[CentOS] CentOS 5 netinstall problem

[Phil Dobbin]

Hi, all.

I'm attempting to install CentOS 5 via netinstall from
 & it gets as far as formatting the
disk but when it gets to:

'Starting install process.
This may take take several minutes...'

it hangs forever (well, a couple of hours).

Dropping down in a console I see it's telling me:

'Preparing to install'

then nothing. 'top' shows activity for Anaconda but very little.

This is on an old Poweredge 650 with 3GB's of RAM on a secondary drive.
The primary drive has CentOS 6.4 running on it quite happily so the
hardware's up to it.

I chose to install the 'Server GUI' packages because I was curious.
Maybe herein lies my problem?

Any help appreciated.

Cheers,

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[CentOS] (no subject)

[Andreas Hanke]

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[CentOS] Problem with D-BUS Centos 6.4

[AJH]

Hello,

I hope anyone at the list could help me...

I like to open a notify by using "/usr/bin/notify-send"
in  my .procmailrc.
Should show a notify if a new mail arrive.

My script which creates that notify-send is
working and if I test it everything works fine.

So I inserted it into my .procmailrc, i looks like that:
| perl /opt/sbin/mailnotify.pl
I like to grep my mail into my script which creates the notify-send...

If procmail triggers that script this messages comes up into
the logfile of procmail:

---
process 6975: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to
read machine uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": Permission
denied
See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue.
  D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
---

OK..I searched in the internet about that problem and found out that:
http://www.torkwrench.com/2011/12/16/d-bus-library-appears-to-be-incorrectly-set-up-failed-to-read-machine-uuid-failed-to-open-varlibdbusmachine-id/

But if i do that and insert:
"dbus-uuidgen > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id"
this is not the solution of my problem...the same happens again.

so my question:
could anyone tell my what I do wrong?

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 netinstall problem

[Phil Dobbin]

On 05/06/2013 10:30 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> Hi, all.
> 
> I'm attempting to install CentOS 5 via netinstall from
>  & it gets as far as formatting the
> disk but when it gets to:
> 
> 'Starting install process.
> This may take take several minutes...'
> 
> it hangs forever (well, a couple of hours).
> 
> Dropping down in a console I see it's telling me:
> 
> 'Preparing to install'
> 
> then nothing. 'top' shows activity for Anaconda but very little.
> 
> This is on an old Poweredge 650 with 3GB's of RAM on a secondary drive.
> The primary drive has CentOS 6.4 running on it quite happily so the
> hardware's up to it.
> 
> I chose to install the 'Server GUI' packages because I was curious.
> Maybe herein lies my problem?
> 

Apologies for replying to my own mail but eventually, in fact, very
eventually, it threw up an error about a corrupted Xorg file & I had to
cease the install.

In which case, I'll stick to a minimal install & take it from there. It
does seems to me however that the corrupted file must be actually on the
CentOS mirror (highly unlikely it's on a 14MB netinstall disc) so if
that's the case, it may need reporting to whomever.

If Johnny is reading this, if you furnish me with the necessary details
of how to go about it, I'll Bugzilla it.

Cheers,

  Phil...

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Re: [CentOS] unprivileged users rebooting at console

[David G . Miller]

Cliff Pratt  writes:

> 
> How are you rebooting? What groups are you in? From the command line? When
> I try this on Ubuntu (don't have a RHEL/CentOS here) I get "Have to be
> root" if I issue the /sbin/reboot command as an ordinary user.
> 
> Cheers,
> 

Odd combination of systems to check right now but:

1) Fedora 18 (Xfce respin) VM console: Applications -> Logout -> Shutdown

2) Fedora 18 (Xfce respin) VNC session to native install: Above combination
is greyed out.  I can only logout.  But if I go to the physical system and
log in, I get the ability to shut it down.

3) Scientific Linux 6.4 console (roughly equivalent to CentOS 6.4):
Applications -> Logout -> Shutdown

4) All of the above: CTRL-ALT-DEL key press although I have to send the key
combination to the VM through the KVM GUI.

5) Power button or reset button.

6) Power cord.

The last two options are why someone with physical access also has the
ability to shutdown a system.  Also, I run Linux on my laptop and would find
it very annoying not to be able to shutdown the system when I need to.

Cheers,
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Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

[John Doe]

From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" 

> Now, on an HP support list, someone left a message over the weekend that I
> should do a BIOS update... except all I can find is a DOS .exe to do it,
> *and* there's a comment about needing to install previous BIOS updates
> You don't happen to know if I do need to install the previous update?
>       mark, looking into a freedos USB key solution

You can boot from the Firmware Maintenance CD.
It will auto-detect all the hardware firmwares and update them if needed...
You just have to find the most recent CD that still supports your model 
(see in the release notes), since they gradually remove old hw to make 
some room for new ones...

JD
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Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

[m . roth]

John Doe wrote:
> From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" 
>
>> Now, on an HP support list, someone left a message over the weekend that
>> I should do a BIOS update... except all I can find is a DOS .exe to do it,
>> *and* there's a comment about needing to install previous BIOS
>> updates
>> You don't happen to know if I do need to install the previous update?
>>       mark, looking into a freedos USB key solution
>
> You can boot from the Firmware Maintenance CD.
> It will auto-detect all the hardware firmwares and update them if
> needed...
> You just have to find the most recent CD that still supports your model
> (see in the release notes), since they gradually remove old hw to make
> some room for new ones...

No such luck: we don't have such a maintenance CD; if anyone does, it's
the other Institute, and as we're doing admin work, I'd guess they don't
have a real admin, so who knows where it is.

But wait, it's worse than that, Jim I did, in fact, boot freedos from
the USB key this morning... and when I tried to run it, it announced that
it *can't* be run in DOS mode.

No, there's no way anyone's going to spring for a Windows license, install
it, do the update, and redo the system as CentOS.

Joking aside, do you, or does anyone, have an opinion on the advisability
of trying to flash the BIOS under wine?

 mark

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Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

[John Doe]

From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" 

>>  You can boot from the Firmware Maintenance CD.
>>  It will auto-detect all the hardware firmwares and update them if
>>  needed...
>>  You just have to find the most recent CD that still supports your model
>>  (see in the release notes), since they gradually remove old hw to make
>>  some room for new ones...
> 
> No such luck: we don't have such a maintenance CD; if anyone does, it's
> the other Institute, and as we're doing admin work, I'd guess they 
> don't have a real admin, so who knows where it is.

The ISOSs are downloadable...
Google "firmware maintenance cd" and check the "version history" to get the 
latest one.
Then, try the "release notes" to see if you find your server model (not always 
listed).
If not, go back a few versions until you find it.
CD 8.60 by example seems to have it and is not too old...
Download and burn.
Or, you could try the new way (I never tried it yet):
  http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/spp/index.html

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Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

[m . roth]

John Doe wrote:
> From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" 
>
>>>  You can boot from the Firmware Maintenance CD.
>>>  It will auto-detect all the hardware firmwares and update them if
>>>  needed...
>>>  You just have to find the most recent CD that still supports your
>>> model (see in the release notes), since they gradually remove old hw
to make
>>>  some room for new ones...
>>
>> No such luck: we don't have such a maintenance CD; if anyone does, it's
>> the other Institute, and as we're doing admin work, I'd guess they
>> don't have a real admin, so who knows where it is.
>
> The ISOSs are downloadable...
> Google "firmware maintenance cd" and check the "version history" to get
> the latest one. Then, try the "release notes" to see if you find your
> server model (not always listed). If not, go back a few versions until
> you find it. CD 8.60 by example seems to have it and is not too old...
> Download and burn.
> Or, you could try the new way (I never tried it yet):
>   http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/spp/index.html
>
Found what seemed to be it -
,
but the one for the DL580 GL5 was from '09. I clicked the link at the top
of the list, found mine, clicked that, and was offered a choice of OS's,
including CentOS, but that had some accelerator. At the bottom of the
offered OS's, they say "cross-os - BIOS, etc". I follow that... and *all*
I get is a WinDoze .exe. Could I use one of the burnable DVDs to boot from
then run this, having copied onto the h/d on the server?

   mark

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Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

[John R Pierce]

On 5/6/2013 8:09 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> But wait, it's worse than that, Jim I did, in fact, boot freedos from
> the USB key this morning... and when I tried to run it, it announced that
> it*can't*  be run in DOS mode.
>
> No, there's no way anyone's going to spring for a Windows license, install
> it, do the update, and redo the system as CentOS.

run it from hirens usb ?   that can boot to a winPE style environment.



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Re: [CentOS] failed exaile install

[Steve]

 SilverTip257  wrote: 
> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Steve  wrote:
> 
> > Forgot to put the thread link in:
> >
> > https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&order=DESC&topic_id=32333&forum=56#threadtop
> 
> 
> >
> >  Steve  wrote:
> > > I'm trying to install the exaile package on my newly upgraded CentOS 6.4
> > machine.
> > > It fails (see below) with missing dependencies on python-cddb and
> > gnome-python2-gtkmozembed.
> > >
> > > I found this thread but there does not seem to be any resolution. \
> > > Has anyone got this installed?
> > > Am I missing a repo?
> >
> 
> Did you try searching (with yum) for the unmet dependencies that prevented
> you from installing exaile from the RPM Forge repo?
> Maybe your system had a hiccup (network or otherwise) at that exact moment
> or the mirror you were hitting wasn't fully synced so the deps were missing?
> 
> If RPM Forge doesn't provide those packages (they generally provide
> packages for the dependencies), you need to find a repo that has the unmet
> dependencies.

I looked around and I could only find packages for CentOS 5
http://pkgs.org/centos-5-rhel-5/repoforge-i386/python-cddb-1.4-1.2.el5.rf.i386.rpm.html
http://pkgs.org/centos-5-rhel-5/centos-rhel-i386/gnome-python2-gtkmozembed-2.14.2-7.el5.i386.rpm.html

nothing for CentOS 6.

> 
> Otherwise report the problem to the RPM Forge maintainers as is hinted in
> the CentOS forum thread you linked to.  They'll be able for sure.

I sent a message to the RPM Forge list. We'll see if I get a response.

Steve


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Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

[m . roth]

John R Pierce wrote:
> On 5/6/2013 8:09 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>> But wait, it's worse than that, Jim I did, in fact, boot freedos
>> from the USB key this morning... and when I tried to run it, it announced
>> that it*can't*  be run in DOS mode.
>>
>> No, there's no way anyone's going to spring for a Windows license,
>> install it, do the update, and redo the system as CentOS.
>
> run it from hirens usb ?   that can boot to a winPE style environment.

Never heard of it. Just looked at it... winPE - is that the miniXP?

And it bothers me that I've never heard of hirens - I *do* have to be
aware of security. I'm still thinking of wine.

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Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

[John R Pierce]

On 5/6/2013 12:21 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>> run it from hirens usb ?   that can boot to a winPE style environment.
> Never heard of it. Just looked at it... winPE - is that the miniXP?
>
> And it bothers me that I've never heard of hirens - I*do*  have to be
> aware of security. I'm still thinking of wine.


Hirens has been around for quite a while, and gets updated 
periodically. its a all-in-one CD or USB boot full of mostly open 
source tools, can boot into memtest86, a linux kernel/shell/gui 
environment, or into a 'bartPE' mini-XP environment.  freedos too, I think.

hirens themselves only distributes the kit to build it, since it 
involves some licensed software, but pre-built ones are available from 
somewhat marginal sources (bit-torrent, etc).

you could, of course, simply use a plain BartPE boot, too, that you 
built yourself (Bart provides a toolkit for creating a winPE style 
environment).  you need access to a Windows desktop system somewhere to 
build one of these, along with the Windows XP CD to get the required files.



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Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

[m . roth]

John R Pierce wrote:
> On 5/6/2013 12:21 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>>> run it from hirens usb ?   that can boot to a winPE style environment.
>> Never heard of it. Just looked at it... winPE - is that the miniXP?
>>
>> And it bothers me that I've never heard of hirens - I*do*  have to be
>> aware of security. I'm still thinking of wine.
>
> Hirens has been around for quite a while, and gets updated
> periodically. its a all-in-one CD or USB boot full of mostly open
> source tools, can boot into memtest86, a linux kernel/shell/gui
> environment, or into a 'bartPE' mini-XP environment.  freedos too, I
> think.

Interesting. I need to look at them further.

HOWEVER: I saw something there about unpacking an .exe... and googled
that, and found someone talking about doing that... which led me to
cabextract, and, sure 'nough, I now have what was in that exe - flat
files, CD, floppy! even a WinDoze floppy label printer!

Now all I have to do is figure out which will be easiest to use - I'm
hoping I can just copy the flat files or the floppy files, or USB files,
and reboot into freedos and go.

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[CentOS] mplug.org repo is down

[Emiliano Mariño]

Hello dear list,

Does anybody know if mplug.org will be back? That was the only k21linux repo I 
know about, and it is down since last week :S


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[CentOS] dual head on centos 5 and ancient Nvidia Quadro NVS280SD card

[Fred Smith]

I was just handed a 2nd monitor for my system at work, and using Centos 5 
(latest)
can't make dual head work. a good bit of googling isn't being particularly
helpful either.

It's a HP workstation xw4100, with Nvidia Quadro NVS280SD graphics card.
Enabling dual head in the "display" app simply configures X so that it
(i.e., X) won't start. I haven't found the x log file in /var/log to be
helpful, either. This is using the legacy 96.x.x driver from Nvidia.

the NvidiaDetect app (from epel) says it should be using a newer driver
than the 96.x.x (forgot which one, exactly) but when attempting to install
it I get a msg that the card requires a 96.x.x driver.

browsing to nvidia.com and entering the model numbers into their driver
finder app gives another newer version that also gives the same result.
So it looks like I'm stuck with the 96.x.x driver.

some googling indicates a few people have made it work, but none of their
methods are working for me.

I was beginning to wonder if the hardware even supported dual head, so I
booted up a Fedora 17 LIVE CD. it initializes both monitors with no action
from me at all, with a desktop spanning the two screens, just fine. It must
be using the Nouveau driver (which, AFAIK, can't be used on Centos 5),
so still the issue could either be spanning/dual head doesn't work with the
ancient nvidia driver, or we (neither me, nor the tools on Centos) knows
how to configure it.

Clues would be appreciated. thanks in advance!


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Re: [CentOS] dual head on centos 5 and ancient Nvidia Quadro NVS280SD card

[m . roth]

Fred Smith wrote:
> I was just handed a 2nd monitor for my system at work, and using Centos 5
> (latest) can't make dual head work. a good bit of googling isn't being
> particularly helpful either.
>
> It's a HP workstation xw4100, with Nvidia Quadro NVS280SD graphics card.
> Enabling dual head in the "display" app simply configures X so that it
> (i.e., X) won't start. I haven't found the x log file in /var/log to be
> helpful, either. This is using the legacy 96.x.x driver from Nvidia.

Nope, that won't work.
>
> the NvidiaDetect app (from epel) says it should be using a newer driver
> than the 96.x.x (forgot which one, exactly) but when attempting to install
> it I get a msg that the card requires a 96.x.x driver.

Ignore that - that's the driver it needs.

> Clues would be appreciated. thanks in advance!

Someone (Karanbir?) sent me a link to the CentOS FAQ that responded to
that, but I can't seem to find it, and the "FAQ CentOS General Questions
returns a totally blank page (even in view page source). I found this on a
quick google:


Your other options are kmod-nvidia, or the proprietary drivers - note that
in the latter case, every time you get an updated kernel, you need to
rebuild (which isn't a big deal). If you go this route, you'll find a new
menu item, Nvidia control panel. Enable twinview, and you'll be good.

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Re: [CentOS] ECC memory errors

[SilverTip257]

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:39 PM,  wrote:

> John R Pierce wrote:
> > On 5/6/2013 12:21 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> >>> run it from hirens usb ?   that can boot to a winPE style environment.
> >> Never heard of it. Just looked at it... winPE - is that the miniXP?
> >>
> >> And it bothers me that I've never heard of hirens - I*do*  have to be
> >> aware of security. I'm still thinking of wine.
> >
> > Hirens has been around for quite a while, and gets updated
> > periodically. its a all-in-one CD or USB boot full of mostly open
> > source tools, can boot into memtest86, a linux kernel/shell/gui
> > environment, or into a 'bartPE' mini-XP environment.  freedos too, I
> > think.
> 
> Interesting. I need to look at them further.
>
> HOWEVER: I saw something there about unpacking an .exe... and googled
> that, and found someone talking about doing that... which led me to
> cabextract, and, sure 'nough, I now have what was in that exe - flat
> files, CD, floppy! even a WinDoze floppy label printer!
>
> Now all I have to do is figure out which will be easiest to use - I'm
> hoping I can just copy the flat files or the floppy files, or USB files,
> and reboot into freedos and go.
>

Hope this works out. :)

You could use a Windows 98 (or other Windows boot floppy) to boot and run
the flashing utility.  You can even boot up with your USB stick (has the
utilities) plugged in ( it should become C: ).

I'm sure you could find a Windows floppy image online or one of us would be
happy to send you a copy (it would be about the security/trust you can have
in freedos images anyways).

Once you have the image it's trivial to turn a floppy image into a bootable
ISO.  But it sounds as if you have floppies and a floppy drive.

I think the freedos bits I saw in the HP bios updating archive for my
system was for the "Crisis Recovery Disk".


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[CentOS] ddclient + zoneedit, was Re: Strange Postfix problem

[Max Pyziur]

On Tue, 9 Apr 2013, tdu...@palmettoshopper.com wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Was trying to setup postfix on my home PC. Running Centos 6.4. I don't
> have a static IP and use zoneedit and ddclient to keep my installation
> of zoneminder current.

Greetings,

I saw this sometime ago.

I too have a domain name managed by zoneedit and have ddclient installed 
in the hopes of having the ip address updated whenever the DSL connection 
resets.

However so far, I haven't been able to configure ddclient properly to do 
so. I keep getting the following error message in the /var/log/message 
file:
May  6 18:27:11 leeloo ddclient[2124]: WARNING:  file 
/var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache, line 3: Invalid Value for keyword 'ip' 
= ''

... and haven't been able to figure out how to setup /etc/ddclient.conf

Any chance you could post some guidance?

Thanks,

Max Pyziur
p...@brama.com


> So I decided I wanted to get zoneminder to send me email alerts. Sent
> some test messages but none were sent.
>
> I went to webdnstools website thinking maybe there is a dns or network
> problem.
>
> When it checks my dns setup, everything is fine except the mail server
> is has the wrong IP address. The A record and the www A record have the
> correct IP. The IP address its reporting is one that belongs to my ISP.
>
> TIA
>
>
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