Re: From where does fsck failure prompt root passwd come?

2012-02-02 Thread Yannick Perret
Hello, the only place I found that have the Give root password in /sbin/sulogin. # strings /sbin/sulogin | grep Give ro Give root password for maintenance which is part of sysvinit-tools package. 'sulogin' is only called from /etc/rc.sysinit as far as I know (in boot sequence). Did you try

Re: From where does fsck failure prompt root passwd come?

2012-02-02 Thread Yannick Perret
Yannick Perret a écrit : Hello, the only place I found that have the Give root password in /sbin/sulogin. # strings /sbin/sulogin | grep Give ro Give root password for maintenance which is part of sysvinit-tools package. 'sulogin' is only called from /etc/rc.sysinit as far as I know

Re: PXE boot is an infinite reinstall

2011-10-18 Thread Yannick Perret
Steven Timm a écrit : The trick that Rocks uses is to have a boot order of (hard disk, pxe) and then when you want to reinstall, change two bytes in the boot sector to make the hard disk unbootable and it will fall through to a PXE boot only at that time. What worker node installs at Fermilab

Re: a quick poll: what are your favourite linux power tools?

2011-04-24 Thread Yannick Perret
Vaclav Mocek a écrit : On 04/24/2011 01:57 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: the background: i'm teaching a 2-day course later this week on unix/linux power tools, and i've already got the manual, but it looks like there's maybe 1.5 days worth of content there, so i have the freedom to fill up

Re: SL6: change in 'uname'

2011-03-27 Thread Yannick Perret
Phil Perry a écrit : On 26/03/11 21:00, Yannick Perret wrote: Hello, not sure if it was still pointed here, so: in RHEL6 (and so in SL6, and the later Fedora) Redhat changed the output of 'uname'. Now the arch is added to the kernel version. It means that on my SL6 I get: uname -r 2.6.32

SL6: change in 'uname'

2011-03-26 Thread Yannick Perret
Hello, not sure if it was still pointed here, so: in RHEL6 (and so in SL6, and the later Fedora) Redhat changed the output of 'uname'. Now the arch is added to the kernel version. It means that on my SL6 I get: uname -r 2.6.32-71.18.2.el6.x86_64 whereas on a SL5 I get: 2.6.18-238.12cc.el5 (do

Re: TESTING - kernel update for SL5

2011-01-31 Thread Yannick Perret
Hello, in use on ~20 workernodes without problems. The -238.* kernels has a new way to handle dentry that lead to a kernel panic when performing a 'stat()' syscall in some very particular cases, but we suspect it may be related to a GPFS bad-crafted dentry in mmfsd daemon. Regards, -- Y. -

Re: INFO: task blocked for more than 120 seconds.

2010-08-31 Thread Yannick Perret
Steven Timm a écrit : Hi Doug--I have seen the same message on some of our machines but so far it hasn't caused any real performance problems up until now. It's not so much if you are running SL5.5 but just as long as you are running some of the latest errata kernels.. we only saw it show up on

Problem with pam.x86_64 package in SL5?

2010-01-22 Thread Yannick Perret
packages. Regards, -- Yannick Perret CC-IN2P3

Re: Problem with pam.x86_64 package in SL5?

2010-01-22 Thread Yannick Perret
Troy Dawson a écrit : Yannick Perret wrote: Hello, I upgraded some test boxes to the latest SL5x repository in x86_64. We install both 32 and 64bit packages, and I get a problem with pam-0.99.6.2-6.el5.x86_64: after installing this package, the corresponding 32b package (pam-0.99.6.2-6.el5