Discuss

discuss@lists.centos.org

34753 discussions

Strange behaviour from http install
by MrKiwi 22 May '07

22 May '07

The Symptoms; ============= While watching a CentOS5 install hammer my webserver ( i used "askmethod' to point the machine to the webserver) i noticed a bunch of 404s; 10.1.1.119 - - [22/May/2007:15:01:53 +1200] "GET /cd/1/CentOS/termcap-5.5-1.20060701.1.noarch.rpm HTTP/1.1" 404 319 "-" "urlgrabber/3.1.0" and the installation failed to get started (the same file re-requested over and over) The Cause: ========== I had set my webserver up to serve the iso for centos 5 on /cd/0 and the sme_server7 iso on /cd/1 and the centos 4 iso on /cd/2 (/cd/3 is there, but not mounted to anything) Even though i used server : 10.1.1.8 path : cd/0 the centos 5 installation (anakonda?) seems to have gone up a folder, seen the 1,2,3 dirs and asked for .discinfo on the following paths; /cd/0 /cd/1 /cd/2 /cd/3 Upon finding .discinfo in folders /2 and /3 it has then got all confused (not enough to crash as both sme server and centos 4 are familiar file structures i guess?) and then asked the server for wrong versions of files (again and again in an endless loop) Removing the confusion ( umount /var/www/html/cd/1 ;umount /var/www/html/cd/2 ) solved the problem and everything went smooth after that Just thought i would let people know :) Out of curiousity, does anyone know the cause of this? I imagine it is some kind of fuzzy logic to do its best to recover from paths that are one folder too short/long, or maybe to make sure it is installing the highest version numbered folder? MrKiwi

1 0

Re: [CentOS] recompiling kernel results in error: .../linux-2.6.18.i686/arch//Makefile: No such file or directory
by dcw 22 May '07

22 May '07

The compile finished with no apparent errors. When I ran 'make xconfig' I selected 'm' for ne2000 support so that it would create a module. I used the find command to search in /home/cs/redhat for ne.ko and it was not found. I greped the .config file for the relevant lines: The command I used and the output are as follows: grep ISA /home/cs/redhat/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.18-`uname -m`.config | grep -v HISAX | grep -yv disable CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y # Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA, ISA) CONFIG_ISA_DMA_API=y # CONFIG_ISA is not set # CONFIG_EISA is not set # CONFIG_ISAPNP is not set CONFIG_NET_ISA=y # Wireless 802.11b ISA/PCI cards support # CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_AVMB1_B1ISA is not set # CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_AVMB1_T1ISA is not set # ISA-based Watchdog Cards CONFIG_I2C_ISA=m # CONFIG_I2C_PCA_ISA is not set # ISA devices I also greped for NE2000 in the same file: CONFIG_NE2000=m I am 99% sure that I entered 'y' for ISAPNP and ISA support and 'm' for ne2000. The above shows that ISAPNP is not set. In my research I read that it should be selected. Does it need to be? I am more than willing to recompile again and double check the settings after I have run 'make xconfig'. But before doing that, is there a way to limit which kernels in the i686 group are compiled? If it can be limited to one (ie. exclude xen, PAE etc.), then the compile will not take nearly as long. Thanks, David On Monday 21 May 2007 1:42 pm, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On 5/21/07, Akemi Yagi <amyagi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On 5/21/07, dcw <dwoody1(a)charter.net> wrote: > > > When I use the i386 the compile continues. > > > However, I had to edit the SOURCE config file after running make > > > xconfig. That command altered the first line of the config file. > > > > Yes, I was about to say the same thing. In fact, the arch name (i386) > > gets deleted twice. First, when rpmbuild -bp is run. But this is not > > a problem by itself, because in the next step .config is copied from > > SOURCE which has the correct first line. Then the second time is when > > make menuconfig (or xconfig) is run as you noted. This is the > > problem. At this point, arch needs to be added back manually to > > .config as just you did. > > > > I really want to why menuconfig does not do it right. > > I have done a bit of a search regarding this issue. Turns out the > same problem was reported as early as Feb 2005 on a Fedora list. So > this is not something new, nor CentOS specific. Bad news is that I > have yet to find an answer for this. The only thing I saw in the > search was the same manual editing of .config as we already did as a > temporary solution. > > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2005-05/0405.html > > I am still trying to figure out why rpmbuild -bp messes up the first > line of .config. And of course this problem never surfaces if you run > rpmbuild -ba in the beginning because the incorrect version of .config > is created but *not* used in this operation. > > Akemi > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos --

2 1

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 ssloooowww when network unavailable
by Mark Nejedlo 22 May '07

22 May '07

I've been having a similar problem and wanted to provide what hopefully is additional useful information. Like the original poster, things seem OK when booting with the network active. However, network access is extremely slow and timeouts are likely. If I do a service network stop, everything slows down, and keyboard and mouse activity is likely to be dropped. I also get error output which is included below. Booting with irqpoll doesn't seem to have any effect. Of note is that my ethernet driver (r1000) is source built, not a driver included with the build. However, this driver was fine under CentOS 4.4. Let me know what other information may be useful. Thanks Mark ----- irq 177: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) [<c044aacb>] __report_bad_irq+0x2b/0x69 [<c044acb8>] note_interrupt+0x1af/0x1e7 [<c0570092>] usb_hcd_irq+0x23/0x50 [<c044a2ff>] handle_IRQ_event+0x23/0x49 [<c044a3d8>] __do_IRQ+0xb3/0xe8 [<c04063f4>] do_IRQ+0x93/0xae [<c040492e>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 [<c045a83d>] __handle_mm_fault+0x7d/0x87b [<c04b8ea8>] avc_has_perm+0x3a/0x44 [<c05fd4ef>] do_page_fault+0x20a/0x4b8 [<c05fd2e5>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x4b8 [<c0404a71>] error_code+0x39/0x40 [<c04df804>] __copy_to_user_ll+0xd3/0xda [<c0429957>] do_proc_dointvec+0x1ee/0x291 [<c0429a94>] proc_dointvec+0x15/0x19 [<c0428c9c>] do_proc_dointvec_conv+0x0/0x36 [<c0429134>] do_rw_proc+0xaa/0xee [<c042918e>] proc_readsys+0x0/0x13 [<c042919e>] proc_readsys+0x10/0x13 [<c046af3c>] vfs_read+0x9f/0x141 [<c046b38a>] sys_read+0x3c/0x63 [<c0403eff>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb ======================= handlers: [<c057006f>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x50) Disabling IRQ #177

1 1

Re: [CentOS] snmpd log messages
by Paul R. Ganci 22 May '07

22 May '07

rs(a)centos.spam.futz.org wrote: > The '-Lf /dev/null' was to disable > the default log file, because snmpd used to always open it, even if other log > types were specified. Newer releases don't open the default log file unless > no other logging method is specified, so the '-Lf /dev/null' can (and should) > be dropped... > My observation indicates that there is more to it than this. I also never saw any snmpd messages in the syslog under CentOS 4.4 even though snmpd was started with -Lsd switch? It appears that in CentOS 4.4 the -Lsd was ignored. I assumed, perhaps wrongly, that behavior was because of the simultaneous use of -Lf /dev/null switch. With CentOS 4.5 snmpd now does something with the -Lsd switch. In this sense it appears that maybe a bug was actually fixed going from CentOS 4.4 to CentOS 4.5. However, I am not convinced that -Lsd is a good default. -- Paul (ganci(a)nurdog.com)

1 0

Centos5, Compiz, and Nvidia
by fredex 22 May '07

22 May '07

Hi! Just did a TEST install of centos5 on an old PIII box. one of the things I wanted to see was the fancy desktop eye-candy of compiz and/or beryl. This box has a nvidia 6600 series card, and I've isntalled the Nvidia drivers (download from nvidia and run their installer). I used the software updater to install compiz (didn't show up on original install, perhaps I didn't hold my tongue the right way. :) So, how do I run compiz? Found "enable desktop effects", click it, and it says "could not enable desktop effects". Not very informative. From a command line, just type "compiz" and it comes back with "no sync extension". Anyone know what else I need to do? Thanks! -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- The Lord detests the way of the wicked but he loves those who pursue righteousness. ----------------------------- Proverbs 15:9 (niv) -----------------------------

3 9

question on zenity centos 5
by Jerry Geis 21 May '07

21 May '07

I am trying to use zenity --progress. When I use this script: #!/bin/sh ( echo "10" ; sleep 1 echo "20" ; sleep 1 echo "50" ; sleep 1 echo "75" ; sleep 1 echo "100" ; sleep 1 ) | zenity --progress ~ It works fine... When I use a little program. for(count = 0; count <= 100; count += 10) { printf(stdout, "%d\n", count); sleep(1); } and run it as "myprog | zenity --progress" I dont get anything updating until the end and the program exits. Why does the second example not work. Both are just piping stdout into zenity. Both use carriage return. Thanks, Jerry

3 3

Error building kernel for CentOS 5.0
by Mark Hull-Richter 21 May '07

21 May '07

I thought I had all the tools I needed for this, but it seems something is missing. When I build the 2.6.18-8.1.3 kernel from source, I get this error: extracting debug info from /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.18-8.el5.trace-root/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.el5.trace-x86_64/scripts/conmakehash extracting debug info from /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.18-8.el5.trace-root/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5.trace/vmlinux cpio: kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.x86_64/<built-in>: No such file or directory 187199 blocks + /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77254: line 62: /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths: No such file or directory error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77254 (%install) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77254 (%install) Sure enough, neither of the two check- files exist, but I'm not sure which package I'm missing that would contain them. I thought I had selected all the right development packafges during install and with yum, and google has not been my friend on this one. yum grouplist Loading "protectbase" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Group Process Setting up repositories Installed Groups: Office/Productivity Development Libraries Editors System Tools GNOME Software Development Text-based Internet GNOME Desktop Environment Dialup Networking Support Authoring and Publishing Network Servers Legacy Software Development Java Legacy Software Support X Window System Graphics Web Server Windows File Server Printing Support Mail Server Server Configuration Tools Sound and Video Administration Tools Yum Utilities Graphical Internet Available Groups: Engineering and Scientific MySQL Database X Software Development Virtualization Legacy Network Server DNS Name Server FTP Server Games and Entertainment XFCE-4.4 Java Development Emacs Ruby KDE Software Development KDE (K Desktop Environment) PostgreSQL Database News Server Development Tools FreeNX and NX Done (Funny thing - I tried to do 'yum groupinstall "Development Tools"', which I did shortly after initial installation, and it tells me that they're alreayd installed - someone else had a question about this earlier today, too.) I also tried: yum list | grep rpm and got this: redhat-rpm-config.noarch 8.0.45-17.el5.centos installed rpm.x86_64 4.4.2-37.el5 installed rpm-build.x86_64 4.4.2-37.el5 installed rpm-devel.i386 4.4.2-37.el5 installed rpm-devel.x86_64 4.4.2-37.el5 installed rpm-libs.i386 4.4.2-37.el5 installed rpm-libs.x86_64 4.4.2-37.el5 installed rpm-python.x86_64 4.4.2-37.el5 installed rpmforge-release.x86_64 0.3.6-1.el5.rf installed Since there's no current wiki on building kernels for 5.0 (or if it is current, I have already been through all those steps and yum tells me there's nothing to do), can someone point me at what I don't have so I can get it and get on with 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

6 15

CentOS-5 - kmod-gfs dependency issue?
by Simen Timian Thoresen 21 May '07

21 May '07

Hi all, I'm wondering if I'm running into some dependency issues on my CentOS5 test-machines. I've installed with a fairly minimal package set, updated, removed old kernels and am now experimenting with iscsi and gfs. I think I need kmod-gfs to get gfs -support, but there is only a version that suits the base-kernel, 2.6.18-8.el5. " [root@node02 ~]# yum install kmod-gfs (...) Installing: kmod-gfs i686 0.1.16-5.2.6.18_8.el5 base 133 k Installing for dependencies: kernel i686 2.6.18-8.el5 base 12 M " ...so I'm getting the /old/ kernel, to install kmod-gfs. " Transaction Check Error: package kernel-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5 (which is newer than kernel-2.6.18-8.el5) is already installed " ...but not. On a different system (installed with clustering and storage-clustering package-groups), I got kmod-gfs installed; [root@dics073 ~]# rpm -ql kmod-gfs /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/extra/gfs /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/extra/gfs/gfs.ko [root@dics073 ~]# find /lib/modules/ | grep gfs.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.1.4.el5/weak-updates/gfs/gfs.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/extra/gfs/gfs.ko ...so what happened here? This system is x86-64 while my problem-systems are i386, but that should not be an issue, I hope? I also found this; http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/dkms-devel/2007-February/000529.html ...which seems to explain the situation somewhat. ...but how should I fix my problem - where the RPM I want to install depends on an RPM that can't be installed? (well, I'll be able to jam it in, of course, but...) Is this just me doing something silly (capability-upgrading a system after having run an update), or is this an actual dependency issue? -S -- Simen Thoresen, Dolphin ICS Systems Administration and Wulfkit Support

2 1

trying to run sshd daemon in kickstart environment
by Guolin Cheng 21 May '07

21 May '07

Hi, I tried to make kickstart environment a little bit more charming by firing up openssh daemon in the limited environment. I edited/checked a bunch of files and almost succeeded but still not. I can reach the machine to run a command like 'ssh -x <kickstartClient> <command>' and it does work for %pre and both chroot and non-chroot %post sections, in fact, you can run a command on kickstartClient through ssh connections without problems. But it still fails because I can not ssh into the kickstartClient to get a local command shell. In short, 'ssh -x <kickstartClient>' fails, 'ssh -x <kickstartClient> <command>' works. Any one has succeeded in this topic? Life will be much happier if we can freely turn on/off sshd daemon for Kickstart environment. Thanks. --Guolin

2 1

display pop up message on X
by Jerry Geis 21 May '07

21 May '07

Is there a method to display pop up messages on X display? I found xmessage, however I was hoping for something a little more flexible. like being able to tell xmessage to display a file (typically one line in the file). then send it a signal to tell it to re-read the file and show the new data. Sure I can kill it and re-show it but that isnt very nice... Is there something available in centos 5 for this that I dont know about? Thanks Jerry

5 4

Jump to page:

2026

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Discuss