Re: Skype on SL5
Thank you, but I tried upgrading to SL6 and it appeared to be slower on my old computer. Moreover, sometimes I got kernel panic message when booting linux. That is why I prefer to stick to 5th branch as long as it is doing its job. On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:07:51 -0500 Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Der Kybernetiker kyberneti...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, has anybody installed Skype under SL5 successfully? I did everything according to instructions at http://punkts.org/trac/wiki/Skype22ForCentOS5 but it freezes as soon as I try to type anything into the logon window. I'm using Scientific Linux 5.7 and Genius Slim 2020AF Web Cam. It's working well under SL 6.with Logitech devices. Is there any reason not to upgrade to SL 6.1?
Re: Skype on SL5
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Der Kybernetiker kyberneti...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, has anybody installed Skype under SL5 successfully? I did everything according to instructions at http://punkts.org/trac/wiki/Skype22ForCentOS5 but it freezes as soon as I try to type anything into the logon window. I'm using Scientific Linux 5.7 and Genius Slim 2020AF Web Cam. You may want to check out this CentOS mailing list thread: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2012-January/122298.html Looks like there are a few possible solutions. One of them is to use the static version referenced in http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Skype . Avoiding 2.2.x seems to be a better option (?) at this moment. Akemi
Re: nfs-utils umount.nfs core dumps
On 01/21/2012 11:01 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Chris Schanzleschan...@nist.gov wrote: On 01/20/2012 09:51 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: I feel obligated to vent about the ongoing mess-up of the nfs-utils package. In the nutshell, all of my SL6.1 machines are affected (not both machines, both dozens of machines, 24 is the last count). The / directory is filling up with 1 Mbyte core files from umount.nfs at the rate of about 3 core dumps per minute. Just wanted to put a me too out there. I admit to not keeping up with the various nfs-utils versions and just recently joined this list. Seemed that umount.nfs dumping core caused /etc/mtab to not get cleaned up, so you had many duplicates in the output of say, 'df'. We don't use kerberos, just NIS and the automounter, so it seemed like a lot of the discussion didn't apply to us. It didn't affect all our systems either. I feel the same frustration. I have stopped rolling out EL6 and I'm apologizing to my existing early adopter users. With this issue and my previously mentioned email about the inability to reboot successfully (due to umount issues) not generating any discussion, I'm preparing to hop back to the other prominent NA enterprise Linux derivative. It's great to have choices. PS - I just noticed the mailing list doesn't add a Reply-To: field to direct replies to the list. Chris, I'm not sure you can blame SL for this one at all. Our favorite upstream vendor occasionally publishes software with a bug, although they're very good about testing and fixing any reported issues, which is why some of us pay them for support licenses and others take advantage of the goodness of free software. Is there a sign or pointer that this was, in fact, an SL compilation generated bug? Yes, I understand and agree we get upstream's occasional rare bugs. I'm pointing the finger (possibly!) at SL due to this thread which references the re-issuing of nfs-utils due to a build environment error: http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1201L=scientific-linux-develT=0P=77 There are other interesting threads including Recent updates break autofs/ldap/krb5, but those may be upstream bugs. Are you mounting NFS directories at / ? That's usually a *REALLY* bad idea, because if the NFS mount has any issues, it interferes with any function that glances in / for permissions or other information. If not, do you have any idea why it'd dumping those files in / ? No - I'm sorry if I wrote something that implied that. We use standard indirect maps (e.g., /home/user). I am guessing umount.nfs is dumping cores in / since that is it's CWD. I've got my CentOS 6.2 installation process ready and will switch my most troublesome user hopefully Monday. Unfortunately, it is not an apples-to-apples comparison with the current SL 6.1. As an experiment, I installed 6rolling/testing/x86_64/nfs-utils/nfs-utils-1.2.3-15.el6.0.sl6.x86_64.rpm (I believe the latest upstream version, i.e., what is in 6.2) on that user's system and while the core dumps have not returned, /etc/mtab is still accumulating duplicates, viewable with duplicate counts via: sort /etc/mtab | uniq -dc
Re: Skype on SL5 [SOLVED]
Thanks a lot for the useful links. I downloaded and installed precompiled rpm from http://rpms.plnet.rs/plnet-centos5-i386/RPMS.plnet/skype-2.1.0.81-1.el5.noarch.rpm and it seems to work now. By the way, the repo from which I downloaded the package contains many interesting rpms. Its maintainer does the good job. Thanks again. Best regards, Ivan On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:20:20 -0800 Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Der Kybernetiker kyberneti...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, has anybody installed Skype under SL5 successfully? I did everything according to instructions at http://punkts.org/trac/wiki/Skype22ForCentOS5 but it freezes as soon as I try to type anything into the logon window. I'm using Scientific Linux 5.7 and Genius Slim 2020AF Web Cam. You may want to check out this CentOS mailing list thread: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2012-January/122298.html Looks like there are a few possible solutions. One of them is to use the static version referenced in http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Skype . Avoiding 2.2.x seems to be a better option (?) at this moment. Akemi
Re: RPM spin of the berlios?
Todd And Margo Chester wrote on 01/20/2012 07:38 PM: Hi All, Anyone know of an RPM spin of the real cdrecord? http://cdrecord.berlios.de Answered you on Repoforge http://lists.repoforge.org/mailman/listinfo/users For the record here, I found this: http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/sysutils/cdrtools/ It does rebuild and work on EL6 (with a lot of external deps) if you don't want to use the supplied binaries, as I did not. Has some interesting links to the background of the controversy. Phil
Re: RPM spin of the berlios?
On 01/22/2012 10:17 AM, Phil Schaffner wrote: Todd And Margo Chester wrote on 01/20/2012 07:38 PM: Hi All, Anyone know of an RPM spin of the real cdrecord? http://cdrecord.berlios.de Answered you on Repoforge http://lists.repoforge.org/mailman/listinfo/users For the record here, I found this: http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/sysutils/cdrtools/ It does rebuild and work on EL6 (with a lot of external deps) if you don't want to use the supplied binaries, as I did not. Has some interesting links to the background of the controversy. Phil Hi Phil, Thank you! Now to see if mkisofs will shrink my TS_VIDEO directory down from 6.2 gb to 4.4 gb like other tools do. -T
libupnp.so.3()(64bit) : Success - empty transaction
When attempting to do a routine SL 6x update (red pointed badge exclamation point symbol appears on top bar of Gnome window manager), I received the result below. I am posting this as an information item to save others the time; I understand that EPEL is outside the domain of SL and this list. I suspect that Success - empty transaction is an oxymoron. Yasha Karant This update will add new features and expand functionality. This notification was issued on 2011-07-06. New build for EL-6 For more information about this update please visit this website: • https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F6.1/FEDORA-EPEL-2011-3726. libupnp.so.3()(64bit) : Success - empty transaction
