Re: [CentOS] resource busy

2015-04-08 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 8 Apr 2015, Michael Hennebry wrote: How do I find whatever it is that wodim or readom thinks is using /dev/sr0 and kill it? So far, reboot is the only solution I've found that works. I don't like it. I want to be able to use my DVD-burner more than once without rebooting. lsof has not h

[CentOS] resource busy

2015-04-08 Thread Michael Hennebry
How do I find whatever it is that wodim or readom thinks is using /dev/sr0 and kill it? So far, reboot is the only solution I've found that works. I don't like it. I want to be able to use my DVD-burner more than once without rebooting. lsof has not helped. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nod

[CentOS] install problem

2015-04-08 Thread Chuck Campbell
I shot myself in the foot today. I had a centos 5.11 install running fine. Doing a backup, I overwrote the /bin directory by mistake. I couldn't get my machine to recognize a centos 6.5 or 6.6 install dvd, so I put in the original centos 5.10 install disc and re-installed. No problem. During the t

Re: [CentOS] yum upgrade of an older 6.1

2015-04-08 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.3 (Section 4. Major Changes) Matahari is now obsoleted, but in 6.1, had a dependency on qpid-cpp-server and qpid-cpp-client which wanted updates. A quick Google shows many others seeing this problem. I think if you run yum with the --obsoletes

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 08.04.2015 um 21:16 schrieb Liam O'Toole : > On 2015-04-08, Leon Fauster wrote: >> >> gdm is a "sub-process" of X ... >> > Not according to the output of pstree. See the following snippet: oh, i had something in mind that obviously is obsolete, okay :-) -- LF ___

Re: [CentOS] 6.5 install dvd won't

2015-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Chuck Campbell wrote: > When I boot a machine from disc 1 of 2, Centos 6.5 install dvd, I get to a > grub > prompt. > > I have no idea what to do from there, but clearly something isn't right. > Shoudl I try to download centos 6 again and burn new discs? > Yes - 6

Re: [CentOS] 6.5 install dvd won't

2015-04-08 Thread Andrew Holway
On 8 April 2015 at 22:24, Chuck Campbell wrote: > When I boot a machine from disc 1 of 2, Centos 6.5 install dvd, I get to a > grub > prompt. > > I have no idea what to do from there, but clearly something isn't right. > Shoudl I try to download centos 6 again and burn new discs? > Probably. Mak

[CentOS] yum upgrade of an older 6.1

2015-04-08 Thread John R Pierce
i fired up a vm i haven't used in ages, it was centos 6.1, so I ran yum update -y, and it bombed on package conflicts with matahari and qpid-something...I had no need for matahari (heck, I don't even know what it is), so I removed matahari-\* and the yum update succeeded, but shouldn't yum

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 07:16:48PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > Xorg is in fact a sub-sub-process of gdm-binary. Yup. In fact, it's possible to run GDM without X at all, such as when you're running display manager with XDMCP. -- Jonathan Billings ___

[CentOS] 6.5 install dvd won't

2015-04-08 Thread Chuck Campbell
When I boot a machine from disc 1 of 2, Centos 6.5 install dvd, I get to a grub prompt. I have no idea what to do from there, but clearly something isn't right. Shoudl I try to download centos 6 again and burn new discs? thanks, -chuck -- ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-08, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 10:36:05AM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> Thanks for drawing my attention to that bug. I encountered it the >> other day after switching from runlevel 5 to 3 (and back again) on a >> CentOS 6.6 machine. >> >> The purpose of the runl

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-08, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-04-08, Leon Fauster > wrote: >> Am 08.04.2015 um 16:22 schrieb Liam O'Toole >> : >>> On 2015-04-08, David Both wrote: The easy way to restart gdm is when you are on the login screen itself or the desktop simply press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-08, Leon Fauster wrote: > Am 08.04.2015 um 16:22 schrieb Liam O'Toole > : >> On 2015-04-08, David Both >> >> wrote: >>> The easy way to restart gdm is when you are on the login screen >>> itself or the desktop simply press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This works >>> for Upstart in CentOS 6.x bu

Re: [CentOS] Some subscribers posts to the list ending up in Gmail spam

2015-04-08 Thread Nataraj
On 04/08/2015 09:40 AM, Laurent Blume wrote: > Le 2015/04/08 17:50 +0200, Les Mikesell a écrit: >> No, I don't think it will ever learn from that,, but there is a way >> you can set a rule to 'never mark as spam' based on the sender. Which >> wouldn't be fun on a list with a lot of yahoo.com membe

Re: [CentOS] EPEL no php-pear package?

2015-04-08 Thread Nicolas Ross
James B. Byrne a écrit : Does anyone know what package provides the pear utility for php on CentOS? I tried installing a php-pear module from epel and got this error: Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package php-pear-DB.noarch 0:1.7.13-3.el6 will be installed --> Proces

Re: [CentOS] Some subscribers posts to the list ending up in Gmail spam

2015-04-08 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2015/04/08 17:50 +0200, Les Mikesell a écrit: > No, I don't think it will ever learn from that,, but there is a way > you can set a rule to 'never mark as spam' based on the sender. Which > wouldn't be fun on a list with a lot of yahoo.com members. FWIW, I recently solved one reason GMail was

Re: [CentOS] Update only of security vulnerabilities?

2015-04-08 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 03:54:18PM +0200, Rafał Radecki wrote: > What is the best way to get a list of available security updates? > I found several commands for that: > 1) yum updateinfo list updates -q --security > 2) yum list-security --security -q > 3) yum --security check-update -q > Based on

Re: [CentOS] EPEL no php-pear package?

2015-04-08 Thread Tony Schreiner
php-pear is in CentOS base On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 11:50 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > Does anyone know what package provides the pear utility for php on > CentOS? > > I tried installing a php-pear module from epel and got this error: > > Resolving Dependencies > --> Running transaction check > ---

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 10:36:05AM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > Thanks for drawing my attention to that bug. I encountered it the other > day after switching from runlevel 5 to 3 (and back again) on a CentOS > 6.6 machine. > > The purpose of the runlevel switch was to restart gdm. Is there a bette

Re: [CentOS] Some subscribers posts to the list ending up in Gmail spam

2015-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Nataraj wrote: > On 04/04/2015 09:59 AM, Andrew Holway wrote: >> Did we work out the technical reason why some users that post to the list >> are getting dumped into gmail spam? > > . I believe that if, in your gmail account, you keep marking as "NOT > SPAM" any fa

Re: [CentOS] Update only of security vulnerabilities?

2015-04-08 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 08.04.2015 um 16:53 schrieb Les Mikesell : > On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote: >> Hi All :) >> >> What is the best way to get a list of available security updates? >> I found several commands for that: >> 1) yum updateinfo list updates -q --security >> 2) yum list-security -

[CentOS] EPEL no php-pear package?

2015-04-08 Thread James B. Byrne
Does anyone know what package provides the pear utility for php on CentOS? I tried installing a php-pear module from epel and got this error: Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package php-pear-DB.noarch 0:1.7.13-3.el6 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: php-pear(P

Re: [CentOS] Update only of security vulnerabilities?

2015-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote: > Hi All :) > > What is the best way to get a list of available security updates? > I found several commands for that: > 1) yum updateinfo list updates -q --security > 2) yum list-security --security -q > 3) yum --security check-update -q > Base

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 08.04.2015 um 16:22 schrieb Liam O'Toole : > On 2015-04-08, David Both > > wrote: >> The easy way to restart gdm is when you are on the login screen itself >> or the desktop simply press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This works for Upstart >> in CentOS 6.x but will not work for CentOS 7.x which uses Syst

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-08, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: > On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 10:36 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2015-04-04, Bill Maltby (C4B) >> wrote: >> > On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 11:12 +0100, Nux! wrote: >> >> 100% with Digimer here. >> > >> >> All this energy should be put into contributing towards to

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-08, David Both wrote: > The easy way to restart gdm is when you are on the login screen itself > or the desktop simply press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This works for Upstart > in CentOS 6.x but will not work for CentOS 7.x which uses Systemd. The > service command does not work for gdm. Howev

Re: [CentOS] The future of centos

2015-04-08 Thread James B. Byrne
On Tue, April 7, 2015 12:48, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Seems odd to mention Oracle's name at all in the link without pointing > out that they have a product very similar to CentOS with the option to > purchase support. > For what it is worth. If RedHat (or someone else) offered support contracts f

[CentOS] Update only of security vulnerabilities?

2015-04-08 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi All :) What is the best way to get a list of available security updates? I found several commands for that: 1) yum updateinfo list updates -q --security 2) yum list-security --security -q 3) yum --security check-update -q Based on the sample output below I think I can use any of the three with

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 08.04.2015 um 13:08 schrieb David Both : > The easy way to restart gdm is when you are on the login screen itself or the > desktop simply press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This works for Upstart in CentOS 6.x > but will not work for CentOS 7.x which uses Systemd. The service command does > not work f

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Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread David Both
The easy way to restart gdm is when you are on the login screen itself or the desktop simply press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This works for Upstart in CentOS 6.x but will not work for CentOS 7.x which uses Systemd. The service command does not work for gdm. However, logging out of the desktop will res

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Bill Maltby (C4B)
On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 10:36 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-04-04, Bill Maltby (C4B) > wrote: > > On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 11:12 +0100, Nux! wrote: > >> 100% with Digimer here. > > > >> All this energy should be put into contributing towards to the > >> project, testing, helping out community.

[CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-04, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: > On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 11:12 +0100, Nux! wrote: >> 100% with Digimer here. > >> All this energy should be put into contributing towards to the >> project, testing, helping out community. > > Well, I used to agree. But when a bug report filed in December g

Re: [CentOS] NFS Stale file handle drives me crazy (Centos 6)

2015-04-08 Thread Jegadeesh Kumar
In this case, you could export the same directory which already mounted in the client. On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Marcin Trendota wrote: > Dnia czwartek, 2 kwietnia 2015 3:03:53 PM Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator > pisze: > > > Hi folks, > > I have a Centos 6 NFS server, which dirves me craz

Re: [CentOS] NFS Stale file handle drives me crazy (Centos 6)

2015-04-08 Thread Marcin Trendota
Dnia czwartek, 2 kwietnia 2015 3:03:53 PM Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator pisze: > Hi folks, > I have a Centos 6 NFS server, which dirves me crazy. > The directory I try to export cant be accessed by different clients. > I tried a centos 7, centos 6 and a pool of vmware esxi 5.5 systems. > At the