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Device name for a USB disk
by Todd Cary 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

What is the device name for a USB drive? I want to rsync some files to it and I have completely forgotten the device name! /usr/bin/rsync -av --exclude=".*" -e ssh /home/ /dev/???????/ Many thanks.... Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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CentOS5 consistent media check failures 2 - 6.
by William L. Maltby 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Folks, As much as I hate to, I feel I need to post my long story and ask help. Shortly after the release announcement, I kicked off rtorrent and downloaded the CD and DVD images. Since my cable provider does my "throttling", I disabled throttling and shared for several days, "returning" several GBs at no objectionable loss I could discern. While that was going on, I used cdrecord (don't jump to conclusions here, read on) via CLI to burn the CDs. This on a fully-up-to-date CentOS... well here uname -a Linux centos01.homegroannetworking 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL #1 Tue Feb 27 09:24:42 EST 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux $ lsb_release -a LSB Version: :core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.0- ia32:graphics-3.0-noarch Distributor ID: CentOS Description: CentOS release 4.4 (Final) Release: 4.4 Codename: Final CD writer is a generic 52x24x52x that I have used to burn many CDs before w/o problems. On this unit and the other I'll mention, the writer is master on IDE channel 2. Neither has an HD on that channel currently. The other unit has SATA drives and the writer is again on IDE 2 by itself. Disc 1 passes media check and 2 - 6 fail consistently. Checks OK: ...CentOS-5.0-Old]$ md5sum -c md5sum.txt CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-1of6.iso: OK CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-2of6.iso: OK CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-3of6.iso: OK CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-4of6.iso: OK CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-5of6.iso: OK CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-6of6.iso: OK CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-DVD.iso: OK IIRC, I also used the sha1 check (can't recall the command ATM) and it also passed. "NP" says I! I'll copy 'em over to my LFS machine and burn on the Lite- on DVD/CD* burner. Same results. Hmph. OK. Rtorrent unreliable (don't giggle - there's a difference in the images as evidenced by "cmp" below)? Download all but the DVD directly from the UofGA mirror. Save them in ...CentOS-New. Do similar things. ...CentOS-5.0-New]$ md5sum -c md5sum.txt CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-1of6.iso: OK CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-2of6.iso: OK CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-3of6.iso: OK CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-4of6.iso: OK CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-5of6.iso: OK CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-6of6.iso: OK md5sum: CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-DVD.iso: No such file or directory CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-DVD.iso: FAILED open or read md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 7 listed files could not be read Burned the CDs again. Media checks same as before - 1st passes and all others fail. Did again on the LFS machine, same results. All media as RW, some <=12x, some <=4x speeds. Was rewriting over media previously used for CentOS 4.0 install (keeping 4.3 CDs available) and other miscellaneous previously used RW CDs. Well... maybe they are bad now? All the ones I tried?! Unlikely. But be the type to avoid assumptions, burned disc 2 again on new media. It still fails. Jorge, in his long-running condemnation of Linux kernel SCSI implementations, again mentions his usual in the docs he provides and specifically states that kernel >=2.5 has problems (at least the rants about the wort-ever SCSI implementations have abated). So I figure I'll use something that does not involve CLI. BTW, by now I've learned that there are differences between the rtorrent created and downloaded-from-mirror images. So I go to my trusty CentOS desktop, get nautilus going, right the disc 2 image and write to CD. No improvement. Last data point. Right after I downloaded from the UofGA mirror, I did a cmp. All the rtorrent vs direct download images showed a byte difference at offset 32768 of "line 1". My rtorrent was still running (IIRC) serving others. OMG! Am I delivering corrupted images to many other users! I immediately shut down rtorrent. When I do the cmp *now*, now differences are noted. I checked cable seating on the "target" machine. OK. I tried reading the CDs on the same unit(s) that created them. I'm now suspecting "wetware" problems. ATM, I probably can't see the forest for the trees. Any thoughts, wisecracks, suggestions are welcome. TIA -- Bill

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CentOS 5 x86: Missing features
by Ioannis Vranos 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Hi, I am surprised how some features are missing from CentOS 5. So far, I found missing: 1) GNOME Session does not prompt for saving on log out. 2) There isn't a "Run" option in the GNOME menus for running programs.

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Can't load Centos 5 on laptop
by Paul 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

I can load Centos 4.4 fine, but 5 won't even begin to load, it can't even read the kernel from the CD. I got another cheaper laptop, and that one loads fine with Centos 5, the same DVD I try in the Pro-star laptop. What would cause that? I've never seen it before. I'm trying to load DVD x86 32bit DVD. Thanks.

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CentOS 5 debuginfo packages?
by Scott Lamb 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Where are the debuginfo packages for CentOS 5? I see from <http:// lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-April/078307.html> that CentOS 4 ones are at <http://vault.centos.org/>, but I don't see any for CentOS 5. Am I just looking too soon after the release? Is this where they'll land? Thanks, Scott -- Scott Lamb <http://www.slamb.org/>

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Windows Share - FSTAB - CentOS 5
by Juan C. Valido 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

//winserver/winshare /linuxdir smbfs username=username,password=password, this line doesn't work for me in fstab in CentOS 5 to mount a Windows share, it works in other versions of RH. Any Ideas? Will using Windows NFS server/client (some reading required) work better than Samba?

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openvpn RPM for centos 5
by dnk 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Just curious, has anyone seen any rpm's for openvpn for centos 5? Or tried the centos 4 ones for centos.karan.org? Regards, DK

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ralink rt61 in centos 5
by Olaf Mueller 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Hello, Does anybody knows if the rt61 driver from rt2x00.serialmonkey.com works under centos 5? And if so, what is the recommended command to build this driver from sources, 'make install' or 'make install-fedora'? Thanks a lot! I need this driver for my ralink wlan card on my notebook. I also could build this driver under a fresh centos 5 installation, but it freezes my notebook if trying to start the network interface wlan0 (WPA2, AES). The kernel was the default kernel from the installation CDs. regards Olaf

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reiserfs
by tblader 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Hello All. Is there a kernel module or something that can be yum'd on centos 4.4 to get rieserfs support? Trying to mount a raid device and getting: mount: fs type reiserfs not supported by kernel Thanks, Thomas -- Flambeau Inc. Technology Center - Baraboo, WI Email : tblader(a)flambeau.com Keyserver: http://pgp.mit.edu KeyID: 0x00E9EC2C

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Centos 5 FTP install failure
by Robert Moskowitz 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

I set up to install via ftp with "linux askmethod" I put all the addresses in manually. Do my drive partitioning and everything and then get: "Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing repodata directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been correctly generated. Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: anaconda-base-2007" Turns out that I forgot to switch the cable to the switch port with the proper VLAN. So of course it could not find anything on the network. It seems to me that with the Centos 4 ftp install, I got a warning about not being able to reach the ftp server BEFORE the graphical install started. It was a real time-wasting pain, going all the way through to the abort point until I finally looked down at the switch and said, "DAH!"

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