Re: SL to 6.3 release

2012-07-20 Thread Peter Boy
Am Donnerstag, den 19.07.2012, 11:46 -0400 schrieb Larry Linder: > Different point of view: > As a long time SL user - I am quite happy to wait until the dust settles and > we have a stable release. +++ -- Dr. Peter Boy University of Bremen Center for Social Policy Research Department

Re: Services necessary for init 5 (graphics)

2012-07-20 Thread Federico Alves
There is no service like that. These are all the services that are ON by default while in graphics mode: NetworkManager acpid atd auditd autofs avahi-daemon bluetooth cpuspeed crond cups firstboot haldaemon ip6tables iptables irqbalance iscsi iscsid kdump ksm ksmtuned libvirt-guests libvirtd lvm2-

Re: Services necessary for init 5 (graphics)

2012-07-20 Thread Steven J. Yellin
I don't know much about how graphics mode works, but would be surprised if it worked without the xfs service enabled. Steven Yellin On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Federico Alves wrote: Is there any definitive list of services that need to stay on on server in graphics mode? Right now when I get a

RE: Services necessary for init 5 (graphics)

2012-07-20 Thread James M Pulver
I'm not a Linux Guru by any means, but wouldn't you need some X Server running? Like X.org? -- James Pulver LEPP Computer Group Cornell University -Original Message- From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov [mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf O

Services necessary for init 5 (graphics)

2012-07-20 Thread Federico Alves
>Is there any definitive list of services that need to stay on on server >in graphics mode? Right now when I get a new server, I first disable all services chkconfig --list | awk '{print "chkconfig --level 12345 "$1" off"}'|sh And then I enable these ones: chkconfig --level 1235 acpid on chkconfig

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Scientific Linux 6.3 Beta 1 Release now available for testing

2012-07-20 Thread Pat Riehecky
I've just fired off a pxe boot using the images from http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/i386/os/images/pxeboot/ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/ and I was able to get past the partitioning menu and complete the installation

Re: X11 server won't start after yum upgrade

2012-07-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 06:28:28 AM Malcolm MacCallum wrote: > I knew about and used ifup (the device is wlan0). It did not solve the > problem. First, make sure NetworkManager is running: # service NetworkManager status If it is not, start it: # service NetworkManager start (As to the wpa-

Re: Looks like CentOS beat SL to 6.3 release

2012-07-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, July 20, 2012 08:27:05 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > That's why I'm calling it an "unannounced release". The lack of > tentative release dates for CentOS has been only one of the reasons, > for me at least, to use Scientific Linux instead wherever possible. It > was a big problem with th

Re: Scientific Linux 6.3 Beta 1 Release now available for testing

2012-07-20 Thread Martin Flemming
Hi ! Is this right, that a test installation only works with DVD/Networkimages ? i want to install via pxe, but after partitioning, the installations breaks with e.g. anaconda exception report Traceback /tmp/updates/yuminstall.py line 596 in readRepoConfig if not BETANAG and ("rawhide" in

Re: Looks like CentOS beat SL to 6.3 release

2012-07-20 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > 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

Re: Bug with nscd / selinux in newest glibc uopdate for 5.8

2012-07-20 Thread Steven Haigh
Great bug report. This should probably also go to the sl-devel list. CC'ed them in. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299 On 20/07/2012 7:21 PM, Klaus Steinberger wrote: Hi, today we were hit by a bug in nsc

Bug with nscd / selinux in newest glibc uopdate for 5.8

2012-07-20 Thread Klaus Steinberger
Hi, today we were hit by a bug in nscd. After the update to glibc-2.5-81.el5_8.4 nscd did not work with selinux in enforcing mode. getent passwd loginname return an empty result, also login for user did not work. workarounds are: a) stop nscd b) switch selinux into permissive mode stop n