[CentOS] Dahdi get latest

2017-10-18 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to use dahdi complete 2.11.1 with a 4.13 kernel. - NOT working for know reasons. I tried applying two patches but still get compile errors. AHHH! How do I just use git to get the latest with the fixes This command did not work - I still get the errors. git clone git://git.asteris

Re: [CentOS] Dahdi get latest

2017-10-18 Thread Jerry Geis
I'm sorry - I selected the wrong list. Jerry On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I am trying to use dahdi complete 2.11.1 with a 4.13 kernel. - NOT working > for know reasons. > I tried applying two patches but still get compile errors. AHHH! > > How do I

[CentOS] /usr/bin/x0vncserver large blocks on screen at times

2017-11-03 Thread Jerry Geis
I use this vnc program to remote into my station. (C 7.4) When I do, about every 5 to 10 seconds a big solid block appears on my screen. About six inches long and 3 inches wide. it quickly then goes away. I use the realvnc.com viewer when I do this. Is there some setting that would help with thi

[CentOS] Error message at times

2017-11-06 Thread Jerry Geis
I see this message once in a while: Buffer I/O error on dev dm-1, logical block 8388592, async page read I am using two crucial SSD as RAID-1 on CentOS 7.4 What should I do? can I mark that block as not usable. ? Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] Nvidia error

2017-11-06 Thread Jerry Geis
I am getting this error on CentOS 7.4 kernel: NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 384.98, but#012NVRM: this kernel module has the version 384.90. Please#012NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver#012NVRM: components have the same version nvidia-detect -v Probing

Re: [CentOS] Nvidia error

2017-11-06 Thread Jerry Geis
Thanks - yes I have rebooted now - and I get the same error. Next step ? Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Nvidia error

2017-11-06 Thread Jerry Geis
something ? Jerry On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > Thanks - yes I have rebooted now - and I get the same error. > Next step ? > > Jerry > > > ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Nvidia error

2017-11-06 Thread Jerry Geis
HI group, Thanks for the help... It came down to the fact that one of my software raid arrays was not synced. I fixed that, re-ran the grub2-mkconfig and rebooted and it worked. Thanks again. Jerry On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > yes the error is still the .90 &g

[CentOS] Failed attempts

2017-11-27 Thread Jerry Geis
hi All, I happened to login to one of my servers today and saw 96000 failed login attempts. shown below is the address its coming from. I added it to my firewall to drop. Failed password for root from 123.183.209.135 port 14299 ssh2 FYI - others might be seeing it also. Jerry __

[CentOS] yum files in /tmp

2017-12-06 Thread Jerry Geis
I am getting /tmp/yum_save_tx.2017-12. files in /tmp one every hour. What process is making these files ??? I have stopped PackageKit so its not running. I am running CentOS 7.4. With GNOME desktop. Thanks Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos

Re: [CentOS] yum files in /tmp

2017-12-06 Thread Jerry Geis
Ok so I looked for yum in cron and did not find it. cd /etc # grep yum cron* grep: cron.d: Is a directory grep: cron.daily: Is a directory grep: cron.hourly: Is a directory grep: cron.monthly: Is a directory grep: cron.weekly: Is a directory # grep yum cron*/* and the files: ls -lR cron.* -rw-

Re: [CentOS] yum files in /tmp

2017-12-07 Thread Jerry Geis
Even though PackageKit was not running - I went ahead and removed that package and it has stopped. Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Question on CentoS 7.4 on nvidia

2017-12-14 Thread Jerry Geis
I installed the elrepo kmod-nvidia and also the nvidia-detect and modules (see below). I had X working with the 3.10 from Centos - but video was freezing. SO I thought I would try the elrepo kernel. I installed that and X does not come up? How do I re-make the nvidia module for 4.14.5 kernel? I

Re: [CentOS] Question on CentoS 7.4 on nvidia

2017-12-14 Thread Jerry Geis
So I removed the nvidia items and reinstalled. In /var/log/messages I saw dracut commands for every kernel EXCEPT the 4.14.5 elrepo kernel. So I did it manually and I get an error. /usr/bin/dracut --add-drivers nvidia -f /boot/initramfs-4.14.5-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64.img 4.14.5-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 Fa

Re: [CentOS] Question on CentoS 7.4 on nvidia

2017-12-14 Thread Jerry Geis
It seems as though 4.14.5 elrepo kernel does not generate any initramfs. It seems nvidia needs to be apart of that. Is that correct ? If so how do I tell it to actually generate the initramfs Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.

[CentOS] virt-manager change to bridged networking on CentOS 7.4

2018-01-22 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All, I have virt-manager running just fine currently using NAT. I want to "change" it to bridged network. The GUI is not letting me change anything on the network section. How do I change it to be bridged ? Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list Ce

[CentOS] pid_max

2018-02-28 Thread Jerry Geis
I have two systems both running CentOS 7.4 one shows pid_max as 32768 the other shows pid_max as 49152 Why might that be ? I would have thought they would be the same. I have not changed them. Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org ht

Re: [CentOS] pid_max

2018-03-01 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi Peter, Thanks... The machine with the higher PID number is a Xeon while the other one is a i7. So that could be why its different. Thanks Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] xfs file system errors

2018-03-15 Thread Jerry Geis
How do I fix an xfs file system error ? I searched and it says to run xfs_repair /dev/sda1 - did not work. I got an error on boot and the machine dropped into service mode by entering the PW. I entered the above command and it said couldnt load library... SO I rebooted, dropped into rescue mode.

[CentOS] Vmware - Slightly off topic

2018-04-24 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All, What is the correct way to provide a CentOS 7 - WMware image for ESX ? As an amateur to VMware - I thought - great I can get VMplayer and ESX should be able to import my image... Wrong... I even went through the trouble of "converting" to VMWare workstation and thinking ESX could import t

[CentOS] CentOS 7.5

2018-05-08 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All - Just checking on "expected" 7.5 release - I'm guessing its very close. On a side note... I played with CR enabled it and did the update, my /etc/redhat-release still says the old 7.4... I was thinking it would say something different for CR. Anyway looking forward to 7.5! Thanks, Jerry

[CentOS] CentOS 7.5 and GPU memory

2018-05-15 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there a way to "control" how much GPU memory the OS uses ? Back on CentOS 7.4 it "seemed" to use less. I want / need to tell 7.5 to use less.\ or no GPU memory. I have a video application that needs more of the GPU memory and not so much the OS taking that memory. How do I do that? Thanks, J

[CentOS] Question on CentOS 7.5 clutter-1.0 pkgconfig missing

2018-05-21 Thread Jerry Geis
Hello - I seem to be missing a pkgconfig clutter-1.0 file on C7.5 Doing yum provides "*/clutter-1.0" does not provide anything for /usr/share/pkgconfig ? Am I missing something ? how can I get the pkgconfig for clutter ? My system has none even though I have all the clutter-devel packages instal

Re: [CentOS] Question on CentOS 7.5 clutter-1.0 pkgconfig missing

2018-05-21 Thread Jerry Geis
Thanks, > It's provided by clutter-devel-1.26.2-2.el7.x86_64: > /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/clutter-1.0.pc Ok. I did not have the ending .pc so now yum provides "*/clutter-1.0.pc" gives me the same as you. And in fact that file is on my machine under /usr/lib64/pkgconfig however when I do "pkg-config

[CentOS] clutter

2018-05-22 Thread Jerry Geis
HI All - I am getting an error on clutter with gstreamer-1 ? This is standard centos 7.5 gst-inspect-1.0 /usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/libgstclutter.so (gst-inspect-1.0:21979): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: Could not initialize Gdk Could not load plugin file: File "/usr/lib64/gst

[CentOS] NVIDIA binary on CentOS 7.5 and NOUVEAU

2018-05-30 Thread Jerry Geis
I have NOUVEAU driver disabled however its "showing" in my X log file. [ 140.086] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 390.59 Wed May 9 21:30:06 PDT 2018 [ 140.086] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs [ 140.086] (II) NOUVEAU driver [ 140.087] (II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA

[CentOS] wildcard certificate

2018-06-15 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all - I am trying to figure out how to add a wild card certificate given to me for a CentOS installation. I have a script that sets up HTTPS so I am a little familiar with things - but they provided me two files: name_ee.crt name_i1.crt I'm not sure how to apply that to the /etc/httpd/conf.d/

Re: [CentOS] wildcard certificate

2018-06-15 Thread Jerry Geis
>And where’s the private key? >Can you post the lines in the files that start with five (or so) dashes („-„)? They are all just - BEGIN CERTIFICATE and everything else is encrypted of course. They did not give a private key - I presumed with a wild card it was not needed? again -never

[CentOS] Install C7 on HP DL360e G8

2018-06-27 Thread Jerry Geis
HI All - I am trying to install the above... The BIOS reports 1 virtual drive, but when C7 is installing there are 0 disks found. >From the hardware it says the raid card is a P420 ... I did a little searching and saw it talking about B320i card - which does not seem to be my card. I'm stuck. An

Re: [CentOS] Install C7 on HP DL360e G8

2018-06-27 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All - I powered down unplugged and reinserted everything I could. It is working. So bad connection I guess. Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Bash question

2018-07-06 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All, I am trying to build a command line with spaces in the argument. This demonstrates what I am trying to do. Clearly the first two commands work fine. However, the last 4 lines to not. /opt/libreoffice5.4/program/soffice.bin --headless --convert-to csv "/tmp/file.xlsx" /opt/libreoffice5.4/p

[CentOS] Certbot error CentOS 7.5

2018-07-10 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All - I am running CentOS 7.5 and trying to use certbot. I am getting an error 403 forbidden on the /.well-known/acme-challenge/-CG_gSckofY5ln7TdMvoanDI1_FBRh8otQkyB0hxmoo Some searching indicated permission problems... I also noticed that the /var/www/html directory does not even have the .w

[CentOS] USB disk IO

2018-08-14 Thread Jerry Geis
Hello - frequently I turn on my external USB 3.0 disk and back. While my machine is copying and backing up my desktop becomes very sluggish. Is there a way to change that ? I am using CentOS 7.5 x86 with a very nice processor extra cores available and plenty of memory. There is no reason the "othe

Re: [CentOS] USB disk IO

2018-08-15 Thread Jerry Geis
ionice seems to help a bunch - thanks for the suggestion! Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Remote update OS from 6 to 7

2018-08-29 Thread Jerry Geis
Hello all... I have a remote machine running C6. I desire to update it to C7. Not possible to be on-site. Can I copy the Everything ISO for C7 to the machine, mount -o loop C7.Everything.iso /media/cdrom then do a "yum upgrade" ? Will that work? The server is using software raid. Thanks Jerry

[CentOS] Kickstart file for software raid

2018-08-29 Thread Jerry Geis
I am using a kickstart file for CentOS 7 raid / --device=md0 --fstype="xfs" --level=1 --useexisting raid /home --noformat --device=md1 --level=1 --useexisting It is erroring out on the --useexisting. The exact text is: RAID volume "0" specified wit

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart file for software raid

2018-08-29 Thread Jerry Geis
Sorry - I did not include that I am actually "updating" a system from C6 to C7 and it has an existing RAID /dev/md0 and /dev/md1. Hit send to quick. Jerry On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 3:52 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > I am using a kickstart file for Cent

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart file for software raid

2018-08-29 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi Stephen, Thanks! So I think this is what I need then. part raid.0011 --usepart/dev/sda1 part raid.0021 --usepart/dev/sdb2 part raid.0013 --usepart/dev/sda3 part raid.0022 --usepart/dev/sdb3 raid / --device=md0 --fstype="xfs" --level=1 --useexisting raid.0011 raid.0021

[CentOS] C7 and default sound

2018-09-24 Thread Jerry Geis
When I right click on desktop and bring up "sound". I have two items. Digital output (S/PDIF) buildin audio HDMI/Displayport 2 - Gk208 HDMI audio controller It seems I always default to S/PDIF How can I get this to default to HDMI always ? If I select HDMI and reboot it goes back to S/PDIF. I

[CentOS] Simple bash question

2018-09-28 Thread Jerry Geis
I am calling a bash script and passing in somestring that includes a "$" myscript "$plusmore" I want to assign in the myscript the $1 arg to something like MYTEXT="$1" when I do that I dont get what I'm expecting. if I do MYTEXT='$1' I still dont get what I'm expecting. On the first assignmen

[CentOS] Fresh install C7 nvidia

2018-11-07 Thread Jerry Geis
I am install C7.5 on a nvidia unit and nvidia-detect tells me to use kmod-nvidia-390xx so I do the yum install and and after a long time I see this -> Processing Dependency: kernel(__drm_atomic_helper_crtc_duplicate_state) = 0xa5f3a170 for package: kmod-nvidia-390xx-390.87-2.el7_6.elrepo.x86_64 --

[CentOS] CentOS 7 bash perhaps off topic

2018-11-26 Thread Jerry Geis
hi all, I have a small script that seems to be exiting and hitting the sleep 60... The smwebsocket just connects to the web socket provided and outputs the data. This works manually. the myprogram just opens a database and writes the line... My desire is to run the smwebsocket, connect to the we

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 bash perhaps off topic - solved

2018-11-26 Thread Jerry Geis
Thanks... I have enhanced the function of smwebsocket to do the parts of the script that I thought the pipeline was doing... Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Gnome_shell out of memory

2018-11-28 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All, I have a CentOS 7.5 box running. Its crashing after some time with NO memory. I have 4G in the box, and 4G swap. Nov 28 07:43:20 mediacontroller01 kernel: gnome-shell cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0 Nov 28 07:43:20 mediacontroller01 kernel: CPU: 2 PID: 1419 Comm: gnome-shell Tainted: G

[CentOS] Php script not running

2018-11-30 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All, I have centos 7. Apache and php are installed. CGI runs fine - php does not seem to run. I have the /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf file php.conf # # Cause the PHP interpreter to handle files with a .php extension. # SetHandler application/x-httpd-php # # Allow php to handle Multiviews #

[CentOS] Dell server dropping packets

2018-12-04 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All - I have a Dell R430 server running CentOS 7.5 that is dropping packets on the network. Its connected to Cisco switch at AUTO for the port. The server reports 1000M on the network. I even changed the setting for the switch to 1000M full, that did not seem to make a difference either. Wha

[CentOS] Issue updating to 7.6

2018-12-05 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all... Great work on 7.6! I updated a number of boxes - all good! This "one" server I lost connection through the internet or something... Anyway 702 transactions left and its not happy. When I run yum-complete-transaction I get "many" Removing man-db.x86_64 0:2.6.3-9.el7 - ud from the transac

[CentOS] invalid base url

2018-12-06 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a number of updates to C7.6 but now I am getting Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo base/7/x86_64 Did something happen? What do I do ? This machine has internet access and appears to resolve other sites. I get a list when trying to access mirrorlist... Thanks, Jerry ___

[CentOS] Libreoffice on 7.6

2018-12-11 Thread Jerry Geis
When I try to run libreoffice on CentOS 7.6 for a slide show (using my macro that I have always used since CentOS 6.0) I get a runtime error that "Presentation is not found". I updated then to the current download 6.1.2 and tried again - I get the same error. If I go back to a 7.5 machine - same

[CentOS] CentOS 7.6 external USB dmesg issue

2018-12-12 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a brand new 2T external Samsung SSD disk. (two of them) for backup. I tried the first one and had an issue, I tried the second one and got the same issue. Am I doing something wrong ? I find it hard to believe the SSD (both) are bad. I plugged in the USB 3.1 adapter, I fdisk /dev/sdd, n,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.6 external USB dmesg issue

2018-12-12 Thread Jerry Geis
>Do you have any "history" with the adapter you connected them to? If not consider it as a possibility as well >(from bad experience of total filesystem/partition corruption on two hard drives only to discover it was >something on the motherboard). Actually yes I used them many times back on C7.5

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.6 external USB dmesg issue

2018-12-12 Thread Jerry Geis
>What kind of solid state 2 TB drive is this and how is it 'powered'? >It is looking like the drives aren't getting completely written to >before being removed as the ext4 error is a 'oh wait this drive >doesn't have everything I expected too late to give up aah' >type oops This is a Samsu

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.6 external USB dmesg issue

2018-12-12 Thread Jerry Geis
>I'm a tad confused: you said the USB drive was brand new - did you use >them with C 7.5, or not? Can you try to do a b/u using whatever drive you >used before? All the equipment I had before... Motherboard, cable etc... the drives are new and this is the behaviour I was seeing... I am currentl

[CentOS] SSD no longer detected - slightly off topic

2018-12-16 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All, I have a new Samsung SSD 2T 860 type device. I connected it to my centos 7.6 system using external USB 3.1 that has power and data supplied over the USB cable. I do this all the time with a 120G SSD works fine. Formatting the device worked fine - then I mounted it and tried to copy 1.5T

[CentOS] Out of memory

2018-12-19 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi, I have three machines running CentOS 7.6 in desktop mode. 2 are fine. 1 of them is having a memory issue that is Out of memory [17878] 1000 17878 206999142311 118988800 0 gnome-shell This gnome-shell looking at /var/log/messages after reboot - is the HIGHEST amount o

[CentOS] kickstart install

2018-12-19 Thread Jerry Geis
In changing from a 7.5 to 7.6 automated install. 7.6 is not happy and the install process stops and shows the screen where the "Install Source" is not happy. I enter 3 to see what its set for, I select network, I select http and I see my URL that my kickstart file has. It looks right - but its not

Re: [CentOS] kickstart install - solved

2018-12-20 Thread Jerry Geis
I did find the anaconda.log file. I had the same URL that I expected. The issue was the repo xml file was empty... So just was a copy of the data through the network . All is working as expected. Jerry > ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https

[CentOS] Gnome-shell memory

2018-12-21 Thread Jerry Geis
So after much research it seems the only way to "help" the gnome-shell memory leak issue (I still see it on CentOS 7.6) is to do "export DISPLAY=:0.0; gnome-shell --replace" periodically. Perhaps in cron. Is that an OK solution for the LONG haul? Seems to knock the memory back down and box appear

Re: [CentOS] Gnome-shell memory

2018-12-21 Thread Jerry Geis
> Sounds like a hammer method. Is this issue already communicated to upstream > (bugzilla)? I believe so - Gnome 3.28+ says even more memory fixes... I would think something like that they would rebase gnome again (hopefully before 7.7). But certainly not up to me. Jerry _

Re: [CentOS] Gnome-shell memory

2018-12-21 Thread Jerry Geis
Looks like over time the --replace is not an option. Is there an repo that has update Gnome-shell and needed files that I can try ? Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] pip on C7

2019-01-30 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to install the python-onvif package on C7. I did: pip install onvif Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): onvif in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): suds>=0.4 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from onvif)

Re: [CentOS] pip on C7

2019-01-30 Thread Jerry Geis
>Please show us 'pip freeze'. >I assume that you have onvif sucessfully installed. your correct 'pip freeze' did show onvif. onvif==0.2.0 I was then expecting to run python-onvif but that is not found. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] reinstall

2019-02-05 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a C7 7.6.1810 install that I wish to "reinstall". when I run "yum reinstall \* " I get a long list of items saying will be updated or will be installed but then nothing happens - nothing is re-downloaded etc... How do I get the system to actual download all current packages and re-install t

[CentOS] systemd

2019-02-07 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All - I have a systemd service file to start my application. Part of my service file is: [Service] Type=forking ExecStart=/path to start ExecStop=/path to stop RemainAfterExit=yes This works fine "normally". However - when I do a "yum update; and reboot" my script detects a kernel change an

[CentOS] nvidia on 7.6

2019-02-27 Thread Jerry Geis
I have elrepo installed. rpm -qa | grep elrepo gives elrepo-release-7.0.3.el7.elrepo.noarch nvidia detect (which installed) tells me kmod-nvidia-340xx when I do yum install kmod-nvidia-340xx it is saying no package kmod-nvidia-340xx available ? What did I miss? Thanks, Jerry ___

Re: [CentOS] nvidia on 7.6

2019-02-27 Thread Jerry Geis
> 'd try "yum install kmod-nvidia". ISTR that works. Thanks that seems to be working. However there were differnet "Versions" to install based on what nvidia-detect says. Not 1 driver for all. So now its installing the 410.93 package... I'm not sure that supports the chipset I have. Which is Gt218

Re: [CentOS] nvidia on 7.6

2019-02-27 Thread Jerry Geis
As I thought - the NVIDIA log is saying "WRONG" Driver silly - use the 340xx driver. Again - original question was "yum install kmod-nvidia-3400xx" says no package available for elrepo ??? Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.ce

Re: [CentOS] nvidia on 7.6

2019-02-27 Thread Jerry Geis
There is no kmod-nvidia-340xx driver any more... What now ??? https://centos.pkgs.org/7/elrepo-x86_64/ Its in the 6 folder but not 7 ??? Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] nvidia on 7.6

2019-02-27 Thread Jerry Geis
>I'll see if I can find some time this weekend to fix the elrepo package > and get it reinstated into the repository. >Phil Hi Phil, Thanks for the reply. Your correct this is OLD hardware. Everything was working with 7.5 thought I was good to go so to speak ... So When I was starting now to mig

Re: [CentOS] nvidia on 7.6

2019-03-01 Thread Jerry Geis
hi Phil. I do have hardware that uses the 340xx, 384.98 drivers. Basically 520M and GT218 ION. Thanks! Jerry > ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] nvidia on 7.6

2019-03-04 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi Phil, I installed based on your instructions... yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing install kmod-nvidia-340xx nvidia-x11-drv-340xx nvidia-x11-drv-340xx-libs I rebooted and things "seem" to be working. rpm -qa | grep nvidia shows the driver installed, /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows NVIDIA up and runn

Re: [CentOS] nvidia on 7.6

2019-03-04 Thread Jerry Geis
> What driver does 'nvidia-detect' say you need for that 520M? Hi Phil, my "notes" say the 520M used to use the kmod-nvidia-384... THe nvidia web site does say 390.87 Jerry > ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman

[CentOS] compile question on CentOS 7

2019-03-17 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to use the fnmatch() function in a C program and pass as the 3rd arg (options) of case insensitive search... When I use the value FNM_CASEFOLD it does not work... I'm confused on what to send to fnmatch() to do a case insensitive search. Any pointers ? Thanks. Jerry

Re: [CentOS] compile question on CentOS 7

2019-03-18 Thread Jerry Geis
>which indicates that those values aren't available UNLESS your program >has defines matching the first line shown. I haven't bothered to check >for the value of _POSIX_C_SOURCE in the absence of commandline options >that change the GCC default behavior, but just defining _GNU_SOURCE >is enough to

[CentOS] WINE on CentOS 7

2019-04-10 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All - I have wine installed from EPEL on CentOS 7. My .exe is running except I dont seem to have network ? So I tried a ping command. wine ping 192.168.1.1 0009:err:winediag:IcmpCreateFile Failed to use ICMP (network ping), this requires special permissions. Pinging 192.168.1.1 [192.168.1.1]

[CentOS] bash off topic

2019-05-16 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a simple bash script it will take arguments from a file that has quotes. my file arg.txt would be this -lt "*.txt" my script file would be LS_ARG=`cat arg.txt` ls $LS_ARG it does not run properly: sh -x ./arg.sh ++ cat arg.txt + LS_ARG='-lt "*.txt"' + ls -lt '"*.txt"' ls: cannot access "

[CentOS] Migrate older disk image to new UEFI

2019-07-01 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All - I have a CentOS 7 (image) that is fully updated. However its not UEFI. Is there a way to use an older computer and migrate my current image to be UEFI so this new UEFI only computer I have will boot. Was hoping to not have to completely re-install and setup for my needs. Jerry

[CentOS] qemu uefi boot

2019-07-09 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to play with qemu uefi booting... I found the OVMF package and installed it. I added the "-bios /usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.secboot.fd" to my command line. when running it says cannot load "/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.secboot.fd" The file is there. I'm trying this on CentOS 7.6 How do I

[CentOS] adding uefi to kickstart CentOS 7

2019-07-09 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to add an efi partition to my working kickstart file. bootloader --driveorder=sda --append="rhgb quiet biosdevname=0 net.ifnames=0" clearpart --all --initlabel part / --ondisk=sda --fstype xfs --size=2 --asprimary part swap --ondisk=sda --size=4000 --asprimary pa

[CentOS] screen shot centos 7

2019-07-10 Thread Jerry Geis
HI All, I have some remote computers - at times I issue commands to take screen shots. I use xwd -silent -root or import -silent -window root to do so. It seems at times the screen capture is the actual current content. It might be a previous displayed item etc... Anyone ran across this or thoug

Re: [CentOS] screen shot centos 7

2019-07-10 Thread Jerry Geis
So I found a "-debug all" option... Its talking about "cache" for a screen shot. Not sure why a screen shot would ever be cached - Not sure if this is what I'm running into some how??? /usr/bin/import -debug all -silent -window root screen.png 2019-07-10T09:13:36-05:00 0:00.000 0.010u 6.7.8 Confi

[CentOS] Question on screen capture from command line

2019-07-16 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to get the screen capture to work from command line (remotely). I am getting the wrong screen shot. This is what xrandr is giving me... xrandr --query Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767 DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP2 di

[CentOS] gem install reel on Centos 7

2019-08-04 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi - I installed ruby for something... The instructions said to also do the comand: gem install reel ERROR: Error installing reel: timers requires Ruby version >= 2.2.1. [root@devgeis ~]# ruby --version ruby 2.0.0p648 (2015-12-16) [x86_64-linux] Not sure what to do. Wait for Centos 8? Th

Re: [CentOS] gem install reel on Centos 7

2019-08-05 Thread Jerry Geis
Thanks John for the info... I did that and now I'm missing a file. I tried to ask yum what package I need - but It did not know. Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /opt/rh/rh-ruby22/root/usr/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20190805-9406

[CentOS] Question on server speed

2019-08-05 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I have a customer server with 32 cores, 128G ram i7960X. So nice box... Why is it that "all" I am really doing at the moment is copying things to an external SSD disk USB3 connected and the machine "freezes"... Why is that? clearly plenty of CPU RAM everything... I can see "blocking" to

Re: [CentOS] Question on server speed

2019-08-05 Thread Jerry Geis
There are no errors in dmesg. Top was showing 88% idle. If something is blocking somewhere as Stephen suggested - that's a major bummer. The keyboard is USB attached and the external SSD disk is USB attached. The mother board is an X299 UD4 Pro Anyway to use "nice" command to help with responiven

Re: [CentOS] gem install reel on Centos 7

2019-08-05 Thread Jerry Geis
Thanks John, I did the yum remove on rh-ruby22* did a yum install rh-ruby23-ruby then I found the rh-ruby23-ruby-devel and now it works. Jerry > ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Virtual manager and vhdx

2019-08-07 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to find out if Virtual Manager or qemu directly can take a Hyper v vhdx file and use it "as is"... I desire to not boot windows, update the vhdx image I have created, etc... I'd rather just have the vhdx image sitting on linux, boot the virtual manager with the vhdx file, update what I

[CentOS] Two questions

2019-08-08 Thread Jerry Geis
You guys are awesome working on CentOS 8! Where might a get a list of the packages in CentOS 8 ? Will there be a "in place" upgrade from 7 to 8? Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] failure to install LibreOffice 6.3.0.4

2019-08-12 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi Fred, I do this from time to time... download the tgz... then I extract the tgz, cd RPMS then run rpm -i *.rpm --force Then of course you man need to change your path to use the new /op/ Hope that helps, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@c

[CentOS] DHCP and no network for long time

2019-08-13 Thread Jerry Geis
Odd thing happened... A centos 7 install set for DHCP. boot the box no network connected. I let it like this overnight. I come in this morning and plug in the network. Is it supposed to get a DHCP address at that time ? It did not . service network restart did get an address. if I unplug the netw

[CentOS] Extend DHCP range

2019-08-26 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a simple DHCP range . option routers 192.168.1.1; subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.1.60 192.168.1.129; range 192.168.1.150 192.168.1.199; } So I want to add a range 192.168.2.1 -> 192.168.2.254 so I did this: subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.

[CentOS] xfs

2019-08-28 Thread Jerry Geis
I used to be able to 'repair' ext4 fs issue (when the boot process drops you into emergency mode)... but now with xfs - it does not seem to let me do that. xfs_repair /dev/sda3 or xfs_repair -L /dev/sda3 both say fatal error fatal error -- couldn’t initialize XFS library How can I repair XFS wit

[CentOS] Updates

2019-09-18 Thread Jerry Geis
I did yum -y update --exclude=vulkan*; then rebooted When I do yum check-updates I get this: (which I expect) vulkan.x86_64 1.1.97.0-1.el7 base vulkan-filesystem.noarch 1.1.97.0-1.el7 base When I do the yum -y u

[CentOS] UEFI booting

2019-09-19 Thread Jerry Geis
I installed my first UEFI disk yesterday. Seemed to go fine. CentOS 7.6 x86_64 I then took that disk "out" of that machine and put it another machine - it seems to not even boot. I put the original disk back in that machine and it boots fine. I put the UEFI disk back in the machine I built it on a

[CentOS] Booting new virtual image with 7.7 and with EFI

2019-09-20 Thread Jerry Geis
Is booting a new centos virtual image (centos 7.7 host) supported with EFI under 7.7 If so how. Last time on 7.6 it was a technology preview or something. Thanks Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/c

[CentOS] CentOS 8 Everything

2019-09-24 Thread Jerry Geis
HI All - Great work on 7.7 and 8.0! Will there be a "Everything" iso coming ? perhaps just not sync'd yet on mirrors? Does 7.7 support an upgrade to 8 path ? Thanks! all great stuff. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos

[CentOS] USB thumb drive for CentOS 7.7 to install

2019-09-25 Thread Jerry Geis
I took the "everything" iso and did the dd command to my 16G thumb drive. I booted and entered my usual ks=http://xxx on the boot line. All good so far. It gets my kickstart file and installation begins. At some point it says Installing libreoffice-opensymbol-fonts (492/1948) Retrying download of

[CentOS] USB of ISO image

2019-09-25 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi I did the dd iso to my USB. all is fine. I can mount the second partition (which is not iso 9660) and edit the grub.cfg file. Question is what do I run after that so my new menu option appears ? grub2-install /dev/sdd Is that the correct command to get grub to notice my new file ? Assuming s

Re: [CentOS] USB thumb drive for CentOS 7.7 to install

2019-09-25 Thread Jerry Geis
Looks like my file was corrupt on the USB disk. Not sure how that happened. I removed the file then I just copied the file from the Everything iso image again and working now. Jerry On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 2:46 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > I took the "everything" iso and did the dd comm

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