Re: [CentOS] Recording Levels Audacity 2.3.3
Hey Fred, Thanks for the response. I installed pavucontrol and found the knob under Applications/Sound & Video. I'll give it a try tomorrow. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre On 10/16/22 22:22, Fred wrote: Mark, that is my understanding of how it works on Linux systems. It is assumed that your input source will have a way of adjusting its output. I did a lot of digitizing of phonograph records a couple years ago, and found that the Pulse Audio Volume Control works for this. Fred On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 5:26 PM Mark LaPierre wrote: Hey Y'all, I cannot adjust the recording level in Audacity on my CentOS Stream release 8 system. It says that my system is prohibiting that. Bus 005 Device 004: ID 08bb:2900 Texas Instruments PCM2900 Audio Codec Is there a way to fix this without building a whole new system? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Recording Levels Audacity 2.3.3
Hey Y'all, I cannot adjust the recording level in Audacity on my CentOS Stream release 8 system. It says that my system is prohibiting that. Bus 005 Device 004: ID 08bb:2900 Texas Instruments PCM2900 Audio Codec Is there a way to fix this without building a whole new system? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] possible issue with CS8 kernel-4.18.0-358.el8.x86_64
On 1/30/22 23:06, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 1/28/22 10:27, Turing Eret wrote: I'd like to echo this. `kscreenlocker_greet` doesn't show a password prompt and can't be unlocked, `loginctl unlock-session` just doesn't work, sddm just stops at a black screen and never displays the login prompt. Backed up to 348 and everything works fine. Looks like some bugs have been filed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2043771 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2043322 I just loaded the latest kernel this evening. I'm getting the same results. It gets as far as the splash screen with the swirly thing and just locks up. No login prompt. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Is EPEL compatible with Stream?
On 1/3/21 8:34 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 18:20, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 1/3/21 2:51 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: is it still OK to set up EPEL as a repo? Yes. CentOS Stream is expected to be backward-compatible with RHEL, for the same reason that each RHEL point release is backward-compatible with previous point releases. Except in cases where packages in a RHEL point release are being rebased. This is something which is happening with a lot more gusto than in any previous releases so there may be points where say a QT or a gnomelib provides in Stream is ahead of EPEL So how would one use this shiny bit of information? Is there a way to discover if an EPEL application is going to clobber your system before you install it? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Setting up NIS on Centos 8
On 12/6/20 11:21 AM, Pete Biggs wrote: I found this: https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_8=nis=1 I've been told in the past that NIS should not be used because of some supposed security issues. Can someone site any authoritative documentation concerning the security issues extant in NIS? There's a lot of documentation out there. Basically YP/NIS transmits everything over the network in plain text, including password hashes. combined with no authentication/authorisation mechanism, out of the box NIS will give your password hashes to anyone who asks for them. Clearly once a username/password hash has been discovered, it's only a matter of time before a password is found. NIS+ is very different in that it is much more security aware, but consequently much more complex. My plan is to set up NIS and NFS on my home network server where I plan to host all the local home network /home directories. I'll use automount on all the other nodes to mount up the home directories when a user logs on. If you have a fully private network, then the security issues are not so bad. It still has its place in things like clusters, but even then it is being superseded by LDAP. If you are setting up a system from scratch, then you really should be looking at using LDAP, it's not that difficult and there are plenty of tools around to help you manage it all. P. Okay, say I decide to go with LDAP and NFS. I'll be needing some hand holding to get it set up. Are you willing to walk me through this? I tried to set up 389 a while ago but ran into the nobody/nobody problem on the client computer that I could not solve. No help arrived then. I don't want a repeat of that. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Setting up NIS on Centos 8
Hey Y'all, I found this: https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_8=nis=1 I've been told in the past that NIS should not be used because of some supposed security issues. Can someone site any authoritative documentation concerning the security issues extant in NIS? My plan is to set up NIS and NFS on my home network server where I plan to host all the local home network /home directories. I'll use automount on all the other nodes to mount up the home directories when a user logs on. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 kernel-4.18.0-193 shim issue(SOLVED) at least for me
On 8/14/20 12:23 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote: Hey All, Is it safe to allow the 193 series kernel update now? Last time I tried that my system refused to boot. I had to roll back to the 4.18.0-147 kernel to get my machine to reboot. Since that happened I've been watching this mail list for acknowledgement that the problem has been corrected while refusing the kernel update. I may have missed the announcement that the issue was resolved and the the update is now approved. I ran the update and did the reboot last night. It was too late for me to report the results then. Thank you to the CentOS Team. Y'all are awesome. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 kernel-4.18.0-193 shim issue
On 8/14/20 12:23 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote: Hey All, Is it safe to allow the 193 series kernel update now? Last time I tried that my system refused to boot. I had to roll back to the 4.18.0-147 kernel to get my machine to reboot. Since that happened I've been watching this mail list for acknowledgement that the problem has been corrected while refusing the kernel update. I may have missed the announcement that the issue was resolved and the the update is now approved. Well, I let the kernel up date run. I haven't allowed the machine to reboot yet, but that's going to happen just after I send this. At the moment I'm running 4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 #1 SMP -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS 8 kernel-4.18.0-193 shim issue
Hey All, Is it safe to allow the 193 series kernel update now? Last time I tried that my system refused to boot. I had to roll back to the 4.18.0-147 kernel to get my machine to reboot. Since that happened I've been watching this mail list for acknowledgement that the problem has been corrected while refusing the kernel update. I may have missed the announcement that the issue was resolved and the the update is now approved. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Quick recovery and fix for unbootable machines
On 8/1/20 10:21 PM, Alan McRae via CentOS wrote: This is a quick recovery and fix for the machines rendered unbootable after the grub2/shim yum update. It is written for CentOS 8.2.2004 but similar should work for any CentOS 8 or 7 as long as you get the correct shim file, that is, the one from the latest installation media. I am running on an x86_64 architecture (see uname -i). Please use the correct shim file for your architecture (shim--15-11.el8..rpm) I have tested this by breaking a machine and then recovering it. It works for me. I hope someone finds it useful. Let me know. Regards Alan HOW TO BOOT AN UNBOOTABLE MACHINE = 1) Download a copy of rEFind. This is a UEFI boot manager. Burn it to a USB key. # wget -O refind.zip http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.12.0/refind-flashdrive-0.12.0.zip/download # unzip refind.zip # cd refind-flashdrive-0.12.0 # dd if=refind-flashdrive-0.12.0.img bs=4096 of=/dev/sdX (sdX is the device for your USB key, this will be erased, use the whole device use sdX not sdX1) 1800+0 records in 1800+0 records out 7372800 bytes (7.4 MB, 7.0 MiB) copied, 0.980893 s, 7.5 MB/s 2) Turn off secureboot in your UEFI hardware. 3) Boot the USB key. You should get a colourful screen with icons and a filename below. Use the left/right arrow keys to select the correct grubx64.efi. Hit space to boot. Your usual grub menu should appear and the system should boot normally. HOW TO FIX THE PROBLEM = 1) We need to downgrade the shim package. Now your system is running get an older copy of the correct shim package for your architecture from the CentOS installation media (e.g. CentOS-8.2.2004-x86_64-dvd1.iso) and install it. # mount CentOS-8.2.2004-x86_64-dvd1.iso /mnt # cd /mnt/BaseOS/Packages # cp shim-x64-15-11.el8.x86_64.rpm /root # cd /root # umount /mnt OR Get the package from a CentOS mirror: # cd /root # wget http://ucmirror.canterbury.ac.nz/linux/CentOS/8.2.2004/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/shim-x64-15-11.el8.x86_64.rpm 2) We can now reinstall the older shim package using yum. This will downgrade the package to the working version. # yum install shim-x64-15-11.el8.x86_64.rpm Last metadata expiration check: 2:11:11 ago on Sun 02 Aug 2020 11:31:06 NZST. Dependencies resolved. Package Architecture Version Repository Size Downgrading: shim-x64 x86_64 15-11.el8 @commandline 647 k Transaction Summary Downgrade 1 Package Total size: 647 k Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded. Running transaction Preparing : 1/1 Downgrading : shim-x64-15-11.el8.x86_64 1/2 Cleanup : shim-x64-15-13.el8.x86_64 2/2 Verifying : shim-x64-15-11.el8.x86_64 1/2 Verifying : shim-x64-15-13.el8.x86_64 2/2 Installed products updated. Downgraded: shim-x64-15-11.el8.x86_64 Complete! 3) Your system should now boot normally. 4) add "exclude=shim*" to /etc/yum.conf to prevent the broken one being reinstalled. You should now be able to run 'yum update'. Remove the exclude= when a proper fix becomes available. Thank you for your apparently well researched and written article. The only problem I see with it is that it's going to be really hard for a CentOS user with a tanked system to read unless that user has access to some other system where this can be read. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable
On 7/31/20 11:20 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 7/31/20 11:24 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Il 31/07/20 13:08, ja ha scritto: On Fri, 2020-07-31 at 22:35 +1200, Alan McRae via CentOS wrote: I am running an Intel x64 machine using UEFI to boot an SSD. Installing the latest yum update which includes grub2 and kernel 4.18.0-193.14.2.el8_2.x86_64 renders the machine unbootable, blank screen where grub should be, no error messages, just hangs. After some hours I managed to modify another bootable partition (containing older software) and boot it from there. After that, I found out it is a known problem. The main point of this message is to make people aware of the problem and suggest admins don't run 'yum update' until they understand the problem and have a fix at hand. See 'UEFI boot blank screen post update' for a solution and directions to the redhat article. Regards Alan I have been punished by this bug - it is/was very nasty. Me too. Luckily it happened on a test machine. Sorry but seems that those packages were not tested before pushing them in the update repo. Would be great to know what happened to the mainstream chains and how a package like grub reached the update repo when it has serious problem (genuine curiosity but not to blame them). Of course it was tested before it was pushed. Obviously this is not a problem with every install. Surely you don't think we push items without doing any testing. Certainly not items as important as this update. The CentOS infrastructure has hundreds of servers, most of them were not impacted (as an example). In fact, we seem to have had this happen on only one machine in those hundreds so far. It is a problem, obviously. The issue seems to be with the shim package (not the grub or kernel packages) and we are currently working with Red Hat on a fix. This issue happened in many Linux OSes and even Windows, not just RHEL and CentOS. We will push a fix as soon as one is available. I would hold off on installing this until we release the new fixes. In my case, the restore procedure reported by RH in case of reboot does not work and reports that the packages are already at the lowest version and that the downgrade is not possibile. I don't know why. It tanked my machine. I managed to get it to boot into emergency mode where I eventually got it to boot on an old kernel as shown in the paste below. After getting it to boot I used grubby to set the default kernel to the oldest one on the machine. Surprisingly enough neither of the two most recent kernels would boot even though the machine was running on the second oldest kernel when I ran the update that tanked it. That adds credence to the comment above that the problem was not the new kernel since it trashed both the new kernel and the one before. Both were from the same series. The 147 kernel works but neither of newer ones would. CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core) enp5s0 IP Address = 192.168.15.131 Linux localhost.localdomain 4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Apr 9 13:49:54 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Number of cores = 32 00:55:13 up 8:37, 1 user, load average: 0.31, 0.48, 0.44 amdgpu-pci-0900 Adapter: PCI adapter vddgfx: +0.83 V fan1: 771 RPM (min =0 RPM, max = 3700 RPM) temp1:+45.0°C (crit = +94.0°C, hyst = -273.1°C) power1: 31.07 W (cap = 125.00 W) acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1:+16.8°C (crit = +20.8°C) temp2:+16.8°C (crit = +20.8°C) amdgpu-pci-0400 Adapter: PCI adapter vddgfx: +0.72 V fan1: 768 RPM (min =0 RPM, max = 3700 RPM) temp1:+39.0°C (crit = +94.0°C, hyst = -273.1°C) power1: 30.10 W (cap = 125.00 W) -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Boot Failed After 4.18.0-193.14.2.el8_2.x86_64
Hey All, My CentOS 8 system will not boot into the new kernel that was part of the update this evening. How do I boot the previous kernel? I can't select it on the boot menu. The only choice I can select, other than the new kernel that dies with a kernel panic, is the rescue kernel. If I try to edit the boot command every time I touch the cursor key the cursor jumps 15 characters. What now brown cow? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] HP vs. Brother Printers: Use with Centos/Fedora
On 6/27/20 5:33 PM, Jay Hart wrote: If you had to rate which printer brand works better with Linux (Fedora and Centos), what would it be? TIA, Jay I have an HP Laser Jet Pro M402n connected on my network. I used to work just fine from CentOS 6 but recently no joy. Something broke and I'm not fixing it because CentOS 6 will be EOL soon and I'm in the process changing over all my systems to CentOS 8. From CentOS 8 there's no issues as far a plain paper printing is concerned. When I comes to printing on envelopes I just this evening won a battle with the printer when printing on #6 3/4 envelopes. I resolved the problem by setting the printer to print on C5 envelopes, and LibreOffice Writer to use the same C5 envelope. The C5 envelope is considerably larger that the #6 3/4 envelope. With some tweeking of the location of the address on the document in LibreOffice Writer I got it to print the address on the #6 3/4 envelope in the right place. The M402n does not support the #6 3/4 envelope directly. You have to fiddle with it. If you have to print on envelopes make sure that the printer you buy supports the envelope you want to print on unless you like fiddling. Me, I'm a tuba player, not a fiddle player. YMMV -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird Revision Issues(SOLVED)
On 5/24/20 9:54 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: On 2020-05-23 11:58, Greg Bailey wrote: On 5/22/20 12:28 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: Hey all, CentOS 6 has Thunderbird 68.8.0 CentOS 8 has Thunderbird 68.7.0 When I rsync my .thunderbird folder from my CentOS 6 machine to my CentOS 8 machine and start Thunderbird it says: "A newer version of Thunderbird may have made changes to your profile which are no longer compatible with this older version. Use this profile only with that newer version, or create a new profile for this installation of Thunderbird. Creating a new profile requires setting up your accounts, calendars and add-ons again." I think I encountered the same thing when trying to go from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8. I'm pretty sure I ended up invoking thunderbird manually with the --allow-downgrade option. After it was satisfied with my copied profile, it would then subsequently run OK with a normal invocation (using the desktop icon, etc.) -Greg Thanks Greg, I'm copying a nice clean .thunderbird folder from CentOS 6 to CentOS 8 with rsync in a few minutes, as soon as I'm done playing with my mail here. I'll try your suggestion. I'll let you know what happens. Now why couldn't mozilla put that on their web site to help poor slobs like me. Your suggestion worked perfectly. I'm writing this one on the CentOS 8 machine. Thank you so much for the intelligent reply. Most of what I found on my own said either make a new profile or just keep using the CentOS 6 system, either directly or as a remote desktop. Thanks again. I love it when a plan comes together. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird Revision Issues
On 2020-05-23 11:58, Greg Bailey wrote: On 5/22/20 12:28 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: Hey all, CentOS 6 has Thunderbird 68.8.0 CentOS 8 has Thunderbird 68.7.0 When I rsync my .thunderbird folder from my CentOS 6 machine to my CentOS 8 machine and start Thunderbird it says: "A newer version of Thunderbird may have made changes to your profile which are no longer compatible with this older version. Use this profile only with that newer version, or create a new profile for this installation of Thunderbird. Creating a new profile requires setting up your accounts, calendars and add-ons again." I think I encountered the same thing when trying to go from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8. I'm pretty sure I ended up invoking thunderbird manually with the --allow-downgrade option. After it was satisfied with my copied profile, it would then subsequently run OK with a normal invocation (using the desktop icon, etc.) -Greg Thanks Greg, I'm copying a nice clean .thunderbird folder from CentOS 6 to CentOS 8 with rsync in a few minutes, as soon as I'm done playing with my mail here. I'll try your suggestion. I'll let you know what happens. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Thunderbird Revision Issues
Hey all, CentOS 6 has Thunderbird 68.8.0 CentOS 8 has Thunderbird 68.7.0 When I rsync my .thunderbird folder from my CentOS 6 machine to my CentOS 8 machine and start Thunderbird it says: "A newer version of Thunderbird may have made changes to your profile which are no longer compatible with this older version. Use this profile only with that newer version, or create a new profile for this installation of Thunderbird. Creating a new profile requires setting up your accounts, calendars and add-ons again." Needless to say, this is not an acceptable choice. I have several email accounts that would have to be set up. That's not such a big issue, but I have many local folders set up that I can't duplicate on the new installation if I can't use my previous profile. Does anyone know when CentOS 8 will catch up with CentOS 6 so that I can start using my new CentOS 8 box? Perhaps there is another work around. I've tried many of the solution provided on the mozilla web site to no avail. I even tried to install Thunderbird 68.8.0 on my CentOS 8 box. That didn't make it happy either. What now brown cow? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] FAX
Hey All, Has anyone out there figured out how to send a FAX from a computer, sans FAX machine? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 CD Ripper(SOLVED)
On 2020-04-09 08:15, J. Echter wrote: Am 09.04.20 um 02:39 schrieb Mark LaPierre: Hey all, Does anyone know of a CD ripper that will work with CentOS 8? I've found a great many that will work CentOS 6 and 7 but nothing that will build for CentOS 8. Hi, i'm using k3b for this purpose, also supports cdparanoia. Hope this helps. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thank you very much. After a short battle with configuration I got k3b installed a ripping music. VLC does a fine job of playing the ripped files. I'm not as thrilled with Gnome 3 that does not provide an icon in the desktop by which the now ripped CD may be ejected. A brief search of the k3b interface failed to turn up an eject button either.<\RANT> Thanks a lot. I really appreciate the help. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 NIS
On 2020-04-12 21:49, John Pierce wrote: It appears that they just pasted a new name on an old horse. It's still LDAP. yes, its the standardized LDAP protocol... it is, however, a completely different implementation, so no, its not OpenLDAP, which is a specific implementation. Oh insert Deity here! This is going to take a semester of Computer Science to figure out. dscreate create-template creates a 9K file full of mostly obscure and unintelligible options. This where the hand holding I told you about comes into play. This is what I've got so far: config_version = 2 defaults = 9 The next option is full_machine_name which defaults to localhost.localdomain I need to give this machine a name other than localhost.localdomain. I guess that's my next bit of search engine exercise to learn how to do that without making a giant mess. I remember trying to do this with the last attempt at LDAP a year ago. It wasn't pretty and didn't turn out well. I guess that's my next step for tomorrow. I've got to go to bed if I'm going to be able to stay awake long enough to write any code at work tomorrow. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 NIS
On 2020-04-12 08:13, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Apr 12, 2020, at 05:47, Pete Biggs wrote: There are other options than LDAP, and servers other than OpenLDAP, but LDAP is the de facto standard. Unfortunately, OpenLDAP as a server is deprecated in C8, and isn’t packaged anymore. Upstream they point customers to their directory service, which is based on 389 directory service. Okay, I found https://directory.fedoraproject.org/docs/389ds/download.html. Thank you for the useful reply. It appears that they just pasted a new name on an old horse. It's still LDAP. I'll follow the directions there. At least the directions say they are for CentOS 8.1+ I'll let you know what happens. I hope I don't end up having to reinstall to fix the mess this makes. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 CD Ripper
On 2020-04-09 07:43, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 20:40, Mark LaPierre wrote: Hey all, Does anyone know of a CD ripper that will work with CentOS 8? I've found a great many that will work CentOS 6 and 7 but nothing that will build for CentOS 8. Could you give the list of the ones you found that didn't work for 8? And why they didn't work in 8? [Because if it is missing deps then that is one problem.. if it is because of code problems it is another one.] Hey Stephen, I tried asunder and ripperx. configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4.0, gthread-2.0 >= 2.4.0, libcddb >= 0.9.5) were not met: -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 NIS
On 2020-04-09 05:14, isdtor wrote: Nicolas Kovacs writes: Le 09/04/2020 à 11:05, isdtor a écrit : NIS works fine on CentOS 8. Certainly the client side. But how it's enabled is different, check the manual. authconfig is replaced with authselect. NIS "works fine" in the sense that telnet works fine. :o) It is not our job here to second-guess implementation decisions made by others as only the people concerned are familiar with their environment's restraints and business requirements. Yes, let me validate Mr. Kovacs comment. I am aware of the shortcomings of NIS in the area of security. Let me provide some information on the topography of my network and my reasoning for choosing NIS/NFS. Perhaps an alternative may be suggested to meet my needs without totally confounding me when it comes to configuration. I tried another solution some time ago but failed miserably. Search for "nobody:nobody" in my transactions on this mail list from 2019/04/02. I have a small home network, four CentOS boxes, three running CentOS 6 at the moment. This network is behind an ONT and an Edgerouter. Machine #4 is a newly constructed AMD 16 core with a set of four 2TB HDs that will be configured as a RAID array. I plan to host the home directories of all the users on my network on the array and share them out to the other three machines to be auto-mounted when the user logs in. I did this successfully using NIS/NFS about 20 years ago in a small private grade school network that I built from the scrap heap of old and abandoned machines, and no money, that they had on hand. All the machines on my home network will eventually be running CentOS 8 seeing that CentOS 6 is very near EOL. Being that they will all be running the same flavor of CentOS should make configuration a bit easier. I need a set of tools that is fairly simple to configure, by which I mean has complete and accurate documentation which I can find, and does not present impediments to future system configuration. My hope is to do all the user management on the 16 core that will be hosting the raid. I don't want to have to log onto all the other machines to twiddle bits each time I want to add a new user account. I designed the 16 core with the intent of putting it's non-entertainment/educational clock cycles to work as a Monero miner. I chose Monero because it is specifically resistant to ASIC implementation demanding excellent system CPU and GPU performance and plenty of RAM, 64 Gb in this case. There's no point in trying to mine Bit Coin et al. unless you plan to live for the 1000 years it will take to earn just one. Now that I've bored you to tears, are there any suggestions as to what I should use as a replacement for NIS/NFS for sharing and mounting of /home directories on the other three machines on my network? Consider that you are probably going to end up holding my hand in this endeavor so choose something that you would want to configure and use. Choose wisely Grasshopper. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS 8 NIS
Hey all, Does anyone know where I can get NIS for CentOS 8? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS 8 CD Ripper
Hey all, Does anyone know of a CD ripper that will work with CentOS 8? I've found a great many that will work CentOS 6 and 7 but nothing that will build for CentOS 8. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 Gstreamer and Mplayer(SOLVED)
On 2020-03-30 06:54, John Pierce wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 3:16 AM Bob Marcan wrote: vlc centos 8 yeah, I dig VLC, I use it on multiple platforms, and it consistently seems to be able to play everything without any nonsense. Looks like rpmfusion is the distro of choice for it on Centos/rhel 8 vlc did the trick. Thank you to all for your help. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 Gstreamer and Mplayer
On 2020-03-30 00:13, Ted Miller wrote: I have generally found that installing VLC takes care of my codec needs. Have not tried it on Centos8 yet. Ted Miller On 3/29/20 11:18 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: On 2020-03-29 18:42, Frank Cox wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:34:20 -0400 Mark LaPierre wrote: What replaced Gstreamer and Mplayer in CentOS 8. RPM finder finds both for CentOS 6 and 7 but not 8. There must be a replacement for them but I don't know what. rpmfusion might be what you're looking for. I'm assuming that rpmfusion is a repository that I have to set up on my new squeaky clean freshly installed machine and then proceed to pollute it with questionable packages. ;-) I'll look into that tomorrow. What I would really like to know is, were these applications replaced with something else that I should be using instead? Thank you for responding. I really do appreciate it. The box says, "No match for argument: vlc Error: Unable to find a match: vlc" Perhaps there's another repo like epel for CentOS 8 where these toys live? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 Gstreamer and Mplayer
On 2020-03-29 18:42, Frank Cox wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:34:20 -0400 Mark LaPierre wrote: What replaced Gstreamer and Mplayer in CentOS 8. RPM finder finds both for CentOS 6 and 7 but not 8. There must be a replacement for them but I don't know what. rpmfusion might be what you're looking for. I'm assuming that rpmfusion is a repository that I have to set up on my new squeaky clean freshly installed machine and then proceed to pollute it with questionable packages. ;-) I'll look into that tomorrow. What I would really like to know is, were these applications replaced with something else that I should be using instead? Thank you for responding. I really do appreciate it. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS 8 Gstreamer and Mplayer
Hey Y'all, What replaced Gstreamer and Mplayer in CentOS 8. RPM finder finds both for CentOS 6 and 7 but not 8. There must be a replacement for them but I don't know what. I appear to be having codec issues but, not knowing what's supposed to handle the jobs that the two programs used to do, I don't know where to look for a commercial set of codecs compatible with the application. I'm getting error messages, "No video with supported format and MIME type found." when visiting certain web sites with Firefox. I would try it with Chrome but that does not appear to be available in the CentOS 8 repos either. I found solutions to this issue on the net that involved turning off HTML5 direct rendering and using Flash, but that's not going to happen. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS Net Install
On 2019-12-14 13:19, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 12/13/19 8:12 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: Hey all, Is a Network Install ISO planed any time in the near future for CentOS 8? I don't see it in the mirrors, but that might be a function of my poor searching abilities. Beware of https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16456 Thanks for the heads up. It it's not fixed by the time I'm ready to do my install on my new machine, some time early in 2020, I'll follow the advice offered on the bug tracker. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS Net Install
Hey all, Is a Network Install ISO planed any time in the near future for CentOS 8? I don't see it in the mirrors, but that might be a function of my poor searching abilities. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] RHEL 8 released
I would like to take this opportunity send profuse thanks to the CentOS build team for all the awesome work that they do. Don't ever think that your hard work is not appreciated. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] nobody:nobody
On 4/3/19 5:29 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 4/3/19 2:17 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: Content of idmapd.conf: As long as idmapd is *running* it typically doesn't need to be configured specifically. Now one more question. The imap daemon is a mail server. How is it that I need a mail server running to make LDAP and NFS work? Doesn't seem to make sense to me. idmapd is not imapd. idmapd (aka rpc.idmapd) is a helper for NFSv4 which should be run on the server. It shouldn't be required on the client. A couple of points: 1) Your original message isn't specific about the problem that you're seeing, but if idmapd is involved, then the problem isn't related to LDAP. NFSv4 will work the same way whether you're using NIS or LDAP. Pretty much everything other than NSS and PAM will, in fact. 2) I don't recommend rolling your own LDAP services. It's very easy to let sensitive information leak. Using FreeIPA for LDAP and KRB5 is much easier and a lot more secure. Thank you for your reply to my incompetent query. Okay, I'm a bit dyslectic. I see that I should have seen idmap but I saw imap. I missed the "d". That leads me to another question: I don't see a package that contains idmapd. When I try to install it I get: No package idmapd available. No package idmap available. I don't see idmapd in the Service Configuration GUI. rpm -qa | grep idmap libsss_idmap-1.13.3-60.el6_10.2.x86_64 How might one install a daemon by the name idmapd on CentOS 6? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] nobody:nobody
On 4/3/19 6:43 AM, mark wrote: On 04/02/19 20:21, Mark LaPierre wrote: Hey Y'all, For the last week or more I've been trying to get NFS and OpenLDAP to play nice with each other. I've pretty much worn the Google machine out trying to find a solution. I've found several that said "Solved" but none of those solutions solved my nobody:nobody problem. In the past I've used NFS in conjunction with NIS to share home directories from my NFS server but I read that NIS is deprecated in favor of LDAP so, being a sucker for new ideas, I decided I would use LDAP too like the big boys do. I think I'm regretting this decision. Now the question: Is there something I need to configure on the client side of the relationship that all the Google wisdom has failed to mention? All the I'd assume: have you edited /etc/idmapd.conf, and at least put in your domain? Then started the imapd daemon? Btw, when you go to C 7, there's no imapd daemon, but you still need to edit that file. mark guides/tutorial/etc... talk extensively about configuring the server, many giving conflicting information, but have nothing to say about the client. I've even found a couple that talk about configuring CentOS 6 but contain commands found only in CentOS 7. Makes one go hmmm? Here's the basic details: Server: CentOS 6 openldap-2.4.40-16.el6.i686 openldap-clients-2.4.40-16.el6.x86_64 perl-LDAP-0.40-3.el6.noarch sssd-ldap-1.13.3-60.el6_10.2.x86_64 openldap-2.4.40-16.el6.x86_64 openldap-servers-2.4.40-16.el6.x86_64 python-ldap-2.3.10-1.el6.x86_64 apr-util-ldap-1.3.9-3.el6_0.1.x86_64 smbldap-tools-0.9.6-4.el6.noarch nfs-utils-lib-1.1.5-13.el6.x86_64 nfs4-acl-tools-0.3.3-8.el6.x86_64 nfs-utils-1.2.3-78.el6_10.1.x86_64 Client: CentOS 7 KVM VM running on the server sssd-ldap-1.16.2-13.el7_6.5.x86_64 python-ldap-2.4.15-2.el7.x86_64 openldap-2.4.44-21.el7_6.x86_64 nfs4-acl-tools-0.3.3-19.el7.x86_64 nfs-utils-1.3.0-0.61.el7.x86_64 libnfsidmap-0.25-19.el7.x86_64 Both machines are fully updated. Would you like to see any of the myriad of configuration files for these applications? Just ask and you shall receive. Please be sure to tell me if you want the file from the server or the client hey. Content of idmapd.conf: Server: [General] #Verbosity = 0 # The following should be set to the local NFSv4 domain name # The default is the host's DNS domain name. #Domain = local.domain.edu Domain = peach.patch.mylan Client: [General] #Verbosity = 0 # The following should be set to the local NFSv4 domain name # The default is the host's DNS domain name. #Domain = local.domain.edu Domain = poppy.patch.mylan Now one more question. The imap daemon is a mail server. How is it that I need a mail server running to make LDAP and NFS work? Doesn't seem to make sense to me. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] nobody:nobody
Hey Y'all, For the last week or more I've been trying to get NFS and OpenLDAP to play nice with each other. I've pretty much worn the Google machine out trying to find a solution. I've found several that said "Solved" but none of those solutions solved my nobody:nobody problem. In the past I've used NFS in conjunction with NIS to share home directories from my NFS server but I read that NIS is deprecated in favor of LDAP so, being a sucker for new ideas, I decided I would use LDAP too like the big boys do. I think I'm regretting this decision. Now the question: Is there something I need to configure on the client side of the relationship that all the Google wisdom has failed to mention? All the guides/tutorial/etc... talk extensively about configuring the server, many giving conflicting information, but have nothing to say about the client. I've even found a couple that talk about configuring CentOS 6 but contain commands found only in CentOS 7. Makes one go hmmm? Here's the basic details: Server: CentOS 6 openldap-2.4.40-16.el6.i686 openldap-clients-2.4.40-16.el6.x86_64 perl-LDAP-0.40-3.el6.noarch sssd-ldap-1.13.3-60.el6_10.2.x86_64 openldap-2.4.40-16.el6.x86_64 openldap-servers-2.4.40-16.el6.x86_64 python-ldap-2.3.10-1.el6.x86_64 apr-util-ldap-1.3.9-3.el6_0.1.x86_64 smbldap-tools-0.9.6-4.el6.noarch nfs-utils-lib-1.1.5-13.el6.x86_64 nfs4-acl-tools-0.3.3-8.el6.x86_64 nfs-utils-1.2.3-78.el6_10.1.x86_64 Client: CentOS 7 KVM VM running on the server sssd-ldap-1.16.2-13.el7_6.5.x86_64 python-ldap-2.4.15-2.el7.x86_64 openldap-2.4.44-21.el7_6.x86_64 nfs4-acl-tools-0.3.3-19.el7.x86_64 nfs-utils-1.3.0-0.61.el7.x86_64 libnfsidmap-0.25-19.el7.x86_64 Both machines are fully updated. Would you like to see any of the myriad of configuration files for these applications? Just ask and you shall receive. Please be sure to tell me if you want the file from the server or the client hey. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] RPM Transaction Failure (SOLVED)
On 3/3/19 10:01 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Mar 3, 2019, at 1:53 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote: error: lua script failed: /usr/libexec/copy_jdk_configs.lua:272: attempt to index global 'file' (a nil value) Try following the instructions here: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3573891 <https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3573891> # mkdir -p /var/lib/rpm-state -- Jonathan Billings ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thank you Jonathan. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] RPM Transaction Failure
Hey Y'all, I have a yum update failure that remains consistent and repeatable. This is what happens every time I try to update the java package. This a new computer with a fresh network install of CentOS 6.10. How can I fix this? CentOS release 6.10 (Final) Linux nicotine.patch 2.6.32-754.11.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 26 15:38:56 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Number of cores = 4 01:51:37 up 3 days, 4:02, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.08 Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.201-2.6.16.0.el6_10.x86_64.rpm | 27 MB 00:02 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Error in PRETRANS scriptlet in rpm package 1:java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.201-2.6.16.0.el6_10.x86_64 error: lua script failed: /usr/libexec/copy_jdk_configs.lua:272: attempt to index global 'file' (a nil value) Verifying : 1:java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.201-2.6.16.0.el6_10.x86_64 1/2 1:java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.181-2.6.14.10.el6.x86_64 was supposed to be removed but is not! -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Cups Ink Levels
Hey all,
In this week's Open Source Highlights I read:
"Check ink level: If you have an Epson, Canon, HP, or Sony printer, you
can see its ink level with a simple application. Look for the "ink"
package in your distribution repositories."
I checked my package manager but I didn't find any "ink" package. Does
such a package exist for Centos? Is so, what it the package called?
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Re: [CentOS] Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024
On 11/02/18 16:02, Frank Cox wrote: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/02/rhel_deprecates_kde/ That's still several years in the future, of course. I use Mate on all of my machines rather than Gnome or KDE and I'm sure many of you fine folks do the same. But it's interesting nonetheless. The sweet thing about Linux in general is that you can choose pretty much anything you want when it comes to configuring your system. You can even use things that are not supported by whatever distribution you have chosen. For those wishing to continue using KDE far into the future I'm quite sure that there will be a way to continue on that path. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 2038 year Problem
On 10/02/18 13:41, Johann Fock wrote: Hallo Im using CentOS 7 Ist the 2038 year Problem solved in CentOS 7.5 64 bit Version Thanks Johann Fock Hey Johann, You should submit this question to the Fedora mailing list. CentOS is downstream from Fedora. If the problem is not fixed there it will not be fixed in CentOS, no matter what the release number might be in 2038. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] OT Hardware Forum
Hey Y'all, Is there a forum where I can discuss hardware and CentOS 7? I'm considering building a new desktop system specifically designed for CentOS 7 and the Folding At Home project. This mail list seams to be oriented toward CentOS software issues not hardware discussions. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] skypeforlinux lacks dependencies, won't update
On 11/20/17 03:44, wwp wrote: > Hello, > > > On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:58:21 +1300 Peter <pe...@pajamian.dhs.org> wrote: > >> On 20/11/17 11:30, milos.blazevic wrote: >>> There's the unstable version that installs and works: >>> https://www.skype.com/en/insider/ >> >> Thanks for pointing this out, it looks like they removed the newer >> GLIBCXX requirement that was added for 8.10, possibly due to popular demand? > > Maybe. Unpacking the rpm works, anyway, I never encountered a single > binary issue since I use it like that (ordinary use, I probably don't > use that text encoding or whatever submodule which depends on a newer > libstdc++). > > Please explain "Unpacking the RPM". How is one to do that when there are broken dependencies? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] MP4/H.264 codec for Firefox?
On 10/01/17 20:47, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sun, 1 Oct 2017 20:02:08 -0400 > Mark LaPierre wrote: > >> What repo did you find ffmpeg-libs in? > > Version : 2.6.8 > Release : 3.el7.nux > Architecture: x86_64 > Install Date: Wed 27 Apr 2016 06:23:09 PM CST > Group : Unspecified > Size: 13562904 > License : GPLv2+ > Signature : RSA/SHA1, Wed 27 Apr 2016 06:35:00 AM CST, Key ID > e98bfbe785c6cd8a > Source RPM : ffmpeg-2.6.8-3.el7.nux.src.rpm > Build Date : Wed 27 Apr 2016 06:33:00 AM CST > Build Host : rpmbuilder > Relocations : (not relocatable) > Packager: http://li.nux.ro/ > Vendor : Nux! > URL : http://ffmpeg.org/ > Summary : Libraries for ffmpeg > Description : > FFmpeg is a complete and free Internet live audio and video > broadcasting solution for Linux/Unix. It also includes a digital > VCR. It can encode in real time in many formats including MPEG1 audio > and video, MPEG4, h263, ac3, asf, avi, real, mjpeg, and flash. > This package contains the libraries for ffmpeg > > Thank you. I can now view all three of the video types on the referenced page. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] MP4/H.264 codec for Firefox?
On 10/01/17 12:13, Roman Kennke wrote: > Am 01.10.2017 um 12:28 schrieb hw: >> Roman Kennke <ro...@kennke.org> writes: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am trying to get MP4/H.264 playback in Firefox to work on my CentOS >>> laptop (for vimeo). >>> >>> I installed the gstreamer plugins as described here: >>> >>> https://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS7 >>> >>> (No, I did not install Flash, VLC and all the other stuff. I only want >>> HTML5 MP4 playback..) >>> >>> I enabled the nux repos. I did install all available gstreamer >>> plugins, i.e. -good -bad -ugly -ffmpeg etc. No success. >>> >>> Has anybody got mp4 playback working? >>> >>> Here's a test page: >>> >>> https://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html >> All movies on that page play without having taken any particular >> precautions in Seamonkey (I dislike Firefox). >> >> However, I have ffmpeg and mplayer installed (compiled from source >> because there aren´t packages for those). I don´t know if any of them >> are being used by Seamonkey. >> >> >> yum list installed | grep gstream >> gstreamer.x86_64 0.10.36-7.el7 >> @base >> gstreamer-plugins-base.x86_64 0.10.36-10.el7 >> @base >> gstreamer-tools.x86_64 0.10.36-7.el7 >> @base >> gstreamer1.x86_64 1.10.4-2.el7 >> @base >> gstreamer1-plugins-base.x86_64 1.10.4-1.el7 >> @base >> >> >> Those must have been installed for dependencies; I didn´t install them >> explicitly. > > Installing ffmpeg-libs solved it for me. I suspect that FF links against > ffmpeg-libs or via gstreamer-ffmpeg or some such. > > Thanks, Roman What repo did you find ffmpeg-libs in? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Power Fail Protection
On 08/08/17 19:50, Chris Olson wrote: > > Some of our largest systems run Windows because it supports engineering > applications that we use regularly. These applications have unattended > runs that often take between ten and fifteen hours to complete. We have > taken the recommendation of the application supplier and equipped these > Windows machines with UPS protection for 30 minutes at full load. > > The UPSs are Ethernet connected. A support application on the Windows > engineering machine communicates with the UPS to detect and address any > facility power failure. The long run engineering application is then > suspended at a restart point and the system is shut down. We initiate > job completion manually from the suspension restart point after the > system has reliable power and is rebooted. > > If we wanted to protect our CentOS systems from facility power failure > in a similar way, is there operating system or other standard support > that we might employ? Most of the Linux-based applications are not as > critical as the engineering applications on the Windows machines. There > is a significant amount of processor idle time on several of the CentOS > systems during non-work hours when the systems are unattended. Several > CentOS systems are supported currently with UPSs, but they run out and > the system loses power if it is unattended. > ___ You didn't say what brand/model of UPS you are using so I can't be specific. Check with the manufacturer of your UPS to see if they have an application that can communicate power status with your CPU. Many UPS devices are capable of signaling power loss. The UPS can give you enough warning to initiate a graceful shutdown. For example APC brand UPS devices. Many of them can connect to the CPU through either Ethernet, USB, or serial cable so they can send the bad news that the power is going down soon. Check with your UPS manufacturer first. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] looking for graphing tools
Hey Fred, If you can organize your data into a spreadsheet you can use the built in graphing abilities of LibreOffice Calc. That should be sufficient for a limited use application like you are describing. I use LibreOffice Calc to make an hourly graph of my Internet upload and download speed performance. On 06/19/17 15:26, Fred Smith wrote: > Hi! > > I have bazillions of incoming (rejected) attempts to connect to my > SMTP server, and I'm interested in separating out those that seem > to come in huge bunches (e.g., the one from yesterday that ran for > about 10 hours and sent over 4100 attempts), and graphing them so > I can see the spacing and/or distribution in time. > > I can figure out some simple scripting to turn the maillog entries > into times since the epoch, or other formats, if needed, but I have > no experience with the various graphing tools availabe, or even > what (or where) they are. > > I'd appreciate pointers-and-or-advice, should any of you have any > such things to give. > > thanks in advance! > > Fred > -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Thunderbird Regression
Has anyone else noticed a 10X slowing of the time it takes Thunderbird to load an email that contains graphics on CentOS 6? The last Thunderbird update moved us from Thunderbird 45 to Thunderbird 52. While Thunderbird was loading the images the hard drive was busy cranking out seeks. I have all my local home accounts mounted on a software raid. I solved the problem with a downgrade to Thunderbird 45, but that's a poor solution not keeping Thunderbird up to date with the latest security patches. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] I'm making the change to a new OS
On 01/22/17 23:12, TE Dukes wrote:
> Decided to upgrade to 7.x.
>
> It's been a good ride 6.x, but you're living in the past.
>
> Everything is backed up, just waiting on my new 4TB HD to arrive for a fresh
> install.
>
> See ya'll on the other side!!
>
I just built a brand new Centos 7 machine for a friend this weekend. I
did a net install. All went well once I figured my way through the
installer. It took me a while to find the button that I need to click
to turn on the network connection.
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Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency python-yubico SOLVED
On 01/10/17 23:40, Ian Mortimer wrote: > On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 11:12 -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote: > >> Hey all, I'm trying to install the fedora-packager group so that I can >> build Fedora source packages into RPMs that I can install. I'm >> getting >> this error: >> >> Error: Package: fedora-packager-0.6.0.1-1.el6.noarch (epel) >>Requires: python-yubico > > It's a known bug: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1411027#c0 > > The python-yubico package is now in epel-testing so you should be able > to install it with: > >yum --enablerepo=epel-testing install fedora-packager > Thanks Ian. Worked slicker than a sidewalk in the freezing rain. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency python-yubico
On 01/10/17 13:12, Tony Schreiner wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Mark LaPierre <marklap...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hey all, I'm trying to install the fedora-packager group so that I can >> build Fedora source packages into RPMs that I can install. I'm getting >> this error: >> >> Error: Package: fedora-packager-0.6.0.1-1.el6.noarch (epel) >>Requires: python-yubico >> >> [root@peach ~]# yum install python-yubico >> >> No package python-yubico available. >> >> >> Do you suppose that maybe this is a typo where python-yubico was typed >> instead of python-yubikey? When I google for python-yubico Google >> suggests python-yubikey instead. But maybe not! RPM Search turns up >> python-yubico packages for Fedora 2[234] for x86_64, and CentOS 7.3 for >> x86_64 and finds no hits for python-yubikey. Maybe the fedora-packager >> group only works on CentOS 7? >> >> I'm so confused ;-) >> >> Does anyone have a suggestion for how I can solve this issue? Is there >> another way to build source packages into RPM packages that I can install? >> >> CentOS release 6.8 (Final) >> >> Linux peach.patch 2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 18 19:25:05 >> UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux >> >> -- >> _ >>°v° >> /(_)\ >>^ ^ Mark LaPierre >> Registered Linux user No #267004 >> https://linuxcounter.net/ >> >> > > This is more properly an EPEL question. But I am having the same issue. > > There seems to have been a small rash of package releases on EPEL 6 that > have requirements only satisfied by RHEL 7 and friends. > > I have to ask though. If you just want to rebuild Fedora RPMs for your > Centos, you do not need fedora-packager, you just need rpmbuild (in > rpm-build). > > Tony Schreiner Thanks Tony, I'll see if I can figure out how to build RPM packages from source packages without fedora-packager. I hope there's not a crap load of black art and fringe science involved. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Missing Dependency python-yubico
Hey all, I'm trying to install the fedora-packager group so that I can build Fedora source packages into RPMs that I can install. I'm getting this error: Error: Package: fedora-packager-0.6.0.1-1.el6.noarch (epel) Requires: python-yubico [root@peach ~]# yum install python-yubico No package python-yubico available. Do you suppose that maybe this is a typo where python-yubico was typed instead of python-yubikey? When I google for python-yubico Google suggests python-yubikey instead. But maybe not! RPM Search turns up python-yubico packages for Fedora 2[234] for x86_64, and CentOS 7.3 for x86_64 and finds no hits for python-yubikey. Maybe the fedora-packager group only works on CentOS 7? I'm so confused ;-) Does anyone have a suggestion for how I can solve this issue? Is there another way to build source packages into RPM packages that I can install? CentOS release 6.8 (Final) Linux peach.patch 2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 18 19:25:05 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Skype for Centos Desktop
On 11/17/16 22:23, geo wrote: > > > On 11/17/2016 07:47 PM, Peter wrote: >> On 18/11/16 11:01, Liam O'Toole wrote: >>> On 2016-11-17, Rodrigo Pichiñual Norin >>> <rodrigo.pichin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi all. >>>> >>>> I search info in the web about how to install skype on centos 6.5, but >>>> just exists info about skype with architecture to 32 bit. >>>> >>>> someone can me explicain, how to install skype for 64 bit architecture >>>> , it's possible? >>> >>> You can install and run 32-bit Skype on 64-bit CentOS 6. I recommended >>> the Nux repo[1] for convenience. The various 32-bit dependencies will be >>> installed by yum. >> >> The old 32 bit version in the Nux repo won't be working for much longer >> as skype is changing it's protocols. There is a new 64 bit alpha >> version you can get directly from skype that works: >>> > >> https://repo.skype.com/https://repo.skype.com/ > > bad link should be; > > https://repo.skype.com/ > >> The instructions for yum works, and after that just: >> yum install skypeforlinux >> >> Peter > > Your solution only works on CentOS 7. The OP is trying to install Skype on CentOS 6. The Skype package requires [root@peach ~]# yum install skypeforlinux Error: Package: skypeforlinux-1.12.0.4-1.x86_64 (skype-stable) Requires: libgnome-keyring [root@peach RPM_REPO]# yum install libgnome-keyring-3.8.0-3.el7.x86_64.rpm Error: libgnome-keyring conflicts with gnome-keyring-2.28.2-8.el6_3.x86_64 Error: libgnome-keyring conflicts with gnome-keyring-2.28.2-8.el6_3.i686 On CentOS 6 the package is named gnome-keyring. On CentOS 7 the package is named libgnome-keyring. libgnome-keyring is not available on CentOS 6 so the package will not install. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] xdgurl
On 10/20/16 07:06, James Pearson wrote: > Mark LaPierre wrote: >> Has anyone figured out how to make Firefox 45.4.0 on CentOS 6 use xdgurl >> to handle xdg:// URLs? >> >> Google is full of suggestions that don't work. When I select a an >> xdg:// link I don't get a dialog asking me what to do like Google says I >> will. Instead I get a message that says Firefox doesn't have a clue how >> to handle this URL. Do you want to try again? >> >> I tried about:config >> >> I added: >> >> network.protocol-handler.external.xdg user set string /usr/bin/zdgurl > > I don't think those types of prefs are used any more ? > > A lot of the information out there on adding protocol handlers to > Firefox on Linux is out of date or wrong ... > > A couple of ways that work for me (on CentOS 6, using Gnome) with > Firefox 45: > > 1. Create the file $HOME/.local/share/applications/xdg containing > > [Desktop Entry] > Name=xdg > Type=Application > Exec=/usr/bin/xdgurl %U > Terminal=false > MimeType=x-scheme-handler/xdg; > NoDisplay=true > > Then run: > > desktop-file-install $HOME/.local/share/applications/xdgdesktop \ > --rebuild-mime-info-cache --dir=$HOME/.local/share/applications > > Start firefox and browse to a xdg:// URL - it still prompts for the > application use the first time - but after that, it should work OK > > Note: I haven't actually done this for an 'xdg' protocol handler - but > it works for launching other apps using other custom protocol handlers > > 2. Set up a protocol handler in a central autoconfig 'mozilla.cfg' file > using Javascript - this is the method I use to automatically add a > protocol handler for all users (and doesn't require any user > intervention) - let me if you want more details about this method > > James Pearson Hey James, Thanks for the detailed response. Just a minor error. The file name must have a .desktop extension like this: 1. Create the file $HOME/.local/share/applications/xdg.desktop containing: [Desktop Entry] Name=xdg Type=Application Exec=/usr/bin/xdgurl %U Terminal=false MimeType=x-scheme-handler/xdg; NoDisplay=true Then run: desktop-file-install $HOME/.local/share/applications/xdg.desktop \ --rebuild-mime-info-cache --dir=$HOME/.local/share/applications I restarted Firefox then I went to visit: https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1157815/ I clicked on the [Install] button. I got the dialog box where I chose the handler /usr/bin/xdgurl I did not get the install dialog. In a shell: [mlapier@peach ~]$ which xdgurl /usr/bin/xdgurl [mlapier@peach ~]$ xdgurl "xdg://install?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdl.opendesktop.org%2Fapi%2Ffiles%2Fdownload%2Fid%2F1476439340%2Frmfixed.bdf=fonts=rmfixed.bdf" Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/xdgurl", line 21, in if sys.version_info.major >= 3: AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'major' [mlapier@peach ~]$ No joy, -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] xdgurl
Has anyone figured out how to make Firefox 45.4.0 on CentOS 6 use xdgurl to handle xdg:// URLs? Google is full of suggestions that don't work. When I select a an xdg:// link I don't get a dialog asking me what to do like Google says I will. Instead I get a message that says Firefox doesn't have a clue how to handle this URL. Do you want to try again? I tried about:config I added: network.protocol-handler.external.xdg user set string /usr/bin/zdgurl Still no joy. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Alternative GUI
On 09/28/16 19:25, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> I'm considering moving from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7. I'm not interested in
> dealing with Gnome 3. I've heard good things about Mate, a fork of
> Gnome 2. it appears that Mate is available in the EPEL repository
> associated with CentOS 7.
>
> Have any of you tried Mate on CentOS 7? In your experienced opinion
> what would I be giving up by abandoning Gnome 3 and installing Mate instead?
>
You know, after I posted the original question I thought, Oh No! I've
just started a flame war, but I'm glad to see that was not the case. It
appears that everyone who responded is in general agreement on the
subject. Greg Bailey even came up with a helpful hint on improving the
font rendering on the desktop.
Thank you all for your input.
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Re: [CentOS] No Sound On Centos 7 VM
On 09/29/16 19:04, Darr Darr wrote: > > > Try running > amixer set Master 100% > (which I found on linuxquestions.org at the 4th result down using > google.com/search?q=centos+7+sound+not+working+in+vm ) > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S5 Hey Darr Darr, Thank you for the response. Unfortunately there was no solution to my problem there. I have a Windows 7 guest with working sound. The CentOS 7 guest not so much. The host machine is CentOS 6. I'm using KVM. They were using vmware. I ran: [mlapier@peach ~]$ amixer set Master 100% Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 65536 Mono: Front Left: Playback 65536 [100%] [on] Front Right: Playback 65536 [100%] [on] [mlapier@peach ~]$ I set the KVM powered CentOS 7 guest to use the AC97 audio. Reboot, restart, no joy. The article seemed to suggest that they were trying to connect with a remote desktop. I'm not doing that either. I'm looking to get sound on the host machine from the guest machine. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Alternative GUI
Hey All, I'm considering moving from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7. I'm not interested in dealing with Gnome 3. I've heard good things about Mate, a fork of Gnome 2. it appears that Mate is available in the EPEL repository associated with CentOS 7. Have any of you tried Mate on CentOS 7? In your experienced opinion what would I be giving up by abandoning Gnome 3 and installing Mate instead? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] No Sound On Centos 7 VM
Hey All, I've installed CentOS 7 in a KVM powered VM on my CentOS 6 desktop. I'm not getting any sound. Google seams to have no clue what to do. How about you? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] HP CP2025
On 09/26/16 19:51, Rob Kampen wrote: > On 27/09/16 10:45, Kay Schenk wrote: >> >> >> On 09/25/2016 06:09 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: >>> >>> [mlapier@peach ~]$ rpm -qa | grep hplip >>> hplip-common-3.14.6-3.el6.x86_64 >>> hplip-libs-3.14.6-3.el6.x86_64 >>> [mlapier@peach ~]$ rpm -qa | grep cups >>> cups-1.4.2-74.el6.x86_64 >>> cups-pk-helper-0.0.4-13.el6.x86_64 >>> gutenprint-cups-5.2.5-2.el6.x86_64 >>> cups-libs-1.4.2-74.el6.x86_64 >>> cups-libs-1.4.2-74.el6.i686 >>> [mlapier@peach ~]$ >>> >>> CentOS release 6.8 (Final) >>> >>> I've been able to print to this printer with no issues, until this >>> evening. When I tried to send a print job the job just sat in the print >>> queue. I killed the job and deleted the printer, then re-installed the >>> printer using the Printer configuration tool found under >>> System/Administration/Printing. >> >> "until this evening"...so that's interesting. >> >> I'm also on CentOS 6.8 but 32-bit using the same hplip version. >> Normally I do printer setup with hp-setup, then use the web interface >> to cups to add it in to that environment. >> >> Also, add hp-systray to your startup apps if you haven't already. >> >> >>> >>> I've tried all manner of settings, both on the Libre Office document and >>> in the Printer configuration tool. Now I can print to the printer but I >>> cannot get the printer to print in Landscape orientation. Only portrait >>> orientation comes out no matter what settings I choose. >> >> Does portrait work with ANY other type of document -- pdf, for example? > I have a brother printer and from libre office it ONLY prints protrait, > no matter what I have tried. To get any landscape output I have to > create a pdf of the document and then print that. > No idea what the issue is, my suspicion is libre office has a glitch. >> >>> >>> I've done a bit of Google work but I find nothing that appears >>> applicable to my specific issue of not getting landscape prints no >>> matter what setting I choose. >> >>> >>> The HPLIP web site says the latest version of hplip for my machine, RHEL >>> 6 because they apparently have not heard of CentOS, is >>> hplip-3.16.9_rhel-6.0.x86_64. CentOS does not have this version >>> available in the repo. >>> >>> What's a guy to do? Windows should be this hard to work with, but not >>> Linux. >>> >> Very interesting. I have a 32 bit system on the network that can print the same document from Libre Office in landscape with no problem what so ever. My 64 bit machine does not want to hear it. I'll try printing to pdf then print that. I'll let you know what happens. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] HP CP2025
[mlapier@peach ~]$ rpm -qa | grep hplip hplip-common-3.14.6-3.el6.x86_64 hplip-libs-3.14.6-3.el6.x86_64 [mlapier@peach ~]$ rpm -qa | grep cups cups-1.4.2-74.el6.x86_64 cups-pk-helper-0.0.4-13.el6.x86_64 gutenprint-cups-5.2.5-2.el6.x86_64 cups-libs-1.4.2-74.el6.x86_64 cups-libs-1.4.2-74.el6.i686 [mlapier@peach ~]$ CentOS release 6.8 (Final) I've been able to print to this printer with no issues, until this evening. When I tried to send a print job the job just sat in the print queue. I killed the job and deleted the printer, then re-installed the printer using the Printer configuration tool found under System/Administration/Printing. I've tried all manner of settings, both on the Libre Office document and in the Printer configuration tool. Now I can print to the printer but I cannot get the printer to print in Landscape orientation. Only portrait orientation comes out no matter what settings I choose. I've done a bit of Google work but I find nothing that appears applicable to my specific issue of not getting landscape prints no matter what setting I choose. The HPLIP web site says the latest version of hplip for my machine, RHEL 6 because they apparently have not heard of CentOS, is hplip-3.16.9_rhel-6.0.x86_64. CentOS does not have this version available in the repo. What's a guy to do? Windows should be this hard to work with, but not Linux. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Use USB2.0 Camera with KVM based VM
Hey All, I've been googleing this issue for hours but I can't find a workable solution. I found a reply to a bug posting that said the USB hub on the VM defaults to USB 1.1. I see this is true when I lsusb on the CentOS 7 guest. The reply to the bug post went on to say that the problem is that the USB 2.0 camera will not work with the USB 1.1 default hub and that I should change the hub from USB 1.1 to USB 2.0. I see no way to do that. Can anyone shed some light on this? Is there a way to change the USB hub from USB 1.1 to USB 2.0 inside the VM Manager? Is there a better way to get my USB 2.0 web camera to appear in my CentOS 7 guest? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Install C7 VM on C6 Host
I had no real reason to doubt. I was just being lazy. I figured that, if anyone knew the correct answer, it you be the people on this list. Thank you for your gracious forbearance. On 06/21/16 20:01, Boris Epstein wrote: > I would think the same as Gordon that as long as your 64-bit VM > virtualization is running properly there should be no problem running C7 on > a VM running under C6. May I ask what the initial doubt was based upon? Has > anybody out there had such an issue before? > > Cheers, > > Boris. > > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Gordon Messmer <gordon.mess...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 06/21/2016 04:06 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: >> >>> Before I waste myself a bunch of time trying the impossible I figured I >>> would ask if I can install an instance of C7 in a KVM based VM on a C6 >>> host. >>> >> >> >> Yes. >> >> >> ___ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS@centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > _______ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Install C7 VM on C6 Host
Hey all, Before I waste myself a bunch of time trying the impossible I figured I would ask if I can install an instance of C7 in a KVM based VM on a C6 host. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] How bad is "rm -rf /" ?
On 02/05/16 14:55, Nathan Duehr wrote: > >> On Feb 2, 2016, at 17:57, Valeri Galtsev <galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: >> >> Dear All, >> >> Suppose I executed the command >> >> rm -rf / > > There was also this article recently that pointed out that if the box boots > via UEFI, you may brick the machine, depending on setup. > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=UEFI-rm-root-directory > > — > Nate So let me get this straight. You are saying that you can make changes to the MB ROM/EPROM/whatever hardware the vendor uses, by issuing an erase command on a hard drive? I'm having a bit of trouble believing that. You might be able to trash the system on the HD to a point that it is unrecoverable. I will believe that. When you're done trashing the system you just have to reinstall the system just like you would with a clean new HD. All that UEFI crap is built into the MB in Read Only hardware. A new HD does not come with any of the UEFI files or directories already on the disk. All that is created at the initial install. Blowing them away with a remove command does nothing to the MB hardware because it's Read Only hardware. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Latest version of kate editor
On 02/02/16 12:02, H wrote: > On 02/02/2016 03:50 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: >> On 02/02/2016 09:28 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: >>> CentOS is not a bleeding-edge distribution that constantly keeps >>> packages up to date with the upstream projects. If you want that, try >>> another distribution like Fedora. >> >> GNOME can get a rebase to a newer version, but KDE can't. this >> from a former KDE user who would love to go back to KDE but refuses to >> deal with the issues older versions have. >> >> This is, of course, an upstream issue and not a CentOS one, and I know >> that so I now use GNOME, even though it would be nice to see >> parity in the allowing of a rebase of KDE like the one for GNOME. >> >> >> >>> There is a 3rd-party repository that might have an upgraded KDE: >>> http://www.trinitydesktop.org/about.php >>> >> >> Trinity Desktop (TDE), is a fork of KDE 3.x, and not updated from >> that. So in ways it is older, yet newer. >> I use Eclipse. There are plug in extensions for pretty near any language you might favor. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Latest version of kate editor
On 02/01/16 14:20, Yamaban wrote: > On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 19:22, H <agents@...> wrote: > >> I have installed the kate editor on Centos 6.7 but it seems to be a >> very old version, 3.3.4, installed as part of kdesdk. On Centos 7 I >> can simply run 'yum install kate' but, alas, not on Centos 6. >> >> What is the recommended way of updating kate on Centos 6? >> >> Thank you. > > First you find out from wich package (rpm) your kate is. > > either you try to as yum: "yum search kate", > > or you do the full monty: > locate the binary "type kate", usually /usr/bin/kate, > then you ask rpm from which package this file comes: > "rpm -qf /usr/bin/kate" > take the main package name (the part before the version numbers) > and feed it to yum: > > yum update [kate-package-name] > > YMMV, depening on what repos you have enabled or not. > > You can search most of what is available via pkgs.org, > for kate, for example > > http://pkgs.org/search/kate > > then select "Centos 6" (maybe you have to scroll down for that) > > The EPEL repo seems to have version 0.3.8 of libkate at least. > > Have a nice week. > - Yamaban > _______ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > yum install kdesdk-4.3.4-9.el6.x86_64 -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] More Folding At Home
On 01/31/16 22:10, Fred Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 09:42:43PM -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote: >> On 12/30/15 23:03, Mark LaPierre wrote: >>> Hey Y'all, >>> >>> I have the Stanford University Folding At Home project running on three >>> of my machines. I had them all set up so that I could control them all >>> from my main machine, 192.168.15.101, but some time ago something >>> changed so that I can no longer connect to the FAH clients on the other >>> two machines. I figured it wasn't really important so I would look into >>> it later. Well time has passed and my Christmas break is almost passed >>> too to I guess this is the time to figure it out. >>> >>> I can still SSH onto both machines. I can ping both machines. >>> >>> When I open the FAH Control on my machine connection to clients running >>> on 192.168.15.105 and 192.168.15.107 fails. >>> >>> I'm assuming that there would be an entry in a log on those two machines >>> detailing the failed connection attempt. >>> >>> What log file should I be looking at? >>> >> >> Hey CentOS FAH team members. Do any of you have a GPU that is actually >> folding in CentOS 6? > > I tried GPU folding in Centos-6, but the FAH log file showed continuous > errors for the GPU (which was, at the time a Nvidia n460GTX). Inquiries > on the FAH forums indicated that there are library incompatibilities > on Centos-6 and that it would be difficult or impossible to make it > work. > > I eventually upgraded to Centos-7 and then easily got GPU folding to > work on the same video card without difficulty. > > FYI, I had previously (couple of years ago) attempted GPU folding on > C6 using a 9800GT, and was told (again, on the FAH forums) that that > GPU was no longer supported. I'd guess that your 9600GT is also too > old. > > Here's the FAH forum thread on that GPU compatibility issue: > https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=80=25284=252427=9800GT#p252427 > > I've recently replaced the 460GTX with a new 750ti card, and found > two amazing benefits: > 1. according to my KillaWatt meter, the computer's power draw dropped from > 275-295 watts to 190-195 watts, > 2. my PPD total per week has gone from around 200K to more like 400K. >In fact, the last 3 weeks have all been around 440K, some slightly >lower, some a little higher. > > The 750ti was a fairly cheap card, at $129. > >> If you do please tell me exactly what video card and what driver you are >> using? > > I'm using the Nvidia 340 driver from the elrepo repository. Be sure to > install the dkms package from epel before installing these nvidia drivers. > >> >> I have a GeForce 9600 GT card that will not fold. FAH finds the GPU and >> sets up a slot for it but it always says "Update Core" in the slot >> status field with zero progress. I'm not happy with that. > > See above for compatibility comments on this card. > Thanks for the input Fred. The GeForce 9600 GT is listed in the GPUs.txt file as of Jan 20. It should be compatible but I guess it won't work on C6 though. I'm not in any hurry to move to C7. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] More Folding At Home
On 12/30/15 23:03, Mark LaPierre wrote: > Hey Y'all, > > I have the Stanford University Folding At Home project running on three > of my machines. I had them all set up so that I could control them all > from my main machine, 192.168.15.101, but some time ago something > changed so that I can no longer connect to the FAH clients on the other > two machines. I figured it wasn't really important so I would look into > it later. Well time has passed and my Christmas break is almost passed > too to I guess this is the time to figure it out. > > I can still SSH onto both machines. I can ping both machines. > > When I open the FAH Control on my machine connection to clients running > on 192.168.15.105 and 192.168.15.107 fails. > > I'm assuming that there would be an entry in a log on those two machines > detailing the failed connection attempt. > > What log file should I be looking at? > Hey CentOS FAH team members. Do any of you have a GPU that is actually folding in CentOS 6? If you do please tell me exactly what video card and what driver you are using? I have a GeForce 9600 GT card that will not fold. FAH finds the GPU and sets up a slot for it but it always says "Update Core" in the slot status field with zero progress. I'm not happy with that. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent
On 01/24/16 03:16, ken wrote: > On 01/23/2016 06:20 PM, Alice Wonder wrote: >> Sometimes the direction of UI development in gnome really angers me. >> >> For example, when selecting a font for the gedit text editor - there is >> no way to ask it to only show monospace fonts. >> >> It's a fricken text editor, that should be the default - meaning you >> have to do something special to get fonts shown that aren't monospace. >> >> Seriously, who is in charge with the UI design in gnome? >> >> Whoever it is needs to be fired. >> >> /rant > > A long time ago there was a utility called something like xfontsel with > which you could toggle any of the some-two dozen properties of fonts, > e.g., you could filter out all italic fonts or show just the 12-pt > fonts. Yeah, it took ten minutes the first time to figure out how the > utility worked, but then you had a tool that worked, was effective and > streamlined, and you didn't even need a mouse to use. Just looking, I > didn't find it with yum, but it looks like it's still out there, albeit > a mousey version: http://linux.die.net/man/1/xfontsel > > I agree with others about the wayward tabletization of what's supposed > to be a productivity tool. Last month, the touch pad on a new laptop > getting in way of that productivity big time, I wrote in code on gnome's > website how much fun it wasn't-- i.e., how to disable the touch pad: > https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Playground/TouchPadPark Alice, maybe > you'd drop them a suggestion to include xfontsel, if you find it better > than their thinking, to replace the boffotude they're gifting us with. > > Since I'm in rant mode, who broke the code for 'whereis'? > > $ whereis xfontsel; echo We need a newline. > xfontsel:We need a newline. > $ > > New rule: No smoking the good stuff at work. > > [mlapier@peach /]$ yum whatprovides *xfontsel Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security Determining fastest mirrors xorg-x11-apps-7.7-6.el6.x86_64 : X.Org X11 applications Repo: base Matched from: Filename: /usr/bin/xfontsel Other : xfontsel -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent
On 01/23/16 18:20, Alice Wonder wrote: > Sometimes the direction of UI development in gnome really angers me. > > For example, when selecting a font for the gedit text editor - there is > no way to ask it to only show monospace fonts. > > It's a fricken text editor, that should be the default - meaning you > have to do something special to get fonts shown that aren't monospace. > > Seriously, who is in charge with the UI design in gnome? > > Whoever it is needs to be fired. > > /rant Oh I'm so with you on that. I'm good with the developers wanting to adapt to the current state of popular computing, the tablet, but they should be taking into account that not everyone is using one of those toys as their interface. Maybe they should develop a "desktop", maybe a User Interface would be a better name, for a tablet under some other name, maybe Gnome Tablet for example, that is configured specifically for a small screen with touch sensing abilities. A project fork. I'm forced to use MS Windows 7 at work. They have rolled in so much smart phone/tablet stuff that it makes the desktop even more of a pain to use than Windows XP was. Examples include, you can have your applications any color you want as long as it's gray, and you can no longer search for files by anything other than the file name. I didn't like Windows before and I like it even less now. The main reason I'm still using, nearly obsolete, CentOS 6 is because I don't want to have to deal with Gnome 3. I wish the Gnome developers would stop fixing things that are not broken for people who use real desktop computers to get their work done. Maybe part of the problem is that Fedora/Red Hat have not figured out that the OS should determine if the platform it's running on is a desktop or a phone/pad of some kind and then select a user interface appropriate to the platform. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Monitor Dummy Device
On 01/17/16 11:42, Joey wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> i want to use a Dual-Screen Solution without connected a second Monitor.
>
> Its a solution available, that a physical monitor/Device is simulated? I
> want to use it on KDE.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Joey
Hey Joey,
Does your current physical monitor support multiple connections? Most
modern monitors do. If it does then you can connect a second video
cable from your computer to your monitor. There you have it. A duel
monitor connection.
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Re: [CentOS] Yum Weird Message
On 12/28/15 15:24, Alice Wonder wrote: > I ran into this exact issue last night - > > http://www.iotti.biz/?p=433 > > When a computer is connected via IPv4 but the IPv4 a repo host connects > to is not available, yum then tries the IPv6 address and will fail with > a confusing message telling you it failed to connect to the IPv6 address. > > I don't know if there is a way for yum to figure out whether the current > network connection to the Internet is IPv4 or IPv6. > > But if there is a way, it might make a usability improvement. A lot of > people have no idea what IPv6 is and would be confused. > > I was confused myself at first, wondering if DHCP pulled in IPv6 from > the router. > Funny that you should say that. IPv6 is celebrating it's 20th birthday. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum Weird Message
On 12/28/15 22:38, Always Learning wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-12-28 at 19:23 -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote: > >> The place to complain about this is the Fedora list since what CentOS >> has comes from them by way of RHEL. They, Fedora, are not apt to pay >> you any mind because they have already abandoned yum and are going >> with a new package manager named dnf soon to be appearing in a system >> near you. > > DNF is a stupid name. The Feds could have called it yum2 - K.I.S.S. > > Well thank God, and Linus, for symbolic links. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Folding At Home
Hey Y'all, I have the Stanford University Folding At Home project running on three of my machines. I had them all set up so that I could control them all from my main machine, 192.168.15.101, but some time ago something changed so that I can no longer connect to the FAH clients on the other two machines. I figured it wasn't really important so I would look into it later. Well time has passed and my Christmas break is almost passed too to I guess this is the time to figure it out. I can still SSH onto both machines. I can ping both machines. When I open the FAH Control on my machine connection to clients running on 192.168.15.105 and 192.168.15.107 fails. I'm assuming that there would be an entry in a log on those two machines detailing the failed connection attempt. What log file should I be looking at? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum Weird Message
On 12/28/15 17:16, Alice Wonder wrote: > > > On 12/28/2015 02:10 PM, Marcelo Roccasalva wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Alice Wonder <al...@domblogger.net> >> wrote: >>> >>> I ran into this exact issue last night - >>> >>> http://www.iotti.biz/?p=433 >>> >>> When a computer is connected via IPv4 but the IPv4 a repo host >>> connects to is not available, yum then tries the IPv6 address and >>> will fail with a confusing message telling you it failed to connect >>> to the IPv6 address. >>> >>> I don't know if there is a way for yum to figure out whether the >>> current network connection to the Internet is IPv4 or IPv6. >>> >>> But if there is a way, it might make a usability improvement. A lot >>> of people have no idea what IPv6 is and would be confused. >>> >>> I was confused myself at first, wondering if DHCP pulled in IPv6 from >>> the router. >> >> If your DNS answers IPv6, it will have prefence over IPv4. You can set >> ip_resolve=4 in your yum.conf >> > > The issue is the yum server was down, so IPv4 didn't work. > > Once that server was back up (third party repo) it of course worked no > issue. > > The issue is the error message, while a technically correct one, is one > that is not very user friendly and can be confusing to people who are > not dual-stack. > > It could be improved. > The place to complain about this is the Fedora list since what CentOS has comes from them by way of RHEL. They, Fedora, are not apt to pay you any mind because they have already abandoned yum and are going with a new package manager named dnf soon to be appearing in a system near you. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Disaster recovery recommendations
On 10/31/15 15:17, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Fri, October 30, 2015 9:31 pm, Mark LaPierre wrote: >> On 10/30/15 17:30, Max Pyziur wrote: >>> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> I have three drives; they are all SATA Seagate Barracudas; two are >>> 500GB; the third is a 2TB. >>> >>> I don't have a clear reason why they have failed (possibly due to a >>> deep, off-brand, flakey mobo; but it's still inconclusive, but I would >>> like to find a disaster recovery service that can hopefully recover the >>> data. >>> >>> Much thanks for any and all suggestions, >>> >>> Max Pyziur >>> p...@brama.com >> >> If you can get them mounted on a different machine, other than the one >> with the problem mother board, then I suggest giving SpinRite a try. >> >> https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm > > I listened to guy's video. Pretty much sounds like what command line utility > > badblocks > > does. The only viable I hear is its latest addition when this utility > flips all bits and writes into the same location. In fact it is anything > (containing both 0's and 1's) that is to be written to the sector, then on > write the drive firmware kicks in as the drive itself on write operation > reads written sector and compared to what was sent to it and if it differs > it labels sector, or rather block I used wrong term just after this guy as > I was listening while typing. Anyway this forces discovery and > re-allocation of bad blocks. Otherwise bad blocks are discovered on some > read operation, if CRC (cyclic redundancy check sum) on read doesn't > match, the firmware reads the block many times and superimposes the read > results, if it finally gets CRC match it happily writes what it came with > to the bad block relocation area, and adds block to bad block > re-allocation table. After some number of reads if firmware doesn't come > up with CRC match it gives up, writes whatever superimposed data is. So > these data are under suspicion as even CRC match doesn't mean the data is > correct. This is why there are filesytems (ZFS to name one) that store > really sophisticated checksums for each of files. > > Two things can be mentioned here. > > 1. If you notice that sometimes the machine (I/O actually) freezes on > access of some file(s), it most likely means the drive firmware is > struggling to do its magic on recovery of content and re-allocation of > newly discovered bad blocks. Time to check and maybe replace the drive. > > 2. Hardware RAIDs (and probably software RAIDs - someone chime in, I'm > staying away from software RAIDs) have the ability to schedule "verify" > task. This basically goes over all sectors (or blocks) of all drives thus: > a. forcing drive firmware to discover newly developed bad blocks; b. as > drives when working on badblock will often time out, then RAID firmware > will kick this drive out, and will start rebuilding RAID, thus re-writing > content of bad block on the drive developed bad block. In this case the > information comes from good drives, thus less likely to be corrupted. What > I described is best case scenario, not always drive will time out... so > even hardware RAIDS are prone to actual data corruption, Bottom line, it > is good to migrate to something like ZFS. > > Thanks. > Valeri > >> >> It's inexpensive which makes it a low risk and not much of a loss if it >> doesn't work. >> >> Also consider this a lesson learned. The cost of a second low capacity >> machine, including the electric bill to run it, is insignificant >> compared to paying for data recovery. >> >> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7841915=J001-10169 >> >> If you insist on keeping personal control of your data, like I do, then >> that is the best way to go about it. Use the second machine as your >> backup. Set it up as a NAS device and use rsync to keep your data >> backed up. If you're paranoid you could even locate the old clunker off >> site at a family/friend's home and connect to it using ssh over the >> internet. >> >> Your other option is to use a cloud storage service of some kind. Be >> sure to encrypt anything you store on the cloud on your machine first, >> before you send it to the cloud, so that your data will be secure even >> if someone hacks your cloud service. There's another drawback to using >> a cloud as your backup. The risk is small, but you do have to realize >> that the cloud could blow away along with your data. It's happened >> before. >> >> -- >> _ >>
Re: [CentOS] Disaster recovery recommendations
On 10/30/15 17:30, Max Pyziur wrote: > > Greetings, > > I have three drives; they are all SATA Seagate Barracudas; two are > 500GB; the third is a 2TB. > > I don't have a clear reason why they have failed (possibly due to a > deep, off-brand, flakey mobo; but it's still inconclusive, but I would > like to find a disaster recovery service that can hopefully recover the > data. > > Much thanks for any and all suggestions, > > Max Pyziur > p...@brama.com If you can get them mounted on a different machine, other than the one with the problem mother board, then I suggest giving SpinRite a try. https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm It's inexpensive which makes it a low risk and not much of a loss if it doesn't work. Also consider this a lesson learned. The cost of a second low capacity machine, including the electric bill to run it, is insignificant compared to paying for data recovery. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7841915=J001-10169 If you insist on keeping personal control of your data, like I do, then that is the best way to go about it. Use the second machine as your backup. Set it up as a NAS device and use rsync to keep your data backed up. If you're paranoid you could even locate the old clunker off site at a family/friend's home and connect to it using ssh over the internet. Your other option is to use a cloud storage service of some kind. Be sure to encrypt anything you store on the cloud on your machine first, before you send it to the cloud, so that your data will be secure even if someone hacks your cloud service. There's another drawback to using a cloud as your backup. The risk is small, but you do have to realize that the cloud could blow away along with your data. It's happened before. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Host does not respond to nmap
Hey Y'all, I just set up a new old machine on my network. I did a net install of CentOS 6.7 on it replacing an outdated copy of Win XP. Of course I'm now in the throws of configuring the machine to be a useful member of society. [mlapier@peach ~]$ nmap -sn 192.168.15.0/24 Starting Nmap 5.51 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2015-08-23 20:12 EDT Nmap scan report for 192.168.15.1 Host is up (0.00043s latency). Nmap scan report for 192.168.15.100 Host is up (0.00014s latency). Nmap scan report for 192.168.15.101 Host is up (0.00065s latency). Nmap scan report for 192.168.15.104 Host is up (0.00017s latency). Nmap scan report for mushroom.patch (192.168.15.105) Host is up (0.00015s latency). Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (5 hosts up) scanned in 15.30 seconds [mlapier@peach ~]$ ping -c 1 192.168.15.107 PING 192.168.15.107 (192.168.15.107) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.15.107: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.175 ms --- 192.168.15.107 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.175/0.175/0.175/0.000 ms [mlapier@peach ~]$ I can ssh onto 192.168.15.107 too. I spent a good part of the day trying to connect the FAHControl on my machine to the Folding@Home client on 192.168.15.107 without success. Maybe the reason why 192.168.15.107 does not appear on the nmap output has something to do with my lack of success connecting the control to the client. Maybe not. I'm not having any problem connecting to the FAH client on 192.168.15.105 from my machine. I even copied the FAH configuration file from 192.168.15.105 to 192.168.15.107 and then restarted the client. Still no joy in Mudville. I figure I should quit while I'm behind. Anyone have any suggestions? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Host does not respond to nmap [SOLVED]
On 08/23/15 20:46, Valeri Galtsev wrote: On Sun, August 23, 2015 7:34 pm, Mark LaPierre wrote: Hey Y'all, I just set up a new old machine on my network. I did a net install of CentOS 6.7 on it replacing an outdated copy of Win XP. Of course I'm now in the throws of configuring the machine to be a useful member of society. [mlapier@peach ~]$ nmap -sn 192.168.15.0/24 Starting Nmap 5.51 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2015-08-23 20:12 EDT Nmap scan report for 192.168.15.1 Host is up (0.00043s latency). Nmap scan report for 192.168.15.100 Host is up (0.00014s latency). Nmap scan report for 192.168.15.101 Host is up (0.00065s latency). Nmap scan report for 192.168.15.104 Host is up (0.00017s latency). Nmap scan report for mushroom.patch (192.168.15.105) Host is up (0.00015s latency). Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (5 hosts up) scanned in 15.30 seconds [mlapier@peach ~]$ ping -c 1 192.168.15.107 PING 192.168.15.107 (192.168.15.107) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.15.107: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.175 ms --- 192.168.15.107 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.175/0.175/0.175/0.000 ms [mlapier@peach ~]$ I can ssh onto 192.168.15.107 too. I spent a good part of the day trying to connect the FAHControl on my machine to the Folding@Home client on 192.168.15.107 without success. Maybe the reason why 192.168.15.107 does not appear on the nmap output has something to do with my lack of success connecting the control to the client. Maybe not. I'm not having any problem connecting to the FAH client on 192.168.15.105 from my machine. I even copied the FAH configuration file from 192.168.15.105 to 192.168.15.107 and then restarted the client. Still no joy in Mudville. I figure I should quit while I'm behind. Anyone have any suggestions? Do you have shell on the machine in question? If yes, /sbin/ifconfig -a /sbin/route /bin/netstat -nap --inet may help. (I'm sure you turned off firewall: /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables stop ). Valeri I already tried all the items on your list plus a few others with one exception. Duhh. Now I'm feeling like and idiot. I'm sure you turned off firewall: NOT. I guess tomorrow I've got some iptables rules to write. For now turning off iptables fixed the issue. I can connect to the FAH client and the machine appears in the nmap report. I just checked 192.168.15.105 and found that iptables is turned off there too. Thank you so much for the brain reset. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Skype Issue(SOLVED)
On 08/12/15 20:14, Mark LaPierre wrote: Hey Y'all, Seems my Skype installation has stopped working. I have skype-4.3.0.37-2.el6.i686.rpm from the Nux repo. [mlapier@peach ~]$ skype %U (unknown:27070): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: clearlooks, Gtk-Message: Failed to load module canberra-gtk-module Gtk-Message: Failed to load module pk-gtk-module I checked the yum log. Other than the 6.7 upgrade these are all the transactions I see. Aug 09 20:32:28 Updated: firefox-38.1.1-1.el6.centos.x86_64 Aug 11 20:58:39 Updated: firefox-38.2.0-4.el6.centos.x86_64 Aug 11 20:58:40 Updated: flash-plugin-11.2.202.508-release.x86_64 Aug 11 20:58:49 Updated: google-chrome-stable-44.0.2403.155-1.x86_64 Aug 12 17:29:49 Installed: opus-1.1-1.el6.x86_64 The issue did not begin with the 6.7 upgrade. Does anyone have any idea how to fix the issue? Hey All, It was late last night when I figured it out. I would have written about it then but I needed to go to bed. 5:30 comes quickly. What I did was to enable the nux-dextop repo and run yum install skype. This is the relevant section of the yum log. Aug 12 17:29:49 Installed: opus-1.1-1.el6.x86_64 Aug 12 22:40:19 Installed: libtool-ltdl-2.2.6-15.5.el6.i686 Aug 12 22:40:19 Installed: libtdb-1.2.10-1.el6.i686 Aug 12 22:40:20 Installed: libcanberra-0.22-1.el6.centos.i686 Aug 12 22:40:20 Installed: libcanberra-gtk2-0.22-1.el6.centos.i686 Aug 12 22:40:21 Installed: gtk2-engines-2.18.4-5.el6.centos.i686 Aug 12 22:40:21 Installed: PackageKit-gtk-module-0.5.8-25.el6.i686 Aug 12 22:40:21 Installed: libv4l-0.6.3-2.el6.i686 Aug 12 22:40:23 Updated: skype-4.3.0.37-2.el6.nux.i586 Thank you for your thoughtful reply Jonathan. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Skype Issue
Hey Y'all, Seems my Skype installation has stopped working. I have skype-4.3.0.37-2.el6.i686.rpm from the Nux repo. [mlapier@peach ~]$ skype %U (unknown:27070): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: clearlooks, Gtk-Message: Failed to load module canberra-gtk-module Gtk-Message: Failed to load module pk-gtk-module I checked the yum log. Other than the 6.7 upgrade these are all the transactions I see. Aug 09 20:32:28 Updated: firefox-38.1.1-1.el6.centos.x86_64 Aug 11 20:58:39 Updated: firefox-38.2.0-4.el6.centos.x86_64 Aug 11 20:58:40 Updated: flash-plugin-11.2.202.508-release.x86_64 Aug 11 20:58:49 Updated: google-chrome-stable-44.0.2403.155-1.x86_64 Aug 12 17:29:49 Installed: opus-1.1-1.el6.x86_64 The issue did not begin with the 6.7 upgrade. Does anyone have any idea how to fix the issue? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Anyone else think the latest Xorg fix is hogging stuff?
On 06/27/15 17:05, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: Since the latest update (may wrap here), xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.15.0-26.el6.centos.0.1.x86_64 Sat 20 Jun 2015 04:16:01 PM EDT xorg-x11-server-common-1.15.0-26.el6.centos.0.1.x86_64 Sat 20 Jun 2015 04:15:58 PM EDT x264-0.0.0-0.4.2010.el6.rf.x86_64 Wed 19 Nov 2014 04:56:05 PM EST xvidcore-1.2.2-1.el6.rf.x86_64Wed 19 Nov 2014 04:55:49 PM EST . . . drop a lot of older stable stuff ... Xorg is competing heavily with FF for top hog on my system. In FF I understand because I had multiple windows (6 desktops) with many tabs. I know this would theoretically increase Xorg work as well but prior to this update I seldom saw it near the top of top PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 4055 hardtolo 20 0 2165m 945m 49m R 95.9 12.0 3724:26 firefox 3119 root 20 0 276m 121m 34m S 34.0 1.6 2228:58 Xorg 15645 hardtolo 20 0 6163m 350m 26m S 10.6 4.5 181:50.51 java 5663 hardtolo 20 0 1557m 202m 24m S 9.6 2.6 294:53.69 plugin-containe 27871 hardtolo 20 0 1957m 520m 88m S 7.6 6.6 456:54.44 soffice.bin 18245 hardtolo 20 0 6228m 356m 26m S 7.3 4.5 112:09.55 java 14349 hardtolo 20 0 6228m 345m 26m S 5.3 4.4 143:59.97 java 9164 root 20 0 197m 51m 12m S 3.3 0.7 14:14.06 Xorg 4152 hardtolo 20 0 915m 28m 20m S 1.7 0.4 182:27.00 knotify4 27 root 20 0 000 S 1.0 0.0 28:58.96 events/0 12581 wild-bil 20 0 302m 14m 9.9m S 1.0 0.2 0:02.43 gnome-terminal 26741 hardtolo 20 0 15300 1420 892 S 1.0 0.0 0:02.47 top Anyone else pound the crap out of a desktop with FF and see Xorg getting fat? TIA for any clues or response. Bill Here's what I see with three FF sessions running at the same time: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 2631 fahclien 39 19 832m 530m 3012 S 637.9 1.7 311:40.44 FahCore_a4 4236 mlapier 20 0 2530m 1.4g 42m R 83.7 4.6 2:50.27 firefox 2823 root 20 0 163m 42m 17m S 19.9 0.1 1:31.18 Xorg 3429 mlapier 20 0 625m 158m 39m S 2.3 0.5 1:06.08 skype -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] installing Centos Question
On 06/23/15 01:14, michael wright wrote: Hi just partition my harddrive to 2GB was not sure how many Mb or Gb centos runs can someone help me please that’s all I need to know mike ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos This is what I've got on my desktop, excluding home and virtual images [mlapier@peach ~]$ df -B G Filesystem 1G-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_peach-lv_root 50G9G 38G 19% / tmpfs 16G1G 16G 1% /dev/shm /dev/sde1 1G1G1G 39% /boot -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Recording piano and voice
On 06/22/15 19:20, Frank Cox wrote: The last time I wanted to record a voice announcement on my computer was a few years back, and as I recall I hooked up my Microsoft Lifechat headset and used Audacity to do the recording. Now I want to record a recitation, which consists of me playing my piano and talking over it. I have a Casio CDP-230 digital piano but I've never tried hooking it up to my computer and making a recording. It does have a USB midi port on it, but I've never used it. Has anyone else done something like this? I'm wondering what the easiest way to simultaneously record from a microphone and a digital piano would be. 1.) You can record the MIDI output with a program called MuseScore. MuseScore can then export the file in MP3 format which you can import into Audacity. Piano part done. 2.) Then record the voice part into Audacity on a separate track from a USB microphone plugged into your computer. Voice part done. 3.) Edit and mix the two tracks to your heart's delight with Audacity. Project done. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: default password for HP printer
On 06/22/15 17:22, ken wrote: On 06/22/2015 05:14 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 03:52:17PM -0400, ken wrote: On 06/22/2015 02:51 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 02:30:00PM -0400, ken wrote: On 06/22/2015 12:43 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 11:31:34AM -0400, ken wrote: For some reason the tech support people at Hewlett-Packard don't know what the default password is to access their printer's embedded web server (EWS). I got it myself from the installation manual six months ago and immediately set my own password which I have used since then, so I no longer remember what the default is. (It's really a longer story than that, but) So I was just hoping that someone here might know what that default password is. Mine is an Officejet Pro 8620, but perhaps some other, recent HP printer default password would work. (Yes, I've already tried various versions of admin, an empty password, and others, but just not anything which has worked.) Judging from this thread, there may not be one. if you got it from the manual, six months ago, have you looked there again to find out what it is, so you could try it now? Fred, really? If that were an option for me, don't you think I would have done that? You didn't mention whether you had or not, and I know that's the kind of silly mistake some people make (like, e.g., me) so I didn't see the harm in asking. the answer is probably going to turn out to be something alarmingly silly (it just has that feel to it), so what's the harm of a silly suggestion? No harm. That suggestion just seemed very patronizing, something someone would say to someone five years old. I've already gotten five hours of that and the most idiotic and absurd comments and suggestions from HP's tech support. True, I didn't mention that the manual's gone missing. But I thought that fact would be obvious and not in need of explaining. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Another maybe stupid suggestion, but have you tried downloading the manual from the HP support server? I just did and the only password that it mentions is the wireless network password that it says is available on the control panel of the printer. The manual does say that a password might be required to access the EWS if the wireless security feature is turned on. Maybe it's the wireless password accessible through the control panel? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] KVM Mail List?
Hey All, Is there a mail list dedicated to KVM questions? If there is I would like to avoid polluting this mail list with a bunch of KVM performance questions that should be posted elsewhere. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Resize KVM NTFS file system[SOLVED]
On 06/09/15 15:41, John R Pierce wrote: On 6/9/2015 12:33 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: Listen, it's far simpler than that. Call Microsoft and tell them that you resized a file system with a third party tool and now your file system is corrupt and you'd like them to support you. Await the click and awkward silence. hey, I'd hang up, too. I don't trust in-place partition shrinking, no matter WHAT the software. my preferred method of resizing NTFS is to use Acronis TrueImage or another similar backup tool to make a complete file system image of the partitions of the disk onto external media, then repartition the disk and restore that image to new smaller partitions. If anything goes wrong like a system crash, power fail, etc during the first step, nothing is lost, just redo it. and if something goes wrong during the 2nd step, well, you have that full backup, you can restore it again. Hey All, Thank you all so much for your help. Many suggested the MS tools. I tried those tools before turning to you all for help. The MS tools complained about trying to expand the active file system. It appears that the tools on Win7 Pro can not expand the active system file system. I tried both the GUI version where you right click on the file system and choose expand, and the command line diskpart command. I used: kpartx -av my.img to mount my image file ntfsresize -P --force --force /dev/mapper/loop0p2 to resize the file system to fit the previously expanded partition. Widows ran a file system check, booted up, and now reports a 50GB partition. I'm happy, and Windows is happy. Now I can proceed to install a bunch of software on the newly expanded file system. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Resize KVM NTFS file system
Hey all, I resized a partition inside a KVM RAW file system disk image. When I start the Win7 virtual machine it does not report the new partition size. It shows the file system as 15GB instead of the 50GB size of the partition that it lives on. I gather from hours so reading the manual that I need to increase the NTFS file system size to fill the new larger partition where it lives. The ntfresize command does not seem to be compatible with disk image files. Do I have to mount the disk image file with a loopback first? I tried doing it inside the Win7 VM using the disk management tools but that didn't work either. Any suggestions welcome. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Folding At Home OT
On 04/22/15 21:05, Mark LaPierre wrote: Can someone recommend a good video card to use with CentOS 6.6 that has a GPU, or two, or more, that will work with the Folding At Home project. I built a killer machine primarily for contributing to the FAH effort but the video card, NVIDIA Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT], I had on hand is not getting any assignments. I'm using the proprietary NVIDIA driver. I've got a pcie 16X socket to plug it into. The underwelming response to my question leaves me wondering: Am I to gather that there are no CentOS FAH users here? or Am I to understand that none of the CentOS FAH users have a GPU that works with FAH? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Folding At Home OT
On 04/27/15 19:24, Fred Smith wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 06:51:31PM -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote: On 04/22/15 21:05, Mark LaPierre wrote: Can someone recommend a good video card to use with CentOS 6.6 that has a GPU, or two, or more, that will work with the Folding At Home project. I built a killer machine primarily for contributing to the FAH effort but the video card, NVIDIA Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT], I had on hand is not getting any assignments. I'm using the proprietary NVIDIA driver. I've got a pcie 16X socket to plug it into. The underwelming response to my question leaves me wondering: Am I to gather that there are no CentOS FAH users here? or Am I to understand that none of the CentOS FAH users have a GPU that works with FAH? Yes, I'm a Centos Folder. I'm one of 3 or 4 currently active on Team Centos However, I've been unable to get GPU folding working, so I just dedicate all six cores to it. You may want to ask your original question on the forums at the FAH site, also. Fred Hey Fred, Thanks for the tip. I googled the FAH Hardware Forum. They recommend the NVIDIA 970 or 960 as their first choice. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] google-earth crashes on CentOS 6.6
On 04/25/15 00:50, Mark LaPierre wrote: Hey all, With google-earth-stable.x86_64 0:7.1.2.2041-0 [mlapier@peach /]$ /usr/bin/google-earth [0425/000212:ERROR:net_util.cc(2195)] Not implemented reached in bool net::HaveOnlyLoopbackAddresses() Failed to load /opt/google/earth/free/libinput_plugin.so because /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by ./libLeap.so) [0425/000213:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler. [0425/000213:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler. SNIP Another crash happened while handling crash! [mlapier@peach /]$ NOTE: google-earth-stable.x86_64 0:7.1.2.2041-0 was running on my system a couple of weeks ago. With google-earth-stable.x86_64 0:6.0.3.2197-0 [mlapier@peach ~]$ /usr/bin/google-earth libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast [mlapier@peach ~]$ NOTE: GE starts and runs but there is no Earth in GE, just a black box. Googling gets me no useful answers. Do any of you CentOD 6.6 users have GE operating on your system? If so, what version are you using? Hey, I just discovered that google-earth-stable.x86_64 0:7.1.2.2041-0 starts and runs if you just keep trying. Eventually it manages to avoid Another crash happened while handling crash!. That doesn't mean it's fixed though. [mlapier@peach /]$ /opt/google/earth/free/google-earth %f [0425/005314:ERROR:net_util.cc(2195)] Not implemented reached in bool net::HaveOnlyLoopbackAddresses() Failed to load /opt/google/earth/free/libinput_plugin.so because /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by ./libLeap.so) [0425/005314:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler. [0425/005314:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler. [0425/005314:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler. SNIP -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] google-earth crashes on CentOS 6.6
Hey all, With google-earth-stable.x86_64 0:7.1.2.2041-0 [mlapier@peach /]$ /usr/bin/google-earth [0425/000212:ERROR:net_util.cc(2195)] Not implemented reached in bool net::HaveOnlyLoopbackAddresses() Failed to load /opt/google/earth/free/libinput_plugin.so because /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by ./libLeap.so) [0425/000213:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler. [0425/000213:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(581)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler. SNIP Another crash happened while handling crash! [mlapier@peach /]$ NOTE: google-earth-stable.x86_64 0:7.1.2.2041-0 was running on my system a couple of weeks ago. With google-earth-stable.x86_64 0:6.0.3.2197-0 [mlapier@peach ~]$ /usr/bin/google-earth libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast [mlapier@peach ~]$ NOTE: GE starts and runs but there is no Earth in GE, just a black box. Googling gets me no useful answers. Do any of you CentOD 6.6 users have GE operating on your system? If so, what version are you using? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] This last week in CentOS
On 04/22/15 06:44, Karanbir Singh wrote: Hi, This is a summary of some of the major things going on in the project, its not a comprehensive list, but should cover most of the major traction points: Firstly, lets all welcome Brian Stinson to the fold ( http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2015-April/013211.html ) -- Updates for CentOS 5/6/7 : All updates from upstream are released into the CentOS Linux mirror network. -- * Moving towards Signed Metadata ( ref: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2015-April/013210.html ) * Building a downstream CentOS based Atomic Host ( ref: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2015-April/013209.html ) -- Other interesting things: * The CentOS Mini Dojo in Bangalore April 2015 : http://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/Bangalore2015 * Fabian was speaking at Loadays a few weekends back and did a great session on Installing CentOS, Slides from his presentation are available here : http://people.centos.org/arrfab/Events/Loadays-2015/CentOS%20Install%20method%20review.pdf * CentOS Project is participating in the Google Summer of Code for the first time this year, and we have been allocated 7 slots for projects. There are some very interesting projects in the pipeline. The landing page for the ideas is at http://wiki.centos.org/GSoC/2015/Ideas - and conversation around this has been taking place in both centos-devel list and the gsoc list ( http://lists.centos.org/ ) -- Finally, I am going to try and run this weekly with a few notes from various places. Any and all help is appreciated. You can send me news to post in this at kbsingh _ centos.org. Hey Karanbir, Thanks for taking on this task. I weekly commitment to a news letter takes a significant amount of time and talent. Good on you mate! -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] SIG - Hardening
On 04/22/15 01:13, Earl A Ramirez wrote: Dear All, About a week ago; I posted a proposal over on the centos-devel mailing list, the proposal is for a SIG 'CentOS hardening', there were a few of the members of the community who are also interested in this. Therefore, I am extending that email to this community; where there is a larger community. Some things that we will like to achieve are as follows: SSH: disable root (uncomment 'PermitRootLogin' and change to no) enable 'strictMode' modify 'MaxAuthTries' modify 'ClientAliveInterval' modify 'ClientAliveCountMax' Gnome: disable Gnome user list Console: Remove reboot, halt poweroff from /etc/security/console.app Applying security best practises from various compliance perspective, e.g. STIG, SOX, PCI etc... We may also use NSA RHEL 5 secure configuration guide to get some insight or use it as a baseline. The members of the community who are interested in this SIG or are willing to contribute are: Leam Hall Corey Henderson Jason Pyeron You can find the post here [0] We will really like to get SIG approved by the CentOS board so if anyone is interested or willing to contribute we will be happy to have you onboard. [0] http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2015-April/013197.html These are all wicked good ideas for machines connected to the internet. I hope you also plan on making it easy to turn off these otherwise useful features for systems with no exposure to the internet. Don't make it difficult/impossible to use rsync to back up between machines on the local intranet. Rsync has to run as root to access and maintain correct file ownership and permissions. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Preferred partition type for raid 5
Hey All, I my research I came across a note that a specific partition type was preferable when creating a raid 5 array. I installed my HDs and used mdadm to assemble them into a raid 5 array. I then partitioned the array using gdisk. The default partition type is 8300 Linux filesystem for the two partitions that I created. The article I read said that a specific partition type was preferred to avoid issues if the array was to be moved to another machine. Now I can't find where I read that. What is the preferred partition type that I should use for my partitions? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Preferred partition type for raid 5 (SOLVED)
On 04/19/15 20:05, Ian Pilcher wrote: On 04/19/2015 06:36 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: What is the preferred partition type that I should use for my partitions? The preferred partition type is 0xfd, but that ONLY when building a RAID array from partitions. When building an array from whole disks (as you've done), the partition types on top of the array should reflect the contents of those partitions, so what you've got is correct. I found the item I was looking for: https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Partition_Types (From the mdadm 2.6.8 man-page) When creating partition-based arrays using mdadm and version-1.x superblocks, the partition type should be set to 0xDA (non fs-data). This type selection allows for greater precision since using any other type [RAID auto-detect (0xFD) or a GNU/Linux partition (0x83)], might create problems in the event of array recovery through a live cdrom. Since I'm not building an array from previously established partitions this does not apply. Thanks for confirming what I just found. I love it when a plan comes together. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Slow Printing HP-2025dn
Hey All, You know how sometimes you have a problem but you just live with it? Well I've got one of those problems. I have an HP-2025dn printer connected to my home network. When I print a plain text document containing the text, this is a test, from my wife's Windows 7 machine using the text editor the print job finishes in less than 15 seconds. If I print two copies the second copy comes out so quickly after the first that the first one hasn't time enough to settle in the output tray before the next copy is already exiting the printer output slot. When I try to print from either my 32 bit or 64 bit Centos 6.6 machines it takes two minutes and 30 seconds, 2:30, to print the first copy and 2:15 to print the second copy. Again this is just a plain text message containing the words, this is a test, printed from gedit. I've just been living with this for a while now but tonight I got out the stop watch and tried to fix this issue. [mlapier@peach ~]$ rpm -qa | grep ^hp hplip-common-3.12.4-6.el6.x86_64 hpijs-3.12.4-6.el6.x86_64 hplip-libs-3.12.4-6.el6.x86_64 [mlapier@peach ~]$ [mlapier@peach ~]$ rpm -qa | grep ^cup cups-pk-helper-0.0.4-12.el6.x86_64 cups-1.4.2-67.el6.x86_64 cups-libs-1.4.2-67.el6.i686 cups-libs-1.4.2-67.el6.x86_64 [mlapier@peach ~]$ When I select the option to combine multiple copies into one print job when printing from LibreOffice I always get multiple print jobs. I'm not offered that option when printing multiple copies from gedit so I can't speak to that. I do get multiple print jobs from gedit too. I did some googling but found nothing Linux related but I did find a couple of Windows references to slow printing with this printer on the HP site. They pretty much said that this is not the speediest printer on the face of the earth so stop whining. I don't remember when this problem first appeared but I do remember that I used to be able to print a document from LibreOffice before in less than one minute but now it takes several minutes to print the same document. I know, I'm rambling again. I would be more specific if I had any idea what the problem is. Does anyone out there have any idea how I can even determine where the problem is? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Facebook CentOS group close to 15.000 members!
Is there a Google+ group? On 03/22/15 09:14, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Hi everyone. I have a pleasure to announce that official CentOS group on Facebook will reach 15.000 members in next 6-9 days, somewhere just before April 1st :) Average rate of new members, mostly total newbies, is around 140-180 members per week. Group's link is https://www.facebook.com/groups/centosproject/ -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] error building apr-util spec file
On 03/22/15 16:22, Tim Dunphy wrote: how do I build in mock? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Facebook CentOS group close to 15.000 members!
Hey all, Does CentOS have a Google+ group? I'll be glad to follow them there. On 03/22/15 09:14, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Hi everyone. I have a pleasure to announce that official CentOS group on Facebook will reach 15.000 members in next 6-9 days, somewhere just before April 1st :) Average rate of new members, mostly total newbies, is around 140-180 members per week. Group's link is https://www.facebook.com/groups/centosproject/ -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Googletalk Plugin on CentOS 6.6 x86-64 help
Hey All, [root@peach RPM_REPO]# yum install google-talkplugin_current_x86_64.rpm Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security Setting up Install Process Examining google-talkplugin_current_x86_64.rpm: google-talkplugin-5.40.2.0-1.x86_64 Marking google-talkplugin_current_x86_64.rpm to be installed Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: centos.mbni.med.umich.edu * epel: archive.linux.duke.edu * extras: mirror.trouble-free.net * updates: mirror.lug.udel.edu Resolving Dependencies -- Running transaction check --- Package google-talkplugin.x86_64 0:5.40.2.0-1 will be installed -- Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.14)(64bit) for package: google-talkplugin-5.40.2.0-1.x86_64 -- Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.15)(64bit) for package: google-talkplugin-5.40.2.0-1.x86_64 -- Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: google-talkplugin-5.40.2.0-1.x86_64 (/google-talkplugin_current_x86_64) Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.14)(64bit) Error: Package: google-talkplugin-5.40.2.0-1.x86_64 (/google-talkplugin_current_x86_64) Requires: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.15)(64bit) You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest [root@peach RPM_REPO]# Is there any work around to get googletalk working on CentOS 6.6? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
