Re: [CentOS] odd messages at boot time

[fred roller]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 11:24 AM Fred Smith  I'm getting these messages during boot:
>
> error: failure reading sector 0xfc from 'hd4'
> error: failure reading sector 0xe0 from 'hd4'
> error: failure reading sector 0x0 from 'hd4'
> error: failure reading sector 0xfc from 'hd5'
> error: failure reading sector 0xe0 from 'hd5'
> error: failure reading sector 0x0 from 'hd5'
>
> they pop up soon after the Grub menu with a message to press ENTER to
> continue, and it times out in a few seconds if I don't press ENTER. These
> messages have been appearing for a long time, at least a couple of years
> and I've been too lethargic to investigate til now.
>
> I see no bad side-effects at runtime.
>
> I just did badblocks (read-only) on both sda and sdb (RAID-1 pair)
> which found no errors.
>
> I see nothing obviously related in dmesg, or /var/log/messages.
>
> I also have an external box (Venus DS3R Pro-2) with two drives, also
> RAID-1, that I use for backups. It is seen (after boot) as /dev/sdc.
>
> I'd have to pull the drives out of it and connect them to the SATA bus
> to run badblocks on them, as badblocks won't run on /dev/sdc.
>
> the nightly backups on to this box appear to run without issue.
>
> Anybody got any ideas on what this might be about?
>
> thanks in advance!
>
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Normally, as you have deduced, it seems to be just bad blocks. But given
that the addresses are identical on both drives I wonder if this is your
mirror? If so could it just be corrupted data?

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Re: [CentOS] ligthdm shutdown without a mouse

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1st, you should be able to do a power button configuration that will do a
graceful shutdown. If necessary there is also the command line option
(depends on user)

ctrl-alt-t (should bring up a terminal)
shutdown -h now (will do a graceful shutdown)

make sure the user has permission to do shutdown functions or set up sudo
and execute

sudo shutdown -h now

the latter is an easy teach to the user for this purpose and may be the
path to least resistance.

-- Fred

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 1:21 PM Frank Cox  wrote:

> I have set up a computer that's going to be hand-carried through several
> airports on the way to its final destination.
>
> This is the Lenovo laptop that I asked about earlier, where everything
> works well except for the touchpad that isn't recognized at all.  (For
> the touchpad I'm just kind of hoping that a future kernel update will
> make it magically start working; for the time being the computer owner
> will live without the touchpad and just use an external mouse.)
>
> When carrying this though airport security the security guards will
> likely require that this laptop be turned on for them.
>
> How can it be turned off again properly after being checked without having
> to carry a mouse too?
>
> Is there a keyboard shortcut for shutdown with lightdm?
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Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

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Like the others have mentioned, shredding is the best.  Esp. since it is
Federal.  DoD spec only considers shredded destroyed afaik.  SSD or not
this was my normal practice for that same reason. HIH.  Extreme is smelting
the drive to molten but that is extremely sensitive data destruction.

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Re: [CentOS] formating DVR-RW

[fred roller]

[snip]
>> I have DVD-RWs.
[snip]
>   I am assuming (and we all know what that
means :) ) that the OP has such a disk.
[snip]

It is not an assumption.  OP has Re-Write (RW) disks.

(JIC:
https://www.google.com/search?q=dvd-rw+definition=dvd-rw=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.5006j0j7=chrome=UTF-8
)

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Re: [CentOS] How Can I ...

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> I've got a WD My Passport Ultra 1TB (USB) plugged into my router...

Have you gone to the drive's web interface on your local net?  (http://[ip
of drive])  It has been my experience that these network storage devices
typically come pre-configured for smb/sftp/(and one other i can't
remember).  The drive itself has a web interface in most cases allowing
you to configure users and permissions.  After you configure (if needed) a
network discovery on the CentOS systems should show the NSD and allow a
connection as you desire.  Mine does a smb connection to my Windows system
while I use sftp on all my Linux systems integrating file share seamlessly
through the NSD.  I don't care to put smb on my Linux machines as it seems
to cause more trouble than it is worth; but, that is just a personal
preference.

My 2 bits,
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Re: [CentOS] Intermittently unresponsive mouse

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My mouse lag tends to correspond to low battery or exceeding the 2-3 ft
range of wireless (i.e. I kick back on my chair).  Assuming it is
wireless.  Not much info on hw.

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Re: [CentOS] Transferring Thunderbird mail accounts: Windows vs. Linux

[fred roller]

dito, I usually just grabbed the ./thunderbird directory and moved it about
regularly.  ofc, b/u before movement.

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Bowie Bailey  wrote:

> On 10/26/2017 12:57 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> One of my clients brought me his PC with Windows 7, so I can migrate it
>> to Linux, e. g. CentOS 7 + KDE. So far I made a backup of all the data,
>> but I wonder how I can migrate the existing Thunderbird account.
>>
>> An operation I perform quite regularly is replace an existing Linux
>> system (Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, whatever) by CentOS. When Thunderbird
>> is configured, I just backup the whole ~/.thunderbird directory and then
>> restore it on the new installation, which usually works perfectly. Any
>> idea if I do this when moving a desktop installation from Windows 7 to
>> CentOS?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Niki
>>
>
> Should work just fine.  I was running my computer as a dual-boot with
> Windows 7 and Linux Mint for a while.  I shared the whole Thunderbird
> profile directory with both OS's.  As I recall, the only issue was that the
> Lightning calendar add-on was OS-specific and would only work on one of the
> two unless I re-installed it for whichever OS I was on at the time.
>
> Give it a shot.  Most likely, you'll only have to re-install an add-on or
> two for the new OS.
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[CentOS] OT: Work opportunity.

[fred roller]

Saw this and thought some might be interested.

Python Dev

https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2ff1a8640400e6d4=Chef=Puget+Sound,+WA=1bt11n0l1090o3j1=ja=59e18304e4b07eabad6b9a79_source=jobseeker_emails_medium=email_campaign=job_alerts=1bt11n0l1090o3j1

Hope it's not too out of place here on the list.

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Re: [CentOS] Extreme frustration with GIMP

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On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Alice Wonder  wrote:

> Does anyone know of an actual GIMP tutorial for removing background


Use the intelligent scissors as you did.  Right click inside the section
and choose copy. Right click anywhere and choose Edit -> Paste As -> As New
Image.  This should get you off to a good start.  Here is a link to GIMP
communities who can better assist you learn the GIMP way and would love to
here your input on the UI as well.  I am not a graphics person either but
this method has been the simplest


https://www.gimp.org/links/#clubs

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Re: [CentOS] imaging a drive with dd

[fred roller]

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 8:36 PM, Robert Moskowitz 
wrote:

> dd if=/dev/sdb of=os.img bs=1M count=3210
>

I would recommend bs=512 to keep the block sizes the same though not a huge
diff just seems to be happier for some reason and add status=progress if
you would like to monitor how it is doing.  Seems the command you have
should work otherwise.
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Re: [CentOS-virt] Running graphical applications from CentOS headless vm

[fred roller]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 2:43 AM, Akemi Yagi  wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 10:49 PM, C. L. Martinez 
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >  I have installed a CentOS7 vm in my home server with all graphical
> tools installed: Gnome, Chrome, Tor Borwser, etc. My idea is to run these
> graphical applications from two MacOSX desktops. What I am looking for is
> something similar like Microsoft RDP services that supports copy and paste
> between client and server, sound, clipboard, etc ...
> >
> >  I have seen a possible solution using xrdp: http://www.xrdp.org. But
> exists some other solution??
>
> To connect to remote desktops, you can try x2go (x2goserver from
> EPEL). I think the client is available for MacOSX.
>
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Though dated this may be of some help to get you pointed in a useful
direction.

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Re: [CentOS] Automounting a USB drive

[fred roller]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 10:11 PM,  wrote:

> If i manually mount it from a terminal, I have read/write access.
>

Seems a permission issue.  su to root after the "auto" mount and take a
look.  If you can see your file or can write a touch file then your user
may not be in the necessary owner/group to view/write to the structure.
Seen similar problems in upgrades... same user but the UID changed in the
upgrade and blinded the current user to older files that were preserved.  A
simple chmod command from root fixed the issue to restore proper
ownership.  Just a wag, but sometimes it's the little things.

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Re: [CentOS] Question on /usr/bin/import for CentOS 7

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On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:45 PM, fred roller <fredrolle...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just curious, are you running as root?
>

nvm, head was somewhere else.
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Re: [CentOS] Question on /usr/bin/import for CentOS 7

[fred roller]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Frank Cox 
wrote:

> -window root


Just curious, are you running as root?
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Re: [CentOS] Reliable way of having both LAN and WIFI on headless box

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On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Frank Cox 
wrote:

> That sounds like a weak signal from your wifi transmitter.
>

Or signal interference.  Where is the antennae located on the server?  Ran
into signal issues with antennae which were tucked behind the server before.
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Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network Attached Storage

[fred roller]

>
> Been thinking about either purchasing one of these or building my own.


Personally, given the two options, I would go with DIY.  Reasoning is the
flexibility of hardware purchase which would allow for better expansion
options.  When I did mine, sometime ago, I had a mobo w/ 4 sata slots. At
the time the board still had an IDE connection.  The SATAs were used for
the actual data storage, LVM in my case, and the IDE for the OS.
Segregating the two is advisable IMHO.  Fast forward to this century.  A
mobo with as many SATA slots as you can find plus an on-board USB slot
would be fun.  You can use a thumb-drive for the OS. I don't think it would
take a lot of R/W hits since most of the OS would be loaded to RAM.  This
leaves slots open for when you are ready to expand from your 2x4Gb start.
Given that NAS is generally a configuration of the server services and
users access, obvious I know so apologies, at it's basic function and most
"closed" sourced NASes use ASH as I recall; you only miss out on refinement
in a purchased option.

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Re: [CentOS] Centos OS Crash Recovery, Inquiry.

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On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 10:51 PM, fred roller <fredrolle...@gmail.com> wrote:

> There is software out there which will rebuild.  It is advanced level, so
> I would concur with the others to take it to a professional data recovery
> service.  Most importantly at this moment is to remove the hard drive, or
> at least shut down the server to minimize the read/write to the disk.  The
> more writes done the less likely recovery will be possible.  Also, know
> whether you just want to recover data or rebuild the OS structure.  Former
> is easier/cheaper than the latter in most cases.
>
> -- Fred
>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 10:20 PM, Keith Keller <
> kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
>
>> On 2016-11-03, Christopher G. Halnin <cghal...@pnri.dost.gov.ph> wrote:
>> >
>> > Does it have an automatic backup system?
>>
>> Not out of the box.  If the drive is not usable in its current state,
>> and you do not have backups, you may need to bring it to a professional
>> drive recovery shop.
>>
>> --keith
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Re: [CentOS] Centos OS Crash Recovery, Inquiry.

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There is software out there which will rebuild.  It is advanced level, so I
would concur with the others to take it to a professional data recovery
service.  Most importantly at this moment is to remove the hard drive, or
at least shut down the server to minimize the read/write to the disk.  The
more writes done the less likely recovery will be possible.  Also, know
whether you just want to recover data or rebuild the OS structure.  Former
is easier/cheaper than the latter in most cases.

-- Fred

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kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:

> On 2016-11-03, Christopher G. Halnin  wrote:
> >
> > Does it have an automatic backup system?
>
> Not out of the box.  If the drive is not usable in its current state,
> and you do not have backups, you may need to bring it to a professional
> drive recovery shop.
>
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Re: [CentOS] installing centos 7 32 bit i386 to laptop

[fred roller]

| this lt came with oos 7 already installed. after i tricked the oos 7
| partition a few times to reduce size, i repartitioned drive with oos
| down to sda1= 1.6 GB system, sda2= 43.0 GB oos 7, sda4= 8.4 GB recovery,
| sda3= extended sda5= 1.1 GB boot, sda6= 3.1 GB swap, sda7 thru
| sda10= 11 GB linux os, sda11= 84 GB home, sda12= 66 GB open use.

if you have a NAS available you could "dd" the the hdd to .img and free up
the space.  Personally I would pull it, resources permitting, and replace
with a another hdd, say 7200 or 10k rpm to buy some speed.  Not sure if
your system will support a ssd but might be worth a look.  Then again,
depending on use, there is the consideration of diminishing return of value
for so old a system when a  newer system can be obtained for 

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 7 32 bit i386 to laptop

[fred roller]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 8:15 AM, geo.inbox.ignored <
geo.inbox.igno...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> good morning Johnny.
>
> On 07/27/2016 05:38 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > On 07/26/2016 11:44 PM, geo wrote:
> >> On 07/26/16 22:22, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> >> <<>>
> >>
> >> hello Johnny,
> >>
> >> glad you caught my post.
> >>
> >>> If you can not get that NIC working with the default kernel, you could
> >>> try the experimental kernel per the bottom of:
> >>>
> >>> https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/i386
> >>>
> >> --->
> >>
> >> thank you. just had a look at it again. read closer this time.
> >>
> >> may have another problem with install. started a third attempt to
> >> install around 2223 hrs.
> >>
> >> there seems to be a problem with installation after clicking out of
> >> software selection. seems to have hit a snag somewhere.
> >>
> >> 'installation source' and 'software selection' both have the triangle.
> >> both read in gray 'checking software dependencies...'.
> >>
> >> this is third round, thought i would let it try to run it's course to
> >> see if it might pull thru, but has not.
> >>
> >> now, just over and hour, it is same as other attempts. clicking on
> >> 'begin installation' does nothing, nor does clicking other selections,
> >> including 'quit'.
> >>
> >> i can 'f2' to root user prompt. not knowing what else to try, i tried
> >> 'top' to see if it showed changing. it does, but i can not get back to
> >> installation screen. holding  pressing one of the 'f' keys does
> >> bring up mouse pointer, but screen i am on does not change.
> >>
> >> typing in 'reboot' does reboot.
> >>
> >> suggestions?
> >>
> >> if you have called it a night, like do not reply in about 30 min, i will
> >> go back to command line and check just which 'f' keys does what and post
> >> back.
> >>
> >> thanks again for reply. greatly needed and much appreciate.
> >>
> >
> > If you are trying to use the NetInstall ISO and if you do not have a
> > network connection, that will not work (it requires a network install to
> > begin).
> >
> > If you install with the CentOS-7-i386-DVD-1511.iso instead, you can do
> > all installs without a network present.
> >
> --->
>
> CentOS-7-i386-DVD-1511.iso.
>
> have been trying to run gui install and beginning to believe that
> could be a part of problem.
>
> after sending last post, i did , did not run 'top', did
> go thru 'f' keys 3 thru 6. 6 is where pointer displays, is frozen,
> will not move, all  keys are locked like it is graphic. even
> trying  fails.  does work.
>
> do recall from attempts 1 & 2 that when i tried , along bottom
> of screen the 'f' key functions is shown, plus text i do not recall.
>
> because of problems with gui, i am seriously considering text mode.
>
> last time i used text mode was early years of linux and with red hat.
>
> concern with text mode is this is hdd has 12 partitions that i need to
> maintain, so i need custom setup.
>
> also want to select all but last 2 selections of software for a
> workstation install.
>
> would there be any place that i can pull info for text mode so i will
> have an understanding of what i will be reading to make install.
>
> or, is there a way to run gui, but use a graphics mode other than what
> default is.
>
> ria, i have a felling that problem is with fact that vga is an amd/ati
> as shown in first post.
>
> if there is anything that by running install to lockup and going to cli
> would help solving problem, i am willing.
>
> again, thank you for reply, greatly appreciate.
>
>
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Given what you tried so far I would, and have, start with cli build (text
build) and build up from there.  The GUI install is just a convenience.
The same packages can be added as groups one at a time until you have your
workstation.  Tedious but effective as you can trouble shoot issues one at
a time vs. full install everything that can go wrong etc. etc. Just my
$.02.  Good hunting.
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Re: [CentOS] Disaster recovery recommendations

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Sysrescue cd.  If the drives are still viable and you have a spare beater
system handy the data rescue should be straight forward. Done it several
times. HIH.

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> Greetings,
>
> I have three drives; they are all SATA Seagate Barracudas; two are 500GB;
> the third is a 2TB.
>
> I don't have a clear reason why they have failed (possibly due to a deep,
> off-brand, flakey mobo; but it's still inconclusive, but I would like to
> find a disaster recovery service that can hopefully recover the data.
>
> Much thanks for any and all suggestions,
>
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Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Samsung Chromebook

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On 05/15/2013 11:57 AM, SilverTip257 wrote:
 On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org
 wrote:
 On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 11:44 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
 I'm thinking of buying a Samsung Chromebook,
 largely for use while travelling.
 But I'd like to use it at home linked to my CentOS-6.4 server,
 rather than to the cloud.
 I'm wondering if this is practicable?
 I use LaTeX quite a lot,
 and I don't know if I could (a) download LaTeX to the Chromebook,
 (b) run LaTeX on the cloud,
 or (c) run LaTeX on my server from the Chromebook.
 Has anyone experience of doing this sort of thing?
[snip]


 It all depends what you (the OP) is looking to do in conjunction with your
 CentOS box.
 I'd start by finding out from somebody what the stock OS has in terms of
 functionality and packages (ex: VPN support [2]).

 [0] http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/chrome/devices/chromebook-pixel/
 [1]
 http://www.zdnet.com/chromebook-pixel-google-io-could-reveal-its-secret-mission-715420/
 [2] http://support.google.com/chromeos/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=1282338

I have been using one for a client to test for integration. Prominently 
app driven so you will be looking for your support there.  If it were 
actually mine the OS would have been replaced by now.  It is handy 
though since there is a choice of ssh clients available making working 
on my CentOS servers easy and the 8+ hour battery life gives me a days 
work without plugging in.  Printing is cloud based and most of your life 
is spent in gmail (drive, calendar, docs, etc).  Google does give you 
100Gb of online storage with your purchase I believe but make sure the 
first user you log on with is the one you want to have it; 
non-transferable from what I understand.

Native OS makes it easy to reset when you push too hard :)  I plan on 
testing NX for GUI connection to *nix systems but haven't gotten that 
far yet.  Right now, my personal position is you can get more bang for 
your buck else where.   Hope this helps.

Fred

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Re: [CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

[Fred Roller]

On 05/09/2013 04:41 PM, Rock wrote:
 My 15GB backup USB drive somehow got corrupted such that
 a chkdsk /f E: on WinXP removed the file allocation table
 (or whatever) making the NTFS drive appear empty.

 I tried Windows Recuva freeware to recover the files, and
 it has been working for 24 hours; but it has dumped about
 65,000 files into a separate flat Windows directory.
   http://www3.picturepush.com/photo/a/12892041/img/12892041.jpg

 Since none of the files were deleted or written over, is
 there a method on Linux that will simply recover the missing
 file allocation directory structure instead of dumping a
 hundred thousand files into a single directory?


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I had to recover a Red Hat Raid array after a motherboard failure...

This did it:
http://www.recoverdatatools.com/

During the recovery it rebuilt the previous Windows installation as 
well.  It not free but it worked for me several years ago.

Hope it helps.  There are some linux solutions I had at the time and I 
am trying to dig up my notes.

Fred
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