[CentOS] Centos on Motorola PowerQuicc?

2010-06-06 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All Do you have any experience with hardware emulator for Motorola PowerQuicc on MS Windows host (dedicated for centos installation)? Thank you ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread Geoff Galitz
Hello, I'm compiling a collection of stories from the systems administrator trenches. They can be short or long, funny or about a particularly challenging problem or period, or even something that appeared very technically challenging and ended up being something very simple. Stories which ar

Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 6.6.2010 13.19, Geoff Galitz wrote: > I'm compiling a collection of stories from the systems administrator > trenches. They can be short or long, funny or about a particularly > challenging problem or period, or even something that appeared very > technically challenging and ended up being some

Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread Geoff Galitz
> > What will be the intended audience? How much technical detail can be > mentioned? Does one assume that the readers know what is grub, initrd, > xen, amavisd etc? > > - Jussi > The intended audience is anyone in the Systems Administration or Systems Engineering field at any technical level.

Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010, Geoff Galitz wrote: > > What will be the intended audience? How much technical detail can > > be mentioned? Does one assume that the readers know what is grub, > > initrd, xen, amavisd etc? > > > The intended audience is anyone in the Systems Administration or > Systems Enginee

[CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread John Thomas
I have a machine that has worked fine for years on CentOS5. kernel-PAE-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 is the last "works fine" kernel, but kernel-PAE-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 crashes at boot every time. I tried banging on the side of the monitor to no avail. All kidding aside, here are pictures of my monitor when

Re: [CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread MHR
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:35 AM, John Thomas wrote: > I have a machine that has worked fine for years on CentOS5. > kernel-PAE-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 is the last "works fine" kernel, but > kernel-PAE-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 crashes at boot every time. > > I tried banging on the side of the monitor to no av

Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread MHR
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WM977mANl8 > There's also this one on the the impotence of proofreading: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonDPGwAyfQ&feature=related (No, that was NOT a typo.) mhr ___

Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread Digimer
On 10-06-06 06:19 AM, Geoff Galitz wrote: > Hello, > > I'm compiling a collection of stories from the systems administrator > trenches. They can be short or long, funny or about a particularly > challenging problem or period, or even something that appeared very > technically challenging and ended

Re: [CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread John Thomas
> Let's see - you're running a Dell and the second photo is out of focus It's worse than that. It's a Dell monitor on a custom built machine by someone who does not know what they are doing (me). Would a more focused picture help? > Sorry, I just couldn't resist. No worries, just keeping h

Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread James Bensley
All nighters are bad news, mistakes are easily made at these times as we have all learnt the hard way ;) *cough* erased the backups and spent the night re-backing up data so nothing actually got done *cough* I do remember spending a few days putting together some systems check for my self and my

Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 08:22:22PM +0100, James Bensley wrote: > redundancy, connectivity etc...) only to have something fail the next > day (so it really paid off!) and then nothing has broken since?...Just > goes to show you never know! > > Also recently upgraded my personal Ubuntu server to a

Re: [CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Jun 6, 2010, at 1:11 PM, John Thomas wrote: >> Let's see - you're running a Dell and the second photo is out of focus > It's worse than that. It's a Dell monitor on a custom built machine by > someone who does not know what they are doing (me). Would a more > focused picture help? > >

Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread James Bensley
I think Whit you have raised some deeper questions maybe about probability, sod's law, the uncertanty principle, karma, etc etc...Maybe a venn diagram covering luck and preparedness is in order, who knows, we/I am digressing I would like to point out that at home I'm pretty sure I'm jinxed; my

Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread MHR
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Digimer wrote: > > Under the category of "learn from the mistake of others..." > > About eight years ago, I was working on a program with tight deadlines. > I'd worked through the night, only catching an hour or two of sleep in > the office. > > The next morning, o

Re: [CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread MHR
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:11 AM, John Thomas wrote: >> I'm wondering if is has something to do with the PAE kernel vs. your >> machine.  Can you elaborate on that at all? > Not sure what to do here.  I am at hobbyist skill level. > > With your question, I tried using the regular (non-PAE) kernel.

Re: [CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread John Thomas
> It sounds like you have a non-standard driver that is not compatible > with the latest kernel. Hmm, using nvidia video driver from ELRepo and I don't remember anything else. I tried without the nvidia driver, but same problem. > Can you post more details about the machine, say info from a work

Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread Dominik Zyla
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 03:06:18PM -0700, MHR wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Digimer wrote: > > > > Under the category of "learn from the mistake of others..." > > > > About eight years ago, I was working on a program with tight deadlines. > > I'd worked through the night, only catching

Re: [CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 3:14 PM, John Thomas wrote: > 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb > AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1) It is possible that your problem is related to this bug: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4335 ( sound and system problems in CentOS 5.5

Re: [CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread John Thomas
> Edit /etc/modprobe.conf to have the following line and reboot: > options snd-hda-intel index=0 enable_msi=0 Tried this, no help, but thanks -- Sincerely, John Thomas ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/ce

Re: [CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-06 Thread MHR
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 3:14 PM, John Thomas wrote: >> It sounds like you have a non-standard driver that is not compatible >> with the latest kernel. > Hmm, using nvidia video driver from ELRepo and I don't remember anything > else.  I tried without the nvidia driver, but same problem. > >> Can yo