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SOLVED: Re: Partioning Error: Dual Boot, WinXP & CentOS5, 27 GB Free space; my error is?
by Lanny Marcus 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

On 25 November 2007, John Bowden j-alan at btconnect.com wrote: <snip> >I think the problem is that you can only have 4 Primary partitions on a disk. >If you to convert one of the NTFS partitions to an extended partition, with >the NTFS partition inside it. Personally, if you want to keep the 4 drive >letters in windoz, I would back up the whole disk ("in case"), set up the >disk with 1 Primary NTFS partition and an extended Partition with the other 3 >NTFS partitions inside it. Leave the free space as free space and let the >CentOS installer to use the free space as it sees fit John: THANK YOU! That was it! I blew it away with QtParted and in a few minutes, I had it correct. The attention to detail was lacking on that box. I got the other 2 boxes up and running, without this frustration. Hopefully they are partitioned correctly. CentOS is now installing on that box. :-) Lanny

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Linux driver for HP Laserjet 3500 printer - yum won't install
by Andrew Allen 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

I'm trying to install the linux driver for an HP Colour Laserjet 3500 in CentOS 5. I've installed the kde.repo (with appropriate priorities set up), but when I try yum install pxljr-1.1-1.i386.rpm, yum says 'nothing to do' - is this because the priority protection won't let it install from the kde repo? The alternative approach seems to be to use yum localinstall with the downloaded package, but then I get the message that 'the package is not signed'. So how do I resolve that please - the instructions regarding 'signing of packages' don't seem very clear to those of us who weren't 'born and bred' on linux! Thanks, Andy

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Partioning Error: Dual Boot, WinXP & CentOS5, 27 GB Free space; my error is?
by Lanny Marcus 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Hello: Starting Friday afternoon, I blew away the installations on the three (3) boxes we use as Desktops. On two (2) of them (my Dell Dimension 2400 and my wife's Compaq Evo D300v), I have MS Windows XP and CentOS5 running. :-) On my daughters box (Dell Dimension 4300) I am having problems with the partitioning. Probably this is due to some mistake I have made, with regard to "Active" or "Primary" partitions? The HD has four (4) NTFS partitions on dev/hda. hda1 > hda4. According to the partition table shown in the CentOS5 installation, there is 27925 MB of Free Space on the HD. If I try to create a /boot partition (100 MB) or an LVM, I get: "Error partitioning - Could not allocate requested partitions. Partitioning failed. Could not allocate partitions as primary partitions. Not enough space left to create partition for /boot More or less the same error: "Automatic partitioning errors - You have not defined a root (/) partition. This can happen if not enough space." What am I doing wrong on that box? TIA! - Lanny --------------------------------------------------------- Over 800 Magazine titles up to 85% off http://lowcostmagazines.com/

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Total novice
by Manuel Leon 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Hi. I want to remove one of three hard drives. But if I just remove the disk, Linux signals errors and enters administrative mode requesting corrective actions which, of course, I do not know. If I reconnect the drive, everything returns to normality. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance. MLM

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snapshots of server state with F/OSS software
by Rogelio 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

I'm looking for something (ideally) in the CentOS repo that lets me easily take and restore snapshots of my system while powered on (similar to how later versions of Norton Ghost work). Is LVM my best bet to do this? (I hate to admit this, but up to this point when I've been in a pinch, I've just powered the box down on off hours and then imaged it via some sort of live cd)

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yum install nautilus-sendto-bluetooth fails on 5.0
by Frank Büttner 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Hello, when I try to install it, I get this error: yum install nautilus-sendto-bluetooth Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package nautilus-sendto-bluetooth.i386 0:0.7-5.fc6 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: nautilus-sendto = 0.7-5.fc6 for package: nautilus-sendto-bluetooth --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package nautilus-sendto.i386 0:0.7-5.fc6 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: libgaim.so.0 for package: nautilus-sendto --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package gaim.i386 2:2.0.0-0.28.beta5.el5 set to be updated --> Running transaction check Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: nautilus-sendto-bluetooth i386 0.7-5.fc6 base 8.2 k Installing for dependencies: gaim i386 2:2.0.0-0.28.beta5.el5 base 6.7 M nautilus-sendto i386 0.7-5.fc6 base 61 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 3 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 6.8 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Check Error: file /usr/bin/gaim from install of gaim-2.0.0-0.28.beta5.el5 conflicts with file from package pidgin-2.0.2-3.el5 Error Summary -------------

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 33, Issue 13
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

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-2007:0747 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 httpd - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2007:0747 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) httpd - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:09:37 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0747 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 httpd - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20071125110937.GD18540(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0747 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0747.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/httpd-2.0.52-38.ent.centos4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/httpd-devel-2.0.52-38.ent.centos4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/httpd-manual-2.0.52-38.ent.centos4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/httpd-suexec-2.0.52-38.ent.centos4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/mod_ssl-2.0.52-38.ent.centos4.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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perl-crypt-des rpm not signed
by Dave 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Hello, Not sure where this should go. I've got a CentOS 5 box that i wanted to install munin on. One of it's dependencies is perl-crypt-des and that particular rpm is giving an error of not being signed. I'm hoping this gets to the packager of that rpm. Thanks. Dave.

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stuck process continues under strace
by Jure Pečar 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

Hello, I have a few VPSes with centos5 on which I expirience a strange phenomen: Every now and then a random network communicating process (lynx, sendmail, httpd, ...) starts eating 100% of cpu while doing nothing. That slows down a VPS a lot. When examined with lsof, all of such processes have at least one tcp connection in close_wait state. Touching such process with strace -p makes it spring back to life and it goes on working normaly. Sendmail straces are specialy interesting, because I can see it wants to continue smtp dialogue somewhere from the middle. I suspect the cpu usage I see is the process trying to read from tcp socket to which the other end has nothing more to write. But as this is not happening in userspace (where I would see recv() in strace output), I expect the problem lies higher, in virtuozzo. I would like to be able to understand what is going on and maybe be able to reproduce the problem, but I don't have enough understanding of what exactly goes on. Specifically, what does strace do to a process that knocks it out of the cpu consuming loop? I'd be happy if you can give me some pointers. -- Jure Pečar http://jure.pecar.org/

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Team CentOS breaks though the 200 ranking barrier.
by Sharon Kimble 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Congratulations to all the CentOS folding@home team members for breaking through the 200 world ranking barrier. Its taken a bit of time but we've all helped to do it. Our next target is obviously to achieve 150th in the world ranking. But, to help achieve that we're going to need more members and more machines. So, if you think it sounds interesting and you want to learn more, then please have a look at http://www.sharons.org.uk/cf.html or ask in #centos-social on irc, or in the usual mailing list. Theres always someone on hand to advise or to point you in the direction of someone who could possibly help. Thanks everybody, and full steam ahead to the next target! :) Sharon. -- 14:20:05 up 9 days, 21:44, 2 users, load average: 2.89, 1.72, 1.62 A taste of linux http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html efever http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ Centos 4.4, KDE 3.5.4-6.0, OpenOffice 2.0.3 Registered Linux user 334501 Get my public GnuPG key from http://keyserver.veridis.com:11371/export?id=6499064243027013735

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