[CentOS] Question 6.3 pulseaudio

2012-07-19 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi I am experimenting with pulseaudio. I have everything working as a normal user which is the correct way. However, I have an application that runs as root that wants to use sound. My /etc/asound.conf is all set for pulse. I tried doing "gpasswd -a root pulse-access" and restarted my applicatio

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: Bug 800181: NFSv4 on RHEL 6.3 over six times slower than 5.8

2012-07-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 03:31:53 PM Les Mikesell wrote: >> Sure, everything can break and most will sometime, but does this >> happen often enough that you'd want to slow down all of your network >> disk writes by an order of magnitude on t

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, July 16, 2012 06:59:03 PM Tim Dunphy wrote: > >Have you tried using the minimal install iso? It will fit on a CD. > > Bingo! That was it. Thank you list! You guys rock. Always appreciate your > advice. Glad that worked! ___ CentOS mailing li

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: Bug 800181: NFSv4 on RHEL 6.3 over six times slower than 5.8

2012-07-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 03:31:53 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > Sure, everything can break and most will sometime, but does this > happen often enough that you'd want to slow down all of your network > disk writes by an order of magnitude on the odd chance that some app > really cares about a random

Re: [CentOS] RAID card selection - JBOD mode / Linux RAID

2012-07-19 Thread David C. Miller
- Original Message - > From: "Alan McKay" > To: "CentOS mailing list" > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 5:21:17 AM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] RAID card selection - JBOD mode / Linux RAID > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:44 PM, SilverTip257 > wrote: > > That's going to really drag if you have

Re: [CentOS] Oracle UEK kernel on CentOS

2012-07-19 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > No, java is not open source. Yes it is. On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > They made Java GPL Yes, you finally understood. Thanks :) http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/ http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/11/12

Re: [CentOS] Oracle UEK kernel on CentOS

2012-07-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> >> Just because Sun didn't have patent suits in our genetic code doesn't >> mean we didn't feel wronged. While I have differences with Oracle, in >> this case they are in the right. Google totally slimed Sun. We were >> all really disturb

[CentOS] Missing /usr/share/X11/fonts/encodings/encodings.dir on CentOS 6 ?

2012-07-19 Thread James Pearson
I'm trying to work out if this is a bug or a feature of CentOS 6 ... it appears the file /usr/share/X11/fonts/encodings/encodings.dir is missing on CentOS 6 The file is owned by the RPM xorg-x11-fonts-misc - but is a 'ghost' file - that is, it is owned by the RPM but doesn't exist in the RPM H

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 89, Issue 9

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Re: [CentOS] Oracle UEK kernel on CentOS

2012-07-19 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 07/19/2012 10:17 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> If Android was not wildly popular, Oracle would not have done anything >> about it. Since it is, they want $$. > Money is so evil! how they dare license a technology... even if it's > open s

Re: [CentOS] RAID card selection - JBOD mode / Linux RAID

2012-07-19 Thread Dean Jones
Look at ZFS information and lists. ZFS prefers JBOD and raw drive access, so there is plenty of information out there about which controllers work best that way. LSI 9211-8i being one of the more popular ones. On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:44 PM

Re: [CentOS] Oracle UEK kernel on CentOS

2012-07-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> > It fits in fine until Oracle decides that it wants to sue because they > think there is some money to be made. Then APIs are patentable, GPL does > not give patent permissions, etc. The lawsuits will then fly. You could make exactly tha

Re: [CentOS] Oracle UEK kernel on CentOS

2012-07-19 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > If Android was not wildly popular, Oracle would not have done anything > about it. Since it is, they want $$. Money is so evil! how they dare license a technology... even if it's open source... *sarcasm* http://www.businessinsider.com/jav

Re: [CentOS] Oracle UEK kernel on CentOS

2012-07-19 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > You did see the majority of the developers for OpenOffice jumped ship > and went to LibreOffice as soon as Sun was bought by Oracle, right? Why > do you think that is? Like in all events in History, there's two versions of events. Here's Sh

Re: [CentOS] Oracle UEK kernel on CentOS

2012-07-19 Thread m . roth
Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 07/19/2012 09:53 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >>> No, java is not open source. Didn't you know that the APIs are >>> patented. You did see that Oracle sued Google for making a Derivative >>> work of java, right? Open source is

Re: [CentOS] Oracle UEK kernel on CentOS

2012-07-19 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 07/19/2012 09:53 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> No, java is not open source. Didn't you know that the APIs are >> patented. You did see that Oracle sued Google for making a Derivative >> work of java, right? Open source is open source ... this suing

Re: [CentOS] Oracle UEK kernel on CentOS

2012-07-19 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Johnny Hughes wrote: > No, java is not open source. Didn't you know that the APIs are > patented. You did see that Oracle sued Google for making a Derivative > work of java, right? Open source is open source ... this suing people > for using open source to create derivative

Re: [CentOS] YUM FAILED AFTER YUM CLEANALL

2012-07-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/19/2012 12:31 PM, arun kumar wrote: > http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=i386&repo=os error was > 14: PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 407" fix your proxy server -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219|

Re: [CentOS] Issue with Cent OS 5.5 x64 on AMD machine

2012-07-19 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 07/19/2012 07:09 AM, Anumeha Prasad wrote: > Thanks. I will indeed install Cent OS 5.8 and see if that resolves the > issue. RHEL 5 had released some kernel-xen patch to > address this issue. So, just wanted to know if a similar thing is available > for CentOS. > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:17 P

Re: [CentOS] RAID card selection - JBOD mode / Linux RAID

2012-07-19 Thread Alan McKay
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:44 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: > That's going to really drag if you have to configure a RAID0 for all > 48 disks ... it'd be much easier if you could directly communicate > with the drives. I've set up at most five or six RAID0 devices on one > host and it's not particularly

Re: [CentOS] HOW do I get Java 1.7 64-bit?

2012-07-19 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 07/19/2012 06:54 AM, James Hogarth wrote: >> Yes. However, my BrailleBlaster project may require Java 1.7. I suppose >> I can obtain it from Openjdk and install it manually. I should probably >> uninstall Java 1.6 first. After I install Java 1.7, will subsequent use >> of yuum update mess up tha

Re: [CentOS] Issue with Cent OS 5.5 x64 on AMD machine

2012-07-19 Thread Anumeha Prasad
Thanks. I will indeed install Cent OS 5.8 and see if that resolves the issue. RHEL 5 had released some kernel-xen patch to address this issue. So, just wanted to know if a similar thing is available for CentOS. On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:17 PM, James Hogarth wrote: > > Cent OS 5.5 x64 does not bo

Re: [CentOS] Issue with Cent OS 5.5 x64 on AMD machine

2012-07-19 Thread mark
On 07/19/12 07:47, James Hogarth wrote: >> Cent OS 5.5 x64 does not boot on certain AMD-based servers. Following error >> is displayed: >> >> Code: 8b 72 40 48 8d 4c 24 1c 48 8b 7a 20 ba c4 01 00 00 e8 5f 77 >> RIP [] cpuid4_cache_lookup+0x256/0x356 >> RSP >> CR2: 0040 >> <0>Kernel panic --

Re: [CentOS] HOW do I get Java 1.7 64-bit?

2012-07-19 Thread James Hogarth
> Yes. However, my BrailleBlaster project may require Java 1.7. I suppose > I can obtain it from Openjdk and install it manually. I should probably > uninstall Java 1.6 first. After I install Java 1.7, will subsequent use > of yuum update mess up that installation? You have a few of choices here..

Re: [CentOS] Issue with Cent OS 5.5 x64 on AMD machine

2012-07-19 Thread James Hogarth
> Cent OS 5.5 x64 does not boot on certain AMD-based servers. Following error > is displayed: > > Code: 8b 72 40 48 8d 4c 24 1c 48 8b 7a 20 ba c4 01 00 00 e8 5f 77 > RIP [] cpuid4_cache_lookup+0x256/0x356 > RSP > CR2: 0040 > <0>Kernel panic -- not syncing: Fatal exception > This issue was

Re: [CentOS] HOW do I get Java 1.7 64-bit?

2012-07-19 Thread John J. Boyer
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:50:02AM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Generally speaking, using software coming from a repository configured > in yum makes it a lot easier to maintain the system and keep the > packages up to date. > > It is a bad habbit, especially in an enterprise environment, to d

Re: [CentOS] Oracle UEK kernel on CentOS

2012-07-19 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 07/18/2012 04:45 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:16 PM, wrote: >> mark "and I wouldn't support Larry Ellison if I have any options" > Yeah, sticking it to the company that's developing and supporting open > source GPL Java sounds sensible... > *sarcasm* > > FC N

Re: [CentOS] YUM FAILED AFTER YUM CLEANALL

2012-07-19 Thread Luigi Rosa
arun kumar said the following on 19/07/2012 13:31: > bash-4.1# yum update > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile > Could not retrieve mirrorlist > http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=i386&repo=os error was > 14: PYCURL ERROR 22 - "

[CentOS] Issue with Cent OS 5.5 x64 on AMD machine

2012-07-19 Thread Anumeha Prasad
Hi, Cent OS 5.5 x64 does not boot on certain AMD-based servers. Following error is displayed: Code: 8b 72 40 48 8d 4c 24 1c 48 8b 7a 20 ba c4 01 00 00 e8 5f 77 RIP [] cpuid4_cache_lookup+0x256/0x356 RSP CR2: 0040 <0>Kernel panic -- not syncing: Fatal exception This issue was noticed on D

[CentOS] YUM FAILED AFTER YUM CLEANALL

2012-07-19 Thread arun kumar
Dear all, my yum was working fine. I was just trying to remove cache from yum through yum cleanall, after that i tried to do yum update, but it failed to do update and giving fallowing error bash-4.1# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit Loading mirror speeds from cached h

Re: [CentOS] Speedtest.mini on a local website?

2012-07-19 Thread Timothy Murphy
Kahlil Hodgson wrote: This is running on two CentOS-6.3 servers (one remote), and looking from a Firefox browser on a Fedora-17 laptop. > Do you have NoScript or AdBlockPlus or any other firefox add-on that > might be interfering? No. I disabled all Firefox Add-ons (they were only Tra

Re: [CentOS] HOW do I get Java 1.7 64-bit?

2012-07-19 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 19.07.2012 10:41, schrieb Heng Su: > Just download a jdk 1.7 from Oracle site. just extract it and config the > PATH is OK. > Why you want use yum install? > > Regards. > Su Heng Generally speaking, using software coming from a repository configured in yum makes it a lot easier to maintain th

Re: [CentOS] HOW do I get Java 1.7 64-bit?

2012-07-19 Thread Heng Su
Just download a jdk 1.7 from Oracle site. just extract it and config the PATH is OK. Why you want use yum install? Regards. Su Heng On 07/19/2012 04:23 PM, Nux! wrote: > On 19.07.2012 07:25, John J. Boyer wrote: >> What should I specify in the yum install command? I have CentOS 5.8, >> fully upd

Re: [CentOS] HOW do I get Java 1.7 64-bit?

2012-07-19 Thread Nux!
On 19.07.2012 07:25, John J. Boyer wrote: > What should I specify in the yum install command? I have CentOS 5.8, > fully updated, but it still has Java 1.6. > > Thanks, > John Hello John, That's because this is the current stable version supported by RedHat in its enterprise offerings. Not sure

Re: [CentOS] gdm login keyboard layout selector missing

2012-07-19 Thread Nux!
On 17.07.2012 07:45, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > How do I get the keyboard layout selector in gdm login for 6.3? I > have > language selector but no keyboard layout selector. Yes, this "feature" has been introduced in 6.2: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746923 -- Sent from the Delta