Re: [CentOS] Where to change login screen options

2014-06-06 Thread Phelps, Matt 
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Wes James  wrote:

> I've looked around in the menus and googled this, but I can't find a way
> to make the login require a username instead of just showing the available
> users to select from.  Where do I change this?  I'm using CentOS 6.5.
>
> Thanks,
>
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We've added the following line to our postinstall scripts.

   /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --direct --config-source \
xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory \
--type bool --set \
/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true


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Re: [CentOS] chromium-33.0.1750.152-3.el6

2014-04-07 Thread Phelps, Matt 
Is this legit? Anyone try this build?




On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 6:03 PM, ngeorgop  wrote:

> *New version of chromium (33.0.1750.152)*Build by me :-)i686
> chromium-33.0.1750.152-3.el6.i686.rpm
>   SRPM
> chromium-33.0.1750.152-3.el6.src.rpm
> 
>
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Re: [CentOS] about new Centos SIG distro releases

2014-03-31 Thread Phelps, Matt 
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Matthew Miller  wrote:

> Do keep in mind that the article in question was written by a tech
> journalist
> and includes independent analysis and opinion. It isn't direct
> communication
> from Red Hat or CentOS.
>


Yes, I see that now.

Is the talk by Karsten Wade online somewhere so we can check the source
material?


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Re: [CentOS] about new Centos SIG distro releases

2014-03-31 Thread Phelps, Matt 
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Jim Perrin  wrote:

>
>
> On 03/31/2014 08:16 AM, Phelps, Matt wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Jim Perrin  wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On 03/31/2014 07:28 AM, Phelps, Matt wrote:
> >>> Initial reaction: Crap!
> >>>
> >>> One of the best things about CentOS, in my opinion, was not having to
> >> deal
> >>> with all the different RHEL builds/releases/whatever they called them,
> >> and
> >>> just having ONE distribution.
> >>
> >> This doesn't change. It's the core sig.
> >>
> >>
> > But the current "core" distribution has KVM/libvirt, and all the desktop
> > stuff, and apache, etc. etc, each of which sounds like it will be broken
> > out into a separate "SIG."
>
> No. The SIGs are community efforts where a newer or different version is
> needed. Core stays core.
>
> > Please, please don't do this. Let us do our jobs and pick what we need
> from
> > the same install depending on what kind of machine we're installing.
>
> This is exactly the intent. Right now there are a load of admins who
> want or need newer versions of things, be it php, python, libvirt, ruby,
> whatever. We're not changing up the core. We're trying to provide a
> better way to get updated features if they're needed.
>
> > I don't want to have to change our whole installation environment, which
> > we're take years of work to get the way we want it, based on someone
> else's
> > arbitrary rearranging of what's needed for "Storage" or "Virtualization,"
> > etc.
>
>
> You won't have to. Stick with core, and you'll be fine.
>
> >
> >>
> >>> So much for that.
> >>>
> >>> It didn't take long for Red Hat to get their mitts all over CentOS,
> huh?
> >>
> >> We were already doing this sort of thing with the Xen4CentOS build, and
> >> the plus repo before the RH agreement. We're simply able to expand on
> >> this type of effort now.
> >>
> >>
> > Both of those are additions to "CentOS."  Please don't break up "CentOS"
> > arbitrarily into separate "products" like Red Hat needlessly did. Let us
> > pick and choose what we need easily.
> >
> > The whole point of an "Enterprise " environment is to minimize the change
> > so we don't have to re-tool everything.
>
> Yep, and the "C" has been for 'Community', which has been a driving
> force in this. Xen was in el5, and when it was dropped in el6 we had a
> large hosting user-base who suddenly had no upgrade path to the new
> version. By adding Xen support back in, we've provided a method for them
> to update without re-tooling. We're trying to keep the need to change
> minimal, exactly as you want.
>
> > (Sorry for all the sarcastic quotes, but I'm upset. This is exactly the
> > sort of meddling I was afraid of when Red Hat took over.)
>
>
> This seems a bit "the sky is falling" to me. We're not changing what
> we've done in the past. We're adding (entirely optional) functionality
> to meet the demands of the community. You don't have to change a thing
> if you don't want to.
>
>
>
>
OK, I'll calm down. Perhaps what you've said could have been communicated
by the article. This line is what troubled me:

"So what the newly united Red Hat and
CentOS<http://www.zdnet.com/red-hat-incorporates-free-red-hat-clone-centos-724907>
is
planning on are multiple CentOS releases."

How will these "SIGs" be handled? Just additional yum repos? What if I want
to use parts of the Storage SIG and Virtualization SIG together on the same
installation?

Thanks.

Oh, does this mean we'll get a working chrome/chromium past version 31? :)


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Re: [CentOS] about new Centos SIG distro releases

2014-03-31 Thread Phelps, Matt 
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Jim Perrin  wrote:

>
>
> On 03/31/2014 07:28 AM, Phelps, Matt wrote:
> > Initial reaction: Crap!
> >
> > One of the best things about CentOS, in my opinion, was not having to
> deal
> > with all the different RHEL builds/releases/whatever they called them,
> and
> > just having ONE distribution.
>
> This doesn't change. It's the core sig.
>
>
But the current "core" distribution has KVM/libvirt, and all the desktop
stuff, and apache, etc. etc, each of which sounds like it will be broken
out into a separate "SIG."

Please, please don't do this. Let us do our jobs and pick what we need from
the same install depending on what kind of machine we're installing.

I don't want to have to change our whole installation environment, which
we're take years of work to get the way we want it, based on someone else's
arbitrary rearranging of what's needed for "Storage" or "Virtualization,"
etc.

>
> > So much for that.
> >
> > It didn't take long for Red Hat to get their mitts all over CentOS, huh?
>
> We were already doing this sort of thing with the Xen4CentOS build, and
> the plus repo before the RH agreement. We're simply able to expand on
> this type of effort now.
>
>
Both of those are additions to "CentOS."  Please don't break up "CentOS"
arbitrarily into separate "products" like Red Hat needlessly did. Let us
pick and choose what we need easily.

The whole point of an "Enterprise " environment is to minimize the change
so we don't have to re-tool everything.

(Sorry for all the sarcastic quotes, but I'm upset. This is exactly the
sort of meddling I was afraid of when Red Hat took over.)


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Re: [CentOS] about new Centos SIG distro releases

2014-03-31 Thread Phelps, Matt 
Initial reaction: Crap!

One of the best things about CentOS, in my opinion, was not having to deal
with all the different RHEL builds/releases/whatever they called them, and
just having ONE distribution.

So much for that.

It didn't take long for Red Hat to get their mitts all over CentOS, huh?




On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Edward M  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Kinda confused, will  CentOS new SIGs: CentOS Storage, CentOS Cloud, and
> CentOS Virtualization, CentOS Core,etc  be a developmental path to future
> RHEL releases, or will they continue be an exact clone of RHEL, like
> Centos currently is?
>
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/red-hat-reveals-centos-plans-727812/
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Re: [CentOS] Does anyone use tcp wrappers (hosts.allow/hosts.deny) anymore?

2014-03-21 Thread Phelps, Matt 
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Matthew Miller  wrote:

> Does anyone use tcp wrappers (hosts.allow/hosts.deny) anymore? And, would
> you care strongly if it went away (or would you just migrate to something
> else)?
>
> I bring this up because we are discussing dropping it from Fedora. This
> would be far enough in the future that it wouldn't impact RHEL 7, and
> therefore won't affect anyone here for Quite Some Time*, but here in the
> new
> world order of CentOS, I thought it might be useful to check with some
> actual downstream users.
>
> What do you think? Do you rely on hosts.allow/hosts.deny a primary security
> mechanism? As defense-in-depth? Do you have policies which mandate it?
>
> Your feedback appreciated. Thanks!
>
>
> * and the standard caveats that Fedora doesn't necessarily determine the
> path for RHEL apply, of course.
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We still use tcpwrappers extensively behind our firewalls to control many
things. We still have a mixed CentOS 5/6 and older Solaris environment, so
it would be big hassle to switch to something else.

Of course, if it left Fedora today, it would still be in CentOS for years
to come, and even then we could probably build our own pretty easily, but
we'd rather not have to!


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Re: [CentOS] suggestions for large filesystem server setup (n * 100 TB)

2014-02-28 Thread Phelps, Matt 
I'd highly recommend getting a NetApp storage device for something that big.

It's more expensive up front, but the amount of heartache/time saved in the
long run is WELL worth it.




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>
> over time the requirements and possibilities regarding filesystems
> changed for our users.
>
> currently I'm faced with the question:
>
> What might be a good way to provide one big filesystem for a few users
> which could also be enlarged; backuping the data is not the question.
>
> Big in that context is up to couple of 100 TB may be.
>
> O.K. I could install one hardware raid with e.g. N big drives format
> with xfs. And export one big share. Done.
>
> On the other hand, e.g. using 60 4 TB Disks in one storage would be a
> lot of space, but a nightmare in rebuilding on a disk crash.
>
> Now if the share fills up, my users "complain", that they usually get a
> new share (what is a new raidbox).
>
> From my POV I could e.g. use hardware raidboxes, and use LVM and
> filesystem growth options to extend the final share, but what if one of
> the boxes crash totally? The whole Filesystem would be gone.
>
> hm.
>
> So how do you handle big filesystems/storages/shares?
>
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Re: [CentOS] And then there was one (browser)

2014-02-10 Thread Phelps, Matt 
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Johnny Hughes  wrote:

> On 02/06/2014 10:41 AM, Phelps, Matt wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Fabian Arrotin
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 06/02/14 16:26, Phelps, Matt wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Robert Arkiletian 
> >> wrote:
> >>>> new potential remote code exploit in Chromium flash.
> >>>>
> >>
> http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.ca/2014/02/stable-channel-update.html
> >>>> Doesn't look like these repos are being updated.
> >>>> http://people.redhat.com/tpopela/rpms/
> >>>> http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/
> >>>>
> >>>> Any info on this issue would be welcome.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Yes, please. Can the CentOS folks check with their newly minted Red Hat
> >>> brethren on this issue?
> >>>
> >>> This is getting critical for us. We have over a hundred CO6 desktops
> that
> >>> are currently running an insecure version of chromium. The security
> >> people
> >>> are all over us on this!
> >>>
> >>> We need to run chrome/chromium in order to manage our Google Apps for
> >>> Government deployment (for over 1000 users). It doesn't work right with
> >>> firefox.
> >>>
> >>> If we need to apply pressure elsewhere, please let us know where to
> >> direct
> >>> our fury.
> >>>
> >> ... to Google ? (especially because it's *their* browser to support
> >> *their* Google Apps )
> >>
> >>
> > Of course we already have notified Google.
> >
> > I was hoping for a little more granularity. Google is a large place; as
> is
> > Red Hat I know. There was word that Red Hat was working with Google on a
> > solution, and I was hoping to hear if there was any movement.
> >
> > I can't ask Red Hat since we don't pay for it, but perhaps the new CentOS
> > relationship with them can offer a channel of communication for the
> > Community.
>
> Sure, we talked to them (redhat).  That does not make the code actually
> build any faster.
>
> The code does not build (as is) on EL6 and each build needs to be
> troubleshot and error corrected to make it work.
>
> Currently there are several pieces not building ... just like there were
> before.  The 31 tree was finally made to build, after several changes,
> The 32 tree is not building.
>
> I like to use chromium as well ... but the only supported browser is
> Firefox ... that is the one with EL support.  Chromium is a best effort
> to get to build (and it always will be) ... Google has no interest in
> supporting it, so we are taking the code that they release and working
> with it until it builds on EL6.
>
>
Thanks Johnny,

The piece of information I was looking for was the bit about Google's
attitude towards the situation with respect to chrome (vs. chromium). I, of
course, appreciate the efforts on the CentOS end and realize it's not under
your control.

I was hoping Red Hat dollars would be influential to Google, and was merely
looking for any further information on weather Google's chrome would ever
work again on RHEL/CentOS 6 again, and if that might be available from you
guys, since you now work for them.

If there's any way to pass on the need for more pressure on Google,  from
Red Hat, that would be appreciated. We CentOS users can't do that directly.
We chose CentOS long ago for all the right reasons; chiefly that we can't
afford 150 RHEL licenses since we're in an academic environment (even with
academic rates).

The situation is highly frustrating, and we feel powerless.



> WRT your google apps docs ... OK, so have 2 browsers on your system.
> Use the chromium for your google apps and firefox for everything else.
>
>
The point is, we're close to being told to disable chromium and remove it
because version 31 is insecure.


> I told everyone that the chromium support was as can be made to work.
> If you REALLY need it to work, hire someone to maintain it :)
>
>
>

I appreciate the smiley face, but that should not be necessary to make the
worlds most popular browser work on the worlds most popular Enterprise
Linux distribution (and it's FOSS variants)!


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Re: [CentOS] And then there was one (browser)

2014-02-08 Thread Phelps, Matt 
On Feb 8, 2014 1:41 AM, "Lists"  wrote:
>
> On 02/06/2014 08:41 AM, Phelps, Matt wrote:
> > Of course we already have notified Google.
> >
> > I was hoping for a little more granularity. Google is a large place; as
is
> > Red Hat I know. There was word that Red Hat was working with Google on a
> > solution, and I was hoping to hear if there was any movement.
> >
> > I can't ask Red Hat since we don't pay for it, but perhaps the new
CentOS
> > relationship with them can offer a channel of communication for the
> > Community.
>
> I don't mean to poke, but is there a reason you aren't using Chromium?
> It looks, acts, and works like Google Chrome except that:
>
> 1) It doesn't spy on you.
> 2) It uses standard flash that you install separately.
> 3) The icon looks a little different.
>
> I use Chromium on Fedora, so I can't comment on CentOS, which I only use
> for headless servers. But this might be a starting point:
>
>
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Chromium 32 won't build with CentOS 6 either.

That would be perfectly fine.
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Re: [CentOS] And then there was one (browser)

2014-02-06 Thread Phelps, Matt 
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Fabian Arrotin
wrote:

> On 06/02/14 16:26, Phelps, Matt wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Robert Arkiletian 
> wrote:
> >
> >> new potential remote code exploit in Chromium flash.
> >>
> http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.ca/2014/02/stable-channel-update.html
> >>
> >> Doesn't look like these repos are being updated.
> >> http://people.redhat.com/tpopela/rpms/
> >> http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/
> >>
> >> Any info on this issue would be welcome.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Yes, please. Can the CentOS folks check with their newly minted Red Hat
> > brethren on this issue?
> >
> > This is getting critical for us. We have over a hundred CO6 desktops that
> > are currently running an insecure version of chromium. The security
> people
> > are all over us on this!
> >
> > We need to run chrome/chromium in order to manage our Google Apps for
> > Government deployment (for over 1000 users). It doesn't work right with
> > firefox.
> >
> > If we need to apply pressure elsewhere, please let us know where to
> direct
> > our fury.
> >
>
> ... to Google ? (especially because it's *their* browser to support
> *their* Google Apps )
>
>
Of course we already have notified Google.

I was hoping for a little more granularity. Google is a large place; as is
Red Hat I know. There was word that Red Hat was working with Google on a
solution, and I was hoping to hear if there was any movement.

I can't ask Red Hat since we don't pay for it, but perhaps the new CentOS
relationship with them can offer a channel of communication for the
Community.



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Re: [CentOS] And then there was one (browser)

2014-02-06 Thread Phelps, Matt 
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Robert Arkiletian  wrote:

> new potential remote code exploit in Chromium flash.
> http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.ca/2014/02/stable-channel-update.html
>
> Doesn't look like these repos are being updated.
> http://people.redhat.com/tpopela/rpms/
> http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/
>
> Any info on this issue would be welcome.
>


Yes, please. Can the CentOS folks check with their newly minted Red Hat
brethren on this issue?

This is getting critical for us. We have over a hundred CO6 desktops that
are currently running an insecure version of chromium. The security people
are all over us on this!

We need to run chrome/chromium in order to manage our Google Apps for
Government deployment (for over 1000 users). It doesn't work right with
firefox.

If we need to apply pressure elsewhere, please let us know where to direct
our fury.

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Re: [CentOS] librsvg2 update problem - nautilus segfault

2014-02-04 Thread Phelps, Matt 
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <
nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr> wrote:

>
>
> On 02/04/2014 10:32 PM, Phelps, Matt wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Jim Perrin  wrote:
> >
> >> FYI:
> >>
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1061085
> >>
> >>
> >> On 02/04/2014 07:24 AM, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
> >>>
> >>> op 04-02-14 14:03, Bane Ivosev schreef:
> >>>> after morning update of librsvg2
> >>>>
> >>>> Feb 04 09:39:15 Updated: librsvg2-2.26.0-6.el6_5.2.x86_64
> >>>>
> >>>> nautilus crashed with
> >>>>
> >>>> nautilus[3419]: segfault at 21 ip 7f68b2d2733c sp 7fffe2ce04f0
> >>>> error 4 in librsvg-2.so.2.26.0[7f68b2d01000+37000]
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> temporary solution
> >>>>
> >>>> yum downgrade librsvg2
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >
> > FYI,
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=924414<
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=924414#c25>
> > now
> > says the bug has been fixed at RedHat, but the version number of the
> > packages doesn't appear to be increased.
>
>
> yes it has:
> librsvg2-2.26.0-6.el6_5.3.src.rpm vs librsvg2-2.26.0-6.el6_5.2.src.rpm
> (note the .3 vs .2)
> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0127.html
>
>
I stand corrected!

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Re: [CentOS] librsvg2 update problem - nautilus segfault

2014-02-04 Thread Phelps, Matt 
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Jim Perrin  wrote:

> FYI:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1061085
>
>
> On 02/04/2014 07:24 AM, Johan Vermeulen wrote:
> >
> > op 04-02-14 14:03, Bane Ivosev schreef:
> >> after morning update of librsvg2
> >>
> >> Feb 04 09:39:15 Updated: librsvg2-2.26.0-6.el6_5.2.x86_64
> >>
> >> nautilus crashed with
> >>
> >> nautilus[3419]: segfault at 21 ip 7f68b2d2733c sp 7fffe2ce04f0
> >> error 4 in librsvg-2.so.2.26.0[7f68b2d01000+37000]
> >>
> >>
> >> temporary solution
> >>
> >> yum downgrade librsvg2
> >>
> >>
>

FYI,

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=924414
now
says the bug has been fixed at RedHat, but the version number of the
packages doesn't appear to be increased.


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Re: [CentOS] nautilus[3920]: segfault ( used to be : Re: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2014:0127 Moderate CentOS 6 librsvg2 Update )

2014-02-04 Thread Phelps, Matt 
Yes, it's a bug. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=924414

Fixed upstream.


On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Johan Vermeulen
wrote:

>
> op 04-02-14 11:03, Johan Vermeulen schreef:
> > op 04-02-14 06:35, Johnny Hughes schreef:
> >> CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2014:0127 Moderate
> >>
> >> Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0127.html
> >>
> >> The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
> >> syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename )
> >>
> >> i386:
> >> 7f582307cabadd730387b49d93e454ab8e9007a98c991210ed3b86f67b9f29f9
>  librsvg2-2.26.0-6.el6_5.2.i686.rpm
> >> 4632e3a6c32f7e6979ea467548f33f24fa1bfb3ade3de46fb8377864346098bf
>  librsvg2-devel-2.26.0-6.el6_5.2.i686.rpm
> >>
> >> x86_64:
> >> 7f582307cabadd730387b49d93e454ab8e9007a98c991210ed3b86f67b9f29f9
>  librsvg2-2.26.0-6.el6_5.2.i686.rpm
> >> 664950eb6b1cb297982ebf569a537b80c8c5605b01ab996dbfe41287a1aa553c
>  librsvg2-2.26.0-6.el6_5.2.x86_64.rpm
> >> 4632e3a6c32f7e6979ea467548f33f24fa1bfb3ade3de46fb8377864346098bf
>  librsvg2-devel-2.26.0-6.el6_5.2.i686.rpm
> >> d7e7d9a1a0ff23aa4807542f22960580d0e81571af316dc168acf077097e6171
>  librsvg2-devel-2.26.0-6.el6_5.2.x86_64.rpm
> >>
> >> Source:
> >> 59a805614f98312172e2a467079481f9eda8dc05d8438b1be852879e51b2a4d0
>  librsvg2-2.26.0-6.el6_5.2.src.rpm
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > this update is giving me EM on 4 laptops and a workstation so far ( A hp
> > laptop, 2 Toshiba laptops, an Hp workstation )
> >
> > nautilus : segfault at 623b67e ip  sp ..error 4
> > in librsvg-2.so.2.26.0.
> >
> > I am running yum history undo  on these machines at the moment.
> >
> > By the way:
> >
> > I want to take the opportunity to thank the people at Fosdem, Brussels
> > this weekend to take the time to
> > answer some of my questions and give my children stickers and balloons.
> > They loved it and so did I.
> >
> > Greetings, J.
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>
> is anyone else seeing this? I have problems on most of my laptops, yum
> history undo ( last update ) fixes this
>
> Feb  4 11:36:32 jan kernel: nautilus[3920]: segfault at 623b676e ip
> 01050e1d sp bfb528b0 error 4 in librsvg-2.so.2.26.0[102b000+38000]
>
> Feb  4 11:36:21 localhost kernel: gnome-panel[8534] general protection
> ip:7f490a17f33c sp:7fffb1663fb0 error:0 in
> librsvg-2.so.2.26.0[7f490a159000+37000]
>
> Feb  4 11:44:32 onthaalteam kernel: nautilus[12379] general protection
> ip:33a482633c sp:7fff6413eac0 error:0 in
> librsvg-2.so.2.26.0[33a480+37000]
>
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Re: [CentOS] Booting problem after update, how to track order of starting services

2014-01-27 Thread Phelps, Matt 
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I have updated system/server that worked for a long time. It was upgrade
> from 6.4 to latest.
>
> After restart, system freezes after most/all of the daemons are booted.
>
>  From interactive mode I found out that services starting are:
>
> ...
> ...
> atd
> jexec
> atieventsd
> libvirtd
> certmonger
> libvirt-guests
> local
> nxsensor
> nxserver
> webmin
>
> As soon as I allow webmin to pass, system freezes. BUT, if I stop after
> nxserver, and leave booting process at question weather to start webmin,
> and I login via SSH, I can start webmin.
>
> Question is how I find out what comes after webmin service.
>
>

Does "ls /etc/rc5.d/S*" give you the order that services are started for
level 5?


/var/log/messages is not written to, and I do not see anything in
> /var/log/boot.log
>
> System can operate normally if I leave it like that, I can even log-in
> via NX.
>
>
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Re: [CentOS] Most efficient way to create a CentOS 3 test VM

2013-11-26 Thread Phelps, Matt 
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 4:32 PM, John R Pierce  wrote:
> On 11/26/2013 12:00 PM, Warren Young wrote:
>> It seems wasteful to install the last published version of the OS, then
>> scp over my local update RPMs, freshen from those,*then*  check with the
>> vault for yet more updates.
>>
>> What I'm hoping for is some way to get a "CentOS 3.10", being 3.9 with
>> the vault updates directory contents merged in.
>>
>> Is there a straightforward way to do that, or is schlepping around
>> folders full of RPMs actually the best way to go?
>
> I'd mirror the vault repository on a local http server, and edit the
> CentOS-Base.repo file to point to it, then you can just run yum update...
>
>
>
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>

It doesn't necessarily have to be on an http server. Just in an
accessible location (e.g. via NFS) and use a file:// URL in the .repo
file.

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Re: [CentOS] Google Chrome

2013-11-25 Thread Phelps, Matt 
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Johnny Hughes  wrote:
> On 11/22/2013 01:25 PM, Chris Beattie wrote:
>> On 11/22/2013 11:29 AM, Phelps, Matt wrote:
>>> Most of us using CentOS/RHEL are in an "e"nterprise environment where
>>> that sort of thing just isn't allowed.
>>>
>>> A supported, updated, secured version of chrome/chromium is essential
>>> for our CentOS environment, and I venture to guess many others'
>>> (including RHEL users).
>> What happens if there comes a time when Johnny's heavy wizardry isn't enough 
>> to keep Chrome running on CentOS?  Or if he just doesn't have time to do it? 
>>  The browser that you need won't run on the OS which you can't change.  You 
>> have a Kobayashi Maru scenario.  You can't win unless you can change the 
>> rules.
>>
>> I do something similar, but in my case, I provide virtual machines loaded 
>> with older versions of Internet Explorer for QA testers.  The testers can't 
>> do any permanent damage to the VMs that the hypervisor won't fix when it 
>> reverts the VM after the tester logs off.  Meanwhile, the version of IE on 
>> the testers' main machines is kept up-to-date.
>>
>
> BTW, I like chrome, so that is why I am trying to maintain this ... but
> it is GOOGLE who is not maintaining the code to work on EL.
>
> Just like Google also decided to NOT provide a Google Drive for Linux
> and a bunch of other things.
>
> I am just about to say screw Google as they don't seem to care about
> enterprise linux at all .. if it isn't android or the absolute latest
> and greatest glibc/gtk/glib combo then they don't want to support it.
> If that is the case, who am I to make their code work for millions of
> users who THEY seem unconcerned about.
>
> If someone from Google gives a crap about getting chrome working on the
> several million machine universe that is CentOS users, you guys contact
> me and let me know ... otherwise, I'll just assume you don't give a damn.
>
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
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Oh, I understand! Your efforts have been heroic, and well appreciated. My rant
was (and has been) directed at Google. I definitely want more pressure
on Google from whomever can apply it.

I was hoping there would eventually be a gcc47 in EPEL or some other
repository that may help the situation.

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Re: [CentOS] Google Chrome

2013-11-22 Thread Phelps, Matt 
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Chris Beattie  wrote:
> On 11/21/2013 11:40 AM, Darr247 wrote:
>> On 2013-11-21 @14:41 zulu, Wes James scribed:
>>> It is with the script on this page:
>>>
>>> http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/
>>
>> Be aware some on this list consider that script "criminal."
>
> At what point does it become less hassle to spin up a virtual machine with a 
> distro recent-enough to run the latest Chrome?  Virtualization is a wedge 
> that puts more space between your rocks and your hard places.
>
> Just for kicks, I downloaded a Chromium OS image and had it running in VMware 
> Player in a few minutes.  It wasn't as snappy as a native install, but it was 
> usable.  I could have signed in to Google and picked up my bookmarks if I'd 
> wanted.
>
> Having said that, I don't have any experience with either KVM or kidnapping 
> libraries from other distros.  I don't know which is harder and/or more fun 
> (depends on what you're looking to get out of the experience), but it might 
> be an option.
>
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Apologies for top posting!! I'll try again:


Most of us using CentOS/RHEL are in an "e"nterprise environment where
that sort of thing just isn't allowed.

A supported, updated, secured version of chrome/chromium is essential
for our CentOS environment, and I venture to guess many others'
(including RHEL users).


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Re: [CentOS] Google Chrome

2013-11-22 Thread Phelps, Matt 
Most of us using CentOS/RHEL are in an "e"nterprise environment where
that sort of thing just isn't allowed.

A supported, updated, secured version of chrome/chromium is essential
for our CentOS environment, and I venture to guess many others'
(including RHEL users).


On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Chris Beattie  wrote:
> On 11/21/2013 11:40 AM, Darr247 wrote:
>> On 2013-11-21 @14:41 zulu, Wes James scribed:
>>> It is with the script on this page:
>>>
>>> http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/
>>
>> Be aware some on this list consider that script "criminal."
>
> At what point does it become less hassle to spin up a virtual machine with a 
> distro recent-enough to run the latest Chrome?  Virtualization is a wedge 
> that puts more space between your rocks and your hard places.
>
> Just for kicks, I downloaded a Chromium OS image and had it running in VMware 
> Player in a few minutes.  It wasn't as snappy as a native install, but it was 
> usable.  I could have signed in to Google and picked up my bookmarks if I'd 
> wanted.
>
> Having said that, I don't have any experience with either KVM or kidnapping 
> libraries from other distros.  I don't know which is harder and/or more fun 
> (depends on what you're looking to get out of the experience), but it might 
> be an option.
>
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Re: [CentOS] No more support for chrome/chromium on rhel6

2013-06-26 Thread Phelps, Matt 
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Johnny Hughes  wrote:

> On 05/02/2013 10:50 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> > Johnny,
> >
> > there is someone here
> >
> > https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=227320
> >
> > who is willing and able to help.
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Johnny Hughes 
> wrote:
> >> On 04/15/2013 01:26 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> >>> Is there any chance CentOS might add Chromium to extras repo? See
> below.
> >>>
> >>> Post from Hirakendu:
> >>>
> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/chromium-discuss/I_ZFDJqdiyA
> >>>
> >>> ---
> >>> "I have put up some scripts for building current Chromium versions (26
> >>> and 27) on EL 6 at
> >>>
> >>> https://github.com/hirakendu/chromium_el_builder
> >>>
> >>> . See the readme for details. Due to the large file size, the current
> >>> RPM chromium-26.0.1410.63-192696.x86_64.rpm, built on CentOS 6.4, can
> >>> be obtained by downloading the project archive.Please note that this
> >>> is only for the time being and I do not intend to actively maintain
> >>> it, but I hope it may help others. A couple of patches may be merged
> >>> as well.
> >>>
> >>> Aside, thanks to Paweł for maintaining the excellent chromium ebuilds
> >>> for Gentoo Linux (which I have been happily using for several years)
> >>> that helped clarify some of the build steps, in addition to the
> >>> official build instructions at chromium.org."
> >> I will be glad to build it, *IF* I can reproduce what the script does
> >> inside an SRPM (looks like I should be able to).  One of our rules is an
> >> SRPM for everything we release.
> >>
> >> The problem is, if he is not going to support it later, his gcc patches
> >> may not keep working on newer code and we only gain a couple of builds
> >> and run out of support.
> >>
> >> Since I personally use chrome as my browser (and obviously CentOS-6.4 as
> >> my OS :D) ... and want to continue to do so ... I will look at this
> soon.
>
>
> OK guys,
>
> Here is the test version of Chromium  version 28 for CentOS-6 (the
> current beta release).
>
> http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/
>
> You can copy the repo file from there into /etc/yum.repo.d/ and then
> issue the command:
>
> yum install chromium
>
> The package is signed by the CentOS-6-Testing key.
>
> Here is the git repo where the build script (source) and instructions
> are located:
>
> https://github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder
>
> If you already have chrome installed, you will want to remove it and
> remove the yum repo for chrome as it will get no more updates.
>
> We can not distribute the pepperflash or libpdf viewer from Google
> Chrome due to licensing restrictions, but you can download these two
> scripts from the github repo and run them either as root or as a user
> with sudo access to install those two libraries:
>
> chrome_libpdf_copy.sh:
>
> https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_libpdf_copy.sh
>
> chrome_pepperflash_copy.sh:
>
> https://raw.github.com/hughesjr/chromium_el_builder/master/chrome_pepperflash_copy.sh
>
> Lets get this tested and vetted and we can maybe move it to CentOS
> Extras when Chome is upgraded to the 28 version in production.
>
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
>
>
Any idea when this might get added to the Extras repository?

Also, does anyone know where we could download the Google RPM for the last
version to work on CentOS6 (version 27)?

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Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems >500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Phelps, Matt 
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Keith Keller <
kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:

> On 2013-05-27, Mike Watson  wrote:
> > I've a small system that I use to support a number of churches. I
> > provide web and email for them. My current server is running CentOS 6.3
> > with paired 1TB drives in a RAID1 configuration. It works well. One
> > filesystem is very large, >500GB, and contains numerous large files:
> > SQL, docs, church libraries in ebook and digital form, plus stored
> > videos of church services.
> >
> > Backup will be to an external (USB) removable HD.
> >
> > Can any suggest a prog or a method to back up this filesystem?
>
> People have already suggested rsync and rdiff-backup; there's also
> rsnapshot which is built on top of rsync.
>
> Another option could be mdadm if your RAID1 is already an mdadm array.
> You can add your USB drive to the array, wait for it to rebuild, then
> remove it from the array.  I'd be wary of backing up an SQL database in
> that way, but I'd be wary of using rsync, dump, or tar too, so be sure
> to take a real backup (e.g., mysqldump, pg_dump) of your database first.
>
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I'd take the extra step of reformatting the USB drive into an ext3
filesystem, then just use rsync in a nightly cron job.

We do it with about a dozen or so workstations here with user data either
on internal disks, or other external USB drives. Works great.

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Re: [CentOS] Frustrated. Java on Centos 6 doesn't give an error message when downloading from a Samsung Galaxy S3

2013-05-24 Thread Phelps, Matt 
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Rock  wrote:

> On Fri, 24 May 2013 08:03:52 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>
> > I think most people are using cloud storage with the smart phones these
> days
>
> I understand.
>
> Anyway, here's a summary for the next person with this same problem
> (Note: This affects other phones but I don't know which are affected.)
>
> Summary of the current status:
>  Connecting the SG S3 by USB cable (fails for every Centos owner)
>  Connecting the SG S3 by Kies Air (Java fails for multiple files, no
> errors!)
>  Connecting the SG S3 by AirDroid (Works! Zips up multiple files, slow but
> OK)
> ...
>  Connecting the SG S3 by Android FTPServer (suggested, complicated setup)
>  Connecting the SG S3 by WiFi File Explorer (didn't work on my 1st test)
>  Connecting the SG S3 by WiFi File Transfer (didn't work on my 1st test)
>  Connecting the SG S3 by Total Commander for Android (suggested, untested)
>  Connecting the SG S3 by WiFi file transfer pro (suggested, untested)
> Note: When testing solutions, my general approach is to give each
> suggested program a single pass - and if that fails, to then move
> on to the next solution. If no solutions work, then I revisit the
> prior attempts and implement heroics to get it to work, if needed.
>
> Deprecated approaches which would also work to transfer pictures:
>  MicroSD card (shouldn't have to buy storage just to transfer pictures)
>  Dropbox or the cloud (shouldn't have to do that just to transfer data)
>  Windows/Mac (shouldn't have to give up on your Centos operating system)
>  Wine/Emulation/Virtual OS (shouldn't have to give up on native Centos)
>  Email them to myself (shouldn't have to do that just to transfer pictures)
>
> < Rant >
> Why the Android dev team removed USB file transfer for Linux users is
> beyond me!
> < /Rant >
>
>
This is a "feature" of Android 4.0 and above. That's when the switch to the
MTP protocol on that end happened.

Older Android phones (2.x if I remember correctly) will still mount as a
file system when connected to USB on CentOS.
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