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Gpdf - maintainer?
by James B. Byrne 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Can anyone here tell me who maintains Gpdf and where its project page is located? Google searches give one the impression that gpdf is no longer maintained but this is evidently not the case given the recent updates. Sincerely, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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Intel 1000/PRO GT (e1000 driver) and "Detect Tx Unit Hang" error with 4GB RAM
by Steven Alexson 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

My system configuration: ASUS M2A-VM motherboard AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2 GHz 4x A-DATA 1GB DDR2 800 memory 2x Intel 10/100/1000 Pro/1000 GT Desktop Network Adapter 2x Seagate Barracuda 250GB HD (RAID 1, software RAID) CentOS 5 x86_64; Kernel 2.6.23 (custom built); Version 7.6.9.2 e1000 driver The symptoms of this problem are outlined at: http://e1000.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Issues[1] http://e1000.sourceforge.net/wiki/in...p/Tx_Unit_Hang[2] Last night I started experiencing the "Detected Tx Unit Hang" problem with the Intel e1000 NIC. This happened after I upgraded my system to 4GB RAM (previously 2GB). I have 2 of these cards in the system. I updated the Linux kernel to 2.6.23 and I downloaded from Sourceforge and installed the most recent stable version of the e1000 driver for Linux, version 7.6.9.2. I still experiencing the "Detected Tx Unit Hang" message. I had to recompile the kernel because upgrading to 4GB with the current kernel for CentOS 5 (2.6.18.8-1) causes an error, ata1: softreset failed (1st FIS failed), which results in a kernel panic. Upgrading the kernel to 2.6.23 fixed that problem, but now I have a problem with my network cards. Searching around, I found posts saying that disabling acpi with the kernel options "acpi=off noacpi" would fix it, but it did not. I tried added explicit modprobe options for the driver in /etc/modprobe.conf (options e1000 XsumRX=0 Speed=1000 Duplex=2 InterruptThrottleRate=0 FlowControl=3 RxDescriptors=4096 TxDescriptors=4096 RxIntDelay=0 TxIntDelay=0). Still no change. Still getting experiencing the problem. I then tried another suggestion I found in a forum discussion `ethtool -K eth0 tso=off`. Seems to have had no effect on the problem. This problem occurs immediately when the system is trying to bring the device up. I cannot even get to a point to try sending traffic over the network interface because it never negotiates an IP address from DHCP. If I specify a static IP address, the address is assigned, but I still experience the problem, and I cannot even ping another host. Now, if I reduce the amount of RAM to 3GB or less, everything works fine! So, this leads me to believe that my kernel and driver are configured, compiled, and functioning correctly. It also leads me to believe that there are no problems with the network cards. So, I though perhaps a bad memory module, but no matter which 3 modules of the 4 I leave in, I get the same results. Everything works fine until I add the 4th module. Then I found an article on Intel's site saying that some older EEPROM have the power management option turned on, and that could cause the problem. So, I downloaded the script that would fix the bit in the EEPROM (turning off power management). The script says that it does not apply to my version of the EEPROM. When I run `ethtool -e (eth0|eth1)` I do not have the bit on 0x0010 that is set to "de", so I must believe that the script is correct in assessing that it does not apply to my NICs. So, I thought that perhaps my power supply could be the problem. Perhaps the PSU doesn't supply enough power to power everything when I add the 4th memory module. It is just a generic 300W PSU that came with the case (I have new 500W PSUs on the way). So, I pulled out one of the NICs and disconnected the DVD drive. That is about all I can eliminate. Reducing the hardware installed made no difference. I am running the 64-bit kernel, so I should have no trouble supporting the 4GM RAM, correct?. Now, I am out of ideas, and I seem to have hit a brick wall. One of the things that disturbs me is that all of the articles I have found concerning this problem are dated 1-2 years ago. Can anyone offer me any assistance? Links: ------ [1] http://e1000.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Issues [2] http://e1000.sourceforge.net/wiki/in...p/Tx_Unit_Hang ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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RE: [CentOS] System on time
by Bowie Bailey 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Brian Mathis wrote: > On Nov 9, 2007 9:03 AM, Matt Hyclak <hyclak(a)math.ohiou.edu> wrote: > > > > chkconfig ntpd on > > will cause ntpd to sync and start the ntp daemon every boot. > > service ntpd start > > will start the daemon right now. > > > > Matt > > You can set the servers you want to use in /etc/ntp.conf And check here for some publicly available time server pools: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/NTPPoolServers -- Bowie

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nss_ldap bug fix update for CentOS?
by Sebastian Marten 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hello, Is it Possible to create this fix for CentOS too? Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=243753 Solution: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0676.html regards Sebastian

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 09 Nov '07

09 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-2007:0968 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 pcre - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2007:0968 Critical CentOS 4 i386 pcre - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2007:0966 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 perl - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2007:0966 Important CentOS 4 i386 perl - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2007:1022 Important CentOS 4 i386 cups - security update (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2007:1022 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 cups - security update (Johnny Hughes) 7. CESA-2007:1025 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 gpdf - security update (Johnny Hughes) 8. CESA-2007:1025 Important CentOS 4 i386 gpdf - security update (Johnny Hughes) 9. CESA-2007:1029 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 xpdf - security update (Johnny Hughes) 10. CESA-2007:1029 Important CentOS 4 i386 xpdf - security update (Johnny Hughes) 11. CESA-2007:0966 Important CentOS 5 i386 perl Update (Karanbir Singh) 12. CESA-2007:0966 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 perl Update (Karanbir Singh) 13. CESA-2007:0967 Critical CentOS 5 i386 pcre Update (Karanbir Singh) 14. CESA-2007:0967 Critical CentOS 5 x86_64 pcre Update (Karanbir Singh) 15. CESA-2007:1027 Important CentOS 4 ia64 tetex - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 16. CESA-2007:1027 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) tetex - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 17. CESA-2007:1028-01: Important CentOS 2 i386 tetex security update (John Newbigin) 18. CESA-2007:1031-01: Important CentOS 2 i386 xpdf security update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:03:54 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0968 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 pcre - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <4732FB2A.6010209(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0968 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0968.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: pcre-4.5-4.el4_5.1.i386.rpm pcre-4.5-4.el4_5.1.x86_64.rpm pcre-devel-4.5-4.el4_5.1.x86_64.rpm src: pcre-4.5-4.el4_5.1.src.rpm

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32 Bit vs. 64 Bit Linux Server installation
by Simon Jolle 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hi Centos Users What are the advantages of 64 Bit and respective 32 Bit installation of Centos? With PAE 32 Bit installation can address huge amount of RAM. As a desktop system, I prefer 32 Bit installation because of teething troubles in 64 Bit Linux world. When would you choose 64 Bit and when 32 Bit? We are running mostly application and web services. Is this true that with 32 Bit architecture the kernel is limited to 1 GB RAM? cheers Simon -- XMPP: sjolle(a)swissjabber.org

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CentOS 5: comment swap in fstab
by finley＠privacynetworks.com 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

I'm not sure what gave me this idea, but I decided to comment out the swap partition in /etc/fstab and reboot my laptop. I did not run swapoff directly at any time. I'm running more things now than I would ever dream of to hammer my 500MB of memory, but I still notice NO slowdown. This is the best desktop experience I've ever had for any OS on any hardware! Here's the first 12 lines in top (CPU) top - 22:57:28 up 2:06, 1 user, load average: 1.11, 0.89, 0.88 Tasks: 97 total, 2 running, 95 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 20.2%us, 2.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 76.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.1%hi, 0.6%si, 0.0%st Mem: 449556k total, 441840k used, 7716k free, 9420k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 159416k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2921 root 15 0 227m 69m 7312 S 16.2 15.9 22:41.70 X 3317 finley 15 0 240m 25m 8684 S 3.1 5.8 2:32.73 xine 3204 finley 15 0 2160 772 564 S 2.2 0.2 2:02.71 top 3100 finley 15 0 183m 51m 16m S 0.8 11.7 5:03.90 firefox-bin 3116 finley 15 0 223m 39m 2440 S 0.4 8.9 0:54.26 java_vm 3264 finley 15 0 32276 9788 7132 S 0.3 2.2 0:23.74 kpat 3050 finley 15 0 33676 10m 7572 R 0.2 2.3 0:21.28 konsole 3049 finley 15 0 32080 7620 5668 S 0.1 1.7 0:01.62 kscd 3399 finley 15 0 57024 25m 16m S 0.1 5.7 0:08.55 konqueror 1 root 15 0 2028 480 392 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.29 init 2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 ksoftirqd/0 Here's the top 12 lines (Mem) top - 22:58:41 up 2:07, 1 user, load average: 1.14, 0.92, 0.89 Tasks: 97 total, 3 running, 94 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 25.3%us, 2.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 71.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.4%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 449556k total, 442156k used, 7400k free, 9648k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 159160k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2921 root 16 0 227m 69m 7312 R 20.9 15.9 22:55.56 X 3100 finley 15 0 183m 51m 16m S 0.4 11.7 5:05.54 firefox-bin 3116 finley 15 0 223m 39m 2440 S 0.4 8.9 0:54.60 java_vm 3253 finley 15 0 198m 34m 9.8m S 0.0 7.9 0:07.97 swriter.bin 3317 finley 15 0 240m 25m 8684 S 2.9 5.8 2:35.17 xine 3399 finley 15 0 57024 25m 16m S 0.0 5.7 0:08.57 konqueror 3638 finley 15 0 93632 23m 15m S 0.0 5.4 0:03.80 gaim 3026 finley 15 0 35180 13m 10m S 0.0 3.1 0:05.42 kded 3336 finley 15 0 34232 11m 8776 S 0.0 2.7 1:01.01 kuickshow 3038 finley 15 0 35096 11m 8828 S 0.0 2.7 0:23.91 kicker 3050 finley 15 0 33676 10m 7844 R 0.4 2.4 0:21.53 konsole 3264 finley 15 0 32276 9808 7152 S 0.0 2.2 0:23.85 kpat As you can see, I'm running a KDE environment. I'm going to try this in a gnome environment tomorrow. This is on an HP Pavillion ze4800 I purchased at WalMart a bit over two years ago for ~$900. >From dmesg: AMD mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP2800+ Memory: 447836k/457664k available Linux info: [finley@c182 ~]$ cat /etc/issue CentOS release 5 (Final) Kernel \r on an \m [finley@c182 ~]$ uname -a Linux c182.pnd.net 2.6.18-8.1.6.el5 #1 SMP Thu Jun 14 17:46:09 EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux Hope this makes someone else's day! Steve Finley

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Cheap dual-head pci card with CentOS support?
by mbneto 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hi, I am looking for a cheap PCI (or AGP) video card with dual output (DVI or VGA) and CentOS support. Any recommendations? I am not interested in games. Thanks.

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CentOS 5.0 - Yum install using the install cd's as the RPM source
by Keith Christian 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

What is the mechanism or procedure for installing additional packages from the six CentOS 5.0 CD's using Yum, assuming a secured server with no outside internet connection? Debian based distributions are able to use the package manager to search for and install from the CD's, and I'm looking for the CentOS equivalent. Obviously, it's possible to install "manually" from a CD with: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom cd /media/cdrom/CentOS rpm -U foobar-1.2.3.-4.5.el5.i386.rpm Yum has such good dependency checking I'd like to know of a way to use it if possible. ========Keith

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Help with sound on Packard bell
by Manuel Enrique Chavez Manzano 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

Hello to everyone I had a little trouble with my new laptop, I have a Packard Bell MZ380 laptop with Realtek High Definition Audio, I have installed CentOS 5 on it, I have sound by the speaker but when I plug the headphone the sound is over, I mean I have not sound by the speaker and by the headphones. Can someone help me? What I have to do ???? I'll be waiting for help. -- "Nuestra recompensa se encuentra en el esfuerzo y no en el resultado. Un esfuerzo total es una victoria completa". Mahatma Gandhi (@ @) |------o00o-(_)-o00o----------| |Manuel Enrique Chávez Manzano| |manuel864(a)gmail.com | |manny(a)cmc.cfg.sld.cu | |GNU/LINUX User | |#424754 | |Using CentOS 5 | |-------ooo--ooo--------------|

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