Re: [CentOS] lshw in centos 7 withdrawn

2018-01-15 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 15, 2018, at 9:10 AM, david wrote: > > - SATA3 is faster than USB3 (I think) Almost always, yes. > But sometimes one has no choice. Only if you have no PCI slots, and hence can’t put a better interface into the system. > The Mac pro may look cute in its black

Re: [CentOS] lshw in centos 7 withdrawn

2018-01-15 Thread david
Warren Thanks for the thoughts. Even with 'dmesg', I found nothing. The reboot got rid of the problem and it continues to run perfectly in the same configuration. I, too, have a slight dislike for external USB disks, and much prefer internal drives for esveral reasons: - Internal drives

Re: [CentOS] lshw in centos 7 withdrawn

2018-01-15 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 15, 2018, at 8:57 AM, Warren Young wrote: > > Whenever I have a machine with an unkillable userspace program, I run dtrace Sorry, got my OS wires crossed: I mean dmesg. Though dtrace could help, too, if you’ve managed to build that for CentOS; I hear it can be dnoe.

Re: [CentOS] lshw in centos 7 withdrawn

2018-01-15 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 12, 2018, at 3:18 PM, david wrote: > > Or is it related to the annoying spin-down and spin-up delay of external USB > disks. More likely, crap hardware, which is awfully hard to avoid in USB-land. Just the other day, I traced a machine that failed to reboot to an

Re: [CentOS] lshw in centos 7 withdrawn

2018-01-12 Thread david
John-- Thanks for the suggestion. I finally had a chance to get to the system in question, It was the only one of many that exhibited the USB hang. I tried a reboot with the two USB disks disconnected. Everything worked. I plugged them in, and then did both "lsusb -v" and "lshw", and

Re: [CentOS] lshw in centos 7

2018-01-12 Thread James Pearson
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On 11 January 2018 at 20:23, david wrote: >> Folks >> >> I've been running lshw for years in both Centos 6 and Centos 7, yet just >> recently it started hanging. Neither a Control^C nor a "kill" of the >> process cured the hang; only a reboot. >>

Re: [CentOS] lshw in centos 7

2018-01-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 11 January 2018 at 20:23, david wrote: > Folks > > I've been running lshw for years in both Centos 6 and Centos 7, yet just > recently it started hanging. Neither a Control^C nor a "kill" of the > process cured the hang; only a reboot. > Is this just one system or a range of

[CentOS] lshw in centos 7

2018-01-11 Thread david
Folks I've been running lshw for years in both Centos 6 and Centos 7, yet just recently it started hanging. Neither a Control^C nor a "kill" of the process cured the hang; only a reboot. When I run it by hand from the command line, it displays stuff on the next line overwriting it with