On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 20:40 -0500, Robert wrote: > I performed the update yesterday that included installing kernel > 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL and replacing ethereal with wireshark. > First, the trivial... > Wireshark would not run from the KDE menu without editing the menu to > change the command from "wireshark" to "kdesu wireshark" because dumpcap > is at usr/sbin/dumpcap instead of /usr/bin/dumpcap . Making the change > causes wireshark to open root password dialog like ethereal, which it > replaced. (And which makes sense.) Just for the record ... we had already taken action on that one to try and get a bug corrected upstream (pretty good for someone who "Doesn't know what is to give something back" ... sorry different thread :) : http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1459 > > Now, the puzzling. This is an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ on an ASUS A7N8X > deluxe ver 2.0 m/b. The symptom is that ntpd refuses to sync. Dropping > back to kernel 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL restores ntpd to proper operation. My > first thought was that the smp code must have been incorporated in the > non-smp kernel because the system mis-behaves exactly as it has in the > past when Anaconda mistakenly installed the smp kernel. What clouds the > picture is that when I checked the updates repository, I found both > http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/RPMS/kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL.i686.rpm > and > http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/RPMS/kernel-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL.i686.rpm > which then made me wonder if there was a glitch in the build process. > No glitch in building, maybe a problem with the kernel and your hardware ... we always have a kernel and a kernel-smp. There is also a new ntp in those updates. > Has anyone else seen this? I always run a ntpdate at startup against my time server then start the ntpd service. I am using the new smp kernel and ntpd on 3 machines and it seems to be working. None of my machines are AMD though. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060826/f85569c7/attachment-0004.sig>