[CentOS] smartctl: is my disc dying?

2014-01-27 Thread Bob Hepple
I've got a 1Tb USB disc that appears to be dying - eg it took about 10 days (!) to run 'badblocks -nsv /dev/sdc' and it only did less than 2% in that time. Read access became _really_ slow. So there's definitely something amiss and I've got it offline. There's no drama about the content as I have

Re: [CentOS] 3g usb dongle - Huawei E1552

2014-01-27 Thread Christo Larsen
Thanks But the way I understand it, please correct me if I´m wrong. Before you can do the ¨wvdial¨ command, you firs need to get a ¨ttyUSB¨ device created. My issue here is that I do not get to the ¨ttyUSB¨ device. Regards On 01/27/2014 07:14 AM, Mihamina RKTMB wrote: > On 01/26/2014 10:36 PM,

[CentOS] I am unable to find my windows share in ~/.gvfs

2014-01-27 Thread anant . saraswat
Hello All, I am facing a strange issue, I use eclipse and I was using Ubuntu earlier, Now I am trying with Centos. As in my Ubuntu i Can find my share in ~/.gvfs. but now I am unable to locate the same in Centos(release 6.5 Final). I have also checked /var/run/ and I dont have /run in my system

Re: [CentOS] I am unable to find my windows share in ~/.gvfs

2014-01-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-01-27, anant.saras...@techblue.co.uk wrote: > Hello All, > > I am facing a strange issue, I use eclipse and I was using Ubuntu > earlier, Now I am trying with Centos. As in my Ubuntu i Can find my > share in ~/.gvfs. > but now I am unable to locate the same in Centos(release 6.5 Final).

Re: [CentOS] off NM problem [low priority]

2014-01-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-01-25, Fred Smith wrote: > On Centos 6.5, I use NM to bring up the VPN to my office, and to disconnect > from it. > > every now and then I screw up and disconnect the LAN itself instead of > the VPN. > > once I do that, even after reconnecting to the LAN I'm hosed. > > /etc/resolv.conf has

Re: [CentOS] UC smartctl: is my disc dying?

2014-01-27 Thread Rushton Martin
I've seen similar cases where a USB drive appears to fail but the SMART reports success. The most recent was a 500 GB disk which had internally a Seagate Barracuda SATA drive. It appeared to work well until I sent it a largish (7GB) tarball. As well as SMART I ran a surface check and exercise, a

Re: [CentOS] smartctl: is my disc dying?

2014-01-27 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 01/27/2014 09:11 AM, Bob Hepple wrote: > # 1 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure 90% 14545 > 1141581559 If the test fails after 10% and it were my disk I would buy a new one. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, m...@lemo.dk http://www.lemo.dk

Re: [CentOS] I am unable to find my windows share in ~/.gvfs

2014-01-27 Thread Anant
On Monday 27 January 2014 03:36 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2014-01-27, anant.saras...@techblue.co.uk > wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> I am facing a strange issue, I use eclipse and I was using Ubuntu >> earlier, Now I am trying with Centos. As in my Ubuntu i Can find my >> share in ~/.gvfs. >> but

[CentOS] Question on iptables

2014-01-27 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a rule in iptables to drop certain packets from addresses, like: iptables --list | grep 37 DROP all -- 37.0.0.0/8 anywhere So I am wondering how this got through??? [Jan 27 02:36:52] NOTICE[9298][C-05ce] chan_sip.c: Call from '' ( 37.8.28.217:10024) to extension '888

Re: [CentOS] Question on iptables

2014-01-27 Thread Joseph L. Casale
> I have a rule in iptables to drop certain packets from addresses, like: > > iptables --list | grep 37 > DROP all -- 37.0.0.0/8 anywhere > > So I am wondering how this got through??? > > [Jan 27 02:36:52] NOTICE[9298][C-05ce] chan_sip.c: Call from '' ( > 37.8.28.217:10024)

[CentOS] nfs home dir, wlan/vpn, network manager

2014-01-27 Thread Darod Zyree
Is network manager available during Gnome login? Users (using laptops etc) need to authenticate and login having their home directory on NFS using autofs. However this is not possible when there is no valid network connection present; either using Wireless LAN or VPN

Re: [CentOS] nfs home dir, wlan/vpn, network manager

2014-01-27 Thread Joseph L. Casale
> Is network manager available during Gnome login? > > Users (using laptops etc) need to authenticate and login having their home > directory on NFS using autofs. > > > However this is not possible when there is no valid network connection > present; either using Wireless LAN or VPN In the Gnom

Re: [CentOS] Question on iptables

2014-01-27 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 01/27/2014 02:43 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> I have a rule in iptables to drop certain packets from addresses, like: >> >> iptables --list | grep 37 >> DROP all -- 37.0.0.0/8 anywhere >> >> So I am wondering how this got through??? >> >> [Jan 27 02:36:52] NOTICE[9298][C-

Re: [CentOS] UC smartctl: is my disc dying?

2014-01-27 Thread Patrick Laimbock
On 27-01-14 11:37, Rushton Martin wrote: > I can't test further, the disk has been broken up for destruction, but I > wonder if the problem is the disk or the USB/SATA conversion board? If the USB disk also has an eSATA port, use that one and test again. If it doesn't have an eSATA port then I al

Re: [CentOS] Question on iptables

2014-01-27 Thread Patrick Laimbock
On 27-01-14 13:32, Jerry Geis wrote: > I have a rule in iptables to drop certain packets from addresses, like: > > iptables --list | grep 37 > DROP all -- 37.0.0.0/8 anywhere > > So I am wondering how this got through??? > > [Jan 27 02:36:52] NOTICE[9298][C-05ce] chan_sip.c: C

Re: [CentOS] Booting Software RAID

2014-01-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Matt wrote: >> > Based on input from everyone here I am thinking of an alternate setup. > Single small inexpensive 64GB SSD used as /boot, / and swap. Putting > /vz on software RAID1 array on the two 4TB drives. I can likely just > zip tie the SSD in the 1u case

Re: [CentOS] smartctl: is my disc dying?

2014-01-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Bob Hepple wrote: I've got a 1Tb USB disc that appears to be dying - eg it took about 10 days (!) to run 'badblocks -nsv /dev/sdc' and it only did less than 2% in that time. Read access became _really_ slow. 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 192 192 000Old_age

Re: [CentOS] Booting Software RAID

2014-01-27 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Matt wrote: >>> >> Based on input from everyone here I am thinking of an alternate setup. >> Single small inexpensive 64GB SSD used as /boot, / and swap. Putting >> /vz on software RAID1 array on the two 4TB drives. I can likely just >> zip

Re: [CentOS] Booting problem after update, how to track order of starting services

2014-01-27 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/27/2014 03:22 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > On 01/27/2014 03:18 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> Hi. >> >> I have updated system/server that worked for a long time. It was upgrade >> from 6.4 to latest. >> >> After restart, system freezes after most/all of the daemons are booted. >> >>

Re: [CentOS] Booting Software RAID

2014-01-27 Thread Matt
> I installed Centos 6.x 64 bit with the minimal ISO and used two disks > in RAID 1 array. > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/md2 97G 918M 91G 1% / > tmpfs16G 0 16G 0% /dev/shm > /dev/md1485M 54M 407M 12% /boot > /dev/md3

Re: [CentOS] Booting Software RAID

2014-01-27 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/27/2014 04:26 PM, Matt wrote: >> I installed Centos 6.x 64 bit with the minimal ISO and used two disks >> in RAID 1 array. >> >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/md2 97G 918M 91G 1% / >> tmpfs16G 0 16G 0% /dev/shm >> /dev/md1485

Re: [CentOS] Booting problem after update, how to track order of starting services

2014-01-27 Thread Phelps, Matt
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Hi. > > I have updated system/server that worked for a long time. It was upgrade > from 6.4 to latest. > > After restart, system freezes after most/all of the daemons are booted. > > From interactive mode I found out that services star

[CentOS] [SOLVED] Re: Booting problem after update, how to track order of starting services

2014-01-27 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/27/2014 04:01 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > On 01/27/2014 03:53 PM, Phelps, Matt wrote: >> ls /etc/rc5.d/S* > > > Yeah, thanks. > > I managed to find out X server is a culprit (system is server with > Virtual Windows accessed remotely but has X system in place). > > Funny thing is that sta

Re: [CentOS] Booting problem after update, how to track order of starting services

2014-01-27 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/27/2014 03:53 PM, Phelps, Matt wrote: > ls /etc/rc5.d/S* Yeah, thanks. I managed to find out X server is a culprit (system is server with Virtual Windows accessed remotely but has X system in place). Funny thing is that startx (from init 3) does not write to the X.org.log at all. Well,

Re: [CentOS] Booting Software RAID

2014-01-27 Thread Matt
>> Based on input from everyone here I am thinking of an alternate setup. >> Single small inexpensive 64GB SSD used as /boot, / and swap. Putting >> /vz on software RAID1 array on the two 4TB drives. I can likely just >> zip tie the SSD in the 1u case somewhere since I have no more drive >> bay

[CentOS] Booting problem after update, how to track order of starting services

2014-01-27 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Hi. I have updated system/server that worked for a long time. It was upgrade from 6.4 to latest. After restart, system freezes after most/all of the daemons are booted. From interactive mode I found out that services starting are: ... ... atd jexec atieventsd libvirtd certmonger libvirt-guest

Re: [CentOS] Booting problem after update, how to track order of starting services

2014-01-27 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/27/2014 03:18 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Hi. > > I have updated system/server that worked for a long time. It was upgrade > from 6.4 to latest. > > After restart, system freezes after most/all of the daemons are booted. > > From interactive mode I found out that services starting are:

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] Re: Booting problem after update, how to track order of starting services

2014-01-27 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
On 01/27/2014 04:16 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > On 01/27/2014 04:01 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> On 01/27/2014 03:53 PM, Phelps, Matt wrote: >>> ls /etc/rc5.d/S* >> >> >> Yeah, thanks. >> >> I managed to find out X server is a culprit (system is server with >> Virtual Windows accessed re

Re: [CentOS] Booting Software RAID

2014-01-27 Thread John Doe
From: Matt > I am thinking I will not have much I/O traffic on the SSD hopefully > extending its lifespan.  If it dies I will just need to reinstall > Centos on a replacement SSD.  My critical files will be in /vz that I > need backup on and I think RAID1 will give me double read speed on > that

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] Re: Booting problem after update, how to track order of starting services

2014-01-27 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
On 01/27/2014 05:46 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > > On 01/27/2014 04:16 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> On 01/27/2014 04:01 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >>> On 01/27/2014 03:53 PM, Phelps, Matt wrote: ls /etc/rc5.d/S* >>> >>> >>> Yeah, thanks. >>> >>> I managed to find out X server is

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] Re: Booting problem after update, how to track order of starting services

2014-01-27 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/27/2014 05:50 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > On 01/27/2014 05:46 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: >> >> On 01/27/2014 04:16 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >>> On 01/27/2014 04:01 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: On 01/27/2014 03:53 PM, Phelps, Matt wrote: > ls /etc/rc5.d/S*

Re: [CentOS] Booting Software RAID

2014-01-27 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/27/2014 05:45 PM, John Doe wrote: > From: Matt > >> I am thinking I will not have much I/O traffic on the SSD hopefully >> extending its lifespan. If it dies I will just need to reinstall >> Centos on a replacement SSD. My critical files will be in /vz that I >> need backup on and I think

Re: [CentOS] Need yumex in centos 6.4 -

2014-01-27 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/27/2014 06:31 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > I've just installed centos 6.4 from a live spin I had but can't get it > to install yumex or xfce for that matter. > > What is the secret? Or can it not be done ... > > Bob > You need 3rd party repositories. For these two you nee

[CentOS] Need yumex in centos 6.4 -

2014-01-27 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
I've just installed centos 6.4 from a live spin I had but can't get it to install yumex or xfce for that matter. What is the secret? Or can it not be done ... Bob -- http://www.qrz.com/db/w2bod Box10 Fedora-20/64bit Linux/XFCE ___ CentOS mailing li

Re: [CentOS] Need yumex in centos 6.4 -

2014-01-27 Thread Darr247
On 27 January 2014 @17:31 zulu, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > I've just installed centos 6.4 from a live spin I had but can't get it > to install yumex or xfce for that matter. > > What is the secret? Or can it not be done ... > > Bob > The secret is giving the list more detail, not j

Re: [CentOS] Need yumex in centos 6.4 -

2014-01-27 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 27/01/14 12:44, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > You need 3rd party repositories. For these two you need EPEL. Yes, I know that from Google but I need to know where and how to get it? I first downloaded 6.5 minimal but could never get it connected to my Ethernet/LAN! So I downloaded 6.5 DVD [2 d

Re: [CentOS] Need yumex in centos 6.4 -

2014-01-27 Thread Jitse Klomp
On 01/27/2014 07:09 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > On 27/01/14 12:55, Darr247 wrote: >> The secret is giving the list more detail, not just saying "can't get it >> to install xyz"...:) >> >> e.g. what is the output you get from >> # yum install yumex > Well, now it is finally tryi

Re: [CentOS] Need yumex in centos 6.4 -

2014-01-27 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 27/01/14 12:55, Darr247 wrote: > The secret is giving the list more detail, not just saying "can't get it > to install xyz"...:) > > e.g. what is the output you get from > # yum install yumex Well, now it is finally trying to work. I had been trying earlier without success? However it produce

Re: [CentOS] Booting Software RAID

2014-01-27 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 01/24/2014 06:58 PM, Matt wrote: > I installed Centos 6.x 64 bit with the minimal ISO and used two disks > in RAID 1 array. > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/md2 97G 918M 91G 1% / > tmpfs16G 0 16G 0% /dev/shm > /dev/md1485M 54

Re: [CentOS] Need yumex in centos 6.4 -

2014-01-27 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 27/01/14 13:20, Jitse Klomp wrote: > Do you have a working internet/network connection in VirtualBox? > >- Jitse Yes, I have a good high speed connection. And the yumex problems have cleared! I tried again and everything appears to be working, dunno why? It is currently installing XFCE.

Re: [CentOS] Booting Software RAID

2014-01-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > > for quite some time (since 5.x era) i use > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Install_On_Partitionable_RAID1 > (with 6.x i don't even need the patch to mkinitrd) > > the mbr or whatever it is is written in /dev/md_d0 .. and thats it > in bio

Re: [CentOS] Booting Software RAID

2014-01-27 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 01/27/2014 08:42 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Adrian Sevcenco > wrote: >> >> for quite some time (since 5.x era) i use >> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Install_On_Partitionable_RAID1 >> (with 6.x i don't even need the patch to mkinitrd) >> >> the mbr or whatever i

Re: [CentOS] Booting Software RAID

2014-01-27 Thread m . roth
Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > On 01/27/2014 08:42 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Adrian Sevcenco >> wrote: >>> >>> for quite some time (since 5.x era) i use >>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Install_On_Partitionable_RAID1 >>> (with 6.x i don't even need the patch to mkinit

Re: [CentOS] nfs home dir, wlan/vpn, network manager

2014-01-27 Thread Darod Zyree
2014-01-27 Joseph L. Casale > > Is network manager available during Gnome login? > > > > Users (using laptops etc) need to authenticate and login having their > home > > directory on NFS using autofs. > > > > > > However this is not possible when there is no valid network connection > > present;

[CentOS] Using ATI Radeon X1300 Video Card with Centos 6.5

2014-01-27 Thread H
I have a ATI Radeon X1300 video card installed in a ThinkPad Advanced Docking Station where the laptop runs Centos 6.5. Upon Googling it seems that Centos 6.4 broke compatibility with the kmod-fglrx-legacy driver and that the only way around it is to downgrade X to an older version. However, th

Re: [CentOS] Using ATI Radeon X1300 Video Card with Centos 6.5

2014-01-27 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/27/2014 10:07 PM, H wrote: > I have a ATI Radeon X1300 video card installed in a ThinkPad Advanced > Docking Station where the laptop runs Centos 6.5. > > Upon Googling it seems that Centos 6.4 broke compatibility with the > kmod-fglrx-legacy driver and that the only way around it is to downg

Re: [CentOS] Booting Software RAID

2014-01-27 Thread SilverTip257
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 2:50 PM, wrote: > Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > > On 01/27/2014 08:42 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Adrian Sevcenco > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> for quite some time (since 5.x era) i use > >>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Install_On_Partitionable_R

[CentOS] Intel Corporation 82801 SATA RAID Controller - Rebuild progress ?

2014-01-27 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. I had to replace a disk that was part of a mirrored pare attached to "Intel Corporation 82801 SATA RAID Controller" At boot the raid bios says that the rebuild with take place within the OS. Bit disk activity seems very low. How can I tell the progress of the rebuild ? Thanks G

Re: [CentOS] Need yumex in centos 6.4 -

2014-01-27 Thread Mihamina RKTMB
On 01/27/2014 09:41 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > And the yumex problems have cleared! I tried again and everything > appears to be working, dunno why? In fact, nothinf was broken. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.

Re: [CentOS] smartctl: is my disc dying?

2014-01-27 Thread Bob Hepple
Paul Heinlein writes: > > On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Bob Hepple wrote: > > > I've got a 1Tb USB disc that appears to be dying - eg it took about > > 10 days (!) to run 'badblocks -nsv /dev/sdc' and it only did less > > than 2% in that time. Read access became _really_ slow. > > > > 197 Current_Pend