[CentOS-virt] Is kvm ready for prime time?

2010-06-09 Thread Lars Hecking
Hi all, I've started playing with kvm on CentOS 5.5, with not much success so far. In a nutshell, I have the same problem as http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2010-April/001854.html I followed the RHEL5 virtualization guide to set up a bridge interface br0, and then used

[CentOS-virt] is the xenconsoled crash solved?

2010-06-09 Thread Fernando Gleiser
One of our machines are being bitten by that bug, once every 2-4 weeks or so xenconsoled dies and all the VMs stop responding intil xenconsoled is restarted. I googled for it and I saw many people reporting it but no solution for it. Does anyone know if it is solved in 5.5? I can't upgrade the

Re: [CentOS-virt] is the xenconsoled crash solved?

2010-06-09 Thread Alexander Lindqvist
It is not solved in 5.5. xenconsoled still dies after a few weeks and needs a restart to gain console access to domu's from dom0 (domu's still responding). Has anyone found a solution to this ? Regards / Alex Fernando Gleiser wrote: One of our machines are being bitten by that bug, once every

[CentOS] INFO: task nash:5282 blocked for more than 120 seconds.

2010-06-09 Thread Ruslan Sivak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I did some configuration changes on a XenServer 5.6 (Which I believe is running CentOS 5.5 under the hood). After a reboot, the server failed to come back up. Connecting to the serial console, I see that it hangs right after setting hostname:

Re: [CentOS] INFO: task nash:5282 blocked for more than 120 seconds.

2010-06-09 Thread Tsuyoshi Nagata
(2010/06/09 15:06), Ruslan Sivak wrote: INFO: task nash:5282 blocked for more than 120 seconds. some guy faces the same problem on citrix's forum. He find that he removes 2-sata disks, It's booting fine. the nash(finding volumes in boot sequences) has many limits with boot device recognition.

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart issue: 'dialog' doesn't work in %post, CentOS 5.5

2010-06-09 Thread John Doe
From: Zhang Huangbin zhbmaillisto...@gmail.com I'm trying to customize a CentOS installation cd, but got trouble with kickstart. I want to use dialog[1] for command line based user interface, but it can't display correctly in kickstart with CentOS 5.5. Same ks file works with CentOS 5.3

Re: [CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-09 Thread J. Jefferson Gray
We're currently running almost 20 instances with aws. We're using CentOS 5.4/5.5 as the base, and the 2.6.18 kernel image provided by amazon in the form of their 2.6.18-ec2-v1.4(may have that form wrong). This works well, but its also from December 2009 so we're 6 months off where Cent is now.

Re: [CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-09 Thread Wes Shull
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 4:39 AM, J. Jefferson Gray je...@surfmerchants.com wrote: We're currently running almost 20 instances with aws.  We're using CentOS 5.4/5.5 as the base, and the 2.6.18 kernel image provided by amazon in the form of their 2.6.18-ec2-v1.4(may have that form wrong).  This

[CentOS] MAC address changes after cloning

2010-06-09 Thread premrajm
Hi, I have x86 system and have used clonezilla to clone the entire hardisk of system A and restored it on another x86 system, system B. After the cloning process, i notice that the MAC address of the system B in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 is changed and is having the MAC

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart issue: 'dialog' doesn't work in %post, CentOS 5.5

2010-06-09 Thread Zhang Huangbin
On Jun 9, 2010, at 5:39 PM, John Doe wrote: From: Zhang Huangbin zhbmaillisto...@gmail.com I'm trying to customize a CentOS installation cd, but got trouble with kickstart. I want to use dialog[1] for command line based user interface, but it can't display correctly in kickstart with

[CentOS] SOLVED annoying firefox crash on nvidia

2010-06-09 Thread Paul Bijnens
A long time ago, there was thread about firefox randomly crashing. http://www.mail-archive.com/centos@centos.org/msg50010.html It turned out not only firefox, but random other X window applications as well. Especially scrolling in firefox seemed to induce the error. I'm now since almost 2

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart issue: 'dialog' doesn't work in %post, CentOS 5.5

2010-06-09 Thread Zhang Huangbin
On Jun 9, 2010, at 5:39 PM, John Doe wrote: From: Zhang Huangbin zhbmaillisto...@gmail.com I'm trying to customize a CentOS installation cd, but got trouble with kickstart. I want to use dialog[1] for command line based user interface, but it can't display correctly in kickstart with

Re: [CentOS] MAC address changes after cloning

2010-06-09 Thread Brian Mathis
The MAC address shown in the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-ethX files is just the address of what was detected at the time of installation. This is done to make sure the configuration is applied to the correct NIC. It does not auto-generate every time you reboot the system. You will need to

Re: [CentOS] INFO: task nash:5282 blocked for more than 120 seconds.

2010-06-09 Thread Ruslan Sivak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/9/2010 4:29 AM, Tsuyoshi Nagata wrote: (2010/06/09 15:06), Ruslan Sivak wrote: INFO: task nash:5282 blocked for more than 120 seconds. some guy faces the same problem on citrix's forum. He find that he removes 2-sata disks, It's booting

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2010-06-09 Thread Pitshou Asingalembi
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Re: [CentOS] rpm building and hyphens in Version tags

2010-06-09 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 05:58 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: Again ? 'very little info' ? Goodness I've written this post a lot of times and Google remembers many of them -- look using: rpmvercmp About 9,490 results (0.35 seconds) and on so little of them are correct and up to date. What I

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart issue: 'dialog' doesn't work in %post, CentOS 5.5

2010-06-09 Thread John Doe
From: Zhang Huangbin zhbmaillisto...@gmail.com I use 'chvt 3' in ks file to switch to 3rd tty, but it stays in 1th tty (installation console). Swith to 2nd tty with 'Ctrl+Alt+F2', run 'ps' command, i can see dialog process is running. I just tested my kickstart with 5.5 and it does fail

Re: [CentOS] unsuscribe

2010-06-09 Thread Robert C Wittig
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[CentOS] ls -lrt reversal

2010-06-09 Thread Michael D. Berger
My CentOS box with: $ uname -r 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 gets the file order wrong with: ls -lrt * . Two files that were last modified in the same second are shown in order that is the reverse of the order in which they were actually last modified. Note also that the later file was first created

Re: [CentOS] ls -lrt reversal

2010-06-09 Thread Stephen Harris
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 03:06:30PM +, Michael D. Berger wrote: ls -lrt * Is the precision of this only to the second? Yes. File timestamps are reported by the stat() call as time_t values, which are seconds past 00:00:00 1/1/1970. So ls can only sort to a 1 second precision. --

[CentOS] Any experience with Eucalyptus on Centos 5.x?

2010-06-09 Thread Rick Thomas
Is anyone here running Eucalyptus (open source cloud computing manager, similar to Amazon EC2, from UC Santa Barbara)? Have you got any hints for bringing it up? Thanks! Rick ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] rpm building and hyphens in Version tags

2010-06-09 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, JohnS wrote: Thus: Don't fight City Hall; use -n in the %setup stanze and move on Nice post. Would like to see more like this from you. The whole CentOS crew is picked up at: http://planet.centos.org/ and these are people who are literate, and hold strong

Re: [CentOS] Any experience with Eucalyptus on Centos 5.x?

2010-06-09 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Is anyone here running Eucalyptus (open source cloud computing manager, similar to Amazon EC2, from UC Santa Barbara)? Have you got any hints for bringing it up? Thanks! Rick

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart issue: 'dialog' doesn't work in %post, CentOS 5.5

2010-06-09 Thread John Doe
From: John Doe jd...@yahoo.com I just tested my kickstart with 5.5 and it does fail too now, while it was working with 5.4. The pre ks process was running, but on no vt... I ran my script by hand from vt2, then killed the old stuck one and anaconda switched to vt1 and displayed: Can't ask

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart issue: 'dialog' doesn't work in %post, CentOS 5.5

2010-06-09 Thread John Doe
From: Zhang Huangbin zhbmaillisto...@gmail.com I use 'chvt 3' in ks file to switch to 3rd tty, but it stays in 1th tty (installation console). Swith to 2nd tty with 'Ctrl+Alt+F2', run 'ps' command, i can see dialog process is running. I fixed it with some execs: chvt 3 exec /dev/tty3

Re: [CentOS] Any experience with Eucalyptus on Centos 5.x?

2010-06-09 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
My experience? Aweful. Their documentation isn't the easiest to follow and the interface isn't the easiest to use either. I ended up switching to CloudMin, which now has a free GPL version as well. Me too, i have a bad experience with Eucalyptus because of the bad docs, also i have noticed

[CentOS] Booting into a shell and skipping init

2010-06-09 Thread Ruslan Sivak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to boot into the shell of a XenServer 5.6 (I believe CentOS 5.5 underneath). I added init=/bin/sh to the boot line, but I'm still getting an error. Here is the boot line: mboot.c32 /boot/xen.gz com2=57600,8n1 console=com2,vga

Re: [CentOS] rpm building and hyphens in Version tags

2010-06-09 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 11:40 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, JohnS wrote: Thus: Don't fight City Hall; use -n in the %setup stanze and move on Nice post. Would like to see more like this from you. The whole CentOS crew is picked up at:

Re: [CentOS] MAC address changes after cloning

2010-06-09 Thread James Hogarth
Or depending on your requirements just drop hwaddr from ifcfg so it applies to the detected adaptor regardless of MAC Sent from Android mobile On Jun 9, 2010 2:16 PM, Brian Mathis brian.mat...@gmail.com wrote: The MAC address shown in the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-ethX files is just the

Re: [CentOS] Booting into a shell and skipping init

2010-06-09 Thread m . roth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to boot into the shell of a XenServer 5.6 (I believe CentOS 5.5 underneath). I added init=/bin/sh to the boot line, but I'm still getting an error. Here is the boot line: mboot.c32 /boot/xen.gz com2=57600,8n1 console=com2,vga

Re: [CentOS] Booting into a shell and skipping init

2010-06-09 Thread Stephen Harris
I'm trying to boot into the shell of a XenServer 5.6 (I believe CentOS 5.5 underneath). I added init=/bin/sh to the boot line, but I'm still XenServer 5.6 is based on CentOS 5.4 [r...@penfold ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release XenServer release 5.6.0-31188p (xenenterprise) [r...@penfold

[CentOS] PHP file upload limit

2010-06-09 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, I am trying to run a web-based PHP application on a CentOS 5 32-bit machine that requires me to upload large files. The machine also happens to have little RAM (256MB). I have no problem setting my upload limit ( upload_max_filesize ) to 1 GB but for some reason 2 GB or above seems to be

Re: [CentOS] PHP file upload limit

2010-06-09 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/6/9 Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com: Hi all, I am trying to run a web-based PHP application on a CentOS 5 32-bit machine that requires me to upload large files. The machine also happens to have little RAM (256MB). I have no problem setting my upload limit ( upload_max_filesize ) to

Re: [CentOS] PHP file upload limit

2010-06-09 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2010/6/9 Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com: Hi all, I am trying to run a web-based PHP application on a CentOS 5 32-bit machine that requires me to upload large files. The machine also happens to have little RAM

Re: [CentOS] PHP file upload limit

2010-06-09 Thread Drew
I have no problem setting my upload limit ( upload_max_filesize ) to 1 GB but for some reason 2 GB or above seems to be no go. Would anybody know why? Could it be one of the many 32-bit vs 64-bit issues? upload_max_size is not the only variable that would affect uploading. You may also want to

Re: [CentOS] PHP file upload limit

2010-06-09 Thread Whit Blauvelt
2010/6/9 Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com: I have no problem setting my upload limit ( upload_max_filesize ) to 1 GB but for some reason 2 GB or above seems to be no go. Would anybody know why? Could it be one of the many 32-bit vs 64-bit issues? Other PHP settings, like post_max_size,

Re: [CentOS] PHP file upload limit

2010-06-09 Thread Jerry Franz
On 06/09/2010 12:32 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: Eero, I've got 4 GB of swap. At the moment all 4 GB less 100 MB of it is available. That logically should be enough to allow me to upload a 2 GB file, I would think. Looking at the bugtracker: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3118 PHP is not

Re: [CentOS] PHP file upload limit

2010-06-09 Thread James Hogarth
Plus at that point you might also be hitting problems with browser behaviour since you say it is a web app 2 gigs is a heck of a post... have you looked into any other solutions such as an uploader in flash or java capable of resuming transfers and streamed (partial) transfers rather than

Re: [CentOS] Booting into a shell and skipping init

2010-06-09 Thread James Hogarth
And given that the xen kernel is not a Linux kernel but rather that centos is just dom0 so I'm not sure that init argument would do what the OP wanted anyway... Sent from Android mobile On Jun 9, 2010 6:24 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: I'm trying to boot into the shell of a

Re: [CentOS] Booting into a shell and skipping init

2010-06-09 Thread James Hogarth
Err reread and disregard my thoughts - evidently too tired! But its true citrix forums would be a better audience esp given the upstream vendor and hence centos moving to kvm.. Sent from Android mobile On Jun 9, 2010 6:24 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: I'm trying to boot into the

[CentOS] PXE boot into rescue mode

2010-06-09 Thread Ruslan Sivak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I followed the instructions here: http://nixcraft.com/file-servers/14803-how-centos-5-pxe-linux-installation-server.html, along with a few other sources that were less successful, and I finally got a pxe boot going. I'm using CentOS 5.3 x86_64 media

[CentOS] Intel ICH10R on CentOS 5.4

2010-06-09 Thread nate
Hey there.. I was wondering if anyone could share experiences they have had with the Intel ICH10R SATA controller? I tried looking around but all I could find were RAID references, I have no interest in using the RAID functionality just basic SATA JBOD. Wondering if there are any gotchas for

[CentOS] software raid - better management advice needed

2010-06-09 Thread aurfalien
Hi, I've used mdadm for years now to manage software raids. The task of using fdisk to first create partitions on a spare drive sitting on a shelf (raid 0 were my 1st of 2 drives failed) is kind of bugging me now. After using fdisk to create the same partition layout on the new drive as

Re: [CentOS] PXE boot into rescue mode

2010-06-09 Thread Christopher Chan
I followed the instructions here: http://nixcraft.com/file-servers/14803-how-centos-5-pxe-linux-installation-server.html, along with a few other sources that were less successful, and I finally got a pxe boot going. I'm using CentOS 5.3 x86_64 media as the source. The server boots, but

Re: [CentOS] Intel ICH10R on CentOS 5.4

2010-06-09 Thread William Warren
On 6/9/2010 7:44 PM, nate wrote: Hey there.. I was wondering if anyone could share experiences they have had with the Intel ICH10R SATA controller? I tried looking around but all I could find were RAID references, I have no interest in using the RAID functionality just basic SATA JBOD.

Re: [CentOS] Intel ICH10R on CentOS 5.4

2010-06-09 Thread Mark Pryor
Nate --- On Wed, 6/9/10, nate cen...@linuxpowered.net wrote: From: nate cen...@linuxpowered.net Subject: [CentOS] Intel ICH10R on CentOS 5.4 To: centos@centos.org Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010, 4:44 PM Hey there.. I was wondering if anyone could share experiences they have had with the

Re: [CentOS] Intel ICH10R on CentOS 5.4

2010-06-09 Thread John R Pierce
William Warren wrote: jsut put the bios into sata or ata mode and not raid..then the raid functionality is zero..: even when its enabled, the raid functionaliy of the ICH??R chips is zero. :) enabling RAID in the BIOS simply sets a bit in the chip thats write-once (once its set, it

Re: [CentOS] software raid - better management advice needed

2010-06-09 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 9 Jun 2010 16:50:53 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi, I've used mdadm for years now to manage software raids. The task of using fdisk to first create partitions on a spare drive sitting on a shelf (raid 0 were my 1st of 2 drives failed) is kind of

Re: [CentOS] Intel ICH10R on CentOS 5.4

2010-06-09 Thread William Warren
On 6/9/2010 8:27 PM, John R Pierce wrote: William Warren wrote: jsut put the bios into sata or ata mode and not raid..then the raid functionality is zero..: even when its enabled, the raid functionaliy of the ICH??R chips is zero. :) enabling RAID in the BIOS simply sets a

Re: [CentOS] software raid - better management advice needed

2010-06-09 Thread aurfalien
On Jun 9, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Robert Heller wrote: At Wed, 9 Jun 2010 16:50:53 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi, I've used mdadm for years now to manage software raids. The task of using fdisk to first create partitions on a spare drive sitting on a shelf (raid 0

Re: [CentOS] software raid - better management advice needed

2010-06-09 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: [snip] sfdisk is your friend (from man sfdisk): [snip] I'd mod this up if I could... sfdisk saves me hours and hours of time.. I also use it to dump backup information to files in case I need to rebuild.