Re: [CentOS] how is "binary compatibility" determined?

2011-04-09 Thread Mister IT Guru
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 14:47 -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Dvorkin, Asya wrote: > >>> > >>> Thanks Keith, good question, that should have been on my list of > >>> "Questions to ask about CentOS building process", and thanks to Akemi > >>> for a quick answer :) > >> >

Re: [CentOS] 5.6 is out, great my first upgrade didn't work...

2011-04-09 Thread Alain Péan
Le 09/04/2011 08:23, Paul Daggett a écrit : > > > - Original Message > From: Nicolas Ross > To: centos@centos.org > Sent: Fri, April 8, 2011 8:24:39 PM > Subject: [CentOS] 5.6 is out, great my first upgrade didn't work... > > 5.6 is out. That is good news. > > I did a yum update on one of

[CentOS] CentOS ToDo Item - For the Wiki - Hosting Control Panels - Help?

2011-04-09 Thread Mister IT Guru
Dear List, I've taken a look at the TODO page http://wiki.centos.org/ToDo and I've picked something at random to ask a question about and see if we can get it done! "Add page for Hosting control panels - we seem to get a lot of people asking about them" I spotted this quote - What exactly does t

Re: [CentOS] 5.6 is out, great my first upgrade didn't work...

2011-04-09 Thread Antonio da Silva Martins Junior
- "Nicolas Ross" escreveu: > > 5.6 is out. That is good news. > Well, I did it on a bunch of servers, and until now always ok. Nice work :) Antonio -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Antonio S. Martins Jr. - Support Analyst | "Only The

Re: [CentOS] CentOS ToDo Item - For the Wiki - Hosting Control Panels - Help?

2011-04-09 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/09/2011 10:26 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote: > Dear List, > > I've taken a look at the TODO page http://wiki.centos.org/ToDo and I've > picked something at random to ask a question about and see if we can get > it done! > Just as a warning : that page is very very out of date. A ToDo list, drawn

Re: [CentOS] how is "binary compatibility" determined?

2011-04-09 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi On 04/08/2011 07:47 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: > Yes, and not to mention the giant warning on the top of that page: > Comment from Karanbir Singh: > "Just want to point out that CentOS does not use anything from that page > - and details / scripts on that page have nothing to do wit

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

2011-04-09 Thread Markus Falb
On 9.4.2011 01:42, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I think I could have done it with http, > at least it linked to my web-server. > But I agree with you that NFS is much the easier way. NFS method requires you to run a nfs server. This is not easy if you are not running nfs service at your site. You have

Re: [CentOS] CentOS ToDo Item - For the Wiki - Hosting Control Panels - Help?

2011-04-09 Thread Mister IT Guru
On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 10:31 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 04/09/2011 10:26 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote: > > Dear List, > > > > I've taken a look at the TODO page http://wiki.centos.org/ToDo and I've > > picked something at random to ask a question about and see if we can get > > it done! > > > >

[CentOS] New CentOS ToDo Page Required

2011-04-09 Thread Mister IT Guru
Due to recent list traffic, it seems that we need to have a new todo list! I propose the following 1) Nuke current todo page 2) Create new todo page 3) Clear out ancient todo items a) Get rid of the items that are no longer relevant b) Reword those that are 4) Update Wiki a

Re: [CentOS] 5.6 is out, great my first upgrade didn't work...

2011-04-09 Thread Nicolas Ross
(...) >> Please post a follow-up, I'm curious what went wrong. :) >> > Maybe your server is hanging at fsck recovery shell waiting for root > password (or user interaction). Probably that. > Do you have a option to reboot you system into rescue mode or better a > KVM over IP ? Sorry, no, that serv

[CentOS] 5.6 update experience - EXCELLENT!

2011-04-09 Thread Ed Westphal
Just updated 98 packages on this ole hardware raid 10 box - 5.6 final is running just fine. No problems. THANKS. Ed Westphal ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 5.6 update experience - EXCELLENT!

2011-04-09 Thread Marius Vaitiekunas
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Ed Westphal wrote: > Just updated 98 packages on this ole hardware raid 10 box - 5.6 final is > running just fine. No problems. THANKS. > +1 Thanks! -- mv ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/

Re: [CentOS] New CentOS ToDo Page Required

2011-04-09 Thread Ned Slider
On 09/04/11 11:36, Mister IT Guru wrote: > Due to recent list traffic, it seems that we need to have a new todo > list! I propose the following > > 1) Nuke current todo page > 2) Create new todo page > 3) Clear out ancient todo items > a) Get rid of the items that are no longer relevant >

Re: [CentOS] how is "binary compatibility" determined?

2011-04-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, April 09, 2011 05:32:34 AM Karanbir Singh wrote: > I just wanted to make sure that people realise that while the process on > that page will get you to where one needs to be, the scripts etc are not > what we use in the centos buildsystem. And that's a more useful statement than the

[CentOS] CentOS 5.6

2011-04-09 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just one thing: THANK YOU ALL!!! Ciao, luigi - -- / +--[Luigi Rosa]-- \ When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.

Re: [CentOS] New CentOS ToDo Page Required

2011-04-09 Thread Mister IT Guru
On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 13:32 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: > On 09/04/11 11:36, Mister IT Guru wrote: > > Due to recent list traffic, it seems that we need to have a new todo > > list! I propose the following > > > > 1) Nuke current todo page > > 2) Create new todo page > > 3) Clear out ancient todo item

Re: [CentOS] how is "binary compatibility" determined?

2011-04-09 Thread Mister IT Guru
On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 08:52 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Saturday, April 09, 2011 05:32:34 AM Karanbir Singh wrote: > > I just wanted to make sure that people realise that while the process on > > that page will get you to where one needs to be, the scripts etc are not > > what we use in the cen

Re: [CentOS] New CentOS ToDo Page Required

2011-04-09 Thread Phil Schaffner
Mister IT Guru wrote on 04/09/2011 06:36 AM: ... > Any ideas? Anyone want to comment? The Wiki could use a lot of work in many areas including this one; however, Wiki discussions should be conducted on centos-docs. Please post there. Phil ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6

2011-04-09 Thread Simon Matter
> Just one thing: THANK YOU ALL!!! > > Ciao, > luigi The same from me too! Simon ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] PCI-X/PCIe RAID controller.

2011-04-09 Thread Drew
> cheap scsi raid?  good luck.   maybe something on ebay, but then its > Caveat Emptor, and likely the raid batteries will be dead or dying. > > What speed is your scsi backplane?  you can't get Ultra/320 speeds > across older backplanes that were designed for U80 or U160 speeds.  in > fact, I've h

Re: [CentOS] 5.6 update experience - EXCELLENT!

2011-04-09 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 09/04/2011 14:23, Ed Westphal wrote: > Just updated 98 packages on this ole hardware raid 10 box - 5.6 final is > running just fine. No problems. THANKS. > > Ed Westphal > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailma

Re: [CentOS] 5.6 update experience - EXCELLENT!

2011-04-09 Thread E Westphal
On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 15:32 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: > On 09/04/2011 14:23, Ed Westphal wrote: > > Just updated 98 packages on this ole hardware raid 10 box - 5.6 final is > > running just fine. No problems. THANKS. > > > > Ed Westphal > > > > ___

[CentOS] the mighty Karanbir Singh and centos team

2011-04-09 Thread compdoc
You and your crew slowed down the internet last night with all the 5.6 downloads. Congrats! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] PCI-X/PCIe RAID controller.

2011-04-09 Thread Kevin Thorpe
I don't know where you are but I have a surplus ICP vortex proper Raid card with 1GB of cache - PCI-X. It was nearly £1k when we bought it and it ran our main server for years. You're probably looking for a new one but someone can have this for beer money if it's of any use. I'm only going to have

Re: [CentOS] PCI-X/PCIe RAID controller.

2011-04-09 Thread Christopher Chan
On Saturday, April 09, 2011 09:14 PM, Drew wrote: >> cheap scsi raid? good luck. maybe something on ebay, but then its >> Caveat Emptor, and likely the raid batteries will be dead or dying. >> >> What speed is your scsi backplane? you can't get Ultra/320 speeds >> across older backplanes that w

Re: [CentOS] the mighty Karanbir Singh and centos team

2011-04-09 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Cheers Karanbeer (sic) and team, I think we all owe you several cold ones. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

2011-04-09 Thread William Hooper
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:04 PM, William Hooper wrote: > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> In my case, at least, I would always run a Live CD before installing an OS, >> just to make sure it runs OK. >> So a person might well have a Live USB stick anyway. > > This is a vali

Re: [CentOS] PCI-X/PCIe RAID controller.

2011-04-09 Thread Drew
> The key is the backplane, not the drives. You should be able to get u320 > speeds if you have enough u160 drives. Does five drives count? >> I was just hoping a slightly newer card might be available that'd give >> me a speed boost for cheap. :-) > > Again, like John posted, it depends on wheth

Re: [CentOS] PCI-X/PCIe RAID controller.

2011-04-09 Thread Christopher Chan
On Saturday, April 09, 2011 10:47 PM, Drew wrote: >> The key is the backplane, not the drives. You should be able to get u320 >> speeds if you have enough u160 drives. > > Does five drives count? I guess that depends on whether they can flood an u320 bus. If they are 10k/15k rpm drives, I'd think

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6

2011-04-09 Thread Mathieu Baudier
>> Just one thing: THANK YOU ALL!!! Thanks a lot! (especially for focusing on 5.6 before 6.0) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

2011-04-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/9/11 5:13 AM, Markus Falb wrote: > >> I think I could have done it with http, >> at least it linked to my web-server. >> But I agree with you that NFS is much the easier way. > > NFS method requires you to run a nfs server. This is not easy if you are > not running nfs service at your site. Yo

[CentOS] CentOS 5.6 and KVM failure

2011-04-09 Thread compdoc
After updating to 5.6 on a server this morning, I can no longer boot two virtual machines. One is trixbox which I believe is a 32bit centos based distro, and the other vm is a 64bit Windows 2008 installation. The error I get in the virt-manager console is FATAL: No bootable device. Both VMs are q

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 and KVM failure

2011-04-09 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:21 AM, compdoc wrote: > After updating to 5.6 on a server this morning, I can no longer boot two > virtual machines. One is trixbox which I believe is a 32bit centos based > distro, and the other vm is a 64bit Windows 2008 installation. > > The error I get in the virt-mana

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 and KVM failure

2011-04-09 Thread compdoc
> A similar incident was reported during the QA. Look at the .xml file. >If it says type='raw', change it to type='qcow2' and restart libvirtd. >Would that fix the problem ? > >Akemi Thank you. After reading your message, I googled the error and found a webpage that describes a slightly different

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6

2011-04-09 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 03:01:34PM +0200, Luigi Rosa wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Just one thing: THANK YOU ALL!!! > Seconded! My update was trouble-free. updated something in the neighborhood of 180 packages. -- -

[CentOS] virDomainSetMaxMemory error

2011-04-09 Thread Russell Jones
CentOS 5.6, x86_64 In Virt-Manager, when attempting to either change a guest's memory allocation or even just clicking "Apply" on the memory tab and not actually changing the values, the following error pops up: "Error changing memory values: this function is not supported by the connection dr

Re: [CentOS] virDomainSetMaxMemory error

2011-04-09 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Russell Jones wrote: > CentOS 5.6, x86_64 > > In Virt-Manager, when attempting to either change a guest's memory > allocation or even just clicking "Apply" on the memory tab and not > actually changing the values, the following error pops up: > > "Error changing me

Re: [CentOS] PCI-X/PCIe RAID controller.

2011-04-09 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/09/11 7:08 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: >> In that case there's no real point upgrading. :-) The drives are U160's. > The key is the backplane, not the drives. You should be able to get u320 > speeds if you have enough u160 drives SCSI (parallel) before U320 had a weak spot. the command and

Re: [CentOS] PCI-X/PCIe RAID controller.

2011-04-09 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/09/11 8:11 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: > On Saturday, April 09, 2011 10:47 PM, Drew wrote: >>> The key is the backplane, not the drives. You should be able to get u320 >>> speeds if you have enough u160 drives. >> Does five drives count? > I guess that depends on whether they can flood an u32

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6

2011-04-09 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sat, 9 Apr 2011, fred smith wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 03:01:34PM +0200, Luigi Rosa wrote: > >> Just one thing: THANK YOU ALL!!! > > Seconded! > > My update was trouble-free. updated something in the neighborhood > of 180 packages. Well done indeed, none of my CentOS systems show any pro

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6

2011-04-09 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/09/11 2:34 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Sat, 9 Apr 2011, fred smith wrote: > >> My update was trouble-free. updated something in the neighborhood >> of 180 packages. > Well done indeed, none of my CentOS systems show any problems either. > is the mirror synching officially complete? I'm seei

[CentOS] 5.6 - SRPM's

2011-04-09 Thread Tom Brown
Hi Is there any ETA for the SRPM's from the base tree of 5.6? I need to get my hands on the src for the centos-release package as i have to rebuilt it to prevent the repo definitions from being included. I see the src's for the updates RPM's but not the base. many thanks

Re: [CentOS] the mighty Karanbir Singh and centos team

2011-04-09 Thread Negative
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Kevin Thorpe wrote: > Cheers Karanbeer (sic) and team, I think we all owe you several cold ones. > A beautiful job! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6

2011-04-09 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Luigi Rosa wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Just one thing: THANK YOU ALL!!! > > Ciao, > luigi Seconded (or thirded, or fourthed... or...) Update went without issue on the desktop -- currently updating the laptop. I don't anticipate pro

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6

2011-04-09 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Luigi Rosa wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Just one thing: THANK YOU ALL!!! >> >> Ciao, >> luigi > > Seconded (or thirded, or fourthed... or...) > > Update went without issue on

Re: [CentOS] virDomainSetMaxMemory error

2011-04-09 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 13:54 -0500, Russell Jones wrote: > In Virt-Manager, when attempting to either change a guest's memory > allocation or even just clicking "Apply" on the memory tab and not > actually changing the values, the following error pops up: > > "Error changing memory values: this f

Re: [CentOS] PCI-X/PCIe RAID controller.

2011-04-09 Thread Drew
> I guess that depends on whether they can flood an u320 bus. If they are > 10k/15k rpm drives, I'd think so... 10k rpm drives. I can also get my hands on some retired IBM U320's if I want to pull them from our shop's boneyard. > No experience with that particular unit but Supermicro has a good n

Re: [CentOS] CentOS ToDo Item - For the Wiki - Hosting Control Panels - Help?

2011-04-09 Thread Cody Robertson
On 04/09/2011 06:28 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote: > Hmm... I guess that is a hint. That took all of half an hour for the > little morsal i nibbled to turn into the phrase, "Bit off more than I > can chew!" > > Okay, well facing this new challenge, I have a feeling that the ToDo > page on the wiki needs

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6

2011-04-09 Thread samuel machua
On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 13:40:41 -0400 fred smith wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 03:01:34PM +0200, Luigi Rosa wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Just one thing: THANK YOU ALL!!! > > > > Seconded! > > My update was trouble-free. updated something in the neighborh

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6

2011-04-09 Thread Gilbert Sebenste
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, samuel machua wrote: > On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 13:40:41 -0400 > fred smith wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 03:01:34PM +0200, Luigi Rosa wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Just one thing: THANK YOU ALL!!! >>> >> >> Seconded! >> >> My update was