kernel updates and bnx2 driver

t its actually been fixed in the upstream kernel? Thanks, -Chris

Re: Scientific Linux 6.3 i386/x86_64 is now available

I had to do an upgrade, not an update to get the new version. yum --releasever=6x upgrade

Re: loading drivers at install time

like your RAID device (when it is set up). No idea what the bottom two are. See if one is the devices match the TEAC name. Chris

Re: loading drivers at install time

n it to /dev/sda then you wouldn't need a driver in the first place. Chris

Drivers Image File

he next complication is if the installer will read it. Under an installed Linux, there is usually no problem mounting any of the three file systems (ISO, VFAT, EXT2/3) written to a CDROM. The question is if the installer will recognize anything other than a standard ISO during install. You'll have to try it and see. Chris

Re: Scientific Linux 5.0 64bit version: which AMD processors?

ular model, check the Dell Linux forums for people having issues. You should also do this if you go with a non-Ubuntu PC. You might post a query there about Linux compatibility for a particular model. http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/?~ck=mn Chris Stevens Part Time Applied Physics Student Engineering and Applied Science Programs for Professionals The Johns Hopkins University (APL Campus)

Re: I Can't log in SL 4.5

omehow two different linux distribution installers named two different partitions with the same name. That will cause problems. Chris On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 11:09 -0300, Pedro Ferreira wrote: > > > Dylan Knight Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Check in /va

Re: Can't Log in on SL - found out what the problem was !!!

.linuxheadquarters.com/howto/basic/path.shtml Chris

Re: SL and Dell Optiplex 755

sed Fedora for several years but we're now moving to Scientific Linux to get the extra support period. -- Chris. Computing Officer, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

Re: ftp.scientificlinux.org will be down thursday 2/14/08 from 5:00-8:00 CST

On 14 Feb 2008, at 12:21, John Summerfield wrote: I can relate UTC, aka GMT to my times. What the heck do _you_ mean by CST? In this country, it's GMT+9:30. Or 10:30. I looked it up and guessed at GMT-6:00 but I'm willing to be corrected :-) -- Chris.

Re: Lyx?

is 1.4.5.1 Cheers Chris -- Chris Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] TRIUMF ATLAS Tier-1 System Administrator - Networking TRIUMF +1 604 222 7554 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T2A3, CANADA

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Lyx?

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:51:46PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Chris Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lyx for EL/SL/CentOS is available in the EPEL repository: > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL > > > > Cu

Re: SL45 & cups

heers, > >>Stephan > >> > > > >You have a good point. > >Any ideas anyone? > > Unfortunately, it can be done by hand only. > One can do: > rpm -e --nodeps --justdb > yum -y -d 1 install > I don't claim it is absolu

Re: udevd: nss_ldap failed to bind to LDAP

search the forum entries more carefully and also look into: nss_ldap-253-13.el5_2.1 I have: yum list nss_ldap: nss_ldap.i386 253-12.el5 installed Chris Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SL5 large file systems

We had problems related to partitions tables. We used gparted to create a "gpt" partition table instead of the standard "msdos". Unfortunately fdisk does not recognize gpt partition tables, so you need to use other tools. Our experience with a 8TB ext3 filesystem takes 10-12hrs for fsck & sim

Re: Adding driver to installation

Never heard of Driver Update Program. Can you provide links/further info ? Is this different than dkms ? perhaps you mean kmod kernel modules ? --Chris Date:Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:23:11 +0100 From:Jaroslaw Polok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Adding driver to installation Hi al

Re: rsh and firewall

Date:Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:52:00 +0100 From:Honest Guvnor Subject: Fwd: rsh and firewall On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Faye Gibbins wrote: > Yes rsh is a pain to setup. Please, please, please think about either: > > ssh We are having some problems with ssh also. What we need is t

Re: data visualization tool?

being used with an external database though. Meanwhile, I pay for (or my boss pays for) the Linux version of MATLAB for data tasks. Chris

Mirroring SL with Cobbler

refer to directories that I cannot find in the SL5x tree. Thanks, Chris

Re: Mirroring SL with Cobbler

e "contrib" directory ever updated? Or more to the point, is there any content other than the "updates" directory that isn't static from one release to the next? Do you mirror the "5x" tree or a specific version? Thanks, Chris

Re: my ongoing battle with large filesystems

hense SL 5) **i386** Max Filesize (ext3) - 2TB Max Filesystem Size (ext3) - 8TB **x86_64** Max Filesize (ext3) - 2TB Max Filesystem Size (ext3) - 16TB Troy The limits depend on the block size. Any ideas limits for NFS ? Does it depend on blocksize ? client architecture (ie. 32/64 bit) ? Thanks, --Chris

Re: Mirroring SL with Cobbler

/debuginfo" and "archive/obsolete" don't really do anything. I have added "--exclude=iso/" as I don't need the CD/DVD images. It saves quite a few gigs of space and cuts the transfer time by a fair amount. Might be worth mentioning as an optional exclude. Thanks again, Chris

Re: SL 5.3 with IceWM from SL 5.2 mini_livecd (long post)

onsider Fedora or Ubuntu (or one of the many other distributions) instead. Chris

Re: acroread for SL3,4?

re is a secret, or not-generally-published ftp site where Adobe provides it. I had to update nspluginwrapper package to use flash-plugin from adobe repo. I think atrpms/rpmforge has a centos version that _might_ work. --Chris

Re: grub boot loader

f the drive/partition is not shown, there is a button for setting drive order options. Chris Eve V. E. Kovacs wrote: I am trying to install a system that has 4 disks configured as 2 RAID1 mirrors. One of these stores the OS and the other is intended to be a data disk. My problem is tha

Re: SL 4 CERN - glibc update

;s the only advice I can offer. Chris

Re: Flashplayer 10 vs 9

Keith Lofstrom wrote: Summary: Flashplayer 10 sucks. Use Flashplayer 9. [... snippetty ...] P.S. The pesky animation is here: http://server-sky.com/slides/bridge2009jun16_1024/aposkew_pretty_D_orbit.html http://snurl.com/l3f7e Time the white row crossing the centerline, 5 turns and divide by

Re: Kickstarting SL 4.3 on Sun Fire x4140

Known bug in anaconda for nvidia ethernet & dhcp. Solutions are boot with fixed IP or install other network card for kickstart (tedious if you have 40 x4100 servers). This is fixed in newer releases w/ newer anaconda. -- Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 09:17:10 -0500 From: T

SL5/Kickstart: eth1 enabled by default

ace, but I have a number of systems lined up to be built, and I would rather avoid this manual intervention. Any ideas? This is SL5.3. -- Chris O'Regan Senior Unix Systems Administrator, Academic IT Services Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Re: SL5/Kickstart: eth1 enabled by default

ible that this is something that was introduced in SL5.3. I have only resumed my kickstart development just recently. I was using SL5.2 previously and did not have this problem. By the way, someone sent me this privately: network --device eth1 --onboot no --bootproto dhcp Thanks again, Chris

Re: SL5/Kickstart: eth1 enabled by default

> Have you tried adding "ksdevice=link" and/or "pci=bfsort" to the > kernel commandline? I have "ksdevice=bootif" and kssendmac which I think should be fine. Thanks, Chris

Re: SL5/Kickstart: eth1 enabled by default

> By the way, someone sent me this privately: > > network --device eth1 --onboot no --bootproto dhcp I tried this today, but it still doesn't work. :-( Guess I'll need to write out my own ifcfg-eth1 file in the %post section. Chris

Netbook for Scientific Linux

ternet" version which is built on linux, but is everything working on SL? I'd assume so, but I would like to have some confirmation...? Are all netbooks pretty much a safe bet? Thanks! -Chris

Re: Netbook for Scientific Linux

Troy Dawson wrote: Jon Peatfield wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Chris Tooley wrote: Hello all, I'm helping to do some research for coworker of mine, and I was wondering if anyone has tried to install SL on a netbook yet? And if so, what are your experiences? We're currently lookin

Re: Netbook for Scientific Linux

A netbook seems to me to be the best solution. Ubuntu linux and Fedora are good distros, and we might go with one of them, but I would like to try out SL for Brads and giggles :) And hey, if it works, all the better right? :) Thanks, -Chris

Re: Netbook for Scientific Linux

ry it another day.. :\ We've got SL 5.3 installed from a netboot disk in case anyone was wondering :) Thanks again for all your suggestions! -Chris Chris Tooley wrote: Andy Mastbaum wrote: Not the flagellate the subject any further, but it seems you'd want to put something minimal b

Re: Fwd: Network driver

lled http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/x86_64/RPMS/kmod-atl1-xen-1.2.40.3-2.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm from a USB thumbdrive and the light turns on in the RJ45 connector, but I think I'm missing a key step. ifconfig doesn't return eth0 information... So basically, I think I don't know how to initialize eth0...? Can someone put me on the right track? Thanks ahead of time, Chris

Re: Fwd: Network driver

ing a key step. ifconfig doesn't return eth0 information... So basically, I think I don't know how to initialize eth0...? Can someone put me on the right track? Thanks ahead of time, Chris Turns out there is a driver on the P5Q CD for an Atheros AR8121/AR8113 Ethernet Adapter

Re: Fwd: Network driver

Akemi Yagi wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Chris Tooley wrote: Turns out there is a driver on the P5Q CD for an Atheros AR8121/AR8113 Ethernet Adapter. I ran make && make install and it works!! I think lspci was mistakenly identifying it... If you need more information let

Re: Fwd: Network driver

Chris Tooley wrote: Akemi Yagi wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Chris Tooley wrote: Turns out there is a driver on the P5Q CD for an Atheros AR8121/AR8113 Ethernet Adapter. I ran make && make install and it works!! I think lspci was mistakenly identifying it... If you n

Yum install; subversion on x86_64

nstall the x86_64 package by: yum install subversion.x86_64 so it's OK in the end, but it seems kind of weird to me to install an i386 package in x86_64. The same thing happens with xdelta too, but the i386 package is from sl-base instead of sl-security. Thanks, ~Chris

Re: Yum install; subversion on x86_64

Well as long as it's not something I've misconfigured I'm happy :) Thanks for your reply. -Chris Troy Dawson wrote: Hi Chris, This is a feature of yum in RHEL5 and SL5. I just double checked to see if this was fixed with 5.4. Nope. Why does it do that? Because at some point yu

Xen and dual head with Nvidia card?

-restart) I get no output from the video card and the computer is unresponsive - almost as if it crashes. I have to restart the computer to get it working. I've tried to follow these instructions here: http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-9724 Thanks, -Chris Tooley

Re: Logo Contest for SL6 extended

t; to watch its content ... Regards, Patrick I would also like to see this page and I don't think I've a user account... -Chris

Re: Logo Contest for SL6 extended

think the nucleus design is getting a bit old and from a design standpoint, it's recognizable, but tired and way too busy. I will attempt to put my money where my mouth is, so to speak, by submitting a couple of designs myself :) -Chris

PHP5 on SL4.8??

Hello all, minor little mini question, Is it possible to install PHP5 alongside PHP4 on SL4.8, or, even at all? Thanks, ~Chris Tooley

Re: Logo Contest for SL6 extended

Late to the game, feel free to ignore me if you want: The Double helix needs a bit more definition and work to make it pop, and the fonts are hideous - but just thought I would get this idea out there for people. -Chris <>

Re: Resolution and (default) packages?

re: ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/extra/dag/redhat/el5/en/i386/dag/RPMS/ (the above URL won't contain any extra info on the packages, though) These are packages maintained as extra for various EL-variants such as centOS and Scientific Linux. Hope this makes your experience more akin to what you're used to! -Chris

Re: Last nite's update

p, yum-complete-transaction, yumdownloader, : yum-debug-dump and yum-groups-manager. ======= Hope that helps :) -Chris

Switch from centos 4 to SL4?

Hello All, My google foo is apparently not good enough to find a page that might describe the process of switching from centos4 to SL4.. Does anyone know of a good HOWTO or tutorial about this? Thanks, ~Chris

Re: Switch from centos 4 to SL4?

Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: Hello On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Chris Tooley wrote: Hello All, My google foo is apparently not good enough to find a page that might describe the process of switching from centos4 to SL4.. Does anyone know of a good HOWTO or tutorial about this? Could

Re: Switch from centos 4 to SL4?

ersion in SL4 is < 4.2... (I am attempting to convert to SL4) Am I missing something here? Previously I had converted this system from EL4 to Centos4 - might this have something to do with it? Thanks again! -Chris

5.3 i386 disc7.iso

When I try to burn this one, my burner says it is a DVD image. I think that is because it is too big to fit. My blank CD says it will hold 707 MB. If I buy a different kind of blank CD's will that possibly work? Chris

RE: 5.3 i386 disc7.iso

You are right. Sorry, I should have said v 5.4 That disc #7 is over 700 MB. Chris -Original Message- From: Urs Beyerle [mailto:urs.beye...@env.ethz.ch] Sent: Fri 11/20/2009 1:22 AM To: Howard, Chris Cc: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@listserv.fnal.gov Subject: Re: 5.3 i386 disc7.iso Howard

SL and Oracle

I've been an Oracle DBA for quite a number of years, working on HP-UX systems. Now I'm also running some Oracle Application Server on Linux machines and I could use some advice about Oracle and Linux. For SL, I'm assuming I can call my SL 5.3 installation equivalent to Red Hat 5.3 for Oracle su

Re: changing login/default shell

$ lchsh username Password: Changing shell for username. Error initializing libuser: not executing with superuser privileges. Have you tried running this command as root? -Chris

RE: Memory limits for Scientific Linux kernels

Do these memory limitations also include shared memory segments? For example, we have Oracle database servers with quite a bit of memory tied up in shared memory segments for the databases. 4 Gig won't get me very far with a large database. Chris Howard

xcalc still available?

Hello all, I got a request by a user to install xcalc, is it still available, or has it been deprecated in favour of another application? Thanks, ~Chris

Re: NFS partially works!!

r wouldn't - there must be something strange with the file itself. -Chris

Re: NFS partially works!!

To prove or disprove that the file is good or bad, you could cut / paste into an email the output of hexdump -C /etc/fstab Should be short enough with just a few text lines for email posting. Chris (a different one than before) Genie Jhang wrote: Thanks Chris. I used vi for the editor

Re: NFS partially works!!

keep trying until it succeeded. The downside of that would be if the NFS server isn't up, your clients could have long (infinite?) boot times waiting for the NFS mount to finish. Well that's as far as I can take it. Regards, Chris On 02/16/2010 09:19 PM, Genie Jhang wrote: Thanks for yo

Re: Scientific Linux CERN: End of support for ia64 (Itanium II) architecture on 31st of March 2010

ystem. If you mount the DVD in a Windows or Linux machine and see a single file, the ISO file, in a file browser, then it has been burned incorrectly. --Chris Assuming it's pilot error on my part, what DVD file system disk format *should* I be selecting when using Roxio MyDVD to bur

RHEL4 -> SL4 conversion howto?

Forgive me if this has been answered before, but is there a page detailing how to convert a TUVL4 system to SL4? Thanks, ~Chris

Re: RHEL4 -> SL4 conversion howto?

cense. Also, thank you kindly for all the work you do on SL! Thanks, ~Chris

Re: install gcc

(if you don't know the exact location of the command you can check out the man pages of yum and look for information on provides). (/usr/*/gcc works I think) Post more questions if you've got em :) Hope this helps! -Chris Tooley

Tips on switching to Oracle Unbreakable Linux

y I can turn on the regular updates and just let them automatically apply. I'd like to know if you guys see any flaws to this plan, and if you think I am looking at a complete reinstall or what. Thanks for your help over the years with SL. Chris Howard

RE: Tips on switching to Oracle Unbreakable Linux

with paying for something that getting something for free? Michael. > Chris Howard --- Right now I run yum periodically, then sweat bullets if there are any kernel updates, or just don't run yum.I would rather have someone to yell at if an automatic update break

NFS + pam_mkhomedir

implementation? Is that secure/recommended? Is there a better method? Thanks! ~Chris Tooley

Re: TESTING - drbd update for SL5

nbd is similar in function to iscsi; it exports block devices across a network. Iscsi is probably a more mature than nbd by now. The limitation is only one host can mount the nbd at a time. nbd reminds of ATA over ethernet. drbd replicates a block device across the network. Intended for high

New Computer purchase, what parts?

processor motherboards out there too? This will be a desktop/research machine - so servers are not exactly what I'm looking for. Of course I'm also searching around already but I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions from which I could start. Thank you! -Chris Tooley

Re: New Computer purchase, what parts?

mewhere? Any more suggestions on hardware? Thanks again! -Chris Tooley

Re: xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi breaks when using rpm

producing a problem-free list of packages to install. Then you just feed that list to our normal package management software. -- -- Chris Cooke University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registrat

Re: Package file nautilus-extensions.pc

it would be nautilus-devel: yum install nautilus-devel Try installing that and then see if dropbox compiles. On the other hand, looking dag's repo I can see that there is a dropbox package available.. perhaps you might wish to install that instead? yum --enablerepo=dag install dropbox -Chris

Re: Documents about...

the CentOS wikis and any Red Hat enterprise linux documentation you can find. -Chris

Re: A problem when using ssh to sl-linux system

strator, search for "lfq" in "/var/log/krb5kdc.log" - you may get something out of that. (although I never seem to have much luck with that myself) Most problems I've encountered are when the server and client time are mismatched by about an hour. Hope this helps! -Chris

Re: Note - Firefox 3.6 comming today for SL5

x 3.6 that sound very similar to this, e.g. <http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/590191> That is for OSX, but otherwise is very similar to what I am seeing. Chris

Re: Note - Firefox 3.6 comming today for SL5

Just noticed that someone ("de") in the discussion on this page say they also see the same on linux as well.

Re: SL5 installation on AMD processor

ssibilities. Are you able to log into the machine and run some programs? Does the OS crash? What exactly is crashing? A bit more details as to when or what crashes, preferably with some error messages if possible would be great for the community to be able to diagnose any issues :) -Chris

Re: stopping dm-* modules and associated files from loading at boot

So a mkinitrd would probably need to be done after making /etc/modprobe.conf. Regards, Chris

Re: SVG versions of SL Logo

you modify the logo for smaller sizes. -Chris

mirroring via FTP

I noticed on the scientific linux page here: https://www.scientificlinux.org/download/mirroring/mirror.ftp The lftp config files have: open ftp.scientificlinux.org:/linux/scientific/4x Is this a typo? It seems to conflict with what I can understand of the config files..? -Chris Tooley

Re: php & mysql - working

in your browser to see what you've got :) --- --- Lots of good useful information in there. -Chris

Migrating from EL3 to SL5

Small question, Ok, I just found an OLD machine, which has EL3 on it - has anyone ever successfully migrated from EL3 to SL5? (I can probably wipe it too, but I was interested if I could do this) Thanks, -Chris

HPLIP v.2.8.10

n see, HPLIP in the repos is version 1.6.7 - is there a repo out there that has a newer version? Or, barring that, has anyone got a different PPD to work with this printer and SL5? Thank you! -Chris

Re: HPLIP v.2.8.10 [SOLVED]

On 11-02-08 6:13 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: Alan Bartlett wrote: On 8 February 2011 03:21, Chris Tooley wrote: I am attempting to get an HP Color LaserJet cp2025dn installed on some SL5 systems. Firstly, if anyone has any experience getting these up and running I would be grateful for some

Re: SL 5.5 Luks & losetup

pretty good page on dm-crypt plus LUKS: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/EncryptedFilesystem may be so. but i do not have anything to do with centos, which is why i use scientific linux. ;) CentOS and Scientific Linux are both RHEL based - generally, if you find something about packages for CentOS it's applicable to SL. -Chris

Re: SL 5.6 released?

I it > > affect RHEL5u6 as well, so it seems not to be an SL bug at least. I would say a bug in tcmalloc, not SL or RHEL. See for instance <http://code.google.com/p/google-perftools/issues/detail?id=305> The fix is to move to google perftools 1.7 cheers Chris

Re: Torrent Download

Check again. Make sure to check iso folder and not os. However, these seem to be in flux at the moment. I am seeing different content as a guest vice being a registered user. May require another day before it stabilizes. On 03/05/2011 03:50 AM, Alireza Kheirkhahan wrote: Hi Guys, I coul

lapack and numpy

In case anyone else needs help on solving this in the future, this is a solution to my problem when I have python2.7 altinstalled, matplotlib-1.0.0, ipython, and numpy installed using pip-2.7. I was getting this error: "NameError: global name 'lapack_lite' is not defined" when using ipython -p

security repo failing download?

gave the same error. I have successfully installed without selecting sl-security as a repo source for install. Thanks, Chris

GDM theme

Ok, this is a really stupid question: How do I change the theme for GDM in SL6? Thanks, -Chris

Gmail Filtration

, you can specify to "filter messages like these" and then you can test the filter - I usually just skip the inbox and apply a label, which allows the non-list stuff to show up in my inbox and leaves the list stuff for later perusing if I so wish. -Chris

Re: Firefox 4 - apology

Perhaps I need another piece of code which automatically holds any email sent after midnight until I've confirmed it 8 hours later. That would help with sleep-deprived oropedal insertion, and might be helpful for security, too. Keith I think gmail has something like that :D -Chris

Intel 82579 Gbit LAN chipsets

Hello all, I am wondering whether the Intel 82579 Gbit LAN chipsets are supported natively by any packages or the kernel, or whether I have to install a newer driver? Thanks, ~Chris Tooley

Re: What kins of business use Linux?

a boon to your potential clients :) (load balancing, backup, storage, security, &tc.) Pretty much everyone is going to need a server for their data and being able to provide them that service is a good thing IMO. -Chris

Re: What kins of business use Linux?

Don't forget to include "scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov" in reply-to ;) -Chris On 11-04-26 2:23 PM, Jason Bronner wrote: what chris said. anything that consumes data is going to benefit from linux on the backend whether it be network attached storage or stupid mysql boxes you

Re: SL6 site/spin building

familiar with kickstart but I have used it a number of occasions and it made multiple installations AMAZINGLY easy. -Chris

Re: Problems with VMWare tools

ut hopefully it remains free. There is USB passthrough as well as 3D rendering if your host machine supports it - and I don't get annoyed with it as much as I do vmware. -Chris On 11-04-29 6:55 AM, Larry Linder wrote: Down load their evaluation set or just buy it and load it. Works perfectly

Re: Problems with VMWare tools

I respect your opinion about virtualbox Chris, but virtualbox best than vmware?? Absolutely not. It's free, yes but is worst in most aspects than vmware. Please note I said "as good if not better". In my experience with vmware and virtualbox, I have had more issues with v

SSSD, LDAP, and non-standard homedirectories

Is there something I'm missing in SSSD config somewhere which would allow me to map attributes like the above? Thanks, ~Chris

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