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rhel source to updates?
by Michael A. Peters 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

I noticed on the rhel errata page: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2008-0001.html that they have made a configuration change to fontconfig for the liberation fonts. I have the liberation fonts installed via rebuild of fedora 8 src.rpm - including a fontconfig file. I'm guessing the update will come through CentOS at some point and I'm trying to make sure there isn't a file conflict with my rpm and the update that would prevent installation - but I can't seem to find the sources for rhel updates. I'm kicking myself because I found them before, didn't bookmark them, but I can't seem to find them now. http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/enterprise/ doesn't seem to have anything for rhel5 The files in my f8 liberation rebuilt that I'm worried about conflicting with the update are: /etc/X11/fontpath.d/liberation-fonts /etc/fonts/conf.d/59-liberation-fonts.conf I'm a little bit amazed that they are including an update for a configuration for fonts they don't seem to package, not sure why they are doing it - that doesn't seem to be their style, but anyway, does anyone know who mirrors the rhel src.rpm updates for free software packages?

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Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration
by Les Bell 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

Robert Spangler <mlists(a)zoominternet.net> wrote: >> While IPTABLES might be CHEAP (price) it is a very good firewall. Learn to set it up from the command line, it isn't that hard. << Amen. I've been using CentOS for firewalls here for a long time now, with hand-written rules. Besides, generic firewall configuration tools don't - can't - know about many of the more advanced modules and features of iptables. Best, --- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 FreeWorldDialup: 800909

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System drops off network after a few minutes
by Joseph L. Casale 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

I have an Intel SE7525RP2 motherboard with a Yukon Marvel (82541GB controller) NIC in it. After installing CentOS 5.1 it functions fine for some minutes then looses network connectivity. By coincidence, I was using the system to clean some HD's for another and had booted off Knoppix and noticed it never exhibited this behavior, the network remained functional even overnight when I returned to the system? I looked through messages and didn't see anything NIC/network related, can anyone suggest something to check? Thanks! jlc

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yum error "AttributeError: LOCATION_BASE" after 4.5 -> 4.6 upgrade
by Joe Klemmer 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Hello all, I am having a problem running yum after doing the 4.6 upgrade. I did a live update through yum and no problems were encountered. However, now when I try to run yum (with any commands/options) I get this error right after loading/reading the repo's - eading repository metadata in from local files Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 102, in main result, resultmsgs = do() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 489, in doCommands ypl = self.returnPkgLists() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 1085, in returnPkgLists ypl = self.doPackageLists(pkgnarrow=pkgnarrow) File "__init__.py", line 993, in doPackageLists File "packageSack.py", line 148, in searchNevra File "packageSack.py", line 236, in _computeAggregateListResult File "sqlitesack.py", line 514, in searchNevra File "sqlitesack.py", line 403, in db2class File "/var/tmp/python-sqlite-root//usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/sqlite/main.py", line 97, in __getattr__ AttributeError: LOCATION_BASE Running "yum clean all" seems to work but the error does not go away. I know less than nothing about python so that doesn't help. I also did a search through the list archives and on Google but couldn't come up with anything (OC, I may not have been asking the right questions). The server has a bad optical drive so I can't boot into the rescue CD (yet, I've got a replacement coming). Whenever it gets here I'll be updating to 5.1 but in the mean time there's some security fixes that have come down the pipe which I can't update to due to yum being petulant. If anyone can shed some light on this or point me in the right direction to get this fixed it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Joe -- Using Linux since 11/91 | http://www.linux.org Linux user #29402 | http://counter.li.org/ CentOS Linux | http://www.centos.org

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xfce in CentOS 5.1 "extras" repository
by Ioannis Vranos 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Hi, I am using CentOS 5.1 x86 (upgraded from 5.0), and am still using XFCE 4.4.1 from 5.0 "extras" repository. Just saw in XFCE site that they released 4.4.2. Any chance to see it in 5.1 "extras" repository?

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centos 5.1 fresh install of ipvsadm: service won't start: config missing
by William Ottley 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Hello all, I have ipvsadm-1.24 installed, and there's an error when the service starts: Applying IPVS configuration: /etc/init.d/ipvsadm: line 62: /etc/sysconfig/ipvsadm: No such file or directory is the install broken? I did a "yum whatprovides ipvsadm" and it does say there's a config, but doesn't point to where it is. any suggestions? -- --------------- Morpheus: After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

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Is it possible to install Fedora 8 kernel with CentOS 5.1 installation?
by Jean-Yves Avenard 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Hi I've experienced crashes with all CentOS 5 kernel. I tried Fedora 8 and it runs fine.. So is there an easy way to install and run the Fedora 8 kernel on my CentOS 5.1 machine ? Thanks Jean-Yves

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Pidgin and (lack of) sound on CentOS 4.6
by Bart Schaefer 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

When I start pidgin from the Applications -> Internet -> Internet Messenger menu, my sound device stops working. I think this has something to do with the Gnome applet. I appear to end up with two (sometimes more) copies of the "gaim" process running -- such that if I use the right-button menu on the Gnome applet to quit pidgin, a login dialog is stil left behind and sometimes won't exit. I'm guessing these multiple gaim processes somehow deadlock the sound device, such that even after I kill them, no other process can play audio. Pidgin/gaim itself can't play sounds in this condition, either. I've tried using "lsof" to find all processes that have the sound device open and force them to exit or restart, but that doesn't help. Once the sound goes out, only a reboot brings it back. The flash and mplayer plugins for firefox/seamonkey are still able to play (silent) video in this condition, but starting up e.g. gmplayer blocks forever trying to open the sound device. Googling turned up this: http://blog.turbulentsky.com/2007/12/pidgin-has-no-sound-in-ubuntu-gutsy.ht… but I have no reason to be confident that would apply to CentOS. Searching on gaim instead of pidgin finds stuff that's four years old and almost certainly not relevant. Unfortunately I don't have much experience with audio apps on linux (or anywhere else, for that matter). I've never had any luck creating a .asoundrc or trying to get all my applications to agree on whether to use ALSA instead of OSS (although I take it OSS is pretty much obsolete now, I don't even know if the kernel in RHEL4 is recent enough to use ALSA by default). So if anyone has any clues to share on how to go about diagnosing this, I'd appreciate the help. Here are the sound-related modules from "lsmod": snd_intel8x0 36237 2 snd_ac97_codec 65425 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm_oss 52729 0 snd_mixer_oss 21953 2 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 92485 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 28229 1 snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 14541 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm gameport 8641 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_mpu401_uart 11457 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_rawmidi 28005 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 12105 1 snd_rawmidi snd 57765 11 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device soundcore 13089 2 snd Tell me what shovel to use, and I'll dig up any other system information that may be needed. Thanks in advance.

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What's up with the mailing list spam?
by Matt Shields 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Just this morning I've gotten 3 or 4 pieces of spam on the CentOS mailing list. -- -matt

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GSL version >= 1.8 CentOS 4.x ?
by Adrian Sevcenco 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

Hi! Is there a version of gsl library >= 1.8 available for centos 4.x? If indeed there is none (as i founded nothing so far) has someone some idea how should i make the rpm from src.rpm ? Thank you, Best regards, Adrian

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