[CentOS] USB drive very slow on CentOS 8

2020-01-04 Thread Michael Eager
a what might be different between CentOS 7 and 8 that would cause this? -- Michael Eagerea...@eagerm.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Problems installing CentOS 8

2019-12-25 Thread Michael Eager
On 12/23/19 5:19 PM, Michael Eager wrote: I'm having a problem installing CentOS 8 from a USB drive.  When the installer boots from the USB, it displays the language selection screen.  After I select English and continue, the installer freezes.  The USB drive flashes a couple times ove

Re: [CentOS] Problems installing CentOS 8

2019-12-24 Thread Michael Eager
On 12/24/19 6:39 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 8:20 PM Michael Eager wrote: I'm having a problem installing CentOS 8 from a USB drive. When the installer boots from the USB, it displays the language selection screen. After I select English and continue, the inst

[CentOS] Problems installing CentOS 8

2019-12-23 Thread Michael Eager
RAM 4 SATA drives in RAID/LVM configuration. M.2 500Gb Samsung SSD (not formatted) -- Michael Eagerea...@eagerm.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Building for older versions

2015-11-23 Thread Michael Eager
On 11/23/2015 07:57 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 11/23/2015 07:33 AM, Michael Eager wrote: Does anyone have a reasonable solution? I'd start here: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/en/Using_lsbdev Yeah. I know about LSB and I've worked with the LSB committee. Maybe it's tim

Re: [CentOS] Building for older versions

2015-11-23 Thread Michael Eager
On 11/23/2015 09:10 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: On 11/23/2015 06:00 PM, Michael Eager wrote: On 11/23/2015 08:06 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: On 11/23/2015 04:33 PM, Michael Eager wrote: Hi -- I'm trying to build an application on CentOS 7 which can run on older versions of C

Re: [CentOS] Building for older versions

2015-11-23 Thread Michael Eager
On 11/23/2015 08:06 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: On 11/23/2015 04:33 PM, Michael Eager wrote: Hi -- I'm trying to build an application on CentOS 7 which can run on older versions of CentOS. I'm running into problems with versioning of memcpy in Glibc. Executables built on CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Building for older versions

2015-11-23 Thread Michael Eager
On 11/23/2015 07:43 AM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Michael Eager said: I'm trying to build an application on CentOS 7 which can run on older versions of CentOS. I'm running into problems with versioning of memcpy in Glibc. Executables built on CentOS 7 require memcpy

[CentOS] Building for older versions

2015-11-23 Thread Michael Eager
ersions of glibc. My online search suggests to add an asm() with a .symver option to select memcpy from glibc-2.2.5 in each of the source files which reference memcpy(). This isn't practical with a program with tens of thousands of source files. Does anyone have a reasonable solution? -- Mich

[CentOS] NFS performance on CentOS 7

2015-05-09 Thread Michael Eager
or how to fix it? -- Michael Eagerea...@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] System crash -- no clue why

2012-07-10 Thread Michael Eager
. Any ideas what I can do to find out the cause? -- Michael Eagerea...@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.8 crash/freeze running VMware

2012-07-10 Thread Michael Eager
On 07/06/2012 11:17 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 06/29/2012 09:52 AM, Michael Eager wrote: >> On 06/28/2012 06:33 PM, Ted Miller wrote: >>> On 06/28/2012 12:45 PM, Michael Eager wrote: >>>> Hi -- >>>> >>>> I have a server running CentOS 5.8.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.8 crash/freeze running VMware

2012-06-29 Thread Michael Eager
On 06/28/2012 06:33 PM, Ted Miller wrote: > On 06/28/2012 12:45 PM, Michael Eager wrote: >> Hi -- >> >> I have a server running CentOS 5.8. It has a 6-core AMD processor, >> 16Gb memory, and a RAID 5 file system. It serves as both a file server >> and to run seve

[CentOS] CentOS 5.8 crash/freeze running VMware

2012-06-28 Thread Michael Eager
n the number of cores and the number of VMs one can run? Is there something else which might cause the system to crash when running multiple VMs? Any suggestions to identify why the system crashed? -- Michael Eagerea...@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-10 Thread Michael Eager
Previous cleaning have been with canned compressed air. Thanks for the caution about vacuums and static. I may use the vacuum on the case fans from the outside. The case should provide an adequate static shield. -- Michael Eagerea...@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd.,

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-10 Thread Michael Eager
nd with what is > shown in the BIOS (if is has this kind of diagnostics)? Something I'll check when the system is taken down. -- Michael Eagerea...@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Eager
pointing to > likely candidates and/or further tests). The logs are uninformative. No messages for hours before the crash. Thanks for the help. -- Michael Eagerea...@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Eager
well, and lm_sensors tells me something is 1280C. I'll compare the values from lm_sensors with the bios temps to see if they are in line. 1280C is about the melting point of iron. Wow! -- Michael Eagerea...@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 __

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Eager
eatly. As I've said, I have a list of things to check when the server is next taken down. -- Michael Eagerea...@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Eager
an is listed as 0 rpm. Something to look into. -- Michael Eagerea...@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Eager
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Michael Eager wrote: >> Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >> >>> If the issue is repeated but rare system failures on one of a set of >>> similarly configured hosts, I'd RMA the box and get a replacement. End &g

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Eager
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Michael Eager wrote: >> compdoc wrote: >>>> I'll re-seat the CPU, heatsink, and fan on the next downtime. >>> Is the CPU overheating? Pointless to reseat the cpu or even remove the >>> heatsink, if not. >> No evidence to

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Eager
nic and nothing in the logs which indicates any problem. This is what I indicated from the get go. > With what you've posted to date, it's not. I could waste my time posting logs for you to tell me that they don't point to any problem. I'd rather skip that step. -- Michae

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Eager
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Michael Eager wrote: > >> I'll have to stop the server to find out what the installed bios version >> is and see whether there is an update. Most bios updates appear to only >> change supported CPUs. Something else for the next downtime.

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Eager
compdoc wrote: >> I'll re-seat the CPU, heatsink, and fan on the next downtime. > > Is the CPU overheating? Pointless to reseat the cpu or even remove the > heatsink, if not. No evidence to suggest that it is. -- Michael Eagerea...@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alt

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Eager
the > machines in the lot weren't affected). Yes, most memory diagnostics are not very effective. I'll have to stop the server to find out what the installed bios version is and see whether there is an update. Most bios updates appear to only change supported

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Eager
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Michael Eager wrote: >> John Hodrien wrote: >>> On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Michael Eager wrote: >>> >>>> The problem with randomly replacing various components, other than >>>> the downtime and nuisance, is that there'

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Eager
John Hodrien wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Michael Eager wrote: > >> The problem with randomly replacing various components, other than >> the downtime and nuisance, is that there's no way to know that the >> change actually fixed any problem. When the base rate

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Eager
Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 09:24 Tue 08 Mar, Michael Eager (ea...@eagerm.com) wrote: >> Hi -- >> >> I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every >> once in a while it hangs. The server is used as a file >> store using NFS and to run VMware machin

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Eager
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Michael Eager wrote: >> House-built, Gigabyte MB, AMD Phenom II X6, 6Gb RAM. > > Any chance the problem's with the video card? Video is on the MB. It doesn't seem likely that it's the video, since the system doesn't respond to ne

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Eager
Michael Eager wrote: > m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Suggestion 1: ->from the console<-, run >> setterm --powersave off >> That way, even if you connect a monitor (in our, uh, "computer labs", we >> have a monitor-on-a-stick), you'll still see what&#

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Eager
Scott Silva wrote: > Did you try the obvious stuff for older equipment? Remove and reseat ALL cards > and memory, several times, to clean off any oxidation from contacts. > Blow out any dust and collected lint. > reseat drive cables. Not yet, but that's always a good idea.

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Eager
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Michael Eager wrote: >> Brian Mathis wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Michael Eager wrote: >>>> Hi -- >>>> >>>> I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every >>>> once in a while

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Eager
se to check to > see that all fans are working... Good idea. -- Michael Eagerea...@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Eager
Les Mikesell wrote: > On 3/8/2011 11:24 AM, Michael Eager wrote: >> Hi -- >> >> I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every >> once in a while it hangs. The server is used as a file >> store using NFS and to run VMware machines. >> >

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Eager
Brian Mathis wrote: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Michael Eager wrote: >> Hi -- >> >> I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every >> once in a while it hangs. The server is used as a file >> store using NFS and to run VMware machines.

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Eager
or your drives with smartctl. Thanks for the suggestions. All disks show zero realloc sectors and pending sectors. Smartctl says no failures. Also, max temp was 48 C or less. -- Michael Eagerea...@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 __

[CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Eager
hung. Any suggestions where I might look for a clue? -- Michael Eagerea...@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos