[CentOS] CentOS 7 yum Issue

2017-09-20 Thread Chris Olson
We have been following the email list discussion regarding recent problems with yum and the upgrade to the most current CentOS 7. We have also tried some of the remedies suggested or recommended. None of these measures has yielded success, and it is not totally clear whether or not our most recent

Re: [CentOS] KeePassX replacement

2017-09-20 Thread H
On 09/19/2017 05:18 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: CentOS [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of FHDATA Sent: den 18 september 2017 18:10 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] KeePassX replacement On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Valeri Galtsev

Re: [CentOS] KeePassX replacement

2017-09-20 Thread H
On 09/18/2017 11:54 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: On Sat, September 16, 2017 1:45 pm, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: H wrote: I have been using the KeePassX password manager on CentOS 6 and 7 for some time and it works pretty well. On my Windows machine I use KeePass which

Re: [CentOS] KeePassX replacement

2017-09-20 Thread H
On 09/16/2017 11:25 AM, Phil Perry wrote: On 16/09/17 16:05, Phil Perry wrote: The only other potential issue I see is that the latest KeePassXC requires a newer version of libgcrypt, which the repo above packages as libgcrypt16 (libgcrypt version 1.6.6) on el7. The release of 1.6 broke ABI

Re: [CentOS] KeePassX replacement

2017-09-20 Thread H
On 09/16/2017 06:55 AM, Tom Longfield wrote: I have been using KeePassXC (though mostly on Debian) for quite a while now and am happy to report it works well.  Nothing springs to mind that annoys me and it's a decent drop in replacement. My setup sounds pretty similar to your own (also use

Re: [CentOS] xfs not getting it right?

2017-09-20 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, hw said: > Are you saying there is no difference between a RAID1 and a non-raid > device as far as xfs is concerned? Yes. > What if you use hardware RAID? No difference - same result. > When you look at [1], it tells you to specify su and sw with hardware >

[CentOS] Join us at CERN, October 20th, 2017

2017-09-20 Thread Rich Bowen
Please join us, one month from today, in Meyrin, Switzerland, at the amazing CERN facility, for a day of learning and sharing. http://cern.ch/centos Details, schedule, and registration are at the above link. While the event is free, you *must* register in order to gain access to the facility,

[CentOS] firefox and D state

2017-09-20 Thread Michael Hennebry
Previously when firefox went catatonic to the point that I could not even scroll, its CPU usage had gone to 100%+. Now top tells me that firefox, Web Content (with a space) or sometimes kswap... has process state D, uninterruptable sleep. Any suggestions on how to deal? I often have a lot of

Re: [CentOS] owncloud on CentOS - I have problems installing/updating recently

2017-09-20 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 20/09/2017 à 18:18, Valeri Galtsev a écrit : > after quite some time of praising ownclowd, I started having problems with > installing and updating desktop owncloud-client on CentOS. Namely, yum > repository owncloud.org points to for rpm/yum based Linux distributions > lives on suse.com site

Re: [CentOS] upgrade or install to Centos 7.4.1708

2017-09-20 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 09/20/17 10:41, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I upgraded from 7.3 to 7.4 over the weekend. Everything went well except that I can't login because the screen is black with a cursor. If reboot boot the 7.3 kernel 3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64 kernel everything works just fine, so my guess is that

Re: [CentOS] update to 7.4

2017-09-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Thanks all for the thoughts. I have no issues with 7.4 - this was clearly "freek" accident while updating, either internet connection closed on me or something. I brought the unit back here, I tried a few of the suggestions - wasn't really working for me. So I just re-installed 7.4 and all was

Re: [CentOS] update to 7.4

2017-09-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
-Original Message-From: John Hodrien Reply-to: CentOS mailing list To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] update to 7.4 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:59:25 +0100 (BST) On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >

Re: [CentOS] xfs not getting it right?

2017-09-20 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 06:12:39PM +0200, hw wrote: > Chris Adams wrote: > >Once upon a time, hw said: > >>xfs is supposed to detect the layout of a md-RAID devices when creating the > >>file system, but it doesn´t seem to do that: > >> > >> > >># cat /proc/mdstat > >>Personalities

[CentOS] owncloud on CentOS - I have problems installing/updating recently

2017-09-20 Thread Valeri Galtsev
Dear Experts, after quite some time of praising ownclowd, I started having problems with installing and updating desktop owncloud-client on CentOS. Namely, yum repository owncloud.org points to for rpm/yum based Linux distributions lives on suse.com site (well, for all flavors of Linux,

Re: [CentOS] xfs not getting it right?

2017-09-20 Thread Jon Pruente
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 11:12 AM, hw wrote: > Are you saying there is no difference between a RAID1 and a non-raid > device as far as xfs is concerned? > > What if you use hardware RAID? > RAID1 is mirroring. There is nothing to stripe because the virtual device is almost

Re: [CentOS] xfs not getting it right?

2017-09-20 Thread hw
Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, hw said: xfs is supposed to detect the layout of a md-RAID devices when creating the file system, but it doesn´t seem to do that: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md10 : active raid1 sde[1] sdd[0] 499976512 blocks super 1.2

Re: [CentOS] xfs not getting it right?

2017-09-20 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, hw said: > I was expecting that the correct stripe size and stripe width would be used. RAID level 1 has no stripe size or width. -- Chris Adams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] glib update problems

2017-09-20 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Wed, September 20, 2017 10:40 am, Jason Welsh wrote: > any idea how to get out of this pickle? > > [root@oem /home/jason]$yum update glibc > Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin, search-disabled-repos, security > This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite. This

Re: [CentOS] glib update problems

2017-09-20 Thread Christian, Mark
On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 11:40 -0400, Jason Welsh wrote: > any idea how to get out of this pickle? > > > Error: Package: glibc-2.12-1.209.el6_9.1.i686 (@rhel-6-server-rpms) > Requires: glibc-common = 2.12-1.209.el6_9.1 > Removing: glibc-common-2.12-1.209.el6_9.1.x86_64

Re: [CentOS] xfs not getting it right?

2017-09-20 Thread hw
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 20 September 2017 at 10:47, hw wrote: Hi, xfs is supposed to detect the layout of a md-RAID devices when creating the file system, but it doesn´t seem to do that: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md10 : active raid1 sde[1] sdd[0]

Re: [CentOS] glib update problems

2017-09-20 Thread Jason Welsh
ha! yes we use centos quite a bit. I was assuming (wrongly) that this server was one of them.. oops, my bad. Jason On 09/20/2017 11:44 AM, John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Jason Welsh wrote: any idea how to get out of this pickle? Have you considered using CentOS? jh

Re: [CentOS] glib update problems

2017-09-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Jason Welsh wrote: any idea how to get out of this pickle? Have you considered using CentOS? jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Block internet access for some users on the LAN ?

2017-09-20 Thread James B. Byrne
On Monday, September 18, 2017 1:04 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote" > > This year the school's director wants to completely block Internet > access for all the student's personal devices. > The silent premise in this request is that all student Internet access occurs through the school's gateway.

[CentOS] glib update problems

2017-09-20 Thread Jason Welsh
any idea how to get out of this pickle? [root@oem /home/jason]$yum update glibc Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin, search-disabled-repos, security This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite. Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction

Re: [CentOS] update to 7.4

2017-09-20 Thread Jerry Geis
Thanks all for the thoughts. I have no issues with 7.4 - this was clearly "freek" accident while updating, either internet connection closed on me or something. I brought the unit back here, I tried a few of the suggestions - wasn't really working for me. So I just re-installed 7.4 and all was

Re: [CentOS] update to 7.4

2017-09-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: This happened to me on one of the units during a 7.4 upgrade, and the only way for the system to work for me was to use the previous os. I tried to use the yum remove kernal 7.4 , but yum tried to remove all of the kernels instead of just that last

Re: [CentOS] xfs not getting it right?

2017-09-20 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, hw said: > xfs is supposed to detect the layout of a md-RAID devices when creating the > file system, but it doesn´t seem to do that: > > > # cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [raid1] > md10 : active raid1 sde[1] sdd[0] > 499976512 blocks super 1.2 [2/2]

Re: [CentOS] upgrade or install to Centos 7.4.1708

2017-09-20 Thread hw
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I upgraded from 7.3 to 7.4 over the weekend. Everything went well except that I can't login because the screen is black with a cursor. If reboot boot the 7.3 kernel 3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64 kernel everything works just fine, so my guess is that there's a kernel

Re: [CentOS] xfs not getting it right?

2017-09-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 20 September 2017 at 10:47, hw wrote: > > Hi, > > xfs is supposed to detect the layout of a md-RAID devices when creating the > file system, but it doesn´t seem to do that: > > > # cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [raid1] > md10 : active raid1 sde[1] sdd[0] > 499976512

Re: [CentOS] update to 7.4

2017-09-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 9/19/2017 9:51 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I was doing an update to 7.4 and somewhere in middle the machine died. > > If I drop back to a previous kernel the machine is alive. So how do I say > "forget the previous yum update" and start all over and do it again. > > Booting into the new kernel I

[CentOS] xfs not getting it right?

2017-09-20 Thread hw
Hi, xfs is supposed to detect the layout of a md-RAID devices when creating the file system, but it doesn´t seem to do that: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md10 : active raid1 sde[1] sdd[0] 499976512 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] bitmap: 0/4 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk

Re: [CentOS] upgrade or install to Centos 7.4.1708

2017-09-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
I upgraded from 7.3 to 7.4 over the weekend. Everything went well except that I can't login because the screen is black with a cursor. If reboot boot the 7.3 kernel 3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64 kernel everything works just fine, so my guess is that there's a kernel issue with the hardware,

Re: [CentOS] selinux prevents lighttpd from printing

2017-09-20 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/20/2017 07:19 AM, hw wrote: > hw wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> how do I allow CGI programs to print (using 'lpr -P some-printer >> some-file.pdf') when >> lighttpd is being used for a web server? >> >> When selinux is permissive, the printer prints; when it´s enforcing, >> the printer >> does not

Re: [CentOS] selinux prevents lighttpd from printing

2017-09-20 Thread hw
hw wrote: Hi, how do I allow CGI programs to print (using 'lpr -P some-printer some-file.pdf') when lighttpd is being used for a web server? When selinux is permissive, the printer prints; when it´s enforcing, the printer does not print, and I´m getting the log message '/bin/lpr: Permission

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2017:2771 Important CentOS 7 emacs Security Update

2017-09-20 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2017:2771 Important Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2771 The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) x86_64:

Re: [CentOS] [OT] CentOS, PHP & OwnCloud/Nextcloud: the version dilemma

2017-09-20 Thread mark
On 09/20/17 04:42, Pete Biggs wrote: Straying OT ... On Tue, September 19, 2017 1:42 pm, Nux! wrote: Unfortunately the same can be said about Ruby, RoR, Python etc etc etc. It is not as much true about languages themselves (though it is true, and I for one call python "sneaky snake" just

Re: [CentOS-virt] Status of reverted Linux patch "tty: Fix ldisc crash on reopened tty", Linux 4.9 kernel frequent crashes

2017-09-20 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/20/2017 03:10 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 10:49:13AM -0700, Nathan March wrote: I have no issues rolling this patch in , while we wait on upstream, if it makes our tree more stable. >>> >>> I think we should do that.. What do others think? >>> >> >>

Re: [CentOS] [OT] CentOS, PHP & OwnCloud/Nextcloud: the version dilemma

2017-09-20 Thread Pete Biggs
Straying OT ... > > On Tue, September 19, 2017 1:42 pm, Nux! wrote: > > > Unfortunately the same can be said about Ruby, RoR, Python etc etc etc. > > > > It is not as much true about languages themselves (though it is true, and > > I for one call python "sneaky snake" just because of that ;-),

Re: [CentOS] CentOS, PHP & OwnCloud/Nextcloud: the version dilemma

2017-09-20 Thread James Hogarth
On 19 September 2017 at 21:15, wrote: > Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > > > On Tue, September 19, 2017 1:42 pm, Nux! wrote: > >> Unfortunately the same can be said about Ruby, RoR, Python etc etc etc. > > > > It is not as much true about languages themselves (though it is true, and >

Re: [CentOS-virt] Status of reverted Linux patch "tty: Fix ldisc crash on reopened tty", Linux 4.9 kernel frequent crashes

2017-09-20 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 10:49:13AM -0700, Nathan March wrote: > > > I have no issues rolling this patch in , while we wait on upstream, if > > > it makes our tree more stable. > > > > > > > I think we should do that.. What do others think? > > > > I've had the patch deployed to a group of 32