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Boot process slow with rhgb quiet on
by Dave Gutteridge 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

If I boot with "rhgb quiet" off, my computer boots in 1 minute and 30 seconds. If I boot with "rhgb quiet" on, my computer boots in 3m11s. That's a long time to wait. Significantly, when booting with "rhgb quiet", right at the moment X takes over, there is a 1m36s pause where the screen is blank except for the hourglass cursor turning around and around. Of course, if my main priority was to simply boot quickly, I would simply remove the "rhgb quiet" option from the boot process. And I'm not opposed to doing that. However, this pause only started happening recently, so I wonder why it exists at all. When booting with "rhgb quiet" off, I tried to look for any errors or indications of a problem, but it seemed to boot mostly without pause or error. There was one message which was like an error warning, which said something about a "microcode device doesn't exist?". But text was moving across the screen quickly and I couldn't write down exactly what it said. Before I give in and remove the "rhgb quiet" option permanently, is there any way I might be able to diagnose and fix this delay problem? I'd rather be telling the computer how to boot, instead of it telling me. Dave

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Hard drive DMA messages upon shutdown
by Edward Diener 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

I have 4 hard drives on my system. CentOS is in a logical partition on the first hard drive and there is a swap partition in a logical partition on the first hard drive which I have also told it to use. The other three hard drives contain various partitions, all of which I have hidden from CentOS which are primary partitions. I have as well hidden the primary partitions on the first hard drive also. While there are other Linux parttions I do not want CentOS to use them in any way right now. Yet when I restart or shutdown CentOS I get messages saying that there are DMA errors waiting for some hard disk event on another hard dribe before the OS eventually reboots or shuts down my system. I have checked the mount and nothing but the two partitions with which I have set up to run CentOS are mounted. Why then is CentOS trying to access other hard drives upon shutdown ? Is there some way that I can curtail the OS from doing so ?

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Re: [CentOS] x86_64 Question (Solved)
by Brian T. Brunner 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Hmmm... Looking at drivers/human.c starting at line 666 if (human.state_test(ALIVE)) then if (eval_actions(DUMB)) dumber(); else human.state_set(DEAD); Get used to it. Brian Brunner brian.t.brunner(a)gai-tronics.com (610)796-5838 >>> ethericalzen(a)gmail.com 09/12/05 03:06PM >>> Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 12:05 -0500, Alex White wrote: > >>Is there some linkage anyone can pass to me that tells me (not >>necessarily step by step) what options to pass to rpmbuild if I want >>to build a 32-bit app on the athlon64? > > > setarch i386 rpmbuild ... Well then, that was stupid of me. Told you it my dumb question of the year. I will refrain from stupidity for the rest of the year thank you very much. Sincerely, Alex White _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ******************************************************************* This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. www.hubbell.com - Hubbell Incorporated

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php 5.0.5
by Bob Pierce 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

I see php 5.0.5 has been released. Are there plans to include this update in the centosplus repo for Centos4? Bob Pierce Systems Analyst Westman Communications Group pierceb(a)westmancom.com

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Failing "yum --installroot=/mnt groupinstall base"
by Jesse Waters 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Hello all, trying to do the below command. yum --installroot=/mnt groupinstall base i receive this error message. "You have enabled checking of packages via GPG keys. This is a good thing. However, you do not have any GPG public keys installed. You need to download the keys for packages you wish to install and install them. You can do that by running the command: rpm --import public.gpg.key" I have already imported the gpg keys in: /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG* /usr/share/doc/centos-release-4/RPM-GPG* I can yum install <package> without issue but when I try the groupinstall option it fails any suggestions? Regards, Jesse Waters

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x86_64 Question
by Alex White 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Hello All, It's time for my stupid question of the year. I just swapped over to an Athlon64 proc. I went to compile a src rpm and it bombs out. Now, rather than have anyone troubleshoot this and add noise to the list, I'm fairly certain what it's been answered before by someone. I tried google and never did see a true answer. what I do see is stuff about mozilla mostly and associated plugins. This isn't solving my problem. Is there some linkage anyone can pass to me that tells me (not necessarily step by step) what options to pass to rpmbuild if I want to build a 32-bit app on the athlon64? I assumed it was --target i686 or somethin' similar but all of the options I've tried with target result in the same failure. Namely: checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables Or I get the following when passing no options to rpmbuild at all other than building the binary: Invalid configuration `x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu': machine `x86_64-unknown' not recognized I've already managed to build gaim 1.5.0 (as a test) and it builds and installs fine. So I'm confuzzled. I'm sure it's something hugenormously ignorant and dumb on my part. Englighten me please. CentOS-4 (current on all updates) Sincerely, Alex White

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snmp interface values on x86_64?
by Les Mikesell 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

I'm trying to graph the interface traffic from centos 3.5 x86_64 boxes using snmp and cacti (running on an x86 box). Everything starts out OK after a reboot, but it looks like after the total traffic out passes 2^32 bytes the values returned in snmp 5-minute rates go crazy. Is this a known bug, and if not, where should it be reported? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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One day left to vote for CentOS
by lance＠uklinux.net 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

CentOS has been nominated for an award in the Linux User awards. Please vote for CentOS !! Voting finishes tomorrow - 13th September. Please vote at :- http://www.linuxawards.co.uk/index.php You will need to vote for all categories otherwise the vote wont count. Thanks Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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Re: [Cantos] Boot process slow with RGB quiet on
by Brian T. Brunner 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

[quote]"microcode device doesn't exist?"[/quote] Try grepping for 'microcode' in /var/log/messages, try dmesg | grep microcode, either or both may give you the exact text. chkconfig --list | grep microcode may also give you a hit, if yes, the problem is easy to cure: turn off the service (man chkconfig). If these don't give hits, then it's time to build a kernel for your hardware and desires, switching 'microcode' stuff off. Brian Brunner brian.t.brunner(a)gai-tronics.com (610)796-5838 >>> dave(a)tokyocomedy.com 09/12/05 09:31AM >>> If I boot with "rhgb quiet" off, my computer boots in 1 minute and 30 seconds. If I boot with "rhgb quiet" on, my computer boots in 3m11s. That's a long time to wait. Significantly, when booting with "rhgb quiet", right at the moment X takes over, there is a 1m36s pause where the screen is blank except for the hourglass cursor turning around and around. Of course, if my main priority was to simply boot quickly, I would simply remove the "rhgb quiet" option from the boot process. And I'm not opposed to doing that. However, this pause only started happening recently, so I wonder why it exists at all. When booting with "rhgb quiet" off, I tried to look for any errors or indications of a problem, but it seemed to boot mostly without pause or error. There was one message which was like an error warning, which said something about a "microcode device doesn't exist?". But text was moving across the screen quickly and I couldn't write down exactly what it said. Before I give in and remove the "rhgb quiet" option permanently, is there any way I might be able to diagnose and fix this delay problem? I'd rather be telling the computer how to boot, instead of it telling me. Dave _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ******************************************************************* This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. www.hubbell.com - Hubbell Incorporated

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 7, Issue 9
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-announce-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-announce-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS-announce digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CESA-2005:769-01: Critical CentOS 2 i386 mozilla security update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:22:26 +1000 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:769-01: Critical CentOS 2 i386 mozilla security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <4324BC32.1060601(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the centos mirror: RHSA-2005:769-01 Critical: mozilla security update Files available: mozilla-1.7.10-1.1.2.2.i386.rpm mozilla-chat-1.7.10-1.1.2.2.i386.rpm mozilla-devel-1.7.10-1.1.2.2.i386.rpm mozilla-dom-inspector-1.7.10-1.1.2.2.i386.rpm mozilla-js-debugger-1.7.10-1.1.2.2.i386.rpm mozilla-mail-1.7.10-1.1.2.2.i386.rpm mozilla-nspr-1.7.10-1.1.2.2.i386.rpm mozilla-nspr-devel-1.7.10-1.1.2.2.i386.rpm mozilla-nss-1.7.10-1.1.2.2.i386.rpm mozilla-nss-devel-1.7.10-1.1.2.2.i386.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 7, Issue 9 *********************************************

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