[CentOS] yum update fails

2009-02-08 Thread Paolo Supino
Hi I have a system that I'm trying to run `yum update` on. It fails with the following error: Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/man/man1/xdelta.1.gz from install of xdelta-1.1.4-1.el5.rf conflicts with file

[CentOS] real SATA RAID

2009-02-08 Thread Paolo Supino
Hi Last week I had a lengthy thread in which someone indicated the my SIL card is a FRAID (don't know if F stands for the F word or Fake, though it doesn't really matter). I want to replace the controller with a controller that Linux will see the RAID1 group as a single HD and not multiple HDs

Re: [CentOS] Intel DG33BU motherboard

2009-02-03 Thread Paolo Supino
February 2009, Paolo Supino wrote: Hi I've installed CentOS 5.2 (i386) in a computer with a DG33BU motherboard ... When I installed it it crashed because of ACPI issues. Searching Google I found that I need to turn ACPI off in order to successfully install CentOS, which I did

Re: [CentOS] Intel DG33BU motherboard

2009-02-03 Thread Paolo Supino
... -- TIA Paolo On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Agile Aspect agile.asp...@gmail.com wrote: Paolo Supino wrote: Hi Peter I tried that and it the result is the same: Linux only finds, initializes and uses only 1 core ... :-( Is there anything else I can try to have Linux

Re: [CentOS] Intel DG33BU motherboard

2009-02-03 Thread Paolo Supino
Aspect wrote: Paolo Supino wrote: Hi Peter I tried that and it the result is the same: Linux only finds, initializes and uses only 1 core ... :-( Is there anything else I can try to have Linux initialize all 4 cores? You're probably booting the single CPU kernel. Try booting

[CentOS] sound problem

2009-02-03 Thread Paolo Supino
Hi I have CentOS 5.2 installed on a computer (the same one that I just posted a message on: Intel DG33BU motherboard) and for even though audio is reported to be found and working Linux just doesn't play anything through the speakers. The computer dual boots Linux/Windows and when in Windows

Re: [CentOS] Intel DG33BU motherboard

2009-02-03 Thread Paolo Supino
, and ask, where does it take the boot parameters from if not from /boot/grub/menu.lst? -- TIA Paolo On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Ralph Angenendt ra+cen...@br-online.dera%2bcen...@br-online.de wrote: Paolo Supino wrote: Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=off

Re: [CentOS] Intel DG33BU motherboard

2009-02-03 Thread Paolo Supino
can see there's no mentioning of acpi=off anywhere and unless I stop it and change the command line parameter from acpi=off to pci=nommconf it still boots with acpi=off ... :-( -- TIA Paolo On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Toby Bluhm t...@alltechmedusa.com wrote: Paolo Supino wrote: Hi

Re: [CentOS] Intel DG33BU motherboard

2009-02-03 Thread Paolo Supino
Hi William You're right ... I do have 2 HDs and my root is not what I thought it is! Here is what is happening with this system: It has a SIL SATA RAID0/1 card installed with 2x 160GB SATA HDs connected to it. The card is configured to mirror between the HDs (RAID1). But as I saw now Linux

Re: [CentOS] sound problem

2009-02-03 Thread Paolo Supino
Paolo On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote: Paolo Supino wrote: Hi I have CentOS 5.2 installed on a computer (the same one that I just posted a message on: Intel DG33BU motherboard) and for even though audio is reported to be found and working Linux

[CentOS] Intel DG33BU motherboard

2009-02-03 Thread Paolo Supino
Hi I've installed CentOS 5.2 (i386) in a computer with a DG33BU motherboard ... When I installed it it crashed because of ACPI issues. Searching Google I found that I need to turn ACPI off in order to successfully install CentOS, which I did. After a while I noticed that because of ACPI is

Re: [CentOS] Intel DG33BU motherboard

2009-02-03 Thread Paolo Supino
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Dec 15 10:04 /boot/grub/menu.lst - ./grub.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Dec 15 10:04 /etc/grub.conf - ../boot/grub/grub.conf -- TIA Paolo On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Peter Kjellstrom c...@nsc.liu.se wrote: On Tuesday 03 February 2009, Paolo Supino wrote: Hi

Re: [CentOS] Intel DG33BU motherboard

2009-02-03 Thread Paolo Supino
Hi William I didn't trun acpi back on (it's a sure way to freeze the computer). I did however find out that Linux ignores the RAID1 that is set by the SIL SATA card I have installed :-( See my last post (just a few minutes ago) with more details. -- TIA Paolo

[CentOS] Postfix problem

2008-10-15 Thread Paolo Supino
Hi I have a CentOS 4.2 server with postfix. The problem I'm having is that postfix insists on using $myhostname in the from field even if I instruct it to use $mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf or even if I hard code the domain name into $myorigin. What am I missing? BTW: postconf

Re: [CentOS] Postfix problem

2008-10-15 Thread Paolo Supino
John Plemons wrote: Try installing WebMin and configure Postfix using their interface and see if that works for you... It is menu driven and a quick and easy way to configure your server... john Paolo Supino wrote: Hi I have a CentOS 4.2 server with postfix. The problem I'm

Re: [CentOS] Postfix problem

2008-10-15 Thread Paolo Supino
mouss wrote: Paolo Supino a écrit : Hi I have a CentOS 4.2 server with postfix. The problem I'm having is that postfix insists on using $myhostname in the from field even if I Prove that it is postfix that does so, and not Sendmail. show logs. instruct it to use $mydomain in /etc

[CentOS] PVFS2 RPMs

2008-09-16 Thread Paolo Supino
Hi Where can I find PVFSv2 RPMs for CentOS 5? -- TIA Paolo ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-04 Thread Paolo Supino
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Romeo Ninov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paolo, this problem occur only in RHEL/CentOS/other RH based distros and not in Slack, SuSE, Debian, etc. I was not going deeper in the problem, but that is the reality. BTW: You can play with MAC address in incfg files, but

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-03 Thread Paolo Supino
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Richard Karhuse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/2/08, Paolo Supino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hi Joseph After sending the last reply I fixed the kickstart config files and added --boot=yes to the network statement of eth0, but going through

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-03 Thread Paolo Supino
marco Paolo Supino wrote: On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Romeo Ninov [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paolo Supino wrote / napísal(a): On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Romeo Ninov [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-03 Thread Paolo Supino
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:47 PM, nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paolo Supino wrote: The situation got me so aggravated that I was contemplating resurrecting my old private distro (not going to do that) that does things in a much simpler way. I'm virtually certain it's not using

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-03 Thread Paolo Supino
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a VERY common problem. I see it all the time. I also can confirm this *very* typical behavior. Paolo, Remind me what the issue is that prevents you from working through this based on the known existence?

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Paolo Supino
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:14 AM, nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paolo Supino wrote: Hi Nate 3: After the error comes up I get the HTTP setup configuration screen with the source website (in IP) and CentOS directory as I entered them in the pxeconfiguration file and as it appears

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Paolo Supino
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:14 AM, nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paolo Supino wrote: Hi Nate 3: After the error comes up I get the HTTP setup configuration screen with the source website (in IP) and CentOS directory as I entered them in the pxeconfiguration file and as it appears

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Paolo Supino
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Romeo Ninov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paolo Supino wrote / napísal(a): On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:14 AM, nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paolo Supino wrote: Hi Nate 3: After the error comes up I get the HTTP setup

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Paolo Supino
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Romeo Ninov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paolo Supino wrote / napísal(a): On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Romeo Ninov [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paolo Supino wrote / napísal(a): On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:14 AM, nate

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Paolo Supino
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Network autoconfiguration failed, most likely there is not a compatible driver for the network card in your system. Paolo, You are using multihomed systems, I remember a problem with pxe booting whereby the install

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Paolo Supino
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: WHat do you mean? Do you boot from one of the NICS, or a CD, or what? If you boot from a NIC via a TFTP server, you may be encountering the issue I describe which simply needs a kernel arg to fix you up. jlc

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Paolo Supino
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:04 PM, nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paolo Supino wrote: I boot via NIC0 and my configurations are as follows: pxe (for node3): Just to rule it out try plugging in all NICs to the same switch/VLAN and kickstart again and see if it works better. Sometimes

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Paolo Supino
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I boot via NIC0 and my configurations are as follows: Yeah, that's what I thought. Have a look at: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.2/html/Installation_Guide/ch-pxe.html

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Paolo Supino
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I boot via NIC0 and my configurations are as follows: Yeah, that's what I thought. Have a look at: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.2/html/Installation_Guide/ch-pxe.html

[CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-01 Thread Paolo Supino
Hi I'm having a problem with setting up a kickstart environment based on CentOS 5.2 x86_64, on a Sun X2200 M2 server (both the server and the client in the kickstart environment are Sun X2200 M2 systems): the first attempt to load stage2.img fails with the error screen: unable to retrieve

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-01 Thread Paolo Supino
, this is # not guaranteed to work zerombr clearpart --all --drives=sda part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=sda . . . On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 5:03 PM, nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paolo Supino wrote: Has anyone encounter this problem and has a solution for it? Network autoconfiguration

[CentOS-virt] problems

2008-08-12 Thread Paolo Supino
Hi I've installed CentOS 5.2 as a guest OS inside VMWare server 1.0.6 running on a Windows XP SP3 (logged in as a local user belonging to the administrator's group). Networking is setup as bridge and the guest OS has it's own IP address (I'm also sitting on a public IP so there is no NAT

[CentOS-virt] 2 more problems

2008-08-12 Thread Paolo Supino
Hi I forgot to write 1 more problem I encountered: 1. I configured a network proxy, but except for Firefox all other applications don't use it (mainly the packager manager) 2. Root's gnome pull down menus (before I crashed X) freeze and can't be used. When tried to restart the session it