yum update of python-smbios
For systems with Dell management software installed, yum updates are broken because of an incompatibility in the libsmbios library (see below) If I remove the python-smbios, I can "fix" the problem in that updates now work, but this breaks the Dell management software. If I try to reinstall python-smbios, I run into the same incompatibility problem. Does anyone know how to fix or work around this problem? Thanks Eve YUM - security Error: Package: python-smbios-2.2.27-4.12.1.el6.x86_64 (@dell-omsa-indep/6.2) Requires: libsmbios = 2.2.27-4.12.1.el6 Removing: libsmbios-2.2.27-4.12.1.el6.x86_64 (@dell-omsa-indep/6.2) libsmbios = 2.2.27-4.12.1.el6 Updated By: libsmbios-2.2.27-1908.9058.el6.x86_64 (dell-omsa-indep) libsmbios = 2.2.27-1908.9058.el6 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
Re: key problem with ldap
Yes, in the nfs4 cases it IS running. File ownership maps to nobody if it isn't! On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Daniel M. Weeks wrote: Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:43:50 -0600 From: Daniel M. Weeks week...@rpi.edu To: Eve V. E. Kovacs kov...@anl.gov Cc: scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov Subject: Re: key problem with ldap If you're running NFSv4 check to make sure rpc.idmapd is running on all those machines. (I would confirm first whether NFS mounts are using v3 or v4 by checking the output of mount.) On 12/20/2012 03:40 PM, Eve V. E. Kovacs wrote: Yes, home directories are nfs mounted from a separate file server Eve On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Daniel M. Weeks wrote: Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:51:24 -0600 From: Daniel M. Weeks week...@rpi.edu To: Eve V. E. Kovacs kov...@anl.gov Cc: scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov Subject: Re: key problem with ldap On 12/19/2012 02:50 PM, Eve V. E. Kovacs wrote: I just switched a bunch of SL5 and SL6 machines to use ldap authentication. They seem to be working more or less, in that everyone can log in, see their files, etc. However, on the SL6 machines only, /var/log/secure is filled with messages like: request-key: Cannot find command to construct key Does anyone happen to know what is causing this and how to stop it? Thanks Eve *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room L-177, Bldg. 360, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@anl.gov *** Hi Eve, Are home directories/commonly accessed files in an NFS-mounted directory? -- Daniel M. Weeks Systems Administrator Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180 518-276-4458 *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room L-177, Bldg. 360, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@anl.gov *** -- Daniel M. Weeks Systems Administrator Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180 518-276-4458 *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room L-177, Bldg. 360, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@anl.gov ***
Re: key problem with ldap
Yes, home directories are nfs mounted from a separate file server Eve On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Daniel M. Weeks wrote: Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:51:24 -0600 From: Daniel M. Weeks week...@rpi.edu To: Eve V. E. Kovacs kov...@anl.gov Cc: scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov Subject: Re: key problem with ldap On 12/19/2012 02:50 PM, Eve V. E. Kovacs wrote: I just switched a bunch of SL5 and SL6 machines to use ldap authentication. They seem to be working more or less, in that everyone can log in, see their files, etc. However, on the SL6 machines only, /var/log/secure is filled with messages like: request-key: Cannot find command to construct key Does anyone happen to know what is causing this and how to stop it? Thanks Eve *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room L-177, Bldg. 360, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@anl.gov *** Hi Eve, Are home directories/commonly accessed files in an NFS-mounted directory? -- Daniel M. Weeks Systems Administrator Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180 518-276-4458 *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room L-177, Bldg. 360, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@anl.gov ***
key problem with ldap
I just switched a bunch of SL5 and SL6 machines to use ldap authentication. They seem to be working more or less, in that everyone can log in, see their files, etc. However, on the SL6 machines only, /var/log/secure is filled with messages like: request-key: Cannot find command to construct key Does anyone happen to know what is causing this and how to stop it? Thanks Eve *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room L-177, Bldg. 360, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@anl.gov ***
sendmail questions
I have 2 sendmail questions: 1) By default, sendmail makes root an EXPOSED USER, which means that it is exempted from masquerading. Does anyone know how to override this? The solutions posted on the internet don't seem to apply for SL5 and SL6. 2) Does anyone know how to enforce a default user domain for unqualified OUTGOING email addresses? The default is to send unqualified names to name@hostname.domain. I would like to change this to be name@domain (ie suppress the hostname). I have tried defining LOCAL_RELAY to be our domain name (which is aliased to our mail server), but that didn't work. Thanks Eve *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room L-177, Bldg. 360, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@hep.anl.gov ***
Configuring an ldap server on SL6
I am trying to setup an ldap server on an SL6.2 system I am following the instructions on: http://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Scientific_Linux_6p=ldap Unfortunately, when I try to follow the steps for doing the initial configuration with ldapadd, I get a bunch of errors as follows: 1) ldapadd -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f /etc/openldap/schema/core.ldif gives: SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started SASL username: gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth SASL SSF: 0 adding new entry cn=core,cn=schema,cn=config ldap_add: Other (e.g., implementation specific) error (80) additional info: olcAttributeTypes: Duplicate attributeType: 2.5.4.2 2) ldapadd -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.ldif gives: SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started SASL username: gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth SASL SSF: 0 adding new entry cn=cosine,cn=schema,cn=config ldap_add: Other (e.g., implementation specific) error (80) additional info: olcAttributeTypes: Duplicate attributeType: 0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.2 etc. I keep getting Duplicate attributeType errors These ldif files are shipped with the distribution, and, according to the notes, I don't have to modify them, but they do not work! Can anyone help? Thanks Eve *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room L-177, Bldg. 360, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@hep.anl.gov ***
cracklib dependency problem
I am getting the following error when yum tries to do the nightly update on an SL6 system: Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/cracklib.mo conflicts between attempted installs of cracklib-2.8.16-2.el6.i686 and cracklib-2.8.16-4.el6.x86_64 file /usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/cracklib.mo conflicts between attempted installs of cracklib-2.8.16-2.el6.i686 and cracklib-2.8.16-4.el6.x86_64 The dependencies are messed up. Does anyone know how to resolve this? Thanks, Eve *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room E-217, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@hep.anl.gov ***
X error
I have a user with an i7 desktop with an nVidia GT218 [GeForce G210] graphics card. The system is running SL6.0. I have installed the the nvidia-x11-drv-275.21-1 driver package, and the nvidia kernel module is now loaded and running. This was done in an attempt to improve screen flickering and x problems that the user was experiencing. The flicker is better but the user is still getting the following error (but not as often as before switching to the nvidia driver): Maximum number of clients reached Maximum number of clients reachedError: cannot open display: :0.0 Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this and how I can fix it? Thanks Eve *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room E-217, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@hep.anl.gov ***
Building in qt4 support for plplot
I am trying to build plplot on a Scientific-Linux 5.3 x86_64 system. I am able to build the basic package, but would like to include other graphics devices via qt4. Unfortunately, cmake cannot find the qt4 packages that I have installed. I have installed the rpms qt4-4.2.1-1.x86_64 qt4-devel-4.2.1-1.x86_64 The command I use to run cmake is: cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local /opt/plplot-5.9.5 cmake.out I get the error - WARNING: Qt4 development environment not found so disabling all qt devices. I found instructions on how to point cmake to non-standard locations by using: export CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/lib64/qt4/include/ export CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64/qt4/lib64/ I tried setting these but it didn't help. I have attached the cmake.out file, in case it helps (I know I have a few other things missing in the build..I am not worried about those...I just want the Qt4 part to work) Has anyone tried to do this, or experienced a similar problem? Thanks Eve *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room E-217, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@hep.anl.gov *** -- The C compiler identification is GNU -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works -- Detecting C compiler ABI info -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done -- CMake version = 2.6.4 -- Checking whether system has ANSI C header files -- Looking for include files StandardHeadersExist -- Looking for include files StandardHeadersExist - found -- Performing Test memchrExists -- Performing Test memchrExists - Success -- Performing Test freeExists -- Performing Test freeExists - Success -- Check for whether ctype.h macros work on characters with the high bit set. -- High-bit characters - work -- ANSI C header files - found -- Looking for include files PL_HAVE_UNISTD_H -- Looking for include files PL_HAVE_UNISTD_H - found -- Looking for include files HAVE_TERMIOS_H -- Looking for include files HAVE_TERMIOS_H - found -- Looking for include files PL_HAVE_STDINT_H -- Looking for include files PL_HAVE_STDINT_H - found -- Performing Test HAVE_SYS_WAIT_H -- Performing Test HAVE_SYS_WAIT_H - Success -- Looking for DIR in sys/types.h;dirent.h -- Looking for DIR in sys/types.h;dirent.h - found -- Check for signal return type in signal.h -- Check for signal handler return type type void - found -- Looking for popen -- Looking for popen - found -- Looking for usleep -- Looking for usleep - found -- Looking for finite -- Looking for finite - found -- Looking for isnan -- Looking for isnan - found -- Looking for isinf -- Looking for isinf - found -- Looking for snprintf -- Looking for snprintf - found -- SWIG_VERSION = 1.3.29 -- Found Perl: /usr/bin/perl -- Looking for pkg-config - found -- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib64/libX11.so;/usr/lib64/libXext.so -- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /usr/lib64/libX11.so;/usr/lib64/libXext.so - found -- Looking for gethostbyname -- Looking for gethostbyname - found -- Looking for connect -- Looking for connect - found -- Looking for remove -- Looking for remove - found -- Looking for shmat -- Looking for shmat - found -- Looking for IceConnectionNumber in ICE -- Looking for IceConnectionNumber in ICE - found -- Found X11: /usr/lib64/libX11.so -- X11_FOUND = 1 -- X11_INCLUDE_DIR = /usr/include -- X11_COMPILE_FLAGS = -I/usr/include -- X11_LIBRARIES = /usr/lib64/libSM.so;/usr/lib64/libICE.so;/usr/lib64/libX11.so;/usr/lib64/libXext.so -- CMAKE_GENERATOR = Unix Makefiles -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done -- Configuring done -- Generating done -- Build files have been written to: /opt/test/plplot-5.9.5/build_dir/language_tests/CXX -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done -- Check for using namespace support -- Check for using namespace - found -- Looking for C++ include cmath -- Looking for C++ include cmath - found -- Check for broken isnan support in cmath -- Check for isnan in cmath - found -- Check for using stdint.h with CXX compiler -- Check for using stdint.h with CXX compiler - ok -- CMAKE_GENERATOR = Unix Makefiles -- The Fortran compiler identification is GNU -- Check for working Fortran compiler: /usr/bin/f95 -- Check for working Fortran compiler: /usr/bin/f95 -- works -- Checking whether /usr/bin/f95 supports Fortran 90 -- Checking whether /usr/bin/f95 supports Fortran 90 -- yes -- Configuring done -- Generating done -- Build files have been written to:
Re: plplot, qt4 on SL5
Yes, but it doesn't work with the applications that we need it for. (We want to use the scamp package, which is very picky about which version of plplot it likes. Version 5.9.5 is the one, so I have to build it myself) Eve On Sat, 3 Jul 2010, Akemi Yagi wrote: Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:44:03 -0700 From: Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com To: scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov Subject: Re: plplot, qt4 on SL5 On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Eve V. E. Kovacs kov...@hep.anl.gov wrote: Has anybody tried to build plplot on an SL5 OS? I am trying to build plplot-5.9.5 and include Qt4 drivers. plplot uses cmake, and despite having qt4 and qt4-devel installed on the system, cmake can't seem to find it. I get a warning that the Qt4 development environment is not found, so it is disabled. According to the documentation, if this happens one should setup environmental variables with the correct path: export CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/lib64/qt4/include/ export CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64/qt4/lib64/ I have tried this, but it doesn't make any difference. cmake still can't find qt4 EPEL seems to have plplot. Have you looked at that one? Akemi *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room E-217, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@hep.anl.gov ***
plplot, qt4 on SL5
Has anybody tried to build plplot on an SL5 OS? I am trying to build plplot-5.9.5 and include Qt4 drivers. plplot uses cmake, and despite having qt4 and qt4-devel installed on the system, cmake can't seem to find it. I get a warning that the Qt4 development environment is not found, so it is disabled. According to the documentation, if this happens one should setup environmental variables with the correct path: export CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/lib64/qt4/include/ export CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64/qt4/lib64/ I have tried this, but it doesn't make any difference. cmake still can't find qt4 Thanks Eve *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room E-217, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@hep.anl.gov ***
Re: Problems caused by recent security update to openoffice.org-ure package
Yes, we had the same problem on a few desktops that had a custom version. I re-installed the custom version and excluded openoffice and oobasis from future sl-security updates. Eve On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Simon Butcher wrote: Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:20:37 +0100 From: Simon Butcher s.butc...@qmul.ac.uk To: scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov Subject: Problems caused by recent security update to openoffice.org-ure package hi everybody We run a lot of desktop SL machines running openoffice. Last week there was an update to openoffice.org-ure package to openoffice.org-ure-3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.1.i386 As a result our 5.x machines with openoffice 2.3 have been suddenly upgraded to 3.1 - a bit of a surprise! Unfortunately the update to openoffice.org-ure from sl-security broke the custom OOo 3.0 we use on many of our desktops where the local custom repo was not prioritized over sl-security repo (we provide newer versions of OOo because only 2.3 was provided by the distro) i'm surprised that nobody else seems to be affected by this, or has mentioned the jump to 3.1. we've now managed to put an emergency workaround in place. however, i'm just writing this note in case others are affected. any me toos, or were most people using the old 2.3 OOo provided by SL5.x (where x5) ? -- Simon Butcher Computer and IT Systems Manager School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom. Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 7348 *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room E-217, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@hep.anl.gov ***
Re: storage (fwd)
We have other systems with RAID5 disk arrays 2 TB. There is no problem with a vanilla SL5.3 kernel for these. It is true that fdisk complains that the disk is big, but it does report the size correctly. For example: WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted. WARNING: The size of this disk is 5.0 TB (4998872171008 bytes). DOS partition table format can not be used on drives for volumes larger than 2.2 TB (2199023255040 bytes). Use parted(1) and GUID partition table format (GPT). Disk /dev/sdb: 4998.8 GB, 4998872171008 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 607744 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 267350 2147483647+ ee EFI GPT The difference is that the above system is a blade server with an onboard 3-ware RAID controller. The device that we are having problems with is an external enclosure that connects via USB. Eve On Sat, 5 Jun 2010, Jimmy Cullen wrote: Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 06:09:57 +0100 From: Jimmy Cullen jimmy.cul...@gmail.com To: Steven Timm t...@fnal.gov, Eve V. E. Kovacs kov...@hep.anl.gov, scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov, Sergei Chekanov chaka...@hep.anl.gov Subject: Re: storage (fwd) The kernel that you are using may not be able to see more than 2TB. Previously we had a similar problem and solved it by using the XFS kernel, which is capable of seeing large volumes. I suggest having a look at the SL5.3 release notes to see if there is mention of kernel limitations. Good luck, Jimmy On 5 June 2010 02:49, Steven Timm t...@fnal.gov wrote: If you have more than 2TB you can't use fdisk, need to use parted to see full size of disk. You say it is usb, there could be issues there too. What does lsusb say? Steve On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Eve V. E. Kovacs wrote: We have StarTech external multi-bay hard drive enclosure ( 4x3.5 drives, SATA), S354UFER. It has 2TB drives and is configured for Raid5. Disks are partitioned using ext3 (gpt partition table) Ubuntu 9.08 works fine: it sees ~6 TB after connecting it with a USB cable. When I connect it to ScientificLinux 5.3, I see only 2 TB (with fdisk -l) and SL5.3 does not mount it. StarTech claims that it works fine with Linux (but they did not specify an OS or a kernel version) Has anyone tried this device or has experience with this type of problem? Thanks Sergei Chekanov | WWW : www.hep.anl.gov/chakanau === | Email: chaka...@hep.anl.gov HEP Division, ANL | Tel : +01-630-252 6541 9700 S.Cass,Argonne,IL 60439,USA | Fax : +01-630-252-5782 -- -- Steven C. Timm, Ph.D (630) 840-8525 t...@fnal.gov http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/ Fermilab Computing Division, Scientific Computing Facilities, Grid Facilities Department, FermiGrid Services Group, Assistant Group Leader. *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room E-217, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@hep.anl.gov ***
storage (fwd)
We have StarTech external multi-bay hard drive enclosure ( 4x3.5 drives, SATA), S354UFER. It has 2TB drives and is configured for Raid5. Disks are partitioned using ext3 (gpt partition table) Ubuntu 9.08 works fine: it sees ~6 TB after connecting it with a USB cable. When I connect it to ScientificLinux 5.3, I see only 2 TB (with fdisk -l) and SL5.3 does not mount it. StarTech claims that it works fine with Linux (but they did not specify an OS or a kernel version) Has anyone tried this device or has experience with this type of problem? Thanks Sergei Chekanov| WWW : www.hep.anl.gov/chakanau ===| Email: chaka...@hep.anl.gov HEP Division, ANL | Tel : +01-630-252 6541 9700 S.Cass,Argonne,IL 60439,USA | Fax : +01-630-252-5782
wireless USB question
We have a wireless USB device that we have been trying to get working on a linux box with a 32-bit SL5.3 OS. The device is an ASUS WL-167g USB 2.0. We have tried both the driver on the CD that came with the device, and a more recent version available on the ASUS website. In each case, the driver compiles and loads without errors (the kernel module is rt73), but when we try to bring up the wireless adapter, the system complains that the device cannot be found. Has anyone tried this device and got it to work successfully on linux? Can anyone recommend a wireless USB that DOES work easily out of the box for SL5.3? Thanks, Eve *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room E-217, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@hep.anl.gov *** -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:46:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Kyler Kuehn kku...@hep.anl.gov To: Eve V. E. Kovacs kov...@hep.anl.gov Cc: Steve Kuhlmann s...@hep.anl.gov Subject: Re: info on usb It's an ASUS WL-167g USB 2.0. The usb, box, discs, and documentation are all in the computer room, if you need anything more. Kyler Kuehn Postdoctoral Researcher High Energy Physics Division Argonne National Laboratory Bldg. 362 Rm. F-241 kku...@anl.gov On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Eve V. E. Kovacs wrote: Hi, Please send me the info on the usb that doesn't work (ie make, model) so that I can query the sci-linux usesr list. Thanks Eve *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room E-217, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@hep.anl.gov ***
Re: Clean SL 5.4 Install and Anaconda Disk Partitioning Madness
And when you are doing your custom layout, select RAID rather than New in the menu for making partitions. The RAID option allows you to setup partitions on different disks and then combine them into a software raid. You can select the RAID type, and which partitions go into each RAID device. I have used this many times, and Troy is correct: as long as you use the force primary partition option, the partitions do not get moved around. Eve On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Troy Dawson wrote: Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:29:59 -0500 From: Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov To: Brent L. Bates blba...@vigyan.com Cc: Scientific Linux Users mailing list scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov Subject: Re: Clean SL 5.4 Install and Anaconda Disk Partitioning Madness Brent L. Bates wrote: I've been searching Google for answers and can't find any, so I decided to check here. I'm trying to do a clean install of SL 5.4. I'm booting from an SL 5.4 x86_64 DVD. When I get to the point of custom partitioning my drives, Anaconda makes a mess of things. I have 4 drives and I want 4 partions on each drive. The first partion will be `/boot', next `/', then `/data', and finally a swap partion. As I create each partition on each drive, Anaconda will suddenly rearrange the order of the partions. When I go onto another drive, the order may be different than the last drive I just partitioned. When I try to do the 4th and last partition, I get an `Extended' 4th partion (which is empty) and a real 5th partition, instead of a simple single partition. In the end, what I want is the first partition on each drive combined into a software RAID 1 and be `/boot'. The next 2 sets will be software RAID 0's and `/' `/data'. The final partitions will be 4 separate swap partitions that the OS will take care of. I've tried creating all the partitions on one drive and then moving onto the next one and the next one, but it scrambles things up. I've tried creating the first partition on each drive, then combining them into the RAID 1 md0 device, and specifying the files system type, and mount point `/boot'. Next I go onto the next partition, which I've tried as a software RAID 0 partition and swap at various times. This one usually works, but not always. When I get to the 3rd partition, then it will suddenly rearrange the partitions on that drive. I've even seen it suddenly create a swap partition on a different drive than what I'm actually working on. I've done this with earlier versions of SL, but I don't remember having this much trouble with Anaconda randomly rearranging things and creating an extra unneeded partion. Any insights would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. What *I* would do with something that complicated. I would do a Ctrl-Alt-F2 on the screen before that and do all the partitions by hand. Then on the customizing screen, you just have to link them together. But if you are going to do it by the graphical install, make *sure* that you select Primary Partition for each and every partition. The one partition that you don't do that to is going to get popped over to an extended partition. Troy -- __ Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LSCS/CSI/USS Group __ *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room E-217, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@hep.anl.gov ***
finger segmentation fault
I have a couple of systems that have a standard install of SL5.3, including the package finger-0.17-32.2.1.1.x86_64 When I try to run finger, I get Segmentation fault So far, this has happened only on just a few (out of many) x86_64 systems. I have run an rpm verify on the finger package and it is ok. Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas on what the problem might be. Thanks Eve *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room E-217, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@hep.anl.gov ***
nfsv4 services
We are trying to set up nfsv4 services on an SL5.3 server. We have followed various tutorials on the web, and everything appears to be working correctly. However, when we mount the exported filesystems on the client, (which happens with no errors), we can't see any of the files. The client thinks that the filesystem is mounted, but when we try to do a directory listing there is nothing there. Does anybody have any ideas on what we might be doing wrong? Thanks Eve *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room E-217, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@hep.anl.gov ***
kerberized ssh and aklog on SL5
I just upgraded one of our systems to SL5 and now one of our users is having problems ssh'ing to minos06.fnal.gov. Everything still works on all the SL4 systems. The problem she is having has something to do with the change in kinit and aklog in SL5. She gets her ticket using kinit and then ssh'es to minos06. The error she gets on logging in is: aklog: Couldn't determine realm of user:)aklog: unknown RPC error (-1765328189) while getting lm /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: timeout in locking authority file On minos06, the users' home area is an /afs file system. When she logs in, she can't touch her own files. So clearly, she is not getting her AFS token correctly on the SL5 system. As suggested in some messages of a few days ago, I tried aliasing kinit to /usr/kerberos/bin/kinit ; /usr/bin/aklog But now, when she tries to get her ticket before ssh'ing to minos06 she gets the error: aklog: can't get afs configuration (afsconf_Open(/usr/vice/etc)) I also tried aklog usern...@fnal.gov which gave the same error. Do I just have the syntax wrong, or is there some other setup I need to do to get aklog working correctly on SL5? (I think my krb5.conf file is ok, because she has no problem getting a kerberos ticket and ssh'ing to other hosts that don't use an /afs filesystem) Thanks Eve *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room E-217, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@hep.anl.gov ***
Re: kernel lockd does not honor requested lockd ports
Yes, I tore my hair out on this one last year. The solution is: In modprobe.conf on the nfs server add the following line: options lockd nlm_udpport=6667 nlm_tcpport=6667 (here 6667 is the port number to which lockd is fixed) The reboot your server. Eve On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Ken Teh wrote: Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:02:04 -0500 From: Ken Teh t...@anl.gov To: scientific-linux-users scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov Subject: kernel lockd does not honor requested lockd ports I've fixed the various nfs ports in my firewall config and have propagated these ports to /etc/sysconfig/nfs. All the ports are honored except for the lockd ports. I've even tried setting the ports in sysctl.conf and appending them to the kernel boot in grub.conf. rpcinfo -p shows that the kernel (2.6.18-128.1.6.el5) basically ignores me. NFS clients are mounting via NFSv3. Ignoring the lockd numbers creates apparently creates problems for some applications, presumably because the application is requesting file locks. For example, firefox won't run when launched in a user's home directory that is mounted remotely from the server. Has anyone seen this problem? What's the fix? Ken *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room F149, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@hep.anl.gov ***
grub boot loader
I am trying to install a system that has 4 disks configured as 2 RAID1 mirrors. One of these stores the OS and the other is intended to be a data disk. My problem is that the install from the DVD wants to put the boot loader on the data disk, and I don't see an option to change it to the disk containing the OS. If this happens, the system doesn't boot. I have tried deleting the data disk from the list of bootable devices in the BIOS and I have tried flipping the order of the disks on the SATA controller. Neither of these things made a difference. Is there any other solution besides unplugging the data disks altogether for the install and then bringing them up later? Thanks Eve *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room F149, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@hep.anl.gov ***
printing problem from SL5.3
Hi, Ever since I upgraded my systems from SL5.2 to SL5.3, I have been unable to print correctly from these systems. Instead of getting normal output, I get a page of postscript commands instead. The print jobs from these SL5.3 systems are sent to a print server (which is SL4.7) which then sends them off to the various printers. Interestingly, only HP printers have this problem. We also have Canon printers. The jobs sent to the Canon printers come out normally. This must be a configuration issue.. Everything used to work when all were SL5.2 Does anyone know what changed and what I can do to fix it? Thanks Eve *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room F149, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@hep.anl.gov ***
AdobeReader 9
The latest version of AdobeReader (AdobeReader_enu-9.1.0-1.i486) gives the following error when you try to run it on an SL4.7 system: /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.5' not found (required by /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread) The rpm was built with a different version of gcc than is installed on SL4.7. Usually, one just downloads the src rpm and builds package on the system on which it is required. However, in this case, I can't find the src rpm. Has anyone else seen this problem? Any suggestions? Thanks Eve *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room F149, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@hep.anl.gov ***
Configuring display
How does one configure the display for an SL5.2 system? I have tried running system-config-display to change the resolution, but nothing happens. xorg.conf is unchanged. Thanks, Eve *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room F149, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: lockd for nfs
Hi Everyone, Thanks. I had several people suggest the modprobe.conf fix. I tried it and it worked. /etc/sysconfig nfs worked for fixing the mountd, rquotad and statd ports, but not the lockd ones. Eve On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Shane Voss wrote: Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:35:22 +0100 From: Shane Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dr Andrew C Aitchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Eve V. E. Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lockd for nfs Has anyone tried to fix the ports that nfs uses for its various daemons? # echo options lockd nlm_udpport=6667 nlm_tcpport=6667 /etc/modprobe.conf I happened to be looking in to this yesterday. The only way I can make it work is by putting something in to modprobe.conf (or modprobe.d/something) It seems that once the kernel module for lockd has loaded, it's too late to change... Shane -- *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room F149, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
lockd for nfs
Has anyone tried to fix the ports that nfs uses for its various daemons? Supposedly, by setting the environmental variables in/etc/sysconfig/nfs, one can fix the ports on which the daemons listen. All of them work except for LOCKD_UDPPORT No matter what port I set, when the system (SL5.2) boots, it just chooses some random port for udp lockd. Has anyone come across this? Any idea why it doesn't work? Thanks, Eve -- *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room F149, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
texconfig and pam.d/system-auth and SL5.2
I have an SL5.2 system and I would like to make a couple of configuration changes, but my old tricks don't seem to work anymore. 1) I would like to reconfigure the system-auth file in pam.d to do password checking using pam_passwdqc rather than cracklib and to make the password changes on the nis server rather than locally. For SL4 and before, I used to do this by editing the system-auth file and changing entries as follows: password required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_passwdqc.so min=disabled,disabled,disabled,disabled,8 password sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok md5 shadow nis Now, for SL5.2, I see that there is a comment at the start of the the system-auth file that says it is auto-generated, so any changes I make in the file itself will be lost. So how do I get these changes into system-auth? 2) Whenever I added new style files to the tex installation, I would use texconfig rehash to update /usr/share/texmf/ls-R and /var/lib/texmf/ls-R Now for SL5.2, the texconfig command is gone. What do I do instead? Are these kinds of changes documented somewhere, so I can look up what to do in the future? Thanks Eve -- *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room F149, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
network install for SL5
Hi, Can anyone point me to some instructions for setting up a network install (via nfs) for SL5? I have an older system that does not have a DVD drive, and it would be convenient to do it via the network rather than changing multiple cd's Thanks, Eve -- *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room F149, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
yppasswd on SL5
Hi, Does anyone know the correct hole to punch in the firewall on an SL5.x NIS server so that yppasswd works on the clients? I find if I drop the firewall on the server, yppasswd works on the clients, but if it is in place a get a message saying that yppasswd: yppasswdd not running on NIS master host even though it is. Thanks Eve -- *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room F149, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
dhcp registration
Hi, We are looking for a package that will require users to register (ie supply a name etc) and then assign a dhcp address. With our present dhcp server, we have no way to identify who is connected to our network, particulary if they are using a wireless access point. Does anyone know of a pacjage like this? Thanks, Eve -- *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room F149, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: samba server + nfs
Hi Troy, Sorry, its SL4.4. I have sellinux running in permissive mode. There is nothing useful in either /var/log/messages or in the samba logs we keep for each system that connects. There were some messages regarding oplocks. We tried various combinations of enabling and disabling oplocks, but this had no effect. Eve On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Troy Dawson wrote: Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:30:47 -0500 From: Troy Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eve V. E. Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: samba server + nfs Hi Eve, Is this SL4 or SL5? If this is SL5, I'm betting it's SELinux, and can probrubly be fixed quite easily while keeping SELinux on. Either way, what does it say on /var/log/messages on the samba server? Troy Eve V. E. Kovacs wrote: Hi, We are having a problem with our samba server. We are serving shares that contain symbolic links to directories on filesystems that are nfs mounted to the server. In the past, these directories have been visible and accessible via samba services. This is no longer true. As of a few days ago we noticed that when we try to access one of the files in these nfs mounted directories, the application trying to do the access hangs. For example, on the windows side, Explorer will hang if you try to open a file in one of these symlinked directories. If I run smbclient on a linux client, a similar thing happens. smbclient gives the error Error Call timed out: server did not respond after 2 milliseconds closing remote file (0.0 kb/s) (average 0.0 kb/s) At this point you have to exit smbclient and start over. This only happens on directories that are nfs mounted to the server. Other symlinks are fine. Has anyone else seen this? I have done some googling and haven't found anything useful. Any ideas? Thanks, Eve -- *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room F149, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Fonts and web server on SL4.4
Has anyone seen this problem? We just updated our web server to and SL4.4 OS. The version of httpd is httpd-2.0.52-28.sl4.x86_64 Some web pages that were made with web editors on the Windows side don't display properly. Special characters like single quotes, double quotes and even slashes come up as question marks or boxes etc. These pages used to display correctly with our old web server ( httpd-2.0.46-61.ent ..Redhat Enterprise Linux 3) I am using the identical browser that I had before. It really seems to be a web server issue. Do I need to install more fonts on the server? Other suggestions? Thanks, Eve -- *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room F149, Bldg. 362, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
