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yumex 'crashed' - anyway to resume?
by Robert Moskowitz 19 Jun '07

19 Jun '07

I spent quite a bit of time setting up what I wanted to update and install via yumex. I left my system for a few minutes to attend to another computer. A helpful family member logged me off without checking. So can I recapture what I had queued? I cannot find anything that looks like a yumex queue file. yum.log does not have any updates from today.... :(

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manual partitioning with centos 5
by Marco 19 Jun '07

19 Jun '07

hi, i'm used to manual partition and format disks before installing the O.S. but with centos 5 this results in an unbootable system. Usually, to manual partition the disks I use the installation disk in recovery mode.. The partition schema I choose was: /dev/sda1 /boot /dev/sda2 swap /dev/sda3 LVM PV inside the LVM VG I created the following LV / /var /home /tmp Then I formatted all the partitions with ext3 (doing some tuning on ext3 parameters) After I had partitioned and formatted the disk I booted from the installation CD and I installed centos 5 without any error. The installed system was not able to boot at all , the boot process ends with a kernel panic when trying to mount the root partition. On the same hardware Itryed to install centos 5 choosing the deafult auto partition option and the resulting system was ok. What's wrong ? What did i miss ? Thank you in advance Marco ___________________________________ L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail: http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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CentOS 5 and Xen Windows domU
by Fong Vang 19 Jun '07

19 Jun '07

Has anyone been able to get a Xen Windows domU to install or work properly on CentOS 5? I'm trying to do that now. It's able to boot and start he installation (from ISO), but after partitioning the disk and copying a few files to the hard drive, it cannot boot into the graphical installer. This is the config file I'm using: import os, re arch = os.uname()[4] if re.search('64', arch): arch_libdir = 'lib64' else: arch_libdir = 'lib' kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader" builder='hvm' memory = 1024 shadow_memory = 520 name = "acw2" vcpus=4 vif = [ 'type=ioemu, mac=00:18:32:6c:00:ba, bridge=xenbr0' ] disk = [ 'phy:/dev/acw1/acw2,ioemu:hda,w', 'file:/isos/en_ws_2003_std_sp1_vl.iso,ioemu:hdc:cdrom,r' ] cdrom='/dev/hdc' boot='dca' #boot='a' device_model = '/usr/' + arch_libdir + '/xen/bin/qemu-dm' sdl=0 vnclisten="10.1.34.108" vnc=1 vncdisplay=2 vncconsole=0 vncpasswd='' stdvga=1 serial='pty' on_reboot = 'preserve' on_crash = 'preserve'

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Upgrade of dovecot broke imap (CentOS 4.5)
by Joe Klemmer 19 Jun '07

19 Jun '07

I just did a yum update and one of the packages updated was dovecot. I've been using this for imap/pop3 for quite a while. Now, however, I get an error when trying to login under any account. It gives "bad user or password" errors for every user. The user can ssh in just fine and run mutt or pine. But trying to get in with evolution, or even squirrelmail, just gives me an evil laugh and the finger. Anyone run into this? I was planning to upgrade the box to CentOS 5 next month but I may do it sooner if it will fix this. Thanks, Joe P.S. Please CC: me directly if you can as mail reading is, obviously, not cooperating with me. -- Boring Home Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other interesting junk

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PXE problems with syslinux 3.51
by Gavin Carr 19 Jun '07

19 Jun '07

Anyone else seeing problems doing pxe boots off the latest dag/rpmforge syslinux packages? Versions 3.35 works, doing the tftp request like this: Jun 18 06:01:19 boothost in.tftpd[25947]: RRQ from 172.16.0.26 filename /centos5-i386/pxelinux.0 Jun 18 06:01:19 boothost in.tftpd[25947]: tftp: client does not accept options Jun 18 06:01:19 boothost in.tftpd[25948]: RRQ from 172.16.0.26 filename /centos5-i386/pxelinux.0 Jun 18 06:01:19 boothost in.tftpd[25950]: RRQ from 172.16.0.26 filename /centos5-i386/pxelinux.cfg/03-03-13-83-83-d3-a3 Jun 18 06:01:19 boothost in.tftpd[25951]: RRQ from 172.16.0.26 filename /centos5-i386/pxelinux.cfg/AC10001A Jun 18 06:01:19 boothost in.tftpd[25957]: RRQ from 172.16.0.26 filename /centos5-i386/vmlinuz Jun 18 06:01:19 boothost in.tftpd[25958]: RRQ from 172.16.0.26 filename /centos5-i386/initrd.img Versions 3.50 and 3.51 request the filenames without the leading /centos5-i386, and fail: Jun 18 06:05:13 boothost in.tftpd[25947]: RRQ from 172.16.0.26 filename /centos5-i386/pxelinux.0 Jun 18 06:05:13 boothost in.tftpd[25947]: tftp: client does not accept options Jun 18 06:05:13 boothost in.tftpd[25948]: RRQ from 172.16.0.26 filename /centos5-i386/pxelinux.0 Jun 18 06:05:13 boothost in.tftpd[25949]: RRQ from 172.16.0.26 filename pxelinux.cfg/44454c4c-3300-1033-8050-abcdef4e3153 Jun 18 06:05:13 boothost in.tftpd[25950]: RRQ from 172.16.0.26 filename pxelinux.cfg/03-03-13-83-83-d3-a3 Jun 18 06:05:13 boothost in.tftpd[25951]: RRQ from 172.16.0.26 filename pxelinux.cfg/AC10001A Jun 18 06:05:13 boothost in.tftpd[25952]: RRQ from 172.16.0.26 filename pxelinux.cfg/AC10001 Jun 18 06:05:13 boothost in.tftpd[25953]: RRQ from 172.16.0.26 filename pxelinux.cfg/AC1000 Jun 18 06:05:13 boothost in.tftpd[25954]: RRQ from 172.16.0.26 filename pxelinux.cfg/AC100 Jun 18 06:05:13 boothost in.tftpd[25955]: RRQ from 172.16.0.26 filename pxelinux.cfg/AC10 Jun 18 06:05:13 boothost in.tftpd[25956]: RRQ from 172.16.0.26 filename pxelinux.cfg/AC1 Jun 18 06:05:13 boothost in.tftpd[25957]: RRQ from 172.16.0.26 filename pxelinux.cfg/AC Jun 18 06:05:13 boothost in.tftpd[25958]: RRQ from 172.16.0.26 filename pxelinux.cfg/A Jun 18 06:05:13 boothost in.tftpd[25959]: RRQ from 172.16.0.26 filename pxelinux.cfg/default Any cluesticks on solving this? For now I've just reverted to 3.35, but it would be nice to get it working with the current release. Cheers, Gavin

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Wireless mouse problem
by P Marvin Eberly 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

Hello all, Just for kicks I plugged in a Microsoft wireless optical desktop 1000 keyboard/mouse combo into my Centos 4.5 machine. It recognized it on boot and configured it and it mostly works good. The issue is with the mouse, when I hold it over a folder on my desktop for a second or so it grabs the folder and opens a small menu as if I was using my middle button on my Logitech. All this happens without me touching a button. It also opens links in firefox (seemingly at random) and brings background windows to the front as soon as the cursor touches them. I know it's probably my punishment for using something with that name on it, but I really didn't expect it to work as well as it does. Does anyone have any ideas of config files or any other things I could try to get this working better. It is a USB keyboard/mouse with a single receiver, and the machine is fully updated. Thanks, Marvin E. -- P Marvin Eberly <eberlyml(a)wjtl.net>

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Do I really have the right ATrpms repo?
by Robert Moskowitz 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

I copied exactly where Axel provided into atrmps.repo. I have the line: atrpms.repo:baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el5-x86_64/atrpms/stable but the rpms that are being flagged as updates pretty much all have fc5 in their names. e.g.: ---> Package mplayer-fonts.noarch 4:1.0-7.at set to be updated ---> Package mplayer.i386 4:1.0-60_r23482.fc5 set to be updated ---> Package zonecheck.noarch 0:2.0.4-3.fc5.at set to be updated ???

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Copying my new Centos 5 to my main drive
by Robert Moskowitz 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

Well it is now time to take the final upgrade steps. I have spent a bit of time looking here in the archives and googling along on migration, cloning, and copying and don't think I found any approach that includes first setting partitions as you like.... I am working with a different partition setup for Centos 5 than 4 (I've learned a few things in the past year). So I plan is: Do minimum install of Centos 5 to my main drive, using my new partitioning scheme: A /boot ext3 partition. A swap partition. A LVM partition with: a / ext3 sub-partition. a /home ext3 sub-partition. while booted from this minimum install, use cp to copy the following directories from the test drive to something like /home/working: boot, bin, lib, misc, opt, sbin, sys, usr, etc, var, root, tmp In otherwords skip: lost+found, mnt, proc, selinux, home, media, net, tftpboot, srv The reason for including boot is to get the newer kernels. This opens the question of is there anything in places like proc and dev that I need to get becuase they were updated since the 5.0 ISO images? Once copied, boot from the test drive, mount the old drive, copy from /home/working to the 'real' directories. Switch drives again, and I should be operational....

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Kickstart stopped working
by Alfred von Campe 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

I've been using kickstart for a while now, but today I tried to kickstart a system and it's just not working at all. I can't figure out why it's hanging. I booted from the CentOS 4.5 CD #1 and typed "linux ks=http:// centosmirror/ks/sys20.cfg". If I check my web server's log, I can see that sys20.cfg was accessed. This file begins with the following lines: install url --url http://centosmirror/ Looking at the text in alternate console 3 (or was it 4), I can see that it got an IP address via DHCP, got the config file mentioned above, set the hostname as specified in the config file, and then ends with the following messages: trying to mount CD device hdc mntloop loop0 on /mnt/runtime as /mnt/source/CentOS/base/ stage2.img fd is 21 transferring http://centosmirror//./CentOS/base/product.img to a fd transferring http://centosmirror//./disc1/CentOS/base/product.img to a fd A long time (5 minutes?) passed between the last two lines, and then the entire things repeats (with some additional output lines that I didn't bother to write down). First, I don't have a product.img file in my base directory. In a recent thread on this list about doing an ftp install, I remember reading that copying stage2.img to product.img helped, so I created a hard link between the two. Second, looking at the webserver logs, there is no mention of product.img or stage2.img. Finally, there is no alternate console #2, so I can't get a shell prompt to poke around a little more. I've done dozens of kickstarts in the past using this server, but I don't remember if I've successfully done a kickstart install since 4.5 came out. Are there some known issues with kickstart in 4.5? I rsync my local repo every night from one of the public mirrors. Alfred

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Centos 5 - Setting up yum for ATrpms
by Robert Moskowitz 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

I think I found one of my setup problems. I followed instructions at: http://atrpms.net/install.html And now I see that the information shown there to put into yum.conf (that I put into yum.repo.d/atrpms.repo) is only for FC, not for RL5 (thus Centos 5). What do I use in my atrmps.repo to get it to access the RL5 directories?

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