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problem with updates
by Charles E Campbell Jr 08 May '09

08 May '09

Using Centos 5.2 and the "Software Updater/Package Updater/pup", I winnowed the problem updates down to six packages: 1: Updated file packages available 2: Updated gcc43 packages available 3: Updated gcc packages available 4: Updated pam packages available 5: Updated redhat-logos packages available 6: Updated redhat-menus packages available It'd really help if there was a button on pup to deselect all updates (and let me click just a few updates back on). The problem is typically... Updated file packages available Component: pirut Summary: TBe8ae967a sqlitesack.py:94:_read_db_obj:TypeError: unsubscriptable object As a result, /usr/share/gdm/themes/TreeFlower/background.png is missing, and so I get an error message about it and the "default" login screen. Of course, I don't know what else is missing (for example, those gcc packages...). Regards, Chip Campbell -- someday I'll have a good signature, I'm sure of it...

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Software RAID resync
by Rajagopal Swaminathan 08 May '09

08 May '09

I have configured 2x 500G sata HDD as Software RAID1 with three partitions md0,md1 and md2 with md2 as 400+ gigs Now it is almost 36 hours the status is cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md0 : active raid1 hdb1[1] hda1[0] 104320 blocks [2/2] [UU] resync=DELAYED md1 : active raid1 hdb2[1] hda2[0] 4096448 blocks [2/2] [UU] resync=DELAYED md2 : active raid1 hdb3[1] hda3[0] 484182912 blocks [2/2] [UU] [==========>..........] resync = 51.8% (251168768/484182912) finish=1975. 7min speed=1964K/sec unused devices: <none> I have reniced the md2-resync to -10 Q1. Does is take this long? Q2. How to speed it up Regards and Thanks Rajagopal

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OT: Photo Editor to reduce 272 photos to VGA at once
by Lanny Marcus 07 May '09

07 May '09

I returned from Bogotá and have a Folder with 272 photos that total 419.9 MB. I would like to email them to several people who were there for the concerts I attended. I have Picasa, gThumb (not really an Editor but I believe it can reduce the quality of photos) and The GIMP installed. Is there a way I can have a photo editor reduce all of them to VGA size, without doing that 272 times? The people who will receive them are using M$ Windoze. Also, they are in a folder and it doesn't seem possible to attach a folder in gmail. A good way to zip them up in one file that can be unzipped on Windoze boxes? TIA! P.S. I met people there who participate in the forum for my favorite singer. I suspect it would be equally interesting, to meet many of the people who participate in this Mailing List.

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Local yum mirror and repomd.xml
by Mathew S. McCarrell 07 May '09

07 May '09

Hey, So, I'm having a minor issue. Today, I configured one of our CentOS systems to use our local mirror (mirror.clarkson.edu) for its repositories. After doing this, I ran a yum update and received the following warning in the output along with the updates available: Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have: Current : Thu May 7 14:41:57 2009 Downloaded: Tue Apr 28 05:04:32 2009 In order to get rid of this error, I ran "yum clean all" and then "yum update" again. This results in the warning no longer being present but also results in yum telling me there are no packages marked for update. Any thoughts on why this is occuring? I've posted my mirror configuration at the bottom of the page. Thanks, Matt ======= Mirror Configuration (CentOS-Base.repo) ======= # CentOS-Base.repo # # This file uses a new mirrorlist system developed by Lance Davis for CentOS. # The mirror system uses the connecting IP address of the client and the # update status of each mirror to pick mirrors that are updated to and # geographically close to the client. You should use this for CentOS updates # unless you are manually picking other mirrors. # # If the mirrorlist= does not work for you, as a fall back you can try the # remarked out baseurl= line instead. # # [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base #mirrorlist= http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os baseurl=http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 protect=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 #released updates [updates] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates #mirrorlist= http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updat… baseurl=http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 protect=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 #packages used/produced in the build but not released [addons] name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons #mirrorlist= http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=addons baseurl=http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 protect=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 #additional packages that may be useful [extras] name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras #mirrorlist= http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=extras baseurl=http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 protect=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 #additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages [centosplus] name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus #mirrorlist= http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=cento… baseurl=http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 protect=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 #contrib - packages by Centos Users [contrib] name=CentOS-$releasever - Contrib #mirrorlist= http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=contr… baseurl=http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/$releasever/contrib/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 protect=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 ======================================== -- Mathew S. McCarrell Clarkson University '10 mccarrms(a)gmail.com mccarrms(a)clarkson.edu

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stale dm-multipath mappings
by Eugene Vilensky 07 May '09

07 May '09

Greetings, I've hit this exact 'bug': https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491311 I need to remove the mappings manually. I assume this is done via 'multipath -F' followed by a 'multipath -v2' ? Has anyone experienced doing this on a production system? We can do it during hours of low activity, but we would prefer to keep the databases on this host online at the time. The LUNs themselves are completely removed from the host and are not visible on the HBA bus. Regards, Eugene Vilensky evilensky(a)gmail.com

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timezone "Europe/London" ntpdate
by Yuri Timofeev 07 May '09

07 May '09

Hi CentOS 5.3 with latest updates. I have a problem with the time zone on dedicated server. I had to setup the timezone using system-config-date to "Europe/London" and "System clock uses UTC" == checked # date; date -u; hwclock --show; hwclock --show --utc; zdump /etc/localtime Thu May 7 21:29:47 GMT 2009 Thu May 7 21:29:47 UTC 2009 Thu 07 May 2009 09:29:48 PM GMT -0.411568 seconds Thu 07 May 2009 09:29:49 PM GMT -0.997482 seconds /etc/localtime Thu May 7 21:29:48 2009 GMT # cat /etc/sysconfig/clock ZONE="Europe/London" UTC=true ARC=false # cat /etc/adjtime -3525.635197 1241730131 0.000000 1241730131 UTC # strings /etc/localtime TZif2 TZif2 GMT0 # ntpdate -q 0.centos.pool.ntp.org 7 May 21:14:51 ntpdate[12689]: step time server 195.42.115.77 offset -3638.766689 sec Why -3638 sec ? thanks. -- with best regards

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kghostview and xdg-open. Need to fix problem across whole system
by Paul Johnson 07 May '09

07 May '09

In Centos 5.3, a bad problem has surfaced in user land. We want to use either Evince or Adobe acroread as the pdf view, but the update of kdegraphics has somehow screwed up these systems so that the odious, horrible, awful pdf viewer kghostview is used. It is what you get when you doubleclick on pdf files, it is what programs get when they try to use xdg-open framework. This happens even though xdg-open seems to think it is pointing at Adobe. $ xdg-mime query filetype manual.pdf application/pdf $ xdg-mime query default application/pdf AdobeReader.desktop I've had it happen before that users make mistakes and then the mime types are accidentally re-defined in the user accounts. I have not had it happen across all users accounts that something goes so wrong. How can I tell the Gnome mime system to always use evince for opening pdf, not kghostview? What's wrong with xdg-open? It says AdobeReader.desktop, but it points applications at the other. Thanks in advance PJ -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas

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system-config-printer and mapping to a ppd file
by Blackburn, Marvin 07 May '09

07 May '09

I have a lot of printers that will use the same ppd. For example, I have about 50 hp 4250 printers to configure. How can I figure out which driver that system-config-printer uses so I can use lpadmin to add the rest? _____________________________________ "He's no failure. He's not dead yet." William Lloyd George

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jigdo images
by Marcelo M. Garcia 07 May '09

07 May '09

Hi Is there a jigdo image available for CentOS-5.3? Or is there a jigdo project for CentOS? Thanks Marcelo

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Ghostscript in 5.3
by MHR 07 May '09

07 May '09

Ever since I updated to 5.3, I have been unable to convert any ps files to pdfs using the ps2pdf command. I usually get errors like this: [mhr@mhrichter forms]$ ps2pdf doe81008 ERROR: /undefinedfilename in (doe81008) Operand stack: Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push Dictionary stack: --dict:1120/1686(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:102/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: 2 ESP Ghostscript 815.02: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 I can print the ps file just fine, but I wanted to save it in pdf format instead of ps format, and that's not working. I can use my VM WinXP machine and Adobe Photoshop Elements to do this, but I prefer not having to fire up the VM for this. Anyone else seeing problems like this? Thanks. mhr

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