wireless card driver problem

2011-09-13 Thread vivek chalotra 
I have scientific linux cern 5.5 installed in my hp compaq 8510w laptop..

I am getting the following error on activating the wlan0 device:

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

Contents of /lib/firmware are:
[root@localhost ~]# cd /lib/firmware/
[root@localhost firmware]# ls
iwlwifi-4965-ucode-228.61.2.24




Below are the outputs of lspci command:

[root@localhost ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory
Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express
Root Port (rev 0c)
00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965 MEI
Controller (rev 0c)
00:03.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965 PT IDER
Controller (rev 0c)
00:03.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965 KT
Controller (rev 0c)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566MM Gigabit Network
Connection (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port
1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port
2 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port
5 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HBM (ICH8M-E) LPC Interface
Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE
Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA
AHCI Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M76 [Radeon Mobility
HD 2600 Series]
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV630/M76 audio device [Radeon HD
2600 Series]
02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b9)
02:06.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b9)
02:06.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev
03)
02:06.3 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host
Adapter (rev 20)
02:06.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 10)
10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN
[Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)




Any help appreciated .

Thanks and regards

Vvek Chalotra
GRID Project Associate,
High Energy Physics Group,
Department of Physics & Electronics,
University of Jammu,
Jammu 180006,
INDIA.

Re: wireless card driver problem

2011-09-13 Thread Aram Avetisyan 
Out of curiosity, did you happen to upgrade to SLC 5.5 from a previous 
version of SLC 5? I ask because I had this same exact wireless card and 
a similar problem with SIOCSIFFLAGS when I updated my old laptop from 
5.1 to 5.3 a couple of years ago (the thread is here: 
http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0904&L=scientific-linux-users&T=0&P=9191 
). You can get rid of the SIOCSIFFLAGS problem by following the 
instructions in that thread, but no matter what I did, the wireless 
simply refused to work. The way I finally solved that problem was by 
reformatting the machine and installing a "clean" version of SL 5.3.


If you already have a clean install, then my only suggestion is to use 
NetworkManager. The Intel 4965 card has never worked form me with 
ifconfig -- not with SL 5.1 and not with SL 5.3. There must be some way 
to make it happen, but NetworkManager is so much easier (it generally 
works out-of-the-box).


-- Aram


On 9/13/2011 12:55 PM, vivek chalotra wrote:

I have scientific linux cern 5.5 installed in my hp compaq 8510w laptop..

I am getting the following error on activating the wlan0 device:

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

Contents of /lib/firmware are:
[root@localhost ~]# cd /lib/firmware/
[root@localhost firmware]# ls
iwlwifi-4965-ucode-228.61.2.24




Below are the outputs of lspci command:

[root@localhost ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory 
Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI 
Express Root Port (rev 0c)
00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965 
MEI Controller (rev 0c)
00:03.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965 PT IDER 
Controller (rev 0c)
00:03.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965 KT 
Controller (rev 0c)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566MM Gigabit Network 
Connection (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB 
UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB 
UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 
EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio 
Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express 
Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express 
Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express 
Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB 
UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB 
UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB 
UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 
EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HBM (ICH8M-E) LPC Interface 
Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) 
IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM 
(ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M76 [Radeon 
Mobility HD 2600 Series]
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV630/M76 audio device 
[Radeon HD 2600 Series]

02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b9)
02:06.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b9)
02:06.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller 
(rev 03)
02:06.3 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro 
Host Adapter (rev 20)
02:06.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller 
(rev 10)
10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or 
AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)





Any help appreciated .

Thanks and regards

Vvek Chalotra
GRID Project Associate,
High Energy Physics Group,
Department of Physics & Electronics,
University of Jammu,
Jammu 180006,
INDIA.

Oracle JDK is in Scientific Linux 5.7 RC 2?

2011-09-13 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia 
The release candidate has been very sweet, so far. I no longer have a
commercial license from our favorite upstream vendor in my hands, so
I'm wondering if our upstream vendor is including that directly in
their standard "channels", one of their not-enabled-by-default
"channels", or what? I note that CentOS is not including it, nor the
java-1.6.0-sun-compa.

It's very helpful material: it makes integrating with the third party
JPackage repository, version 6.0 *much* simpler, and saves me a bunch
of work. That gets me direct access to jboss materials rather than
having to backport them from Scientific Linux 6.x.

Re: wireless card driver problem

2011-09-13 Thread Akemi Yagi 
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Aram Avetisyan
 wrote:
> Out of curiosity, did you happen to upgrade to SLC 5.5 from a previous
> version of SLC 5? I ask because I had this same exact wireless card and a
> similar problem with SIOCSIFFLAGS when I updated my old laptop from 5.1 to
> 5.3 a couple of years ago (the thread is here:
> http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0904&L=scientific-linux-users&T=0&P=9191
> ). You can get rid of the SIOCSIFFLAGS problem by following the instructions
> in that thread, but no matter what I did, the wireless simply refused to
> work. The way I finally solved that problem was by reformatting the machine
> and installing a "clean" version of SL 5.3.

In that thread, Phil Perry suggested updating the firmware. The
SIOCSIFFLAGS error often indicates a wrong firmware. So I, too, think
that is the first thing to try.

Akemi

Re: need help installing nvidia driver on new laptop

2011-09-13 Thread Andrew Z 
I recently removed my xorg.conf and x refused to start. Ob the screen I saw 
blinking and then. Well nothing.
Maybe if you put some basic conf it will help?
-- 
Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Kevin Thomas  wrote:

I just read over that, but I didn't get much out of it other than "the intel 
stuff worked" (there wasn't really any explanation on that) and that bumblee is 
the proclaimed solution, unless I'm missing something.  I don't know what you 
mean by the latest and greatest driver. Are you referring to Intel or Nvidia? I 
don't even have an xorg.conf file on my system.

On 09/12/2011 09:36 PM, Andrew Z wrote: 

h. Did you see this : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=124918 ?
(silly question, but i'll still try) - are you sure you have the latest and 
greatest driver?

get rid of xorg.conf  and see if you get anything.


On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Kevin Thomas  wrote:

Here's the relevant lines from /var/log/messages:

Sep 11 21:09:55 xps kernel: [drm] nouveau :01:00.0: Disabling fbcon 
acceleration...
Sep 11 21:09:55 xps kernel: [drm] nouveau :01:00.0: Unpinning 
framebuffer(s)...II) intel(0): Modeline "800x600"x60.3   40.00  800 840 968 
1056  600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz)
(II) intel(0): Modeline "800x600"x56.2   36.00  800 824 896 1024  600 601 603 
625 +hsync +vsync (35.2 kHz)
(II) intel(0): Modeline "848x480"x60.0   33.75  848 864 976 1088  480 486 494 
517 +hsync +vsync (31.0 kHz)
(II) intel(0): Modeline "640x480"x59.9   25.18  640 656 752 800  480 490 492 
525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz)
(II) intel(0): EDID for output VGA2
(II) intel(0): EDID for output HDMI2
(II) intel(0): EDID for output DP1 



On 09/11/2011 11:07 PM, Andrew Z wrote: 

Kevin,
I'm sure you went over this. Already, but maybe you can tell us what last 
(relevant ) lines are in messages are and what X.log has?
-- 
Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Kevin Thomas  wrote: 

You are correct that when you install the kmod-nvidia package, it automatically 
disables nouveau and blacklists it for you, but I didn't know there was a new 
nvidia xorg.conf file created. After I installed the kmod-nvidia package again, 
I restarted and modified the kernel arguements to include the intel.disable=1 
arguement, but the result was the sameeventually the screen flickered a few 
times and it stopped booting, although I could still open a terminal via 
alt+F2. I'm not sure what to try next. Someone requested some command output 
from me in a different email, which I provided, but I'm lost now. I didn't 
think it would be this difficult. Kevin On 09/11/2011 01:10 PM, Phil Perry 
wrote: > On 11/09/11 18:39, Chris Pemberton wrote: > >> Some good info over at 
the archlinux forums: >> >> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=881549 
>> >> http://linux-hybrid-graphics.blogspot.com/ >> >> To test the nvidia 
driver: blacklist the nouveau and intel graphic >> modules, di
 sable
kernel mode-setting, and boot to runlevel 3 (all via >> the kernel command line 
args below). Then run nvidia's xorg creation >> tool (nvidia-xconfig). Give X a 
try and see if it works. >> >> nouveau.disable=1 intel.disable=1 nomodeset 3 
<--append this to grub >> kernel line >> > > The elrepo.org kmod-nvidia package 
already disables nouveau > mode-setting (nouveau.modeset=0), blacklists the 
nouveau driver and > runs nvidia-xconfig to create a suitable xorg.conf file. > 
> Perhaps in the case of these hybrid systems we also need to blacklist > the 
Intel driver too as suggested above. Do we know which Intel driver > is being 
loaded? > > Once you have worked out what works for you through testing, you > 
should file a bug at http://elrepo.org/bugs/ and we can get these > fixes 
incorporated into the package. > >> If that wont work, black list nouveau and 
nvidia, and try the intel >> module (delete the xorg.conf made by 
nvidia-xconfig) >> >> nouveau.disable=1 nomodeset 3 <-- append t
 his to
grub kernel line >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> Chris >>

RE: need help installing nvidia driver on new laptop

2011-09-13 Thread Jordan Dean 
I've barely been keeping up with all of the trial and error.  If you are not
opposed to using the NVidia Linux drivers that you download directly from
them, this is what I would suggest, please note, there is a new step that
you did not have to do in 6.0 that is now required for 6.1 (at least on the
machines we're using).
 
echo 'blacklist nouveau' >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
vi /etc/grub.conf  add rdblacklist=nouveau  to kernel line
*NEW STEP*  yum remove xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
reboot (you should not see ANY mention of nouveau in the message log, if you
do, it's not going to work)
init 3 
./NVIDIA-Linux.
reboot
nvidia-settings (if you need to adjust stuff).
 
 
you MUST MUST MUST remove nouveau, this is new behavior in 6.1 not sure why
but that's what I had to do to make my old process work.
 
 
-Jordan

  _  

From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov
[mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of Andrew
Z
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:37 AM
To: Kevin Thomas
Cc: Phil Perry; SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV
Subject: Re: need help installing nvidia driver on new laptop


I recently removed my xorg.conf and x refused to start. Ob the screen I saw
blinking and then. Well nothing.
Maybe if you put some basic conf it will help?
-- 
Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.


Kevin Thomas  wrote: 

I just read over that, but I didn't get much out of it other than "the intel
stuff worked" (there wasn't really any explanation on that) and that bumblee
is the proclaimed solution, unless I'm missing something.  I don't know what
you mean by the latest and greatest driver. Are you referring to Intel or
Nvidia? I don't even have an xorg.conf file on my system.

On 09/12/2011 09:36 PM, Andrew Z wrote: 

h. Did you see this : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=124918
?
(silly question, but i'll still try) - are you sure you have the latest and
greatest driver?

get rid of xorg.conf  and see if you get anything.


On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Kevin Thomas  wrote:


Here's the relevant lines from /var/log/messages:

Sep 11 21:09:55 xps kernel: [drm] nouveau :01:00.0: Disabling fbcon
acceleration...
Sep 11 21:09:55 xps kernel: [drm] nouveau :01:00.0: Unpinning
framebuffer(s)...II) intel(0): Modeline "800x600"x60.3   40.00  800 840 968
1056  600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz)
(II) intel(0): Modeline "800x600"x56.2   36.00  800 824 896 1024  600 601
603 625 +hsync +vsync (35.2 kHz)
(II) intel(0): Modeline "848x480"x60.0   33.75  848 864 976 1088  480 486
494 517 +hsync +vsync (31.0 kHz)
(II) intel(0): Modeline "640x480"x59.9   25.18  640 656 752 800  480 490 492
525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz)
(II) intel(0): EDID for output VGA2
(II) intel(0): EDID for output HDMI2
(II) intel(0): EDID for output DP1 


On 09/11/2011 11:07 PM, Andrew Z wrote: 

Kevin,
I'm sure you went over this. Already, but maybe you can tell us what last
(relevant ) lines are in messages are and what X.log has?
-- 
Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.


Kevin Thomas    wrote: 

You are correct that when you install the kmod-nvidia package, it 

automatically disables nouveau and blacklists it for you, but I didn't 

know there was a new nvidia xorg.conf file created.  After I installed 

the kmod-nvidia package again, I restarted and modified the kernel 

arguements to include the intel.disable=1 arguement, but the result was 

the sameeventually the screen flickered a few times and it stopped 

booting, although I could still open a terminal via alt+F2.  I'm not 

sure what to try next. Someone requested some command output from me in 

a different email, which I provided, but I'm lost now.  I didn't think 

it would be this difficult.



Kevin



On 09/11/2011 01:10 PM, Phil Perry wrote:

> On 11/09/11 18:39, Chris Pemberton wrote:

>

>> Some good info over at the archlinux forums:

>>

>> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=881549

>>

>> http://linux-hybrid-graphics.blogspot.com/

>>

>> To test the nvidia driver: blacklist the nouveau and intel graphic

>> modules, disable kernel mode-setting, and boot to runlevel 3 (all via

>> the kernel command line args below). Then run nvidia's xorg creation

>> tool (nvidia-xconfig). Give X a try and see if it works.

>>

>> nouveau.disable=1 intel.disable=1 nomodeset 3 <--append this to grub

>> kernel line

>>

>

> The elrepo.org kmod-nvidia package already disables nouveau 

> mode-setting (nouveau.modeset=0), blacklists the nouveau driver and 

> runs nvidia-xconfig to create a suitable xorg.conf

file.

>

> Perhaps in the case of these hybrid systems we also need to blacklist 

> the Intel driver too as suggested above. Do we know which Intel driver 

> is being loaded?

>

> Once you have worked out what works for you through testing, you 

> should file a bug at http://elrepo.org/bugs/ and we can get these 

> fixes incorp

Re: xfce - panel animation

2011-09-13 Thread Andrew Z 
this phone is killing me. Sorry guys about this.
AVN is @ https://launchpad.net/awn
i found some Fedora 15 rpms last night ,but didn't have a chance to try it.


On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Andrew Z  wrote:

> Jos, thank you for reply .
> I'm exactly after that fancy animation.
> It appears there is AVN for this -

Re: xfce - panel animation

2011-09-13 Thread Christopher Tooley 
There is also a project by the gnome do guys called "docky" which seems to be 
pretty slick.  I remember trying out AWN when it was released a while ago and 
thought it was buggy, but I bet it's gotten much better since then :)  (p.s. 
Gnome-do and synapse are an awesome way to start applications - super fast!)

Gnome+do
http://do.davebsd.com/
gnome+do docky:
http://do.davebsd.com/wiki/Docky

Synapse requires zeitgeist though, and I dunno if we have that in SL...

Christopher Tooley
ctoo...@uvic.ca
Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic



On 2011-09-13, at 7:06 AM, Andrew Z wrote:

this phone is killing me. Sorry guys about this.
AVN is @ https://launchpad.net/awn
i found some Fedora 15 rpms last night ,but didn't have a chance to try it.


On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Andrew Z 
mailto:form...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Jos, thank you for reply .
I'm exactly after that fancy animation.
It appears there is AVN for this -

System hangs on "Starting system logger" during initial boot

2011-09-13 Thread Paul Jochum 

Hi All:

On a SUN x4150 (that previously ran SL 5x fine), I have tried installing 
SL 6 (and 6.1 and 6.x).  For each of my SL 6 installations, the system 
will hang during the boot at "Starting system logger[   OK   ], 
and not accept any keyboard input (I can't do a CNTL-ALT-F2, for 
example, to bring up another console and see what is wrong).


Scenario:

New install, either through the GUI for from Kickstart.
If I select option "minimal", then the system boots fine.  However, if I 
select an option with a GUI (like "Virtualization"), then I run into 
this problem.


Any suggestions on what to check?

thanks,

Paul Jochum
paul.jochum @ alcatel-lucent.com

Re: xfce - panel animation

2011-09-13 Thread Andrew Z 
looks slick. Does it work with XFCE tho?

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Christopher Tooley wrote:

> There is also a project by the gnome do guys called "docky" which seems to
> be pretty slick.  I remember trying out AWN when it was released a while ago
> and thought it was buggy, but I bet it's gotten much better since then :)
>  (p.s. Gnome-do and synapse are an awesome way to start applications - super
> fast!)
>
> Gnome+do
> http://do.davebsd.com/
> gnome+do docky:
> http://do.davebsd.com/wiki/Docky
>
> Synapse requires zeitgeist though, and I dunno if we have that in SL...
>
> Christopher Tooley
> ctoo...@uvic.ca
> Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic
>
>
>
> On 2011-09-13, at 7:06 AM, Andrew Z wrote:
>
> this phone is killing me. Sorry guys about this.
> AVN is @ https://launchpad.net/awn
> i found some Fedora 15 rpms last night ,but didn't have a chance to try it.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Andrew Z  wrote:
>
>> Jos, thank you for reply .
>> I'm exactly after that fancy animation.
>> It appears there is AVN for this -
>
>
>
>

buildsys-macros rpm

2011-09-13 Thread Andy Wettstein 
Hi,

Redhat added a buildsys-macros rpm for EL5 that at least has the file
/etc/rpm/macros.dist that defines the dist when building rpms (like 
%dist .el5). See http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2011-0985.html

I see the SRPM in the 5rolling directory for SL but I can't find a 
package that has actually been built. Can this package be added? Or 
tell me if I'm missing something...

Thanks
Andy

Re: wireless card driver problem

2011-09-13 Thread Phil Perry 

On 13/09/11 11:55, vivek chalotra wrote:

I have scientific linux cern 5.5 installed in my hp compaq 8510w laptop..

I am getting the following error on activating the wlan0 device:

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory



It's looking for /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode which you don't 
appear to have:



Contents of /lib/firmware are:
[root@localhost ~]# cd /lib/firmware/
[root@localhost firmware]# ls
iwlwifi-4965-ucode-228.61.2.24




From the above it looks like you've tried to install the firmware but 
possible have installed it incorrectly, to the wrong path? How did you 
try to install the above firmware?

ddd debugger?

2011-09-13 Thread Christopher Tooley 
Hello,

Anyone installed ddd on SL6 before? Did you get it from a repo?

Christopher Tooley
ctoo...@uvic.ca
Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic

Re: need help installing nvidia driver on new laptop

2011-09-13 Thread Chris Pemberton 
You need to disable the nvidia graphic "co-processor" first; and then 
use the intel integrated graphics.  (Because your bios gives no method 
to disable it there)


# yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
# yum install git
$ cd /tmp
$ git clone https://github.com/mkottman/acpi_call.git
$ cd acpi_call
$ make
$ sudo insmod acpi_call.ko
$ lspci -vnnn | grep VGA
$ ./test_off.sh
$ lspci -vnnn | grep VGA
$ startx(make sure you have no old xorg.conf being used)

Did the nvidia card get turned off?  If so, install the acpi_call 
module.  Write a script that loads the module, disables the nvidia card, 
and starts X, gdm or whatever.


Hope this helps.  No, I didn't test it; I don't have the hardware.  I 
did build and load the module and ran the script on my machine and 
nothing blew up.


Good luck

Chris

Re: buildsys-macros rpm

2011-09-13 Thread Connie Sieh 

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Andy Wettstein wrote:


Hi,

Redhat added a buildsys-macros rpm for EL5 that at least has the file
/etc/rpm/macros.dist that defines the dist when building rpms (like
%dist .el5). See http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2011-0985.html

I see the SRPM in the 5rolling directory for SL but I can't find a
package that has actually been built. Can this package be added? Or
tell me if I'm missing something...


It will be included in the next "fastbugs" that are pushed out.

Note that %dist is defined in this rpm as

  %dist .el5

which is commonly not what TUV uses for security errata.

An example of this is

   xulrunner-1.9.2.22-1.el5_7.i386.rpm

In the above case "%dist .el5_7" was needed.

-Connie Sieh



Thanks
Andy

Re: ddd debugger?

2011-09-13 Thread Christopher Tooley 
Nevermind, found it on EPEL :)

For some reason I always get that confused with elrepo. -_-  I had searched on 
elrepo and didn't find it - and assumed that was EPEL, which I *have* used 
before... 

Sorry for the chaff on the list!

Christopher Tooley
ctoo...@uvic.ca
Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic



On 2011-09-13, at 11:49 AM, Christopher Tooley wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Anyone installed ddd on SL6 before? Did you get it from a repo?
> 
> Christopher Tooley
> ctoo...@uvic.ca
> Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic

Re: KVM errors when starting or restarting guests

2011-09-13 Thread James Kelly 
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Steven Timm  wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, James Kelly wrote:
>
>  Hello SL users,
>>
>> When I install sl5.6 and sl5.7 64 bit guests on a KVM sl6.1 64 bit host I
>> am
>> seeing the following errors (when the virtual machine starts or restarts):
>>
>> Sep 11 20:00:34 kvm-sl6x kernel: kvm: 2022: cpu0 unimplemented perfctr
>> wrmsr: 0xc0010005 data 0x0
>> Sep 11 20:00:34 kvm-sl6x kernel: kvm: 2022: cpu0 unimplemented perfctr
>> wrmsr: 0xc0010001 data 0x130076
>> Sep 11 20:00:34 kvm-sl6x kernel: kvm: 2022: cpu0 unimplemented perfctr
>> wrmsr: 0xc0010005 data 0xffde6d26
>> Sep 11 20:00:34 kvm-sl6x kernel: kvm: 2022: cpu0 unimplemented perfctr
>> wrmsr: 0xc0010001 data 0x530076
>>
>
> I'm pretty sure the wrmsr errors above are harmless..we have seen
> them on FermiCloud under both SLF5 and SLF6.  The error below is
> unconnected.
>
> Thanks for your reply Steven. I was also told something similar on the KVM
irc channel, but it is good to have this confirmed.

>
>
>> When i tried an sl5.6 32 bit guest the virsh console connection from the
>> host to the guest crashed with following error:
>>
>> *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/virsh: corrupted double-linked list:
>> 0x0101b1c0 ***
>>
>> The install had finished and the guest was being rebooted when this
>> error occurred. I had to issue a virsh destroy command from a second ssh
>> connection to get get rid of the frozen virsh console connection.
>> Strangely
>> the vm did boot when i later issued a virsh start command.
>>
>
> What do you see when you bring up the VM with virt-viewer or virt-manager,
> sometimes you can see some other messages there before the virsh console
> is available.


>

I don't use virt-viewer or virt-manager. The host and guest do not have any
x or gui stuff on them. I use putty/ssh to install the vm's with
virt-install using a script such as the following:

virt-install \
--name=vm_data \
--ram=1024 \
--vcpus=1 \
--os-type=linux \
--os-variant=rhel5.4 \
--disk
path=/dev/vg_one_libvirt/lv_data,device=disk,bus=virtio,sparse=true,format=raw
\
-w bridge=br0,model=virtio \
--nographics \
-x console=ttyS0 \
   --location=http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/scientific/56/x86_64/

The sever has software raid1 and the vm's are stored in an libvirt created
storage pool:

# virsh -c qemu:///system pool-list
Name State  Autostart
-
pool_one active yes
pool_two active yes

Each storage pool is on a seperate pair of raid1 partitions and the logical
volumes of the host are as follows:

# lvs
  LV   VG Attr   LSize   Origin Snap%  Move Log Copy%
 Convert
  LogVolDevShm vg_kvmsl6x -wi-a- 500.00m
  LogVolHome   vg_kvmsl6x -wi-ao 996.00m
  LogVolRoot   vg_kvmsl6x -wi-ao   2.93g
  LogVolSwap   vg_kvmsl6x -wi-ao   2.93g
  LogVolTmpvg_kvmsl6x -wi-ao   2.93g
  LogVolVarvg_kvmsl6x -wi-ao   3.91g
  LogVolVarLog vg_kvmsl6x -wi-ao   5.37g
  lv_data  vg_one_libvirt -wi-ao  19.00g
  lv_smb   vg_two_libvirt -wi-a- 193.00g

The guests are installed with similar partitioning to the KVM host.

The virt-install script I use, starts a vm and connects to its console. I
select the vnc install option part way the the text based install. When the
install is finished click 'reboot' in the tightvnc vnc viewer this closes
the tightvnc connection. I then watch the console that is still running in
my putty/ssh connection to the kvm host server.

I have seen the glibc error on this console as the vm tries to reboot follow
a fresh install. I have also seen this glibc error while using;

virsh -c qemu:///system console vm_guest_name

to connect to a vm and watch the console output while I rebooted the vm from
a second ssh connection (connected directly to the vm itself).

In each case the vm shuts down ok and then hangs whilst trying to restart. I
tap enter to see what is happening and I get the glibc error displayed.

If I then destroy the vm and start it again it boots ok!

Unfortunately, I am not a linux desktop user, but if you think it will help
I will find a spare computer, install sl6.1, and try and connect to the kvm
host with virt-manager / ssh. Would it be worth doing this?


>
>> Installing an sl6.1 64 bit guest on the sl6.1 64 bit host I get the this
>> error as the vm starts or restarts:
>>
>> Sep 11 14:05:14 kvm-sl6x kernel: kvm: 1928: cpu0 unhandled rdmsr:
>> 0xc0010001
>>
>> What are your thoughts on this error?


> Can anyone offer any advice on whether I have hit a bug somewhere of
>> whether
>> I have done something wrong with the configuration of the host/guest?
>>
>> jk
>>
>>