icewm / emacs trouble with 1.3.7

[Tom Rockwell]

Hi,

I've been having an odd problem with emacs the last several days...  
When opening emacs as a standalone xwindow, the menu buttons would 
either fail to load or load very slowly and application would be 
unresponsive to mouse input (couldn't even shut it down with the mouse).


An "strace" showed repeated system call failures (I have a copy if needed).

Eventually I realized that that icewm had been updated and that 
downgrading back to 1.2.37 resolved the problem.  The environment giving 
the problem is a bit odd in that the Linux box is running neatx and I'm 
connecting via nomachine OSX client, I didn't try to test or reproduce 
in a pure SL X11 environment.  The Linux host is SL5.3 x64.


-Tom Rockwell

Re: yum and yumex: problem installing packages

[Steven J. Yellin]

In my SL5, i386 computer, with the yum-priorities rpm installed, in 
/etc/yum.repos.d the sl-contrib repository has "priority=10", the dag 
repository has "priority=30", and the epel repository has no priority set. 
According to


http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities

"Packages from repositories with a lower priority will never be used to 
upgrade packages that were installed from a repository with a higher 
priority." and it also says "The default priority for repositories is 99. 
The repositories with the lowest numerical priority number have the 
highest priority."  If I'm right about why you couldn't get the ntfs-3g 
version you wanted, it might also work to leave sl-contrib enabled, but 
add "priority=10" to the [epel] section of epel.repo.  But since most 
repositories, including sl-security, have "priority=10", I'm worried that 
epel could then replace SL security updates, for example.  So it may be 
safer to instead remove the "priority=10" line in the sl-contrib repo, or 
just temporarily disable sl-contrib, as I previously suggested.


Steven Yellin

On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Steven J. Yellin wrote:

   Although the version of ntfs-3g with libntfs-3g.so.81 is in epel, 
according to the output of your 'yum --enablerepo=epel install ntfs-3g' 
command, yum got ntfs-3g from the sl-contrib repository.  Two relevant lines 
of your output are:



Package  Arch   Version  Repository Size
ntfs-3g  i386 2:1.1104-3.sl5 sl-contrib147 k


So here's an hypothesis about what's going on: maybe sl-contrib is enabled, 
has a version of ntfs-3g that's older than the one you want, and yum doesn't 
look in epel once it's satisfied with what it learned from sl-contrib.  Try 
disabling sl-contrib.  And you might also do 'yum clean all'.   Then I'll bet 
an update will get Version 2:2011.4.12-5.el5.


Steven Yellin

Re: gcc 4.6

[Yi Ding]

I've tried that in the past, haven't gotten super far because of the
different dependencies.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia  wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Yi Ding  wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Has anyone tried to package gcc 4.6 for scientific linux?  Would this
>> be a difficult task?  Is this something people are interested in?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Yi
>
> You could try rebuilding the SRPM from fedora 16 and see how far you get.

Re: yum and yumex: problem installing packages

[Steven J. Yellin]

Although the version of ntfs-3g with libntfs-3g.so.81 is in epel, 
according to the output of your 'yum --enablerepo=epel install ntfs-3g' 
command, yum got ntfs-3g from the sl-contrib repository.  Two relevant 
lines of your output are:



Package  Arch   Version  Repository Size
ntfs-3g  i386 2:1.1104-3.sl5 sl-contrib147 k


So here's an hypothesis about what's going on: maybe sl-contrib is 
enabled, has a version of ntfs-3g that's older than the one you want, and 
yum doesn't look in epel once it's satisfied with what it learned from 
sl-contrib.  Try disabling sl-contrib.  And you might also do 'yum clean 
all'.   Then I'll bet an update will get Version 2:2011.4.12-5.el5.


Steven Yellin

On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, g wrote:


On 12/16/2011 03:06 PM, g wrote:

On 12/16/2011 08:53 AM, Steven J. Yellin wrote:


while this was on it's way, i tried;

+++

[root@argosyiayia geo-sl]# yum --enablerepo=epel resolvedep libntfs-3g.so.81


No Package Found for libntfs-3g.so.81

[root@argosyiayia geo-sl]# yum --enablerepo=epel update ntfs-3g


Package(s) ntfs-3g available, but not installed.
No Packages marked for Update

[root@argosyiayia geo-sl]# yum --enablerepo=epel install ntfs-3g


Resolving Dependencies
Skipping filters plugin, no data
--> Running transaction check
---> Package ntfs-3g.i386 2:1.1104-3.sl5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libfuse.so.2(FUSE_2.2) for package: ntfs-3g
--> Processing Dependency: libfuse.so.2 for package: ntfs-3g
--> Processing Dependency: libfuse.so.2(FUSE_2.5) for package: ntfs-3g
--> Processing Dependency: libfuse.so.2(FUSE_2.6) for package: ntfs-3g
--> Processing Dependency: fuse for package: ntfs-3g
--> Running transaction check
---> Package fuse.i386 0:2.7.4-8.el5 set to be updated
---> Package fuse-libs.i386 0:2.7.4-8.el5 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Beginning Kernel Module Plugin
Finished Kernel Module Plugin

Dependencies Resolved


Package   Arch VersionRepository  Size

Installing:
ntfs-3g   i386 2:1.1104-3.sl5 sl-contrib 147 k
Installing for dependencies:
fuse  i386 2.7.4-8.el5sl-base 83 k
fuse-libs i386 2.7.4-8.el5sl-base 72 k

Transaction Summary

Install   3 Package(s)
Upgrade   0 Package(s)

Total download size: 301 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/3): fuse-libs-2.7.4-8.el5.i386.rpm|  72 kB 00:01
(2/3): fuse-2.7.4-8.el5.i386.rpm |  83 kB 00:01
(3/3): ntfs-3g-1.1104-3.sl5.i386.rpm | 147 kB 00:01

Total57 kB/s | 301 kB 00:05
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
 Installing : fuse-libs1/3
 Installing : fuse 2/3
 Installing : ntfs-3g  3/3
yum-updatesd not on the bus

Installed:
 ntfs-3g.i386 2:1.1104-3.sl5

Dependency Installed:
 fuse.i386 0:2.7.4-8.el5  fuse-libs.i386 0:2.7.4-8.el5

Complete!

[root@argosyiayia geo-sl]# yum update


--> Running transaction check
---> Package libicu.i386 0:3.6-5.16.1 set to be updated
---> Package libpurple.i386 0:2.6.6-5.el5_7.4 set to be updated
---> Package ntfsprogs.i386 2:2011.4.12-5.el5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libntfs-3g.so.81 for package: ntfsprogs
---> Package pidgin.i386 0:2.6.6-5.el5_7.4 set to be updated
---> Package testdisk.i386 0:6.12-1.el5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libntfs-3g.so.81 for package: testdisk
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
2:ntfsprogs-2011.4.12-5.el5.i386 from epel has depsolving problems
 --> Missing Dependency: libntfs-3g.so.81 is needed by package
2:ntfsprogs-2011.4.12-5.el5.i386 (epel)
testdisk-6.12-1.el5.i386 from epel has depsolving problems
 --> Missing Dependency: libntfs-3g.so.81 is needed by package
testdisk-6.12-1.el5.i386 (epel)
Beginning Kernel Module Plugin
Finished Kernel Module Plugin
Error: Missing Dependency: libntfs-3g.so.81 is needed by package
testdisk-6.12-1.el5.i386 (epel)
Error: Missing Dependency: libntfs-3g.so.81 is needed by package
2:ntfsprogs-2011.4.12-5.el5.i386 (epel)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
   package-cleanup --dupes
   rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
[root@argosyiayia geo-sl]#

+++

Re: yum and yumex: problem installing packages

[g]

On 12/16/2011 03:06 PM, g wrote:
> On 12/16/2011 08:53 AM, Steven J. Yellin wrote:

while this was on it's way, i tried;

+++

[root@argosyiayia geo-sl]# yum --enablerepo=epel resolvedep libntfs-3g.so.81


No Package Found for libntfs-3g.so.81

[root@argosyiayia geo-sl]# yum --enablerepo=epel update ntfs-3g


Package(s) ntfs-3g available, but not installed.
No Packages marked for Update

[root@argosyiayia geo-sl]# yum --enablerepo=epel install ntfs-3g


Resolving Dependencies
Skipping filters plugin, no data
--> Running transaction check
---> Package ntfs-3g.i386 2:1.1104-3.sl5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libfuse.so.2(FUSE_2.2) for package: ntfs-3g
--> Processing Dependency: libfuse.so.2 for package: ntfs-3g
--> Processing Dependency: libfuse.so.2(FUSE_2.5) for package: ntfs-3g
--> Processing Dependency: libfuse.so.2(FUSE_2.6) for package: ntfs-3g
--> Processing Dependency: fuse for package: ntfs-3g
--> Running transaction check
---> Package fuse.i386 0:2.7.4-8.el5 set to be updated
---> Package fuse-libs.i386 0:2.7.4-8.el5 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Beginning Kernel Module Plugin
Finished Kernel Module Plugin

Dependencies Resolved


 Package   Arch VersionRepository  Size

Installing:
 ntfs-3g   i386 2:1.1104-3.sl5 sl-contrib 147 k
Installing for dependencies:
 fuse  i386 2.7.4-8.el5sl-base 83 k
 fuse-libs i386 2.7.4-8.el5sl-base 72 k

Transaction Summary

Install   3 Package(s)
Upgrade   0 Package(s)

Total download size: 301 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/3): fuse-libs-2.7.4-8.el5.i386.rpm|  72 kB 00:01
(2/3): fuse-2.7.4-8.el5.i386.rpm |  83 kB 00:01
(3/3): ntfs-3g-1.1104-3.sl5.i386.rpm | 147 kB 00:01

Total57 kB/s | 301 kB 00:05
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing : fuse-libs1/3
  Installing : fuse 2/3
  Installing : ntfs-3g  3/3
yum-updatesd not on the bus

Installed:
  ntfs-3g.i386 2:1.1104-3.sl5

Dependency Installed:
  fuse.i386 0:2.7.4-8.el5  fuse-libs.i386 0:2.7.4-8.el5

Complete!

[root@argosyiayia geo-sl]# yum update


--> Running transaction check
---> Package libicu.i386 0:3.6-5.16.1 set to be updated
---> Package libpurple.i386 0:2.6.6-5.el5_7.4 set to be updated
---> Package ntfsprogs.i386 2:2011.4.12-5.el5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libntfs-3g.so.81 for package: ntfsprogs
---> Package pidgin.i386 0:2.6.6-5.el5_7.4 set to be updated
---> Package testdisk.i386 0:6.12-1.el5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libntfs-3g.so.81 for package: testdisk
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
2:ntfsprogs-2011.4.12-5.el5.i386 from epel has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: libntfs-3g.so.81 is needed by package
2:ntfsprogs-2011.4.12-5.el5.i386 (epel)
testdisk-6.12-1.el5.i386 from epel has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: libntfs-3g.so.81 is needed by package
testdisk-6.12-1.el5.i386 (epel)
Beginning Kernel Module Plugin
Finished Kernel Module Plugin
Error: Missing Dependency: libntfs-3g.so.81 is needed by package
testdisk-6.12-1.el5.i386 (epel)
Error: Missing Dependency: libntfs-3g.so.81 is needed by package
2:ntfsprogs-2011.4.12-5.el5.i386 (epel)
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
package-cleanup --dupes
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
[root@argosyiayia geo-sl]#

+++

so now i have come back to original problem. :-(

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Re: yum and yumex: problem installing packages

[g]

On 12/16/2011 08:53 AM, Steven J. Yellin wrote:
>  I believe the below question
> 
>> would you have suggestions for these 2?
>>
 ]$ yum resolvedep libntfs-3g.so.81
 ]# yum provides "*/libntfs-3g.so.81"
>> -=-
> 
> is asking how the above commands should be changed if they don't find the 
> package containing libntfs-3g.so.81.
-=-

correct.


> The desired package turns out to be ntfs-3g in epel, where it won't be found
> by the above commands unless epel is enabled by default.  If epel is not
> enabled by default, one may still find the package with, for example,
> 
> yum --enablerepo=epel resolvedep libntfs-3g.so.81
> 
> To enable epel by default, edit /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo to have
> "enabled=1" instead of "enabled=0" in the [epel] section.
> 
> To search all repositories in /etc/yum.repos.d,
> 
> yum --enablerepo="*" resolvedep libntfs-3g.so.81
-=-

in my first post, i left this in to show what repos i have enabled;


}> when updating packages with yumex, errors with;
}>
}> 13:54:01 : Determining fastest mirrors
}> 13:54:33 :  * epel: mirrors.ptd.net
}> 13:54:33 :  * sl-base: ftp1.scientificlinux.org
}> 13:54:33 :  * sl-contrib: ftp1.scientificlinux.org
}> 13:54:33 :  * sl-fastbugs: ftp1.scientificlinux.org
}> 13:54:33 :  * sl-security: ftp1.scientificlinux.org

so i already have epel repo in defaults and still do not find dep.

when i run yum as you suggest;

+++
]# yum --enablerepo=epel resolvedep libntfs-3g.so.81
Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, filter-data,
  : kernel-module, keys, kmod, list-data, merge-conf, priorities,
  : protect-packages, protectbase, refresh-updatesd, rhnplugin,
  : security, tmprepo, tsflags, upgrade-helper, verify, versionlock
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * epel: mirrors.ptd.net
 * sl-base: ftp1.scientificlinux.org
 * sl-contrib: ftp1.scientificlinux.org
 * sl-fastbugs: ftp1.scientificlinux.org
 * sl-security: ftp1.scientificlinux.org
adobe-linux-i386 |  951 B 00:00
elrepo   | 1.9 kB 00:00
epel | 3.7 kB 00:00
sl-base  | 2.1 kB 00:00
sl-contrib   | 1.9 kB 00:00
sl-fastbugs  | 1.9 kB 00:00
sl-security  | 1.9 kB 00:00
sl-security/primary_db   | 1.3 MB 00:17
140 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
0 packages excluded due to repository protections
Reading version lock configuration
No Package Found for libntfs-3g.so.81
]#


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Re: gcc 4.6

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Yi Ding  wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Has anyone tried to package gcc 4.6 for scientific linux?  Would this
> be a difficult task?  Is this something people are interested in?
>
> Thanks,
> Yi

You could try rebuilding the SRPM from fedora 16 and see how far you get.

Move a SL6 server from md software raid 5 to hardware raid 5

[Felip Moll]

Hello all!

Recently I installed and configured a Scientific Linux to run as a high
performance computing cluster with 15 slave nodes and one master. I did
this while an older system with RedHat 5.0 was running in order
to avoid users to stop their computations. All gone well. I migrated node
to node and now I have a flawlessly cluster with SL6!.

Well, the fact is that while migrating I used the node1 to install SL6
while the node0 was hosting the old master operating system. Node1 has less
ram and no raid capabilities, so I configured a Raid5 per software when
installing, using md linux software (which comes per default to a normal
installation when you select "raid"). Node0 has a Raid 5 hardware
controller.

Now I want to move the new master node1, into node0. I thought about this
and I have to shutdown node1, node0, and with a LiveCD partition the
harddisk of node0 and copy the contents of the disk of node1 into it. Then
make grub install.

All right but, what do you think that I should take in consideration
regarding to Raid and md? I will have to modify /etc/fstab and also delete
/etc/mdadm.conf to avoid md running. Anything more?

Thank you very much!

Re: yum and yumex: problem installing packages

[Steven J. Yellin]

I believe the below question


would you have suggestions for these 2?


]$ yum resolvedep libntfs-3g.so.81
]# yum provides "*/libntfs-3g.so.81"

-=-


is asking how the above commands should be changed if they don't find the 
package containing libntfs-3g.so.81.  The desired package turns out to be 
ntfs-3g in epel, where it won't be found by the above commands unless epel 
is enabled by default.  If epel is not enabled by default, one may still 
find the package with, for example,


yum --enablerepo=epel resolvedep libntfs-3g.so.81

To enable epel by default, edit /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo to have
"enabled=1" instead of "enabled=0" in the [epel] section.

To search all repositories in /etc/yum.repos.d,

yum --enablerepo="*" resolvedep libntfs-3g.so.81

Steven Yellin

On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, g wrote:


On 12/15/2011 09:25 PM, Steven J. Yellin wrote:

14:08:09 : Error checking package signatures: \
 Package jdk-1.6.0_29-fcs.i586.rpm is not signed


 Apparently SL has not been able to get the jdk package signed, but for
security yum by default requires that it be signed.  I think you should
try to evade that security precaution with

yum --nogpgcheck update jdk java-1.6.0-sun-compat

Once that update is done, the rest of them should update without problem.
Or just do

yum --nogpgcheck update

-=-

steven,

thanks for reply.

interesting how much difference proper syntax can make. ;-)


would you have suggestions for these 2?


]$ yum resolvedep libntfs-3g.so.81
]# yum provides "*/libntfs-3g.so.81"

-=-

i do not believe running;

 yum --skip-broken update ntfsprogs-2011.4.12-5.el5.i386 \
 testdisk-6.12-1.el5.i386

is an option.


btw. because i am on email list, i do not need a 'Cc:'. thank you.

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Re: kernel panic - kernel-2.6.32-220.el6 on ASUS

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

Hi Dusan Bruncko!

 On 2011.12.16 at 07:52:53 +0100, Dusan Bruncko wrote next:

> I installed new kernel-2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 
> 
> on ASUS:
> 
> ASUS NX90Jq B1
> Core i7 740QM / 1.73 GHz - RAM 10 GB - HDD 640 GB + 640 GB -
> DVD-Writer / BD-ROM - GF GT 335M - Gigabit Ethernet - WLAN :
> 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR - Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit - 18.4"
> Widescreen LED backlight Color Shine TFT 1920 x 1080 ( Full HD ) -
> camera - silver - Microsoft Office 2010, US keyboard
> 
> but unfortunately I see kernel panic.
> I went to the old kernel-2.6.32-131.17.1.el6.x86_64. 
> 
> 
> Can you send the experts this problem?

You should attach kernel output during panic, guessing about it without
any information is meaningless. If you don't have means of capturing
text output, a photo of screen during panic might do; depending on
length of error messages, increasing resolution with vga=... kernel
parameter might be required, so start of the errors can be seen on
photo.

If you can scroll with shift-pgup/pgdown after panic, then make sure to
include lines from before abnormal/error messages start and till the end
line of panic.

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