Re: [CentOS] USB device not connected (CentOS 5.3)

2009-04-28 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 22:37 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Craig White wrote: > > Could be a problem with the USB port on the CentOS computer, or if you > > are using a cable on with that computer, the cable. > > Same cable everywhere. Four different computers (tw

Re: [CentOS] USB device not connected (CentOS 5.3)

2009-04-28 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Craig White wrote: > Could be a problem with the USB port on the CentOS computer, or if you > are using a cable on with that computer, the cable. Same cable everywhere. Four different computers (two desktops, two laptops; three custom-built, one an HP; and the HP

Re: [CentOS] Dell mirror raid boot problems

2009-04-28 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 19:43 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > To make things as clear as I can this is a DELL XPS Gen 2 Series a 32 > > bit machine using an i386 Centos OS 5.2 that was automatically upgraded > > to 5.3 by yum. > > > > oh, we thought you said a SERVER, su

Re: [CentOS] Dell mirror raid boot problems

2009-04-28 Thread John R Pierce
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > To make things as clear as I can this is a DELL XPS Gen 2 Series a 32 > bit machine using an i386 Centos OS 5.2 that was automatically upgraded > to 5.3 by yum. > oh, we thought you said a SERVER, such as a Dell PowerEdge, so we went down the wrong bunnytrail :) "XPS

Re: [CentOS] Dell mirror raid boot problems

2009-04-28 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 19:28 -0700, nate wrote: > Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > > To make things as clear as I can this is a DELL XPS Gen 2 Series a 32 > > bit machine using an i386 Centos OS 5.2 that was automatically upgraded > > to 5.3 by yum. > > As another poster noted, in this case you should

Re: [CentOS] Dell mirror raid boot problems

2009-04-28 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 21:20 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 18:06 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > > Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > > Everyone, > > > > > > I was recently given a Dell raid 386 server that had drives that had > > > gone bad. I replaced the drives with a couple terr

Re: [CentOS] Dell mirror raid boot problems

2009-04-28 Thread nate
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > To make things as clear as I can this is a DELL XPS Gen 2 Series a 32 > bit machine using an i386 Centos OS 5.2 that was automatically upgraded > to 5.3 by yum. As another poster noted, in this case you should disable the RAID in the bios and keep it off. If you want RAI

Re: [CentOS] Dell mirror raid boot problems

2009-04-28 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 18:06 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > Everyone, > > > > I was recently given a Dell raid 386 server that had drives that had > > gone bad. I replaced the drives with a couple terrabyte sata Seagate > > drives, and set up the bios for a mirrored raid

Re: [CentOS] Yum Update issues

2009-04-28 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: > > I'm guessing I need to find the file that the function(?) that > perl(Pod::ToDemo) is found. > > rpm.pbone has a file called Perl-Pod-ToDemo, but it won't install, saying > it needs Perl5 files -- so I tried reinstalling Perl, but it didn't

Re: [CentOS] USB device not connected (CentOS 5.3)

2009-04-28 Thread Craig White
Could be a problem with the USB port on the CentOS computer, or if you are using a cable on with that computer, the cable. Craig On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 15:11 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > I just tried this with CentOS 5.3 as well, and got exactly the same > symptoms and dmesg output. (As a point

Re: [CentOS] Yum Update issues

2009-04-28 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: > > Thanks for the information. Is there a way to clear out the transaction > information, so yum is no longer looking for kaffeine and the kde library > files at all? > > I'll keep trying to Google for a solution. > > Again, thanks. Okay. I

Re: [CentOS] Yum Update issues

2009-04-28 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Gary Greene wrote: > >I'm not quite sure what this is telling me. Looks like some kind of > conflict between mplayer and kaffeine? Maybe if I removed mplayer and then > ran yum-complete-transaction? > >The file /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-mplay

Re: [CentOS] php-mcrypt from c5-testing is the wrong version

2009-04-28 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
Would you be willing to make the RPM available? Thanks. On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Joe Pruett wrote: >> I am using the c5-testing repo to fetch PHP 5.2.6 and related >> libraries, required for the LAMP apps that I want to use. php-mcrypt >> still seems to come from the extras repo and is v

Re: [CentOS] Yum Update issues

2009-04-28 Thread Gary Greene
From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ron Blizzard Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 4:37 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Yum Update issues On Tue, Apr

Re: [CentOS] Yum Update issues

2009-04-28 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > > yum-complete-transaction is part of yum-utils. > > I've seen that error if using third-party repositories or the mirror > isn't fully updated > Thanks for the information. I've downloaded the utility and ran yum-complete-transaction, but it w

[CentOS] Yum-security

2009-04-28 Thread jacob
Since yum-security doesn't seem to work I've created a very rough version of it on my own. It requires expect and yum-changelog to be installed on a machine. It makes the assumption that the CVE number will be in the changelog data for any package with a security patch applied. I have my own rsync'

[CentOS] USB device not connected (CentOS 5.3)

2009-04-28 Thread Bart Schaefer
I just tried this with CentOS 5.3 as well, and got exactly the same symptoms and dmesg output. (As a point of comparison, Ubunu 8.04 on my work laptop is able to access the drive.) Obviously "not detected" is a misapprehension, though I'm puzzled why "lsusb" doesn't show it. The device is there

Re: [CentOS] Yum Update issues

2009-04-28 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: > Has anyone else run into this issue when running yum update? > > > I've already run yum clear all, but the problem came back when I ran yum > update again. Firefox and xulrunner were also being "held up," but I was > able to update them by run

Re: [CentOS] eth0 killed when adding virtual interface and multiple NICs are present

2009-04-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
JohnS wrote on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:09:56 -0400: > If you don't mind when you come to an answer would you please let me > know. I am interested to know. I could not find a real solution. I had to go to another way of creating the network setup for this machine (and maybe others, I will see) and

[CentOS] Yum Update issues

2009-04-28 Thread Ron Blizzard
Has anyone else run into this issue when running yum update? [r...@localhost ronb]# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * rpmforge: fr2.rpmfind.net * base: mirror.anl.gov * updates: styx.biochem.wfubmc.edu * addons: mirrors.tummy.com * extras: f

Re: [CentOS] adding static route via network setup fails

2009-04-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Nate wrote on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:21:48 -0700 (PDT): > any net 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.224 gw 192.168.2.3 > > in your /etc/sysconfig/static-routes file yes, this works, thanks! I have found a better method without adding a route in the meantime, but I wanted to know about this, just in

Re: [CentOS] Reconfiguring yum

2009-04-28 Thread John R Pierce
Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: > > Hi there -- > > I need to reconfigure yum on one of our centos 5.3 systems in order > for the automatic updates to work. > Currently the error messages that I am getting are shown below: > > $ sudo yum check-update > Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, changelog, downloado

[CentOS] Reconfiguring yum

2009-04-28 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hi there -- I need to reconfigure yum on one of our centos 5.3 systems in order for the automatic updates to work. Currently the error messages that I am getting are shown below: $ sudo yum check-update Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities, protectba

Re: [CentOS] adding static route via network setup fails

2009-04-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Robert Moskowitz wrote on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:25:00 -0400: > Assume 192.168.2.3 is reachable via eth0 (eg eth0's IP is 192.168.2.2). > Make the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0: > > NETMASK0=255.255.255.224 > ADDRESS0=192.168.2.0 > GATEWAY0=192.168.2.3 eth0 does not have an IP no

[CentOS] make fails building Perl 5.10.0 on C5.3 x86_64 (new install)

2009-04-28 Thread Mark Pryor
Hello, I tried to build Perl 5.10.0 on x86_64 using defaults $./Configure -des $make - snip last few lines of errors perlvars.h:178: warning: ISO C forbids conversion of function pointer to object pointer type perlvars.h:186: warning: ISO C forbids conversion of function p

Re: [CentOS] adding static route via network setup fails

2009-04-28 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > I want to add the following route command > route add -net 192.168.2.0/27 gw 192.168.2.3 > Assume 192.168.2.3 is reachable via eth0 (eg eth0's IP is 192.168.2.2). Make the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0: NETMASK0=255.255.255.224 ADDRESS0=192.168.2.0 GATE

Re: [CentOS] adding static route via network setup fails

2009-04-28 Thread nate
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > I want to add the following route command > route add -net 192.168.2.0/27 gw 192.168.2.3 try any net 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.224 gw 192.168.2.3 in your /etc/sysconfig/static-routes file Though I'm not sure why you'd want to have a static route that points to a loca

Re: [CentOS] USB device not detected (CentOS 4.7)

2009-04-28 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Craig White wrote: > if you have items of value on that drive, I would hook it to somewhere > you believe it works and back it up. I already did that. The drive works fine if plugged directly into the IDE chain, or when using the external enclosure with WindowsX

[CentOS] adding static route via network setup fails

2009-04-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I want to add the following route command route add -net 192.168.2.0/27 gw 192.168.2.3 via the normal network setup. The result should be the following routing table (the first line): 192.168.2.0/27 via 192.168.2.3 dev xenbr1 scope link 192.168.2.0/27 dev eth2 proto kernel scope link src 192.1

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-28 Thread Fabian Arrotin
Beartooth wrote: > I have an ASUS EeePC 701 (with 2GB of RAM and an 8 GB card), on > which I've installed CentOS on the hard-drive-plus-card. But it can't > even use my eth0. > >Some one on a local LUG, where I had mentioned that other OSs did fine > with all the same exact hardware,

Re: [CentOS] USB device not detected (CentOS 4.7)

2009-04-28 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 10:58 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Craig White wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 09:48 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > >> I recently purchased an I/O Magic USB enclosure for 3.5" IDE > > > > check what it says about the drive in dmesg afte

Re: [CentOS] USB device not detected (CentOS 4.7)

2009-04-28 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 09:48 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: >> I recently purchased an I/O Magic USB enclosure for 3.5" IDE > > check what it says about the drive in dmesg after you plugged it in. Hmm. usb 1-6: new high speed USB device usi

Re: [CentOS] E-Mail Serving Options

2009-04-28 Thread Ryan Pugatch
Les Mikesell wrote: > Ryan Pugatch wrote: >> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> Les Mikesell wrote: Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle wrote: > Hi All, > > What are my e-mail serving options? I need to host POP, IMAP and SMTP. > I must admit that non-windows e-mail hosting has always

Re: [CentOS] E-Mail Serving Options

2009-04-28 Thread Les Mikesell
Ryan Pugatch wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> Les Mikesell wrote: >>> Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle wrote: >>> Hi All, What are my e-mail serving options? I need to host POP, IMAP and SMTP. I must admit that non-windows e-mail hosting has always been a chore for me. I

Re: [CentOS] Update notification

2009-04-28 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 4/28/09, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > CentOS 5.3 > > New updates available used to be flagged in the (Gnome) desktop > notification > area, but I don't get them any longer. What could be the problem? > > yum-updatesd is set up with the default configuration (dbus), and on the >

Re: [CentOS] E-Mail Serving Options

2009-04-28 Thread Ryan Pugatch
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> What are my e-mail serving options? I need to host POP, IMAP and SMTP. >>> I must admit that non-windows e-mail hosting has always been a chore >>> for me. I remember QMail and QPopper IIR

Re: [CentOS] Package Updater problems

2009-04-28 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 01:04:12PM -0400, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: > Hello! > > I'm afraid that I don't understand redhat's bugzilla -- there's an > approx 10-character wide box for reporting the bug and it always claims > that that's not a bug. I'm sure I'm missing something. > > Anyway,

Re: [CentOS] Dell mirror raid boot problems

2009-04-28 Thread Ryan Pugatch
David M Lemcoe Jr. wrote: > Okay, well to both of you. Maybe I just have heard such bad > experiences that I never really cared! haha. Sorry! I heard somewhere > that PERC just didn't work, but apparently I am wrong. > > I've heard bad things with PERC though. > > Sorry! > > We've got tons of

[CentOS] Package Updater problems

2009-04-28 Thread Charles E Campbell Jr
Hello! I'm afraid that I don't understand redhat's bugzilla -- there's an approx 10-character wide box for reporting the bug and it always claims that that's not a bug. I'm sure I'm missing something. Anyway, here's the problems: Using Centos 5.2 and the "Software Updater/Package Updater/pup"

Re: [CentOS] USB device not detected (CentOS 4.7)

2009-04-28 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 09:48 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > I recently purchased an I/O Magic USB enclosure for 3.5" IDE hard > drive. Has anyone else used one of these? It works fine with > Windows, except of course that Windows can't read the ext2 partitions > on the disk I put into the enclosure

Re: [CentOS] new install and software raid

2009-04-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
Jerry Geis wrote: > Is there a reason why after a software raid install (from kickstart) > that md1 is always unclean. md0 seems fine. > > boot screen says md1 is dirty and > cat /proc/mdstat show md1 as being rebuilt. Immediately after they're constructed, all RAID arrays are dirty and need to

[CentOS] USB device not detected (CentOS 4.7)

2009-04-28 Thread Bart Schaefer
I recently purchased an I/O Magic USB enclosure for 3.5" IDE hard drive. Has anyone else used one of these? It works fine with Windows, except of course that Windows can't read the ext2 partitions on the disk I put into the enclosure. CentOS4 can't find the device, much less access the drive --

Re: [CentOS] new install and software raid

2009-04-28 Thread Tim Nelson
- "Jerry Geis" wrote: > Is there a reason why after a software raid install (from kickstart) > that md1 is always unclean. md0 seems fine. > > boot screen says md1 is dirty and > cat /proc/mdstat show md1 as being rebuilt. > > Any ideas? > > Jerry > > --- my kickstart -

[CentOS] new install and software raid

2009-04-28 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there a reason why after a software raid install (from kickstart) that md1 is always unclean. md0 seems fine. boot screen says md1 is dirty and cat /proc/mdstat show md1 as being rebuilt. Any ideas? Jerry --- my kickstart -- echo "bootloader --location=mbr --driveorde

Re: [CentOS] extend raid volume - new drive

2009-04-28 Thread dnk
On 28-Apr-09, at 2:48 AM, James Bensley wrote: You haven't said how large you knew drive (sdc) is? Is it 500GBs or 1000? If for example it was 1000, you would need to buy another 1000GB drive, and set up a second mirror with the two new drives. So now you have two 1TB mirrors and stripe across

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Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-28 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Beartooth wrote: > On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:32:00 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > >> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> Given that limitation, speed of boot becomes a major criterion. F10 (and also, believe it or not, Pupeee) took *over* ten minutes -- yes, real sixty-seco

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-28 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:32:00 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >> >>> Given that limitation, speed of boot becomes a major criterion. >>> F10 (and also, believe it or not, Pupeee) took *over* ten minutes -- >>> yes, real sixty-second minutes; it's not a typo -- just to

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems...

2009-04-28 Thread John Doe
From: John Doe > 4. OT: fs corruption ont he USB keys... >I copy the iso file on the key (no error message), then compare it to the > original and >some random differences appear. I noticed in the logs: >"ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 65536" >"ext2_

Re: [CentOS] Reset audio controller w/o rebooting?

2009-04-28 Thread John Doe
From: Barry Brimer > I have similar problems in CentOS 5. I disable and enable the flash plugin in > firefox, and it seems to be corrected. My problem may be slightly different, > but this is how I 'fix' the problem. Same here, flash locks out the audio... mplayer gives me: Can't open audio de

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-28 Thread Les Mikesell
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> >> Given that limitation, speed of boot becomes a major criterion. >> F10 (and also, believe it or not, Pupeee) took *over* ten minutes -- yes, >> real sixty-second minutes; it's not a typo -- just to boot. And then had >> to find wifi. >> > > WHAT!!???

Re: [CentOS] extend raid volume - new drive

2009-04-28 Thread Toby Bluhm
dnk wrote: > Hi there, I have a system with the following: > > # fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 800 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1

[CentOS] Update notification

2009-04-28 Thread lhecking
CentOS 5.3 New updates available used to be flagged in the (Gnome) desktop notification area, but I don't get them any longer. What could be the problem? yum-updatesd is set up with the default configuration (dbus), and on the machines I changed the notification to email, I do indeed receiv

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-28 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Beartooth wrote: > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:24:57 -0700, nate wrote: > > >> Beartooth wrote: >> >>> I have an ASUS EeePC 701 (with 2GB of RAM and an 8 GB card), on >>> which I've installed CentOS on the hard-drive-plus-card. But it can't >>> even use my eth0. >>> >>>Some one on a loca

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-28 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Beartooth wrote: > I have an ASUS EeePC 701 (with 2GB of RAM and an 8 GB card), on > which I've installed CentOS on the hard-drive-plus-card. But it can't > even use my eth0. > >Some one on a local LUG, where I had mentioned that other OSs did fine > with all the same exact hardware, s

Re: [CentOS] E-Mail Serving Options

2009-04-28 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Les Mikesell wrote: > Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> What are my e-mail serving options? I need to host POP, IMAP and SMTP. >> I must admit that non-windows e-mail hosting has always been a chore >> for me. I remember QMail and QPopper IIRC. >> >> > > For some reason

Re: [CentOS] Dell mirror raid boot problems

2009-04-28 Thread David M Lemcoe Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Greene wrote: > On 4/27/09 6:44 PM, "John R Pierce" wrote: > >> David M Lemcoe Jr. wrote: >>> If you are using PERC, it is simply not compatible with Linux, and >>> should never be. It is a terrible piece of hardware. I would recommend >>> using

Re: [CentOS] extend raid volume - new drive

2009-04-28 Thread James Bensley
Thanks for the clarification, I have no experience with software raid only hardware which you can probably tell from my response as it was slightly bias to hardware raid options but hey, that's my two pence ;) James. -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GIT/MU/U dpu s: a--> C++>$ U+>

Re: [CentOS] extend raid volume - new drive

2009-04-28 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/28 James Bensley > Hi there, > > Just to clarify; You have two 1TB disk that are mirrored (raid 1)? > > Normally a mirror can't be extended as the mirror is between block 0 > to 100 (for example if 100 was the end of the drive) on one > drive with block 0 to 100 on the other (i

Re: [CentOS] extend raid volume - new drive

2009-04-28 Thread James Bensley
Hi there, Just to clarify; You have two 1TB disk that are mirrored (raid 1)? Normally a mirror can't be extended as the mirror is between block 0 to 100 (for example if 100 was the end of the drive) on one drive with block 0 to 100 on the other (if you have used block level mirror, yo

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems...

2009-04-28 Thread John Doe
From: Fabian Arrotin > John Doe wrote: > > I am creating CentOS install usb keys and, apart from a few problems, it > mostly works... > > 1. OT: My server HP does not seem to want to boot on it if I set the write > protection on. > > 2. Anaconda tries to fetch the ks.cfg too early... It detect

Re: [CentOS] Port Forwarding woes

2009-04-28 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/28 Filipe Brandenburger > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 16:01, Bo Lynch wrote: > > I think I found the culprit but not sure if by taking this out it will be > > a risk. When I remove this statement things work > > iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -m state --state NEW, INVALID -j DROP > >

Re: [CentOS] extend raid volume - new drive

2009-04-28 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/25 dnk > Hi there, I have a system with the following: > > > Disk /dev/md0: 1000.2 GB, 1000202174464 bytes > 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 244189984 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes > > Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > > Now I just added a new ha