Re: [CentOS] ssh security
Dear All, Tahnks to all you guys for immediate reply by the way i jus hav modified the firewall by explicitly specifiying a rule to block ssh traffic from outside i will wait for sometime and check the log again thnaks again guys apprecite your replies Regards Fabian > 2009/6/19 Cisco-Education : >> Dear All, >> >> I have the following setup running perfectly OK for a long time >> >> CentOS release 5 (Final) >> sendmail-8.13.8-2.el5 >> MailScanner 4.76.25 >> bind-9.3.4-6.0.3.P1.el5_2 >> >> now i jus setup a centos box running BackupPC for backing up my my above >> mail server using ssh as per the instructions in backup pc site >> i had to enable sshd so i did it and >> everthing works perfect and backup works great as per my requirement >> >> but i notice that when i do a >> >> tail -f /var/log/secure >> >> i see the followin very often >> --- >> Jun 19 16:26:06 kmdns1 sshd[11073]: Invalid user jeka from 87.118.122.78 >> Jun 19 16:26:06 kmdns1 sshd[11074]: input_userauth_request: invalid user >> jeka >> Jun 19 16:26:06 kmdns1 sshd[11074]: Received disconnect from >> 87.118.122.78: 11: Bye Bye > >> Now both the Mail server and the backup pc server behind firewall and >> ssh >> protocol is denied to the hosts in the DMZ zone >> >> jus wondering how a outside user could try to ssh to my mail server. >> if i stop the sshd daemon i dont see any messages in my secure log file >> >> apprecite your addvice and help >> >> >> regards >> >> Fabian >> >> >> > > Most likely answer -- your FW is not actually blocking ssh connections > to the servers from outside the DMZ. The source of the traffic is a > routable address, if it doesn't match your ip space then your FW isn't > working correctly. > > Brian > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ssh security
> > >> > [Normal log stuff from dictionary attack deleted...] >> >> This is common, and, presuming you have good passwords or only >> accept authorized_keys, not a real problem other than large log >> files. >> >> Look at fail2ban for a method that will automatically add >> iptables blocks when this occurs. >> > > yes fail2ban is very useful. but also good to change to a non standard > port. > > Thanks guys, The problem was solved after using a non standard port for ssh. but wht was confusing was that the secure logs of my mail server was showing ssh logs i passwordless login since backuppc needs it but using authorized keys but wonder how it was gettin through my firewall but also if i had to ssh from the outside network i could see the firewall droppin my ssh request quite confusing any for about 24 hrs i dont hav any ssh messages in my mail server secure logs regrads simon > > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] startx problem
Dear All, I have recently upgraded mu centos 5 final to centos 5.3 using yum update i have the following setup which was running on centos 5 old server is centos os 5 now centos 3 with all the utilitlies Mailscanner 4.6 clam av 0.92 + spam assassin 3.1 mailwatch 1.04 after running yum server upgraded to centos 5.3 and download and installed latest mail scanner and clamav+ spam assassin centos 5.3 mailscanner 4.77 latest clamav+SA jules package now i see that system works fine but when i try run startx after loggin in the display jus hangs n system freezes only i can hard reset it i tried to see the /var/logs/Xorg.0.log but no much information when i run system config display my display card is detected n it works fine apprecite if someone can advice n help regards fabian -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%
Dear All, I have been using the following for along time but recently i noticed the following Centos 5.2 squid stable 2.6 clamav + havp i do have MRTG running which monitors CPU + bandwith usage of my squid proxy server i notced recently that the cpu utilization peaks to abt 100 % at 4 am every day and becomes normall at 10 am cpu 4.5%us 2.3% sy 0.0%ni 2% id 95% wa notice the 95% wa the only thing that i added was i have a cron job running clamscan at 4 am but initally it was workin without any problem when i run top it show so when i noticed this high cpu utilization i removed the clamscan entry from my crontab file so as to diable it but the problem still persists i wanted to disble all the daily crontab jobs but i jus wanted to know which process could be actually causing this appreciate your advice and help regards fabian -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%
> 2009/7/5 fabian > >> >> i notced recently that the cpu utilization peaks to abt 100 % at 4 am >> every day and becomes normall at 10 am >> >> >> cpu 4.5%us 2.3% sy 0.0%ni 2% id 95% wa >> >> notice the 95% wa >> >> > It looks like you might be misreading the idle % for CPU activity. A 95% > idle shows the system is not doing much. > so sorry abouyt my typing its cpu==>4.5%us sy==> 2.3% ni==> 0.0% id==> 2 % wa==> 95% so the wa=95 % this starts about 4 am and stops about 10 am then the CPU idle time is always between 90% to 99% regards Fabian > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved
Dear Guys
Thanks and apprecite your quick replies
By the way i had stated solving the problem of almost 100% CPU utulization
starting everyday at 4 am and ending at 10 am in a very crude way
top was reporting 95% wa
i started to check the crontab file and noticed that the
cron.daily entry in the file sarts at 4 am
and in the directory i found
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 133 Jul 6 16:59 00webalizer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 379 Jul 6 17:02 0anacron
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root39 Nov 9 2008 0logwatch ->
/usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 5 21:25 backup
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root62 Jul 6 17:37 clamav
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 118 Jul 6 17:00 cups
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 456 Nov 3 2008 freshclam
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root26 Jul 6 17:00 havp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 180 Dec 2 2007 logrotate
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 418 Jan 6 2007 makewhatis.cron
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 137 Jul 6 17:23 mlocate.cron
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2181 Jun 21 2006 prelink
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 114 Jul 6 17:01 rpm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 290 Jul 5 21:24 tmpwatch
i started movies some of thes files to difereent directory and finally
found that it was the below file that was the culprit
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 290 Jul 5 21:24 tmpwatch
---
the contents of the file was
/usr/sbin/tmpwatch -x /tmp/.X11-unix -x /tmp/.XIM-unix -x /tmp/.font-unix \
-x /tmp/.ICE-unix -x /tmp/.Test-unix 240 /tmp
/usr/sbin/tmpwatch 720 /var/tmp
for d in /var/{cache/man,catman}/{cat?,X11R6/cat?,local/cat?}; do
if [ -d "$d" ]; then
/usr/sbin/tmpwatch -f 720 "$d"
fi
done
now everything works fine without this file in the /etc/cron.daily directory
so the tmpwatch was the culprit cause the CPU wait state to almost 99 %
for almost 6 hrs
but jus would like to know if this particular script has any signifance or
any perfomance issue and my system will run perfect without the file
apprecite you help
regards
Fabian
> fabian wrote:
>>> 2009/7/5 fabian
>>>
>>>> i notced recently that the cpu utilization peaks to abt 100 % at 4 am
>>>> every day and becomes normall at 10 am
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> cpu 4.5%us 2.3% sy 0.0%ni 2% id 95% wa
>>>>
>>>> notice the 95% wa
>>>>
>>>>
>>> It looks like you might be misreading the idle % for CPU activity. A
>>> 95%
>>> idle shows the system is not doing much.
>>>
>>
>> so sorry abouyt my typing
>>
>> its cpu==>4.5%us
>> sy==> 2.3%
>> ni==> 0.0%
>> id==> 2 %
>> wa==> 95%
>>
>>
>> so the wa=95 %
>>
>> this starts about 4 am and stops about 10 am
>> then the CPU idle time is always between 90% to 99%
>
> Wait means the kernel is waiting for some device i/o command(s) to
> complete.
> The CPU is idle but can't do anything useful without the results from the
> device, probably disk or network. Starting at 4 am makes the
> 'updatedb'run that
> builds the database for the locate command a likely culprit. Do you have
> a lot
> of files, slow disks, or perhaps some network mounts that are included?
>
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[CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved---but still a query
Dear All,
I had solved the problem earlier of CPU wait state being almost 100% and
had solved the problem of disbling the cron job of tmpwatch
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 290 Jul 5 21:24 tmpwatch
which is a cron.daily file
now more investigations reveleved to me that
since im running havp 0.89 with squid
i have a directory created by havp in
/var/tmp
drwxrwx--- 2 havp havp 71536640 Jul 14 18:15 havp
now if i do a cd /var/tmp
i go to tmp directory which is fine
then if i say
cd havp
my machine hangs and i see that the cpu wait state shoots upto 100%
now i tried goin in asingle user mode and the same problem
i ty to delete this directory i cannot
actually since the tmpwatch cron job was clearing files in /var/tmp/havp
it was hangging
apprecite some help n advice how to get reid of this directory
Regards
Fabian
> fabian wrote:
>> Dear Guys
>>
>> Thanks and apprecite your quick replies
>> By the way i had stated solving the problem of almost 100% CPU
>> utulization
>> starting everyday at 4 am and ending at 10 am in a very crude way
>> top was reporting 95% wa
>>
>> i started to check the crontab file and noticed that the
>> cron.daily entry in the file sarts at 4 am
>>
>> and in the directory i found
>>
>>
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 133 Jul 6 16:59 00webalizer
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 379 Jul 6 17:02 0anacron
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root39 Nov 9 2008 0logwatch ->
>> /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 5 21:25 backup
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root62 Jul 6 17:37 clamav
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 118 Jul 6 17:00 cups
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 456 Nov 3 2008 freshclam
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root26 Jul 6 17:00 havp
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 180 Dec 2 2007 logrotate
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 418 Jan 6 2007 makewhatis.cron
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 137 Jul 6 17:23 mlocate.cron
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2181 Jun 21 2006 prelink
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 114 Jul 6 17:01 rpm
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 290 Jul 5 21:24 tmpwatch
>>
>>
>> i started movies some of thes files to difereent directory and finally
>> found that it was the below file that was the culprit
>>
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 290 Jul 5 21:24 tmpwatch
>> ---
>> the contents of the file was
>>
>> /usr/sbin/tmpwatch -x /tmp/.X11-unix -x /tmp/.XIM-unix -x
>> /tmp/.font-unix \
>> -x /tmp/.ICE-unix -x /tmp/.Test-unix 240 /tmp
>> /usr/sbin/tmpwatch 720 /var/tmp
>> for d in /var/{cache/man,catman}/{cat?,X11R6/cat?,local/cat?}; do
>> if [ -d "$d" ]; then
>> /usr/sbin/tmpwatch -f 720 "$d"
>> fi
>> done
>>
>>
>> now everything works fine without this file in the /etc/cron.daily
>> directory
>> so the tmpwatch was the culprit cause the CPU wait state to almost 99 %
>> for almost 6 hrs
>> but jus would like to know if this particular script has any signifance
>> or
>> any perfomance issue and my system will run perfect without the file
>>
>>
>> apprecite you help
>>
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Fabian
>>
>>
>>
> man tmpwatch shows that this is designed to cleanup tmp directories -
> you may want to see why your tmp files are either very many or have some
> other issues
> HTH
> Rob
>
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Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved---but still a query
> fabian wrote: > >> apprecite some help n advice how to get reid of this directory > > Is /var/ on a separate file system? It sounds like there is just > a massive amount of files there, if /var is split out then you > can move all other data off of /var and reformat it, and copy the > data back. > > Otherwise perhaps just run rm -rf havp and wait till it finishes, > maybe take a few minutes, hours, or days. > > Do you know what havp is? I'd suggest finding it's configuration > and fixing it so it doesn't create so many files. > > nate > Thanks nate for ur immediate reply really apprecite by the way i had tried to rm -rf havp but it was jus takin a real long time actually the var partition is on different file system but the partition also servers as a data for our ftp server i will try to move the data but was jus wondering if somethin easier could be there to solve it as of now after disabling the cron script the systems being workin fine for almost a week with no problems but have to find the solulation for the problem regards fabian > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved---its OK now
> fabian wrote: >>> fabian wrote: >>> >>>> apprecite some help n advice how to get reid of this directory >>> Is /var/ on a separate file system? It sounds like there is just >>> a massive amount of files there, if /var is split out then you >>> can move all other data off of /var and reformat it, and copy the >>> data back. >>> >>> Otherwise perhaps just run rm -rf havp and wait till it finishes, >>> maybe take a few minutes, hours, or days. >>> >>> Do you know what havp is? I'd suggest finding it's configuration >>> and fixing it so it doesn't create so many files. >>> >>> nate >>> >> >> Thanks nate for ur immediate reply >> >> really apprecite >> >> by the way i had tried to rm -rf havp but it was jus takin a real long >> time >> actually the var partition is on different file system >> but the partition also servers as a data for our ftp server >> >> i will try to move the data >> >> but was jus wondering if somethin easier could be there to solve it >> >> as of now after disabling the cron script the systems being workin fine >> for almost a week with no problems >> >> but have to find the solulation for the problem > > Is this really a (normal) side effect of enabling mandatory locks on the > file system as havp claims to require? (And the reason that unix-like > systems rarely use mandatory locks)? > > -- >Les Mikesell > lesmikes...@gmail.com > Once gain thanks so much guys i just managed to get rid of the /var/tmp/havp directory actually i was little in hurry for my earlier reply what i did was i went to single user mode and did a rm -rf /var/tmp/havp and it took almost more thn 4 hrs to delete the directory and contents more thn 40 gb stuff housed in it anyway way i put missing scripts back in my crontab files and will check tomorrow when all the users start usng the server. I really do apprecite all ur help thanks once again regards Fabian also i try to see to restrict the size if i can in havp > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] sendmail slow to response
Dear All, I am sorry for the post here but really apprecite if someone could help me or advise. actually i just could not subscribe to sendmail mailing list I have the following setup for a long time on a single computer Centos server running as my primary Mail & Dns server CentOS release 5 (Final) sendmail-8.13.8-2.el5 bind-9.3.4-6.0.3.P1.el5_2 MailScanner (4.76.25) Mailwatch 1.0.4 I had also running Squirrel mail on the same computer ver 1.1.17 which had been upgraded as per new releases all this had been workin grt until recently some users complined that MSOutlook or Outlook expreess is very slow (a simple text mail remains 2 to 3 minutes in outbox) and then sent actually abt 80 % users use squirrel mail and there is absolutley no problem after i started to check this problem i finally concluded that a telnet the server ip:25 from a client took a long time for sendmail to respond. the client is on local lan after loggin into the server itself a telnet to the server ip on port 25 was just instant also netstat -nl shows me tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN i have not changed any settings in sendmail.mc file or regenrated the sendmail.cf file just wondering what could have gone wrong would really apprecite your help and advice as to wht i could do to troubleshoot this rpoblem Regards simon -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] server mirroring how to
Dear All, I have the following setup which is the heart of our organistion and runs the following for a long time Centos 5.0 server which is used as a Primary Mailserver running sendmail about 400 users mailScanner Primary DNS server using bind Webserver running apache squirrel mail web server i also do have a another centos secondary DNS server and same machine used as my secondary mail server with no mail users Currently i have been following a little crude way of backup i shut down the Primary machine and I use clone Gozilla to make a duplicate of the original disk and keep it standby i do it weekly basis which is really a crude way i am jus googling arround for a solution in where i could have online mirroring of another machine i could have an identical hardware machine which could be running online so if the first machine fails the second one is avaliable instantly also if i create a new user or a new mail user ther user is replicated on both machine if i upgraded or install any software on one machine it is replicated on the other automaticalu.. so we have total redundancy can it be done i was googling arround and actually found linux heartbeat but could not really get the hang of it. to my understanding heartbeat works on service which one would like to mirror but for me i would like disk mirroring on different servers any body has done the above apprecite your advice and help regards fabian -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Prevent kernel upgrade unless given dependencies satisfied
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 13:41 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > Dear List Members, > > Is there a way to prevent a kernel from being upgraded unless > a list of given dependencies are satisfied? > > What I am getting at is sometimes updated kernels are available > before the upgraded versions of the kernel modules in 'extras' > are (ie drbd). > > If there were a way to list these modules as dependencies that > must be satisfied before a kernel upgrade can be performed it > would prevent a lot of pain around upgrade management. > Yes : when you have production machine using such modules (sitting in the extras repository, or third-party), i advice you to exclude the kernel (exclude=) in your yum config ... i *always* update manually such things, especially when dealing with sensitive data that needs to be replicated through DRBD ... My two cents .. -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] drbd on CentOS 5
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:30 -0500, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:14 -0500, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > > Is the centosplus kernel still needed for drbd support? I noticed that > > if I do a 'yum update kmod-drbd', yum gives me an error because it wants > > to install the "normal" CentOS kernel, but can't since I have it > > excluded. > > I was getting the error because I didn't have kmod-drbd in my > 'includepkgs' list for the centosplus repo. But, my question still > stands - do I need the centosplus kernel for drbd support? I thought I > did, but now I'm not sure. No, you don't need the centosplus kernel to use DRBD ... but actually there is no (not yet) kmod-drbd for the current (and updated) CentOS 5.1 kernel. They'll appear soon -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Problem with driver disk on amd64
On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 09:03 +0100, Fridtjof Busse wrote: > Hi, > > I have a really strange problem with a driver disk > (http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList/RealTekRTL8111b) on amd64. > I'm remotly booting the system via isolinux-files, so I unfortunatly > do not have access to relevant logs, all I can see the the primary > console/screen. > With i386, the driver disk works just fine and I can install via http. > But with amd64, the installer complains no driver for the hardware > could be found, which again keeps me from installing the system. > Due to the lack of RTL8111 hardware, I cannot debug this locally > either. > Does anybody have an idea what might be wrong? > > Thanks. I've just installed today a server from Hetzner.de (on a AMD Athlon x2 x86_64) using this card in blind mode and it's working with the supplied driver disk on the wiki ... How can you tell that 'installer complains no driver for the hardware could be found' if you don't have console access ? just to be sure : what's the result of lspci -v mine : 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 368c Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 209 I/O ports at d800 [size=256] Memory at feaff000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 8000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [48] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/1 Enable- Capabilities: [60] Express Endpoint IRQ 0 Capabilities: [84] Vendor Specific Information -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Problem with driver disk on amd64
On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 11:28 +0100, Fridtjof Busse wrote:
> * Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > I've just installed today a server from Hetzner.de (on a AMD Athlon x2
> > x86_64) using this card in blind mode and it's working with the
> > supplied driver disk on the wiki ...
>
> Funny, I'm trying to do the exact same thing (DS 3000)
> I'm using "r8168-2.6.18-53.el5-i686-x86_64.img"
>
> > How can you tell that 'installer complains no driver for the hardware
> > could be found' if you don't have console access ?
>
> I got a LARA, a Java-based remote console. But I can't switch consoles
> with that thing ('Alt' is caught on my local machine).
> I'm booting with (shortened):
> 'linux dd method=http:// nousb noipv4 ip= netmask= gateway= dns='
>
> If I do that with the 64bit vmlinuz/initrd.img, the system asks me where
> the driver disk is located, loads it and complains that there's no
> driver for the necessary hardware (ethernet).
> With the 32bit version, everything works fine.
>
> > just to be sure : what's the result of lspci -v
> > mine :
> > 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> > RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
>
> Looks exactly the same here in 2.6.18-53.el5. But unfortunatly,
> "i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux"
>
I've installed it with success on a DS3000 too .. but i didn't use
LARA ...
I've mostly (i've changed some parameters though) used the informations
provided here :
http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/DS8000_/_CentOS_5_/_VNC_Install
I'll probably write something on the Wiki regarding such remote setup
but i can assure you that it's working for me ;-)
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Re: [CentOS] Problem with driver disk on amd64
On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 11:49 +0100, Fridtjof Busse wrote: > * Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I've installed it with success on a DS3000 too .. but i didn't use > > LARA ... > > I've mostly (i've changed some parameters though) used the > > informations provided here : > > http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/DS8000_/_CentOS_5_/_VNC_Install > > Did you install 5.0 or 5.1 (as I did)? > 5.1 x86_64 with the r8168-2.6.18-53.el5-i686-x86_64.img.zip driverdisk image ... -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Problem with driver disk on amd64
On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 12:13 +0100, Fridtjof Busse wrote: > * Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 5.1 x86_64 with the r8168-2.6.18-53.el5-i686-x86_64.img.zip driverdisk > > image ... > > Thanks for the hint, it seems to work. > Now could someone please explain to me why selecting the driver disk by > hand (having booted with 'linux dd') doesn't work, but creating a > kickstart-config that points to a partition with the driver disk works? > What was the line you used with dd= .. i mean how did you provide the driverdisk to the installer because you had no physical access ... ? Because it's a network driver you can not use dd=nfs:// nor ftp nor http (of course ... ;-) ) That's why you have to point it to a local hdd -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Vmware Server on Centos 5.1
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 12:28 +0100, matthias platzer wrote: > Hi all, > > I am running some Centos 5.0 x86_64 servers as host os for vmware server > 1.0.3 on both Opteron and Xeon systems. They are all running fine and > stable. But now I am in doubt to upgrade to 5.1. > > Has any one done that yet, upgraded his vmware hosts with Centos/RHEL > 5.0 to 5.1 ? > I've recently installed vmware-server 1.0.4 on a fresh CentOS 5.1 x86_64 and everything runs fine up to now ... You still have to compile vmmon and vmnet modules from the vmware-config.pl script but that's normal. Notice also that vmware server 2.0 (in beta now) supports RHEL5/CentOS 5.x out of the box. -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Qlogic HBA scanning issues with CentOS 5.1 ?
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 21:55 +, Finnur Örn Guðmundsson wrote: > Hi, > > I got few servers (IBM HS20,HS21 blades, IBM xSeries 3650 & others) > connected to a dual fabric san throught Qlogic HBA's (23xx, 24xx). > Multipathing is done with device-mapper-multipath. I've installed the same machines on several IBM DS3xxx or DS4xxx SANs but i used the provided rdac multipath driver (adviced by IBM in their documentation) > > On CentOS 4.x i can scan for new scsi devices without any problems, get > them up with multipathing & use them without any problems. > > However, after i started installing CentOS 5.1 (did not notice this > problem with CentOS 5) i cannot seem to rescan without huge problems. > Sometimes when i rescan after presenting a new LUN to the server nothing > is detected, and sometimes the device comes in without any problems at > all. Sometimes i even loose some paths after rescanning.again, i had > no problems at all with CentOS 4.x. > > I use the Qlogic script (Dynamic Target and LUN Discovery > <http://support.qlogic.com/support/EULATemplate/Template.aspx?TemplateID=9&path=http://download.qlogic.com/ms/56614/ql-dynamic-tgt-lun-disc-2.2.tgz> > > 2.2) to scan for new luns. As already said, the rdac driver/userspace tool contains a hot_add script that takes care of that .. but i admit that i've not yet updated those machines to 5.1 because of a need to rebuild the rdac kmod ... > > Has anyone had any issues with scanning for new devices off san after > upgrading to 5.1 ? > > Thanks, > Finnur -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Net install from behind webproxy
On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 14:51 +1100, McGlue, Ronan wrote: > I am behind a webproxy and am wondering if I can pass the webproxy's details > to the boot time kernel so that I can install centos 5.1 from the net boot > CD I have downloaded!? > Thanks > > Ronan (as already replied on the forum) : No, that's not supported ... either you download the DVD/CDs or you install from your lan but you have to create a local mirror yourself -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Problem with RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 17:54 +0100, ArcosCom Linux User wrote: > Hi guys; >I'm having a problem with a new pc that has an Realtec ethernet device. > Don't know why the driver is not loading and is not detected during > installation process. > > I tried to load r8169.ko unsuccessfully. It load but no device is > detected. No dmesg or /var/log/message. > > ¿Any help on how I can configure correctly this ethernet device? Have you tested with the driver disk provided here : http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList/CentOS5/RealTek/r1000 ? -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] vncserver
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 16:07 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi all, > > When using the "vncserver :1" and then "vncviewer :1" to see it > so far so good. then when I run a program I get the window outline > until I move to the position I want and click - how can I just skip that > step > and lets say have my new program go full screen (in the vnc window). > > Is that possible and how? THanks, It's because you use twm ... configure vnc to start another desktop environment ... ? check your ~/.vnc/xstartup (iirc : i don't use vnc) -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Wondering about CentOS 5.1 functionality
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 23:37 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi All, > > I'm giving serious thought to loading 5.1 on my Inspiron 1501 laptop, > but I'm wondering about certain hardware support such as the following: > > - - Broadcom Wireless Adapter - 1390 Wlan (bcm43xx) > - - USB (Pny Memory Stick - everytime on previous version CentOS has eaten > the damned things) > - - pptp vpn client(s) > > Any comments? It seems everybody already answered the first two points ... Regarding the pptp vpn client, i've rebuilt the pptpconfig pptp client (gtk interface) and all the deps and they are now also on http://centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/i386/RPMS/ ... -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] can't install pptp client (was: Wondering about CentOS 5.1 functionality)
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 13:06 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: > Fabian Arrotin wrote: > > It seems everybody already answered the first two points ... > > Regarding the pptp vpn client, i've rebuilt the pptpconfig pptp client > > (gtk interface) and all the deps and they are now also on > > http://centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/i386/RPMS/ ... > > Hi Fabian, > > I've been trying to work through this for some hours now, including a > very valiant attempt at building the packages myself, with nothing to > show for my trouble, but a headache. > > I was finally able to get your repository working, but I'm running into > a problem: The repository i pointed you to isn't my repository ... but sorry if i pointed you to and that it didn't contain all the deps .. (i'll manage with Karanbir to have all the deps there too ...) > > Error: Missing Dependency: php4-pcntl >= 4.3.9-2 is needed by package > pptpconfig > Error: Missing Dependency: /bin/php4-pcntl is needed by package pptpconfig > Error: Missing Dependency: php4-pcntl-gtk is needed by package pptpconfig > > I can't seem to find a package for "php4-pcntl" to save my life. > > Have any suggestions? Yep, i built all these deps and you can find them on my 'little and temp' repo : http://rpms.arrfab.net/centos/5/i386/repodata/ (see http://rpms.arrfab.net to know how to use it ) I'm sure everything is there becausei needed it to connect to some customers' networks that use that stupid and poor pptp/mppe protocol .. ;-) -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] can't install pptp client
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 05:58:35PM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: > Fabian Arrotin wrote: > > Ok... I finally got everything installed, however when ever I run the > client and establish a connection, the moment any data begins to pass > back and forth the entire system locks up tight and requires a hardboot > to clear things up. > > I wonder since this laptop is an Athlon X2 (x86_64) based system is it > possible that mixing i386 and x86_64 packages could make the system > unstable? Yep : the mppe module is unstable on x86_64 (but it's stable on i386) : see the bug report : http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2076 > > btw.. thank you very much for the info directing me to your repo. > emmensely helpful. You're welcome .. :-) Fabian Arrotin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] kernel-devel: compile MPP/RDAC kernel module
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 16:00 +0100, Tim Verhoeven wrote: > On Feb 18, 2008 3:42 PM, Simon Jolle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am running Centos 4.6 wit latest updates. For I/O multipathing I > > need to use kernel 2.6.9-55 (IBM support matrix). Trying to compile > > Engenio Linux RDAC Driver[0] > > > > I fail to install kernel-devel for this exact kernel (with up2date). > > Up2date always installs the newest. > > > > # make clean > > make V=1 -C/lib/modules/2.6.9-55.ELsmp/build > > M=/root/tmp/linuxrdac-09.02.B5.15 > > MODVERDIR=/lib/modules/2.6.9-55.ELsmp/build/.tmp_versions > > SUBDIRS=/root/tmp/linuxrdac-09.02.B5.15 clean > > make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.9-55.ELsmp/build: No such file or directory. > > Stop. > > make: *** [clean] Error 2 > > > > # ls -al /lib/modules/2.6.9-55.ELsmp/build > > ls: /lib/modules/2.6.9-55.ELsmp/build: No such file or directory > > > > # uname -r > > 2.6.9-55.ELsmp > > > > # rpm -q kernel-devel > > kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.4.EL.x86_64 > > Either install the 2.6.9-55 kernel-devel package. You can provide the > version number with yum install. Or just use the latest kernel. In the > past I've run the RDAC modules on so called "not-supported" kernels. > Usually newer kernels then the one mentioned. I never had any issues > with it. > > Regards, > Tim +1 : i've used mpp/rdac on different CentOS 4.x kernels (including a setup i've made last week) including latest 4.6 errata kernels and i had no problems .. so why stick with an old kernel ? -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Internet network currently down, TCP/IP packets delivered now by UPS/Fedex ..." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Best way to install non-official packages?
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 20:21 +, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Sooner or later everyone needs to install a package that is not > included on the official installation CDs/DVD. Until now I just used > rpmseek.com and Rpmfind.Net but of course this is far from optimal for > security and compatibility to reasons. > > So what is the recommended way to get and install "non official" > packages that are not part of the repository?! > > > Thorsten http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories .. and search if the package you want doesn't already exist in such third-party repositories .. Otherwise, try to find an existing SRPM that can be rebuild and/or submit a spec file ;-) -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Internet network currently down, TCP/IP packets delivered now by UPS/Fedex ..." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] PE2950, RAID 0, failed disk
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 13:53 -0500, Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: > I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with PERC 5/i, and 6 disks. Two disks have > one logical volume via a hardware RAID 1 and consist of CentOS 5 64-bit; > the remaining four comprise a logical volume via a hardware RAID 0, and > is all user data. > > One drive on the RAID 0 went bad. I removed it while the system was on, > tried a reboot, and the system hangs at RedHat Linux... Starting > > I tried to boot from a Fedora 8 CD, which sees the boot drives fine, but > not the RAID 0 partitions. > > Visiting the PERC controller setup claims the RAID 0 volume is > unavailable, or something similar, though it is defined, with one of the > disks labelled as missing, since I removed it from the system. > > How do I get the partitions on the RAID 0 setup back? I have some of the > data, but need the rest, if possible, and the remaining three disks appear > physically healthy. I'm also going to work with Dell for some answers, > and I've done a lot of googling. RAID 0 doesn't provide redundancy ... i still don't understand why you installed it with RAID 0 ... Recreate a new (RAID 5) drive on the raid controller, format it and restore your last backup ... -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Internet network currently down, TCP/IP packets delivered now by UPS/Fedex ..." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] FOSDEM Presentations
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 22:38 -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Akemi Yagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Check out the CentOS wiki. Search fosdem. > > Great! Found it at http://wiki.centos.org/Events/Fosdem2008 > > I guess Karanbir and Dag didn't yet upload their presentations though. > I would be very grateful if they did! > > Thanks, > Filipe Hmmm, let me poke them about that : i've already asked them to upload their presentations ... ;-) -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Internet network currently down, TCP/IP packets delivered now by UPS/Fedex ..." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] MySQL 4.1 on Centos 5 ?
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Sergej Kandyla wrote: Mogens Kjaer wrote: Sergej Kandyla wrote: ... I don?t want use outdated software and operation system, also I try not use testing distribs\soft in production. Why do you call Centos 4 outdated? You'll get security updates until Feb 29, 2012. I just want to use the latest stable OS and software. Also, I already have installed server with centos 5. I don't choose operation system, please say me, how to right install mysql4.1 under centos 5 without compiling mysql from sources. I don't want make my server dirty, so i'm asking the right way to do this. There is no *sane* way to install MySQL 4 on CentOS 5 ... That's the reason why you've been pointed to using CentOS 4 that comes with MySQL 4 ... Reinstalling a server to use the right tool is not a big deal .. and i'd add that it's usually better to look that the software requirements prior to install an OS version -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Internet network currently down, TCP/IP packets delivered now by UPS/Fedex ..." ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Naissance de fr.centos.org / Birth of fr.centos.org
(For non native french speakers : that will be my only announce here in another language than english ;-) ) Le projet CentOS est heureux de vous annoncer la naissance du site http://fr.centos.org . En réponse à la demande croissante de la communauté des utilisateurs francophones de CentOS, le forum fr.centos.org a vu le jour. Nous profitons de cette annonce pour relancer l'appel aux volontaires pour traduire le wiki existant (http://wiki.centos.org) ;-) Pour se faire, il suffit de vous inscrire dans un premier temps à la liste de diffusion centos-docs (sur http://lists.centos.org) et de vous créer un identifiant/login sur le wiki. Demandez ensuite l'autorisation d'éditer les pages en dessous de http://wiki.centos.org/fr ... Nous tenons tout particulièrement à remercer Guillaume Kulawoski qui est à la base de l'idée et la mise en place du forum , ainsi que Thierry Delmonte pour la conception graphique. A bientôt sur fr.centos.org ! -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Internet network currently down, TCP/IP packets delivered now by UPS/Fedex ..." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] DRBD question.
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 16:40 -0400, Steve Campbell wrote: > I'm going to have to be a little vague on this one, but hope I provide > enough to make the question clear. I'm not doing the work on this > server, a co-worker is, but I said I would ask for him. > > He is trying to get DRBD installed. He's using Centos 5.1 and the yum > repos, but is getting problems with things like the kernel, drbd.so, and > the likes. All install fine, but I'm not sure he is getting the proper > kernel with the drbd stuff. Almost sounds like he needs a dev rpm from > somewhere because drbd.so isn't on the machine after installing the > RPMs. (Can't do the insmod drbd.so). > > Does anyone have a quick and easy(?) step by step to get it installed? Have you read the wiki : http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Ha-Drbd ? > He'll figure out the config if he can get it installed properly. Right > now, he's running from source OK, but you all know the arguements for > source versus rpm. Everything is included in the Extras repositories .. no need to compile from source > > Thanks for any help. I'll try and get caught up on what he's doing to > better answer any questions presented. -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Internet network currently down, TCP/IP packets delivered now by UPS/Fedex ..." signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 Live USB NTFS Support
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Mark Rose wrote: First of all, I was able to use the 5.1 LiveCD to create a bootable USB (8G Lexar FireFly) - thanks to all for your assistance. Question - has anyone been able to add NTFS support to an USB install? It would be a nice to have the ability to access NTFS (and Vista for that matter) disks for troubleshooting and general access. Any and all comments will be appreciated. Thanks! Don't forget that the default CentOS kernel can't read NTFS partitions. If you want to create a custom LiveCD/USB, you need to include either the centosplus repo (and the centosplus kernel that has NTFS read functionnality) or RPMforge ... Read http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFSPartitions for further informations -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Internet network currently down, TCP/IP packets delivered now by UPS/Fedex ..."___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Cisco PIX vpn software
On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 00:38 -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >I don't know anything about "split tunneling". But I use VPNC for most > >of my cisco vpn work: http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/ > > > > Fred, > What do you need to get vpnc compiled and installed? vpnc is available in the rpmforge repository .. just yum install it ;-) If you don't know what rpmforge is , read http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories and https://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge/ -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Internet network currently down, TCP/IP packets delivered now by UPS/Fedex ..." ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 08:57 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: > If I read correctly - the 5.2 release will have xen 3.0 > > Does that mean I will be able to run vista as guest operating system? > I seem to remember reading that vista could be run under xen 3.0 > > I have found instructions for installing XP under xen 3.0 in Debian, so > I'm hoping it vista on CentOS 5.2 will also be possible ?? ? I don't understand what you mean by '5.2 will have xen 3.0' .. i didn't know the goal was to step back in the past ... ;-) CentOS 5.1 contains already xen 3.0.3 (and xen-libs contains backported features from Xen 3.1) ... What you'll not have actually is the PV drivers for Windows DomU .. but they're announced by Red Hat and they will probably be released after 5.2 ... PS : i've seen them this week at a Red Hat partner summit .. but they are still in alpha .. but funny to see that device manager from Windows reports a 'RHEL scsi disc controller' and a 'RHEL PV nic driver' ... ;-) -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Internet network currently down, TCP/IP packets delivered now by UPS/Fedex ..." ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Virtualization question
On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 08:55 -0400, William Warren wrote: > I want to use Centos5 as my host os and virtualize a windows server on > it. My question is..do i have to be at the machine to setup the windows > server inside the virtual server since windows 2k3 is gui based or can i > do this remotely somehow? I assume you're talking about Xen virtualization ? (someone already pointed you to vmware server as well). It's not necessary to be on the console to install a windows DomU in Xen ... you can use ssh with X forwarding to launch virt-manager and grab the VirtualFrameBuffer console (either from virt-manager or directly with vnc). Don't forget to consult the wiki page about windows on Xen : http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingHVMDomU BTW : don't forget also that, at this time, windows performances on xen are *really* bad in comparison with the same windows on vmware server (no windows drivers available for xen guests , but vmware service tools, aka drivers, available for Vmware guests.) And you need also a processor with VT (Intel) or V-Pacifica (AMD) to support full-virtualization on Xen -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Citrix Replacement
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 10:38 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Charles Yao wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > What can I use as a replacement for Citrix for my apps? > > > > Charles > > If your apps are running on Linux, you can use NX/FreeNX ... And even if your apps are windows apps, you can still try to run these apps with Wine (or commercial Codeweavers Crossover office) and still use NX (commercial version from NoMachine.com) or FreeNX (gpl/free and name will change in the future, but rpms are available in the extras repo) -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Update postfix-mysql
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 16:22 -0700, John Thomas wrote: > A recent update to postfix mysql errors on my cOS 4.5 system with > complaints about missing dependencies libmysqlclient.so.15 and > libpq.so.4. Have I messed up again? > > Details: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# yum update > Setting up Update Process > Setting up repositories > Reading repository metadata in from local files > Reducing CentOS.Karan.Org-EL4 - Stable to included packages only > Finished > Excluding Packages from CentOS-4 - Base > Finished > Reducing CentOS-4 - Plus to included packages only > Finished > Resolving Dependencies > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. > ---> Package postfix.i386 2:2.2.10-1.1.el4.centos.mysql_pgsql set to be > updated > --> Running transaction check > --> Processing Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.15 for package: postfix > --> Processing Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.15(libmysqlclient_15) for > package: postfix > --> Processing Dependency: libpq.so.4 for package: postfix > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > Error: Missing Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.15 is needed by package postfix > Error: Missing Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.15(libmysqlclient_15) is > needed by package postfix > Error: Missing Dependency: libpq.so.4 is needed by package postfix > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# Both dependencies are resolved (as answered by yum provides --enablerepo=centosplus ...) by postgresql-libs (for libpq.so.4) and mysql (for libmysqlclient.so.15) ... but it seems you've excluded some packages from your centosplus repo config file Be aware that the newer postfix package needs mysql5 consider this prior to upgrade ! -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Issue with CentOS 4.5 as DomU
On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 13:49 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I want to virtualize my physical CentOS 4.5 yet. Therefor I download the
> CentOS 4.5 iso. After mounting the iso on my notebook and make the mounted
> iso available via nfs I start on my CentOS 5 xen machine following command:
>
> virt-install -n myServer --ram=512 -f /virt/myServer.disk -s 150
> --nographics -p --location=nfs:nbk:/media/centos
>
> This works for CentOS 5 DomUs but CentOS 4.5 brings following error:
>
> tail -n20 /var/log/xen/xend.log:
> [2007-07-22 13:46:23 xend 2385] DEBUG (image:203) cmdline=
> method=nfs:nbk:/media/centos
> [2007-07-22 13:46:23 xend 2385] DEBUG (image:204) ramdisk=
> /var/lib/xen/initrd.img.MVoEr1
> [2007-07-22 13:46:23 xend 2385] DEBUG (image:205) vcpus = 1
> [2007-07-22 13:46:23 xend 2385] DEBUG (image:206) features =
> [2007-07-22 13:46:23 xend.XendDomainInfo 2385] ERROR (XendDomainInfo:202)
> Domain construction failed
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
> line 195, in create
> vm.initDomain()
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py",
> line 1377, in initDomain
> raise VmError(str(exn))
> VmError: (22, 'Invalid argument')
> [2007-07-22 13:46:23 xend.XendDomainInfo 2385] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1463)
> XendDomainInfo.destroy: domid=16
> [2007-07-22 13:46:23 xend.XendDomainInfo 2385] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1471)
> XendDomainInfo.destroyDomain(16)
> [2007-07-22 13:46:23 xend 2385] ERROR (SrvBase:88) Request create failed.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/web/SrvBase.py", line 85, in
> perform
> return op_method(op, req)
> File
> "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvDomainDir.py", line
> 82, in op_create
> raise XendError("Error creating domain: " + str(ex))
> XendError: Error creating domain: (22, 'Invalid argument')
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks.
I see that you're using x86_64 ... is the CentOS 4.5 iso that you've
downloaded also x86_64 ?
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Re: [CentOS] Centos and DS300
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 08:45 -0700, mario salcedo wrote: > Hi, I have a server linux whith a system storage > DS300. The server run ok, transfer file no problem. > My problem is than when i restart the DS300 this begin > to syncronizing again, but the data not is lost. I can > work whith the DS300 while this is syncronizing. > Is this normal?. > Thanks > Can you give us more details ? Which CentOS flavor (3,4,5) ? Because IBM DS300 is an iScsi target SAN, are you using iscsi-initiator-utils on the CentOS side (software method) or a real iScsi HBA ? What is the error message that you're receiving on the CentOS side ? If you only see sync message occuring on the ds300 side, this is a normal behaviour : it will sync after each reboot (btw, it's a shared storage so it's supposed to be always up and running ) -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ipw220 wireless firmware for CentOS 5
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 05:33 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, I've downloaded and unzipped the firmware files in > ipw2200-fw-3.0.tgz - so I have 4 files: ipw2200-bss.fw, ipw2200-ibss.fw, > ipw2200-sniffer.fw and LICENSE.ipw2200-fw, all of which I've placed in > the /lib/firmware directory. Unfortunately, the instructions in > README.ipw2200 and INSTALL are not clear as to what to do next. I'm > using CentOS 5 on my (Dell) laptop so setting-up wireless networking should > be > reasonably straightforward - shouldn't it? Any help much appreciated - > I'm a real linux fan, but it grieves me to say that, in this case, > "wireless works much > better in Windows XP!" Use the ipw2200-firmware rpm from the RPMForge repo (see http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories) Then you'll be able to use/configure the ipw2200 device . You can use for example NetworkManager to automatically configure your network if you have a laptop ... -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] COMPIZ Centos 4.5
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 22:50 -0300, Adriano Frare wrote: > Dear Friends. > > Is there version COMPIZ (maybe RPM too) for CENTOS 4.5 ? > No and it's unlikely to happen : Compiz needs AIGLX (that is included only on newer xorg). Same rule applies for Xgl (not even included in CentOS 5 ... but easy to rebuild though) -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] using fuse on centos 5 with xp
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:37:13 -0400 "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 is needed by > package fuse-kmdl-2.6.18-8.el5 > #uname -a > Linux wserv.example.net 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.centos.plus #1 SMP Mon Jul > 16 08:49:50 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > It seems you're mixing third-party repositories ... normally RPMForge will provide dkms while atrpms will provide kmdl ... which repositories are you using ? -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Trying to understand Remote desktops
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 13:03 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > Scott Moseman wrote on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:08:59 -0500: > > > >> I finally took the time to install and configure FreeNX. > > > > I tried as well, but it fails for me. There's no service for it and no > > process with nx in the name running after I install nx and freenx. How am > > I supposed to know that the server is installed and working? > > What is supposed to happen is that the client makes a passwordless ssh > connection as user nx with the key from /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key > which you have to copy out and configure manually in the client. That > connection is used to start the processes you need and pass the real > login and password over the already-encrypted connection. > Was the following page not useful enough ? : http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum 2.4 for CentOS3
On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 18:15 +0200, Bernard Lheureux wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if it was existing a version 2.4.x of yum for CentOS3 > somewhere ? > Because the 2.0.x is so slow... > Thanks for your help... Hi Bernard ... you've no excuses : i told you that already ... :o) (i pointed you to http://www.arrfab.net/blog/?p=34 before your holidays ) -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] centos-5 and ocfs2
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 10:30 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to install ocfs2 in centos-5 without build a new kernel? > I've never tried it (but it's on my todo list though ...) but it seems that you don't need to rebuild a kernel ... Just follow the instructions/doc on http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/ Attention : the same page says that it will not work on EL5 with selinux enabled (sic !) ... -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] i cant find centos 4.4
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 16:29 -0400, Blackburn, Marvin wrote: > Cant find this version. Can some point me in the right direction. > I suppose that the valid reason you'll invoke is 'i have a driver disk built for rhel4u4 and then i really need CentOS 4.4' ... Ok, here it is : http://vault.centos.org But don't forget that on the first `yum update` you'll automatically jump to 4.5 ... -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] i cant find centos 4.4
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 16:58 -0400, Blackburn, Marvin wrote: > You have a very valid point about security. It's a constant battle. > However, RH still does support all versions of 4. > You might remind your developer about security updates. RHEL 4.4 is no > longer supported by RH as update 5 is current. It's RHEL 4, plus > updates all updates to this point. As noted by Jim , RH still support version 4, but with updates applied to u5 so 4.5 ... -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] iptables question
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:55 -0400, Ray Leventhal wrote: > Hi all, > > With SELinux in permissive mode and iptables running, I'm unable to > retrieve directory listings with ftp. > > stop iptables, and all appears again. This seems to be unrelated to > passive/port modes for ftp client. Depending how you configured your iptables rules, you'll probably anyway need the ip_conntrack_ftp iptables module. You can modprobe it, or even better, declare it in /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config ... -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 21:43 +0400, Rajeev R Veedu wrote: > I need to install Centos on a machine with 3tb raid disk. (3 ware raid > card) Could someone in the list suggest a utility for partition this > disk. I would like to have the whole disk in 1 partition and format it > for ext3. The default partitioning utility doesn’t do this. The OS > sits on another SATA disk and each time during the installation it > doesn’t format the full disk which is 3TB. > > > > Could someone suggest another disk partitioning utility (other than > fdisk) please? use parted, and put a gpt label on your disk ... Then you'll be able to use a single ext3 filesystem > -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ot: vlans and vmware
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 11:33 -0400, Gordon McLellan wrote: > Does anyone have VLAN tagging working from within a guest on > vmware-server? I'm running a centos 4.5 guest on a centos 5 host with > vmware server 1.04 and I've tried creating vlans using both > the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts method and just doing it from the > cli via vconfig. Either way appears to work, the OS creates the > vlans, but I think vmware's network adapter must be eating the tags or > something, since the guest is not able to talk to the real vlan on the > switch. > > On the host I setup vmnet3 to be bridged to eth1. I bring eth1 up on > the host but don't configure it in anyway. Vmnet3 is configured as > eth1 on the guest as well. If I create vlans on eth1 on the host, it > is able to talk to corresponding vlans on the switch. > > I'm wondering if there's some trick to get it work or some > configuration string needed in the vmx file? Right now I have the > vlans setup on the host and then bridged to vmnetX adapters for the > guests. But this is kind of messy since I have to take all my virtual > machines down to change anything. I agree ... i've done exactly the same thing : creating the ethx.vlan# interfaces on the host and it works this way. I've not tested the reverse : creating the vlan interfaces in guests : to be honnest, i didn't want to configure the 802.1q virtual adapters in each virtual machines guests ... so i did it directly on the Host and bridged each vmnet network to a specific ethx.vlan# interface. But i agree that if you need to bridge another vlan , you have to run vmware-config.pl, which will take all the virtual machines down ... Unfortunately, i can not test what you're trying to do today, but as soon as i have acces to the infrastructure, i'll do it and keep you informed ... Not really directly related (to 802.1q i mean) but i had strange behaviors on several nics (old broadcom nics in ibm bladecenter) .. have you tried a firmware upgrade on your nics ? that did the job for me .. I've asked on the vmware forum if that was possible to modify vmnet config in a 'hot way' but it seems not possible. Btw , i've also asked this on the vmware forum, but their answer is that such setup is too complex for vmware-server (that was not designed to work with vlans) and of course they point you to esx (aka virtual infrastructure ... ) ... But i was answered also that vmware server 2.0 should be released in a short time ... and that we can expect some newer things ... i hope vmnet configuration in real-time ... -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] drbd
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 11:05 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > and I can't promote blade03 to primary. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# drbdadm primary repdata > State change failed: (-2) Refusing to be Primary without at least one > UpToDate disk > Command 'drbdsetup /dev/drbd0 primary' terminated with exit code 11 > > what am I doing wrong?!? the howto shows the disk state as > UpToDate/Inconsistent, which is what I'd expect. > > Do I have to use a physical device (/dev/sdb in the example) instead of > a partition? No, you don't have to use a physical device , you can use partitions. But the first time you want to promote a drbd device as primary, drbd has to know first which is the one that will act as the master. On the node that will act as a master for the initial full sync (only one time), you'll have to use the `drbdadm -- --overwrite-data-of-peer primary all` command. On previous drbd (< 0.8) , the command was : `drbdadm -- --do-what-I-say primary all` but the command was changed (see the drbd website) You're right, it's missing from the wiki page and that will be updated to reflect that ... Thanks for having reported that .. :o) -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] drbd
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 13:24 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> > On the node that will act as a master for the initial full sync (only
> > one time), you'll have to use the `drbdadm -- --overwrite-data-of-peer
> > primary all` command.
> > On previous drbd (< 0.8) , the command was : `drbdadm -- --do-what-I-say
> > primary all` but the command was changed (see the drbd website)
> > You're right, it's missing from the wiki page and that will be updated
> > to reflect that ...
> >
> > Thanks for having reported that .. :o)
> >
>
>
> and thanks for that info... its happily syncing away now :)
>
> hmm, wonder why I'm only seeing 10MB/sec on gigE between two otherwise
> idle dual xeons w/ savvio u320 scsi...
From your previous post :
syncer { rate 10M; }
Of course if you have dedicated gigabit network for the drbd
replication, you can change to rate to at least 100M (talking in
Megabytes, not megabits ... like stated in the drbd man page : 'we're
storage guys ... ;-) )
That's up to you to decide which value best fits your
needs/network/storage subsystems ... test it first
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Re: [CentOS] Using XEN VMs with non-US keyboards?
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 18:26 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Felix Schwarz wrote on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:22:22 +0200: > I use SSH for virtual console management as much as > > possible. > > Yes, this seems the only workable solution. Unfortunately, you are also > restricted to the "-"-less strings when you install it :-( Why don't you use `xm console` instead of using vfb ? See the link i posted as well for information here regarding 'funny keyboard' problem in xen DomU : http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2153 -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Installing Google's Picasa for Linux on CentOS
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 16:28 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > Running Transaction > Installing: picasa # [1/1] > error: unpacking of archive failed on file > /opt/picasa/lib/libfreetype.so;4730da7e: cpio: symlink > > Installed: picasa.i386 0:2.2.2820-5 > Complete! Funny, i've just installed it on my workstation and it runs fine Are you sure the rpm is not corrupted ? running md5sum on the rpm package returns me : 9ee24b6c4fbd3afad89c96b63baca06b picasa-2.2.2820-5.i386.rpm Have you the same thing ? the libfreetype.so (as well as libfreetype.so.6) is a symlink to libfreetype.so.6.3.8 in the same /opt/picassa/lib/ directory .. -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] freenx
On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 22:14 +0100, Michael Oevermann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having problems getting freenx running in CentOS 4.5 i386_64. I
> know this is not a new problem, however, I havn't
> found a solution in all the postings I found on the web.
>
> I did exactly what is supposed to work and described in detail at
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX
>
> After doing that I can connect to the server with nxcleint without
> problem but I get only a black screen. In the files
>
> .nx/S.../session and errors
>
> I see the warning
>
> Warning: Unrecognized session type 'unix-gnome'. Assuming agent session.
>
> The same happens with KDE.
>
> With the command
>
> nxloadconfig --check
>
> I get the output
>
> Warning: Could not find nxdesktop in /usr/bin. RDP sessions won't work.
> Warning: Could not find nxviewer in /usr/bin. VNC sessions won't work.
> Warning: Invalid value "APPLICATION_LIBRARY_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/
> libX11.so.6.2:/usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4:/usr/lib/libXcomp.so.2:/usr/lib/
> libXcompext.so:/usr/lib/libXrender.so.1.2". /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2
> could not be found. Users will not be able to run a single
> application in non-rootless mode.
> Warning: Invalid value "COMMAND_FOOMATIC=/usr/lib/cups/driver/
> foomatic-ppdfile"
> Users will not be able to use foomatic.
> Warning: "/usr/lib/cups/backend/nxipp" is not executable.
> Users will not be able to enable printing.
> Warning: "/usr/lib/cups/backend/smb" is not executable.
> Users will not be able to enable printing.
> Warning: Invalid value "COMMAND_START_CDE=cdwm"
> Users will not be able to request a CDE session.
> Warning: Invalid cupsd version of "/usr/sbin/cupsd". Need version 1.2.
> Users will not be able to enable printing.
> Error: Could not find 1.5.0 or 2.[01].0 or 3.0.0 version string in
> nxagent. NX 1.5.0 or 2.[01].0 or 3.0.0 backend is needed for this
> version of FreeNX.
>
>Errors occured during config check.
>Please correct the configuration file.
>
>
> The libraries are definitely not where nx looks for them - they are
> located at /usr/lib64/NX/lib (and symlinks under (usr/lib/NX/lib).
> What is going wrong here? I also tried to use nxconfig with --setup-
> nomachine-key with the same results, except that
> I did not need to import the key in the nxclient anymore.
>
> Does anyone has an idea to solve the problem?
>
hmmm, working on a x86_64 box ?
Have you installed from scratch or have you made an upgrade ? if so,
have you followed this 'manual update' ? :
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-October/088312.html
Which versions are actually installed and for which architectures ?
rpm -q nx freenx --queryformat %{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\\n
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Re: [CentOS] Yum update fails
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 15:04 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote: > On Nov 15, 2007 2:43 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I updated my centos 4.5 server to centos last week and I am now getting > > errors when I attempt to do a yum update > > > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 313, in > > This line right here looks very suspicious to me, as centos 4.x > doesn't have python 2.4, it comes with 2.3.x. > > > Any suggestions, Google has not been my friend today. > > Where'd you get your python install from? > > I suppose the line 'updated my centos 4.5 server to centos last week' means 'updated my centos 4.5 server to centos 5 last week' ... that can explain the python 2.4 stuff .. Anyway, why not disabling the fastestmirror plugin temporary ? Check for enabled= in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf Then update and see it that packages was not left behind after your upgrade to 5 .. (if that was the case ..) -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] perl-crypt-des rpm not signed
On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 21:56 -0500, Dave wrote: > Hello, > Not sure where this should go. I've got a CentOS 5 box that i wanted to > install munin on. One of it's dependencies is perl-crypt-des and that > particular rpm is giving an error of not being signed. I'm hoping this gets > to the packager of that rpm. > Thanks. > Dave. Perl-crypt-des is not included in CentOS 5 so you have to see with the third-party repositories that you use. RPMForge has perl-Crypt-DES and this one is signed ... -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] how to change distro live?
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 15:01 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: > hi, > we've got many mandrake 8,9 and 10 system remotely. we'd like to > remotely replace these systems to centos 5. we've 4 disk in them. one is > the system drive (no need for raid) and there is free space on the > remaining 3 disk. so what we think about: > - download the new system to the data disks > - install grub (mandrake has lilo) to boot the old system and reboot > - create the old system in the data disk > - update grub to boot the old system from the data disk and reboot > - repartition the system disk > - transfer the new system to the system disk > - update grub to boot form new system disk and reboot. > this seems to easy but has many very dangerous steps and we has only > remote ssh access to the system. if we loose the connections we can't > access the system anymore and we've to travel a lot! another constrain > that we should have to do this very fast ie. it'd be nice if the system > wouldn't be down for a long time. > - what would be the best method for this? > - what are the dangerous step here? > - what would be the best way and format to transfer the new system to > the disk (we think about an iso file)? > - does anybody do such thing and what is his experience? > thank you for your help in advance. > I've done such migrations (from Mandrake to CentOS) remotely just by following the steps that Karanbir described on his blog 2 years ago : http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php?s=vnc&sentence=AND&submit=Search Of course, depending on your architecture, you'll have to adapt this documentation, but you'll have a step to begin from. If all your remote machines are on the same network, you can make a local mirror on one of your existing box and point the first box you want to migrate to this local mirror . At least , you'll see in your logs when the machine will download stage2.img. Of course, test the whole procedure in your lan first, and test also that hardware on remote box works with CentOS before trying the migration ... -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] VGA boot options in XEN kernel
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 09:14 +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a new LCD 19" monitor. It's a good device, but I always work > into a shell environment, so the fonts size is too big for comfortable > activity. > > I've tried to increase the resolution adding the vga=VALUE parameter in > kernel-xen line, but it seems not work. > > Some useful info: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# uname -a > Linux horus 2.6.18-8.1.6.el5xen #1 SMP Thu Jun 14 18:01:24 EDT 2007 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > This has nothing to do with kernel-xen ... You'll have the same problem with the standard kernel. Upstream did compile kernels for el5 without CONFIG_FB_VESA ... so no framebuffer at the console. See the report on the upstream bugzilla system : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=236195 As stated, this will be (probably) solved in el5.1 ... -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: vmware server not accepting root password?
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 23:55 -0400, Gordon McLellan wrote: > Sorry for the OT question; I'm hoping someone else has a similar setup > and ran into this same problem? > > For some reason, not sure what I changed, my vmware server is no > longer accepting the root login for the management console or web mui > interface. I'm certain the password is correct, and I've even reset > root's password to make sure. VMware seems to be running ok, I can > access my virtual machines just fine, as well as start and stop the > vmware service. > > The host OS is centos 4.5 x86-64, nothing special, just a bare bones > server install. > > Any ideas on resetting what vmware considers the root password, or > re-syncing it somehow? > > Thanks- > Gordon > It seems some files are missing for the vmware-authd process (that listen by default on tcp port 902). Have you verified your VMware-server rpm ? rpm -V VMware-server -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Wireless networking in CentOS 4.4
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 19:32 +0100, Andrew Allen wrote: > Trying to set up wireless networking with CentOS 4.4 on a (new Dell) > laptop and have looked at http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2- > ipw2200.shtml > and http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php? > topic_id=2532&forum=30 > regarding use of ipw2200, which is included in the kernel. The problem > is that it doesn't appear to be actually installed/loaded because the > Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG driver doesn't appear in the drop- > down list under Devices > New > Wireless Connection in system-config- > network. > Also /sbin/lsmod | grep ipw doesn't produce anything - so I'm pretty > baffled! > Any suggestions please? i've the same ipw2200 in my laptop (running previously CentOS 4.x , now 5). All i did was using the RPMForge repo (see http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories) , install the ipw2200-firmware package (through yum install) , rmmod ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200 and this was done ... -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Audacity
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 22:45 +0300, jarmo wrote: > Just wondering, if there is Audacity package which runs in centos 5 > somewhere? Have googled, but not found any. > Any help? > I quickly needed it just after centos 5 was released and no well known repositories had it at this time ... So i rebuilt it for my personal use and decided to share it (in a little home-made yum repository) with some friends who needed as well. Here it is : http://rpms.arrfab.net/centos/5/repodata/repoview/audacity-0-1.3.2-9.html I've compiled it for i386 only ... if you need the x86_64 , rebuild the srpm from FC6 but don't forget to replace Buildrequire wxGTK2-devel by wxGTK-devel in the spec file ... -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Centos 4.x / RHEL AS 4.x Clustering documentation
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 13:01 -0500, Erick Perez wrote: > Hi, > Can someone point me to documents as to how to install Redhat > Enterprise AS 4.x Or Centos 4.x similar with a 1 active 3 passive > clustering scenario? > > Thanks, > Have you searched on the official documentation web page ? it contains several documents regarding Cluster suite/gfs etc ... : http://www.centos.org/docs/4/ -- Fabian Arrotin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS box images at Vagrant Cloud give 404
On 10/01/2024 10:49, Kees Bakker via CentOS wrote: Hi, At Vagrant Cloud there are "box" images for stream8 and stream9 [1]. At least they are supposed to be there. The download links on the detail pages, for example for stream9 20230727.1 [2] are redirected to cloud.centos.org, however they give an 404 error. Possibly the centos Vagrant Cloud page is not kept up to date with the actual box images that are now present on cloud.centos.org. Do we know who is maintaining this centos account at Vagrant Cloud? Can someone update the centos entries overthere? [1] https://app.vagrantup.com/centos/ [2] https://app.vagrantup.com/centos/boxes/stream9/versions/20230727.1 For visibility purposes it would be probably better to send mail to centos-devel list instead. And/or a Jira ticket (see https://wiki.centos.org/ReportBugs.html for the direct link to correct category/project) :-) -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | @arrfab[@fosstodon.org] OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS box images at Vagrant Cloud give 404
On 10/01/2024 17:11, Fabian Arrotin wrote: On 10/01/2024 10:49, Kees Bakker via CentOS wrote: Hi, At Vagrant Cloud there are "box" images for stream8 and stream9 [1]. At least they are supposed to be there. The download links on the detail pages, for example for stream9 20230727.1 [2] are redirected to cloud.centos.org, however they give an 404 error. Possibly the centos Vagrant Cloud page is not kept up to date with the actual box images that are now present on cloud.centos.org. Do we know who is maintaining this centos account at Vagrant Cloud? Can someone update the centos entries overthere? [1] https://app.vagrantup.com/centos/ [2] https://app.vagrantup.com/centos/boxes/stream9/versions/20230727.1 For visibility purposes it would be probably better to send mail to centos-devel list instead. And/or a Jira ticket (see https://wiki.centos.org/ReportBugs.html for the direct link to correct category/project) :-) FWIW, I asked and was pointed to existing ticket https://issues.redhat.com/browse/CS-1749 so you can follow discussion there -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | @arrfab[@fosstodon.org] OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS 7/8s EOL : infrastructure impacts (please read)
Hi all, As you're all aware (we sent multiple mails in the last year about this), CentOS 7 and Stream 8 will go EOL soon : https://blog.centos.org/2023/04/end-dates-are-coming-for-centos-stream-8-and-centos-linux-7/ Let's lists some things that will happen on the CentOS Infrastructure as we'll be approching (or passed) these dates : # CentOS 7/8s content itself Usual process : content will be archived to https://vault.centos.org and removed from mirror.centos.org completely, with just a simple readme file dropped here (for example http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/readme for already EOL'ed version). Worth knowing that some SIGs are still building for RHEL8, still supported for SIGs through https://cbs.centos.org so such kind of content will continue to be available there as long as SIGs can build against/for it # CBS/koji (https://cbs.centos.org) No impact on CBS env itself ( not running centos 7 nor 8s for a long time now) but the various build tag reflecting centos 7 and 8s will be locked so that nobody would be able to build content anymore : that would even be impossible as content itself will have been removed from mirror.centos.org (internally used for cbs build tags) # CentOS Forums (https://forums.centos.org) : still running on centos 7 and even if that's easy to migrate to newer/supported EL version, it was decided to just shutdown the service (based on discussion with the actual moderation team). An option (to be announced on forums.centos.org ?) is to eventually start moving thread/discussions on Fedora discourse (There is already a CentOS category there : https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/neighbors/centos/71) So the plan is just to shutdown forums.centos.org and remove A/ records from DNS # mirrorlist.centos.org service : Starting from Stream 9 (and above), deployed CentOS instance ares using Fedora infra mirrormanager instance for metalink= instead of mirrorlist= in .repo files. We'll just decommission our mirror crawler (also running with a mix of perl/python2 code), so not validating any mirror for legacy/EOL releases. mirrorlist.centos.org A/ records will be removed in the following weeks after c7 will be EOL'ed. That means that people still running CentOS 7 or 8-stream will not have functional yum/dnf stack, except if they point to either vault or have internal mirror but at least people would be aware that distro itself is EOL and that they shouldn't expect to receive any update anymore # CentOS mailing-lists Currently running on mailman2 stack, on top of CentOS 7 linux : there is WIP to port everything to up2date mailman3 stack, actually packaged for EPEL9. We have successfully imported archives into mailman3 and same for lists config but let's start a different/separate thread to discuss changes (like renaming lists, see next coming thread) Kind Regards, -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | @arrfab[@fosstodon.org] OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7/8s EOL : infrastructure impacts (please read)
On 18/03/2024 08:43, Aleksandar Ivanisevic wrote: Hi, do we know what happens with the images at major hyperscalers and when? I’m interested specifically about GCP. Who is in charge of centos-cloud project in GCP? You or Google? $ gcloud compute images describe centos-stream-8-v20240312 --project centos-cloud AFAIK, the team building CentOS Stream doesn't push to google cloud. From the artifacts list, I see they push to AWS the built AMIs but not Google Cloud. As generic cloud images are pushed to https://cloud.centos.org/centos/8-stream/ , maybe (?) there is a process at the cloud provider side that just looks there and import such images ? I'll let someone from that team answer here though, in case there is a process I'm not aware of, and not visible from the actual push process :) -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | @arrfab[@fosstodon.org] OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] [Infra] - Planned outage : lists.centos.org (migration to mailman3) : please read
Due to a needed upgrade , we'll have to move the existing CentOS
mailman instance (aka https://lists.centos.org) to a new server/host.
Migration is scheduled for """"Tuesday April 8th, 7:00 am UTC time"""".
You can convert to local time with $(date -d '2024-04-08 07:00 UTC')
The expected "downtime" is estimated to ~60 minutes , time needed to :
- take last mailman2 backup
- reimport / convert mailman2 archives to mailman3 DB
- DNS propagation for A//MX records
Here are also some important information about the mailman2 => mailman3
migration :
# Renamed lists
Worth knowing that, based on open discussion on the centos-devel list
(see whole thread at
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2024-March/165576.html),
existing lists will be *renamed* , so while we'll put aliases for
incoming mails, each list member will start receiving list mails from
new list name. So start updating your filters if you filter on email
address instead of "subject:"
Here is the overview of the new lists names :
arm-dev at centos.org => arm-dev at lists.centos.org
centos at centos.org => discuss at lists.centos.org
centos-devel at centos.org => devel at lists.centos.org
centos-announce at centos.org => announce at lists.centos.org
centos-automotive-sig at centos.org => automotive-sig at lists.centos.org
centos-{cz,de,es,fr,nl,pt-br,zh}@centos.org =>
discuss-{cz,de,es,fr,nl,pt-br,zh}@lists.centos.org
ci-users at centos.org => ci-users at lists.centos.org
centos-gsoc: => gsoc at lists.centos.org
centos-mirror at centos.org => mirror at lists.centos.org
centos-mirror-announce at centos.org => mirror-announce at lists.centos.org
centos-newsletter at centos.org => newsletter at lists.centos.org
centos-promo at centos.org => promo at lists.centos.org
centos-virt at centos.org => virt at lists.centos.org
# Authentication
Mailman2 had no real concept of authentication so you could just
subscribe to one or more lists, and have a password associated with your
email address for that/these subscription(s).
Mailman3 itself is split into "core" and "webui" components, so when
we'll import mailman2 lists/config into mailman3, your existing
subscriptions will continue to work *but* not your password.
Mailman3 will be configured to support SSO, and so if you already have a
FAS/ACO account (https://accounts.centos.org) you'll be able to login
directly into new webui and manage your settings/subscriptions *if* your
ACO email address of course matches the one you initially subscribed
with for lists.centos.org.
If that's not the case, either create an ACO/FAS account that will match
and you'll be then able to "link" your mailman3 account with FAS and so
manage your settings/subscriptions.
If you don't want to, there is always the documented process :
https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/userguide.html#making-a-mailman-account
Thanks for your understanding and patience.
on behalf of the Infra team,
--
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Re: [CentOS] Out-Of-Office
On 04/04/2024 14:02, Sivaramakrishna Polepalli via CentOS wrote: That user is now moderated and so we should stop receiving his out-of-office automatic replies (people should know better when subscribing on a mailing list ...) Sorry for the noise (including that mail but at least you all know we took action) -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | @arrfab[@fosstodon.org] OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] live centos 8?
On 05/06/2020 18:15, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > Is there a live centos 8?> If so, where? No, there is not ... I tried initially but lack of time on my side because anaconda wasn't able to generate an image that then would be installable on disk (never tried since though) Then we asked who would be volunteer and nobody showed up , so it stayed in that state. But , hey, welcome to OSS, if you're interested, you can make it happen , submit patches, etc ;-) -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Logitech webcam for use with CentOS 7
On 05/06/2020 22:09, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > On 6/4/20 1:29 AM, H wrote: >> I am thinking of buying a Logitech C920S Pro HD or C922 webcam for the >> necessary video conferencing. >> >> Is anyone using that with Zoom or perhaps with Jitsi? Do I need >> drivers? Any issues? >> >> Thank you. >> > > I have an HD Pro C920, works great under centos 7 out of the box. > According to my coworkers image quality and microphone are both great. > I use it with jitsi and other software, no problems. I have myself a Logitech, Inc. HD Pro Webcam C920 that I used on CentOS 6, 7 and now 8/Stream, for ~7years, and it still works great. Detected as normal video device, so available everywhere , also used it in google hangout/meet, bluejeans, zoom, jitsi, etc My only issue is that sound isn't that great, and I have video meetings multiple times a week, so I have also a usb microphone, on a desk stand, that I use for sound input : better sound quality during meetings -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] After update to 8 (2004) ... system is unbootable - UEFI Secure boot
On 16/06/2020 15:06, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > Hi all, > > I updated a Dell XPS laptop from CentOS 8.1 (1911) to 8.2 (2004). > > Installed kernels are > kernel-4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64 > kernel-4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 > kernel-4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64 > > Unfortunately I can not boot into the latest > kernel-4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64. > > After grub2 screen I only see following line: > > EFI stub: UEFI Secure Boot is enabled > > Booting into the older kernel is still possible. The > above line appears and after that the normal kernel > output scrolls over the screen (rhgb quiet disabled). > > Is the new kernel correctly signed? > > What can I do? > > -- > Thanks > Leon Hi Leon, Don't think that it's due to secureboot, as on my work laptop (thinkpad t490s), I have secureboot on, and kernel working fine. OTOH, on my family laptop (also in secureboot mode), when I updated from 8.1.1011 to 8.2.2004, laptop became unresponsive during the microcode_ctl update (in scriptlet) and after that it auto-reset itself , so in the middle of the whole rpm transaction. I tried to recover it but it was to a point where it was faster to just reinstall from scratch with 8.2.2004, which I did ... and in gnome, everything was fine, etc (adding repo, pkgs) but then on the *same* kernel it was installed with, just tried a reboot, and nothing : grub shows menu, you select kernel and on upper left there is only cursor (fixed) and nothing happens .. I'll try to diagnose what's the issue as actually that means troubles with family using that laptop :) -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] After update to 8 (2004) ... system is unbootable - UEFI Secure boot
On 17/06/2020 04:03, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > Am 16.06.20 um 22:04 schrieb Fabian Arrotin: >> On 16/06/2020 15:06, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I updated a Dell XPS laptop from CentOS 8.1 (1911) to 8.2 (2004). >>> >>> Installed kernels are >>> kernel-4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64 >>> kernel-4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 >>> kernel-4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64 >>> >>> Unfortunately I can not boot into the latest >>> kernel-4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64. >>> >>> After grub2 screen I only see following line: >>> >>> EFI stub: UEFI Secure Boot is enabled >>> >>> Booting into the older kernel is still possible. The >>> above line appears and after that the normal kernel >>> output scrolls over the screen (rhgb quiet disabled). >>> >>> Is the new kernel correctly signed? >>> >>> What can I do? >>> >>> -- >>> Thanks >>> Leon >> >> Hi Leon, >> >> Don't think that it's due to secureboot, as on my work laptop (thinkpad >> t490s), I have secureboot on, and kernel working fine. >> >> OTOH, on my family laptop (also in secureboot mode), when I updated from >> 8.1.1011 to 8.2.2004, laptop became unresponsive during the >> microcode_ctl update (in scriptlet) and after that it auto-reset itself >> , so in the middle of the whole rpm transaction. >> I tried to recover it but it was to a point where it was faster to just >> reinstall from scratch with 8.2.2004, which I did ... and in gnome, >> everything was fine, etc (adding repo, pkgs) but then on the *same* >> kernel it was installed with, just tried a reboot, and nothing : grub >> shows menu, you select kernel and on upper left there is only cursor >> (fixed) and nothing happens .. >> >> I'll try to diagnose what's the issue as actually that means troubles >> with family using that laptop :) > > > Hi Fabian, > > an earlyprintk=efi kernel option shows a slowly executed kernel > (at least the output). I disabled the early_microcode dracut option > and rebuilded the initramfs image but no success in booting the kernel > 4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64. Unfortunately no more time for more > heuristics ... > > -- > Leon > I finally had reinstalled the laptop over pxe at home *but* pointing to kickstart repo (so GA content without updates, and so local mirror of http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/BaseOS/x86_64/kickstart/), to ensure that microcode_ctl wouldn't be installed, and in some minutes laptop was back in action. Excluding it from updates and updated the rest and all is ok. I've seen some people mentioning strange problems like this due to microcode, and it seems Ubuntu even had a second update a in row to fix issues : - https://usn.ubuntu.com/4385-1/ (introducing issue) - https://usn.ubuntu.com/4385-2/ (fixing the introduced issue) All that was reported for centos 7 as we had the same issue there too (see https://bugs.centos.org//view.php?id=17452) So for people impacted, I guess we have to wait for a new update to land, and excluding it from updates for now -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 & HandBrakeCLI
On 13/07/2020 22:38, Tony.Molloy wrote: > On Mon, 2020-07-13 at 08:55 -0400, mail...@toolz.com wrote: >> EXTERNAL EMAIL: This email originated from outside of the University >> of Limerick. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you >> recognize the sender's email address and know the content is safe. >> On 2020-07-13 05:09, Kay Diederichs wrote: >>> On 7/13/20 4:04 AM, Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. wrote: >>>> Since I upgraded to CentOS8, I cannot get HandBrakeCLI to work: >> >> I could not get HandBrake to work under CentOS 8, so I installed it >> under >> Zorin 15 (an Ubuntu-derived German distro). There, it works >> great. I >> did not try >> any of the other distros derived from Debian or Ubuntu itself. >> >> Todd Merriman >> Software Tooolz, Inc. >> ___ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS@centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > HandBrake-1.3.3-1.el8 and HandBrake-gui from RPM Fusion work fine on > CentOS-Stream 8. Haven't tried on CentOS 8. > > Tony Indeed : what I have on my CentOS 8 laptop too and no issue : HandBrake-1.3.3-1.el8.x86_64 HandBrake-gui-1.3.3-1.el8.x86_64 -- Fabian Arrotin gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ansible: which repo?
On 03/09/2020 20:51, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > > What would you recommend: ansible is in EPEL8 and ConfigSIG. > For the latter I do not see any sources in git.centos.org. > Where they come from? > > I wonder with which repository I should use (long term)? > > dnf not checking gpg signature sounds scary: > > https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.13/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst#security-fixes > > Hi Leon, For ConfigManagement SIG, I use directly upstream src.rpm (available on https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/). and 2.9.13 was rebuilt directly on the day it was announced (https://cbs.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=30563 and https://cbs.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=30564) , quick sanity test and then signed/pushed out to mirror.centos.org (and so external mirrors too, as usual) With the upcoming changes for 2.10 and Ansible deciding to not provide pkgs anymore, I guess I'll rebase on good work done by Kevin (ansible pkg maintainer in Fedora/Epel) but probably trying to track various branches (like we do for 2.7/2.8/2.9 for people deciding to stay on a branch/version as long as it's supported upstream) See blog post about the switch: https://anonbadger.wordpress.com/2020/08/25/why-upstream-ansible-stopped-shipping-rpms/ -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] centos8 / anaconda EFI regression / HFS+ ESP
On 10/11/2020 17:18, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > Hi folks, > > years ago I had no problem installing CentOS7 on my > iMac workstation (iMac Late 2015). The installation > worked out of the box. Today I wanted to upgrade to > CentOS8 and while configuring the partitions I get an > error that the installation can not start because: > "HFS+ ESP needed and mounted on /boot/efi". In fact > they are the same partition as for CentOS7. Is this > a regression of anaconda, implying that the EFI partition > must be HFS based? I can boot CentOS7 with the vfat EFI > partition ... > > -- > Leon > Hi Leon, Same problem for me on my wife's iMac (24" , 2018 model) : running CentOS 7 perfectly fine but I replaced original sata HDD with a SSD some months ago and wanted to reinstall with CentOS 8 and same result, so I finally reinstalled it with 7 again, and put that on my "TODO" list. As you can see, some upstream changes landed in anaconda when detecting Mac/Apple hardware and it works fine with Fedora (tested already) because both hfs/hfs+ support exist in kernel and hfsplus-tools package too. Of course it was removed from RHEL kernel (and packages list) so I have some ideas in mind but never had time to investigate further (as iMac also runs fine with CentOS 7) One idea was to "modify" on the fly anaconda (with updates.img) to *not* use HFS+ part but instead vfat. There are ways to do that but one first need to find which python code to mod in anaconda (and then see if such method still works : https://arrfab.net/posts/2011/Jun/11/modifying-anaconda-behaviour-without-rebuilding-the-whole-install-media/) Other idea : respin an iso/tree that would use different kernel and access to hfsplus-tools pkg and so no need to "hack" anaconda So many ideas, but not enough time to investigate this for now ... -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Reminder: CentOS 6 EOL on 30 November 2020
On 09/11/2020 14:24, Johnny Hughes wrote: > All, > > This is a friendly reminder. > > CentOS 6.10 will EOL at the end of November 2020. > > During the first week in December 2020, the 6.10 directory will move to > vault.centos.org > > Packages will still be available at: > > http://vault.centos.org/centos/6.10/ > > However, once moved, there will be no more updates pushed to > vault.centos.org. Therefore, security issues will no longer be fixed, > etc. > > You should take the rest of the month to either move to a newer versoin > of CentOS Linux ... or to procure Extended el6 support from Red Hat (EUS > RHEL 6). > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > As announced multiple times (on list[s], twitter, glog.centos.org and even https://c6eol.centos.org) , CentOs 6 is now EOL and so is being retired from mirror network. It's currently being moved to (capped and limited bandwidth) vault.centos.org and will be removed from mirror.centos.org (and so external mirrors in the next hours/days). mirrorlist.centos.org will also (like we do for all outdated/unmaintained and unsecured releases) start answering "invalid release" Kind Regards, -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Reminder: CentOS 6 EOL on 30 November 2020
On 30/11/2020 13:39, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > On 30/11/2020 11:18, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: >> On 11/30/20 10:25 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote: >>> On 09/11/2020 14:24, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>>> All, >>>> >>>> This is a friendly reminder. >>>> >>>> CentOS 6.10 will EOL at the end of November 2020. >>>> >>>> During the first week in December 2020, the 6.10 directory will move to >>>> vault.centos.org >>>> >>>> Packages will still be available at: >>>> >>>> http://vault.centos.org/centos/6.10/ >>>> >>>> However, once moved, there will be no more updates pushed to >>>> vault.centos.org. Therefore, security issues will no longer be fixed, >>>> etc. >>>> >>>> You should take the rest of the month to either move to a newer versoin >>>> of CentOS Linux ... or to procure Extended el6 support from Red Hat (EUS >>>> RHEL 6). >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Johnny Hughes >>>> >>> As announced multiple times (on list[s], twitter, glog.centos.org and >>> even https://c6eol.centos.org) , CentOs 6 is now EOL and so is being >>> retired from mirror network. >>> It's currently being moved to (capped and limited bandwidth) >>> vault.centos.org and will be removed from mirror.centos.org (and so >>> external mirrors in the next hours/days). >>> mirrorlist.centos.org will also (like we do for all >>> outdated/unmaintained and unsecured releases) start answering "invalid >>> release" >>> >>> Kind Regards, >> >> Just to let you all know that starting from today, mirrorlist.centos.org nodes answer "Invalid release/repo/arch combination" and also that content was removed from mirrors. Johnny pushed the last updates yesterday, that went out to external mirrors . These mirrors will also delete all that content so if your *really* need to find such content, https://vault.centos.org is the only way to to go, but due to reduced bandwidth, capacity, we encourage you to use one of the external mirrors listed on vault.centos.org, with probably more resources/bandwidth that we currently have. Some of these mirrors also continue to offer rsync access. Cheers, and time to have a drink and celebrate 10 years of CentOS 6 : you served us all well ! -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird 78
On 03/12/2020 08:53, Gerhard Schneider wrote: > > The upstream provider decided to remove OpenGPG support in its > thunderbird-78 packages, see > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1886962 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1886958 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1837512 > > recommending to either use Mozilla binaries, use Flatpak or switch to > Evolution > > Is there any plan to provide thunderbird-78-full packages in e.g. EPEL, > ELRepo or somewhere else (like firefox-esr in Ubuntu) or should we use > Mozilla binaries? > > Thank you in advance! > > Gerhard Schneider > Apart from Flatpak or mozilla binary, one other (ugly, I know) solution is still to just use the rpm pkg from distro but just extract librnp.so from upstream thunderbird pkg, put it in place (so that it doesn't complain about missing .so file needed for the openpgp functions to work) .. -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver
On 05/01/2021 20:32, Jamie Burchell wrote: > Hello > > I've recently discovered the announcement regarding the change in direction > for the CentOS project and I imagine like many others, I'm confused and > concerned about what this means moving forward. > > > Given we are not developing drivers or applications (other than websites > and web applications), is the change a non-issue for my use-case? I've seen > it written that CentOS Stream is the "development version" of RHEL but also > that we shouldn't have considered RHEL to be the beta for CentOS. Others > have said to think of CentOS more like RHEL RC-1. I just don't know how the > stability will compare and we have historically always chosen CentOS for > its stability (and of course price). > Well, let me just quickly chime in this thread ... If you have already automated things (or not btw) for CentOS 8, current Stream (8-stream) will continue to just work. For CentOS Infra, I started to deploy Stream nodes and it continues to work fine. Fun fact : new coming Stream buildsystem infra *is* build exclusively on top of CentOS Stream ... hopefully that would give people confidence about platform (dog fooding) :) Will there be some changes suddenly happening faster than in usual major.minor releases lifecyles ? yes Will it differ really ? well, it's what coming in the same major.minor version that people *are* waiting for .. Is it perfect *now* ? probably not, but there is a chance to look at it and it's up to (and not tied to Stream vs Linux effect imho) sysadmin/devops engineers/$pick-your-title-here in charge of infra to have validation platform before rolling out versions/updates/etc ... (nothing *should* change here, except if one still manage single box like in the 90's) ;-) With my SysAdmin hat on, I'd say that the only real impacting bit is the shorter lifetime (5y instead of 10), but with overlap between stream versions, so one would have time to have a look, reflect in automation, reinstall/migrate, enjoy Just my 0.02$ here -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Which bug tracker should I use to report things to CentOS ? (recap)
With some moving parts within the CentOS Project, some people are now confused about where to report things, as https://bugs.centos.org isn't the only bugs/tickets tracker, so let's just have a quick recap so that people aren't confused anymore ? :) # CentOS Stream (all kind of tickets) see https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOSStream#Where_do_I_report_bugs.3F So basically https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Red%20Hat%20Enterprise%20Linux%208&version=CentOS%20Stream # CentOS Infra, CBS, SIGs, mirror, CI, etc see previous mail : https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2020-August/055980.html # All the rest (CentOS Linux pkgs, etc) https://bugs.centos.org Hope that it helps , as we have people asking on irc the status of a ticket that was filed in wrong tracker (and so also not correct category as for example infra categories were removed/archived on https://bugs.centos.org) and not reviewed. -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] XML parsing in shell script
On 18/03/2021 22:08, H wrote:
> On 03/18/2021 04:30 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Mar 2021, H wrote:
>>
>>> I have a challenge I am interested in getting feedback on.
>>>
>>> I will on a regular basis download a series of data files from the web
>>> where the data is in XML-format. The format is known in advance but is
>>> different between the various data files. I then plan to extract the
>>> various data items ("elements?") from each data file, do some light
>>> formatting and then save desired parts of each original data file as a
>>> formatted CSV-file for later importing into a database.
>>>
>>> As the plan is to use a bash shell script using curl to get the files, I
>>> have begun looking at external XML parsers that I can call from my script,
>>> perhaps specify which elements I want, get the data back in some kind of
>>> bash data structure and finally format and save as CSV-files.
>>>
>>> There seems to be a number of XML parsers available but perhaps someone on
>>> the list has a recommendation for which one might suit my needs best? I
>>> should add that I am running CentOS 7.
>>
>> Will you be using an XSLT stylesheet to do the work? There's a somewhat
>> steep learning curve, but in my experience it's the most reliable method for
>> parsing XML except in the very simplest of cases.
>>
>> In that case, the libxslt stuff may be what you want:
>>
>> http://xmlsoft.org/libxslt/
>>
>> The command-line tool is xsltproc.
>>
>> Again, it's not easy to use, but once you've built a toolchain, it will be
>> reliable and fairly easy to modify if the source XML schema change.
>>
> I just checked and I cannot see that the organization publishing these data
> files offer any XSLT stylesheet. IOW, I am, perhaps incorrectly, assuming
> that the publisher of the data would be one with said stylesheet. (Although
> perhaps that is something an end-user could put together as well??)
>
> Although the data format of each data series is unique, it is simple and
> could conceivably be parsed using grep but I am looking for a more
> "forward-looking" solution for other applications in the future.
>
> If XSLT stylesheets are not available - would you suggest another tool? Or,
> would you suggest I design sheets, presumably one for for each data series?
>
I used in the past xmlstarlet (available in epel) for quick parsing from
within bash scripts.
For something more robust, maybe switch to python ? (ymmv)
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Re: [CentOS] will there be centos 8.4?
On 10/05/2021 18:11, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 5/6/21 12:03 PM, d tbsky wrote: >> Johnny Hughes >>> >>> On 5/6/21 4:22 AM, d tbsky wrote: >>>> Hi: >>>> RHEL 8.3 doesn't offer extended update support, so it seems be EOL >>>> this month. >>>> but centos8 will be supported until December. so will there be centos >>>> 8.4, or centos 8.3 will do the extend update support itself? >>> >>> I will be working on CentOS 8.4 updates once the source code is released. >> >>thanks for confirmation. so at least will have the last CentOS >> version. then we can decide where to go. >> > > depending on the release date of RHEL 8.5 .. I 'MIGHT' be able to finish > that one and get it into vault.centos.org as well. I will try to do > that if possible. Talking about that : what's the official position on how CentOS 8 will go EOL ? I'd be myself in favor of transparently redirecting CentOS 8 linux yum/dnf mirrorlists to 8-stream end of the year, so that people would still get automatically updates and would be able to "dnf install " I'd prefer that over a "mirrorlist.centos.org answering " and so breaking existing installs. -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Mirrors Sync
On 28/05/2021 12:26, Tristan Santore wrote: > Dear All, > > Is there an issue with some mirrors not syncing properly ? My colleague > is reporting , that some mirrors are receiving updates and others are > not receiving packages. Some are, according to him, are not receiving > updates since March. > > Is there an issue at the moment ? > > Any information is very welcome. If you need further information, please > ask and I will assists as much as I can. > > Thank you. > > Regards, > Tristan > If you use mirrors returned by mirrorlist servers, you'll get up2date and validated content. mirrors come and go and so are dynamically added/removed for mirrorlist (and also from https://www.centos.org/download/mirrors/ For registered mirrors, status is always available on http://mirror-status.centos.org/ but that's just the overview, as our mirror crawler process validates then each repo for each arch . So curious about what you mean by "some mirrors are receiving updates and others are not" ... without giving details :) -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 repository
On 01/06/2021 09:31, Lillipuu Kimmo wrote: > Hello All, > > At the moment im using http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/ repo on my CentOS 8 > host and I noticed, that im missing quite many new packages/updates what > 8.4.2105 repo contains. > Is there a possibility that they will also be transferred to on /8/ repo or > should I start using /8.4.2105/ on my host ? > > Regards, > Kimmo > First you shouldn't target mirror.centos.org but rather mirrorlist, that will offload traffic to a nearest validated mirror ... Second : making it visible (but not the default) is part of the release process to start looking at external mirrors that have content and then yes, in a magic flip, have everybody pointing to it ... So yes, you understood that it's coming, but no, not fully usable (yet) , as some zero-day updates are being built and tested and then 8.4.2105 will be announced ;-) -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Announcing centos-plus repo for 8-stream
We used to have a "plus" repository for CentOS 7 and 8, that contained packages from OS, but rebuilt differently. Most known examples in CentOS 8 plus repository are the kernel-plus and thunderbird (with openpgp support). As CentOS 8 is going EOL end of this year, and that some us still need to rely on that specific thunderbird package, we agreed to just use the SIG process for the plus repository, instead of having such packages being built through the distro builders. So if you're already on CentOS Stream 8 , you can just install (like for other SIGs) a specific package containing both the .repo file *and* needed gpg key used to sign the packages. How to enable/use it ? : sudo dnf install centos-release-plus -y As stated in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-Plus.repo, you can now enable it (remember that it can overwrite base packages, reason why we also ship it as disabled) sudo dnf config-manager --enable centos-stream-plus You can now install pkg from it, like thunderbird : sudo dnf install thunderbird Tip: if you want to just use some pkgs from one specific repo, you can also just use excludepkgs/includepkgs statements in your .repo configuration (see https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/conf_ref.html#options-for-both-main-and-repo) -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] rd.lvm.lv on CentOS Stream 9 (first-boot failure)
On 10/01/2022 23:22, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 1/9/22 15:37, Gordon Messmer wrote: 1: The system also includes a volume group named "BackupGroup" and that group activates on boot (post-dracut). Why are those LVs activated when rd.lvm.lv is specified? As far as I can tell, this is because in the dracut boot process, the device backing VolGroup is activated, but the device backing BackupGroup is not. As a result, the latter device triggers a udev event after the normal root FS is mounted, and udev creates a transient systemd unit to start the BackupGroup VG. No udev event for VolGroup == no furter activation. 2: Why didn't Anaconda add the "var" LV to the kernel arguments? I still don't know the answer to this, but the current arrangement seems like a bug. As far as I know, the LVs inside VolGroup can't be activated unless that VG is complete, and if it's complete, then I can see no good reason why Anaconda should add individual LVs to the kernel command line rather than "rd.lvm.vg=VolGroup". Activating the group as a whole would fix both the boot failure resulting from lv_var not being activated, as well as the libvirt failure resulting from the guest LVs being absent. Once I replaced Anaconda's boot args with "rd.lvm.vg=VolGroup", the system works properly. 3: This seems like a change from earlier releases, but I can't find any documentation to that effect. Under CentOS 7, after dracut had finished, the remaining logical volumes in that group would be activated. Because they aren't, currently, libvirtd cannot start any of its guests until I manually activate the group. How can I restore the old behavior of activating all of the LVs on boot? I believe the regression is the result of deprecating lvmetad in favor of udev event-based activation. See multiple bugzilla reports open (including one in September) about some multiple issues all mixed all together : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2002640 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2033737 -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Ping as regular user not allowed (CentOS Stream 8)
On 19/01/2022 15:32, Toralf Lund wrote: Following some update or the other (I think) on my CentOS Stream 8 system, I'm no longer able to use ping as a regular user; I get $ ping www.centos.org ping: socket: Operation not permitted Does anyone else see this? It it a bug, or were the system/default permissions deliberately changed? Can anyone suggest a fix/workaround? Actually, I can find several different ones via a simple web search, but they are generally related to other distributions, I'm not quite sure which would be the most appropriate for CentOS... Thanks. - Toralf "sudo dnf downgrade iputils" should do it for now it works when you're back on iputils-20180629-7.el8.x86_64 -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ansible upgrade
On 21/02/2022 15:49, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: Hey all, back from vacation and seeing ansible 2.12 in the repos now. Anything to be aware of when upgrading from 2.9 to 2.12 in CS8? -- Thanks, Leon You'd be lucky if it works directly , as there were some semantic changes in ansible, so you'll probably have to review all the changes, and if ansible-core just has the modules (it's a stripped down version of ansible, as you're supposed to download the collections yourself) , and use FQCN (Fully Qualified Collection Names) for modules ... FWIW, CentOS Infra still on ansible 2.9.27 from our own configuration management SIG and ansible-core excluded in yum/dnf to ensure that our automation still runs fine (until we have time to test/convert all our roles/tasks/playbooks to run on ansible 5 - aka ansible-core 2.12.x) -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ansible upgrade
On 22/02/2022 22:37, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: Am 21.02.22 um 16:24 schrieb Fabian Arrotin: On 21/02/2022 15:49, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: Hey all, back from vacation and seeing ansible 2.12 in the repos now. Anything to be aware of when upgrading from 2.9 to 2.12 in CS8? You'd be lucky if it works directly , as there were some semantic changes in ansible, so you'll probably have to review all the changes, and if ansible-core just has the modules (it's a stripped down version of ansible, as you're supposed to download the collections yourself) , and use FQCN (Fully Qualified Collection Names) for modules ... FWIW, CentOS Infra still on ansible 2.9.27 from our own configuration management SIG and ansible-core excluded in yum/dnf to ensure that our automation still runs fine (until we have time to test/convert all our roles/tasks/playbooks to run on ansible 5 - aka ansible-core 2.12.x) Thanks Fabian for the insights. I was planning such tests for May but that seems to be to late now. I remember that someone wanted to provide a meta package that pull additional ansible collections to give a similar experience like 2.9? Maybe more an EPEL question ... -- Leon There is indeed a an effort to have an ansible meta-package that would pull both ansible-core and would contain collections (see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Ansible5) I already had a look myself to see how to rebuild/provide it through configmanagement SIG eventually, as we now have ansible-core availble Some packages for ansible 5.x are already built on koji.fedoraproject.org (see https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=13842) but not yet available for epel8, due to lack of ansible-core in RHEL 8 (for now, but coming as it's in 8-stream, so in advance) Other introduced problem with ansible-core is the dep on python 3.8, meaning that while we had ara (Ansible Records Ansible dashboard) available in configmanagement SIG, it needs to be using same python interpreter version for the callback, and previous one was built against/for python 3.6 (like ansible 2.9.x) , so quite some changes ... -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Update RPM GPG key for EL9
On 01/06/2022 19:51, Orion Poplawski wrote: Looks like the GPG key we use to sign our RPMs is not longer good with EL9: # rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-nwra error: RPM-GPG-KEY-nwra: key 1 import failed gpg key info: sec rsa2048/35DDB0B86218AC2F created: 2017-08-16 expires: never usage: SC trust: ultimate validity: ultimate ssb rsa2048/6A7FBC1E9DB22E8E created: 2017-08-16 expires: never usage: E Can someone explain what I need to do to make things compatible with EL9? Thank you! Just ensure that it's not using SHA1, which was deprecated, reason why the CentOS keys had to be re-signed with newer algo too See this thread : https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2022-March/120263.html -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Update RPM GPG key for EL9
On 02/06/2022 00:22, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 6/1/22 13:43, Fabian Arrotin wrote: On 01/06/2022 19:51, Orion Poplawski wrote: Looks like the GPG key we use to sign our RPMs is not longer good with EL9: # rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-nwra error: RPM-GPG-KEY-nwra: key 1 import failed gpg key info: sec rsa2048/35DDB0B86218AC2F created: 2017-08-16 expires: never usage: SC trust: ultimate validity: ultimate ssb rsa2048/6A7FBC1E9DB22E8E created: 2017-08-16 expires: never usage: E Can someone explain what I need to do to make things compatible with EL9? Thank you! Just ensure that it's not using SHA1, which was deprecated, reason why the CentOS keys had to be re-signed with newer algo too See this thread : https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2022-March/120263.html Thanks - but I don't know how to check if it is using SHA1 or how to regenerate it with SHA512. You can always check the digest algo on existing public keys with --list-packets Example for the older Cloud SIG pub key (but same for other keys) : curl --silent https://git.centos.org/centos/centos.org/raw/26a8f19095de699769b00109a1d69b37474ec388/f/keys/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Cloud|gpg --list-packets|grep "digest algo" digest algo 2, begin of digest 01 35 digest algo 2 is the problem , as it's SHA1, which is now deprecated So you don't need to create new key, but just re-sign with better algo Just ensure that you have 'cert-digest-algo SHA512' in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf and re-signing existing gpg key[s] would work The easiest way to have these re-signed is to 'gpg --edit-key ` , then edit both primary and sub, setting different expiration date (even if already set to never), save and then export with 'gpg --export --armor' again You can see the difference on the public key: curl --silent https://git.centos.org/centos/centos.org/raw/main/f/keys/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Cloud|gpg --list-packets|grep "digest algo" digest algo 10, begin of digest 73 02 Which shows a better signature algo and it can be imported now on RHEL9/Stream9 and others -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Backup KVM Guest VM in OVA or VMDK format
On 01/09/2022 18:14, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, Is there a way to backup KVM Guest VM running CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core) OS in kvmguestosimage.ova or kvmguestosimage.vmdk format as I am trying to restore it in AWS by referring to https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import/ article as per the below supported file format. [1] Open Virtualization Archive (OVA) [2] Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) [3] Virtual Hard Disk (VHD/VHDX) [4] raw Also any method to take full and incremental backup of KVM Guest VM. Any help will be highly appreciated. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks in Advance. Best Regards, Kaushal Stop the vm qemu-img convert -f raw origin.qcow2 dest.raw You can then import but while we use this to create official centos image, don't forget to ensure that you node is ready to be imported, so cloud-init, etc, etc It's usually easier/better/faster to have automation in place to configure an application and so replay it on a new node, and then replicate data I guess only option why you'd want to not do this is that it's a running machine that was configured "by hands" by someone who left the company (and so without automation in place) -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 9 Stream on Workstation with Ver. 1 x86_64 cpu
On 05/09/2022 16:15, Mike wrote: Hello All, RHEL9 deprecated version 1 x86_64 cpus. My old testbench HP workstation has such a version 1 cpu. I've tested install of Rocky Linux 9 and CentOS9Stream but no go upon reboot after install -- kernel panic. Is there a way to recompile the kernel to handle the legacy cpu after install -- via some other live cd, perhaps? Due to the fact I can't reboot after install, I'm not able to build a kernel using the following: https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel Sidenote: I'd also like to include support for btrfs too, but first things first. Thank you. To keep a long story short : don't even try :) Worth reading : https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/01/05/building-red-hat-enterprise-linux-9-for-the-x86-64-v2-microarchitecture-level So it's not only kernel but the whole userland and glibc (and others) that would need to be recompiled, so basically rebuilding the whole distro ... -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Kmods SIG in RHEL
On 21/09/2022 08:32, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: Hi, Is https://sigs.centos.org/kmods/ a part of RHEL 9? If yes, what is the repository name? If not, when can we expect it to be included? Thanks --- Lee No, it's not part of RHEL9 , and it's built and maintained by the Kmods SIG (see https://sigs.centos.org/kmods/) as a community project. They were building it first for Stream 9 and later asked to also build for/against RHEL9 kernel when it was available (see https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/786) Kind Regards, -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Kmods SIG in RHEL
On 21/09/2022 11:51, Fabian Arrotin wrote: On 21/09/2022 08:32, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: Hi, Is https://sigs.centos.org/kmods/ a part of RHEL 9? If yes, what is the repository name? If not, when can we expect it to be included? Thanks --- Lee No, it's not part of RHEL9 , and it's built and maintained by the Kmods SIG (see https://sigs.centos.org/kmods/) as a community project. They were building it first for Stream 9 and later asked to also build for/against RHEL9 kernel when it was available (see https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/786) Kind Regards, Oups, realizing that I replied with same URL you gave and (I'll blame lack of coffee effect :-) ) my brain translated initially to artifacts/rpms that can be found on http://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/9/kmods/ ... But answer is still correct but now more complete as you see where built/signed pkgs are landing too (even if that was in the infra tracker ticket) -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Anyone using odpdown?
On 22/10/2022 17:39, H wrote: On 10/21/2022 12:45 PM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: Am 21.10.22 um 17:42 schrieb H: On 10/20/2022 02:52 PM, H wrote: Is anyone using odpdown to convert markdown files to OpenOffice Impress slide presentations under CentOS 7? It is not available in the CentOS repositories I have searched. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I got it to work. It requires python 2.7 and older versions of python modules reflecting that it was written around 2015. I find this utility extremely useful and wish it was still maintained. If anyone knows of another markdown -> Impress converter, it would be great to know. pandoc -t pptx -s Readme.md > output.pptx pptx is supported be LibreOffice Impress. As you are on EL7 I'm not sure if this works for you but it does on a recent EL version ... -- Leon I moved away a long time ago from LibreOffice for quick slides, all simply using a template and a markdown document : https://github.com/gnab/remark/wiki Easy, doesn't come in my way and let me write some slides just even before giving the talk/presentation :) -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Question about virt-manager Version 9.1
On 10/02/2023 18:07, Joshua Kramer wrote: This may provide the answer you are looking for: it's being deprecated in favor of Cockpit. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2030592 I know it's not a full answer but at least it works fine for me with : - distrobox - a stream 8 box/container that has virt-manager If you don't know distrobox (available in epel9) it's really a pleasure to work with : I have some containers (Fedora 36, stream 8, stream 9) from which I have gui apps seamlessly integrated into my RHEL 9 desktop : sudo dnf install distrobox # needs epel9 distrobox-create --name stream8box --image quay.io/centos/centos:stream8 --yes distrobox enter stream8box # init container for distrobox usage and enter stream 8 shell and then BAU: from the shell in container : sudo dnf install virt-manager && virt-manager Bonus point to then export the app to your own desktop menu and you'll not have to start container : it will be done for you : distrobox-export --app virt-manager Application virt-manager successfully exported. OK! virt-manager will appear in your applications list in a few seconds. It's then available in your gnome apps menu (it created the needed .desktop app as shortcut) I'm using some other apps like this (including OBS-Studio, etc) and it's a charm ... Hope it helps :) -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | @arrfab[@fosstodon.org] OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] vault.centos.org down ?
On 14/03/2023 17:22, James Pearson wrote: I'm getting 'Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource.' when accessing https://vault.centos.org/ Is it down ? Thanks James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos We have one server with a corrupted FS but it was removed from the origin nodes used by AWS cloudfront Investigating though ... -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | @arrfab[@fosstodon.org] OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
