[CentOS] Fwd: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2017:3200 Important CentOS 6 kernel Security Update

The redhat errata link leads to a 404 page. Anybody know what this is about? Cheers, Christian. Forwarded Message Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2017:3200 Important CentOS 6 kernel Security Update Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:38:19 + From: Johnny Hughes Reply-To:

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2017:3200 Important CentOS 6 kernel Security Update

Found the answer myself. RHBA should of course have been RHSA so the correct link is https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3200 Cheers, Christian. On 16-11-2017 09:53, Christian Anthon wrote: The redhat errata link leads to a 404 page. Anybody know what this is about? Cheers, Christian

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 153, Issue 2

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[CentOS] Can't update

Hi, I can't do update: yum update Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 298, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 110, in

[CentOS] Issues with Virtualbox

Hi Team, I am getting an error in intializing VirtualBox . It's giving me an error "Failed to acquire the VirtualBox COM object". Result Code : NS_ERROR_FAILURE The application is keep getting terminated. TIA Get Outlook for Android _

Re: [CentOS] HP laptops with CentOS 7?

On 11/02/2017 09:29 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: Hello all, I'm looking into getting HP laptops for our department running CentOS 7. Last time I checked this was some five or so years ago, and when I look at https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops, nothing much seems to have happened since. At that ti

Re: [CentOS] Can't update

On 16.11.2017 16:03, Ilyass Kaouam wrote: > yum update > Traceback (most recent call last): Hard to guess with this limited information. Usually this means either your yum or your python installation is broken. Are you using RPMs from outside of the CentOS or EPEL repos? Manually installed pytho

Re: [CentOS] Can't update

Thank you for your response. # python -V Python 2.6.6 # rpm -qa|grep python gnome-python2-bonobo-2.28.0-3.el6.x86_64 gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-20.el6.x86_64 python-setuptools-0.6.10-3.el6.noarch python-unittest2-0.5.1-3.el6.noarch gnome-python2-gconf-2.28.0-3.el6.x86_64 python-psycopg2-2

Re: [CentOS] Can't update

On 16.11.2017 17:17, Ilyass Kaouam wrote: >> On 16.11.2017 16:03, Ilyass Kaouam wrote: >> >>> yum update >>> Traceback (most recent call last): >> >> Hard to guess with this limited information. Usually this means either >> your yum or your python installation is broken. >> >> Are you using RPMs fr

Re: [CentOS] How to blacklist a device driver (sysemd)

On 11/15/2017 07:50 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 11/15/2017 10:35 AM, Frank Thommen wrote: I tried with the files /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and with entries blacklist mlx5_core blacklist mlx5_ib The "blacklist" entries prevent a module being loaded by it

Re: [CentOS] Can't update

Thank's 2017-11-16 16:57 GMT+00:00 Ulf Volmer : > On 16.11.2017 17:17, Ilyass Kaouam wrote: > >> On 16.11.2017 16:03, Ilyass Kaouam wrote: > >> > >>> yum update > >>> Traceback (most recent call last): > >> > >> Hard to guess with this limited information. Usually this means either > >> your yum

Re: [CentOS] Issues with Virtualbox

On 11/16/2017 7:46 AM, Abhinay Khanna wrote: I am getting an error in intializing VirtualBox . It's giving me an error "Failed to acquire the VirtualBox COM object". Result Code : NS_ERROR_FAILURE The application is keep getting terminated. and how does this Oracle product relate to CentOS Li

Re: [CentOS] How to blacklist a device driver (sysemd)

On 11/16/2017 08:59 AM, Frank Thommen wrote: Thanks for the hint.  However as this should only be a temporary measure and needs to be done on ca. 100 hosts I'm not sure if we want to go through the hassles.  Deploying a textfile is no problem, but creating new initrds for differing hardware

Re: [CentOS] Issues with Virtualbox

Hi John, I am getting this error while running it on centos 7. There is an initialization error while I try to run this application. Get Outlook for Android From: CentOS on behalf of John R Pierce Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 10:5

[CentOS] gnome boot problem

greetings all. running centos 7. i recently performed an upgrade and the server rebooted later in the night. now everytime i start my server its sits at the grey gnome background. i can hit ctl+atl+f2 to get to another console and the error message states "a start job is running for wait for plymou

[CentOS] CentOS 7 "Set Up Enterprise Login" after update and reboot

Dear Experts, Something went astray with one of my systems. Large number of updates were installed on it all at once at some point. Then after system was rebooted it does strange thing I haven't seen on other systems. The machine is set up to boot into graphic login ("runlevel 5" to say it using o

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 "Set Up Enterprise Login" after update and reboot

> Date: Thursday, November 16, 2017 15:31:32 -0600 > From: Valeri Galtsev > > Dear Experts, > > Something went astray with one of my systems. Large number of > updates were installed on it all at once at some point. Then after > system was rebooted it does strange thing I haven't seen on other

Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

On 11/16/2017 01:28 PM, dominic adair-jones wrote: now everytime i start my server its sits at the grey gnome background. Alt+d will switch to the text output of the init process.  Press that combo as soon as you see the boot animation. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 "Set Up Enterprise Login" after update and reboot

On 11/16/2017 01:31 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: But before giving login screen upon (re)boot it tries to walk you through set of screens similar to first login to newly created account. Try removing the "firstboot" package or run "/bin/systemctl disable firstboot-graphical.service" __

Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

Not understanding. At what point in the boot process should I be doing that and why would I need to do that at all? Seems like it's something wrong with the Plymouth and plymouth-scirpt packagesI uninstalled them and rebooted I didn't get stuck in a loop but I didn't have a gui. I reinstalled a

Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 16:28 -0500, dominic adair-jones wrote: > greetings all. running centos 7. i recently performed an upgrade and > the server rebooted later in the night. now everytime i start my > server its sits at the grey gnome background. i can hit ctl+atl+f2 to > get to another console an

[CentOS] USB Serial Ports

We have several CentOS 6 systems that are used in various configurations of test equipment.  One of the primary functions of these systems is the connectivity to serial ports of some operational systems that have serial port control requirements.  Lack of interface bus slots led us to the use of US

Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

On 16/11/17 22:32, Pete Biggs wrote: On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 16:28 -0500, dominic adair-jones wrote: greetings all. running centos 7. i recently performed an upgrade and the server rebooted later in the night. now everytime i start my server its sits at the grey gnome background. i can hit ctl+atl

Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

Ok that's what I figured Ive narrowed it down to Plymouth but I haven't found much info on what the fix is. As of now I can ctl alt f2 and run startx to get to a desktop. When I try to run gui (such as keepnote or chromium) from within my vms now tho I get errors. On Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 5:33 PM Pet

Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

On 11/16/2017 02:01 PM, dominic adair-jones wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 4:55 PM Gordon Messmer wrote: Alt+d will switch to the text output of the init process. Press that combo as soon as you see the boot animation. Not understanding. At what point in the boot process should I be doing that

Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 22:45 +, dominic adair-jones wrote: > Ok that's what I figured Ive narrowed it down to Plymouth but I haven't > found much info on what the fix is. No, plymouth is the process that controls the booting process. It is not the problem. It is doing exactly what it's supposed

Re: [CentOS] gnome boot problem

Ok so I tried alt+d it switched over to text mode. I didn't see any error it booted right to a black screen. I can ctl+alt+f2 to get to another screen and I still get the "a start job is running for wait for Plymouth boot screen to quit" On Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 5:55 PM Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 1

Re: [CentOS] HP laptops with CentOS 7?

> -Original Message- > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of ken > Sent: den 16 november 2017 17:00 > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] HP laptops with CentOS 7? > > > I'm looking into getting HP laptops for our department running CentOS 7. > > For two ye