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Re: How to query the new style mirrorlist ?
by Steven Shiau 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

Hi Karanbir: I suggest it's better to have releasever=4.3 work for the new mirrorlist, since releasever=4.3 is working with baseurl, i.e baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.3/os/i386/ It's better to be consistent that releasever=4.3 works with new mirrorlist, i.e. mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=4.3&arch=i386&repo=os Thanks. -- Steven

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cheep laser printer recomendations
by rado 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hi! I would like to hear what printers go good w/our operating system. While back, I should have checked w/y'all like I'm doing now but I just went ahead and bought a Konica-Minolta PagePro 1350W. Now that W at the end of 1350 is a huge word that means WINDOWS! grrrr! It's a great printer 21pgs/min etc but it doesn't like linux at all and their tech spt will tell you as much. I googled round while back...there is some stuff there w/it and windows but I have had no luck. I got it sold for what I pd. 150 bucks and now I want something good that we know works really well w/linux.. Whatcha all think? thx John Rose

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RE: [CentOS] heartbeat, drbd init scripts and chkconfig
by Nielsen, Steve 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

(sorry to keep top posting... outlook sucks). Johnny, The approach we took was to use the yum plugin protectbase since we have our own internal repository. I noticed when we protected the repository the plugin prints out "protected N RPMs" but does not print out what it protected (even with higher debugging). I thought it would be useful to have it print the package names/repos on protected RPMs. So, I patched the protect base plugin to do that. I would like to submit the patch. Would that patch go to you or somewhere else? BTW, thanks for your help on this. Thanks, Steve -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 2:36 PM To: CentOS ML Subject: RE: [CentOS] heartbeat, drbd init scripts and chkconfig On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 14:57 -0400, Nielsen, Steve wrote: > Johnny, > > I applied the patch (by hand since it would not apply cleanly) to 4.3's > chkconfig and it appears to fix the issue I was having. > > Generally, what are the next steps with this type of situation ? Does > centos patch and release or wait for redhat to patch and release? We will wait for RH to patch this issue. You can use the older chkconfig and ntsysv from my 4.2 link or patch yourself. > > If we decide internally to patch chkconfig rpm ourselves what are the > best practices to prevent over ride of a new chkconfig from you guys > which may not have the patch applied? The best way to prevent overwriting is to exempt the package from updates until it is fixed...but I suspect that the patch will be in any new version. If you use yum for updates, edit /etc/yum.conf and add a line that says: exclude=chkconfig ntsysv OR if you use up2date, edit the file /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date and change this line: pkgSkipList=kernel*; to this: pkgSkipList=kernel*;chkconfig;ntsysv; Thanks, Johnny Hughes > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Johnny Hughes > Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 1:25 PM > To: CentOS ML > Subject: Re: [CentOS] heartbeat, drbd init scripts and chkconfig > > On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 13:17 -0400, Nielsen, Steve wrote: > > Hi, > > > > ... snip ... > > To re-create this problem just install the 2 packages (heartbeat and > > drbd) then chkconfig off one and chkconfig list both services. > > > > OK ... I can confirm this problem ... turning off one of these turns on > the other. > > No idea why. > > The older version of chkconfig and ntsysv (from 4.2) does not have this > problem: > > http://vault.centos.org/4.2/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/ > > I suspect that this is also caused by this bug: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182729 > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >

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kernel panics on bootup
by Fong Vang 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Is there a way to disable the auto reboot when the kernel panics during bootup? I tried passing "panic=0" using grub but it still reboots automatically. I need to at least pause it long enough to read the screen to determine the cause of the panic. Thanks for any help.

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Clock applet crashes
by Dick Roth 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

First things first: Kernel 2.6.9-34.EL, CentOS 4.2, Clock Applet "Clock 2.8.1", calendar client is Evolution 2.0.2. The problem: when clicking on the clock applet to open the calendar page all is well. However, when clicking again to close the calendar page, the applet crashes; "The Application "clock-applet" has quit unexpectedly." Has anyone experienced this problem? It's not a critical problem, but can get annoying at times. Thanks for any help out there, Dick -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" --Benjamin Franklin 1775

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ntp server
by Jerry Geis 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

I thought I'd play with making my system an ntp server. I did the "service ntpd start" it started OK. on my laptop I did "ntpdate IP" and it says no server for sync found. My firewall has open ntp:udp What did I miss? Thanks, Jerry

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RE: [CentOS] heartbeat, drbd init scripts and chkconfig
by Nielsen, Steve 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Johnny, I applied the patch (by hand since it would not apply cleanly) to 4.3's chkconfig and it appears to fix the issue I was having. Generally, what are the next steps with this type of situation ? Does centos patch and release or wait for redhat to patch and release? If we decide internally to patch chkconfig rpm ourselves what are the best practices to prevent over ride of a new chkconfig from you guys which may not have the patch applied? Thanks for your quick response. Steve -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 1:25 PM To: CentOS ML Subject: Re: [CentOS] heartbeat, drbd init scripts and chkconfig On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 13:17 -0400, Nielsen, Steve wrote: > Hi, > > ... snip ... > To re-create this problem just install the 2 packages (heartbeat and > drbd) then chkconfig off one and chkconfig list both services. > OK ... I can confirm this problem ... turning off one of these turns on the other. No idea why. The older version of chkconfig and ntsysv (from 4.2) does not have this problem: http://vault.centos.org/4.2/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/ I suspect that this is also caused by this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182729 Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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OT Animation software
by Sam Drinkard 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Sorry for posting OT, but I know there is a huge user base here and just wanted to ask. I'm looking for something to animate some weather images, either png's .ps's or single page .pdf. I am aware of the AniS java animation, but I think that is a little (lot) beyond my skill level to set up. Would be nice to have something I could drop into CentOS and plug'n'play, but I'm able to do a little setup of software. Thanks... Sam

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heartbeat, drbd init scripts and chkconfig
by Nielsen, Steve 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hi, We are using the heartbeat and drbd packages from latest centos (4.3) extras repository. Upon installation of both packages I noticed that if you "chkconfig heartbeat off" that will cause drbd to chkconfig'ed on. And visa versa. After doing some trouble shooting it turns out the "BEGIN INIT INFO" sections appear to be the cause. drbd has: ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: drbd # Required-Start: $network $syslog sshd # Required-Stop: # Default-Start: 3 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 2 6 # Description: Control drbd resources. ### END INIT INFO heartbeat has: ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Description: heartbeat is a basic high-availability subsystem. # It will start services at initialization, and when machines go up # or down. This version will also perform IP address takeover using # gratuitous ARPs. It works correctly for a 2-node configuration, # and is extensible to larger configurations. # # It implements the following kinds of heartbeats: # - Bidirectional Serial Rings ("raw" serial ports) # - UDP/IP broadcast (ethernet, etc) # - UDP/IP multicast (ethernet, etc) # - Unicast heartbeats # - "ping" heartbeats (for routers, switches, etc.) # (to be used for breaking ties in 2-node systems # and monitoring networking availability) # # Short-Description: High-availability services. # Required-Start: $network $time $syslog # Required-Stop: $network $time $syslog # Default-Start: 3 5 # Default-Stop: 0 6 ### END INIT INFO Is this a bug in how chkconfig handles the "INIT INFO" sections or the way its supposed to work? I don't see any reference to the other in the "INIT INFO" sections so I would not think its supposed to work this way. Can someone offer some clarification ? To re-create this problem just install the 2 packages (heartbeat and drbd) then chkconfig off one and chkconfig list both services. Thanks, Steve

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KDE vs Gnome
by Chris Peikert 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

I think im using Gnome but im not sure. As for using logout command it didn't work that's why I got puzzled and had to ask online since I couldn't find the GUI one which was there but apparently im too blind to see. Speaking of GUI side of things that's why I made the comment about no search features in CentOS. None of my menus offer a search feature in the GUI so I would have to research the command line search feature. I know its FIND but I couldn't figure out how to pull up the Help info on FIND to figure out how to use it. As for the HELP option in the GUI strangly it doesn't contain any information so I would assume it didn't get loaded in the Install. As for the Manuals like I stated before.I just got the valid link last night to the right manuals and I am in the process of printing them out. Im a newb to Linux and so far Linux has not been newb friendly even though the people are. Finding Newb Linux info isn't easy either that's why I been mainly using this mail list. I know I know everyone says to use Google and if I would of found it on Google I wouldn't of asked here. Hopefully as I learn Linux more I will know how to search for the information better to get the answers I am looking for. My next quest is to figure out how to tell if certain hardware drivers are loaded and if not how to download and load em. I been doing everything from basic install and when I noticed the NIC Card was working without having to do anything else I stopped there. Now that I have the manuals printed or will soon I will go through everything to see what there is to see. Thanks again.

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