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haldaemon crashes system?
by Josh Kelley 19 May '06

19 May '06

I'm in the process of setting up CentOS 4.3 on an old 400MHz K6 and found that the system hangs within several seconds of starting haldaemon. With haldaemon disabled, everything seems to work. >From what I've read, disabling haldaemon isn't a problem, but I thought I'd ask if anyone else has seen similar problems or if anyone had any troubleshooting tips. I found a similar issue at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178236, although it doesn't sound quite the same. Should I log a bug at Red Hat's Bugzilla? Or at CentOS's bug site? Or is it even worth trying to track down a bug on hardware this old? Josh Kelley

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yum grouplist error
by Alfred von Campe 19 May '06

19 May '06

I keep a local copy of the yum repository using rsync every night. Commands like "yum update" still work, but lately I've been getting the following error: # yum grouplist Setting up Group Process Setting up repositories Error: Caching enabled and local cache: //var/cache/yum/base/ yumgroups.xml does not match checksum My nightly rsync cron job doesn't update this file -- should it? How does one rebuild it? To set up my local repository, I edited the file /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo and changed all baseurl entries to use file:///path/to/my/repo instead of http:// mirror.centos/org/... Do I have something misconfigured? Thanks, Alfred

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Visio
by Chris Peikert 19 May '06

19 May '06

Anyone know of an Open Source software comparable to Microsoft Visio?

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Setting default paper size in OpenOffice
by Niki Kovacs 19 May '06

19 May '06

Hi, I'm using the default OpenOffice.org that ships with CentOS 4.3. In OO, I launch "Printer configuration" and set the default paper size from "US Letter" to "A4". OK, and then OK again. But the settings don't seem to be saved, they revert to US Letter every time, which is rather annoying, as I don't set this up for me (but for a bunch of Joe Users), and I can't expect them to manually configure the paper size everytime they want to print something. Any suggestions? Niki Kovacs

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RE: [CentOS] Visio
by Andrew Elliott 19 May '06

19 May '06

Good Afternoon, There's "Dia": http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/ if you're gnome Also, there's "DiaCanvas" which I guess is similar (never used it): http://sourceforge.net/projects/diacanvas/ And of course kivio: http://www.koffice.org/kivio/ if you're a kde fan.... Andrew Elliott Network Services Computar Services Inc. 2191 Thurston Drive Ottawa, Ontario K1G 6C9 Tel: (613) 482-8374 Fax: (613) 737-3611 Email: andrewe(a)computar.ca ________________________________ From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Chris Peikert Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 11:59 AM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: [CentOS] Visio Anyone know of an Open Source software comparable to Microsoft Visio?

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rsync help
by Sam Drinkard 19 May '06

19 May '06

I'm attempting to do an rsync of a whole bunch of files from the machine here to the remote machine. Both user directories have identical file structure, except the remote machine is way behind on keeping up with the local machine. When I tried to run the rsync command from the current directory of "/home/rob/amet/versions/current/archinve/npa/R- save" Below is the command and output. Can somone tell me what I'm doing wrong, or perhaps the correct way to do this? There does not need to be a daemon running on the remote machine does there? # rsync -t R-save vortex:/home/rob/amet/versions/current/archive/npa/R- save rsync: link_stat "/home/rob/amet/versions/20051028/amet/archive/npa/R- save/R-save" failed: No such file or directory (2) rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c (892) [sender=2.6.8] Thanks..... Sam

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Damaged tags in XMMS
by Niki Kovacs 19 May '06

19 May '06

Hi, I just copied 15 GB of Music from my Slackware install over to my laptop running CentOS. Everything's running fine, except a few minor quirks. About 10 to 15% of the 4.000 songs in my collection seem to have broken ID3 tags in XMMS. In the playlist window, there are only truncated fields of a few random letters appearing. But when I right-click on one of these songs, the ID3 info is displayed correctly... that is, in the ID 3 window. I can save as much as I can, the info in the ID3 window stays the same. Any suggestion for that? Niki

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Set default MPlayer -vo?
by Niki Kovacs 19 May '06

19 May '06

Hi, I'm running CentOS 4.3 with the rpmforge and kbs repos enabled. I just installed MPlayer and tried it. It has a small problem. When I want to view myfile.wmv, Mplayer displays the following error message: "Error opening/initialising the selected video_out (-vo) device." So I opened a console, took a peek at the various options (mplayer -vo help), and then the movie worked just fine with mplayer -vo x11. Q: how do I make this option my default, so that when I double-click on a .wmv or .avi in Nautilus, it gets opened with the -vo x11 option? I thought about creating an alias, but there must be some more orthodox way to do that. Cheers, Niki Kovacs

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Sound cards for Centros
by M.Hockings 18 May '06

18 May '06

What sound cards are recognized by Centros? I have installed it on an old 400MHz IBM Aptiva that has Crystal Audio built-in. However it does not seem to recognize that, nor a Sound Blaster, nor a Sound Blaster 16 that I have tried. Any cheapo cards that it would recognize? Mike

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source rpms
by Nick Smith 18 May '06

18 May '06

how can i get the source rpms for the packages installed on my centos 3.6 server? is there a certain repositories i have to add to my yum.conf? Im trying to setup a filtering program "smartfilter" and they want me to point to the source for squid, which i cant seem to find. can anyone shed some light on this for me? someone i was talking to said that centos strips out the source to keep the bulk down, but i was hoping that wasnt the case. thanks for any help. Nick

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