Re: NFTables To Replace iptables In the Linux Kernel

2013-10-21 Thread Steven Haigh
On 21/10/2013 4:09 AM, Henrique C. S. Junior wrote:
 As reported in Slashdot[1] in the near future iptables is going to be
 replaced by NFTables in the linux kernel. The project[2] is said to be a
 new and best package filtering framework.
 Have any of you, guys, tried it already and have some experiences to share?

Does it matter? EL6 won't ever have NFTables support.

EL7 probably won't either. Don't stress and keep doing what you're doing.

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issue in CD not ejecting at the end of OS installation

2013-10-21 Thread Edison, Arul (GE Healthcare)
HI,
I am porting my application from Redhat to Scientific Linux 6.3 
 In Scientific Linux the CD is not ejecting at the end of installation 
though I have added eject at the end of my kick start file.  Can someone point 
how to fix this issue

Thanks,
Arul


RE: issue in CD not ejecting at the end of OS installation

2013-10-21 Thread Edison, Arul (GE Healthcare)
Hi All,
In the kick start file, I have mentioned eject at post section at the 
end. Still installation DVD is not ejecting . suggestion on what needs to be 
configured is welcome
 
#platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T
#version=DEVEL
# Firewall configuration
firewall --disabled
install
cdrom
graphical
firstboot --disable
keyboard us
lang en_US
selinux --disabled
logging --level=info
.

%packages
%post
eject
%end

-Original Message-
From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov 
[mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of Edison, 
Arul (GE Healthcare)
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 3:54 PM
To: scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov
Subject: issue in CD not ejecting at the end of OS installation

HI,
I am porting my application from Redhat to Scientific Linux 6.3 
 In Scientific Linux the CD is not ejecting at the end of installation 
though I have added eject at the end of my kick start file.  Can someone point 
how to fix this issue

Thanks,
Arul


Re: issue in CD not ejecting at the end of OS installation

2013-10-21 Thread Michael Tiernan

On 10/21/13 8:12 AM, Edison, Arul (GE Healthcare) wrote:

Hi All,
In the kick start file, I have mentioned eject at post section at the 
end. Still installation DVD is not ejecting . suggestion on what needs to be 
configured is welcome
   
I've been forced to use a hammer (figuratively) to make the eject work 
until I could sort out (not yet) why a smple 'eject' command didn't work 
in the kickstart file.


The commands I've experimented with are at the end of my postinstall 
section:

eject -v cdrom
#eject -v -a on cdrom
#eject -v -r -a on cdrom
#eject -v -r -a on /dev/cdrom

As you can see, for the moment the first is working for me as I want, 
the verbose flag is just because and I've not messed with success since.


I'm open to other approaches, I've just been wrapped up in my own efforts.

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Kernel Panic after power failure

2013-10-21 Thread Henrique C. S. Junior

After a power failure in my building, my SL 6.4 (x86_64) is experiencing a 
kernel panic in the first stages of booting.
Error messages suggests that a serious problem occurred with my Ext4 filesystem 
in /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root.
Here are the error messages aftes the kernel panic:

ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata3.00: error: { UNC }
ata3.00: exception Emask 0xoSAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
ata3.00: failed command: READ DMA
ata3.00: cmd c8/00:00:c0:86:14/00:00:00:00:00/e3 tag 0 dm 131072 in
 res 51/40:cf:e8:86:14/00:00:00:00:00/e3 Emask 0x9 (media error)

ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata3.00: error: { UNC }
JBD: Failed to read block at offset 6886
EXT4-fs (dm-0): error
 loading journal
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root,
   missing codepage or helper program, or other error
   In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

Rescue disk says that I don't have any Linux partitions and I need to rescue, 
at least, two MySQL databases in this server.
Can someone, please, provide some help with this case?
 
---
Henrique C. S. Junior
http://about.me/henriquejunior
Química Industrial - UFRRJ
Prefeitura Muncipal de Paracambi
Centro de Processamento de Dados


Re: Kernel Panic after power failure

2013-10-21 Thread John Lauro
Is it a SSD? A lot of SSD (especially consumer grade) lie about writes 
completing and cause nasty problems when the power goes out... 

Try mounting it with ro,noload. 

- Original Message -

 From: Henrique C. S. Junior henrique...@gmail.com
 To: Scientific Linux Users scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov
 Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 8:52:52 AM
 Subject: Kernel Panic after power failure

 After a power failure in my building, my SL 6.4 (x86_64) is
 experiencing a kernel panic in the first stages of booting.
 Error messages suggests that a serious problem occurred with my Ext4
 filesystem in /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root.
 Here are the error messages aftes the kernel panic:

 ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
 ata3.00: error: { UNC }
 ata3.00: exception Emask 0xoSAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
 ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
 ata3.00: failed command: READ DMA
 ata3.00: cmd c8/00:00:c0:86:14/00:00:00:00:00/e3 tag 0 dm 131072 in
 res 51/40:cf:e8:86:14/00:00:00:00:00/e3 Emask 0x9 (media error)

 ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
 ata3.00: error: { UNC }
 JBD: Failed to read block at offset 6886
 EXT4-fs (dm-0): error loading journal
 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
 /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root,
 missing codepage or helper program, or other error
 In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
 dmesg | tail or so

 Rescue disk says that I don't have any Linux partitions and I need
 to rescue, at least, two MySQL databases in this server.
 Can someone, please, provide some help with this case?

 ---
 Henrique C. S. Junior
 http://about.me/henriquejunior
 Química Industrial - UFRRJ
 Prefeitura Muncipal de Paracambi
 Centro de Processamento de Dados


Re: Kernel Panic after power failure

2013-10-21 Thread Henrique Junior
I was able to fix the issue using the steps provided here:
http://pissedoffadmins.com/os/mount-unknown-filesystem-type-lvm2_member.html

Thank you for your help, guys.


2013/10/21 Henrique C. S. Junior henrique...@gmail.com

 Hi,
 It is an HDD failure. I have already tried e2fsck -b 8193 with no luck...

 ---
 Henrique C. S. Junior
 http://about.me/henriquejunior
 Química Industrial - UFRRJ
 Prefeitura Muncipal de Paracambi
 Centro de Processamento de Dados


   On Monday, October 21, 2013 11:33 AM, Henrique Castro 
 henrique...@yahoo.com wrote:

  Hi,
 It is an HDD failure. I have already tried e2fsck -b 8193 with no luck...

 ---
 Henrique C. S. Junior
 http://about.me/henriquejunior
 Química Industrial - UFRRJ
 Prefeitura Muncipal de Paracambi
 Centro de Processamento de Dados


   On Monday, October 21, 2013 11:23 AM, Oleg Sadov sa...@linux-ink.ru
 wrote:

 Seems like HDD failure. Try to read this disk in another computer. If
 superblock is damaged -- you may try to recover form backup superblock
 (e2fsck -b).

 21/10/2013 05:52 -0700, Henrique C. S. Junior wrote:
  After a power failure in my building, my SL 6.4 (x86_64) is
  experiencing a kernel panic in the first stages of booting.
  Error messages suggests that a serious problem occurred with my Ext4
  filesystem in /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root.
  Here are the error messages aftes the kernel panic:
 
  ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
  ata3.00: error: { UNC }
  ata3.00: exception Emask 0xoSAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
  ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
  ata3.00: failed command: READ DMA
  ata3.00: cmd c8/00:00:c0:86:14/00:00:00:00:00/e3 tag 0 dm 131072 in
   res 51/40:cf:e8:86:14/00:00:00:00:00/e3 Emask 0x9 (media
  error)
 
  ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
  ata3.00: error: { UNC }
  JBD: Failed to read block at offset 6886
  EXT4-fs (dm-0): error loading journal
  mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock
  on /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root,
 missing codepage or helper program, or other error
 In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
  dmesg | tail or so
 
  Rescue disk says that I don't have any Linux partitions and I need
  to rescue, at least, two MySQL databases in this server.
  Can someone, please, provide some help with this case?
 
  ---
  Henrique C. S. Junior
  http://about.me/henriquejunior
  Química Industrial - UFRRJ
  Prefeitura Muncipal de Paracambi
  Centro de Processamento de Dados
 







-- 
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http://about.me/henriquejunior


Re: NFTables To Replace iptables In the Linux Kernel

2013-10-21 Thread Yasha Karant

On 10/21/2013 01:07 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:

On 21/10/2013 4:09 AM, Henrique C. S. Junior wrote:

As reported in Slashdot[1] in the near future iptables is going to be
replaced by NFTables in the linux kernel. The project[2] is said to be a
new and best package filtering framework.
Have any of you, guys, tried it already and have some experiences to share?


Does it matter? EL6 won't ever have NFTables support.

EL7 probably won't either. Don't stress and keep doing what you're doing.



Perhaps someone familiar with the choices made by TUV will clarify the 
above statement:  EL7 probably won't either.


SL and other TUV re-distributors of EL simply build and re-package the 
TUV product (removing the logos and non-open copyrighted material, but 
keeping all of the internal TUV developer statements -- the actual name 
of TUV, that evidently is taboo on this list, is plastered all over the 
source code for EL).  Thus, the decision as to which family of Linux 
kernels to use is a TUV decision.


However, as fundamental new functionality, or repackaging of existing 
functionality with a new API, is incorporated into the Linux kernel -- 
not in an experimental way that may be removed, but in the stable 
production released version - the high reliability approach requires 
that the kernel receives extensive field testing (as happens with 
Fedora) as well as stress testing and internal hardening against threats 
and compromises that may not be as needed in an enthusiast distribution.


Nonetheless, once a major change (e.g., NFTables replacing iptables) is 
done in the base source, the production enterprise version must reflect 
the change -- and in less than a decade.  Why less than a decade? 
Unless there is a fully backward compatible set of APIs, new 
applications and revisions typically use the current not historical 
APIs.  Presumably, there will be NFTables features that application 
developers will use that have no iptables backport.


Thus -- how long is the delay?  Typically, are two major releases (e.g., 
NFTables in EL8) the usual delay?  Does anyone have historical data from 
EL/TUV?


Yasha Karant


Re: NFTables To Replace iptables In the Linux Kernel

2013-10-21 Thread Henrique C. S. Junior
EL7 is coming, probably, with kernel 3.11 so, the changes in kernel 3.13 and 
later will (probably) affect EL = 8.


 
---
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http://about.me/henriquejunior
Química Industrial - UFRRJ
Prefeitura Muncipal de Paracambi
Centro de Processamento de Dados




On Monday, October 21, 2013 1:36 PM, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote:
 
On 10/21/2013 01:07 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:

 On 21/10/2013 4:09 AM, Henrique C. S. Junior wrote:
 As reported in Slashdot[1] in the near future iptables is going to be
 replaced by NFTables in the linux kernel. The project[2] is said to be a
 new and best package filtering framework.
 Have any of you, guys, tried it already and have some experiences to share?

 Does it matter? EL6 won't ever have NFTables support.

 EL7 probably won't either. Don't stress and keep doing what you're doing.


Perhaps someone familiar with the choices made by TUV will clarify the 
above statement:  EL7 probably won't either.

SL and other TUV re-distributors of EL simply build and re-package the 
TUV product (removing the logos and non-open copyrighted material, but 
keeping all of the internal TUV developer statements -- the actual name 
of TUV, that evidently is taboo on this list, is plastered all over the 
source code for EL).  Thus, the decision as to which family of Linux 
kernels to use is a TUV decision.

However, as fundamental new functionality, or repackaging of existing 
functionality with a new API, is incorporated into the Linux kernel -- 
not in an experimental way that may be removed, but in the stable 
production released version - the high reliability approach requires 
that the kernel receives extensive field testing (as happens with 
Fedora) as well as stress testing and internal hardening against threats 
and compromises that may not be as needed in an enthusiast distribution.

Nonetheless, once a major change (e.g., NFTables replacing iptables) is 
done in the base source, the production enterprise version must reflect 
the change -- and in less than a decade.  Why less than a decade? 
Unless there is a fully backward compatible set of APIs, new 
applications and revisions typically use the current not historical 
APIs.  Presumably, there will be NFTables features that application 
developers will use that have no iptables backport.

Thus -- how long is the delay?  Typically, are two major releases (e.g., 
NFTables in EL8) the usual delay?  Does anyone have historical data from 
EL/TUV?

Yasha Karant





RE: issue in CD not ejecting at the end of OS installation

2013-10-21 Thread Paul Robert Marino
Eject is a valid kickstart directive you don't need to put it in a post. Additionally if you don't include the eject package in your package then in a post statement it won't work because the post by default execute chrooted into the installed OS-- Sent from my HP Pre3On Oct 21, 2013 8:13, Edison, Arul (GE Healthcare) aruljeyananth.jamesedi...@ge.com wrote: Hi All,
	In the kick start file, I have mentioned eject at post section at the end. Still installation DVD is not ejecting . suggestion on what needs to be configured is welcome
 
#platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T
#version=DEVEL
# Firewall configuration
firewall --disabled
install
cdrom
graphical
firstboot --disable
keyboard us
lang en_US
selinux --disabled
logging --level=info
.

%packages
%post
eject
%end

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From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov [mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of Edison, Arul (GE Healthcare)
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 3:54 PM
To: scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov
Subject: issue in CD not ejecting at the end of OS installation

HI,
I am porting my application from Redhat to Scientific Linux 6.3 
	 In Scientific Linux the CD is not ejecting at the end of installation though I have added eject at the end of my kick start file.  Can someone point how to fix this issue
	
Thanks,
Arul

Re: NFTables To Replace iptables In the Linux Kernel

2013-10-21 Thread Mark Stodola

On 10/21/2013 10:34 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:

On 10/21/2013 01:07 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:

On 21/10/2013 4:09 AM, Henrique C. S. Junior wrote:

As reported in Slashdot[1] in the near future iptables is going to be
replaced by NFTables in the linux kernel. The project[2] is said to be a
new and best package filtering framework.
Have any of you, guys, tried it already and have some experiences to
share?


Does it matter? EL6 won't ever have NFTables support.

EL7 probably won't either. Don't stress and keep doing what you're doing.



Perhaps someone familiar with the choices made by TUV will clarify the
above statement: EL7 probably won't either.

SL and other TUV re-distributors of EL simply build and re-package the
TUV product (removing the logos and non-open copyrighted material, but
keeping all of the internal TUV developer statements -- the actual name
of TUV, that evidently is taboo on this list, is plastered all over the
source code for EL). Thus, the decision as to which family of Linux
kernels to use is a TUV decision.

Redhat Enterprise Linux!  It isn't taboo, just takes longer to type than 
TUV.  Their trademarks must be removed from documentation and 
distributed materials.  Internet discussions really don't matter.



However, as fundamental new functionality, or repackaging of existing
functionality with a new API, is incorporated into the Linux kernel --
not in an experimental way that may be removed, but in the stable
production released version - the high reliability approach requires
that the kernel receives extensive field testing (as happens with
Fedora) as well as stress testing and internal hardening against threats
and compromises that may not be as needed in an enthusiast distribution.

Nonetheless, once a major change (e.g., NFTables replacing iptables) is
done in the base source, the production enterprise version must reflect
the change -- and in less than a decade. Why less than a decade? Unless
there is a fully backward compatible set of APIs, new applications and
revisions typically use the current not historical APIs. Presumably,
there will be NFTables features that application developers will use
that have no iptables backport.

If one takes the time to read up on NFTables (e.g. the articles 
previously linked), they would find that there is an iptables 
compatibility layer under development alongside this new project.



Thus -- how long is the delay? Typically, are two major releases (e.g.,
NFTables in EL8) the usual delay? Does anyone have historical data from
EL/TUV?



Like was previously said.  I wouldn't get flustered or worked up over 
this.  NFTables has been in the works for 4 years and is just making it 
into forked development tree (not mainline) and will be some time before 
it trickles into the enterprise.  Look at how far ahead KDE, Gnome, and 
other technologies are from the current SL6 offering for comparison.


-Mark


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Re: issue in CD not ejecting at the end of OS installation

2013-10-21 Thread Michael Tiernan

On 10/21/13 11:43 AM, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
Eject is a valid kickstart directive you don't need to put it in a 
post. Additionally if you don't include the eject package in your 
package then in a post statement it won't work because the post by 
default execute chrooted into the installed OS


Yes it is valid but, as seems to be the case at times, the system didn't 
read the book.
I put it in post because 'eject' wasn't working and I needed to fix it 
sooner than later.

(And yes, eject was installed on the system when tested.)

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Re: NFTables To Replace iptables In the Linux Kernel

2013-10-21 Thread Jos Vos
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 08:34:58AM -0700, Yasha Karant wrote:

 [...] -- the actual name 
 of TUV, that evidently is taboo on this list, [...]

Evidently?  It's complete nonsense to NOT use the name of TUV here
or at whatever place, as long as you don't say things about SL in
relation to TUV and/or their products that are illegal.

I thought only the CentOS community was (for no good reason) paranoid.

In the time I created and released X/OS Linux, being also rebuild of
the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3/4/5 sources, I did mention Red Hat,
RHEL, etc., but only as far as appropriate and allowed of course.

 Nonetheless, once a major change (e.g., NFTables replacing iptables) is
 done in the base source, the production enterprise version must reflect
 the change -- and in less than a decade.  Why less than a decade?
 Unless there is a fully backward compatible set of APIs, new
 applications and revisions typically use the current not historical
 APIs.  Presumably, there will be NFTables features that application
 developers will use that have no iptables backport.
 
 Thus -- how long is the delay?  Typically, are two major releases (e.g.,
 NFTables in EL8) the usual delay?  Does anyone have historical data from
 EL/TUV?

Fedora 20 seems to use the 3.11 kernel, so it won't have a kernel with
NFTables.  RHEL 7 is already being developed (and in alpha stage as far
as I've heard) and will most likely have a kernel = 3.11, so this makes
the statement that EL7 probably won't either very trustworthy.  There
are no statistics about delays etc. needed to just see that RHEL 7
won't use a kernel that supports NFTables.

So, there is no artificial delay created by RH to postpone things in
RHEL, it's just common sense when someone says this about NFTables in
relattion to RHEL 7.

-- 
--Jos Vos j...@xos.nl
--X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV   |   Phone: +31 20 6938364
--Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Fax: +31 20 6948204


Re: NFTables To Replace iptables In the Linux Kernel

2013-10-21 Thread Paul Robert Marino
Well I've heard this before Nf-Hipac http://www.hipac.org/ was at one
time slated to be the next big thing. I'm not holding my breath on
this one and if it does replace all of the existing tools expect it to
be a few years before you see it in production any where.


On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Jos Vos j...@xos.nl wrote:
 On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 08:34:58AM -0700, Yasha Karant wrote:

 [...] -- the actual name
 of TUV, that evidently is taboo on this list, [...]

 Evidently?  It's complete nonsense to NOT use the name of TUV here
 or at whatever place, as long as you don't say things about SL in
 relation to TUV and/or their products that are illegal.

 I thought only the CentOS community was (for no good reason) paranoid.

 In the time I created and released X/OS Linux, being also rebuild of
 the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3/4/5 sources, I did mention Red Hat,
 RHEL, etc., but only as far as appropriate and allowed of course.

 Nonetheless, once a major change (e.g., NFTables replacing iptables) is
 done in the base source, the production enterprise version must reflect
 the change -- and in less than a decade.  Why less than a decade?
 Unless there is a fully backward compatible set of APIs, new
 applications and revisions typically use the current not historical
 APIs.  Presumably, there will be NFTables features that application
 developers will use that have no iptables backport.

 Thus -- how long is the delay?  Typically, are two major releases (e.g.,
 NFTables in EL8) the usual delay?  Does anyone have historical data from
 EL/TUV?

 Fedora 20 seems to use the 3.11 kernel, so it won't have a kernel with
 NFTables.  RHEL 7 is already being developed (and in alpha stage as far
 as I've heard) and will most likely have a kernel = 3.11, so this makes
 the statement that EL7 probably won't either very trustworthy.  There
 are no statistics about delays etc. needed to just see that RHEL 7
 won't use a kernel that supports NFTables.

 So, there is no artificial delay created by RH to postpone things in
 RHEL, it's just common sense when someone says this about NFTables in
 relattion to RHEL 7.

 --
 --Jos Vos j...@xos.nl
 --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV   |   Phone: +31 20 6938364
 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Fax: +31 20 6948204


Re: NFTables To Replace iptables In the Linux Kernel

2013-10-21 Thread Yasha Karant
Precisely my point.  Compatibility modes often are incomplete, 
unfaithful, and unreliable.  I am not singing the praises of any new 
fundamental change in a basic kernel utility/configuration entity that 
has been integrated into many application and configuration 
packages/environments/situations .  However, if the change is forced 
upon the community, then developers either must maintain two (or more) 
fundamentally incompatible versions (e.g., native STL and the rest for 
an ANSI open systems environment and MFC for a proprietary monopoly 
environment), or select one and let those lacking the environment to 
find another solution (e.g., VirtualBox to run native MS Windows as a 
guest/application to run a monopoly only application or environment 
under a Linux host).  Admittedly, the change coming to the linux kernel 
(unless the change is abandoned) is not as drastic as having to use the 
monopoly MFC, but it certainly could prove to be highly inconvenient.


My timeline question was less directed towards application end user 
environments such as KDE or Gnome, but more towards actual fundamental 
kernel or Xwindows internals and the APIs required to use these 
fundamentals.  Does anyone have an average time interval from history 
when a major change was declared stable production in the fundamental 
internals and then actually appeared in RHEL production (as it appears 
RHEL is no longer taboo)?  It is Red Hat that determines this timeline, 
not the clone distributions such as SL or CentOS.


Yasha Karant

On 10/21/2013 03:53 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

  If one takes the time to read up on NFTables (e.g. the articles
previously linked), they would find that there is an iptables
compatibility layer under development alongside this new project.

I hear there's plans at NASA for a manned return to the moon, too. Don't
hold your breath.

Under development by the core authors of nftables itself does not mean
they know the iptables configuration tools well enough to write such a
layer to work across the broad variety of RPM based and configuration
tool managed oddities. Even the system-config-security tool is
seriously awkward and underpowered for any complex iptables
configurations. I'll be pleased, and surprised, if their nftables
compatibility toolkit tool can manage even the well documented
configurations and layout of system-config-security.