Re: Ris: issues with migrating to SL 7.6

2019-01-30 Thread Gilles Detillieux
t happened, but something changed and this current version lookes identical to SL 7.5. Many thanks, Stefano Messaggio originale Oggetto: Re: issues with migrating to SL 7.6 Da: Gilles Detillieux A: "S. Vergani" ,John Pilkington CC: scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov Hi,

Re: issues with migrating to SL 7.6

2019-01-29 Thread Gilles Detillieux
Hi, Stefano. Don't pay too much attention to the SL version number in the grub2 boot menu. These labels are set when the kernel is installed or updated, and don't necessarily reflect the SL version you're currently running. If you updated the kernel to the latest version (3.10.0-957.1.3.el7) b

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Problems with radeon since Xorg 1.20 updates

2018-12-04 Thread Gilles Detillieux
sable glamor on that system too. On 12/4/18 11:33 AM, Andreas Nowack wrote: Hi Gilles! Am 03.12.18 um 21:20 schrieb Gilles Detillieux: Section "Device"     Identifier "Radeon"     Driver "radeon"     # Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"     Optio

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Problems with radeon since Xorg 1.20 updates

2018-12-03 Thread Gilles Detillieux
018-12-03 14:20, Gilles Detillieux wrote: Thanks, Pat. Yes, I've done more digging since speculating on the cause of this, and that confirms that it's something deeper than that. It seems the problem is the ati driver hasn't kept up with changes to the Xorg 1.20 server. There is

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Problems with radeon since Xorg 1.20 updates

2018-12-03 Thread Gilles Detillieux
is really only related to udev probing. There was a large jump in the ati driver from 7.5 to 7.6.  My initial thoughts are in that direction... Pat [1] https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__gitlab.freedesktop.org_xorg_xserver_commit_0816e8fca6194dfb4cc94c3a7fcb2c7f2a921386&d=DwIDbA&c

Re: Problems with radeon since Xorg 1.20 updates

2018-12-03 Thread Gilles Detillieux
Thanks for the feedback, Andreas. That saves me some testing time. It looks like the security bug (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__access.redhat.com_security_cve_cve-2D2018-2D14665&d=DwIDbA&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8

Re: Problems with radeon since Xorg 1.20 updates

2018-12-03 Thread Gilles Detillieux
I've gotten the same errors on one of my SL 7 systems since the updates on Monday & Tuesday last week. I thought it was a hardware failure of the on-board GPU (an ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3 motherboard with on-board Radeon 3000), so I put in a PCIe graphics card (Radeon X1300/X1550) and didn't have fur

Re: Your removal from the SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS list

2018-11-16 Thread Gilles Detillieux
I got one of those e-mails yesterday too. I hadn't looked that closely at the headers, but you're right, it does seem that the Fermilab Listserv has been moved to Microsoft servers (outlook.com & office365.com in the Received headers). Other people who've reported this removal on this list all

Re: parted and mount ** EXTERNAL **

2018-09-26 Thread Gilles Detillieux
zN as revealed through a ls of /dev/ . Question:  what does one do if, after inserting a USB storage device, one gets /dev/xyz, say, but there is no /dev/xyzN despite parted reporting that the device does indeed have "MS" partitions as well as a filesystem? On 09/26/2018 07:47 AM, Gill

Re: parted and mount ** EXTERNAL **

2018-09-26 Thread Gilles Detillieux
On 09/26/2018 08:34 AM, Howard, Chris wrote: Why do parted and mount have this difference? /dev/sdg1 ? What he said. /dev/sdg is the whole device /dev/sdg1 is the first partition on that device. Partitions have file systems. Partitions with file systems can be mounted. parted works on the wh

Re: system-config-printer on SL6

2018-06-13 Thread Gilles Detillieux
According to me: > According to Eve V. E. Kovacs: > > When I try to use the gui interface provided in > > /usr/bin/system-config-printer > > > > on an SL6 system I get the error: > > > > File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 28, > > in > > import gtk.glade

Re: system-config-printer on SL6

2018-06-13 Thread Gilles Detillieux
According to Eve V. E. Kovacs: > When I try to use the gui interface provided in > /usr/bin/system-config-printer > > on an SL6 system I get the error: > > File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 28, > in > import gtk.glade > ImportError: No module named gtk.

Re: Problem with selinux since Kernel Update

2018-05-23 Thread Gilles Detillieux
On 2018-05-23 17:26, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 05/15/2018 05:45 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 05/15/2018 05:41 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 05/15/2018 12:23 PM, Maarten wrote: I have the same problem on all of my systems, running the same package versions and kernel, also under 7.5: libsepol

Re: Why is 7.x still stuck at 7.4?

2018-05-13 Thread Gilles Detillieux
On 2018-05-12 04:29, jdow wrote: On 20180511 21:26, jdow wrote: I have yum-conf-sl7x.noarch installed. 7.5 seems to be out. But yum update still leaves the system declaring it is 7.4. {o.o}   Joanne At least that's what I get on one system. The other is still declaring 7.3: [... /etc]$ cat

Re: Problem with yum daily cron

2018-05-02 Thread Gilles Detillieux
It appears that there was a problem in how the updateinfo.xml file was built for the sl-security repository yesterday, which conflicted with a similar entry for the SLEA-2017:1977 ID in the sl repository. Whatever it was seems to have been repaired now, because I'm not seeing this same error to

Re: 404 for all default repositories

2018-05-01 Thread Gilles Detillieux
On 05/01/2018 11:26 AM, Marius Rometsch wrote: Hello dear SL Users, I was directed here from the scientificlinuxforum.org because I seem to have encountered unusual behavior of yum and SL. I switched from OpenSUSE to SL7 yesterday and while setting it up, yum could not install or update any pac

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Security ERRATA Important: kernel on SL7.x x86_64

2018-03-09 Thread Gilles Detillieux
On 03/09/2018 03:00 PM, Stephan Wiesand wrote: On 09.Mar 2018, at 21:51, Gilles Detillieux wrote: I wasn't sure if you could safely mix code compiled with and without the retpoline extensions into the same kernel, which is why I thought the Makefile threw an error. Looks like upstream

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Security ERRATA Important: kernel on SL7.x x86_64

2018-03-09 Thread Gilles Detillieux
Pat On 03/08/2018 11:46 AM, Gilles Detillieux wrote: I realize this problem was likely introduced by upsteam updates, but I thought I'd point it out here anyway so you're aware of it. An unintended consequence of this latest kernel update is that it breaks recompilation of third-party

Re: Security ERRATA Important: kernel on SL7.x x86_64

2018-03-08 Thread Gilles Detillieux
I realize this problem was likely introduced by upsteam updates, but I thought I'd point it out here anyway so you're aware of it. An unintended consequence of this latest kernel update is that it breaks recompilation of third-party kernel modules. The new kernel was built with CONFIG_RETPOLINE