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when to reboot after updates
by Jerry Geis 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

What is the rule of thumb for reboots after updates... Certainly if I update from 5.2 to 5.3 I reboot. But if you update something like krb5 or pam does that require a reboot? Does the "fix" get automatically loaded and used or do you just do a reboot always? Thanks, Jerry

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flash drive crashes machine
by Michael Klinosky 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

I just installed 5.3 on a tower box. When I plug in a usb flash drive, the machine crashes. I don't know how to diagnose the problem; I used gnome-system-log, and got this (watching it as I plugged it in): Apr 12 16:43:25 ga7zx kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 Apr 12 16:43:25 ga7zx kernel: usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Apr 12 16:43:27 ga7zx kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... As this point, the whole system becomes an ice cube - I can't even 3-finger salute to reboot. This happened a few times - same result. The board is a Gigabyte with an AMD Athlon 1.3 GHz cpu. Be aware that this drive works fine on 3 other boxes (with 5.3, Fedora 7, and Fedora 8). What could be wrong? What else should I check? How do I fix it?

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Lost Acroread and flash plugin
by Robert Moskowitz 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

Since the upgrade to AdobeReader_enu-9.1.0-1.i486.rpm and flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386.rpm, I have lost these in firefox. And Adobe Reader is not even on my Gnome Applications panel, I have to run it from a terminal window. Perhaps this has been covered, but how do I get these back?

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Firefox 3.0.8 released, but not showing up in mirrors?
by Gilbert Sebenste 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

Hello all, Several days ago, I noticed Firefox 3.0.8 was released for i386, but I haven't seen it on any of the mirrors. I know it can take a few days for mirrors to sync, but I think it's been 5 days now. Anyone see this package out there yet? ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** (My opinions only!) ****** *******************************************************************************

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filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted
by Paul Heinlein 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

I don't know if it's a bug or a feature, but the filesystem-2.4.0-2.el5.centos rpm won't upgrade cleanly if /home is an NFS filesystem. I sorta-kinda remember this when going from 5.1 to 5.2, but that memory is hazy. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein(a)madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/

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5.3 Update Success
by Tim Nelson 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

Greetings CentOS Team- Since the list tends to be filled with "things don't work" and "why did you do it this way" and "complaint X", I thought I'd make a small deviation... I have a production system running on a Dell Poweredge 2650 server. I simply ran 'yum update' and rebooted with no problems. Everything continues to work as rock solid as before. So, I just wanted to say 'Thank You' to all those who put in such hard work into the CentOS project. The time between releases was not a problem here. If it was, I guess I'd just ask for a refund. :-) --Tim

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Mock Questions
by Joseph L. Casale 11 Apr '09

11 Apr '09

Just started using mock to rebuild some srpms. I have two I want to rebuild, problem is the first creates a dep that is required by the second. Is there an automated way to populate an additional repo/cache that mock would look at when building the second so I could queue both? Although I haven't tried, I presume I could drop the output from the first build into a dir, createrepo it and add that into the config file then build the next package but that's not very slick :) Thanks! jlc

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Is there a way to get these messages in one daily one ?
by rock 11 Apr '09

11 Apr '09

Hi ! Happy Easter! I have looked on the web however I can't see if I can get the messages sent to me in one daily email rather than immediately. At time I would like to choose that option if I am very busy. Thanks oz :-)

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Desktop update (32 bit) from 5.2 to 5.3 - fuse & ntfs-3g-mount
by Lanny Marcus 11 Apr '09

11 Apr '09

I just finished updating my Desktop, from CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 (32 bit). There were a lot of error messages (from sbin/ldconfig ?) about 2 files, in usr/lib/lib ending in .so "is not an ELF file - It has the wrong magic bytes at the start." There were also a lot of messages I believe have to do with SELinux. I'd read the Release Notes and thought I was OK, since this box is dual boot with M$ Windows XP, thinking I had the latest and greatest way to access the NTFS partition. However, when I rebooted the box, I saw warning messages: "modprobe fuse as root" and here is the result of that: [root@dell2400 ~]# modprobe fuse [root@dell2400 ~]# exit logout [lanny@dell2400 ~]$ and another message "ntfs-3g-mount fuse device is missing" As expected, after viewing the above messages; I can't see what's on the NTFS partition. I will read the Release Notes, again, in the morning. This box has GNOME and KDE on it and I was getting messages from PUP that 185 packages were available. The update, after updating glibc, was 268 packages. A big thank you, to everyone who spent so much of their valuable and very limited time working on this update!

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Controlling log file sizes
by Anne Wilson 11 Apr '09

11 Apr '09

My fetchmail and procmail log files are getting rather large, and there's really no reason to keep entries for ever. How do others handle this? I know I could manually delete the older stuff then re-save the file, but it doesn't seem a good method. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase

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