Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-09 Thread Ioannis Vranos
It was a hardware problem with my DVD recorder. I got a new one and now everything works OK. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Hi, I had downloaded CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD image, and although it passed sha1sum or md5sum test and I burned it verifying it, installation failed. Also if I recall correctly, when I tested the medium during install, it failed although as I said the media was verified. == The same things happen with

[CentOS] Re: CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Ioannis Vranos wrote: Hi, I had downloaded CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD image, and although it passed sha1sum or md5sum test and I burned it verifying it, installation failed. Also if I recall correctly, when I tested the medium during install, it failed although as I said the media was verified

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 07 April 2008 12:38, Ioannis Vranos wrote: Hi, I had downloaded CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD image, and although it passed sha1sum or md5sum test and I burned it verifying it, installation failed. Also if I recall correctly, when I tested the medium during install

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Alan Bartlett wrote: On 07/04/2008, *Ioannis Vranos* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The same things happen with Scientific Linux 5.1 x86 installation DVD, so perhaps it is a Red Hat EL 5.1 x86 DVD issue? This has to be a hardware specific issue as two distros

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Johnny Hughes wrote: Now I am redownloading the CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD install image, and I will use the image itself first as a virtual DVD under vmware, and will try to verify the medium during install and see if it proceeds OK with installation. If it succeeds, I will burn it to a DVD-RW and

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread Ioannis Vranos
John wrote: Here's an issue with Kernel Panics that Ive had. It was not due to bad media etc.. As it turned out it was the bios settings. Either the Bios had to be set to Default Settings or APCI had to be turned off. Also overclocked processors will cause this also and bad ram. I have not

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

2008-04-07 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Correction: Ioannis Vranos wrote: John wrote: Here's an issue with Kernel Panics that Ive had. It was not due to bad media etc.. As it turned out it was the bios settings. Either the Bios had to be set to Default Settings or APCI had to be turned off. Also overclocked processors will cause

Re: [CentOS] Locating the broken links

2008-01-31 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Garrick Staples wrote: I am trying cleanlinks and is cleaning lot of stuff, erasing links and empty directories, I hope it will not mess my installation, especially by doing the last. On your entire OS? Sounds like a pretty good way to break things. Yes it damaged it. I had to reinstall

[CentOS] Urgent: Major bug in latest X.Org Update for CentOs 5

2008-01-19 Thread Ioannis Vranos
OS: CentOS 5.1 x86. Hi, after applying the latest X.Org updates, applications have stopped running with an error message: The program 'multiget' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.

Re: [CentOS] yum install foobar, silently ignore the unknown foobar package - Nothing to do

2008-01-19 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Is foobar an existing program or just an example? try: yum install foobar* with the quotes included. Alain Spineux wrote: # yum install foobar Loading installonlyn plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package

Re: [CentOS] yum install foobar, silently ignore the unknown foobar package - Nothing to do

2008-01-19 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Yes I checked it. I suppose you must get used to the message Nothing to do when the package requested is not available. If you are on X.Org you can use yumex. Alain Spineux wrote: On Jan 20, 2008 1:05 AM, Ioannis Vranos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is foobar an existing program or just

[CentOS] CentOS 5 x86 Joysticks

2007-12-18 Thread Ioannis Vranos
OS: CentOS 5.1 x86. Hi, has anyone used any joystick under CentOS 5? Yumex shows the following joystick-related packages installed: freeglut 2.4.0-7.1.el5 joystick 1.2.15-20.2.2 xorg-x11-drv-joystick 1.1.0-1.1 I am under XFCE 4.4.2 but I also have GNOME and KDE installed. Any ideas on how

Re: [CentOS] yum update for 5.0 == 5.1

2007-12-05 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Karanbir Singh wrote: yup, bit of a change with the upstream people adopting this whole z-series thing, wherein they will now maintain branches for 5.1 even when 5.2 is released. over the next day or so, I shall try and get a document that explains this whole thing. Before CentOS 5 x86,

Re: [CentOS] xfce in CentOS 5.1 extras repository

2007-12-05 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Karanbir Singh wrote: Ioannis Vranos wrote: That said ... it is POSSIBLE that XFCE could be upgraded, just not likely. But XFCE 4.4.2 is a bug fix release. can you post a url to the changelog ? http://www.xfce.org/about/news?id=13 There it has a link to the Changelog and it says: Hi

Re: [CentOS] Re: yumex in CentOS 5.1 extras repository

2007-12-05 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Scott Silva wrote: I don't understand the question. I am currently using 2.0.2 from EPEL which is the latest official version mentioned in yumex site, and 2.0.3 is the yumex version available in fedora core 9. Why don;t you use 2.0.2 at least, but 2.0.1? If you want the newest code

[CentOS] yumex in CentOS 5.1 extras repository

2007-12-04 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Hi, there isn't any version of yumex in 5.1 extras directory. Perhaps it is time for version 2.0.3? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] xfce in CentOS 5.1 extras repository

2007-12-04 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Hi, I am using CentOS 5.1 x86 (upgraded from 5.0), and am still using XFCE 4.4.1 from 5.0 extras repository. Just saw in XFCE site that they released 4.4.2. Any chance to see it in 5.1 extras repository? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Can not print with OpenOffice.Org on CentOS 5.0 x86

2007-11-11 Thread Ioannis Vranos
I can not print any document with OpenOffice.Org Writer on CentOS 5.0 x86. Has anyone encountered this problem? My printer is HP Deskjet 3745 and apparently uses the hplip and hpijs packages provided by CentOS. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Best laptop for CentOS

2007-11-10 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Ern jura wrote: Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one without Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way. Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide. Regarding hardware specifics, HP is a company that provides Linux drivers for all its

Re: [CentOS] Bandwidth optimisation

2007-11-08 Thread Ioannis Vranos
I am using this on my CentOS 4 machine. I would expect it to work on a CentOS 5 machine as well. Add the following to /etc/sysctl.conf net.core.rmem_default = 67108864 net.core.wmem_default = 67108864 net.core.rmem_max = 67108864 net.core.wmem_max = 67108864 net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 4096 67108864

Re: [CentOS] Bandwidth optimisation

2007-11-05 Thread Ioannis Vranos
James A. Peltier wrote: I am using this on my CentOS 4 machine. I would expect it to work on a CentOS 5 machine as well. Add the following to /etc/sysctl.conf net.core.rmem_default = 67108864 net.core.wmem_default = 67108864 net.core.rmem_max = 67108864 net.core.wmem_max = 67108864

[CentOS] Cross-platform GUI libraries with drag 'n drop IDEs

2007-10-01 Thread Ioannis Vranos
OS: CentOS 5.0 x86. I am a programmer, relatively new to GNU/Linux and am looking for cross platform GUI development, mainly for EL5 and Windows. I have found wxWidgets so far. I prefer drag 'n drop programming IDEs, QT seems to provide this for GNU/Linux, but it isn't free for Windows.

[CentOS] Re: Cross-platform GUI libraries with drag 'n drop IDEs

2007-10-01 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Addition: Ioannis Vranos wrote: OS: CentOS 5.0 x86. I am a programmer, relatively new to GNU/Linux and am looking for cross platform GUI development, mainly for EL5 and Windows. I have found wxWidgets so far. I prefer drag 'n drop programming IDEs, QT seems to provide this for GNU/Linux

[CentOS] mysql and windows

2007-09-28 Thread Ioannis Vranos
CentOS 5.0 x86 provides mysql for free. However I couldn't find a free version of mysql for windows. Isn't there any for windows? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Re: Language interfaces and X.Org sessions per user

2007-09-12 Thread Ioannis Vranos
OS: CentOS 5.0 x86. Q1: Is it possible different users to have different language interfaces (menus etc) on the same machine under X.Org (GNOME or KDE)? Q2: Is it possible to have more than one X.Org sessions running on the same machine, so as different users to log in at the same

[CentOS] Language interfaces and X.Org sessions per user

2007-09-12 Thread Ioannis Vranos
OS: CentOS 5.0 x86. Q1: Is it possible different users to have different language interfaces (menus etc) on the same machine under X.Org (GNOME or KDE)? Q2: Is it possible to have more than one X.Org sessions running on the same machine, so as different users to log in at the same

[CentOS] Language interfaces and X.Org sessions per user

2007-09-09 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Q1: Is it possible different users to have different language interfaces (menus etc) on the same machine under X.Org (GNOME or KDE)? Q2: Is it possible to have more than one X.Org sessions running on the same machine, so as different users to log in at the same time, and switch between users

[CentOS] Avoiding mounting other installation's partitions and volumes

2007-08-27 Thread Ioannis Vranos
OSes: CentOS 5.0 x86, CentOS 4.5 x86. Hi, I have CentOS 5.0 x86 installed on an IDE HDD. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 224G 8.5G 204G 4% / /dev/hdc1 99M 16M 79M

[CentOS] Using a program

2007-08-14 Thread Ioannis Vranos
OS: CentOS 5 x86. There is a program I am using which requires a start up service running. The service runs in Runlevels 3,4,5. When I am using the program as a root it works fine. When I am using it as a user it produces an error. If I do as a root, /etc/init.d/program start, then I can