Problems with VMWare tools

[Nikola Wenta]

Dear all,
I am trying Scientific Linux and want to get VMWare tools installed. Can 
someone tell me where I can download the required Kernel C header files, and 
under what path they will be installed?
Cheers,
Niko
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Re: Problems with VMWare tools

[Eero Volotinen]

2011/4/9 Nikola Wenta :
> Dear all,
> I am trying Scientific Linux and want to get VMWare tools installed. Can 
> someone tell me where I can download the required Kernel C header files, and 
> under what path they will be installed?
> Cheers,
> Niko

What is your vmware esx(i) version? what is your sf linux version?

br,
--
Eero,
RHCE

Re: How do I install xfce?

[Todd And Margo Chester]

On 04/08/2011 12:41 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:

I gather you came from the CentOS world.:)


Yes


xfce is in the CentOS-5 extras repo.

Akemi


A really, really old version.

:-(

-T

Re: How do I install xfce?

[Todd And Margo Chester]

On 04/08/2011 12:54 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

Not sure which version of Scientific Linux you are looking to have.


SL6


xfce is not in the main distro EL6 repository and not in EPEL for EL6.
I am hoping to fix that soon (well for EPEL that is)


Cool.  What kind of time frame are you looking at?  And, will you announce
it to us all when you do?

I take it that RHEL 6 does not have Xfce in its repos either?

-T

Re: How do I install xfce?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:33, Todd And Margo Chester
 wrote:
> On 04/08/2011 12:54 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>
>> Not sure which version of Scientific Linux you are looking to have.
>
> SL6
>
>> xfce is not in the main distro EL6 repository and not in EPEL for EL6.
>> I am hoping to fix that soon (well for EPEL that is)
>
> Cool.  What kind of time frame are you looking at?  And, will you announce
> it to us all when you do?

I am hoping by end of APril and will announce. It may or may not be
4.8 depending on whether it works for EL6 or not.

> I take it that RHEL 6 does not have Xfce in its repos either?

No it does not. RHEL has KDE and GNOME and I think twm.

> -T
>
>



-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
"The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance."
Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University.
"Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard
battle." -- Ian MacLaren

Re: Problems with VMWare tools

[Lukas Press]

On 04/09/2011 11:34 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote:

2011/4/9 Nikola Wenta:

Dear all,
I am trying Scientific Linux and want to get VMWare tools installed. Can 
someone tell me where I can download the required Kernel C header files, and 
under what path they will be installed?
Cheers,
Niko




kernel-headers and kernel-devel packages, both available in sl repos.  The 
install script will complain that the path to the c header files are wrong if 
you install the header files midway through the process, even if you put the 
correct path in (/usr/include i think?).  If this is happening cancel the 
install and re-run the vmware-install.pl script after installing the correct 
packages; it should pick up the header files automatically then.

Regards
Chris

Re: Time keeping Errors of 15 minutes / week

[Dan M.]

Try checking your cmos battery as the possible culprit.

On 08/04/2011, Larry Linder  wrote:
> I loaded SL 5.5 64 bit on a Gigabyte 770T-USB3 mother board based system we
> are thingking of using in our shop.   My only real problem is that with
> other
> Linux and Windoze boxes in the system this system is losing about 15 minutes
> per week.   When I boot it up it says it is synchronizing to system clock.
>
> Searched internet and really didn't come up much.   Is this a Hardware or SW
> problem?   Really do hear much about system clock errors.
>
> Larry Linder
>

-- 
Sent from my mobile device

Updates missing

[Federico Alves]

Dear fellow scientists
Red Hat just came with an important kernel upgrade. It would be nice if we
could get it in our distribution.
Federico

Re: Updates missing

[Akemi Yagi]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Federico Alves  wrote:
> Dear fellow scientists
> Red Hat just came with an important kernel upgrade. It would be nice if we
> could get it in our distribution.
> Federico

Not to worry. It will come. :-)

Akemi

Re: Problems with VMWare tools

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Lukas Press  wrote:
> On 04/09/2011 11:34 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
>>
>> 2011/4/9 Nikola Wenta:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>> I am trying Scientific Linux and want to get VMWare tools installed. Can
>>> someone tell me where I can download the required Kernel C header files, and
>>> under what path they will be installed?
>>> Cheers,
>>> Niko
>>
>
> kernel-headers and kernel-devel packages, both available in sl repos.  The
> install script will complain that the path to the c header files are wrong
> if you install the header files midway through the process, even if you put
> the correct path in (/usr/include i think?).  If this is happening cancel
> the install and re-run the vmware-install.pl script after installing the
> correct packages; it should pick up the header files automatically then.
>
> Regards
> Chris

There's also a bit of nastiness when you update kernels: VMWare has
not selected to incorporate the 'vmware-modules' init script I sent
them, that re-runs the VMware configuration at boot time in case
you're running a new kernel. This is particularly dangerous if you're
using the vmxnet network drivers rather than e1000: the guest host
will be unavailable after a kernel upgrade and reboot until the
configuration tool is re-run, and if you have the wrong network setup,
your hostname will be wrong and you'll have to reboot *AGAIN*. to get
all your services configured correctly.

repositories

[Federico Alves]

>
>I could not enable the extra repositories at installation time, for lack
>of network access. How do I add them now after installation?
Federico

Re: How do I install xfce?

[Todd And Margo Chester]

On 04/09/2011 10:52 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

Cool.  What kind of time frame are you looking at?  And, will you announce
>  it to us all when you do?

I am hoping by end of April and will announce. It may or may not be
4.8 depending on whether it works for EL6 or not.
I have an almost bare server awaiting!  Lets hope 4.8 works.   Thank 
you.  -T

Re: repositories

[Akemi Yagi]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Federico Alves  wrote:
>>
>>I could not enable the extra repositories at installation time, for lack
>>of network access. How do I add them now after installation?
> Federico

If you now have network connection, try running:

yum groupinfo "Yum Repositories"

That will show you 3rd party repositories that you missed during the
installation. You can then install each repo by using a yum command.

Akemi

Re: How do I install xfce?

[Shaun Jones]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Todd And Margo Chester <
toddandma...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 04/09/2011 10:52 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>
>> Cool.  What kind of time frame are you looking at?  And, will you announce
>>> >  it to us all when you do?
>>>
>> I am hoping by end of April and will announce. It may or may not be
>>
>> 4.8 depending on whether it works for EL6 or not.
>>
> I have an almost bare server awaiting!  Lets hope 4.8 works.   Thank you.
>  -T
>

You need any help packaging it up ?

-- 
Mister Jones

Re: How do I install xfce?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 18:10, Shaun Jones  wrote:
>

>
> You need any help packaging it up ?

At the moment, I do not think so.. as they should just be the Fedora
packages recompiled to EL6. However if some sort of naming issue is
required and such I will definitely call out.

> --
> Mister Jones
>
>
>
>



-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
"The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance."
Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University.
"Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard
battle." -- Ian MacLaren

Re: repositories

[Todd And Margo Chester]

  
  
On 04/09/2011 05:05 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:

  On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Federico Alves  wrote:

  

  
I could not enable the extra repositories at installation time, for lack
of network access. How do I add them now after installation?


Federico

  
  
If you now have network connection, try running:

yum groupinfo "Yum Repositories"

That will show you 3rd party repositories that you missed during the
installation. You can then install each repo by using a yum command.

Akemi




Very interesting command.  I don't have access to my new SL6 server
at the moment, but I do have access to a CentOS 5.5 server:

$ yum groupinfo "Yum Repositories"
  Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
  Setting up Group Process
  addons 951 B
  00:00 
  adobe-linux-i386  951 B
  00:00 
  base 1.1
  kB 00:00 
  extras   2.1
  kB 00:00 
  kbs-CentOS-Extras   1.9 kB
  00:00 
  rpmforge  1.1 kB
  00:00 
  updates    1.9 kB
  00:00 

Warning: Group Yum Repositories does not exist.


I don't think they ever set this up in CentOS.

-T

  

Bridges

[Federico Alves]

Is there any way to make bridges retain their properties after a reboot,
save for a script?
I have abridge that loses its physical interface when the machine reboots,
and as a result of that, all my virtual machines have no internet access.
Specifically, this command does not survive a reboot.
Brctl addif br1 eth1

These are the configuration files
cat ifcfg-br1

DEVICE="br1"
NM_CONTROLLED="no"
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Bridge
BOOTPROTO=none
NAME="Bridge br1"

cat ifcfg-eth1

DEVICE="eth1"
HWADDR="00:1B:21:88:17:0D"
NM_CONTROLLED="yes"
Bridge=br1
ONBOOT="yes"

Re: Bridges

[Todd And Margo Chester]

On 04/10/2011 12:25 AM, Federico Alves wrote:

Brctl addif br1 eth1


Hi Federico,

Back "in the day" before Virtual Box took care
of the bridge itself,  I use to put this kind of stuff
into /etc/rc.d/rc.local. It is a bash script that
runs at the very end of your boot up.

Just and idea.
-T

p.s. which virtual machine are you using?

Re: repositories

[Federico Alves]

I use KVM, the technology included in the kernel.
Federico

From:  Todd And Margo Chester 
Date:  Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:54:14 -0700
To:  Akemi Yagi 
Cc:  Federico Alves , "scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov"

Subject:  Re: repositories


 On 04/09/2011 05:05 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>  
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Federico Alves 
>   wrote:
>  
>>  
>>>  
>>> I could not enable the extra repositories at installation time, for lack
>>> of network access. How do I add them now after installation?
>>>  
>>  
>> Federico
>>  
>  
> If you now have network connection, try running:
> 
> yum groupinfo "Yum Repositories"
> 
> That will show you 3rd party repositories that you missed during the
> installation. You can then install each repo by using a yum command.
> 
> Akemi
> 
>  
 
 Very interesting command.  I don't have access to my new SL6 server
 at the moment, but I do have access to a CentOS 5.5 server:
 
 
> $ yum groupinfo "Yum Repositories"
>  Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
>  Setting up Group Process
>  addons 951 B 00:00
>  adobe-linux-i386  951 B 00:00
>  base 1.1 kB 00:00
>  extras   2.1 kB 00:00
>  kbs-CentOS-Extras   1.9 kB 00:00
>  rpmforge  1.1 kB 00:00
>  updates1.9 kB 00:00
>  
 
> Warning: Group Yum Repositories does not exist.
>  
 
 I don't think they ever set this up in CentOS.
 
 -T
 
 

Re: Bridges

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Todd And Margo Chester
 wrote:
> On 04/10/2011 12:25 AM, Federico Alves wrote:
>>
>> Brctl addif br1 eth1
>>
> Hi Federico,
>
> Back "in the day" before Virtual Box took care
> of the bridge itself,  I use to put this kind of stuff
> into /etc/rc.d/rc.local. It is a bash script that
> runs at the very end of your boot up.
>
> Just and idea.
> -T
>
> p.s. which virtual machine are you using?

Never use rc.local for this. Actually write an init script, based on
those in /etc/init.d/, so that it can be turned *off* gracefully at
reboot time or reset or restarted as needed.

Editing rc.local directly is destabilizing, dangerous, and difficult
to replicate reliably on other systems.

Re: repositories

[Todd And Margo Chester]

On 04/10/2011 02:45 AM, Federico Alves wrote:

I use KVM, the technology included in the kernel.
Federico


That is my next project after I get Xfce installed.

Re: Bridges

[Todd And Margo Chester]

  
  
On 04/09/2011 08:00 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

  On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Todd And Margo Chester
 wrote:

  
On 04/10/2011 12:25 AM, Federico Alves wrote:


  
Brctl addif br1 eth1



Hi Federico,

Back "in the day" before Virtual Box took care
of the bridge itself,  I use to put this kind of stuff
into /etc/rc.d/rc.local. It is a bash script that
runs at the very end of your boot up.

Just and idea.
-T

p.s. which virtual machine are you using?

  
  
Never use rc.local for this. Actually write an init script, based on
those in /etc/init.d/, so that it can be turned *off* gracefully at
reboot time or reset or restarted as needed.

Editing rc.local directly is destabilizing, dangerous, and difficult
to replicate reliably on other systems

Interesting.  Why would you want to stop or restart "Brctl addif br1
eth1"?

And, at least on my system, rc.local is started by S99local
init.d]$ ls -al ../rc5.d/S99local
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Nov 17 09:10 ../rc5.d/S99local ->
  ../rc.local

I can see your point if you wanted to stop or restart things, or
reverse them
at shutdown, but if you only want to run them once, S99local
(rc.local) is
a good place to put them.  I have done this for many years.  Never
once
had a problem.  What am I missing?

-T