On 07/18/2012 12:03 PM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, William Lutter wrote:
Wouldn't you know it, I just rebooted my SL6.0 or 6.1 linux PC prior
to leaving town for a week and it hangs on all 3 of the available
kernels.
I see a black screen with white letters Scientific
I downloaded (using Firefox under Windows XP)
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.7-29.el6.i686.rpm
xorg-x11-server-common-1.7.7-29.el6.i686.rpm
from the 6.1 i386 os filestore,
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.1/i386/os/Packages/
I then ran rpm with (if I recall well)
rpm --oldpackage -i rpm
Stephen_Isard wrote
Hope that's helpful.
It was very helpful, thank you. The info you cited seems true for SL5,
though; SL6 appears quite different. In SL6,
root@vm-37-00 rpm -ql yum-autoupdate
/etc/cron.daily/yum-autoupdate
/etc/sysconfig/yum-autoupdate
Whereas yum-cron contains many more
I knew about and used ifup (the device is wlan0). It did not solve the problem.
Malcolm
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From: zxq9 z...@zxq9.com
To: scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov
Sent: Tuesday, 17 July, 2012 11:02:38 AM
Subject: Re: X11 server won't start after yum upgrade
On 07/17/2012 05:41
Hi,
On 07/11/2012 03:44 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
I'm perhaps being unclear, An announcemenbt that goes out at the same
time as the release itself is not helpful. They've selected as a
Mirrors know about the upcoming release well in advance - remember that
we seed in excess of 1200 external
On 07/11/2012 02:01 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:
Sure, CentOS do things differently. If it compiles, ship it.
erm. No. Thats not how CentOS does it.
SL will more than likely do a Beta, RC, then release - just like they
have with each other point release.
Would love to see this testing
On 07/18/2012 07:28 PM, Malcolm MacCallum wrote:
I knew about and used ifup (the device is wlan0). It did not solve the problem.
Wireless can be a bit different.
Are you using NetworkManager? If so, what is the output of nm-tool?
If not, is wpa_supplicant running on boot?
In any case, what is
On 18/07/12 13:36, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 07/11/2012 02:01 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:
Sure, CentOS do things differently. If it compiles, ship it.
erm. No. Thats not how CentOS does it.
SL will more than likely do a Beta, RC, then release - just like they
have with each other point release.
On 07/18/2012 09:36 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 07/11/2012 02:01 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:
Sure, CentOS do things differently. If it compiles, ship it.
erm. No. Thats not how CentOS does it.
SL will more than likely do a Beta, RC, then release - just like they
have with each other point
On 07/18/2012 01:58 PM, James Holland wrote:
Would love to see this testing process/code documented somewhere and
what the implications are. So we might be able to better and improve the
process in CentOS as well.
Is there a place where you document the CentOS processes?
we are starting
1) When the SL6.3 is expected? Centos 6.3 already exists.
2) When I run update from Centos I also updating the release number.
For example:
from Centos 5.2
yum update
I'll get Centos 5.8
and SL doesn't raises the release version ?
Hey!
On 07/18/2012 02:00 PM, zxq9 wrote:
I'm sure Connie or Pat would be the people to ask about the QA process
and probably happy to discuss is -- the site/wiki isn't always the focus
at SL, it seems (forums aside, I think a lot of us here read/edit your
wiki over at CentOS for non-dev
Hi all,
in the following print from grub.conf:
title Scientific Linux (2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.i686)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.i686 ro root=UUID=8ea0b46d-4a99-4e10
-a40b-6c265ae4a09e
what is the above root= line indicating and what is the significance of
this in the
On 07/18/2012 08:37 AM, anuraag chowdhry wrote:
Hi all,
in the following print from grub.conf:
title Scientific Linux (2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.i686)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.i686 ro
root=UUID=8ea0b46d-4a99-4e10
-a40b-6c265ae4a09e
what is the above root= line
On 07/17/2012 05:59 PM, zxq9 wrote:
On 07/18/2012 07:46 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
On 07/17/2012 04:17 PM, zxq9 wrote:
On 07/18/2012 06:55 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
While staring at top on my kvm server waiting for it to crash, I noticed
that my idle Fedora kvm guests appear to be consuming
thanks for replying. but the files needed to boot i.e stage1, stage2,
initram disk image and kernel are present in boot partition, right?
and /boot can be on different hard disk partition too, right?
are you referring to /sbin/init or /etc/syconfig/init files that reside in
/ partition ?
if i
On 07/17/2012 09:28 PM, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
Hi Orion Poplawski!
On 2012.07.17 at 16:46:19 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote next:
That depends heavily on what version of Fedora they are (particularly Rawhide
instances), and what services they are running.
Well, I have a Fedora 17 instance
On 07/18/2012 08:56 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
On 07/17/2012 09:28 PM, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
Hi Orion Poplawski!
On 2012.07.17 at 16:46:19 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote next:
That depends heavily on what version of Fedora they are (particularly Rawhide
instances), and what services they
On 18/07/12 14:24, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 07/18/2012 01:58 PM, James Holland wrote:
Would love to see this testing process/code documented somewhere and
what the implications are. So we might be able to better and improve the
process in CentOS as well.
Is there a place where you document
On 07/17/2012 11:22 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
Our SL6.2 KVM and nfs/backup server has been crashing frequently recently
(starting around Fri 13th - yikes!) with Kernel panic - Out of memory and no
killable processes. The server has 48GB ram, 2GB swap, only about 15GB
dedicated to VM guests.
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:37 AM, anuraag chowdhry eila...@gmail.com wrote:
in the following print from grub.conf:
title Scientific Linux (2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.i686)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.i686 ro root=UUID=8ea0b46d-4a99-4e10
-a40b-6c265ae4a09e
what is the
On 18/07/12 18:35, Orion Poplawski wrote:
On 07/17/2012 11:22 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
Our SL6.2 KVM and nfs/backup server has been crashing frequently recently
(starting around Fri 13th - yikes!) with Kernel panic - Out of memory
and no
killable processes. The server has 48GB ram, 2GB
On 18/07/12 15:37, Semi wrote:
1) When the SL6.3 is expected? Centos 6.3 already exists.
*sigh* do you read these mails in the thread you just replied to?
Again, here's a couple of pointers which might give you a better clue:
On 07/18/2012 11:32 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
On 18/07/12 18:35, Orion Poplawski wrote:
On 07/17/2012 11:22 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
Our SL6.2 KVM and nfs/backup server has been crashing frequently recently
(starting around Fri 13th - yikes!) with Kernel panic - Out of memory
and no
The fact that both free and total swap are said to be 0kB seems so
unreasonable that it may mean I just don't understand the output.
Another possibility is that there's a hardware error on the drive
containing the swap data, in which case perhaps the computer would stay up
after the error
Hi All,
Any of you working with 6.3 beta know is the bug where
you drop to fsck at boot and its gives no visual indication
is fixed? (One of these days I am going to just flip the power
off thinking it is crashed and ...)
Many thanks,
-
On 07/18/2012 01:36 PM, Steven J. Yellin wrote:
The fact that both free and total swap are said to be 0kB seems so
unreasonable that it may mean I just don't understand the output. Another
possibility is that there's a hardware error on the drive containing the swap
data, in which case
Hi Orion Poplawski!
On 2012.07.18 at 09:15:39 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote next:
Also running powertop and comparing wakeups/sec and general output on
guests might give some hint.
powertop was a good suggestion. It appears that toggling the
Autosuspend for USB device QEMU USB Tablet
On 07/18/2012 02:09 PM, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
Hi Orion Poplawski!
On 2012.07.18 at 09:15:39 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote next:
Also running powertop and comparing wakeups/sec and general output on
guests might give some hint.
powertop was a good suggestion. It appears that toggling
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
Hi All,
Any of you working with 6.3 beta know is the bug where
you drop to fsck at boot and its gives no visual indication
is fixed? (One of these days I am going to just flip the power
off thinking it is crashed and ...)
Can you please
Hi Semi!
On 2012.07.18 at 16:37:31 +0300, Semi wrote next:
1) When the SL6.3 is expected? Centos 6.3 already exists.
*sigh* I like SL mailing lists so much because people here are very
thoughtful and there isn't storm of similar questions, irritated people
and rude answers like during
On 07/18/2012 01:24 PM, Connie Sieh wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
Hi All,
Any of you working with 6.3 beta know is the bug where
you drop to fsck at boot and its gives no visual indication
is fixed? (One of these days I am going to just flip the power
off thinking
Hi Todd And Margo Chester!
On 2012.07.18 at 13:50:13 -0700, Todd And Margo Chester wrote next:
I don't know the exact number, I think it is 27 reboots,
your boot will automatically drop to an FSCK. In RHEL5,
your would see a status bar showing you progress. In 6,
you get no
On 07/18/2012 02:50 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
I don't know the exact number, I think it is 27 reboots,
your boot will automatically drop to an FSCK. In RHEL5,
your would see a status bar showing you progress. In 6,
you get no indication that an FSCK is happening and you
think you
I used to have RHEL subscription for years, but they suddenly changed the
services available, and guess what, I used to have access to email
support, now there is no more basic support. So what they are trying to
do is charge for the updates and block access to the knowledge base,
which is made
Thank you Malcolm.
I'm runn 64bit but I'll bet I can find something close that might work.
Joe
On 07/18/2012 02:11 AM, Malcolm MacCallum wrote:
I downloaded (using Firefox under Windows XP)
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.7-29.el6.i686.rpm
xorg-x11-server-common-1.7.7-29.el6.i686.rpm
from the 6.1 i386
On 07/19/2012 06:15 AM, Federico Alves wrote:
I used to have RHEL subscription for years, but they suddenly changed the
services available, and guess what, I used to have access to email
support, now there is no more basic support. So what they are trying to
do is charge for the updates and
You are wrong in all directions. Dell resells RHEL subscriptions, for a
little over $300 x server, but they are not otherwise involved or provide
any services, just sell it any client that has a Dell account. Until last
year, Red Hat provided real support, via email, and it did work. I solved
a
On 07/19/2012 09:52 AM, Federico Alves wrote:
You are wrong in all directions. Dell resells RHEL subscriptions, for a
little over $300 x server, but they are not otherwise involved or provide
any services, just sell it any client that has a Dell account. Until last
year, Red Hat provided real
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