[CentOS] Password recovery trick not working on CentOS

2018-05-29 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I remember back in the days, there was a neat trick to recover a lost root password, or more exactly, redefine a new password for root. 1. In the bootloader, boot the system with the 'init=/bin/bash' kernel argument. 2. Remount the root partition in read-write mode: # mount -o remount,rw

Re: [CentOS] Yum dependency failure installing latest LibreOffice

2018-05-29 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 29 May 2018 07:56:45 -0400 Fred Smith wrote: > Yes, I did do "rpm -ivh *.rpm" and it installed without issue. I suspect that if you installed just the dependency first (from your local directory) and then the rest of the program it would have worked. Again, because yum looks for

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-29 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 29 May 2018 11:35:39 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Robert Heller wrote: > > At Tue, 29 May 2018 06:47:06 -0700 CentOS mailing list > > wrote: > >> On 05/29/2018 06:33 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > >> > > >> >> The UUID in the EFI boot options is > >> >>

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2018:1725 Important CentOS 7 thunderbird Security Update

2018-05-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2018:1725 Important Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1725 The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) x86_64:

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2018:1700 Important CentOS 7 procps-ng Security Update

2018-05-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2018:1700 Important Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1700 The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) x86_64:

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2018:1726 Important CentOS 6 thunderbird Security Update

2018-05-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2018:1726 Important Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1726 The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386:

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2018:1669 Important CentOS 6 libvirt Security Update

2018-05-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2018:1669 Important Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1669 The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-29 Thread m . roth
Robert Heller wrote: > At Tue, 29 May 2018 06:47:06 -0700 CentOS mailing list > wrote: >> On 05/29/2018 06:33 AM, Robert Heller wrote: >> > >> >> The UUID in the EFI boot options is >> >> 99E275E7-75A0-4B37-A2E6-C5385E600CB, which >> >> does not to match anything, but the system is only happy

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-29 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 29 May 2018 06:47:06 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 05/29/2018 06:33 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > > > >> The UUID in the EFI boot options is 99E275E7-75A0-4B37-A2E6-C5385E600CB, > >> which > >> does not to match anything, but the system is only happy booting the old > >>

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-29 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 29 May 2018 10:03:07 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 28 May 2018 at 18:25, Robert Heller wrote: > > > Then I shut the machine down, swapped in the new backup [2TB] disk and > > pulled > > the old system [500G] disk and installed the third new [2TB] disk. The > > system > >

[CentOS] move LDAP service to new server

2018-05-29 Thread Gary Stainburn
On my old Centos 7 server I had set up a LDAP database for user authentication by other services (the server locally uses normal PAM authenticatin). I set it up originally from a web page describing how to set up an LDAP server for use with MS Outlook clients (which never worked) Is there any

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 28 May 2018 at 18:25, Robert Heller wrote: > Then I shut the machine down, swapped in the new backup [2TB] disk and pulled > the old system [500G] disk and installed the third new [2TB] disk. The system > won't boot that way. It seems there is something in the UEFI (secure boot) > logic that

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/29/2018 06:33 AM, Robert Heller wrote: The UUID in the EFI boot options is 99E275E7-75A0-4B37-A2E6-C5385E600CB, which does not to match anything, but the system is only happy booting the old disk... And at this point, it will only boot in legacy mode off the old disk. That's what I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-29 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 29 May 2018 08:10:39 -0400 (EDT) CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > At Mon, 28 May 2018 20:49:54 -0700 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > > > > On 05/28/2018 06:20 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > > > The UUID in the BIOS is NOT VFAT volume. It is something completely > > > different. I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-29 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 28 May 2018 20:49:54 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 05/28/2018 06:20 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > > The UUID in the BIOS is NOT VFAT volume. It is something completely > > different. I have no clue what it is -- it does not correspond to anything > > I > > can find. > > >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: HELP! EFI boot fails after replacing disks...

2018-05-29 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 28 May 2018 20:54:32 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 05/28/2018 06:58 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > > At Mon, 28 May 2018 18:23:42 -0700 CentOS mailing list > > wrote: > >> On 05/28/2018 03:25 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > >>> I tried to run efibootmgr, but it wants a model named

Re: [CentOS] Yum dependency failure installing latest LibreOffice

2018-05-29 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 08:21:14PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Mon, 28 May 2018 21:08:26 -0400 > Fred Smith wrote: > > > Trying to install the latest LibreOffice downloaded from Libreoffice.org. > > I had 6.0.1.1 and downloaded 6.4.0.2, and kept getting dependency errors: > > I expect that yum

Re: [CentOS-virt] libvirtd hang on CentOS6 after latest updates

2018-05-29 Thread George Dunlap
Karel, Thanks for the detailed report. Would you mind re-posting this to the xen-devel mailing list? Thanks, -Georeg On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 9:47 AM, Karel Hendrych wrote: > Bump. Folks, any ideas? > > Cheers > Karel > > > On 22.5.2018 11:33, Karel Hendrych wrote: >> >> Hi, I am seeing

Re: [CentOS] yum hangs and results in problems

2018-05-29 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Friday 25 May 2018 07:57:16 John Hodrien wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2018, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > Questions > > > > 1) Any ideas why my yum runs keep hanging, and what I can do to fix it? > > It's likely it's hanging in a script, so just trace it all through. yum > will start other processes