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CentOS 5 - Gnome
by Drew Weaver 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Hi there I am just writing to find out if anyone else had an issue installing CentOS 5 on an inspiron notebook. If I choose Desktop - Gnome in the distribution selection, after the "transferring image to hard disk" message it waits a very long time than dies with an error about not being able to run the transaction due to the following error: Press enter to reboot. I am able to install (in text mode) the 'server' option. But I would really like to install the desktop environment on my laptop. Thank you in advance. -Drew

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CentOS 5 sound problems on ICH5
by Jon Jahren 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Hi I have installed CentOS 5 on my computer which has an Intel ICH5 sound chip. The card appears as it should, and I can adjust the volume just fine. However, when I try to play a sound file(.ogg for instance), rhythmbox plays through the file, but no sound is heard. I've tried as root, and I've tried doing cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp, and it's all quiet. Output from lspci: 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) I've tried a reboot, I've tried restarting the sound system from system-config-soundcard, but nothing seems to work. Any suggestions please? Kind Regards Jon Jahren

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linuxthreads & Printers in Centos5...
by Jake Grimmett 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Pierre, many thanks for your help. I think I might need a compat-glibc for the "n-2 distro" as linuxthreads support was removed from Centos5; from the RHEL-4 release-notes: "support for LinuxThreads still exists for RHEL 4, ...advance notice that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will no longer include support for LinuxThreads. Thus applications that require LinuxThreads support must be updated before they will be able to work properly on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 system." In RHEL4 the solution was to one of the following: 1) Use LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable or 2) Use an explicit rpath to /lib/i686/ or /lib/ to select LinuxThreads instead of NPTL at runtime I used solution #1 to get InsightII to run under Centos4. Is there any (reasonable) chance of providing older (=Centos3) libraries under Centos5 for one errant program? Thanks again for your time Jake Pierre Bourgin wrote: >Depends which older version you need; the compat-glibc package provides >binary compatibility with the n-1 distro: >Jake Grimmett wrote: >> 1) Some of our software needs linuxthreads (i.e. InsightII) but it's closed >> source and the writers (Accelrys) are unlikely to respin the code as they >> want us to move to a different program. -- Dr J. Grimmett Computer Systems Manager Division of Molecular Structure National Institute for Medical Research The Ridgeway Mill Hill London, NW7 1AA

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linuxthreads & Printers in Centos5...
by Jake Grimmett 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Dear All, Firstly, many thanks for the hard work put in by the development team :) Now I have a couple of problems, any help welcome: 1) Some of our software needs linuxthreads (i.e. InsightII) but it's closed source and the writers (Accelrys) are unlikely to respin the code as they want us to move to a different program. Is there any way of installing another set of glibc libs on centos 5, to allow an old, broken, but uselful program to run? 2) As part of my setup script for centos 4, I add a large list of printers to each workstation by using system-config-printer-tui --Ximport < settings.xml (on my master machine I create the list with system-config-printer-tui --Xexport > settings.xml ) Is there any easy way of automatically adding 15 printers to Centos 5 ? My thanks for your time, Jake -- Dr J. Grimmett Computer Systems Manager Division of Molecular Structure National Institute for Medical Research The Ridgeway Mill Hill London, NW7 1AA

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Centos 4.4 or 5 and HP Proliant network card teaming function
by Erick Perez 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Hi, has anyone enabled using centos, the proliant functionality of "teaming" the two integrated network cards, to be seen as one by the network switch? This is available in a nice GUI in windows. but i have no idea how to do that on linux. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Panama Sistemas Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos Panama, Republica de Panama Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780 ------------------------------------------------------------

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centos 5 is reporting invalid mac address
by Jerry Geis 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

I have not see this before... Installing centos 5 on m2n-mx motherboard the onboard forcedeth driver loads and says invalid mac address "97:42:40:F3:18:00" Anyone else ever seen this before? Is it fixable? I went to support.asus.com and searched for "invalid mac address" they say sorry no data. Jerry

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CentOS 5.0 install fails every time.
by Gabriel Gunderson 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Hey all, I've downloaded the latest CentOS 5.0 and the md5sums look good. I loop-back mounted the ISOs and pulled all of the RPMs out into a single dir. I have an existing PXE environment with several different distros to which I added 5.0. RPMs are served from my HTTPS server. I used the isolinux.cfg that was provided and all *looks* good. The problem is that on 4 *very* different systems I get the same error. I install to the point in the installer where the X.org server shows the big "X" cursor with the black background and it just freezes. I hit Ctl-Alt-F3 and see the same message repeating over and over again.... Unable to find temp path, going to use ramfs path Unable to find temp path, going to use ramfs path Unable to find temp path, going to use ramfs path Unable to find temp path, going to use ramfs path Unable to find temp path, going to use ramfs path Unable to find temp path, going to use ramfs path ... I tracked it down to this code in Anaconda... <code> def getTempPath(self): root = self.rootPath pathlist = [ "/var/tmp", "/tmp", "/." ] tmppath = None for p in pathlist: if (os.access(root + p, os.X_OK)): tmppath = root + p + "/" break if tmppath is None: log("Unable to find temp path, going to use ramfs path") return "/tmp/" return tmppath </code> Has anyone see this or know what's happening to cause this? I can give dmesg or other info if you think it will be helpful. BTW, this happens with the CD install also on 4 *very* different computers. Thanks, Gabe -- Gabriel Gunderson http://gundy.org

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Desktop effects on KDE?
by Johnny Ljunggren 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Hello Since I prefer KDE I enabled that as my default session. However the desktop effects don't seem to work there, although they did in Gnome. Any way to enable them? Johnny Ljunggren

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Tribes 2 server
by Kenneth Porter 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

I'm upgrading my colocated game server from Fedora Core 2 and was considering CentOS 5 for it. The principal game is Tribes 2, a native Linux port. Has anyone successfully run T2 on a recent version of CentOS, particularly 5? I'm mostly worried about library compatibility.

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CentOS 4.4 and dns cache
by Mário Gamito 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Hi, I have this mail server running CentOS 4.4 I've installed in it a djbdns dns cache running at 127.0.0.1 Everything works just fine, except yum. Is there a way to turn this around ? Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, -- :wq! Mário Gamito

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