[CentOS] /etc/passwd aand /etc/shadow out of sync on 4.6 box

[Joe Klemmer]

Fellow list members,

I recently tried to add a user to a little used server that hadn't see
a change in users for quite a while.  When I use system-config-users I
get an error alert that says -

The user database cannot be read.  This problem 
is most likely caused by a mismatch in /etc/passwd
and /etc/shadow.  The program will exit now.

I awk'ed out the user ID's and ran diff.  That came back with the shadow
file having two more users than the passwd file.  Ok, fine, whatever.
But the trick now is how to fix this.  Can I just use vi and delete the
offending lines from the shadow file?  Is there a utility or script that
will sync them in a less potentially destructive way?

Any pointers to info on this are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
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[CentOS] Some repo fancy footwork?

[Robert Moskowitz]

I am looking at K12LTSP-EL5 which is Centos 5 based.  Supposedly their 
disc2 maps to Centos 1of6 and so forth.  I have a repo of the Centos 5.1 
isos:   /centos/5/os/i386


The question is can I put the K12LTSP disc 1 in a directory:  
/centos/k12ltsp-el5/i386 then with some logical link magic make this 
directory appear to have all 7 CDs worth of content?  Or put the k12 
disc 1 somewhere else and do 2 logicla mappings into one directory?



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Re: [CentOS] Live CD Planning systems

[Robert Moskowitz]

Jason Clark wrote:
Not to pitch another distro, but knoppix and dsl do pretty much what 
are looking for ,minus the xen.
I am using DSL 4.2 on a Libretto, so I will first be testing booting the 
nc2400 off a DSL live CD.
What I would propose though is to run vmware P2V (now called 
converter) on your XP machine. It will export a vmware image of that 
drive, then just format that sucker, install centos and vmware and run 
your corp image inside of that. It's what I do at work and it has 
always worked splendidly.
I CANNOT touch the drive.  I have to leave it and its encrypted XP 
alone.  In fact I think it will be rather hard to get the encyrption off 
the drive without blowing the MSB and partition tables.


And they force XP updates down to me that I have no choice to 'install 
later'.  Rather my only choice once they pop up on the box is when to 
reboot...


It would be nice, but question about how much work Live CD is.  Perhaps 
I should pull the current one down and boot it for kicks...




On 1/5/08, *Robert Moskowitz* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:


My company supplies me with a very nice HP nc2400.  Much faster, more
memory, etc than my old HP nc4010.

Problem is the drive is not swappable, and they encrypt the drive (the
OS is XP).

The nc2400 has a DVD/CDRW and 2 USB 2.0 ports so I was thinking.

Make a Live DVD with everything I need but map

/etc /root /home and /var/log (and what else?) to a USB flash drive
(16Gb are available and I was just sent a PR on a 32Gb, maybe I
can get
an eval device :) ).

So first I would want a bootable DVD that would have everything I want
to have running on the cd2400.  And of course, everytime one of the
components get updated, I will have to build a new DVD.

Then I would like to run within XEN my company's XP image on that
encrypted drive.  Is this possible.  If I could do this, I can
move the
nc2400 as my 'workhorse', downgrade my nc4010 to my test box, and
reallocate the Toshiba 3490 to the family  And more
importantly one
less box to carry when traveling!

I guess one thing in this whole equation will I be able to repartition
the USB flash drive with a swap partition (will probably never
use, as
there is 1.5Gb memory in the nc2400. Twice as much as the nc4010), and
an ext3 data partition?  Or should I use LVM on it?


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Re: [CentOS] Live CD Planning systems

[Jason Clark]

Not to pitch another distro, but knoppix and dsl do pretty much what are
looking for ,minus the xen.  What I would propose though is to run vmware
P2V (now called converter) on your XP machine. It will export a vmware image
of that drive, then just format that sucker, install centos and vmware and
run your corp image inside of that. It's what I do at work and it has always
worked splendidly.

On 1/5/08, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> My company supplies me with a very nice HP nc2400.  Much faster, more
> memory, etc than my old HP nc4010.
>
> Problem is the drive is not swappable, and they encrypt the drive (the
> OS is XP).
>
> The nc2400 has a DVD/CDRW and 2 USB 2.0 ports so I was thinking.
>
> Make a Live DVD with everything I need but map
>
> /etc /root /home and /var/log (and what else?) to a USB flash drive
> (16Gb are available and I was just sent a PR on a 32Gb, maybe I can get
> an eval device :) ).
>
> So first I would want a bootable DVD that would have everything I want
> to have running on the cd2400.  And of course, everytime one of the
> components get updated, I will have to build a new DVD.
>
> Then I would like to run within XEN my company's XP image on that
> encrypted drive.  Is this possible.  If I could do this, I can move the
> nc2400 as my 'workhorse', downgrade my nc4010 to my test box, and
> reallocate the Toshiba 3490 to the family  And more importantly one
> less box to carry when traveling!
>
> I guess one thing in this whole equation will I be able to repartition
> the USB flash drive with a swap partition (will probably never use, as
> there is 1.5Gb memory in the nc2400. Twice as much as the nc4010), and
> an ext3 data partition?  Or should I use LVM on it?
>
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[CentOS] Live CD Planning systems

[Robert Moskowitz]

My company supplies me with a very nice HP nc2400.  Much faster, more 
memory, etc than my old HP nc4010.


Problem is the drive is not swappable, and they encrypt the drive (the 
OS is XP).


The nc2400 has a DVD/CDRW and 2 USB 2.0 ports so I was thinking.

Make a Live DVD with everything I need but map

/etc /root /home and /var/log (and what else?) to a USB flash drive 
(16Gb are available and I was just sent a PR on a 32Gb, maybe I can get 
an eval device :) ).


So first I would want a bootable DVD that would have everything I want 
to have running on the cd2400.  And of course, everytime one of the 
components get updated, I will have to build a new DVD.


Then I would like to run within XEN my company's XP image on that 
encrypted drive.  Is this possible.  If I could do this, I can move the 
nc2400 as my 'workhorse', downgrade my nc4010 to my test box, and 
reallocate the Toshiba 3490 to the family  And more importantly one 
less box to carry when traveling!


I guess one thing in this whole equation will I be able to repartition 
the USB flash drive with a swap partition (will probably never use, as 
there is 1.5Gb memory in the nc2400. Twice as much as the nc4010), and 
an ext3 data partition?  Or should I use LVM on it?



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Re: [CentOS] Which RPM of Hylafax+ should I use?

[Siraaj Khandkar]

On 5 Jan 2008, at 17:14, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

I want to install Hylafax+, IAXmodem, and T38modem on my Trixbox  
2.4 which is built on Centos 5.1 ("vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5").


Over at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=148904

there are Hylafax+ rpms for:

Fedora 7,8

Fedora Core 2,5,6

Redhat 7,9

I **think** Fedora Core 6?


I think you think correctly ;-)

Since RHEL 5 is based on FC6.


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[CentOS] Which RPM of Hylafax+ should I use?

[Robert Moskowitz]

I want to install Hylafax+, IAXmodem, and T38modem on my Trixbox 2.4 
which is built on Centos 5.1 ("vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5").


Over at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=148904

there are Hylafax+ rpms for:

Fedora 7,8

Fedora Core 2,5,6

Redhat 7,9

I **think** Fedora Core 6?

IAXmodem is only available in source at 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=148814 (TB only 
has it an rpm for Centos 4.x). So if anyone knows of an rpm of iaxmodem 
1.0 for Centos 5


And T38modem is a real challenge to find



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Re: [CentOS] rhel source to updates?

[Michael A. Peters]

Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:



Michael A. Peters wrote:

I'm a little bit amazed that they are including an update for a 
configuration for fonts they don't seem to package, not sure why they 
are doing it - that doesn't seem to be their style, but anyway, does 
anyone know who mirrors the rhel src.rpm updates for free software 
packages?


look again, seems to me liberation-fonts is incuded in el5/centos5, I 
have liberation-fonts-0.2-2.el5 here.


cheers, 

Ah yes - there it is. I stand corrected.
yum list didn't show it for me because my version from Fedora 8 has a 
higher release number and they put it in 5.1 which was after I made mine.

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Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

[Robert Moskowitz]

Christopher Chan wrote:
Now I have to hop over to the Asterisk list to figure why with one 
firewall the INVITE properly redirects the RTP to the RTP server, and 
the with the other firewall this is not in the INVITE so the RTP flow 
does not. ARGH!




I hope you are not trying to get around a double nat situation. client 
-> nat <-> nat <- asterisk.


I never managed to get things to work in that scenario. I have a vpn 
setup to get things to work.

No.  That in part of my frustration.  I have 64 publicly routed addresses.

My open net is 8 addresses, for 6 systems.  DSL router and so far 2 
firewalls standard (occational honeypot).
I assigned 8 addresses for my VoIPnet.  All Trixboxes on VoIPnet have 2 
NICs.  Their second NIC is to an 192.168 addressed net with the various 
VoIP clients.


So I have a WRT54g running sveasoft with NAT turned off.  But even with 
NAT turned off, the box is basically brain-dead.  It would only allow 
the ONE server defined as the DMZ server to be accessed even when the 
firewall is disabled!  And I have 2 Trixboxes (part of my testing.  Have 
to learn DUNDI too).


So I now have a REAL firewall; well Centos wiht Shorewall.  And it 
seemed to be working, but the SIP/SDP INVITE when I have the sveasoft 
box has a redirect from the SIP server to the actual RTP server.  But 
with Shorewall, that information is NOT in the INVITE so the SIP server 
responds with an ICMP of no such port.  And so far I have not figured 
this out...



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Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

[Robert Moskowitz]

Toby Bluhm wrote:

Robert Moskowitz wrote:

qsm wrote:

maybe shorewall can do your live so easy.
It does not support the rtl8150 chipset.  That is what the I have in 
the way of USB ethernet dongles.


Which is another reason to go with a Centos based solution when you 
need to put something up as you go.


Which is how I have shorewall/shoreline working . . . .


OOPS...  I was thinking you were saying Smoothwall!

There I go again.

Yes, it IS Shorewall that I am using with the Webmin front end (though 
more and more now I am doing quick edits to add rules via VI).



[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5 (Final)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qi shorewall
Name: shorewallRelocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 4.0.2 Vendor: Invoca Systems
Release : 3 Build Date: Mon Aug 20 
09:03:41 2007

Install Date: Mon Aug 20 09:05:25 2007  Build Host: nutube
Group   : System Environment/Base   Source RPM: 
shorewall-4.0.2-3.src.rpm

Size: 483558   License: GPL
Signature   : (none)
Packager: Simon Matter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
URL : http://www.shorewall.net/
Summary : Shoreline Firewall is an iptables-based firewall for 
Linux systems

Description :
The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as "Shorewall", is a 
Netfilter
(iptables) based firewall that can be used on a dedicated firewall 
system,
a multi-function gateway/router/server or on a standalone GNU/Linux 
system.


Shorewall offers two alternative firewall compilers, shorewall-perl and
shorewall-shell. The shorewall-perl compiler is suggested for new 
installed
systems and shorewall-shell is provided for backwards compability and 
smooth
legacy system upgrades because shorewall perl is not fully compatible 
with

all legacy configurations.



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Re: [CentOS] Wondering about CentOS 5.1 functionality

[Mark Weaver]

Fabian Arrotin wrote:

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 23:37 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote:

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

Hi All,

I'm giving serious thought to loading 5.1 on my Inspiron 1501 laptop,
but I'm wondering about certain hardware support such as the following:

- - Broadcom Wireless Adapter - 1390 Wlan (bcm43xx)
- - USB (Pny Memory Stick - everytime on previous version CentOS has eaten
the damned things)
- - pptp vpn client(s)

Any comments?

It seems everybody already answered the first two points ...
Regarding the pptp vpn client, i've rebuilt the pptpconfig pptp client
(gtk interface) and all the deps and they are now also on
http://centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/i386/RPMS/ ...



very nice... thank you very much for that information and the time 
you've spent on all those packages. It's greatly appreciated.


Now I can get my vpn connections setup again and actually get some work 
done. It's good to have CentOS on this machine.


Mark
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Re: [CentOS] Wondering about CentOS 5.1 functionality

[Mark Weaver]

Karanbir Singh wrote:

Mark Weaver wrote:

- - Broadcom Wireless Adapter - 1390 Wlan (bcm43xx)

Last I checked not even Fedora runs this thing properly. Avoid.

Actually Fedora 7 ran it wonderfully. I used ndiswrapper and a script to
initialize the adapter during the boot process.


you missed the point Mark, I think Ignacio pointed out that the bcm43xx
driver didnt work too well.

my experience, on centos-5, is similar. bcm43xx works fine if I set the
rate to 11M, once the network connects, i can then turn it back upto 54M
and it tends to stay connected. I just found it easier to leave the
network at 11M permanently and things justwork.




I've not experienced that at all so far. it's working flawlessly.

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Re: [CentOS] Wondering about CentOS 5.1 functionality

[Mark Weaver]

Anup Shukla wrote:

Mark Weaver wrote:


Actually Fedora 7 ran it wonderfully. I used ndiswrapper and a script to
initialize the adapter during the boot process.

I'm running OpenSUSE 10.3 on this laptop right now and there is plenty
to like about it, however I'm a RedHat man at heart and there are things
that I'm used to on my RedHat systems that I don't want to give up. I'd
like to get back to a RedHat based distro for this machine if I can.



Not sure if its relevant.
I tried Ubuntu (7 something) with ndiswrapper and it worked beautifully.
Tried the firmware (using bcm43xx-fwcutter) and it worked too, however 
the card would take longer to connect to a network.


Dont know why that happened.. i simply reverted back to ndiswrapper.

As for Centos, i have never installed it on my laptop,
but only on our servers.



Just finished up with most of the setup a little while ago. Using both 
bcm43xx-fwcutter and ndiswrapper to enable and get the wireless lan 
adapter going.


The most likely reason you experienced weirdness with the firmware was 
something I've been noticing; when it attempts to load the firmware 
there's something in the kernel that doesn't like it and it fails to 
load the firmware.


So far I'm very impressed with CentOS 5.1 performance on this laptop.

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Re: [CentOS] MyhtTV or Freevo or something else?

[Mindaugas]

> > 
> > >  Which one of the Linux projects would you suggest and why? MythTV, 
> > > Freevo or something else? Is CentOS good for such task or I should 
> > > better use some more bleeding edge distribution like Fedora?
> > >
> > As a first project, check out mythdora.  It is a Fedora based 
> > MythTV 'distro'.  I installed it as a demo for a LUG (ie, in 
> > less than 2 hours).  Also check the hardware discussions on 
> > the mythtv wiki/website.
> > 
> > http://g-ding.tv/?q=MythDora
> 
> May also want to check out Linux MCE...it is *very* slick, very easy to
> install.
> 
> http://www.linuxmce.com/

  So basically suggestion is MythTV not Freevo!?

  And I checked hardware suggestions for both projects. And more or less they 
are clear. Also saw that 1080p stream decoding needs quite decent CPU.

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Re: [CentOS] rhel source to updates? [resolved]

[Michael A. Peters]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
does anyone know who mirrors the rhel src.rpm updates for free 
software packages? 

Found them -
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/

Interesting they are not in an updates directory. Oh well.


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Re: [CentOS] rhel source to updates?

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

Michael A. Peters wrote:

I'm a little bit amazed that they are including an update for a 
configuration for fonts they don't seem to package, not sure why they 
are doing it - that doesn't seem to be their style, but anyway, does 
anyone know who mirrors the rhel src.rpm updates for free software 
packages?


look again, seems to me liberation-fonts is incuded in el5/centos5, I 
have liberation-fonts-0.2-2.el5 here.


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Re: [CentOS] mounting & partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

[MHR]

On Jan 5, 2008 12:07 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Erm, from the kernel documentation -- "The driver currently supports
> read-only mode (with no fault-tolerance, encryption or journalling) and
> very limited, but safe, write support" and "The biggest limitation at
> present is that files/directories cannot be created or deleted."  Also,
> AIUI, permissions are nowhere near the *nix way.
>

Good point.

I was using the NTFS module, with write support, in CentOS 4.4, before I
converted all my drives to ext3, but I don't recall if I ever tried to
create a directory on the NTFS partitions.

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[CentOS] rhel source to updates?

[Michael A. Peters]

I noticed on the rhel errata page:

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2008-0001.html

that they have made a configuration change to fontconfig for the 
liberation fonts.
I have the liberation fonts installed via rebuild of fedora 8 src.rpm - 
including a fontconfig file.
I'm guessing the update will come through CentOS at some point and I'm 
trying to make sure there isn't a file conflict with my rpm and the 
update that would prevent installation - but I can't seem to find the 
sources for rhel updates.


I'm kicking myself because I found them before, didn't bookmark them, 
but I can't seem to find them now.


http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/enterprise/

doesn't seem to have anything for rhel5

The files in my f8 liberation rebuilt that I'm worried about conflicting 
with the update are:


/etc/X11/fontpath.d/liberation-fonts
/etc/fonts/conf.d/59-liberation-fonts.conf

I'm a little bit amazed that they are including an update for a 
configuration for fonts they don't seem to package, not sure why they 
are doing it - that doesn't seem to be their style, but anyway, does 
anyone know who mirrors the rhel src.rpm updates for free software packages?

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Re: [CentOS] mounting & partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 at 11:20am, MHR wrote


On Jan 3, 2008 9:34 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


The drive is formatted NTFS, which is pretty much useless under Linux.


Forgive me, but this is simply not true.  There is a fully functional NTFS
module available for read-write support in CentOS 5 (if you build your own
kernel), and I haven't actually looked at the CentOSplus kernel yet.


Erm, from the kernel documentation -- "The driver currently supports 
read-only mode (with no fault-tolerance, encryption or journalling) and 
very limited, but safe, write support" and "The biggest limitation at 
present is that files/directories cannot be created or deleted."  Also, 
AIUI, permissions are nowhere near the *nix way.


It may not be completely useless overall, but it is certainly useless ot 
the OP.


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[CentOS] Re: OT: How many watts do I need?

[Scott Silva]

on 1/2/2008 8:06 PM Fajar Priyanto spake the following:

On Thursday 03 January 2008 10:05:04 Ugo Bellavance wrote:

Fajar Priyanto wrote:

Hello all,
Sorry for the OT thing.
I'm helping a friend setting up a new box. It's a Pentium 4 with 430Watt
power supply. He wants to plugin his old harddrives and DVD into the new
box. The total will be: 3 harddrives, 1 DVD drive, 1 CDRW drive. In the
box there are also 2 big fans.

Is 430Watt enough?

What brand?


The brand is Symbadda (made in Taiwan). A popular brand here in Indonesia, but 
I don't know the quality.


The reason why I ask is that I lost 2 harddrives from I suspect that the lack 
of power from power supply. Surely I don't want the same misfortune happens 
to my friend's box.


Well, anyway. Thanks for all sharing. I will inform him about this.
Most likely a short in the power supply damaged the drives. Higher voltage 
over the 5v supply will kill them fast. Under voltage could have done it if 
over a long enough period of time, as the motors will run hotter, if they run 
at all.


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Re: [CentOS] mounting & partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

[MHR]

On Jan 3, 2008 9:34 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The drive is formatted NTFS, which is pretty much useless under Linux.

Forgive me, but this is simply not true.  There is a fully functional NTFS
module available for read-write support in CentOS 5 (if you build your own
kernel), and I haven't actually looked at the CentOSplus kernel yet.

NTFS is obviously not the file system of choice for a Linux machine, but it
is far from useless.

Regards.

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Re: [CentOS] nForce 630i Chipset, unable to get integrated nic working

[David Levinger]

Hey Kai,

I did read the README.txt file and at the end it does indeed talk about
compiling the file, and if I knew enough about how all of this works it
might have made more sense... What it says is, "For forcedeth.ko, just copy
the forcedeth.c and Makefile to the same directory then make it." However
there was no Makefile included... so that pretty much ended up stopping me
in my tracks there.

And I agree that it didn't /seem/ to support my Chipset, but the Realtek
Driver which should support it doesn't seem to work either, and on Fedora 8
it is using a newer version of the forcedeth driver so I figured I'd give it
a go. I have a feeling I'm going to end up returning this board for a Intel
based Chipset and see if I have better luck with that.

Thanks for all your assistance, I truly appreciate it.

David

On Jan 3, 2008 4:21 AM, Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> David Levinger wrote on Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:47:47 -0800:
>
> > Please feel free to let me know more if there are more specific
> differences
> that might aid my understandings :-)
>
> That's quite correct, just wanted to make sure you understood the
> differences
> ;-)
>
>
> > Also, Laurentiu Coica, when I try and run make against the Makefile
> example
> that you sent over it says there is "nothing to do for default"
>
> Did you read the README.TXT? I just downloaded the zip and had a look at
> the
> content. The README.TXT tells me 1. that the driver doesn't seem to
> support your
> chipset and 2. explains how to compile (at the end of the file). Because
> of no.
> 1 I guess your best bet is going to that forum and get help from there.
>
> Kai
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Re: [CentOS] mounting & partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 at 10:28am, Tim McGeary wrote

Actually, your first email made me double check this to see if I was missing 
something and I was (or maybe it really wasn't there initially).  So what I 
see now is:


Disk /dev/sda: 750.1 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device BootStart   EndBlocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1 1 91201 7325720017  HPFS/NTFS

This is definitely the drive.  So when I try to use Webmin to mount and 
partition device /dev/sda (and also tried /dev/sda2) as a New Linux Native 
Filesystem (ext3), I get the error of:


Failed to save mount : Mount failed :
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
  or too many mounted file systems

So I'm guessing I'm using the wrong file system type.  What should I use 
instead of ext3?


The drive is formatted NTFS, which is pretty much useless under Linux. 
Assuming you intend to only use this drive in Linux, you simply need to 
reformat the drive.


mke2fs -j /dev/sda1
mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/point

Obviously, substitute your desired mount point for "/mnt/point".

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Re: [CentOS] Wondering about CentOS 5.1 functionality

[Akemi Yagi]

On Jan 5, 2008 9:12 AM, Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> >>> - - Broadcom Wireless Adapter - 1390 Wlan (bcm43xx)
> >> Last I checked not even Fedora runs this thing properly. Avoid.
> >
> > Actually Fedora 7 ran it wonderfully. I used ndiswrapper and a script to
> > initialize the adapter during the boot process.
>
> you missed the point Mark, I think Ignacio pointed out that the bcm43xx
> driver didnt work too well.

If someone decided to go for the ndiswrapper route instead of the
bcm43xx driver, this forum post may help:

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11985&forum=40

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Re: [CentOS] Wondering about CentOS 5.1 functionality

[Karanbir Singh]

Mark Weaver wrote:
>>> - - Broadcom Wireless Adapter - 1390 Wlan (bcm43xx)
>> Last I checked not even Fedora runs this thing properly. Avoid.
> 
> Actually Fedora 7 ran it wonderfully. I used ndiswrapper and a script to
> initialize the adapter during the boot process.

you missed the point Mark, I think Ignacio pointed out that the bcm43xx
driver didnt work too well.

my experience, on centos-5, is similar. bcm43xx works fine if I set the
rate to 11M, once the network connects, i can then turn it back upto 54M
and it tends to stay connected. I just found it easier to leave the
network at 11M permanently and things justwork.


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[CentOS] xen guest won't boot after yum update

[Peter Peltonen]

After a yum update my two guests that had been shutdown do not start
any more. I have two other guests running that seem to work okay but I
am now afraid that they won't come up again if I restart them.

I am running CentOS5 with kernel 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen. Previously I had
following xen versions installed:

Oct 14 23:45:10 Updated: xen-libs.i386 3.0.3-25.0.4.el5
Oct 14 23:46:05 Updated: xen.i386 3.0.3-25.0.4.el5

After a yum update I now have:

Jan 03 22:22:59 Installed: kernel-xen.i686 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5
Jan 03 22:23:55 Updated: xen.i386 3.0.3-41.el5

I have now two guests that won't boot. This is what I get after
issuing `xm create web04`:

Using config file "/etc/xen/web04".
Error: destroyDevice() takes exactly 3 arguments (2 given)

My config file looks likes this:

name = "web04"
memory = "512"
disk = [ 'phy:/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol03-web04,xvda,w', ]
vif = [ 'mac=e9:00:36:fe:dc:e0, bridge=xenbr0', ]
vfb = ["type=vnc,vncunused=1"]
#uuid = "cc64dbee-64f6-4f6b-9d3f-fc3e185206bc"
bootloader="/usr/bin/pygrub"
cpus = "^0,1" # run only on cpu 1
vcpus=1
on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash= 'restart'

This is what comes to /var/log/xen/xend.log:

[2008-01-05 17:59:56 xend.XendDomainInfo 2632] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:190) XendDo
mainInfo.create(['vm', ['name', 'web04'], ['memory', '512'], ['on_reboot', 'rest
art'], ['on_crash', 'restart'], ['vcpus', 1], ['cpus', '^0,1'], ['bootloader', '
/usr/bin/pygrub'], ['image', ['linux', ['ramdisk', '/var/lib/xen/boot_ramdisk.2C
2kAy'], ['kernel', '/var/lib/xen/boot_kernel.Tg4J_f'], ['args', 'ro root=/dev/Vo
lGroup00/LogVol00']]], ['device', ['vbd', ['uname', 'phy:/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol0
3-web04'], ['dev', 'xvda'], ['mode', 'w']]], ['device', ['vif', ['bridge', 'xenb
r0'], ['mac', 'e9:00:36:fe:dc:e0']]], ['device', ['vkbd']], ['device', ['vfb', [
'vncunused', '1'], ['type', 'vnc'], ['xauthority', '/root/.Xauthority')
[2008-01-05 17:59:56 xend.XendDomainInfo 2632] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:296) parseC
onfig: config is ['vm', ['name', 'web04'], ['memory', '512'], ['on_reboot', 'res
tart'], ['on_crash', 'restart'], ['vcpus', 1], ['cpus', '^0,1'], ['bootloader',
'/usr/bin/pygrub'], ['image', ['linux', ['ramdisk', '/var/lib/xen/boot_ramdisk.2
C2kAy'], ['kernel', '/var/lib/xen/boot_kernel.Tg4J_f'], ['args', 'ro root=/dev/V
olGroup00/LogVol00']]], ['device', ['vbd', ['uname', 'phy:/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol
03-web04'], ['dev', 'xvda'], ['mode', 'w']]], ['device', ['vif', ['bridge', 'xen
br0'], ['mac', 'e9:00:36:fe:dc:e0']]], ['device', ['vkbd']], ['device', ['vfb',
['vncunused', '1'], ['type', 'vnc'], ['xauthority', '/root/.Xauthority'
[2008-01-05 17:59:56 xend.XendDomainInfo 2632] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:397) parseC
onfig: result is {'shadow_memory': None, 'start_time': None, 'uuid': None, 'on_c
rash': 'restart', 'on_reboot': 'restart', 'localtime': None, 'image': ['linux',
['ramdisk', '/var/lib/xen/boot_ramdisk.2C2kAy'], ['kernel', '/var/lib/xen/boot_k
ernel.Tg4J_f'], ['args', 'ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00']], 'on_poweroff': No
ne, 'bootloader_args': None, 'cpus': [1], 'name': 'web04', 'backend': [], 'vcpus
': 1, 'cpu_weight': None, 'features': None, 'vcpu_avail': None, 'memory': 512, '
device': [('vbd', ['vbd', ['uname', 'phy:/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol03-web04'], ['dev
', 'xvda'], ['mode', 'w']]), ('vif', ['vif', ['bridge', 'xenbr0'], ['mac', 'e9:0
0:36:fe:dc:e0']]), ('vkbd', ['vkbd']), ('vfb', ['vfb', ['vncunused', '1'], ['typ
e', 'vnc'], ['xauthority', '/root/.Xauthority']])], 'bootloader': '/usr/bin/pygr
ub', 'cpu': None, 'maxmem': None}
[2008-01-05 17:59:56 xend.XendDomainInfo 2632] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1264) XendD
omainInfo.construct: None
[2008-01-05 17:59:56 xend.XendDomainInfo 2632] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1296) XendD
omainInfo.initDomain: 8 1.0
[2008-01-05 17:59:56 xend 2632] DEBUG (balloon:127) Balloon: 4412080 KiB free; n
eed 524288; done.
[2008-01-05 17:59:56 xend 2632] INFO (image:136) buildDomain os=linux dom=8 vcpu
s=1
[2008-01-05 17:59:56 xend 2632] DEBUG (image:199) dom= 8
[2008-01-05 17:59:56 xend 2632] DEBUG (image:200) image  = /var/lib/xen/
boot_kernel.Tg4J_f
[2008-01-05 17:59:56 xend 2632] DEBUG (image:201) store_evtchn   = 1
[2008-01-05 17:59:56 xend 2632] DEBUG (image:202) console_evtchn = 2
[2008-01-05 17:59:56 xend 2632] DEBUG (image:203) cmdline=  ro root=/dev
/VolGroup00/LogVol00
[2008-01-05 17:59:56 xend 2632] DEBUG (image:204) ramdisk= /var/lib/xen/
boot_ramdisk.2C2kAy
[2008-01-05 17:59:56 xend 2632] DEBUG (image:205) vcpus  = 1
[2008-01-05 17:59:56 xend 2632] DEBUG (image:206) features   =
[2008-01-05 17:59:56 xend 2632] DEBUG (blkif:24) exception looking up device num
ber for xvda: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/dev/xvda'
[2008-01-05 17:59:56 xend 2632] DEBUG (DevController:110) DevController: writing
 {'backend-id': '0', 'virtual-device': '51712', 'device-type': 'disk', 'state':
'1', 'backend': '/local/domain/0/backend/vbd/8/51712'} to /local/domain/8/device
/vbd/51712.
[2008-01-05 17:59:56 xen

RE: [CentOS] System drops off network after a few minutes

[Joseph L. Casale]

The system turned out to have a flaky motherboard. It's not worth fixing so I 
think I am just going to punt it:)
Thanks for all the info, it was insightful and will help me in the future!

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Re: [CentOS] yum error "AttributeError: LOCATION_BASE" after 4.5 -> 4.6 upgrade

[Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez]

Joe Klemmer escribió:

On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Johnny Hughes wrote:


Where ever you got it from, that is what broke your system.


It came from the atrpms repo.  I downgraded and all is fine. Thank 
you and to Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez for pointing me in the right 
direction.


You are welcome Joe, happy to give you a helply hand. This is the main 
aim of the list.


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Re: [CentOS] xfce in CentOS 5.1 "extras" repository

[Johnny Hughes]

Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> Hi, I am using CentOS 5.1 x86 (upgraded from 5.0), and am still using
> XFCE 4.4.1 from 5.0 "extras" repository. Just saw in XFCE site that they
> released 4.4.2. Any chance to see it in 5.1 "extras" repository?
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Re: [CentOS] centos 5.1 fresh install of ipvsadm: service won't start: config missing

[William Ottley]

Thanks for the help Garrick,
so, my steps would be:
#1 save the config
#2 service piranaha_gui start
#3 service pulse start

thanks

Will

> Looking at /etc/init.d/ipvsadm, it appears that after manually creating IPVS
> rules using /usr/sbin/ipvsadm, you run 'service ipvsadm save' which creates
> /etc/sysconfig/ipvsadm.  Once the rules are saved, the initscript will reapply
> the rules at boot.
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Re: [CentOS] Is it possible to install Fedora 8 kernel with CentOS 5.1 installation?

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi


On Jan 5, 2008 11:51 PM, Mogens Kjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tried rebuilding the F8 kernel SRPM on a centos 5.1 box, but
> the generated RPM wouldn't install.

I've compiled the latest FC8 kernel for CentOS, I got it to install.

Wil try it now
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Re: [CentOS] Pidgin and (lack of) sound on CentOS 4.6

[Johnny Hughes]

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> When I start pidgin from the Applications -> Internet -> Internet
> Messenger menu, my sound device stops working.
> 
> I think this has something to do with the Gnome applet.  I appear to
> end up with two (sometimes more) copies of the "gaim" process running
> -- such that if I use the right-button menu on the Gnome applet to
> quit pidgin, a login dialog is stil left behind and sometimes won't
> exit.  I'm guessing these multiple gaim processes somehow deadlock the
> sound device, such that even after I kill them, no other process can
> play audio.  Pidgin/gaim itself can't play sounds in this condition,
> either.
> 
> I've tried using "lsof" to find all processes that have the sound
> device open and force them to exit or restart, but that doesn't help.
> Once the sound goes out, only a reboot brings it back.  The flash and
> mplayer plugins for firefox/seamonkey are still able to play (silent)
> video in this condition, but starting up e.g. gmplayer blocks forever
> trying to open the sound device.
> 
> Googling turned up this:
> http://blog.turbulentsky.com/2007/12/pidgin-has-no-sound-in-ubuntu-gutsy.html
> but I have no reason to be confident that would apply to CentOS.
> Searching on gaim instead of pidgin finds stuff that's four years old
> and almost certainly not relevant.
> 
> Unfortunately I don't have much experience with audio apps on linux
> (or anywhere else, for that matter).  I've never had any luck creating
> a .asoundrc or trying to get all my applications to agree on whether
> to use ALSA instead of OSS (although I take it OSS is pretty much
> obsolete now, I don't even know if the kernel in RHEL4 is recent
> enough to use ALSA by default).  So if anyone has any clues to share
> on how to go about diagnosing this, I'd appreciate the help.
> 
> Here are the sound-related modules from "lsmod":
> 
> snd_intel8x0   36237  2
> snd_ac97_codec 65425  1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_pcm_oss52729  0
> snd_mixer_oss  21953  2 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm92485  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer  28229  1 snd_pcm
> snd_page_alloc 14541  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
> gameport8641  1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_mpu401_uart11457  1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_rawmidi28005  1 snd_mpu401_uart
> snd_seq_device 12105  1 snd_rawmidi
> snd57765  11
> snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
> soundcore  13089  2 snd
> 
> Tell me what shovel to use, and I'll dig up any other system
> information that may be needed.  Thanks in advance.

While I do not have this problem, and I do not normally recommend this,
there are EL5 RPMS for pidgin at their site:

http://www.pidgin.im/download/centos_rhel/

You can try their files to see if it helps.

Thanks,
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Re: [CentOS] Re: Weird crash with CentOS 5.1

[Johnny Hughes]

Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Jan 5, 2008 2:46 AM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> AFAIR that is fakeraid anyway. Maybe one of the drives is having a problem.
>> Could be that the dmraid driver isn't as robust as software raid with drive
>> problems. You could eliminate the hardware (except the drives) by swapping
>> drives from one of the known working machines into this one and see what
>> happens. IF it borks, bad hardware, if not, bad drives or bad install.
> 
> It may be fakeraid,, but it's the only RAID solution that will work in
> both Windows and Linux and allow to transfer files between both
> system.
> If I were to use linux software raid, I wouldn't be able to access the
> linux partition under windows.
> 
> I doubt it's a hardware issue for the following reasons:
> 1-Windows works fine with intensive disk activity
> 2-Fedora 8 works fine too.
> 3-It's only Centos kernel that crashes when using those drives.

I am sure it is a raid driver issue.

Have you considered running one of the OSes (linux or windows) in a VM.

That way, you can share files and have both available at the same time,
unlike dual boot, where you need to reboot to get the other OS.

In that scenario you do not need to use fraid as one OS can be a virtual
file system inside the other.

CentOS does not do the "latest and greatest" drivers very well ...
though they may bring bugfixes back from newer kernels, I would not
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Re: [CentOS] Is it possible to install Fedora 8 kernel with CentOS 5.1 installation?

[Mogens Kjaer]

Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:

Hi

I've experienced crashes with all CentOS 5 kernel.
I tried Fedora 8 and it runs fine..

So is there an easy way to install and run the Fedora 8 kernel on my
CentOS 5.1 machine ?


I tried rebuilding the F8 kernel SRPM on a centos 5.1 box, but
the generated RPM wouldn't install.

I managed to build a vanilla 2.6.23.12 using the .config from
the F8 kernel as a template. It seems to work.

I needed a newer saa7134 driver.

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Re: [CentOS] iptables

[Indunil Jayasooriya]

> btw, you seem to repeatedly ask very novice questions on this list,
> mostly having done absolutely no research or efforts on your part.
> I would recommend you change that.

Yes, I aggree with you. In most cases, I will have to get involved with our
customeres. Due to that, I have lcak of time to research.
I aggree to change it.

>Also, you seem to almost never ever get involved with or make any efforts
to help people in any conversations -
> thats not a very nice way to behave on mailing lists.
I would also like to volunteer. I know how much time you spend for other's
benifit. I really appreciate you guys effort.
Anyway, I' ll try to help people in conversations.

> Having been on the list for over a year,
Yes, more than a year.

I am sure you are competent enough to contribute
> in  more constructive manner.
Yes, I will.


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Re: [CentOS] Wondering about CentOS 5.1 functionality

[Fabian Arrotin]

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 23:37 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm giving serious thought to loading 5.1 on my Inspiron 1501 laptop,
> but I'm wondering about certain hardware support such as the following:
> 
> - - Broadcom Wireless Adapter - 1390 Wlan (bcm43xx)
> - - USB (Pny Memory Stick - everytime on previous version CentOS has eaten
> the damned things)
> - - pptp vpn client(s)
> 
> Any comments?
It seems everybody already answered the first two points ...
Regarding the pptp vpn client, i've rebuilt the pptpconfig pptp client
(gtk interface) and all the deps and they are now also on
http://centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/i386/RPMS/ ...

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