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Mouse Problems
by Aly Dharshi 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Hello Folks, I hope that you are well. I have installed CentOS 4.1 and I have an MS mouse. The mouse pointer can be moved around BUT I cannot click on anything menus and such, even during the install the mouse isn't operational for clickage. Any thoughts. Any help would be most welcome. I am using an Avocent SwitchView MP, but its made no difference in installing Core 3 or any other OS. Cheers, Aly. -- Aly S.P Dharshi aly.dharshi(a)telus.net "A good speech is like a good dress that's short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover the subject"

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RE: [CentOS] using various IDE or SCSI hard drive interfaceswithCentOS Linux questions
by Seth Bardash 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 12:47, Robert Hanson wrote: > and so, if i load and config the 1850R with 4 scsi drives in raid5 array > and get functional with CentOS, let's say i want to take all 4 drives and > stuff them in correct order in a dl380 *cold*... > > possibly different SCSI controllers.... yet nothing CentOS couldnt handle > IMHO... First, most SCSI or SATA based RAID controllers put some, if not all. the config info for the array on one or all of the drives. At boot they load this info so they know how the array is set up. Each different MFG uses a different table type to do this :( . With this said, if your first RAID 5 controller is made by (pick one) LSI Logic and you try to put these drives into a system with a (pick any other one) adaptec controller you will have NO LUCK. Second, The only way your drive migration is going to be seamless (really just move the drives and boot) is if: 1) RAID controllers are the same and running the same level of firmware. different levels of firmware may store different config parameters in a different order - but might migrate ?? 2) Same motherboard and chipset with same BIOS revision. 3) BIOS is set up identically so that the RAID array is the same device and in the same position in the boot order. Swap is hard coded into fstab and if the array is a different logical drive the O/S may not be able to mount swap This is not a Centos limitation, it's an operating system / BIOS / boot sequence function. Hope this helps Seth Bardash Integrated Solutions and Systems 1510 North Gate Road Colorado Springs, CO 80921 719-495-5866 719-495-5870 Fax 719-337-4779 Cell http://www.integratedsolutions.org Failure can not cope with perseverance! -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.12/77 - Release Date: 8/18/2005

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using various IDE or SCSI hard drive interfaces with CentOS Linux questions
by Robert Hanson 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

greetings, it has been a long time and i do not recall all the specifics if one loads CentOS Linux on a machine with an PATA IDE or SCSI hard drive interface then i should be able to interchange that drive on virtually _ANY_ machine with an PATA IDE or SCSI respectively right?? (ignore physical connector differences on SCSI) i believe the answer(s) to be yes... now, what about the newer SATA? will it hold true there as well or are there enough minor differences in SATA creation and growth where one could run into an occasional problem? the bottom line appears to be that almost _ALL_ relevant hardware drivers from the past and the present are included in the distribution correct? can anyone comment on any major recent "gotchas" or other relevant situations they experienced in moving drives from machine to machine or ??? tia and regards, - rh -- Robert Hanson Abba Communications http://www.abbacomm.net

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bonding
by Robin Mordasiewicz 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

I am using the linux bonding, and on my new Centos-4 box I noticed that the ifconfig is slightly different. Now the slave interfaces report that they have an ip address, but the same config files in CentOS 3.5 showed that the slave interfaces were up, but not assigned an interface. Boinding is working, but I am just puzzled to see the address assigned i.e [root@proj proj]# ifconfig bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:81:2F:D4:48 inet addr:192.168.0.18 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:6213602 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3210436 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:8895154151 (8.2 GiB) TX bytes:249407197 (237.8 MiB) eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:81:2F:D4:48 inet addr:192.168.0.18 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:6076938 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1602894 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:8711287076 (8.1 GiB) TX bytes:124498033 (118.7 MiB) Interrupt:185 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:81:2F:D4:48 inet addr:192.168.0.18 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:136664 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1607542 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:183867075 (175.3 MiB) TX bytes:124909164 (119.1 MiB) Interrupt:193 --

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Creating your own ACPI events to suspend?
by Preston Crawford 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

I've been trying to get this laptop I just got to suspend. It's not working. I saw this bug report... http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=723 And I'm wondering if someone could point me in the direction of creating your own events to suspend the laptop. I've never done this before. Is it even worth it? Does Linux hibernate well? Preston

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What are these logged events in /var/log/messages
by Remco Barendse 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Hi list! On all my 4.x boxes (didn't see this on 3.x) I get this in /var/log/messages the whole day: Aug 17 04:02:05 weblinux1 crond(pam_unix)[32149]: session closed for user root Aug 17 05:01:01 weblinux1 crond(pam_unix)[32668]: session opened for user root b y (uid=0) Aug 17 05:01:01 weblinux1 crond(pam_unix)[32668]: session closed for user root Aug 17 06:01:01 weblinux1 crond(pam_unix)[32712]: session opened for user root b y (uid=0) Aug 17 06:01:01 weblinux1 crond(pam_unix)[32712]: session closed for user root Aug 17 07:01:01 weblinux1 crond(pam_unix)[32762]: session opened for user root b y (uid=0) Aug 17 07:01:01 weblinux1 crond(pam_unix)[32762]: session closed for user root Aug 17 08:01:01 weblinux1 crond(pam_unix)[344]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Logwatch reports it too every day: crond: Unknown Entries: session closed for user root: 25 Time(s) session opened for user root by (uid=0): 25 Time(s) Some boxes have up to 770 of these events per day

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Starting a process at a specified nice value.
by CentOS-List＠jamesplace.net 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

I wonder if someone could point me to the appropriate docs for my question? If I would like to cause my system to always start 'smbd' processes at priority 7 for example, how would I go about doing that. I'm assuming there's a better way than running a cronjob every minute to renice existing processes. I'd appreciate some help pointing me in the right direction. Thanks.

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problems with AMD
by Juan F. Arribillaga 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Hello, i have a Pc AMD Sempron 2.6 and I downloaded Centos v4.1 to install as a Server. When I install the version 4.1 i386 the linux installation says "abnormally exited, you must safe reboot your machine". There aren't no compatibility between Centos 4.1 and AMD Sempron Processor? How can I install sempron in this machine? Version? Thanks, Juan Fracisco <mailto:juanarribillaga@speedy.com.ar> juanarribillaga(a)speedy.com.ar Argentina

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Die, KDE! Die! (Sticking with Gnome and Yum Conflicts)
by Dave Gutteridge 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Okay, I experimented with both KDE and Gnome, and decided I'd rather use Gnome. After making this decision, I wanted to remove KDE, because I like to keep my hard drive as lean as possible. I accomplished this, or so I thought, by running: # yum groupremove "KDE (K Desktop Environment)". It seemed to work. Removed a whole bunch 'o stuff. Okay, but then I wanted to install k3B, the CD burning software, which I'm led to believe is designed for KDE, but runs in Gnome. I did a YUM install and got the following error: [root@localhost ~]# yum install k3b Setting up Install Process Setting up Repos dag 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 kbs-CentOS-Extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 kbs-CentOS-Misc 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files dag : ################################################## 2471/2471 kbs-CentOS: ################################################## 1210/1210 kbs-CentOS: ################################################## 60/60 update : ################################################## 95/95 base : ################################################## 1406/1406 extras : ################################################## 32/32 Excluding Packages in global exclude list Finished Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Downloading header for k3b to pack into transaction set. k3b-0.11.14-2.i386.rpm 100% |=========================| 47 kB 00:00 ---> Package k3b.i386 0:0.11.14-2 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: libkwalletclient.so.1 for package: k3b --> Processing Dependency: libkdecore.so.4 for package: k3b --> Processing Dependency: libkdefx.so.4 for package: k3b --> Processing Dependency: libartskde.so.1 for package: k3b --> Processing Dependency: libkdeui.so.4 for package: k3b --> Processing Dependency: libkdesu.so.4 for package: k3b --> Processing Dependency: libDCOP.so.4 for package: k3b --> Processing Dependency: libkparts.so.2 for package: k3b --> Processing Dependency: libkio.so.4 for package: k3b --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package kdelibs.i386 6:3.3.1-3.11 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Conflict: redhat-menus conflicts kdelibs < 6:3.4.0-5 --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: redhat-menus conflicts with kdelibs < 6:3.4.0-5 What is this conflict? I could understand if there were missing dependancies. But since I removed KDE, how can there be a conflict? Dave

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RE: [CentOS] vlc port build fails on freebsd 5.4
by Philip Wyett 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On > Behalf Of manish jain > Sent: 18 August 2005 13:46 > To: centos(a)centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] vlc port build fails on freebsd 5.4 > > > hi, > > i am trying to install videolan's vlc 0.8.2 port on my > freebsd-5.4 system. halfway through the build, it > exits with the error that the shared library tar.0 was > not found. > > can somebody please help me on this ? > > thank you > manish jain > Hi, See http://www.freebsd.org for more info about that OS, the ports system and more appropriate lists to send FreeBSD questions to. Regards Phil Philip Wyett Quality Engineer A-Novo UK Limited. (Saltaire, Shipley). An ISO9001 Company Telephone: 01274 534156 Mobile: 07910 745136 Switchboard: 01274 534152 Fax: 01274 534196 Email: pwyett(a)a-novo.co.uk

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