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New freenx-0.6.0 and NX-2.1.0
by Johnny Hughes 28 May '07

28 May '07

All, I have put in the testing repository a new version of freenx-0.6.0 and nx-2.1.0 for both CentOS-4 and CentOS-5. This is using one set of SRPMS to build on either CentOS-4 or CentOS-5 RPMS. To get files from the testing repository, see: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories Make sure you have the .el4 packages if testing on CentOS-4 or the .el5 packages if testing in CentOS-5. Please submit comments to this tracker: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1307 Please test and report on these RPMS so we can move them into extras. Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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Problems setting up legacy NVidia card
by Niki Kovacs 28 May '07

28 May '07

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.

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Dependency problems
by Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale 28 May '07

28 May '07

Hi folks, I use mock quite extensively to build RPM packages for CentOS (actually I use the plague build system, which in turn uses mock). I have a mirror of the whole CentOS tree (on mirrors.ircam.fr, which syncs directly from msync.centos.org) which my mock configs uses exclusively. When populating the mock chroot, I consistently get these errors for packages in updates (and not in the base tree): --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: freetype = 2.2.1-16.el5 for package: freetype-devel --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: freetype = 2.2.1-16.el5 is needed by package freetype-devel Cleaning up... Of course, both freetype and freetype-devel (in this instance, but I get the same error with other packages) are on the mirror server, and both are the same version. The problem goes away if I rebuild the repository metadata locally: createrepo /var/ftp/pub/CentOS/5/updates/x86_64 createrepo /var/ftp/pub/CentOS/5/updates/i386 I cannot really say how different my local metadata are from upstream; diff outputs so much data it is quite useless with this kind of files. So I guess the metadata are incomplete in some way on the master server, as I don't usually modify them in any way on my server; can anyone confirm this or tell me what I am doing wrong? I can supply the whole mock config files and the command used for populating the mirror server if needed. -- Arnaud

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Squid +Yum = apt-cacher?
by Lorenzo 28 May '07

28 May '07

Hi all, I was wondering if would be possible to configure squid to co ope with yum so it recognize mirrors and it can cache rpm packages based on package name and maybe some other parameter to be sure that is the right package. Any ideas? Cheers, Lorenzo

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Firefox
by centos＠911networks.com 28 May '07

28 May '07

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

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Slightly OT: Debian and CentOS multiboot: menu.lst problem
by Niki Kovacs 28 May '07

28 May '07

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: <snip> 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.

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NTPD ?
by jarmo 27 May '07

27 May '07

Have used Centos 5 now couple of weeks and started to find pieces on places, ie. found logs :D Now, these ntpd errors strances me. Anyone else getting these? Errors frequency error 500 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM: 1 time(s) frequency error 503 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM: 1 time(s) frequency error 504 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM: 1 time(s) frequency error 505 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM: 1 time(s) frequency error 509 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM: 3 time(s) frequency error 512 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM: 203 time(s) I compiled vanilla kernel 2.6.21.2 into use, just by oldfasion way "make menuconfig, make, make install", used .config from original kernel, came with distro. Only changed prosessor type into K7. Running x86 system, with 512M ram. Some about 200G HD space.. Syncing time into ntp1.funet.fi, but I think that's not the reason, because tried some other servers too, and got somewhat same results... Despite of errors, all seems to work, or do I imagine that? Jarmo

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Re: SOLVED [CentOS] recompiling kernel results in error: .../linux-2.6.18.i686/arch//Makefile: No such file or directory
by dcw 27 May '07

27 May '07

On Saturday 26 May 2007 6:52 pm, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On 5/26/07, dcw <dwoody1(a)charter.net> wrote: > > I copied the kernel rpm to the gateway computer, did a 'rpm -ivh' for the > > new kernel and rebooted. > > > > I then ran system-config-network and was able to setup the ne2000 card in > > less time than I takes to write about it. > > > > Thanks for all your help, especially Akemi for staying with me during all > > this. > > > > David > > Congratulations on your successful rebuilding. I am so happy for you. > And don't forget to thank CentOS and, especially, Johnny Hughes whose > input was indispensable in this endeavor. Yes! Thanks also goes to the CentOS team and Johnny Hughes, without which none of this would be possible. David > Akemi > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Re: [CentOS] recompiling kernel results in error: .../linux-2.6.18.i686/arch//Makefile: No such file or directory
by dcw 26 May '07

26 May '07

On Thursday 24 May 2007 1:37 pm, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On 5/24/07, dcw <dwoody1(a)charter.net> wrote: > > > (1) prepare .spec by removing lines from %prep > > > (2) rpmbuild -bp kernel-2.6.spec > > > (3) go to BUILD (where .config is) > > > (4) make xconfig > > > (5) add # i386 to .config as the first line > > > (6) copy this .config back to SOURCES (using the original name > > > xxx.config) (7) rpmbuild -ba kernel-2.6.spec > > > > > > Or, instead of steps (5) to (7), just run: > > > > I did 5 and 6 anyway, assuming that in the worst case they were not > > needed and would do no harm. I then did 'rpmbuild -bc ...' as below. Does the rpmbuild -bc work only in the BUILD directory? Or does it work in the SOURCE directory? Will doing step 5 and 6 cause any problems? > > It was working until gpg had a segfault. From some of the emails I have > > been reading this is a known problem that has not been fixed yet. > > > > Other emails I have read indicated that signmodule should be set to 0. > > What is the down side risk of doing this? > > All I can tell you is that 'signmodules' is set to 0 in my spec file. > I did not change it, so that must have been CentOS's default (?). There is sigmodules in several places in the SPEC file. The first one is set to '0' but the others are not. I prefer not setting singmodules to '0' unless I know what the risks are. The last time I recompiled a kernel was when it was at 2.4.x. Is there a way to compile the kernel without using rpmbuild? > By the way, Johnny Hughes has kindly checked the above procedure and > said, "that's what I do." This is a big assurance. I agree that your > goal is almost there. This is good, but what does he do to avoid segfaults? Thanks, David > Isn't Linux fantastic? Imagine trying this in Windows... > > Akemi > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- RD Woodyard, Inc. -------------------------------------------------------

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vsftp anonymous upload access
by Al Sparks 26 May '07

26 May '07

I'm trying to set up anonymous ftp using vsftp. I want to be able to allow uploads. The anonymous id is userid "ftp". The ~ftp/ directory is actually owned by root, but ~ftp/pub is owned by ftp. Here's the vsftpd.conf: anonymous_enable=YES anon_upload_enable=YES local_enable=NO write_enable=NO local_umask=022 dirmessage_enable=YES xferlog_enable=YES xferlog_std_format=YES userlist_enable=YES listen=YES tcp_wrappers=YES I'm able to login to "ftp", and I'm able to "cd pub". The pub directory has permissions ownership ftp:ftp and perms of 750 or: drwxr-x--- 2 ftp ftp 4096 May 14 12:43 /var/ftp/pub Since I'm logged on as "ftp" I should be able to create the file inside the directory and write to it. BTW, I've had this problem whether write_enable=YES|NO and unless I'm misreading the docs, write_enable shouldn't affect actual uploads. What am I doing wrong? === Al

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