[CentOS] CentOS 6 is a bear

Sat Oct 8 01:58:14 UTC 2011
TE Dukes <tdukes at palmettoshopper.com>

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Bob Hoffman
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 9:14 PM
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> Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 6 is a bear
> 
> Gotta say, centos has been tough to install and get working.
> 
> The anaconda installer makes large drive setups horridly 
> tedious (especially if reinstalling a lot).
> 
> Package selection seems a bit off...
> 
> I did a virtualization package, no custom..did not install 
> qemu, libvirt, and all attempts to do any virtualization 
> failed due to non-installed packages.
> 
> Then I decided to select all the virtualization packages in 
> custom, but had selected 'web server' as the base package. I 
> was never able to connect to the net here at 
> home...apparently some things with 'modprobe' 
> did not install and the eth devices 'does not exist' or 
> something like that.
> 
> Then I decided on the entire gnome package, with all the 
> bells and whistles...everything worked, but who wants that? I 
> removed some packages in gnome to see and reboot made machine dead.
> Did that 4 different times with very few package removals.
> 
> Did a number of various tries with custom selections, but the 
> dependencies seem to not be grabbing all it needs to work. 
> Never got a non gnome setup to recognize eth devices (well, 
> one time, but it never was able to get the net).
> 
> I just installed a custom set up, all virtualization 
> packages- virtualization selected as base. I added some gnome 
> stuff and a few other doo dads.....booted up..went right to 
> the command line.... no virt software works, errors 
> everywhere. Display will not come up (x, vnc, or gnome no 
> matter what)..
> 
> Every installation, in first boot up had major missing or odd 
> problems. 
> One time I booted up with a gnome set up and selinux was 
> stopping 5 differetn gdm programs..at boot...due to security 
> risks... wtf?
> 
> Any attempt to disable or make selinux permissive results in 
> a dead machine, unable to ever boot again (left one up for 12 
> hours, never came back up, thought it was relabeling, but no message.)
> 
> Removing packages with the gnome running only worked about 
> 10% of the time, all others resulted in dead machine at reboot.
> 
> I am considering, the only way to actually install and use 
> this as a virtualized host is to go full desktop and hope the 
> selinux enforcing will not break the system (with all the 
> programs it will not let run on boot)...
> 
> I have never, not once, been able to connect to the net in 
> the command line setups...I know how to configure eths, 
> network, dns, etc...not once, not even dhcp..config eth0 up, 
> etc.. Gnome has not a single issue with the same exact file 
> setups.. Many command line setups would not even see the eth 
> devices, something about modprobe this or that not installed.....wth?
> 
> quite an interesting task. I have now taken the server out of 
> the center and am just going to endlessly install until I get 
> a system that is low resources and actually allows the 
> virtualization to work.
> 
> My last install, with all virt packages selected...?..... 
> cannot run virt-manager, libvirt, though some virt programs 
> do work...why? 
> something each needed to run was not installed as a 
> dependency....<smacks head>
> 
> Reinstalling would not be so bad, but the anaconda installer 
> does not quite set up the drives the same on a reinstall 
> forcing a deletion of partitions and redoing the entire 
> setup..quite annoying
> 
> /rant off
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Dooood!!

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I initally installed CentOS
6.0 as a desktop and added from there. After that, I uninstalled the
'fluff'.