[CentOS] Supermicro CentOS 7 install failure

My workhorse server is a SuperMicro with their H8DM8-2 motherboard. For many years it ran CentOS 5.x and 6.x until the boot drive failed last year. I installed a 1TB SSD as /dev/sda and planned to install CentOS 7 on it, replacing CentOS 6.5 on the failed drive. Unfortunately every CentOS 7 media

Re: [CentOS] Supermicro CentOS 7 install failure

On 20/12/15 11:13 PM, dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: > My workhorse server is a SuperMicro with their H8DM8-2 motherboard. For > many years it ran CentOS 5.x and 6.x until the boot drive failed last > year. I installed a 1TB SSD as /dev/sda and planned to install CentOS 7 on > it, replacing CentOS 6.5

Re: [CentOS] does centos have this grub2 issue?

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Wes James wrote: > > > On Dec 17, 2015, at 11:29 AM, Mike - st257 > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Wes James wrote: > > > >> I saw this today: > >> > >> > >> >

Re: [CentOS] yum/RPM and Trust on First Use

On 12/20/2015 01:28 PM, Always Learning wrote: On Sun, 2015-12-20 at 12:44 -0800, Alice Wonder wrote: RPM has ability to install a package over the network. rpm -i ftp://example.org/foo-2.2.noarch.rpm Thanks for the new knowledge. The point I'm trying to make though is that yum could

Re: [CentOS] yum/RPM and Trust on First Use

On 12/20/2015 12:44 PM, Alice Wonder wrote: The point I'm trying to make though is that yum could benefit from the ability to verify the fingerprint in a key it is importing matches a DNS query for the user and domain the key claims to be for. I think we understand your point. The solution

Re: [CentOS] yum/RPM and Trust on First Use

On 12/20/2015 02:28 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 12/20/2015 10:10 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: Yes, but I've run into instance where curl does not work for https - for example I believe if ECDSA TLS certificate is being used on the server, curl doesn't work. Not sure about wget. Why do you think

[CentOS] Power Management

Recent power management discussions plugged into one of our current frustrations, namely the interaction of the screen lock and power-save features on Intel/CentOS 6 platforms. We certainly would not have guessed that locking the screen would inhibit going into the power-save mode, but it sure

Re: [CentOS] yum/RPM and Trust on First Use

On Sun, 2015-12-20 at 12:44 -0800, Alice Wonder wrote: > RPM has ability to install a package over the network. > > rpm -i ftp://example.org/foo-2.2.noarch.rpm Thanks for the new knowledge. > The point I'm trying to make though is that yum could benefit from > the ability to verify the

Re: [CentOS] Power Management

I assume you have double-checked Gnome's power management preferences and they are what you'd expect, right? -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro - Original Message - > From: "Chris Olson" > To: "CentOS Mailing List"

Re: [CentOS] Power Management

> Date: Sunday, December 20, 2015 22:15:49 + > From: Nux! >> From: "Chris Olson" >> Sent: Sunday, 20 December, 2015 21:05:53 > >> Recent power management discussions plugged into one of our >> current frustrations, namely the interaction of the

Re: [CentOS] yum/RPM and Trust on First Use

On 12/20/2015 10:10 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: Yes, but I've run into instance where curl does not work for https - for example I believe if ECDSA TLS certificate is being used on the server, curl doesn't work. Not sure about wget. Why do you think the solution is to make yum behave well when

[CentOS-virt] Missing module grub entry in xen-4.4.3-9 & boot issues

HI, We've started to see several issues with the Xen releases. Going back to basics I've used this guide https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart Once the install process is complete the grub.conf looks like this: default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

Re: [CentOS] yum/RPM and Trust on First Use

On 12/20/2015 10:05 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 12/20/2015 04:26 AM, Ned Slider wrote: Unless I'm mistaken RPM in el5 does not support the https protocol. In that case, users should use curl or wget to retrieve the rpm over https before installing it. Yes, but I've run into instance

Re: [CentOS] /bin/nmcli and connection names

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Earl A Ramirez wrote: > I don't see 'System' in any of the CentOS 7.2.1511 boxes or VMs that were > recently upgraded: > ​Hi Earl, Have you tried a new install?​ I agree, upgraded installations do not seem to be affected.

Re: [CentOS] Critical problem with power management CentOS 7.2

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 04:23:07PM +, Richard wrote: > > > > Date: Sunday, December 20, 2015 07:52:25 -0800 > > From: Alice Wonder > > > > Thinkpad T410 running CentOS 7 with the Mate desktop (Gnome 3 is > > too demanding on video capabilities for this hardware) > > >

Re: [CentOS] Critical problem with power management CentOS 7.2

On 12/20/2015 11:05 AM, Fred Smith wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 04:23:07PM +, Richard wrote: Date: Sunday, December 20, 2015 07:52:25 -0800 From: Alice Wonder Thinkpad T410 running CentOS 7 with the Mate desktop (Gnome 3 is too demanding on video capabilities

Re: [CentOS] yum/RPM and Trust on First Use

On 12/19/2015 09:49 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: With third party repositories the key and configuration file is often distributed separately. That's the potential attack vector for trojan keys. Examples? All of the notable repositories that I'm aware of publish an x-release.rpm that installs

Re: [CentOS] yum/RPM and Trust on First Use

On 20/12/15 10:28, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 12/19/2015 09:49 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: >> >> With third party repositories the key and configuration file is often >> distributed separately. That's the potential attack vector for trojan >> keys. > > Examples? > > All of the notable repositories

Re: [CentOS] playing DVDs on C7

On 12/19/2015 06:01 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:29:05PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 09:32:53AM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: On 12/17/2015 08:33 PM, Fred Smith wrote: Hi all! I'm trying to finish setting up my newly upgraded C7 system. It's on the same

Re: [CentOS] LDAP create home directories

On 20/12/2015 12:05 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: Check /var/log/secure for why the directory is not able to be created. Might be selinux, is that enabled? (sestatus) Good catch! It was indeed SELinux preventing the directory from being created. Disabling it allows that to happen. For instance I

Re: [CentOS] Critical problem with power management CentOS 7.2

> Date: Sunday, December 20, 2015 07:52:25 -0800 > From: Alice Wonder > > Thinkpad T410 running CentOS 7 with the Mate desktop (Gnome 3 is > too demanding on video capabilities for this hardware) > > Under CentOS 7.1 - the laptop would sleep when I closed the lid. > > It

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban problem new installation

On Sat, 19 Dec 2015, Günther J. Niederwimmer wrote: Hello, I have a big problem with fail2ban and firewalld on my new system. I have a server running (CentOS 7.1) and run a Update to 7.2 on this system all is working ? BUT I install a new system with CentOS 7 1511 on this systems fail2ban

Re: [CentOS] Critical problem with power management CentOS 7.2

On 12/20/2015 08:44 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: On 12/20/2015 08:23 AM, Richard wrote: Do you have the latest mate power manager (mate-power-manager-1.10.2-3) installed? There was a discussion of this issue on the list about 10 days ago, when that was still in epel-testing, but it now appears

Re: [CentOS-virt] Missing module grub entry in xen-4.4.3-9 & boot issues

I've also had a few Xen systems grub entry issues. I'm not yet sure what triggers the events, but I do think there *may* be a correlation to the "/boot" part. I've found the Xen servers that have "/boot" before any of the the lines like "/boot/xen.gz" ended up missing complete grub entries. Not

[CentOS-announce] CEBA-2015:2668 CentOS 6 watchdog FASTTRACK BugFix Update

CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2015:2668 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2668.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386:

Re: [CentOS] yum/RPM and Trust on First Use

On 12/20/2015 04:26 AM, Ned Slider wrote: Unless I'm mistaken RPM in el5 does not support the https protocol. In that case, users should use curl or wget to retrieve the rpm over https before installing it. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Critical problem with power management CentOS 7.2

Thinkpad T410 running CentOS 7 with the Mate desktop (Gnome 3 is too demanding on video capabilities for this hardware) Under CentOS 7.1 - the laptop would sleep when I closed the lid. It no longer does. I can tell because the laptop remains warm when I close the lid now, mail filters in

Re: [CentOS] Critical problem with power management CentOS 7.2

On 12/20/2015 08:23 AM, Richard wrote: Do you have the latest mate power manager (mate-power-manager-1.10.2-3) installed? There was a discussion of this issue on the list about 10 days ago, when that was still in epel-testing, but it now appears to in their production repo. Installing it

Re: [CentOS] yum/RPM and Trust on First Use

On 12/20/2015 12:16 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/20/2015 4:26 AM, Ned Slider wrote: Unless I'm mistaken RPM in el5 does not support the https protocol. did you mean Yum ? rpm is just a file format for packages, and a package installer program, its yum that does the network operations to

Re: [CentOS] yum/RPM and Trust on First Use

On 12/20/2015 4:26 AM, Ned Slider wrote: Unless I'm mistaken RPM in el5 does not support the https protocol. did you mean Yum ? rpm is just a file format for packages, and a package installer program, its yum that does the network operations to fetch the packages, and as far as I

Re: [CentOS] /bin/nmcli and connection names

On 21 December 2015 at 03:37, Eugene Vilensky wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Earl A Ramirez > wrote: > > > I don't see 'System' in any of the CentOS 7.2.1511 boxes or VMs that were > > recently upgraded: > > > > ​Hi Earl, > > Have you