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OOPS! 6.10 Centos - left off a zero.
On Tue, 2020-10-27 at 13:45 -0400, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> Any guidance appreciated.
>
> Been running CentoS 6.1 on my stuff in my 1-man office trying to buy
> time to have some liesure to learn the non inittab/teli
Any guidance appreciated.
Been running CentoS 6.1 on my stuff in my 1-man office trying to buy
time to have some liesure to learn the non inittab/telinit/runlevel
stuff as I put up CentOS 8.
So, yes I know EOL is upon me but since I've tried to become a user
after exiting comp. biz decades ago I
On Mon, 2017-07-03 at 15:16 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> ken wrote:
> > On 07/03/2017 02:41 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> >> On 07/03/2017 05:07 AM, Chris Olson wrote:
>
> Or just hit and after the low-level, it'll display.
I hit {F4} as soon as the rghb stuff starts to display and it shows
m
On Mon, 2017-03-20 at 04:53 +, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017, 7:41 AM James B. Byrne wrote:
>
> > On Fri, March 10, 2017 11:57, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Looks like only one sector's bad. Running badblocks should,
> > >
> You'll need to search the smartmontools si
On Fri, 2017-02-03 at 07:10 -0500, TE Dukes wrote:
>
> > -Original Message-
> > To: CentOS mailing list
> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Spotty internet connection
> >
> I bought an Arris Surfboard Cable Modem/Gateway instead of leasing one from
> them for $15/mo.
>
> https://www.newegg.com/Pr
On Tue, 2016-05-10 at 10:44 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>
> 2. RHEL (and derivatives): you do routine updates, and all is guaranteed
> to keep working as it did when you originally configured your machine.
*Almost*. exception was 6.5->6.6 upgrade.
https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7972
Cave
On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 21:32 +0100, Nux! wrote:
> Guys if you are using my repo on CentOS 6 then the new Firefox might not like
> the old ffmpeg I ship.
>
> There is new and apparently working stuff in my testing repo; try to upgrade
> and see if that solves the problem.
> Feedback welcome so I c
On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 21:32 +0100, Nux! wrote:
> Guys if you are using my repo on CentOS 6 then the new Firefox might not like
> the old ffmpeg I ship.
>
> There is new and apparently working stuff in my testing repo; try to upgrade
> and see if that solves the problem.
> Feedback welcome so I c
On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 10:02 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 05/02/2016 04:43 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> > On Mon, 2016-05-02 at 14:06 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> >> On 05/02/2016 01:46 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> >>
> >
> >>>> Anyone el
On Mon, 2016-05-02 at 13:13 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> I think this site is always failing. It has an embedded video.
>
> http://www.sportsnet.ca/basketball/nba/free-association-podcast-much-toronto-raptors-fear-miami-heats-dwayne-wade-hassan-whiteside-joe-johnson/
Plays with the downgrade
On Mon, 2016-05-02 at 15:34 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> On Mon, May 2, 2016 3:10 pm, Frank Cox wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 May 2016 20:44:25 +0100 (BST)
> > Nux! wrote:
> >
> >> This consistently crashes it, for testing:
> >> http://dl.nux.ro/video/Organshiftpregnancy.mp4
> >
>
> I know it is irreleva
On Mon, 2016-05-02 at 14:06 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 05/02/2016 01:46 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
>
> >> Anyone else experiencing unstable behaviour of FF 45.1 on C6?
> >
> > Day it was out I got the same. Since I already had some difficulties
> > with
On Mon, 2016-05-02 at 11:29 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> on updated C6 x86_64 Firefox ESR 45.1.0 is seg faulting on various sites,
> mainly media sites. Tried uninstalling flash-plugin 11.2.202.616 but
> problem persists.
>
> Work around: installed Seamonkey from epel repo
>
> Anyone else ex
On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 15:39 -0700, JJB wrote:
> On 04/27/16 15:18, Chris Adams wrote:
> > Once upon a time, JJB said:
> >> Interesting. Back in 1980 we called /bin/sh the Mashey shell. It
> >> did not have command substitution or other things we now take for
> >> granted. Bourne did that for us
On Tue, 2016-04-26 at 19:04 +0200, Yamaban wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:54, wwp wrote:
>
> > Hello Andreas,
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:03:12 +0200 Andreas Benzler wrote:
> >
> >> Hello every one I installed the official
> >> flash plugin from adobe
> >>
> >> About Plugins tells me:
> >>
Had seen various folks ask about how to do this (I did mine long ago and
far away to make my Windows machine dual-bootable to Win or CentOS) and
while looking for some HD repair diagnostics, ran across this and
thought it may be useful to some folks.
http://rufus.akeo.ie/
I've not yet used it, bu
On Mon, 2015-08-17 at 11:14 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> What video card are you using? Xorg driver or proprietary binary thing?
lspci shows
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI] Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series]
lsmod shows
radeon
On Mon, 2015-08-17 at 09:30 -0400, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-08-17 at 09:05 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> >
> > I suggest going into the libreOffice settings and play around with the
> > graphical settings (LibreOffice->View) and turn off Java
> &
On Mon, 2015-08-17 at 09:05 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> On Aug 16, 2015, at 2:39 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> > My preliminary conclusion is there's something in java and/or
> > libreoffice that begins causing load on the X server once activity
> > begins. Th
On Fri, 2015-08-14 at 07:51 -0400, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
>
> Ksnapshot region selection still lagging and jerky.
>
> So it would be easy to think some of this A.M.'s updates had a
> beneficial effect in one regard, CPU, usage, but not in the clunky
> behavior o
On Fri, 2015-08-14 at 06:39 -0400, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-08-14 at 06:02 -0400, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> >
> Anyway, logging the user out and back in, the panel shows no checking
> for updates. Ksnapshot selection for the other user still lagging and
> je
On Fri, 2015-08-14 at 06:02 -0400, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 23:51 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> > On 08/13/2015 02:44 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> > > Top shows
> > >PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND
&
On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 23:51 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 08/13/2015 02:44 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> > Top shows
> >PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND
> > 32160 root 20 0 259m 104m 22m R 76.5 1.3 559:07.79 Xorg
> > 2
Is it just me or does Xorg/Gnome seem slow and clunky to any other
desktop users once the 6.7 upgrade is done?
$ uname -a
Linux CentOS501.homegroannetwork 2.6.32-573.1.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP
Sat Jul 25 17:05:50 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS release 6.7 (
On Mon, 2015-07-27 at 11:06 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> I have an old computer running CentOS 5. I need to add an SATA drive to
> it, but it doesn't have any ports, so I need an add-on card. The board
> only has a 32-bit PCI slot. Any recommendations on cards/brands that
> work well with Cen
On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 08:17 -0700, david wrote:
>
> >
> >Yup. For, um, about a dozen years, I ran RH 7.1,7.2, 7.3, and eventually 9
> >on an old box that was nothing but a firewall router. I was seriously
> >paranoid - no gcc or any development tools, no X, not much of anything. To
> >the best of
On Sat, 2015-06-27 at 21:17 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> On 06/27/15 17:05, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> > Since the latest update (may wrap here),
> > xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.15.0-26.el6.centos.0.1.x86_64 Sat 20 Jun 2015
> > 04:16:01 PM EDT
> > xorg-x11-server-common-1.15
On Sat, 2015-06-27 at 21:17 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> On 06/27/15 17:05, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> > Since the latest update (may wrap here),
> > xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.15.0-26.el6.centos.0.1.x86_64 Sat 20 Jun 2015
> > 04:16:01 PM EDT
> > xorg-x11-server-common-1.15
Since the latest update (may wrap here),
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.15.0-26.el6.centos.0.1.x86_64 Sat 20 Jun 2015
04:16:01 PM EDT
xorg-x11-server-common-1.15.0-26.el6.centos.0.1.x86_64 Sat 20 Jun 2015
04:15:58 PM EDT
x264-0.0.0-0.4.2010.el6.rf.x86_64 Wed 19 Nov 2014 04:56:05
PM EST
xvidcore
On Mon, 2015-06-22 at 17:22 -0400, ken wrote:
> True, I didn't mention that the manual's gone missing. But I thought
> that fact would be obvious and not in need of explaining.
This may be silly too, but is the manual availble on-line, say as a PDF?
That may be your slvation?
HTH,
Bill
On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 10:13 +0200, Bernard Lheureux wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to know if these troubles affect also other people, for
> example,
> now I've just discovered that it was no
> longer possible to take screenshots with gnome-screenshot, I always
> receive an error message
On Thu, 2015-05-21 at 22:45 +0100, Graham Wilman wrote:
> I cannot say if it ever worked I have inherited the sorting out of our
> servers at the radio station due to it being run by volunteers and as in all
> volunteer organisations people come and go I did do some research on the
> internet an
On Fri, 2015-04-10 at 13:25 -0500, Chuck Campbell wrote:
>
> So stage two of the saga, I thought I would try to install CentOS 6.5 (I had
> the
> dvds burned already). It boots, but claims the install image is corrupt.
>
> I re-downloaded CentOS 6.6, verified the checksums and burned a new dvd
On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 12:50 +0100, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
>
> While only vaguely related to this topic, does anyone else find that
> CentOS6 desktop stability is lacking? Or did we just never notice because
> no monitoring was in place pre-C6?
>
> I'm refering to abrtd which i
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
>
On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 11:24 -0500, Francis Gerund wrote:
> Is there a way in Centos 7 to boot into an alternate video setup?
Check the kernel parameters - ISTR long ago using a paramer to the
kernel added to the grub boot line that had one of my machines go into
VESA mode. ISTR some numbers after "
On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 19:14 +0200, Andrew Holway wrote:
> >
> > Well, I used to agree. But when a bug report filed in December goes
> > untouched entering April, which I don't recall happening prior to RH
> > subsuming the project, it takes away impetus to ever file one again from
> > lowly end use
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 goes
untouched entering April, which I don't reca
On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 12:16 -0700, Sean.lim wrote:
> Modify the boot lable as below.
>
> Sudo vim /etc/inittab
>
> Id:5:initdefault:
> Id:3:initdefault:
>
> You have to chage the setup 5 > 3
Be aware that you may have problems is this bug I filed has not been
addressed when you "telinit 5" to e
On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 08:25 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 01/23/2015 05:50 AM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
>
> > Even windows doesn't make me repeatedly click cancel if I'm not ready to
> > update (I have one Windows box for one application I do and my wife has
>
On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 16:02 -0800, Keith Keller wrote:
> On 2015-01-23, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> >
> >
> Exactly where did you report this bug? If it was to RH, and you're not
> a RH customer, you shouldn't be surprised if they ignored the "bug&q
On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 13:32 -0800, Keith Keller wrote:
>
> But (getting back a little to the original topic) getting to the 3ware
> web interface should not require root privileges on the client, since
> it's just the browser connecting to the 3ware http(s) listener. The OP
> seemed to be rantin
On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 07:45 -0500, David Both wrote:
>
>
>
> I disable and remove PackageKit to prevent that kind of stuff.
My current plan too once I determine it won't break my boxes.
>
> For those historically ignorant developers, I say that they had *BETTER* care
> how it has always be
On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 16:18 +1300, Rob Kampen wrote:
> On 01/23/2015 04:05 PM, Always Learning wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 21:19 -0500, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> >
> >> I object to this sort of crap. Hidden, no reason for an *IX desktop to
> >> be forced
I object to this sort of crap. Hidden, no reason for an *IX desktop to
be forced to ignore or deal with this crap.
Anybody else seeing it?
In case attachments aren't allowed in the list, here's the Dropbox url
for the image.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b2p2ki7t2rwi5ot/FreeDeskTop_Org_Orwell_1984.p
On Mon, 2015-01-12 at 08:57 -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 08:44:11AM -0500, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> > On Sun, 2015-01-11 at 17:42 -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
> > >
> >
> > > please let me know how it goes, I may want to investigate doing the
On Mon, 2015-01-12 at 14:40 +, Rushton Martin wrote:
>
> Another Firefox "funny" to be aware of occurs if you have a $HOME shared
> between multiple machines. Firefox will refuse to start on the second
> machine whilst the first is running Firefox, it believes that there is
> already an i
On Sun, 2015-01-11 at 17:42 -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
>
> please let me know how it goes, I may want to investigate doing the same.
I sent a post with a patch, but forget to mention good results and
mentioned on the abort.
Using top, Firefox CPU utilization has dropped back into normal ranges
wi
On Sun, 2015-01-11 at 17:42 -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 05:12:48PM -0500, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> > On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 19:42 -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
> >
> > In a nutshell, after I would terminate Firefox as part of my normal log
> >
On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 21:02 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 01/09/2015 06:07 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> > I'm still trying to find the
> > thing I used back in C5(?) that raised the panels when the mouse hovered
> > over it for X seconds. With C6 I can't
On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 19:42 -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 07:07:38PM -0500, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
>
>
> > Well, that's the limit of my offerings. I'm still trying to find the
> > thing I used back in C5(?) that raised the panels when the
On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 15:17 -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 02:34:38PM -0500, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> > On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 09:17 -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
> > > Hi all!
> > >
> > > Using the default Gnome desktop on Centos-6, I keep
On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 09:17 -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Using the default Gnome desktop on Centos-6, I keep having difficulty
> getting the mouse pointer to lineup exactly on the edge/corner of a
> window when I want to resize the window. It seems that you have to
> have it on a line e
On Tue, 2014-12-23 at 10:55 -0500, Jason Ricles wrote:
> I am currently running the latest kept yum version of emacs on Centos
> 6.6. The issues I am having is that sometimes when I type input, some
> of the input randomly disappears and will then reappear when I
> highlight where the missing input
On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 18:23 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B)
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Or, just make the question interesting enough that someone will reply to
> >> it
> >>
> >
> > Does a crash repo
On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 08:20 -0500, David Both wrote:
> +1
>
> It can be quite annoying when the X console is changed from one Virtual
> Console
> to another as happens with almost every release of CentOS and Fedora. I would
> really like it to be always consistent at Console 7. And the "real" s
On Wed, 2014-12-17 at 23:53 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Keith Keller
> wrote:
> > On 2014-12-18, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> >>
> >>
>
> Or, just make the question interesting enough that someone will reply to
> it
>
Does a crash report and bug filing qualif
On Wed, 2014-12-17 at 22:00 -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> On 12/17/14 19:31, Keith Keller wrote:
> > On 2014-12-17, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> >> I sometimes receive e-mails I post to this list, like I did the bug I
> >> reported about X problems, but other times no
On Wed, 2014-12-17 at 16:31 -0800, Keith Keller wrote:
> On 2014-12-17, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> > I sometimes receive e-mails I post to this list, like I did the bug I
> > reported about X problems, but other times not, like my first post about
> > that before I reporte
On Wed, 2014-12-17 at 17:00 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B)
> wrote:
> > I sometimes receive e-mails I post to this list, like I did the bug I
> > reported about X problems, but other times not, like my first post about
> >
I sometimes receive e-mails I post to this list, like I did the bug I
reported about X problems, but other times not, like my first post about
that before I reported the bug. That one appeared in gmane, but
Evolution never picked it up.
And today I've not seen either of my posts but I know it got
* base: mirrors.greenmountainaccess.net
* extras: mirrors.lga7.us.voxel.net
* rpmforge: repoforge.mirror.constant.com
* updates: distro.ibiblio.org
Installed Packages
flash-plugin.x86_64 11.2.202.425-release
@adobe-linux-x86_64
>
> On 12/16/2014 01:40 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
>
&
On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 12:33 -0600, kqt4a...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>
> > kqt4a...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> # yum update flash-plugin
> Setting up Update Process
> No Packages marked for Update
>
> # yum install flash-plugin
> Sett
Through many years and through CentOS-6.5, I would boot to runlevel 3,
do various admin stuff on my desktop and then telinit 5, which started
an X session on tty7. I would then do logout->switch user a few times to
get additional user IDs active. Many years ago I would accomplish this
with some kin
On Sat, 2014-11-01 at 19:51 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> On 11/01/14 19:29, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, November 1, 2014 4:24 pm, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> >> Hey Y'all,
> >>
> >> This morning my wife complained that she had no sound when she was
> >> logged on to my machine. ... >>
> >
On Sun, 2013-11-03 at 07:46 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Bill Maltby (C4B)
> wrote:
>
>
> > yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel\* info kernel\*
>
> It is --enablerepo=elrepo\* but not epel\*
Yep! That's the trouble with new-fan
On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 11:14 -0500, Rob Townley wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> $ yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel info kernel
>
> Does not show any kernels except what is already installed.
> i suppose you have to enable testing and for that matter, looking in
> CentOS testing first would be better.
y
On Sat, 2013-03-30 at 13:44 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Robert Benjamin wrote:
>
> Yes, installs that include X and a desktop will default to runlevel 5.
> Before trying 'startx' , do 'init 3' as root. That should shut down
> the existing session, but whatev
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 02:36 -0800, John Doe wrote:
> From: Jerry Geis
>
> You could use a "cluster ssh" to run your commands at the same time on all
> hosts.
> You could run a script on each server that just run an infinite loop and, at
> a give time, runs a command.
IMO, if one is going to a
On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 21:12 +0100, Radu Anghel wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Robert Moskowitz
> wrote:
> >
> > On 11/23/2012 02:37 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 14:24 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> >>>
> >&g
On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 14:24 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> How do I determine if I have a i386 or x86_64 processor?
less /proc/cpuinfo ?
>
> If x86_64 how do I determine if I use EFI or not?
I don't know that much, but would the flags from the above indicate?
>
Bill
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