Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-09 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 08.11.2012 11:12, schrieb Sorin Srbu: > -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf > Of Rainer Traut > Sent: den 8 november 2012 10:42 > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-08 Thread m . roth
Keith Roberts wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Sorin Srbu wrote: > >> To: 'CentOS mailing list' >> From: Sorin Srbu >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but >> reboots) > > Have you tried to shutdown from a CL console. I

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-08 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Sorin Srbu wrote: To: 'CentOS mailing list' From: Sorin Srbu Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots) Have you tried to shutdown from a CL console. $ pinfo shutdown: SHUTDOWN(8) Linux System Administrator’s Ma

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-08 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Rainer Traut Sent: den 8 november 2012 10:42 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots) >I looked at the capacitors, they seem g

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-08 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 06.11.2012 13:57, schrieb Sorin Srbu: > -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf > Of Rainer Traut > Sent: den 6 november 2012 13:53 > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-08 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 06.11.2012 17:16, schrieb Leon Fauster: > Am 06.11.2012 um 13:52 schrieb Rainer Traut: >> Am 05.11.2012 19:28, schrieb James A. Peltier: >>> >>> Update the BIOS. Should fix it. We had this issue a while back and the >>> new BIOS corrected the issue. >>> >> >> Thx for all your answers, but lat

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-08 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 06.11.2012 15:41, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: > Sorin Srbu wrote: >> Behalf >> Of Rainer Traut >> >>> Thx for all your answers, but latest Bios is installed (A07 from year >>> 2006). The pc is has not crashed so far, except the poweroff thingy so > I guess >>> hw is ok. FWIW under C5 all was well.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 docs?

2012-11-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 1:37 PM, wrote: > >> >> Since the documents available on the CentOS documentation pages are mostly >> the ones for RHEL anyway that shouldn't make too much of a difference. >> > That may do. I'm still working on the correct config file for the LVM that > I'm upgrading - doi

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 docs?

2012-11-07 Thread m . roth
Hi, Peter, Peter Eckel wrote: > > probably you know it, but maybe someone else finds this useful: > > On 07.11.2012, at 19:56, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Is there somewhere else than for >> documentation for CentOS 6? > >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 docs?

2012-11-07 Thread Markus Falb
On 7.11.2012 19:56, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Is there somewhere else than for > documentation for CentOS 6? I think because CentOS is a clone of Upstream it would be a waste of resources to duplicate the documentation effort. In other words: read upstreams documenta

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 docs?

2012-11-07 Thread Peter Eckel
Hi Mark, probably you know it, but maybe someone else finds this useful: On 07.11.2012, at 19:56, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Is there somewhere else than for > documentation for CentOS 6? Since

[CentOS] CentOS 6 docs?

2012-11-07 Thread m . roth
Is there somewhere else than for documentation for CentOS 6? mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-06 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 06.11.2012 um 13:52 schrieb Rainer Traut: > Am 05.11.2012 19:28, schrieb James A. Peltier: >> >> Update the BIOS. Should fix it. We had this issue a while back and the new >> BIOS corrected the issue. >> > > Thx for all your answers, but latest Bios is installed (A07 from year 2006). > Th

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-06 Thread Rodrigo K. Ferreira
Try e1000e or http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-e1000 Em 06/11/2012 12:42, escreveu: > Sorin Srbu wrote: > > Behalf > > Of Rainer Traut > > > >>Thx for all your answers, but latest Bios is installed (A07 from year > >> 2006). The pc is has not crashed so far, except the poweroff thingy so > I guess > >

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-06 Thread m . roth
Sorin Srbu wrote: > Behalf > Of Rainer Traut > >>Thx for all your answers, but latest Bios is installed (A07 from year >> 2006). The pc is has not crashed so far, except the poweroff thingy so I guess >>hw is ok. FWIW under C5 all was well. > > A wild shot; if you have physical access to the comput

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-06 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 05.11.2012 12:09, schrieb Nux!: > On 05.11.2012 10:38, Rainer Traut wrote: >> Hi, >> >> am using latest C6 on a Dell GX270 with latest Bios. >> It fails to power down but restarts when running >> $ sudo poweroff >> >> I tried some google hints for kernel boot option: >> acpi=force >> no help, lo

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-06 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Rainer Traut Sent: den 6 november 2012 13:53 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots) >Thx for all your answers, but latest Bios

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-06 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 05.11.2012 19:28, schrieb James A. Peltier: > - Original Message - > | Hi, > | > | am using latest C6 on a Dell GX270 with latest Bios. > | It fails to power down but restarts when running > | $ sudo poweroff > | > | I tried some google hints for kernel boot option: > | acpi=force > | no

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-05 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Hi, | | am using latest C6 on a Dell GX270 with latest Bios. | It fails to power down but restarts when running | $ sudo poweroff | | I tried some google hints for kernel boot option: | acpi=force | no help, looks like acpi is working anyway when looking in dmesg |

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-05 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Rainer Traut Sent: den 5 november 2012 11:39 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots) >am using latest C6 on a Dell GX270 with lat

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-05 Thread Nux!
On 05.11.2012 10:38, Rainer Traut wrote: > Hi, > > am using latest C6 on a Dell GX270 with latest Bios. > It fails to power down but restarts when running > $ sudo poweroff > > I tried some google hints for kernel boot option: > acpi=force > no help, looks like acpi is working anyway when looking i

[CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-05 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, am using latest C6 on a Dell GX270 with latest Bios. It fails to power down but restarts when running $ sudo poweroff I tried some google hints for kernel boot option: acpi=force no help, looks like acpi is working anyway when looking in dmesg acpi=off makes e1000 nic fail to initialize Any

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 NFS mmap I/O bug?

2012-10-22 Thread Tom McDonald
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: > Just a thought: could this be related to 32bit clients accessing a 64bit > NFS server? Recently there was some discussion about this on the list. > Iirc the solution was to use 32bit inodes on the NFS server. Search the > list for "Mount opti

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 NFS mmap I/O bug?

2012-10-22 Thread Patrick Lists
On 10/22/2012 11:31 PM, Tom McDonald wrote: > I'm working with a company who is running into an issue occasionally > with their app running CentOS 6 on an NFS mount. The problem is > essentially that, from a single CentOS 6 client, the client sometimes > gets the wrong file size back from a stat()

[CentOS] CentOS 6 NFS mmap I/O bug?

2012-10-22 Thread Tom McDonald
I'm working with a company who is running into an issue occasionally with their app running CentOS 6 on an NFS mount. The problem is essentially that, from a single CentOS 6 client, the client sometimes gets the wrong file size back from a stat() call. The problem specifically seems to happen aft

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 6 3rd party repos compared to Centos 5?

2012-10-21 Thread Keith Roberts
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Johnny Hughes wrote: > There are things there for el5 ... nothing for el6. > > But that repo came about before EPEL and I would say most things from > there are now in EPEL ... I would only use it if it contained something > that was not in EPEL or rpmforge and I really needed

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 6 3rd party repos compared to Centos 5?

2012-10-19 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/19/2012 11:07 AM, Nux! wrote: > On 18.10.2012 17:36, Keith Roberts wrote: >> Is there any differences between the repos used by Centos >> 5.8 and those used by Centos 6.x please - ie does C6 use the >> same 3rd party repos as C5 does? >> >> Is there a Centos wiki article for C6 repos? >> >> K

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 6 3rd party repos compared to Centos 5?

2012-10-19 Thread Nux!
On 18.10.2012 17:36, Keith Roberts wrote: > Is there any differences between the repos used by Centos > 5.8 and those used by Centos 6.x please - ie does C6 use the > same 3rd party repos as C5 does? > > Is there a Centos wiki article for C6 repos? > > Kind Regards, > > Keith > I also maintain som

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 6 3rd party repos compared to Centos 5?

2012-10-19 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/19/2012 07:41 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> The main CentOS repos are the same ... Base, Updates, CentOSPlus, >> Extras, Fasttrack, CR >> >> The major 3rd Party repos also exist ... rpmforge, elrepo, EPEL ... I >> those are the ones I normally use for both 5.x and 6.x

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 6 3rd party repos compared to Centos 5?

2012-10-19 Thread Timothy Murphy
Johnny Hughes wrote: > The main CentOS repos are the same ... Base, Updates, CentOSPlus, > Extras, Fasttrack, CR > > The major 3rd Party repos also exist ... rpmforge, elrepo, EPEL ... I > those are the ones I normally use for both 5.x and 6.x I see I also have kbsingh-CentOS-Extras . Is that st

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 6 3rd party repos compared to Centos 5?

2012-10-18 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/18/2012 11:36 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: > Is there any differences between the repos used by Centos > 5.8 and those used by Centos 6.x please - ie does C6 use the > same 3rd party repos as C5 does? > > Is there a Centos wiki article for C6 repos? > The main CentOS repos are the same ... Bas

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 6 3rd party repos compared to Centos 5?

2012-10-18 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/18/12 9:36 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: > Is there any differences between the repos used by Centos > 5.8 and those used by Centos 6.x please - ie does C6 use the > same 3rd party repos as C5 does? > > Is there a Centos wiki article for C6 repos? > 3rd party repo quality is all over the place.

[CentOS] CENTOS 6 3rd party repos compared to Centos 5?

2012-10-18 Thread Keith Roberts
Is there any differences between the repos used by Centos 5.8 and those used by Centos 6.x please - ie does C6 use the same 3rd party repos as C5 does? Is there a Centos wiki article for C6 repos? Kind Regards, Keith --- Websites: http:/

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 - Does EFI have an impact beyond the boot sequence?

2012-10-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/15/2012 01:31 AM, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > - Does EFI impacts other things than the boot sequence? (a friend of > mine told me that this is a complete replacement of BIOS, and thus > impacts "everything") EFI will primarily impact driver initialization. If you saw a problem, it would be du

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 - Does EFI have an impact beyond the boot sequence?

2012-10-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/15/2012 03:21 AM, Nux! wrote: > Why outdated? I just wrote it! :-)) I've tested those directions on a new Thinkpad (T430s) after finding them posted in many places and found no measurable power use difference. Using powertop, however, does produce significant improvements. The most import

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 - Does EFI have an impact beyond the boot sequence?

2012-10-15 Thread Nux!
On 15.10.2012 10:45, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Hi, > >> Not sure about the EFI as I'm avoiding it as the plague, but on >> Intel >> platforms there are some issues regarding power consumption. Here's >> what >> I do: >> >> http://www.nux.ro/archive/2012/10/EL6_power_usage_optimisation_on_Intel_San

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 - Does EFI have an impact beyond the boot sequence?

2012-10-15 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, > Not sure about the EFI as I'm avoiding it as the plague, but on Intel > platforms there are some issues regarding power consumption. Here's what > I do: > http://www.nux.ro/archive/2012/10/EL6_power_usage_optimisation_on_Intel_Sandy___Ivy_Bridge.html that article looks quite out of date,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 - Does EFI have an impact beyond the boot sequence?

2012-10-15 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 10/15/2012 09:31 AM, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > I am using an up to date CentOS 6 x86_64 laptop (Thinkpad X220t) and > after struggling a bit I could install it a few months ago with a pure > EFI boot. Are you sure it wasent doing a bios failback ? I'd be surprised to see a device like that

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 - Does EFI have an impact beyond the boot sequence?

2012-10-15 Thread Nux!
On 15.10.2012 09:31, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > Hello, > > I am using an up to date CentOS 6 x86_64 laptop (Thinkpad X220t) and > after struggling a bit I could install it a few months ago with a > pure > EFI boot. > > However, I am not really satisfied with such things as stability, > power consump

[CentOS] CentOS 6 - Does EFI have an impact beyond the boot sequence?

2012-10-15 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, I am using an up to date CentOS 6 x86_64 laptop (Thinkpad X220t) and after struggling a bit I could install it a few months ago with a pure EFI boot. However, I am not really satisfied with such things as stability, power consumption, etc. and now that I have a little more time I want to i

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 early panic on ESXi 4.1.0 build 800380

2012-09-12 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 11.09.2012 21:06, schrieb Tilman Schmidt: > I tried two different CentOS 6 VMs. Both have the latest standard kernel > (2.6.32-279.5.2.el6.x86_64). Both run perfectly fine on one of the other > VMware hosts still running ESXi 4.1.0 build 702113. On build 800380, > both display the GRUB menu alri

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 early panic on ESXi 4.1.0 build 800380

2012-09-12 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 11.09.2012 21:14, schrieb John R Pierce: > On 09/11/12 12:06 PM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: >> I tried two different CentOS 6 VMs. Both have the latest standard kernel >> (2.6.32-279.5.2.el6.x86_64). Both run perfectly fine on one of the other >> VMware hosts still running ESXi 4.1.0 build 702113. O

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 early panic on ESXi 4.1.0 build 800380

2012-09-12 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 11.09.2012 21:57, schrieb Laurent: > Le 2012-09-11 21:06, Tilman Schmidt a écrit : >> I tried two different CentOS 6 VMs. Both have the latest standard kernel >> (2.6.32-279.5.2.el6.x86_64). Both run perfectly fine on one of the other >> VMware hosts still running ESXi 4.1.0 build 702113. On bu

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 early panic on ESXi 4.1.0 build 800380

2012-09-11 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 11.09.2012 21:57, schrieb Laurent: > I've found what is probably your post on VMware Communities. > http://communities.vmware.com/message/2112173?tstart=0 Indeed. > It seems there's a second 4.1 update 3 build (811144): > http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 early panic on ESXi 4.1.0 build 800380

2012-09-11 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 11.09.2012 21:14, schrieb John R Pierce: > On 09/11/12 12:06 PM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: >> I tried two different CentOS 6 VMs. Both have the latest standard kernel >> (2.6.32-279.5.2.el6.x86_64). Both run perfectly fine on one of the other >> VMware hosts still running ESXi 4.1.0 build 702113. O

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 early panic on ESXi 4.1.0 build 800380

2012-09-11 Thread Laurent
Le 2012-09-11 21:06, Tilman Schmidt a écrit : > I run VMware vSphere 4 Essentials with three almost identically > configured ESXi 4.1 hosts and a mix of 32 and 64 bit guests including > Windows 2003 and 2008 as well as CentOS 5 and 6. Recently I updated > one > of the hosts to build 800380. The ne

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 early panic on ESXi 4.1.0 build 800380

2012-09-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/11/12 12:06 PM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > I run VMware vSphere 4 Essentials with three almost identically > configured ESXi 4.1 hosts and a mix of 32 and 64 bit guests including > Windows 2003 and 2008 as well as CentOS 5 and 6. Recently I updated one > of the hosts to build 800380. The new bui

[CentOS] CentOS 6 early panic on ESXi 4.1.0 build 800380

2012-09-11 Thread Tilman Schmidt
I run VMware vSphere 4 Essentials with three almost identically configured ESXi 4.1 hosts and a mix of 32 and 64 bit guests including Windows 2003 and 2008 as well as CentOS 5 and 6. Recently I updated one of the hosts to build 800380. The new build runs Windows and CentOS 5 VMs fine, but CentOS 6

[CentOS] CentOS 6 - Preferable snapshots via LVM, EXT4 or XFS

2012-08-30 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, I read some where that due to UUID conflicts, EXT4 + LVM snapshots is still the way to go in Cent 6. I do love XFS but was wondering your thoughts and experiences. - aurf ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailma

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 vs. other RHEL clones: security advisory comparison

2012-08-20 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 08/20/2012 07:02 AM, Janne Snabb wrote: > Hello, > > I made some statistics and comparisons about security advisories > published by three popular RHEL 6 clones: CentOS 6, Oracle Linux 6 and > Scientific Linux 6. > > The article is available at the following URL: > > http://bitrate.epipe.com/rhe

[CentOS] CentOS 6 vs. other RHEL clones: security advisory comparison

2012-08-20 Thread Janne Snabb
Hello, I made some statistics and comparisons about security advisories published by three popular RHEL 6 clones: CentOS 6, Oracle Linux 6 and Scientific Linux 6. The article is available at the following URL: http://bitrate.epipe.com/rhel-vs-centos-scientific-oracle-linux-6_187 I hope you find

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-09 Thread Mathieu Baudier
>> These could be bad options for a number of users and since it's set at >> kernel boot time how can you override it once the OS has booted? Can you >> disable this without altering boot parameters and rebooting? If the answer >> is yes than a tuned configuration should be created or altered

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-04 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 03/08/12 17:05, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > As per http://www.williambrownstreet.net/blog/?p=387, add the > following kernel arguments to the GRUB boot configuration: > > pcie_aspm=force i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1 > i915.i915_enable_fbc=1 > > As measured using PowerTop, this made

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-04 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> You could also consider just sticking to tuned and then having a look at the > power management options as provided there. tuned-adm list will show you > some predefined power management options which *can* be tweaked. I have made many tests with tuned and written small scripts to switch from

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-03 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Hello, | | I was not happy with the power consumption of CentOS 6 x86_64 on a | new | Lenovo Thinkpad x220 Tablet and I worked on reducing it. I just | wanted | to share with the list one of the changes which gave me the most | significant improvement. | | As per ht

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-03 Thread Ned Slider
On 03/08/12 08:05, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > Hello, > > I was not happy with the power consumption of CentOS 6 x86_64 on a new > Lenovo Thinkpad x220 Tablet and I worked on reducing it. I just wanted > to share with the list one of the changes which gave me the most > significant improvement. > > As

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-03 Thread Mathieu Baudier
>> pcie_aspm=force i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1 >> i915.i915_enable_fbc=1 > > Interesting as now I'm using RHEL 6.3 on T400. > Would that make the notebook slower? I did not notice any change in performance so far. (Tested with parallelized, offline, Java build and unit tests)

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-03 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > pcie_aspm=force i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1 > i915.i915_enable_fbc=1 Interesting as now I'm using RHEL 6.3 on T400. Would that make the notebook slower? -- http://linux3.arinet.org

[CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-03 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, I was not happy with the power consumption of CentOS 6 x86_64 on a new Lenovo Thinkpad x220 Tablet and I worked on reducing it. I just wanted to share with the list one of the changes which gave me the most significant improvement. As per http://www.williambrownstreet.net/blog/?p=387, add

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS 6] - problem install skype

2012-08-02 Thread John Doe
From: Paolo De Michele > I am having trouble with installing skype. > I downloaded the 2.2 version via the official site, I installed by > typing rpm-i but now quadno the launch the application does not start. > do you know how to fix it? http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Skype JD _

[CentOS] [CentOS 6] - problem install skype

2012-08-02 Thread Paolo De Michele
Hi all, I am having trouble with installing skype. I downloaded the 2.2 version via the official site, I installed by typing rpm-i but now quadno the launch the application does not start. do you know how to fix it? thanks in advance ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.x - /proc/ide ?

2012-07-27 Thread TFML
Laurence, Thank you for the information! On Jul 27, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Laurence Hurst wrote: > On 27/07/2012 15:58, TFML wrote: >> I was curious, why was /proc/ide removed and was it moved to another >> directory to obtain ide drivers information? > > From the upstream vendor's deployment guid

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.x - /proc/ide ?

2012-07-27 Thread Laurence Hurst
On 27/07/2012 15:58, TFML wrote: > I was curious, why was /proc/ide removed and was it moved to another > directory to obtain ide drivers information? From the upstream vendor's deployment guide[0]: "Later versions of the 2.6 kernel have made the /proc/ide/ and /proc/pci/ directories obsolete.

[CentOS] CentOS 6.x - /proc/ide ?

2012-07-27 Thread TFML
I was curious, why was /proc/ide removed and was it moved to another directory to obtain ide drivers information? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 bridging problem.

2012-07-17 Thread Rafał Radecki
The setup works well for different kernel. So it is not a problem with the configuration ;) Thanks for all help. Best regards, R. 2012/7/4 Gordon Messmer : > On 06/25/2012 05:22 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote: >> Do you see an error in my configuration? Why is 10.20.0.108 not available? > > I don't have

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 bridging problem.

2012-07-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/25/2012 05:22 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote: > Do you see an error in my configuration? Why is 10.20.0.108 not available? I don't have a lot of managed switches around to do extensive testing. The closest test I can do is on 5.8 with VLAN 2 and different IPs. Based on that, everything seems like

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 bridging problem.

2012-06-27 Thread Rafał Radecki
Yes, it works well, no problems then. Best regards, Rafal, 2012/6/26 Gordon Messmer : > On 06/26/2012 08:51 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> Are you absolutely sure that the switch port connected to eth0 is >> configured to deliver tagged packets for VLAN 20 (and that the ping >> source is also on th

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 bridging problem.

2012-06-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/26/2012 08:51 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Are you absolutely sure that the switch port connected to eth0 is > configured to deliver tagged packets for VLAN 20 (and that the ping > source is also on that VLAN)? ...and I should follow that up with: If you create a tagged ethernet interface on

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 bridging problem.

2012-06-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/26/2012 12:02 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote: > Any clue? Are you absolutely sure that the switch port connected to eth0 is configured to deliver tagged packets for VLAN 20 (and that the ping source is also on that VLAN)? ___ CentOS mailing list CentO

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 bridging problem.

2012-06-26 Thread Rafał Radecki
tcpdump -n -i eth0 icmp and src host 10.20.0.98 does not give any results when ping is invoked. 2012/6/26 John R Pierce : > On 06/26/12 12:47 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote: >> tcpdump -n -i eth0.20 >> shows that there is no traffic when I try to ping 10.20.0.108. > > try just tcpdump -n -i eth0 > > I a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 bridging problem.

2012-06-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/26/12 12:47 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote: > tcpdump -n -i eth0.20 > shows that there is no traffic when I try to ping 10.20.0.108. try just tcpdump -n -i eth0 I am not sure you can packet sniff a virtual interface, more likely you can only sniff an actual physical interface. -- john r pierc

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 bridging problem.

2012-06-26 Thread Rafał Radecki
tcpdump -n -i eth0.20 shows that there is no traffic when I try to ping 10.20.0.108. Best regards, R. 2012/6/26 Rafał Radecki : > ip route show > 192.168.2.0/24 dev vmbr0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.2.203 > 193.218.152.0/24 dev vmbr0  proto kernel  scope link  src 193.218.152.219 > 10.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 bridging problem.

2012-06-26 Thread Rafał Radecki
ip route show 192.168.2.0/24 dev vmbr0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.203 193.218.152.0/24 dev vmbr0 proto kernel scope link src 193.218.152.219 10.20.0.0/16 dev vmbr20 proto kernel scope link src 10.20.0.108 169.254.0.0/16 dev vmbr0 scope link metric 1003 169.254.0.0/16 dev vmbr2

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 bridging problem.

2012-06-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/25/2012 05:22 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote: > Do you see an error in my configuration? Why is 10.20.0.108 not available? Not immediately, but check the output of the 'ip' tools. ifconfig and route are deprecated: ip route show ip addr show Finally, see if there's any incoming traffic on the t

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 bridging problem. - semi-unrelated

2012-06-25 Thread m . roth
Rafał Radecki wrote: > Hi all. > > I have currently an OpenVZ server: > > uname -a > Linux vader8.superhost.pl 2.6.32-042stab055.16 #1 SMP Fri Jun 8 > 19:22:28 MSD 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > cat /etc/redhat-release > CentOS release 6.2 (Final) I don't even remember that kernel for 6.2

[CentOS] CentOS 6 bridging problem.

2012-06-25 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi all. I have currently an OpenVZ server: uname -a Linux vader8.superhost.pl 2.6.32-042stab055.16 #1 SMP Fri Jun 8 19:22:28 MSD 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 6.2 (Final) lspci | grep -i eth 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 / Kickstart Using degraded mdadm RAID1

2012-06-15 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/10/12, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:09:28PM +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: >> #raid / --fstype=ext4 --level=1 --device=md0 raid.253001 raid.253065 > > Maybe try > raid / --fstype=ext4 --level=1 --device=md0 --useexisting > Or > raid / --fstype=ext4 --device=md0 --u

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Networking: Some Queries -- GURUS HELP PL

2012-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > >> >> You still don't say what kind of access you need > > Basically accessing the VMs from the Internetssh, vnc, rdp, ftp & > so on...different needs for different vm. You should be able to make outbound connections that originate from

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Networking: Some Queries -- GURUS HELP PL

2012-06-14 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/14/12 10:51 PM, Sanjay Arora wrote: >> > You still don't say what kind of access you need > Basically accessing the VMs from the Internetssh, vnc, rdp, ftp& > so on...different needs for different vm. > how will that work if you have no control over the ADSL internet router? the in

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Networking: Some Queries -- GURUS HELP PL

2012-06-14 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/14/12 10:51 PM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > True Enough but the adsl Ip range is not in my control as you have > assumed correctly. when you bridge virtual hosts to a LAN, they appear just like they are real machines plugged into the same LAN. they'll each get their own IP from the ADSL router'

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Networking: Some Queries -- GURUS HELP PL

2012-06-14 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:52 AM, Sanjay Arora > wrote: >> > OK, I don't quite understand what 'reserved for LAN' use means.   I'll > assume it means someone else controls it and they won't cooperate if Correct. > you bridge you VM's to th

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Networking: Some Queries -- GURUS HELP PL

2012-06-14 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 13, 2012, at 2:52 AM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > My machine is on LAN 192.168.1.0/24, has an IP of 192.168.1.3. This > Network has GW 192.168.1.1 which is an adsl router in the office. No > firewall on the router. Other LAN machines have IPs in the > 192.168.1.0/24 network & I'm not allowed to

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Networking: Some Queries -- GURUS HELP PL

2012-06-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:52 AM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > >> It might be easier to suggest an approach if you describe what you >> need to do.  You can't magically make new public addresses that aren't >> available appear on an existing network, whether it is on real or >> virtual NICs.     But there

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Networking: Some Queries -- GURUS HELP PL

2012-06-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/12/12 11:52 PM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > And I want routing among three as well as Internet access through thet > NATTED adsl router which has a dynamic IP. for that sort of routing to work, all the other hosts on hte 2 LANs will need to know the route to that subnet is via the NIC interfaces

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Networking: Some Queries -- GURUS HELP PL

2012-06-12 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > It might be easier to suggest an approach if you describe what you > need to do.  You can't magically make new public addresses that aren't > available appear on an existing network, whether it is on real or > virtual NICs.     But there are

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Networking: Some Queries -- GURUS HELP PL

2012-06-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 06/11/2012 11:58 PM, Sanjay Arora wrote: >> Thanks. But through NAT inward access would not be possible...right? >> NAT only provides outward access. > > Yes, but you said that you couldn't make changes to the existing > network.  If tha

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Networking: Some Queries -- GURUS HELP PL

2012-06-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/11/2012 11:58 PM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > Thanks. But through NAT inward access would not be possible...right? > NAT only provides outward access. Yes, but you said that you couldn't make changes to the existing network. If that's true, then you can't add a route from the existing network t

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Networking: Some Queries -- GURUS HELP PL

2012-06-12 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/11/12 11:58 PM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > Thanks. But through NAT inward access would not be possible...right? > NAT only provides outward access. you can port forward specific protocols through NAT -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Networking: Some Queries -- GURUS HELP PL

2012-06-12 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > No.  Multi-homing in this fashion is complex.  You will require advanced > routing on all of the guests to accomplish it. > > Shorewall makes this easier, but you'll need to create multiple routing > tables using 'ip route', mark packets b

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Networking: Some Queries -- GURUS HELP PL

2012-06-11 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 06/11/2012 12:45 AM, Sanjay Arora wrote: >> But that segregated network does not have access to the Internetor >> am I wrong? > > You're wrong.  The automatically created network will have internet > access via NAT. > Thanks. But thr

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Networking: Some Queries -- GURUS HELP PL

2012-06-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/11/2012 03:22 AM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > Now I wonder why I did not think of so simple an idea! Simply put in a > multi-port NIC card, > > Another questions...I put in another network port & I end up with 3 > NICs & 3 bridges...One providing Internet access, One providing > routing to virtual

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Networking: Some Queries -- GURUS HELP PL

2012-06-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/11/2012 12:45 AM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > But that segregated network does not have access to the Internetor > am I wrong? You're wrong. The automatically created network will have internet access via NAT. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Networking: Some Queries -- GURUS HELP PL

2012-06-11 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Ross Cavanagh wrote: >> Now, traffic among these three networks will be routed automatically >> or do I have to put in some code to enable traffic between these three >> networks & internet access to the virtual host & ltsp network? >> >> It shouldn't be a problem,

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Networking: Some Queries -- GURUS HELP PL

2012-06-11 Thread Ross Cavanagh
> > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Ross Cavanagh wrote: > > >> I'm just jumping in and may not have read everything, but having the NAT > > option will still allow Internet access to the guest if the host is setup > > to allow this (which is the default on most virtual hosts as far as I'm > > aw

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Networking: Some Queries -- GURUS HELP PL

2012-06-11 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Ross Cavanagh wrote: >> I'm just jumping in and may not have read everything, but having the NAT > option will still allow Internet access to the guest if the host is setup > to allow this (which is the default on most virtual hosts as far as I'm > aware). But you

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Networking: Some Queries -- GURUS HELP PL

2012-06-11 Thread Ross Cavanagh
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Gordon Messmer > > If you want to use NAT and keep your guests in a segregated network, > > that is exactly how the default install behaves. You don't have to do > > any network-specific configuration. > > But

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Networking: Some Queries -- GURUS HELP PL

2012-06-11 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Gordon Messmer > If you want to use NAT and keep your guests in a segregated network, > that is exactly how the default install behaves.  You don't have to do > any network-specific configuration. But that segregated network does not have access to the Interneto

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 / Kickstart Using degraded mdadm RAID1

2012-06-10 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/10/12, Stephen Harris wrote: > Maybe try > raid / --fstype=ext4 --level=1 --device=md0 --useexisting > Or > raid / --fstype=ext4 --device=md0 --useexisting > Why don't you post the necessary fragments of your ks.cfg file and the > relevant log messages? At least that way anyone following

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 / Kickstart Using degraded mdadm RAID1

2012-06-10 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:09:28PM +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > #raid / --fstype=ext4 --level=1 --device=md0 raid.253001 raid.253065 Maybe try raid / --fstype=ext4 --level=1 --device=md0 --useexisting Or raid / --fstype=ext4 --device=md0 --useexisting > is I can't figure how to kickstar

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 / Kickstart Using degraded mdadm RAID1

2012-06-10 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/10/12, Stephen Harris wrote: > Can you do what you want via the GUI installer? Potentially by dropping > into a shell to do parts of it (eg build the raid array degreaded, > then use the GUI to install onto that). If so, manually do an install > and then look at /root/anaconda-ks.cfg to see

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