisk Model: Cruzer Rev: 4.05 Jun 9 14:43:17 mhrichter kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Jun 9 14:43:17 mhrichter kernel: SCSI device sdd: 8001165 512-byte hdwr sectors (4097 MB) Jun 9 14:43:17 mhrichter kernel: sdd: Write Protect is off Jun 9 14:43:17 mhrichter kernel: sdd: assuming drive cache: write through Jun 9 14:43:17 mhrichter kernel: SCSI device sdd: 8001165 512-byte hdwr sectors (4097 MB) Jun 9 14:43:17 mhrichter kernel: sdd: Write Protect is off Jun 9 14:43:17 mhrichter kernel: sdd: assuming drive cache: write through Jun 9 14:43:17 mhrichter kernel: sdd: sdd1 Jun 9 14:43:17 mhrichter kernel: sd 54:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdd Jun 9 14:43:17 mhrichter kernel: sd 54:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 Jun 9 14:50:18 mhrichter kernel: usb 1-9: USB disconnect, address 69 These two particular mount attempts/expectations are with a flash drive that I've been using for months without any trouble at all, and I _can_ mount it manually with 'mount.' (However, I cannot mount it, or the other flash drives that also have worked flawlessly for months, with gnome-mount, which used to work as long as the device was visible. I can look at the partition tables on all three drives with fdisk -l, but no automount to /media/<whatever>.) How do I fix this? Thanks mhr

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Things that fail over time (was Automounter (?) failing in CentOS 5.3)
by MHR 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

I'm starting a new thread on this because there are other failures I'd like to bring up, not _necessarily_ directly related to CentOS, but they all happen to me here. FTR: Linux mhrichter 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 #1 SMP Thu May 7 10:35:59 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux (AMD 64x2 7750, 2.7GHz, 2GB memory, 900+GB disk, etc.) I had a meeting to go to last night, so before I left, I rebooted. When I returned, as I expected, my USB flash drives were all properly recognized (i.e., the default behavior worked). I have a number of scripts and aliases that "depend" on certain flash drive cognizance, but they all depend on indeirect references, so by changing, eg., my symlink to my "main" flash drive, everything that "depends" on it works just fine. Of course, after the reboot, I had to restore the original symlink, but I digress. This particular failure might not actually have been time related, although it seems like it because once it "began" to fail, it always failed. I tried all my USB ports, moved some connections around, and only the flash drives continued to fail - my printers were fine (I had to reset the hardware connection values in System->Administration->Printers, but that's normal with a USB disconnect/reconnect anyway if the ports are different. I got onto this because I was using a USB extension cable for most of my connects with the flash drives, and I was seeing some strange behavior there, e.g., when I jiggled the flash drive, it would start acting as if it had been unplugged and replugged. I actually went through and tested all my USB ports, some with and without the extension cable, and I found one that just doesn't work at all (!), but the behavior was consistent, except that I haven't retested that extension cable yet - not sure I want to.... Another issue I'm seeing that is most clearly a time-related failure is with flash videos in SeaMonkey. I'm running: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090223 SeaMonkey/2.0a3 with most of the usual plugins, including the Adobe Shockwave Flash 10.0 r22 plugin. This is the i586 aka 32-bit version. I tried using the 64-bit version, which I _think_ I got from rpmforge, but it just doesn't work right, and it can't be installed simultaneously with the 32-bit version. (I'm also using nspluginwrapper, of course, which is really nice.) The problem is that, after some indeterminate period of time, usually overnight, the flash videos stop working properly. They either load for about 2 seconds and hang, or they play for 10-30 seconds with no sound, then a burst of high-speed "catch-up" sound, then either nothing or the echoes of the last fragment of sound, and so on. Frequently, even when I close the offending tab, the sound takes up to a minute or two to stop its echoes. The only solution I've found is to close SM altogether and restart it. Then, all is well. I realize that a) this isn't a CentOS issue per se, and b) I'm using the 2.0 alpha test pre-release version of SM. However, I have found, through bitter experience and regret, that the standard release of SeaMonkey 1.x is worse. Now, I know there are some who will say "Use Firefox," but, frankly, I really don't like the way too many of its "featuers" work, and I really, _really_, REALLY prefer (a mild word for it) the SeaMonkey/Netscape behaviors. I should also note that it doesn't matter how many flash videos I play that work, 0 or 1 or a dozen, once I hit that one that doesn't, it's close all tabs and restart. It's annoying, even when I just close the thing SM and let its semi-automatic re-open all tabs on restart, because usually that doesn't reestablish existing logins (it's kind of intermittent there), and I am usually logged into Yahoo and Gmail all the time. There are also other failures I've seen that I can dimly recall and that I thought at the time were time-related, and, miraculously! a reboot solved them all, at least until the next time. I don't remember any of the specifics of those, and I haven't adopted the practice of making notes on ALL of them yet, but it's just my (primary) desktop, and I haven't seen anything remotely catastrophic in those areas. Yet. So what? I was wondering if anyone else had any thoughts on issues of this nature (time-related failures). Thanks. mhr

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truecrypt & kernel 2.6.24
by Rudi Ahlers 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

Hi all, Has anyone used TrueCrypt on a XEN based machine before? I'm running CentOS 5.3 with kernel 2.6.18 but when I launch TrueCrypt, it keeps on telling me I need kernel 2.6.24 or later. "Your system uses an old version of the Linux Kernel. Due to a bug in the Linux Kernel, your system may stop responding when writing data to a TrueCrypt volume. This problem can be solved by upgrading the kernel version to 2.6.24 or later" Now, the CentOS repositories doesn't have 2.6.24, so do I have to build the kernel manually? And will there be any problems when doing so? I like to just run "yum update" when needed. Here's the output from the machine: Linux zaxen02.lan 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5xen #1 SMP Wed Nov 12 09:48:10 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Hosting Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532

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Re: [CentOS] grep/sed help
by nate 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

Joseph L. Casale wrote: > if the text indented beneath it has "D:", then do the same and extract > "SNAPSHOT ID" if and only if "E:" follows? If the line counts are constant you could do the reverse: grep -B 3 "\(E:\|D:\)" input.txt | grep Shadow Which would show the 3 lines above a line that has E:\ or D:\ and then only display the lines with the word Shadow. nate

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 52, Issue 5
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

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-2009:1082 Important CentOS 5 i386 cups Update (Karanbir Singh) 2. CESA-2009:1082 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 cups Update (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:18:31 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1082 Important CentOS 5 i386 cups Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090610111831.GA22645(a)tantra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1082 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1082.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 412dbf884ceca3ca3b38529b25980d29 cups-1.3.7-8.el5_3.6.i386.rpm 4757840de65b9df1a0f6a0b93c9e7182 cups-devel-1.3.7-8.el5_3.6.i386.rpm 330c9f2be9fb5e7c4fe76ccf483eb2d2 cups-libs-1.3.7-8.el5_3.6.i386.rpm 40f67f44015b95d834a5aa8c9a344f48 cups-lpd-1.3.7-8.el5_3.6.i386.rpm Source: c7dc4e4647872810fe1e468ff0e52c3a cups-1.3.7-8.el5_3.6.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:18:31 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1082 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 cups Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090610111831.GA22660(a)tantra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1082 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1082.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: f55a2cf629680f512c85fa50a4ffd3b2 cups-1.3.7-8.el5_3.6.x86_64.rpm ca3a859ba96c0338722c21acebb002f3 cups-devel-1.3.7-8.el5_3.6.i386.rpm 7655ae252529f97e44f15678b38677db cups-devel-1.3.7-8.el5_3.6.x86_64.rpm 66fd130ef78009d926fe280408feed92 cups-libs-1.3.7-8.el5_3.6.i386.rpm 7f634af75c9263d967bf9fd20683d3d9 cups-libs-1.3.7-8.el5_3.6.x86_64.rpm d1a6fcfce4fb0d0eea52d1e0ba796c41 cups-lpd-1.3.7-8.el5_3.6.x86_64.rpm Source: c7dc4e4647872810fe1e468ff0e52c3a cups-1.3.7-8.el5_3.6.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 52, Issue 5 **********************************************

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Tracking updates
by Martin Spinassi 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

Hi all, I don't know if exists what I'm searching for, or just making the wrong questions to google. I'm searching some kind of tracking system to software updates. If one server is administrated by more than 2 persons, having control of what updates have been installed, and what version of that application is running after the update. Making manual documentation is ok for one server, but doing this for several servers is a big amount of time, and relies on the admin to have the time to do so, but automating this would be great. I someone doing something to have track of the updates? Any recommendation? Cheers, Martín

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