[CentOS] CentOS release 5.3 (Final) yum update error TypeError: unsubscriptable object

Just FYI. This machine has been offline and not updated for several months. I booted it and ran yum update. It generated an error. I googled the error, no hits. I did yum clean all. Tried yum update again, it finished dependency resolution and reported some missing dependencies. I can deal with

[CentOS] Centos 7 confusion about Chinese input methods

I just tried my first Centos 7 install. I want to install input methods for Chinese. In the good old days, all I had to do was yum install a blob and I was done. Does anyone have a link or some hints that will help me? I did a search, but the hits just confuse me. thanks, Dave

Re: [CentOS] yum causing RPC timed out?

/3cda64d1c161dd0fead8398a62ef9c691e78ee02fe56d04566f850c94929f61f-filelists.sqlite.bz2: (28, 'Resolving timed out after 30384 milliseconds') [root@localhost ~]# On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Dave Burns tbu...@hawaii.edu wrote: I just installed centos 7, yum is acting strange, experiencing

[CentOS] yum causing RPC timed out?

I just installed centos 7, yum is acting strange, experiencing RPC time-outs. Sometimes when I disable the additional repos (epel and rpmforge) it seems to make things act normal. But not this time (see below). Could I have some misconfiguration? Network glitch? What hypotheses should I be

Re: [CentOS] yum causing RPC timed out?

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: do_ypcall is a NIS error message. (Previous NIS was called yellow pages; the yp in do_ypcall is a reference to that). Maybe you have hosts: files nis in /etc/nsswitch.conf or something else that's causing the OS to

Re: [CentOS] yum causing RPC timed out?

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Thomas Eriksson thomas.eriks...@slac.stanford.edu wrote: This has nothing to do with yum. You are using NIS for name lookup and your NIS server is not responding. NIS is working fine, at least, for what I expect it to do. What makes you think NIS is

[CentOS] initial setup of centos linux 7 core license information license not accepted

Did all this happen because I switched monitors? Or because I did all my setup over ssh? Otherwise, this is an FYI for other newbies who get confused by this like I did. Yesterday I set up a new centos 7 install, did updates, made all the config tweaks I like to make, and rebooted at the end to

[CentOS] nfs stuck, don't know what processes to kill

My NFS server is up and other clients can access x. One particular client can't. I tried to unmount the NFS share: [root@nfsclient ~]# umount -f /disk/x umount2: Device or resource busy umount.nfs: /disk/x: device is busy umount2: Device or resource busy umount.nfs: /disk/x: device is busy If I

Re: [CentOS] nfs stuck, don't know what processes to kill

Thanks. How did I miss that -l switch? Unfortunately, I went into panic mode and just rebooted, but I'll know next time. Dave On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Phelps, Matthew <mphe...@cfa.harvard.edu> wrote: > Try "umount -fl"('eff el') > > On Tue, Feb 2, 20

Re: [CentOS] nfs stuck, don't know what processes to kill

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 9:23 AM, <m.r...@5-cent.us> wrote: > Dave Burns wrote: > > My NFS server is up and other clients can access x. One particular client > > can't. I tried to unmount the NFS share: > > > > [root@nfsclient ~]# umount -f /disk/x >

[CentOS] how to troubleshoot GUI issue?

Hello, I'm using a recent install of centos 7, no GUI customizations that I recall. When I log in using the GUI it accepts my password and the mouse appears on a black screen, like it is preparing the desktop, but the desktop never appears. If I hit control-alt-f4 and log in using the command

[CentOS] GUI black screen on login, startx works???

Hello, I'm using a recent install of centos 7, no GUI customizations that I recall. When I log in using the GUI it accepts my password and the mouse appears on a black screen, like it is preparing the desktop, but the desktop never appears. If I hit control-alt-f4 and log in using the command

Re: [CentOS] why would ls, while or ci use NIS?

Thanks, that makes sense. Dave On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > If you have NIS configured, it'll be used by anything that needs to map a > uid or gid number to a name, or anything that needs a list of groups for > users, among other things. >

[CentOS] why would ls, while or ci use NIS?

I have an entry in root's crontab: #ls -1 /etc/RCS|sed "s~\(.*\),v~\1~"|while read file; do ls -la /etc/$file|ci -q -l /etc/$file ;done Error output I received: do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = No route to host YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC:

[CentOS] can XFS filesystem recover rm'ed files?

Yes, I rm'ed the wrong directory. The disk has not been written to since, now mounted ro. Is it possible to recover the files without doing forensics on the whole partition? I know the UID and path. XFS is supposed to be pretty amazing, can I get it to do this? Thanks, Dave