[CentOS] Booting CentOS 6 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu

2011-07-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working? When I try to boot the "Live" ISO it starts to do the countdown but when it reaches zero it gets stuck - nothing else happens. No error messages and since the install nev

Re: [CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/26/11 4:27 PM, Kevin K wrote: > Does anyone know what I would have to modify in 6 if I wanted to run on an > older Pentium M CPU without PAE? Is it just the kernel that needs to be > rebuilt (maybe while installed in a system with a supported CPU)? Or are > there other components that wo

Re: [CentOS] libpri rpm version 1.4.12 for CentOS 5.6

2011-07-26 Thread Tadashi Jokagi
Hi Kaushal, i also installed libpri. please perform 'yum info'. == [root@server ~]# yum provides libpri libpri-1.4.7-1.el5.i386 : An implementation of Primary Rate ISDN Repo: epel Matched from: libpri-1.4.7-1.el5.x86_6

Re: [CentOS] libpri rpm version 1.4.12 for CentOS 5.6

2011-07-26 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Tadashi Jokagi wrote: > Hi Kaushal, > > libpri is not in CentOS. I think that it is in EPEL. > Please see following field of "Repo.". > > [root@localhost ~]# rpm -q centos-release > centos-release-5-6.el5.centos.1 > [root@localhost ~]# yum info libpri > Loaded plug

Re: [CentOS] libpri rpm version 1.4.12 for CentOS 5.6

2011-07-26 Thread Tadashi Jokagi
Hi Kaushal, libpri is not in CentOS. I think that it is in EPEL. Please see following field of "Repo.". [root@localhost ~]# rpm -q centos-release centos-release-5-6.el5.centos.1 [root@localhost ~]# yum info libpri Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile (snip) Ava

[CentOS] libpri rpm version 1.4.12 for CentOS 5.6

2011-07-26 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi, Is libpri rpm version 1.4.12 for CentOS 5.6 made available ? [root@ ~]# rpm -qa | grep libpri libpri-1.4.11.5-1_centos5 [root@ ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.6 (Final) [root@ ~]# [root@ ~]# yum list updates | grep libpri [root@ ~]# Please suggest/guide further. Regards, Kaus

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-26 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/26/2011 03:53 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Thank you! That seems to have worked, but now I'm curious as to why the > partition on the old drives didn't go to the end of the disk - which I > had expected would have left no extra room. Was the dos style rounding > computing the end of a cylinder

Re: [CentOS] really large file systems with centos

2011-07-26 Thread Tracy Reed
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:32:14PM -0700, John R Pierce spake thusly: > I've been asked for ideas on building a rather large archival storage > system for inhouse use, on the order of 100-400TB. Probably using CentOS > 6.The existing system this would replace is using Solaris 10 and > ZFS, b

Re: [CentOS] Package: virt-goodies - partly solved

2011-07-26 Thread Trey Dockendorf
If your using CentOS 5.x you may have a problem with perl...here's some notes I have on the subject # virt-v2v -f virt-v2v.conf -ic esx://server.com/?no_verify=1 -op vm_local VMname Can't locate object method "show_progress" via package "Sys::VirtV2V::Transfer::ESX::UA" at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_p

[CentOS] non PAE support

2011-07-26 Thread Kevin K
Does anyone know what I would have to modify in 6 if I wanted to run on an older Pentium M CPU without PAE? Is it just the kernel that needs to be rebuilt (maybe while installed in a system with a supported CPU)? Or are there other components that would cause problems and need to be rebuilt to

Re: [CentOS] Sudo #includedir function ignored CentOS 6

2011-07-26 Thread Trey Dockendorf
Well I verified that putting the following line in /etc/sudoers works zabbix ALL=NOPASSWD: /var/lib/zabbix/bin/start_puppet However if I put it in /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet it does not. Exact same spacing and everything. The file was created with Puppet , and based on these errors I'm at a l

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/26/2011 3:11 AM, Andrzej Szymanski wrote: > On 2011-07-25 19:10, Les Mikesell wrote: >> My questions for any filesystem experts are: >> >> Is there a way to adjust the existing md partitions to get the right >> alignment for 4k sectors without having to do a file-oriented copy to >> new partit

Re: [CentOS] Error updating CentOS 6 kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:16:54 +0200 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 11:07 -0700, Mark wrote: > > > On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 08:32 -0700, Mark wrote: > > > > grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template > > Pasting the above into google renders lots of results that mi

Re: [CentOS] Error updating CentOS 6 kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 11:07 -0700, Mark wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 08:32 -0700, Mark wrote: > > > grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template Pasting the above into google renders lots of results that might help you track down your specific problem. Things like duplicate disk labe

Re: [CentOS] Gimp PDF plugin - Centos 5

2011-07-26 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:47:39 -0400 (EDT) R P Herrold wrote: > perhaps a needed helper application is now absent? If I convert a pdf to a ps file using pdf2ps (included in the ghostscript rpm), gimp can load that pdf file without any problem. Gimp can load a pdf file on Centos 6. Something has g

Re: [CentOS] Yum Issues ; Segmentation fault

2011-07-26 Thread Frank M. Ramaekers
Mine just segfault on the next one (I was having problems with dag): # yum --disablerepo=dag check-update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons: mirrors.tummy.com * base: centos.mirror.lstn.net * extras: mirrors.tummy.com * rpmforge: apt.

Re: [CentOS] Error updating CentOS 6 kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Mark
On Jul 26, 2011 9:09 AM, "Leonard den Ottolander" wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 08:32 -0700, Mark wrote: > > grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template > > Google first result: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=124246#c2 > "never ever rpm -U a kernel... really." > > Coul

Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

2011-07-26 Thread Keith Roberts
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Always Learning wrote: *snip* > Programmes that abort because of bad data are defective programmes and > need rectification. No good programmer ever accepts that other people's > data will always be valid. +1 Kind Regards, Keith ---

[CentOS] Package: virt-goodies - partly solved

2011-07-26 Thread Victor Zele
For CentOS KVM migrations use the virt-v2v package part of base. See this link, http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization/chap-Virtualization-v2v-migration.html Am Freitag, 22. Juli 2011, 13:37:08 schrieb Timothy Kesten: > Hi Folks, > > is here someone who

[CentOS] Gimp PDF plugin - Centos 5

2011-07-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Frank Cox wrote: > Gimp on Centos 5 has somehow lost its ability to load a pdf > file on three (i386) different computers. I'm pretty sure > that this used to work. just a stab in the dark here -- upstream issued an update to poppler / evince that obsoleted xpdf (gratuiti

[CentOS] Gimp PDF plugin - Centos 5

2011-07-26 Thread Frank Cox
Gimp on Centos 5 has somehow lost its ability to load a pdf file on three (i386) different computers. I'm pretty sure that this used to work. When I try to load a PDF file I get the initial box titled "Load Postscript" with rendering and antialiasing options, but when I hit OK I get an error mess

Re: [CentOS] Yum Issues ; Segmentation fault

2011-07-26 Thread Matt
I should read a bit more before I post, sorry. I did google though. yum --disablerepo=rpmforge update Seems to work fine. Thanks. On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Matt wrote: > Tried to run yum this morning on CentOS 5.x 64bit and ran into weird > issue this morning: > > [root@server ~]# yu

[CentOS] Yum Issues ; Segmentation fault

2011-07-26 Thread Matt
Tried to run yum this morning on CentOS 5.x 64bit and ran into weird issue this morning: [root@server ~]# yum clean all Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Cleaning up Everything Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors [root@server ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Determining fastest mirrors *

Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

2011-07-26 Thread Always Learning
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 18:34 +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 17:22 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > sure, but you need to take this upstream to get attention. > > This has happened as I mentioned earlier. > > > I just dont > > see this as an important enough issue

Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

2011-07-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/26/2011 05:34 PM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: >> I just dont >> see this as an important enough issue to fix within centos here. > > No such suggestion was made. We all know CentOS behaves like upstream > and the fix will probably trickle down soon enough. ah you see, we have a bit of room

Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

2011-07-26 Thread Gilbert Sebenste
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Stephen Harris wrote: >> I dont really see that as a yum issue, the problem is bad metadata in >> rpmforge. > > A segfault is a bug, even if it's only triggered by bad data :-) I agree. It should report that the checksum is bad, and skip to the next repo. > (thought: could

Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

2011-07-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/26/2011 05:43 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > (thought: could bad metadata cause an exploitable segfault?) > if you can create something like that - make sure you report it to the right places! - KB ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://li

Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

2011-07-26 Thread Stephen Harris
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 05:12:23PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 07/26/2011 04:59 PM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > Seems an issue with yum too, seeing that it segfaults over bad data. > > This has been reported upstream: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725798 > > I dont re

Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

2011-07-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 17:22 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > sure, but you need to take this upstream to get attention. This has happened as I mentioned earlier. > I just dont > see this as an important enough issue to fix within centos here. No such suggestion was made. We all know CentOS behav

Re: [CentOS] Question about CentOS 6 installation setup

2011-07-26 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 7/26/2011 10:46 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> I have reported the problem to VMware: >> >> http://communities.vmware.com/thread/309617 > > Is this an artifact of offsetting the start of a partition for block > alignment after already computing

Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

2011-07-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 17:12 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > I dont really see that as a yum issue, the problem is bad metadata in > rpmforge. A programme that crashes on bad input is what I'd call broken. Abort yes, segfault no. Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/researc

Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

2011-07-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/26/2011 05:19 PM, Thomas Harold wrote: > While the problem is bad metadata, should yum really be left off the > hook for segfaulting when it gets bad data? Shouldn't yum catch that > error with checks, then exit gracefully with an error code? sure, but you need to take this upstream to get a

Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

2011-07-26 Thread Thomas Harold
On 7/26/2011 12:12 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 07/26/2011 04:59 PM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: >> Seems an issue with yum too, seeing that it segfaults over bad data. >> This has been reported upstream: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725798 > > I dont really see that as a yum

[CentOS] RADIUS Questions

2011-07-26 Thread Dan
I've been running FreeRadius 2 on Centos 5.5 for a while now. So far so good. I'm now looking to make connecting to our WPA secured wireless easier. The RADIUS server is running in a VM and since the system is in use I have copied the original and used that copy to create a test environment. I

Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

2011-07-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/26/2011 04:59 PM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Seems an issue with yum too, seeing that it segfaults over bad data. > This has been reported upstream: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725798 I dont really see that as a yum issue, the problem is bad metadata in rpmforge. - K

Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

2011-07-26 Thread Mathieu Carré
We have the same problem with DAG repositories. Regards, Mathieu. Le 26/07/2011 17:59, Leonard den Ottolander a écrit : > On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 16:40 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> this is a problem with the metadata from rpmforge, a couple of guys are >> working through the issue in #yum on irc

Re: [CentOS] Error updating CentOS 6 kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 08:32 -0700, Mark wrote: > grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template Google first result: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=124246#c2 "never ever rpm -U a kernel... really." Could it be you upgraded instead of installed the new kernel? Regards, Leonar

Re: [CentOS] Question about CentOS 6 installation setup

2011-07-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/26/2011 10:46 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Mark wrote: >> When I created a CentOS VM (using VMWare WorkStation), I installed >> with the first DVD, and the disk partitioning and installation was all >> done automatically with almost no input required from me. >> >>

Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

2011-07-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 16:40 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > this is a problem with the metadata from rpmforge, a couple of guys are > working through the issue in #yum on irc.freenode.net, feel free to join > them. Seems an issue with yum too, seeing that it segfaults over bad data. This has been

Re: [CentOS] Question about CentOS 6 installation setup

2011-07-26 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Mark wrote: > When I created a CentOS VM (using VMWare WorkStation), I installed > with the first DVD, and the disk partitioning and installation was all > done automatically with almost no input required from me. > > The problem with this is that the /boot partiti

Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

2011-07-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/26/2011 04:33 PM, Lars Hecking wrote: > >> We've had the same problem. It helped to recursively delete all cached >> files in /var/cache/yum. Just run yum update again and you shoudl be fine. > > This does not help here. I started from an empty /var/cache/yum directory. > The problem is r

[CentOS] Question about CentOS 6 installation setup

2011-07-26 Thread Mark
When I created a CentOS VM (using VMWare WorkStation), I installed with the first DVD, and the disk partitioning and installation was all done automatically with almost no input required from me. The problem with this is that the /boot partition was too small (under 50MB) and I couldn't update the

Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

2011-07-26 Thread Lars Hecking
> We've had the same problem. It helped to recursively delete all cached > files in /var/cache/yum. Just run yum update again and you shoudl be fine. This does not help here. I started from an empty /var/cache/yum directory. The problem is related to rpmforge, there is no segfault with --disab

[CentOS] Error updating CentOS 6 kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Mark
I finally was able to create a VM in which to load and "play" with CentOS 6, and the first time I went to update the kernel I ran into this: Downloading Packages: kernel-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64.rpm | 22 MB 01:11 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeed

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/26/2011 10:18 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> Keep in mind that the Linux kernel itself makes no concessions to >> backwards compatibility and demands that all related modules be >> recompiled to match changes. > > One of my paragraphs originally included a fairly lengthy passage on kernel > ABI c

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 10:45:42 AM Les Mikesell wrote: > Keep in mind that the Linux kernel itself makes no concessions to > backwards compatibility and demands that all related modules be > recompiled to match changes. One of my paragraphs originally included a fairly lengthy passage on k

Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

2011-07-26 Thread Daniel Heitmann
> 00:01 > rpmforge | 1.1 kB > 00:00 > rpmforge/primary | 3.9 MB > 00:20 > rpmforge: [## ] > 471/10722Segmentation fault > We've had the same p

[CentOS] centos 6 gdm.custom auto login

2011-07-26 Thread Jerry Geis
Under centos 5 I modified /etc/gdm/custom.conf to auto login with the following: [daemon] AutomaticLoginEnable=true AutomaticLogin=myuser TimedLoginEnable=true TimedLogin=myuser TimedLoginDelay=0 This doesnt seem to work in Centos 6. What is the new way to accomplish auto login under X11. Thanks

[CentOS] Problem with /etc/security/console.perms.d/51-local.perms

2011-07-26 Thread Thomas Johansson
I'm having trouble to get rules in /etc/security/console.perms.d to work properly. I have found no clue reading forums. The same problem appear also in Scientific Linux6 and Fedora13/14. The rule i add works fine on centos 5. hostname:/etc/security/console.perms.d# ls -l total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 ro

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/26/2011 9:03 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > I'm sure that some of these major upgrades *can* be done, but in a land where > the package is the unit of OS granularity, and package maintenance practices > vary from package to package as to 'upgradeableness,' it really becomes a > task, and this is

Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

2011-07-26 Thread Frank M. Ramaekers
Mine is occurring on dag: # yum clean all Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Cleaning up Everything Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors # yum check-update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Determining fastest mirrors * addons: mirrors.tummy.com * base: mirrors.netdna.com * extras

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 01:51:18 AM 夜神 岩男 wrote: > This is roughly what Microsoft used to aim for (somewhere on the road > between XP and 8 they seem to have totally quit the idea, though). As a slightly off-topic aside, there is a youtube video out there about doing just that; the video shows

[CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

2011-07-26 Thread Lars Hecking
[root@host ~]# yum clean all Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, protectbase Cleaning up Everything Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors [root@ost ~]# yum search libcli Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, protectbase Determining fastest mirrors * base: centos-distro.cavecreek.net * elrepo: elrepo.imt-syste

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-26 Thread Jim Wildman
Several points (all for "enterprises I've worked at") 1) Folks tend to hold onto hardware WAY past the expiration date. We still have SunFire v1xx boxes alive and some x86 boxes that aren't 64 bit capable. If they want the latest OS, buy new hardware. 2) I've never seen an OS upgraded across majo

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 05:21:58 AM John Doe wrote: > From: John R Pierce > > thats by "cylinder", which is an old MSDOS legacy thing. I believe > > parted and probably some other programs let you partition by sector instead. > In my kickstart pre script, I use: > ... | sfdisk -H $HEADS -S $S

Re: [CentOS] Subnet expansion

2011-07-26 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Hi all, > Can pls share your experience on this? > > Currently I have this network: > 10.1.16.0/22. > 10.1.16.0-10.16.17.254 are DHCP managed > 10.1.18.0-10.1.19.254 are statically assigned > > If I need to expand it to: > 10.1.16.0/20 > > 1. What is th

Re: [CentOS] Where are the CentOS 6 security updates?

2011-07-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/26/2011 10:08 AM, Lintula wrote: > Are there still no security updates available for CentOS 6, or have I > just managed to completely miss how to access them? if you run a yum update, you will see that all 6.0 updates ( except, yes firefox and xulrunner ) are all in place. The 6.1/ stuff sho

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-26 Thread John Doe
From: John R Pierce > thats by "cylinder", which is an old MSDOS legacy thing.  I believe > parted and probably some other programs let you partition by sector instead. In my kickstart pre script, I use: ... | sfdisk -H $HEADS -S $SECTORS -uS --force -L $DEVICE For SSDs, I saw the recommended

[CentOS] Where are the CentOS 6 security updates?

2011-07-26 Thread Lintula
The release announcement for CentOS-6.0 posted on CentOS-announce on Sun Jul 10 mentioned that: > Since upstream has a 6.1 version already released, we will be using a > Continous Release repository for 6.0 to bring all 6.1 and post 6.1 > security updates to all 6.0 users, till such time as Cent

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS 6] what really starts x11

2011-07-26 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Not sure how that can be with a "graphical" install on kickstart and >> asking also @general-desktop and @internet-browser in my kickstart file. > > Yeah, they changed the group names, as I think I mentioned last week. To > *stupid* things, like "GNO

[CentOS] Subnet expansion

2011-07-26 Thread Fajar Priyanto
Hi all, Can pls share your experience on this? Currently I have this network: 10.1.16.0/22. 10.1.16.0-10.16.17.254 are DHCP managed 10.1.18.0-10.1.19.254 are statically assigned If I need to expand it to: 10.1.16.0/20 1. What is the best way to do it with minimal network disruption? 2. If I keep

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-26 Thread Andrzej Szymanski
On 2011-07-25 19:10, Les Mikesell wrote: > My questions for any filesystem experts are: > > Is there a way to adjust the existing md partitions to get the right > alignment for 4k sectors without having to do a file-oriented copy to > new partitions? A resize + a dd copy to shift the position migh