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centos and jmicron
by Mark Quitoriano 29 May '07

29 May '07

hi does centos support jmicron? what should i pass to the kernel to make this work? thanks!

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Re: centos and http
by MrKiwi 29 May '07

29 May '07

>> Dave wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Thanks for your reply. Yah i do have apache running, your idea >>> certainly would make things easier. How did you set up the http area? >>> And where in it do you put the kickstart? I'd like this area to be >>> accessible to my local network only, internet users shouldn't be able >>> to access it or better yet even know it's there. >>> Thanks. >>> Dave >>> >>> >> i downloaded the centos5 iso, then; >> >> mount /path/to/CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-DVD.iso var/www/html/cd/0 -o loop,ro >> >> This gives you access to the install stuff at >> http://your.server.ip/cd/0 (i have centos4 at /cd/1 and other isos at >> /cd/2 and /cd/3 - keep your paths short to save typing!) >> >> Then you have to host the kickstart file too - i put mine at the root >> (/var/www/html ) but you may find it tidier to put it at >> /var/www/html/ks or similar. >> >> Then (bc you want to limit access) in your httpd.conf you will need a >> section like this (someone please correct this if it's wrong) >> >> <Location /ks> >> order deny,allow >> deny from all >> allow from 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 >> </Location> >> <Location /cd> >> allow from 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 >> order deny,allow >> deny from all >> </Location> >> >> Then you're ready to boot from any bootable v5 cd - i use cd 1 of 6 >> from the CentOS5 set of CD isos >> >> At the prompt i think it is >> #linux ks=http://your.ip/ks/whatever.cfg >> >> whatever.cfg would look like this; >> >> Note: Edit a least the following lines; >> url, rootpw, timezone >> >> You may want to grab anaconda.cfg from the root folder of your most >> recently installed CentOS5 installation and compare the lines (esp >> rootpw and timezone to get the spelling right) >> >> You may also want to comment out rootpw and the partition lines so >> that you are prompted to fill these in by hand. >> >> Regards, >> >> MrKiwi >> >> >> #======================================================== >> # Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda. >> >> install >> url --url http://your.ip/cd/0 >> lang en_US.UTF-8 >> keyboard us >> network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp >> rootpw --iscrypted blahblahblah >> firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp >> authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 >> selinux --disabled >> timezone Pacific/Auckland >> bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda >> # The following is the partition information you requested >> # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed >> # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is >> # not guaranteed to work >> clearpart --linux --drives=sda >> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=sda >> part pv.9 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sda >> volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.9 >> logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 >> --grow >> logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 >> --size=1000 --grow --maxsize=1984 >> >> %packages >> @base >> @core >> @editors >> #======================================================== >> >> > Dave wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for your informative reply. I'll definitely go for that. One > thing, my web server area doesn't have 4+gb of room on it for this dvd. > What i'd like to do is have the mount point in /var/www/html/cd/0 like > you do, but 0 is a symlink to another drive in this case > /mnt/dvd-centos5, that's where the dvd will be mounted. But i don't > think apache will follow symlinks in this case, have you ever tried this? > Thanks. > Dave. > If the section <location /cd> contains the directive Options FollowSymLinks then it will (provided the perms allow this) There may be a simpler way - quicker too; Just setup as i mentioned but rather than mount the iso on /cd/0 , mount like this; mount /mnt/dvd-centos5 /var/www/html/cd/0 You can mount the centos stuff in multiple places too - i think maybe "options ro" may make this faster? as the webserver will only ever be reading the rpms etc from the centos5 area. Even simpler; If the centos data is its own partition/drive, just mount it right in the html folder from the get-go; mount /dev/hdb1 /var/www/html/cd/0 Regards, MrKiwi ps - pls make sure you reply to the list so everyone can benefit from the solution, and bottom post too.

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Looking for kernel SRPM
by Robert Nichols 29 May '07

29 May '07

Where is the SRPM for kernel-2.6.18-18.el5 ? I don't find it in the SRPMS directory on the updates mirrors. -- Bob Nichols Yes, "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.

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Audacity 1.2.6 on CentOS 5
by Ioannis Vranos 29 May '07

29 May '07

Has anyone managed to install Audacity 1.2.6 on CentOS 5.0 x86?

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Re: CentOS Digest, Vol 28, Issue 28
by ger rey 29 May '07

29 May '07

HI i'm so new to centos , Where can get it ? thank you centos-request(a)centos.org wrote: Send CentOS mailing list submissions to centos(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS digest..." Today's Topics: 1. raid (CentOS List) 2. Re: motherboard recommendation (CentOS List) 3. Slightly OT: Debian and CentOS multiboot: menu.lst problem (Niki Kovacs) 4. Re: Slightly OT: Debian and CentOS multiboot: menu.lst problem (Akemi Yagi) 5. Re: Slightly OT: Debian and CentOS multiboot: menu.lst problem (Marko A. Jennings) 6. Re: raid (Shawn Everett) 7. Firefox (centos(a)911networks.com) 8. Re: Slightly OT: Debian and CentOS multiboot: menu.lst problem (Niki Kovacs) 9. Re: Slightly OT: Debian and CentOS multiboot: menu.lst problem (Daniel de Kok) 10. Re: Audacity 1.2.6 on CentOS 5 (DamianS) 11. Re: Slightly OT: Debian and CentOS multiboot: menu.lst problem (Niki Kovacs) 12. Re: Squid +Yum = apt-cacher? (Lorenzo) 13. Re: Firefox (Gunawan) 14. Problems setting up legacy NVidia card (Niki Kovacs) 15. Where to find RHDS (Red Hat Directory Server) ? (Wei Yu) 16. Re: Squid +Yum = apt-cacher? (Lorenzo) 17. Re: SAMBA in CentOS 5, shared level (devel) 18. Re: Where to find RHDS (Red Hat Directory Server) ? (Luciano Rocha) 19. Dependency problems (Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale) 20. Re: Where to find RHDS (Red Hat Directory Server) ? (Martin Marques) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 22:42:57 +0800 From: "CentOS List" Subject: [CentOS] raid To: "CentOS mailing list" Message-ID: <06c701c7a06d$5348ae20$0201a8c0@dw> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Hi, I have 4 x 500GB PATA Harddisk and I like to have them striped and mirrored. What is the best practise? Raid 0+1 or 1+0.. And how do i go about it? Thanks ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 22:45:12 +0800 From: "CentOS List" Subject: Re: [CentOS] motherboard recommendation To: "CentOS mailing list" Message-ID: <06d501c7a06d$a3c25590$0201a8c0@dw> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original >can you recommend me motherboard that centos 4.x supports? the proc is inte >core 2 duo >3.2GHZ. Hi, I use a MSI P4M890. It has 2 PATA and 2 SATA. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 16:56:55 +0200 From: Niki Kovacs Subject: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Debian and CentOS multiboot: menu.lst problem To: CentOS Mailing List Message-ID: <46599C37.30905(a)kikinovak.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi, I want to slowly migrate from Debian to CentOS, so I setup a multiboot on my main machine. There's a Debian Etch install on /dev/hda, and GRUB is also installed on the Debian side. On /dev/hdb, I have CentOS 5. I fdisked the drive manually, then chose manual partitioning during install. The setup for CentOS is: hdb1 -> swap hdb2 -> /boot, ext2 hdb3 -> / , ext3 After completing the install, I rebooted on the Debian side and edited menu.lst like this: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18 root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18 root=/dev/hda3 vga=788 ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.18 title CentOS 5 sur hdb3 root (hd1,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 root=/dev/hdb3 ro initrd /initrd-2.6.18-8.el5 Now when I try to reboot on CentOS, I get an 'Error 15: file not found'. I add that I've done many multiboot configurations before, so it's not the first time I have such a scenario. I thought, aha, maybe a typo. So I entered the GRUB shell and booted CentOS without problems, using tab completion. I double- and triple-checked after this, but I can't seem to find the error. The stanza seems OK, but still it won't work. Do you see a mistake that I don't see? Niki Kovacs -- Dyslexics have more fnu. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 08:17:05 -0700 From: "Akemi Yagi" Subject: Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Debian and CentOS multiboot: menu.lst problem To: "CentOS mailing list" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 5/27/07, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I want to slowly migrate from Debian to CentOS, so I setup a multiboot > on my main machine. There's a Debian Etch install on /dev/hda, and GRUB > is also installed on the Debian side. > > On /dev/hdb, I have CentOS 5. I fdisked the drive manually, then chose > manual partitioning during install. The setup for CentOS is: > > hdb1 -> swap > hdb2 -> /boot, ext2 > hdb3 -> / , ext3 > > After completing the install, I rebooted on the Debian side and edited > menu.lst like this: > > > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18 > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18 root=/dev/hda3 vga=788 ro > initrd /initrd.img-2.6.18 > > title CentOS 5 sur hdb3 > root (hd1,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 root=/dev/hdb3 ro > initrd /initrd-2.6.18-8.el5 > > Now when I try to reboot on CentOS, I get an 'Error 15: file not found'. > I add that I've done many multiboot configurations before, so it's not > the first time I have such a scenario. I thought, aha, maybe a typo. So > I entered the GRUB shell and booted CentOS without problems, using tab > completion. > > I double- and triple-checked after this, but I can't seem to find the > error. The stanza seems OK, but still it won't work. > > Do you see a mistake that I don't see? > > Niki Kovacs What is the /etc/fstab line for /dev/hdb3 like? Akemi ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 11:27:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marko A. Jennings" Subject: Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Debian and CentOS multiboot: menu.lst problem To: centos(a)centos.org Message-ID: <40476.192.168.77.10.1180279644.squirrel(a)bluegargoyle.com> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 On Sun, May 27, 2007 10:56 am, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I want to slowly migrate from Debian to CentOS, so I setup a multiboot > on my main machine. There's a Debian Etch install on /dev/hda, and GRUB > is also installed on the Debian side. > > On /dev/hdb, I have CentOS 5. I fdisked the drive manually, then chose > manual partitioning during install. The setup for CentOS is: > > hdb1 -> swap > hdb2 -> /boot, ext2 > hdb3 -> / , ext3 > > After completing the install, I rebooted on the Debian side and edited > menu.lst like this: > > > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18 > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18 root=/dev/hda3 vga=788 ro > initrd /initrd.img-2.6.18 > > title CentOS 5 sur hdb3 > root (hd1,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 root=/dev/hdb3 ro > initrd /initrd-2.6.18-8.el5 > > Now when I try to reboot on CentOS, I get an 'Error 15: file not found'. Are you sure about the initrd line? All initrd files on my CentOS boxes have the .img extension. Unless you rebuilt yours and named it differently, that might be the problem. ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 08:55:23 -0700 From: Shawn Everett Subject: Re: [CentOS] raid To: CentOS mailing list Message-ID: <200705270855.23460.shawn(a)tandac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On Sunday 27 May 2007, CentOS List wrote: > Hi, > > I have 4 x 500GB PATA Harddisk and I like to have them striped and > mirrored. What is the best practise? Raid 0+1 or 1+0.. And how do i go > about it? > Raid 1 and then Raid 0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID Read the sectioon on RAID 1+0 Given: sda sdb sdc sdd Set up md0 (Raid1) (sda,sdb) Set up md1 (Raid1) (sdc,sdd) Set up md2 (Raid0) (md0,md1) Of course given the chance a hardware raid is better. :) Shawn ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 12:17:27 -0700 From: centos(a)911networks.com Subject: [CentOS] Firefox To: "CentOS mailing list" Message-ID: <20070527121727.60d22430(a)lilypad.911sqlserver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Any good set of instructions for upgrading from Firefox 1.5.0.10 to 2.0.0.3? -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 21:35:22 +0200 From: Niki Kovacs Subject: Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Debian and CentOS multiboot: menu.lst problem To: CentOS mailing list Message-ID: <4659DD7A.7020606(a)kikinovak.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Marko A. Jennings a écrit : > Are you sure about the initrd line? All initrd files on my CentOS boxes > have the .img extension. Unless you rebuilt yours and named it > differently, that might be the problem. And that WAS the problem. Curiously, I hesitated over it. In fact, Debian initrd files are called initrd.img-2.6.18-something... while CentOS initrd is initrd-2.6.18-something.img. Hence the confusion. Thanks very much! Niki -- Dyslexics have more fnu. ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 21:45:21 +0200 From: Daniel de Kok Subject: Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Debian and CentOS multiboot: menu.lst problem To: CentOS mailing list Message-ID: <1180295121.5740.5.camel(a)mindbender.taickim.com> Content-Type: text/plain Hi Niki, On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 21:35 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > And that WAS the problem. Curiously, I hesitated over it. In fact, > Debian initrd files are called initrd.img-2.6.18-something... while > CentOS initrd is initrd-2.6.18-something.img. Hence the confusion. You could consider installing GRUB from CentOS in the MBR of the CentOS disk (though, the boot partition would be fine too), and add something like --- title CentOS root (hd1) makeactive chainloader +1 --- To your Debian GRUB configuration. This prevents that you'll have to update your Debian GRUB configuration again after n kernel updates (where n is the number set with the installonlyn yum plugin). -- Daniel ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:28:58 +1000 From: DamianS Subject: Re: [CentOS] Audacity 1.2.6 on CentOS 5 To: CentOS mailing list Message-ID: <1180337338.6183.0.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain You should be able to install the FC6 package ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 09:36:32 +0200 From: Niki Kovacs Subject: Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Debian and CentOS multiboot: menu.lst problem To: CentOS mailing list Message-ID: <465A8680.6000200(a)kikinovak.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Daniel de Kok a écrit : > > You could consider installing GRUB from CentOS in the MBR of the CentOS > disk (though, the boot partition would be fine too), and add something > like Thanks for the hint, Daniel. But the solution is only a temporary one. My goal is to become a distribution monogamist with CentOS and to completely migrate to it from Debian :o) Cheers, Niki -- Dyslexics have more fnu. ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 09:41:40 +0200 From: Lorenzo Subject: Re: [CentOS] Squid +Yum = apt-cacher? To: CentOS mailing list Message-ID: <465A87B4.1080009(a)gmk.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Florin Andrei ha scritto: > Lorenzo wrote: >> So mrepo and PXE boot are really nice and funny, but they don't solve >> at all my need of bandwidth saving. > > Why don't you create your own repo mirror? That's what I used to do, > works pretty well. > See my other replay: again with few installations (around 10) this doesn't drive to bandwidth saving. ------------------------------ Message: 13 Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 15:18:34 +0700 From: Gunawan Subject: Re: [CentOS] Firefox To: "CentOS mailing list" Message-ID: <4505b0860705280118y3efd8edi7246214b59772715(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP; format=flowed On 5/28/07, centos(a)911networks.com wrote: > Any good set of instructions for upgrading from Firefox 1.5.0.10 to > 2.0.0.3? http://www.philoking.com/2006/11/15/how-to-update-to-firefox-20-on-fedora-c… swholt #12. February 25th, 2007 , at 8:40 AM . I did it a little different. Do these as root (or su). Download firefox-2.0.0.2.tar.gz from www.mozilla.com. Create /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.2 directory and extract the tarball there. Copy any extensions you have in /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.9/extensions to /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.2/extensions. Change two lines in /usr/bin/firefox: if [ -x "/usr/lib64/firefox-1.5.0.9/firefox-bin" ] to if [ -x "/usr/lib64/firefox-2.0.0.1/firefox-bin" ] MOZ_DIST_BIN="$MOZ_LIB_DIR/firefox-1.5.0.9$B!m(B to MOZ_DIST_BIN="$MOZ_LIB_DIR/firefox-2.0.0.1$B!m(B Now if something doesn't work for you you can just change /usr/bin/firefox back to point to the 1.5.0.9 directory. *G ------------------------------ Message: 14 Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 10:57:22 +0200 From: Niki Kovacs Subject: [CentOS] Problems setting up legacy NVidia card To: CentOS Mailing List Message-ID: <465A9972.9060609(a)kikinovak.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi, Here's my video card: $ lspci | grep -i vga 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV15 [GeForce2 GTS/Pro] (rev a3) Until now, I've used it on Slackware (10.0, 10.2, 11.0) and Debian (Sarge, Etch), and I've always managed to set it up fine. First, I checked if there were any precompiled nvidia drivers in the various repos (rpmforge, ...), but there seemed to be only recent drivers. So I went to the nvidia site and downloaded the corresponding driver for my card: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7185-pkg1.run I also updated my kernel, and then 'yum install kernel-devel gcc'. After doing this, it was time for 'init 3'. I started the installer: # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7185-pkg1.run I went through the steps like I've done a few times before, and it didn't complain about anything. I then opened /etc/X11/xorg.conf, searched for the Driver section and replaced "nv" by "nvidia". To be on the safe side, I rebooted. (I've had some strange GDM problems before when simply doing init 5). My default screen resolution on my 17'' flat monitor is 1024x768. (The CentOS installer defaulted to 1280x1024, but I manually edited xorg.conf to change it). Now, after starting X with the "nvidia" driver, curiously I had a resolution that looked more like 800x600 (and curiously reminded me of a default Windows 95 install :o)) I opened a console with Ctrl-Alt-F6, opened /etc/X11/xorg.conf to look for a mistake... and noticed something strange. xorg.conf looks now curiously amputated. Here's the whole file, or what's left of it: --8<------------------------------------------------- # Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "ch" Option "XkbVariant" "fr" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection --8<------------------------------------------------- This leaves me a bit clueless. Where has my original xorg.conf (the long version) gone? Is there a way to get it back somehow? And where does this new - and severely truncated xorg.conf file come from? Any suggestions? Niki -- Dyslexics have more fnu. ------------------------------ Message: 15 Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:04:32 +0800 From: "Wei Yu" Subject: [CentOS] Where to find RHDS (Red Hat Directory Server) ? To: "CentOS mailing list" Message-ID: <65ec0b360705280204h6a236e4cg27a941b5fa82e11b(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi! In the release notes it is said RHDS will replace OpenLDAP. However, I can only find OpenLDAP in CentOS5. I tried to google the web but it returned nothing useful. Does anyone know about this? Thanks. Regards, Wei Yu

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Re: CentOS Digest, Vol 28, Issue 28
by ger rey 29 May '07

29 May '07

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Re: [CentOS] Audacity 1.2.6 on CentOS 5
by Andy Goss 29 May '07

29 May '07

On Saturday 26 May 2007 22:00, centos-request(a)centos.org wrote: > > Has anyone managed to install Audacity 1.2.6 on CentOS 5.0 x86? I have the same problem, and have been haunting the DAG Red Hat/Fedora RPM package listings waiting for an RHEL 5 package for Audacity. I could presumably use the FC6 RPM, but I would prefer to stick with RHEL/CentOS. Another option I am looking at is Sweep, which plays back OK and looks like it does the same kind of thing as Audacity, but I can't make the record work, but then I'm trying to record from a mike. If I can get Krec to work from the mike then I don't need Audacity. All I need is patience and time, both lacking.

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Any HowTo for Getting Started With Xen?
by David Mackintosh 29 May '07

29 May '07

Hi folks, Now that CentOS 5 is out with Xen, I can theoretically take better advantage of my nice Intel processor with the virtualization piece than I can with VMware Server. Ideally what I would like to do is install CentOS 5 as a dom0, then run my existing CentOS 4.x installation as a domU while I figure out how to do other interesting things (like install Solaris 10 and Windows as domU installations). Does anyone have any links to pages which might show me how to use Xen to run an existing, already-installed CentOS (or RedHat) under Xen as a domU? Thanks for any links or hints you might have. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | dave(a)xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com

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App for burning CD from MP3s
by Mark Hull-Richter 29 May '07

29 May '07

I would like to be able to make an audio CD directly from some mp3 files I have. I know that isn't the best way due to the lossy nature of the MP3 format, but that's ok for this purpose. K3b is supposed to be able to do this, but I got an unsupported file type error when I tried this. I installed the python-mad decoder that is listed in the k3b document, but I don't see how to get k3b to us it.... Thanks. -- Mark Hull-Richter DATAllegro (www.datallegro.com) 85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 949-680-3082 - Office 949-680-3001 - fax

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VT6420 sata_via problem
by Oren Held 28 May '07

28 May '07

Hello, A message was already posted here regarding this issue- I experience the same problem with 6 machines, all with Hitachi harddrive, VIA Motherboard which uses the sata_via driver: Once every few days each machine freezes or just stops reading from the HD and throws i/o error messages as pasted below. Note that the first "ata exception Emask" errors apear right after booting, when harddisks plays smoothly. the I/O errors apear only after few hours-days. Is it a known problem? (Already two posts regarding this)? Any solution or at least a way to check it? (I'm using CentOS5 with the latest updates) =============== ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) ata1: EH complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) ata1: EH complete SCSI device sda: 160834367 512-byte hdwr sectors (82347 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back nfsd: last server has exited nfsd: unexporting all filesystems NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory NFSD: starting 90-second grace period ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: (BMDMA stat 0x24) ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xca Emask 0x4 stat 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout) ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata1: soft resetting port ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) ata1.00: disabled ata1: EH complete sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 4840645 Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 578975 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 5065613 Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 607096 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 17800565 Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 2198965 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 4835797 Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 578369 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 4840653 Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 578976 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 578977 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 578978 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 578979 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 578980 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 578981 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 4841541 ========================= etc, etc.. Thanks - Oren

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