SL 5.7 + MRG

2012-01-31 Thread Artifex Maximus
Hello! I installed a SL 5.7 x86_64 system and upgraded to latest packages with yum. Then I install kernel-rt from CERN MRG repository with adding repo files as recommended. I would like to play with MRG a bit. The kernel shipped with SL 5.7 is 2.6.18-274.17.1.el5 and the MRG kernel is

Re: serious bug in boot sequence when fsck is required

2012-01-31 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:28 AM, Sergio Ballestrero sergio.ballestr...@cern.ch wrote: On 30 Jan 2012, at 23:39, Yasha Karant wrote: Upon boot, automatic fsck failed, and a request was posted for root password.  However, no more than one character of the password would be accepted, causing an

Re: serious bug in boot sequence when fsck is required

2012-01-31 Thread Yasha Karant
On 01/30/2012 11:28 PM, Sergio Ballestrero wrote: On 30 Jan 2012, at 23:39, Yasha Karant wrote: Upon boot, automatic fsck failed, and a request was posted for root password. However, no more than one character of the password would be accepted, causing an endless loop to this condition and

Re: Multiple Routes

2012-01-31 Thread Jeremy Wellner
On Jan 30, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: You're sure your switch supports 802.3ad dynamic link aggregation? I had some switches that I thought did, but don't. what does dmesg | grep -Fi bond show? [root@tape ~]# dmesg | grep -Fi bond Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.6.0

Re: Multiple Routes

2012-01-31 Thread Jeremy Wellner
Thank you Orion Got enough information to noodle with it a bit more to check it all out! I ended up removing the trunk group from our Allied Telesys AT-9000/52 switch, turned off auto negotiation on the connected ports, and moved it to mode=balance-alb and miimon=100 (missed in config

Adobe Reader 9 + 64 bit SL6...?

2012-01-31 Thread Christopher Tooley
Hello all, I've been trying to get Adobe Reader 9 working on a machine I take care of, and it won't run when not run by root. I have installed the adobe-release repo, and installed adobe reader with yum install AdobeReader_enu Users log into this machine and their home directory is mounted

Re: Adobe Reader 9 + 64 bit SL6...?

2012-01-31 Thread Jeffrey Anderson
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Christopher Tooley ctoo...@uvic.ca wrote: Hello all, I've been trying to get Adobe Reader 9 working on a machine I take care of, and it won't run when not run by root. I've found that under certain circumstances Adobe Reader 9 requires that nscd be running.

Re: serious bug in boot sequence when fsck is required

2012-01-31 Thread Sergio Ballestrero
On 31 Jan 2012, at 16:59, Yasha Karant wrote: On 01/30/2012 11:28 PM, Sergio Ballestrero wrote: For the next time (because there's always one ;-) ), you can use init=/bin/bash as a boot option, it will completely skip the standard init and therefore the root password request. I do not like

[rhelv6-list] Announcement: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle Extended to Ten Years (fwd)

2012-01-31 Thread Connie Sieh
FYI -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:20:13 -0500 From: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list rhelv6-l...@redhat.com To: rhelv6-l...@redhat.com Subject: [rhelv6-list] Announcement: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle Extended to Ten

Re: Adobe Reader 9 + 64 bit SL6...?

2012-01-31 Thread Christopher Tooley
I've found that under certain circumstances Adobe Reader 9 requires that nscd be running. I'm not certain why. In my setup user accounts are via LDAP, and I'd assumed that was the issue, but it may go further. I'd suggest starting nscd and seeing if that fixes it. That did it! Started

Re: serious bug in boot sequence when fsck is required

2012-01-31 Thread Geoffroy Turtaut
Hi, If you add RD_NO_PLYMOUTH kernel boot option, you will be able to enter single user password. Regards, Geoffroy On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:59:10 -0800, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: On 01/30/2012 11:28 PM, Sergio Ballestrero wrote: On 30 Jan 2012, at 23:39, Yasha Karant wrote: Upon

Re: serious bug in boot sequence when fsck is required

2012-01-31 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Geoffroy_Turtaut?=
rd_NO_PLYMOUTH On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 01:32:53 -0600, Geoffroy Turtaut geoffroy.turt...@dassault-aviation.com wrote: Hi, If you add RD_NO_PLYMOUTH kernel boot option, you will be able to enter single user password. Regards, Geoffroy