Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, September 24, 2011 06:34:15 AM Christopher Chan wrote: Ah...you're supposed to use do-release-upgrade and not 'apt dist-upgrade' If that is what is called by the gui distribution upgrade button, it has done similar things to a few installs I have had to repair. Ubuntu ain't

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-26 Thread Christopher Chan
On Monday, September 26, 2011 06:40 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: If it's not supported it shouldn't be enabled and easily (ab)used. This is part of the reason you have to add a boot argument to get CentOS to do a version upgrade; it's known to not work properly, and thus is semi-hidden. Now

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-24 Thread Christopher Chan
On Saturday, September 24, 2011 03:13 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Friday, September 23, 2011 02:35:40 PM Craig White wrote: I moved to Ubuntu on my own server, some of my customers servers as has my employer. This is not a Ubuntu list. I have had my share of problems with more than one of the

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/21/2011 06:00 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: No LTS? - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS For Ubuntu's definition of 'support'. It is in no way comparable to what you can get in previous Centos releases.

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Johnny Hughes mailing-li...@hughesjr.com wrote: On 09/21/2011 06:00 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: No LTS? - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS For Ubuntu's definition of

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Alain Péan
Le 22/09/2011 14:28, Johnny Hughes a écrit : No matter what we try to do ... some kind of rolling updates for people who do not want to wait ... or whatever the next thing is ... well you do not seem to be happy. Which rolling updates ? OK for 5.x, but 5.7 has been released, so this repo is

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Stefan Held
Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2011, 07:28 -0500 schrieb Johnny Hughes: No matter what we try to do ... some kind of rolling updates for people who do not want to wait ... or whatever the next thing is ... well you do not seem to be happy. Your Customers are not unhappy because they don't like what

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/23/2011 07:50 AM, Alain Péan wrote: Le 22/09/2011 14:28, Johnny Hughes a écrit : No matter what we try to do ... some kind of rolling updates for people who do not want to wait ... or whatever the next thing is ... well you do not seem to be happy. Which rolling updates ? OK for 5.x,

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/23/2011 09:06 AM, Stefan Held wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2011, 07:28 -0500 schrieb Johnny Hughes: No matter what we try to do ... some kind of rolling updates for people who do not want to wait ... or whatever the next thing is ... well you do not seem to be happy. Your

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 9/24/11, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: I can tell you that we are building 6.x stuff for QA now and have been for several weeks. I'm not personally unhappy with the devs over the situation since I pretty much didn't plan on any critical C6 installations until 6.1 comes out. So with

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 09/23/2011 06:57 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 09/23/2011 09:06 AM, Stefan Held wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2011, 07:28 -0500 schrieb Johnny Hughes: No matter what we try to do ... some kind of rolling updates for people who do not want to wait ... or whatever the next thing is ... well

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, September 23, 2011 12:57:31 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: There is a whole channel of RPMs that we are not allowed to look at from upstream now. They do not release them on any ISOs and we can't pull things directly off RHN (the only way to get the optional channel) and use it. This is

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, September 23, 2011 01:29:51 PM Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: What you are suggesting here is that people should expect centos systems to be insecure and go the RHEL if they want secure systems. If the timeliness of security updates is essential/critical you cannt get faster updates

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Craig White
On Sep 23, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Friday, September 23, 2011 01:29:51 PM Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: What you are suggesting here is that people should expect centos systems to be insecure and go the RHEL if they want secure systems. If the timeliness of security updates

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, September 23, 2011 02:35:40 PM Craig White wrote: I moved to Ubuntu on my own server, some of my customers servers as has my employer. This is not a Ubuntu list. I have had my share of problems with more than one of the LTS Ubuntu distributions, more than I have had with CentOS.

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 09/23/2011 07:57 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Friday, September 23, 2011 01:29:51 PM Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: What you are suggesting here is that people should expect centos systems to be insecure and go the RHEL if they want secure systems. If the timeliness of security updates is

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/23/2011 12:29 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 09/23/2011 06:57 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 09/23/2011 09:06 AM, Stefan Held wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2011, 07:28 -0500 schrieb Johnny Hughes: No matter what we try to do ... some kind of rolling updates for people who do not

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, September 23, 2011 03:17:07 PM Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 09/23/2011 07:57 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: Have you pondered the moral implications of knowlingly installing insecure software and placing it on the public internet? Oh, wait, it's not a moral issue, since there is no

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Craig White
On Sep 23, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Friday, September 23, 2011 02:35:40 PM Craig White wrote: I moved to Ubuntu on my own server, some of my customers servers as has my employer. This is not a Ubuntu list. I have had my share of problems with more than one of the LTS

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Johnny Hughes mailing-li...@hughesjr.com: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 09/23/2011 12:29 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 09/23/2011 06:57 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 09/23/2011 09:06 AM, Stefan Held wrote: Am

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Friday, September 23, 2011 02:35:40 PM Craig White wrote: I moved to Ubuntu on my own server, some of my customers servers as has my employer. This is not a Ubuntu list. It's not a Red Hat list either, yet you didn't

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 09/23/2011 09:58 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 09/23/2011 12:29 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: [SNIP] If there are issues that prevent this then make an announcement to that effect so that people at least know that they have to take matter in their own hands. Writing such an email would

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/23/2011 04:51 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 09/23/2011 09:58 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 09/23/2011 12:29 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: [SNIP] If there are issues that prevent this then make an announcement to that effect so that people at least know that they have to

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 9/24/11, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: I don't think you understand. The process is iterative; if QA fails it's all the way back up to building it again. A package may have existed three weeks ago in terms of being built; if that package had passed binary testing and QA it would have

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 9/24/11, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: Yes, I suck at communication. Just ask my 1st wife. Does that mean that the whole dev team are just going to chalk it up to poor communications, shrug and not do anything about the communication channel, despite the existence of the qaweb and

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-21 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 21, 2011, at 12:03 AM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 09:18 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: On Sep 19, 2011, at 7:12 PM, Craig White craig.wh...@ttiltd.com wrote: On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 18:41 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Craig White

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-21 Thread Craig White
On Sep 21, 2011, at 6:41 AM, Ross Walker wrote: On Sep 21, 2011, at 12:03 AM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: I guess the point I was trying to make without being excessively blunt is that the track record of timely releases for CentOS 6.x (any release) and the track record of

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-21 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 09:50 -0700, Craig White wrote: Ubuntu != Debian http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/difference-between-ubuntu-vs-debian/ But it's not really my intent to debate which distro - just wanted to point out that at this point, it requires a leap of faith to install

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-21 Thread R - elists
craig this is your second troll in two posts. stop trolling we are glad for your past life when centos rescued you from whatever. plus, your past and current usage of centos, migrations to another distro, and opinions are duly noted again. like for the hundredth time another time will not be

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-21 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:50 AM, Craig White wrote: I don't have to worry about 'long term support' Cause there is none. Ubuntu != Debian No LTS? - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS For Ubuntu's definition of 'support'. It is in no way comparable to what you can get in

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: No LTS? - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS For Ubuntu's definition of 'support'. It is in no way comparable to what you can get in previous Centos releases. It is 'comparable' to CEntos 6 - none Errr,

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-21 Thread tdukes
As the OP, I will say this. I blew out my CentOS 6.0 installation having installed SL kernel and firmware packages. I thought I would install SL 6.1 to see how it would be since it was a new install with no real value as far as customizations. It wouldn't run after the installation, boot up and

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-21 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, September 22, 2011 07:00 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: No LTS? - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS For Ubuntu's definition of 'support'. It is in no way comparable to what you can get in

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-20 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 19, 2011, at 7:12 PM, Craig White craig.wh...@ttiltd.com wrote: On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 18:41 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: At some point, security updates for 6.1 will be released and then it becomes a matter of

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-20 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 09:18 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: On Sep 19, 2011, at 7:12 PM, Craig White craig.wh...@ttiltd.com wrote: On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 18:41 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: At some point, security updates for

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-19 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: At some point, security updates for 6.1 will be released and then it becomes a matter of deciding to install it based on the evidence that security updates have been non-existent all this time. I'm sorry I don't follow you

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-19 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 18:41 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: At some point, security updates for 6.1 will be released and then it becomes a matter of deciding to install it based on the evidence that security updates have

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-18 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense Hi, On 09/18/2011 12:39 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: A lot of people responded related to media, and that's because

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-18 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 08:29 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: Reason being I had a very similar experience with the Fedora Electronics Lab respin Live CD earlier this year. I always buy 386 and x64 DVDs of each Centos sub-version. About 3-4 months ago I tried to install Centos from DVDs and the

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 09/17/2011 02:52 AM, Thomas Dukes wrote: It won't boot CentOS 6.0 64 bit, Scientific Linux 64 bit 6.1, but will boot 32 bit CentOS 6.0. Can you expand a bit on the 'wont boot', actually expand quite a lot. Run the installer in debug mode and turn off all rhgb, quiet etc and see what

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Thomas Dukes
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 5:34 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense Hi, On 09/17/2011 02:52 AM, Thomas Dukes wrote

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense Hi, On 09/17/2011 02:52 AM, Thomas Dukes wrote: It won't boot CentOS 6.0 64 bit, Scientific Linux 64 bit 6.1

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Thomas Dukes wrote: I get the 'Welcome' screen, I make the selection to install or upgrade, get to 'Loading vmlinuz..', then it hangs. Maybe the DVDs are bad. Can a 32 bit machine create a 64 bit install disc? I had that with 32 bit installation. Try to boot in

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 16:50 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: Faulty burn media? I use a lot to record television news, among my many other activities, and estimate about 4% to 5% of DVDs are bad. Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 16:50 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: Faulty burn media? I use a lot to record television news, among my many other activities, and estimate about 4% to 5% of DVDs are bad. Bad media is one high

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/17/2011 04:50 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: Can you expand a bit on the 'wont boot', actually expand quite a lot. Run the installer in debug mode and turn off all rhgb, quiet etc and see what point and how far the system gets. Faulty burn media? This is the sort of message that is really

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/17/2011 12:25 PM, Thomas Dukes wrote: I get the 'Welcome' screen, I make the selection to install or upgrade, get to 'Loading vmlinuz..', then it hangs. Edit that line, add 'debug' and 'text' to the boot line, see how far it gets. Try to list the last 25 odd lines of the boot messages

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread R - elists
Just want to remind everyone that this isn't a social chatter list, or a LUG free for all. Lets try and actually be productive and lets try to help people in a tangible manner. If you don't have anything relevant to say or contribute to a conversation, its perfectly fine to not say

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Thomas Dukes
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 1:35 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense On 09/17/2011 12:25 PM, Thomas Dukes wrote: I

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Devin Reade
Thomas Dukes tdu...@sc.rr.com wrote: I do miss the old startup where you can see if services start or fail. Edit /etc/grub.conf. Comment out the splashimage and hiddenmenu lines. Remove the 'rhgb' and 'quiet' options from the kernel argument list. On your next reboot you should see something

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: Faulty burn media? This is the sort of message that is really unhelpful. You are stating opinion, with no relation to the actual email posted by the OP, and provide nothing to  work with to prove or disprove the

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 09/18/2011 12:39 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: A lot of people responded related to media, and that's because it happens. As in the end the OP confirms that. That is true, and I apologise. Guess I must just be really lucky not having had a media issue in many years now. - KB

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-17 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 19:20 -0400, Thomas Dukes wrote: I'm sure I'll have more questions later as 6.0 is much different than previous versions. :-) bear in mind... CentOS 6.0 is almost a year old without security updates CentOS 6.1 (when it finally gets released) will likely be about 6

[CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-16 Thread Thomas Dukes
Just got my Lenovo TS130 with a Xeon E3-1225 Processor, 4GB RAM, blah, blah, blah.. It won't boot CentOS 6.0 64 bit, Scientific Linux 64 bit 6.1, but will boot 32 bit CentOS 6.0. Any ideas? Otherwise, its going back to Amazon Monday and I'm done. Will keep my 5.7 Centos boxes until they rot!

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-16 Thread Digimer
On 09/16/2011 09:52 PM, Thomas Dukes wrote: Just got my Lenovo TS130 with a Xeon E3-1225 Processor, 4GB RAM, blah, blah, blah.. It won't boot CentOS 6.0 64 bit, Scientific Linux 64 bit 6.1, but will boot 32 bit CentOS 6.0. Any ideas? Otherwise, its going back to Amazon Monday and I'm

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-16 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 21:52 -0400, Thomas Dukes wrote: Just got my Lenovo TS130 with a Xeon E3-1225 Processor, 4GB RAM, blah, blah, blah.. It won't boot CentOS 6.0 64 bit, Scientific Linux 64 bit 6.1, but will boot 32 bit CentOS 6.0. Any ideas? Otherwise, its going back to Amazon

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-16 Thread Digimer
On 09/16/2011 10:36 PM, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 21:52 -0400, Thomas Dukes wrote: Just got my Lenovo TS130 with a Xeon E3-1225 Processor, 4GB RAM, blah, blah, blah.. It won't boot CentOS 6.0 64 bit, Scientific Linux 64 bit 6.1, but will boot 32 bit CentOS 6.0. Any

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-16 Thread Kenneth Godee
Email Lenovo support and ask about RedHat 6.0 support for the TS130 The Lenovo TS130 is not listed on Redhat 6.0 system Certified list. https://hardware.redhat.com/list.cgi?product=Red+Hat+Hardware+Certificationquicksearch=Lenovo There are some notes on other think servers, maybe that would

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-16 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/16/11 7:36 PM, Craig White wrote: Xeon processor? sounds old Xeon E3 is a server/workstation version of the latest sandy bridge processors, also known as core i-series -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast