Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-26 Thread Christopher Chan
On Monday, September 26, 2011 06:40 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > If it's not supported it shouldn't be enabled and easily (ab)used. This is > part of the reason you have to add a boot argument to get CentOS to do a > version upgrade; it's known to not work properly, and thus is semi-hidden. Now tha

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, September 24, 2011 06:34:15 AM Christopher Chan wrote: > Ah...you're supposed to use do-release-upgrade and not 'apt dist-upgrade' If that is what is called by the gui distribution upgrade button, it has done similar things to a few installs I have had to repair. > Ubuntu ain't Debi

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-24 Thread Christopher Chan
On Saturday, September 24, 2011 03:13 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, September 23, 2011 02:35:40 PM Craig White wrote: >> I moved to Ubuntu on my own server, some of my customers servers as has my >> employer. > > This is not a Ubuntu list. > > I have had my share of problems with more than on

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 9/24/11, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Yes, I suck at communication. Just ask my 1st wife. Does that mean that the whole dev team are just going to chalk it up to poor communications, shrug and not do anything about the communication channel, despite the existence of the qaweb and that it probably t

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 9/24/11, Lamar Owen wrote: > I don't think you understand. The process is iterative; if QA fails it's > all the way back up to building it again. A package may have existed three > weeks ago in terms of being built; if that package had passed binary testing > and QA it would have been release

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/23/2011 04:51 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > On 09/23/2011 09:58 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 09/23/2011 12:29 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > > [SNIP] > >> >> If there are issues that prevent this then >>> make an announcement to that effect so that people at least know that they

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 09/23/2011 09:58 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 09/23/2011 12:29 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: [SNIP] > > If there are issues that prevent this then >> make an announcement to that effect so that people at least know that they >> have to take matter in their own hands. Writing such an email

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, September 23, 2011 02:35:40 PM Craig White wrote: >> I moved to Ubuntu on my own server, some of my customers servers as has my >> employer. > > This is not a Ubuntu list. It's not a Red Hat list either, yet you didn't complain when

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Johnny Hughes : > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On 09/23/2011 12:29 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: >> On 09/23/2011 06:57 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> On 09/23/2011 09:06 AM, Stefan Held wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 22.09

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Craig White
On Sep 23, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, September 23, 2011 02:35:40 PM Craig White wrote: >> I moved to Ubuntu on my own server, some of my customers servers as has my >> employer. > > This is not a Ubuntu list. > > I have had my share of problems with more than one of the

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, September 23, 2011 03:17:07 PM Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > On 09/23/2011 07:57 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > Have you pondered the moral implications of knowlingly installing insecure > > software and placing it on the public internet? Oh, wait, it's not a moral > > issue, since there

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/23/2011 12:29 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > On 09/23/2011 06:57 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 09/23/2011 09:06 AM, Stefan Held wrote: >>> Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2011, 07:28 -0500 schrieb Johnny Hughes: >>> No matter what we try to do ... some kind of rolling updates for people >>

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 09/23/2011 07:57 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, September 23, 2011 01:29:51 PM Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: >> What you are suggesting here is that people should expect centos systems to >> be insecure and go the RHEL if they want secure systems. > > If the timeliness of security updates is

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, September 23, 2011 02:35:40 PM Craig White wrote: > I moved to Ubuntu on my own server, some of my customers servers as has my > employer. This is not a Ubuntu list. I have had my share of problems with more than one of the LTS Ubuntu distributions, more than I have had with CentOS.

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Craig White
On Sep 23, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, September 23, 2011 01:29:51 PM Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: >> What you are suggesting here is that people should expect centos systems to >> be insecure and go the RHEL if they want secure systems. > > If the timeliness of security u

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, September 23, 2011 01:29:51 PM Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > What you are suggesting here is that people should expect centos systems to > be insecure and go the RHEL if they want secure systems. If the timeliness of security updates is essential/critical you cannt get faster updates

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, September 23, 2011 12:57:31 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > There is a whole channel of RPMs that we are not allowed to look at from > upstream now. They do not release them on any ISOs and we can't pull > things directly off RHN (the only way to get the optional channel) and > use it. This

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 09/23/2011 06:57 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 09/23/2011 09:06 AM, Stefan Held wrote: >> Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2011, 07:28 -0500 schrieb Johnny Hughes: >> >>> No matter what we try to do ... some kind of rolling updates for people >>> who do not want to wait ... or whatever the next thing is

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 9/24/11, Johnny Hughes wrote: > I can tell you that we are building 6.x stuff for QA now and have been > for several weeks. I'm not personally unhappy with the devs over the situation since I pretty much didn't plan on any critical C6 installations until 6.1 comes out. So with just one testing

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread m . roth
Johnny - blow all this off. The rest of us, posters and lurkers alike, appreciate the work the team's doing. The *only* thing that I'm interested in, now, is the apache update for the bloody Digitar mess. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@c

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/23/2011 09:06 AM, Stefan Held wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2011, 07:28 -0500 schrieb Johnny Hughes: > >> No matter what we try to do ... some kind of rolling updates for people >> who do not want to wait ... or whatever the next thing is ... well you >> do not seem to be happy. > > You

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/23/2011 07:50 AM, Alain Péan wrote: > Le 22/09/2011 14:28, Johnny Hughes a écrit : >> No matter what we try to do ... some kind of rolling updates for people >> who do not want to wait ... or whatever the next thing is ... well you >> do not seem to be happy. > > Which rolling updates ? OK f

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Stefan Held
Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2011, 07:28 -0500 schrieb Johnny Hughes: > No matter what we try to do ... some kind of rolling updates for people > who do not want to wait ... or whatever the next thing is ... well you > do not seem to be happy. Your "Customers" are not unhappy because they don't like

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Alain Péan
Le 22/09/2011 14:28, Johnny Hughes a écrit : > No matter what we try to do ... some kind of rolling updates for people > who do not want to wait ... or whatever the next thing is ... well you > do not seem to be happy. Which rolling updates ? OK for 5.x, but 5.7 has been released, so this repo is

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 09/21/2011 06:00 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Christopher Chan >> wrote: No LTS? - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS >>> >>> For Ubuntu's definition of 'support'. It is in no way comparable to

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/21/2011 06:00 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Christopher Chan > wrote: >>> >>> No LTS? - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS >>> >> >> For Ubuntu's definition of 'support'. It is in no way comparable to what >> you can get in previous Centos releases. It is 'comparab

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-21 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, September 22, 2011 07:00 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Christopher Chan > wrote: >>> >>> No LTS? - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS >>> >> >> For Ubuntu's definition of 'support'. It is in no way comparable to what >> you can get in previous Centos releas

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-21 Thread tdukes
As the OP, I will say this. I blew out my CentOS 6.0 installation having installed SL kernel and firmware packages. I thought I would install SL 6.1 to see how it would be since it was a new install with no real value as far as customizations.  It wouldn't run after the installation, boot up and cr

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: >> >> No LTS? - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS >> > > For Ubuntu's definition of 'support'. It is in no way comparable to what > you can get in previous Centos releases. It is 'comparable' to CEntos 6 > - none Errr, what? Apt-get is stil

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-21 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:50 AM, Craig White wrote: >>> I don't have to worry about 'long term support' >> >> Cause there is none. > > Ubuntu != Debian > > No LTS? - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS > For Ubuntu's definition of 'support'. It is in no way comparable to what you can

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-21 Thread R - elists
craig this is your second troll in two posts. stop trolling we are glad for your past life when centos rescued you from whatever. plus, your past and current usage of centos, migrations to another distro, and opinions are duly noted "again". like for the hundredth time another time will not b

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-21 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 09:50 -0700, Craig White wrote: > Ubuntu != Debian http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/difference-between-ubuntu-vs-debian/ > But it's not really my intent to debate which distro - just wanted to > point out that at this point, it requires a leap of faith to instal

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-21 Thread Craig White
On Sep 21, 2011, at 6:41 AM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Sep 21, 2011, at 12:03 AM, Craig White wrote: > I guess the point I was trying to make without being excessively blunt is that the track record of timely releases for CentOS 6.x (any release) and the track record of timel

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-21 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 21, 2011, at 12:03 AM, Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 09:18 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: >> On Sep 19, 2011, at 7:12 PM, Craig White wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 18:41 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Craig White wrote: > At some poin

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-20 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 09:18 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: > On Sep 19, 2011, at 7:12 PM, Craig White wrote: > > > On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 18:41 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: > >> On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Craig White wrote: > >> > >>> At some point, security updates for 6.1 will be released and then i

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-20 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 19, 2011, at 7:12 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 18:41 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: >> On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Craig White wrote: >> >>> At some point, security updates for 6.1 will be released and then it >>> becomes a matter of deciding to install it based on the evid

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-19 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 18:41 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: > On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Craig White wrote: > > > At some point, security updates for 6.1 will be released and then it > > becomes a matter of deciding to install it based on the evidence that > > security updates have been non-existent

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-19 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Craig White wrote: > At some point, security updates for 6.1 will be released and then it > becomes a matter of deciding to install it based on the evidence that > security updates have been non-existent all this time. I'm sorry I don't follow you here? I'm fairly c

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-18 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 08:29 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: > Reason being I had a very similar experience with the Fedora > Electronics Lab respin Live CD earlier this year. I always buy 386 and x64 DVDs of each Centos sub-version. About 3-4 months ago I tried to install Centos from DVDs and the di

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-18 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Karanbir Singh > Subject: Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense > > Hi, > > On 09/18/2011 12:39 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: >> A lot of people responded related to media, and that's

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 19:20 -0400, Thomas Dukes wrote: > I'm sure I'll have more questions later as 6.0 is much different than > previous versions. :-) bear in mind... CentOS 6.0 is almost a year old without security updates CentOS 6.1 (when it finally gets released) will likely be about 6 m

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 09/18/2011 12:39 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > A lot of people responded related to media, and that's because it > happens. As in the end the OP confirms that. That is true, and I apologise. Guess I must just be really lucky not having had a media issue in many years now. - KB _

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> Faulty burn media? > > This is the sort of message that is really unhelpful. You are stating > opinion, with no relation to the actual email posted by the OP, and > provide nothing to  work with to prove or disprove the situation. Unless >

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Devin Reade
Thomas Dukes wrote: > I do miss the old startup where you can see if services start or fail. Edit /etc/grub.conf. Comment out the splashimage and hiddenmenu lines. Remove the 'rhgb' and 'quiet' options from the kernel argument list. On your next reboot you should see something useful once mor

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Thomas Dukes
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh > Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 1:35 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense > > On 09/17/2011

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread R - elists
> > Just want to remind everyone that this isn't a social chatter > list, or a LUG free for all. Lets try and actually be > productive and lets try to help people in a tangible manner. > If you don't have anything relevant to say or contribute to a > conversation, its perfectly fine to not sa

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/17/2011 12:25 PM, Thomas Dukes wrote: > I get the 'Welcome' screen, I make the selection to install or upgrade, get > to 'Loading vmlinuz..', then it hangs. Edit that line, add 'debug' and 'text' to the boot line, see how far it gets. Try to list the last 25 odd lines of the boot messages be

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/17/2011 04:50 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: >> Can you expand a bit on the 'wont boot', actually expand quite a lot. >> Run the installer in debug mode and turn off all rhgb, quiet etc and see >> what point and how far the system gets. > > Faulty burn media? This is the sort of message that is r

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 16:50 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: > >> Faulty burn media? > > I use a lot to record television news, among my many other activities, > and estimate about 4% to 5% of DVDs are bad. Bad media is one high possibility.

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 16:50 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: > Faulty burn media? I use a lot to record television news, among my many other activities, and estimate about 4% to 5% of DVDs are bad. Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://l

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Thomas Dukes wrote: > I get the 'Welcome' screen, I make the selection to > install or upgrade, get to 'Loading vmlinuz..', then it > hangs. > > Maybe the DVDs are bad. Can a 32 bit machine create a 64 > bit install disc? I had that with 32 bit installation. Try to boot in

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Karanbir Singh > Subject: Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense > > Hi, > > On 09/17/2011 02:52 AM, Thomas Dukes wrote: >> It won't boot CentOS 6.0 64 bit, Scientific Linux 64 bit

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Thomas Dukes
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh > Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 5:34 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense > > Hi, >

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 09/17/2011 02:52 AM, Thomas Dukes wrote: > It won't boot CentOS 6.0 64 bit, Scientific Linux 64 bit 6.1, but will boot > 32 bit CentOS 6.0. Can you expand a bit on the 'wont boot', actually expand quite a lot. Run the installer in debug mode and turn off all rhgb, quiet etc and see what po

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-16 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/16/11 7:36 PM, Craig White wrote: > Xeon processor? sounds old Xeon E3 is a server/workstation version of the latest sandy bridge processors, also known as core i-series -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast ___

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-16 Thread Kenneth Godee
Email Lenovo support and ask about RedHat 6.0 support for the TS130 The Lenovo TS130 is not listed on Redhat 6.0 system Certified list. https://hardware.redhat.com/list.cgi?product=Red+Hat+Hardware+Certification&quicksearch=Lenovo There are some notes on other think servers, maybe that would hel

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-16 Thread Digimer
On 09/16/2011 10:36 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 21:52 -0400, Thomas Dukes wrote: >> Just got my Lenovo TS130 with a Xeon E3-1225 Processor, 4GB RAM, blah, blah, >> blah.. >> >> It won't boot CentOS 6.0 64 bit, Scientific Linux 64 bit 6.1, but will boot >> 32 bit CentOS 6.0. >

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-16 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 21:52 -0400, Thomas Dukes wrote: > Just got my Lenovo TS130 with a Xeon E3-1225 Processor, 4GB RAM, blah, blah, > blah.. > > It won't boot CentOS 6.0 64 bit, Scientific Linux 64 bit 6.1, but will boot > 32 bit CentOS 6.0. > > Any ideas? Otherwise, its going back to Amazo

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-16 Thread Digimer
On 09/16/2011 09:52 PM, Thomas Dukes wrote: > Just got my Lenovo TS130 with a Xeon E3-1225 Processor, 4GB RAM, blah, blah, > blah.. > > It won't boot CentOS 6.0 64 bit, Scientific Linux 64 bit 6.1, but will boot > 32 bit CentOS 6.0. > > Any ideas? Otherwise, its going back to Amazon Monday an