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

2010-06-07 Thread James Hogarth
Anyone recall what kernel runs on the centos 5.5 live cd? Might be worth trying to boot off that to eliminate local config or modules as a problem and confirm a kernel only issue. James Sent from Android mobile On Jun 7, 2010 5:12 AM, "MHR" wrote: On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 3:14 PM, John Thomas

Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-07 Thread C R Ritson
>Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 12:19:30 +0200 >From: "Geoff Galitz" >Subject: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories > >I'm compiling a collection of stories from the systems administrator >trenches. > >Thanks! > >-Geoff > >- >Geoff Galitz >Blankenheim NRW, Germany >http://eif

Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-07 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 06/06/2010 11:19 AM, Geoff Galitz wrote: > I'm compiling a collection of stories from the systems administrator > trenches. have you considered a wiki for this ? rather than clogging up the lists. People could just post their stories there and you get readily editable content straight out. -

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

2010-06-07 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 15:14 -0700, John Thomas wrote: > > centos55[r...@home ~]# lsusb > Bus 002 Device 001: ID : > Bus 003 Device 001: ID : > Bus 001 Device 001: ID : > Bus 001 Device 002: ID 11b0:6888 ATECH FLASH TECHNOLOGY --- For kicks try unpluging the USB Drive and

Re: [CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

2010-06-07 Thread Bowie Bailey
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Thanks, all, and with the help of the other admin, the system is up. What > I had to do was linux rescue, the chroot /mnt/sysimage, grub-install > /dev/sda > > What I didn't get until later was it also needed /boot/grub/grub.conf, and > then > ln -s /boot/grub/grub.conf /b

Re: [CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

2010-06-07 Thread m . roth
> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Thanks, all, and with the help of the other admin, the system is up. >> What >> I had to do was linux rescue, the chroot /mnt/sysimage, grub-install >> /dev/sda >> >> What I didn't get until later was it also needed /boot/grub/grub.conf, >> and >> then >> ln -s /boot/gr

Re: [CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

2010-06-07 Thread MHR
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Thanks, all, and with the help of the other admin, the system is up. What >> I had to do was linux rescue, the chroot /mnt/sysimage, grub-install >> /dev/sda >> >> What I didn't get until later was it also needed /boo

[CentOS] rsyslog-relp - CentOS 5.5

2010-06-07 Thread Tom Brown
Hi We have been using rsyslog and rsyslog-relp for a while however it seems that in 5.5 there is a newer version of rsyslog. Does anyone know of a repo where rsyslog-relp exists that is compatible with rsyslog from 5.5 ? thanks ___ CentOS mailing list C

Re: [CentOS] Package Distribution Server?

2010-06-07 Thread Zhihao Lou
After some reading and testing, I decide to use puppet. It's really nice. I'll recommend it to others. Thank you all Zhihao Lou On Jun 4, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Gary Greene wrote: > On 6/3/10 8:27 PM, "Zhihao Lou" wrote: >> Dear List, >> >> I'm trying to set up a lab with multiple workstations r

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

2010-06-07 Thread Tom Brown
> 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. > > FYI i am having anaconda issues with 2.6.18-194 - basically anaconda crashes randomly both on x41

Re: [CentOS] Package Distribution Server?

2010-06-07 Thread Baird, Josh
Puppet isn't really a "package distribution server," although it can be used to maintain packages on several systems.. and is an AWESOME tool for other things like configuration management. A decent size shop would require more than just Puppet for package management/deployment, though. Josh ---

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

2010-06-07 Thread Steve Brooks
Hi, I had an issue with this kernel upgrade too. All worked fine until the 194 Kernel then hung on boot on 4 machines all with identical motherboards. All had USB keyboards, when replaced with PS2 keyboards all worked fine! What is to blame? - motherboard, kernel or keyboard.. I have no idea.

[CentOS] Odd INFO "120 seconds" in logs for 2.6.18-194.3.1

2010-06-07 Thread Steve Brooks
Hi, Since upgrading to "2.6.18-194" I am getting odd messages in the logs. Such as; sraid3 kernel INFO task pdflush 259 blocked for more than 120 seconds. The output from > grep '120 seconds' /var/log/messages | tr : ' ' | awk '{print $10}' | sort | > uniq -c 6 nfsd 4 pdflu

Re: [CentOS] Odd INFO "120 seconds" in logs for 2.6.18-194.3.1

2010-06-07 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-7-2010 1:12 PM Steve Brooks spake the following: > > Hi, > > Since upgrading to "2.6.18-194" I am getting odd messages in the logs. > Such as; > > sraid3 kernel INFO task pdflush 259 blocked for more than 120 seconds. > > > The output from > >> grep '120 seconds' /var/log/messages | t

[CentOS] rpm building and hyphens in Version tags

2010-06-07 Thread Joseph L. Casale
According to http://www.rpm.org/api/4.4.2.2/specfile.html a Version: tag can contain a hyphen, as the tarball for the source I am compiling is named 2.3-pre4 etc. When I try to build it I get an error about the illegal char? Anyone know about the discrepancy between the docs and RHEL's rpmbuild?

Re: [CentOS] Odd INFO "120 seconds" in logs for 2.6.18-194.3.1

2010-06-07 Thread Steve Brooks
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Scott Silva wrote: > on 6-7-2010 1:12 PM Steve Brooks spake the following: >> >> Hi, >> >> Since upgrading to "2.6.18-194" I am getting odd messages in the logs. >> Such as; >> >> sraid3 kernel INFO task pdflush 259 blocked for more than 120 seconds. >> >> >> The output from

Re: [CentOS] rpm building and hyphens in Version tags

2010-06-07 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 22:20 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > According to http://www.rpm.org/api/4.4.2.2/specfile.html a > Version: tag can contain a hyphen, as the tarball for the source > I am compiling is named 2.3-pre4 etc. > > When I try to build it I get an error about the illegal char? >

Re: [CentOS] rpm building and hyphens in Version tags

2010-06-07 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 22:20 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Ok a follow up... What you want is the release tag not the version because it will not work in the version tag. Why I do not know. I tried again with another src.rpm and has to be release tag for sure. Bombs out with an illegal tag. J

[CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-07 Thread Johnny Tan
Searching through the archives, it seems this topic has come up several times in the past 2.5 years. Did anyone ever take on the tasks of creating an official CentOS AMI? We're currently using the RightScale ones, but I think it'd be ideal to have a clean CentOS AMI with the current kernels. Kara

[CentOS] rpm building and hyphens in Version tags

2010-06-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > According to http://www.rpm.org/api/4.4.2.2/specfile.html a > Version: tag can contain a hyphen, as the tarball for the source > I am compiling is named 2.3-pre4 etc. ehh? Names must not include whitespace and may include a hyphen '-'

[CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Johnny Tan wrote: > Searching through the archives, it seems this topic has come up > several times in the past 2.5 years. Did anyone ever take on the > tasks of creating an official CentOS AMI? ummm -- Amazon does not use our kernel, and makes other changes. This makes it a

Re: [CentOS] rpm building and hyphens in Version tags

2010-06-07 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Ok Special Attention here: > >Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 >rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 >Checking for unpackaged >file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/inotify-tools-3.13-3.el5-root-ethan >Wrote: /home/ethan/rpmbuild/SRPMS/inotify-tools-3.13-3.el5.src.r

Re: [CentOS] rpm building and hyphens in Version tags

2010-06-07 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>ehh? > > Names must not include whitespace and may include a hyphen '-' > (unlike version and release tags). > >That is, version and release are UNLIKE name. name MAY have a >hyphen. by inference (and as you have seen), version and >release may not. Heh, well I had my head so far

[CentOS] rpm building and hyphens in Version tags

2010-06-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> ehh? >> >> Names must not include whitespace and may include a hyphen '-' >> (unlike version and release tags). >> >> That is, version and release are UNLIKE name. name MAY have a >> hyphen. by inference (and as you have seen), version and

Re: [CentOS] rpm building and hyphens in Version tags

2010-06-07 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 21:47 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > >> ehh? > >> > >>Names must not include whitespace and may include a hyphen '-' > >>(unlike version and release tags). > >> > >> That is, version and release are UNLIKE name. name MAY