[CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-26 Thread Lanny Marcus
Hello: The box is dual boot (Win XP CentOS 5). A Dell Dimension 4300 Celeron. There was an intermittent problem with this last year and last Thanksgiving, I wiped the HD and installed Win XP and CentOS 5 clean. My daughter asked me to install KStars which is in the kdeedu RPM on the Fedora Core

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-27 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 26 April 2008, Anne Wilson wrote: Message: 11 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:57:25 +0100 From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip The support page for the

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 28 April 2008, Mike Peterson wrote: Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:27:44 -0500 From: Mike Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have yet to get a DVD to read in CentOS 5. I can install from DVD and then

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 27 April 2008, John jses27 at gmail.com wrote: Message: 19 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:22:19 -0400 From: John jses27 AT gmail.com Subject: RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip Hmm - do you have one of those disks with the micro-brushes

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 28 April 2008, Mike Peterson mpeterson AT mail.charlesfurniture.com wrote: Message: 21 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:27:44 -0500 Subject: RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? To: 'CentOS mailing list' centos@centos.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have yet to get a DVD

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com wrote: CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com Tue Apr 29 16:07:57 UTC 2008 snip I suspect that somewhere in the auto mount process, it has a problem with the HW for

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote: Tue Apr 29 16:39:45 UTC 2008 snip Having heard my name being mentioned, I'll just say make the mount point, then. I.e. mkdir /mnt/media Have you checked that /dev/hdc is the optical drive? grep ^hdc /var/log/dmesg [EMAIL

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, MHR mhullrich at gmail.com wrote: Tue Apr 29 16:57:24 UTC 2008 I am unclear on which parts of the above post are yours and which are from the thread. Sorry! I am making a mess of my posts. Can you access the contents of the DVD from a command line at all? If so, have you tried

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote snip __ 2008/4/29 Lanny Marcus lannyma at gmail.com: [root at dell1602 ~]# grep ^hdc /var/log/dmesg hdc: DV-516D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 50X

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote: 2008/4/29 William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com: On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 19:24 +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote: 2008/4/29 Lanny Marcus lannyma at gmail.com: [root at dell1602 ~]# grep ^hdc /var/log/dmesg hdc: DV

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, MHR mhullrich at gmail.com wrote: __ On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Lanny Marcus lannyma at gmail.com wrote: On 29 April 2008, MHR mhullrich at gmail.com wrote: Can you access the contents

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote: 2008/4/29 William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com: On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 19:24 +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote: snip in boxes #1 #2 the drives behaves as you want, in box #3 the drive misbehaves. Have you tried the

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote: Message: 38 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:18:00 +0100 From: Alan Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch? Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip Lanny or Bill - Sorry I'm

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-04-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, John jses2 ATgmail.com wrote Message: 42 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:43:43 -0400 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well I seen a few post back today but can't tell from heads ot tails what's what of it. I seen where there was Dell in the command prompt machine name?? Yes. Dell

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, John jses2 ATgmail.com wrote: Message: 42 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:43:43 -0400 Message-ID: 006901c8aa42$1a387450$0700a8c0 at ethan27 Also please post you fstab and mtab files. It may be helpful in pointing out the problem. Also have you run yum update on the machine?

RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 29 April 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxs AT googlemail.com wrote: Message: 38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip However, if you're using Gnome then please have a look at System -- Preferences -- Removable Drives and Media I know that there is a difference in the automount of a data CD/DVD when

Re: [CentOS] OFF-TOPIC: Job opportunity in Augusta Georgia

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 30 April 2008, Jim Perrin jperrin AT gmail.com wrote: Message: 4 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WAY Off topic here, but if anyone's in the Augusta, Georgia area and wants to work as a web developer(css, html, flash, php, photoshop and the other usual goodies), we've got a job opening. If you

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 01 May 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote: Thu May 1 12:45:38 UTC 2008 snip (a) The Teac DV-516D DVD/CD reader is not supported in this kernel or somewhere else in CentOS 5.or (b) The DVD/CD reader is somewhat faulty. (c) However, Windows XP shows it to be

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 01 May 2008, John jses27 at gmail.com wrote: Alan: Thank you for all of the ideas you've had in this thread! I strongly suspect that your idea of replacing the Teac CD/DVD-ROM with something else, is the only way to end this problem. My belief now is that there is no support to auto

Re:[CentOS] problem installation of mplayer

2008-05-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 30 April 2008, Mamun sharif0 AT iut-dhaka.edu wrote: Message: 55 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:57:47 +0600 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I already installed CentOs,but can anyone give a sample of repo files and priorities.conf file. As for this 2 files i am unable to install mplayer. You might

Re: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?

2008-05-02 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 01 May 2008, John jses27 at gmail.com wrote: Puzzling, maybe just get a new dvd drive. Probably that's the solution Would be interesting to know if when he accesses Win$ (Double Clicks MyComputer) if the system crashes or when he double clicks on the dvd drive in mycomputer would be a big

[CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-02 Thread Lanny Marcus
This morning, I did yum update on my wife's box. It did not update the kernel. I ran the command again, and there is a response that no updates are available. Her box is a Compaq Evo D300v Celeron. During the past couple of days, when I did yum update, on my daughters box and mine (Dell

Re:[CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 02 May 2008, Michael Simpson mikie.simpson at gmail.com wrote: __ On 5/2/08, Lanny Marcus lannyma at gmail.com wrote: This morning, I did yum update on my wife's box. It did not update the kernel. I ran the command

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 02 May 2008, Erek Dyskant erek at blumenthals.com wrote: __ On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 08:39 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: This morning, I did yum update on my wife's box. It did not update the kernel. I ran the command again

Subject: Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 03 May 2008, Kai Schaetzl maillists AT conactive.com wrote: Message: 61 Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 13:31:14 +0200 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Have* you verified that you are not already on the latest kernel? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Thu

Re: Subject: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 03 May 2008, Kai Schaetzl maillists AT conactive.com wrote: Message: 9 Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 16:31:50 +0200 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lanny Marcus wrote on Sat, 3 May 2008 07:28:10 -0500: Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 Ok. I just asked because you never mentioned you had actually

Re: Subject: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 03 May 2008, Kai Schaetzl maillists AT conactive.com wrote: Message: 9 ?Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 16:31:50 +0200 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lanny Marcus wrote on Sat, 3 May 2008 07:28:10 -0500: Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 Ok. I just asked because you never mentioned you had

Re: Subject: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 16:11 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: If there is some place I can check in a yum database or RPM database on her box, to verify the kernel version that's really installed (probably the original one), please let me know where that is. Thanks much

Re: [CentOS] Re: Subject: yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 15:41 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: on 5-6-2008 2:49 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake the following: snip [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qa kernel* kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 kernel-2.6.18-8.el5 kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a Linux

Re: Subject: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 15:48 -0700, MHR wrote: snip As root, go to the directory where the rpms are located (you can use 'find' for this if you don't alreayd know) and run: rpm -ivh kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 kernel-2.6.18-8.el5 kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 Mark: Syntax for the find

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 18:30 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: -rw--- 1 root root816 May 7 05:08 grub.conf got changed 5:08 today. Are you sure you booted after that? What does uname -a show now? Kai: Yes, I rebooted, very early this morning. I just tried it again. My wife had been using MS

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 21:38 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 13:13:13 -0500: On compaq1300, I do *not* have the three boot options (original kernel, latest kernel and Windows XP). I have two (2) options, if I interrupt grub: (a) the original kernel (b

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-09 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 01:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: snip No, surely not. Windows installs only to one partition, the one you selected for installation. The other three are only NTFS partitions and can be used by Windows, but unless your wife installs something on them or puts data on them

RE: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-13 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 10:52 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/8/08, Kai Schaetzl maillists AT conactive DOT com wrote: snip hda3 and hda9 are your Linux LVM partitions, maybe they belong to one volume group, I don't know (your fstab would tell more,

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-13 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 18:37 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Rcpt-To: centos@centos.org wrote on Mon, 12 May 2008 08:51:46 -0500: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-13 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 21:11 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Rcpt-To: centos@centos.org wrote on Tue, 13 May 2008 12:53:21 -0500: LV Name/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 LV Size10.53 GB And the output of pvdisplay. [EMAIL

Re: [CentOS] Re: tar spanning

2008-05-18 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 06:56 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Labelling in gmail doesn't help if you are forwarding to an Outlook account, though. outlook supports imap, doesn't it? I have my wife setup with Microsoft Windows Mail (Vista, fka outlook express) using

RE: [CentOS] OT: Top Posting

2008-05-18 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 08:00 -0700, Carol Anne Ogdin wrote: I actually DO subscribe to this list via gmail. However, I seldom bother doing so through webmail, because I like my information to come to me, rather than spending my time logging on, waiting for pages to refresh, etc. snip My

RE: [CentOS] Re: tar spanning

2008-05-18 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 10:22 -0400, John wrote: snip I use IMAP for Gmail, as Google recommends, with the Evolution MUA. The filters and labels that Gmail uses are not working as I would like them to. Possibly with time, I will improve on those settings. After I download my email into

Re: [CentOS] Re: tar spanning

2008-05-18 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 11:49 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: snip If you have a suitable server where you can park your IMAP folders you can get the best of everything by using fetchmail to grab mail via POP from gmail and deliver to your local IMAP folders. This gives you a chance to filter

Re: [CentOS] Low-memory Centos5?

2008-05-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 07:31 -0400, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote: I've inherited an old laptop from my wife that I'd like to use when I travel (it's fairly small with a 12 screen). The bad part is that it is maxed out on memory with 384MB. Has anyone played with using Centos5 on systems with

Re: [CentOS] recommendations/suggestions - geographically spread network based on Centos

2008-06-02 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 22:47 -0700, dnk wrote: snip I have 3 offices, 1 in Canada, 2 in Mexico. We are currently investigating connectivity options (still no results yet), but I suspect one of the Mexican sites will be very limited. Depending upon which cities in Mexico your offices are in, you

Re: [CentOS] recommendations/suggestions - geographically spread network based on Centos

2008-06-02 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 13:19 -0700, dnk wrote: Thank you so much for the information. You're welcome! I will follow up with them regarding connectivity. I know that the one office will be Ok (Mexico City), but the other is tiny. I read your post again about one office being at a work site

Re: [CentOS] Live CD?

2008-06-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:51 -0700, MHR wrote: I just used a Live CD for the first time today, in part to show what CentOS can do for a co-worker who is looking at using it at work and home, but I got the strangest result. snip Mark: First, I believe that you should always TYS (Test Your

Re: [CentOS] Change from gnome to KDE desktop

2008-06-08 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 17:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: What's the best way to do this? Remove the yum group gnome (does this set default init to 3?), install the yum group KDE and then set default init to 5 again (as I assume installing KDE not during the setup will not automatically set the

Re: [CentOS] [Off Topic, kind of] eMachine model T5254

2008-06-10 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/10/08, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Best Buy currently has an eMachine on sale for less than $300.00 without monitor. I didn't see any recent complaints on www.consumeraffairs.com. I didn't take the time to do a thourgh search so may have missed some. Red Hat hardware list does not

Re: [CentOS] Excluded files from repos?

2008-06-10 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/10/08, Sam Drinkard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote: Sam Drinkard wrote: Ok.. I'm way behind the 8-ball on setting things up correctly, but after going over the protection things in yum, I ran a yum check-update and it returned with having 318 files excluded because of

[CentOS] OT: Contract job assignment in Huntsville AL for Embedded Linux Developer

2008-06-10 Thread Lanny Marcus
I have never seen an hourly rate like the one below, before this. If anyone on the list is qualified and interested in applying, email me, off list, and I will give you the contact information. Embedded Linux Developer Description: 12-18 month project for embedded Linux developer. Looking for

Re: [CentOS] Excluded files from repos?

2008-06-11 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/11/08, Ray Leventhal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the number of Packages being excluded (318) is in the ballpark. 73, Lanny ___ OT, but wow, Lanny. I haven't seen Phillips code in years :) Thanks for the nostalgia! 73/30 -R Ray: I

Re: [CentOS] Doubt about Ubuntu Server

2008-06-11 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/11/08, Masters IT Gmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if I offend someone by sending this mail that is not related to Centos, but I am installing Ubuntu in a VM (Vmware) and after I installed Ubuntu when is booting it freezes and I can write commands but I don't know what to do to view

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-11 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/11/08, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I've run VMware Server (free, as in cost, not as in open source) on CentOS to host WinXP VMs since it was in beta and have no complaints. There is an RPM package available on VMware's site: $ rpm -q VMware-server

Re: [CentOS] USB Wireless device for CentOS?

2008-06-15 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/15/08, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Terry Polzin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anything that has the Zydas chip set just works so long as you've installed the firmware which I believe is available with v4x, 5x as an RPM Interesting - the google page for

Re: [CentOS] Commercial Support for CentOS 5 or above

2008-06-18 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/16/08, Daniel Chen (yongnche) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw there's one Commercial Support in Support menu on CentOS main page, but it's blank. Actually I'm looking for the commercial support for CentOS, is there anyone or organization which is doing this? Thank you very much. Daniel: I

Re: [CentOS] CN=Nasreddine Kroun/OU=Benefits/O=Vitech is out of the office.

2008-06-18 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/18/08, Nasreddine Kroun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be out of the office starting 06/18/2008 and will not return until 06/19/2008. Probably I will be back to the office by this afternoon, but I'm not sure. I suggest that you get another email account, for this and any other mailing

Re: [CentOS] failed dependencies during mplayer installation.

2008-06-19 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/19/08, Gopinath Achari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am new to linux while installing mplayer snip i am not knowing to which package thiss files belong to... please help me out i am using centos 5.1 ES There are step_by_step instructions at the below URLs on how to install MPlayer and other

Re: [CentOS] What will the upgrade to 5.2 be like?

2008-06-19 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/19/08, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip 5.2 should be here by Monday(6/23) or Tuesday(6/24) I'm looking forward to upgrading to 5.2! If for nothing else, for the newer version of Mozilla Firefox. The current version (1.5.0.12) crashes, very frequently, at web sites I use. The

Re: [CentOS] What will the upgrade to 5.2 be like?

2008-06-19 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/19/08, Rob Townley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do distributions put in very old versions of Firefox - 1.5 when 2.0 has been out for a year or more and 3.0 was just released. snip Rob: This distribution, is for the Enterprise (where the majority of installations are on Servers) and the

Re: [CentOS] Re: What will the upgrade to 5.2 be like?

2008-06-19 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/19/08, Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6-19-2008 1:15 PM Rob Townley spake the following: Security Stability when it comes to web browsers and i wonder if 1.5 is more secure than 2.14. i wonder when 1.x will not have security patches anymore. rh must document that somewhere and

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/20/08, Alwin Roosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip CentOS release 5 (Final) Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 on an i686 ws174 login: CPU 1: Machine Check Exception: 0005 CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0004 Bank 3: f6220002010a at 32c93500 Bank 5:

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/20/08, nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Easiest is to buy from a vendor that can test on your OS of choice, there are lots of vendors out there that can do it. Two such companies I have bought from that do this include http://www.siliconmechanics.com/ (HQ in Seattle, WA area)

Re: [CentOS] Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/20/08, Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip As most of us have found out at some time; brand new does not always equal OK. I have had plenty of hardware that was dead on arrival or dead in days. Check the obvious of re-seating all removable parts like memory and cards, and also

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/20/08, Alwin Roosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip This is a brand new server, which has been tested for days with FreeBSD in our office, and a few days with Windows on the site of our hardware distributor. Now customer wants CentOS, which we installed, but after few days we get a kernel

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt

2008-06-20 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/20/08, Alwin Roosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a brand new server, which has been tested for days with FreeBSD in our office, and a few days with Windows on the site of our hardware distributor. Now customer wants CentOS, which we installed, but after few days we get a kernel

Re: [CentOS] how do I manage a Dell PE 860 server via IPMI?

2008-06-21 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/21/08, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I've found their web support to be excellent if you can get past the place where they sort out the individual/small/large business users. Try to find support/downloads and the place where you put in the model number or their tag number

Re: [CentOS] problems installing samba

2008-06-22 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/22/08, Rajeev R. Veedu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install Samba 3.0.30 on a new Centos 5 machine and I am getting following error. Samba has been downloaded form setnet. Could some please let me know how to fix this? rpmdb: Program version 4.3 doesn't match environment

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 is here!

2008-06-23 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/23/08, Miguel Medalha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me be the first (maybe): CentOS 5.2 is here (at least): http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/centos/5.2/ Thank you all who worked on it! I read a post last night, on webhostingtalk.com that it was on servers, but when I did yum update nothing

Re: [CentOS] problem with telnet

2008-06-24 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/24/08, Tom Lanyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24/06/2008, at 3:28 PM, fabian dacunha wrote: i have a centos 5 server running as a backup PC server and is working perfect for abt 3 months jus a couple of days back when i tried to telnet to the server it gave me connection refused

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 5.2 is here!

2008-06-24 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/23/08, Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: And I add my thanks too, to the whole CentOS crew. I'm running Centos-5.1 but am a complete Centos newbie. What is the best way of installing Centos-5.2 ? Is a fresh installation recommended, or can one do a yum

Re: [CentOS] Problem with evolution while upgrading to CentOS 5.2

2008-06-24 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/24/08, Bernhard Gschaider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When trying to prepare a workstation with (so that the real yum upgrade doesn't have to download the packages) yum upgrade --upgradeonly it fails with these messages: Error: Missing Dependency: libegroupwise-1.2.so.12 is needed by

[CentOS] Desktop: After yum update and power off, cannot boot new Kernel

2008-06-25 Thread Lanny Marcus
Yesterday, in the afternoon, I did yum update on my Desktop. Everything seemed AOK. After power down last night, when I powered on this morning, it began to boot the new Kernel and then seemed to die. Instead of getting the progress of the boot on the CRT, the screen was blank and nothing

Re: [CentOS] Desktop: After yum update and power off, cannot boot new Kernel

2008-06-25 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Tim Verhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday, in the afternoon, I did yum update on my Desktop. Everything seemed AOK. After power down last night, when I powered on this morning

Re: [CentOS] Desktop: After yum update and power off, cannot boot new Kernel

2008-06-25 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Tim Verhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday, in the afternoon, I did yum update on my Desktop. Everything

Re: [CentOS] Desktop: After yum update and power off, cannot boot new Kernel

2008-06-25 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Tim Verhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday, in the afternoon, I did yum update on my Desktop. Everything

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 kernel [2.6.18-92.1.1.el5] crashes on dual-PIII Compaq ProLiant 3000

2008-06-25 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Wojtek Pilorz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After yum upgrade, the new CentOS5 kernel [ kernel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.i686 ] crashes each time early in boot process on Compaq ProLiant 3000 with dual Pentium3 CPU (600 MHz, CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03,

Re: [CentOS] Desktop: After yum update and power off, cannot boot new Kernel

2008-06-25 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Marko A. Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, June 25, 2008 11:01 am, Lanny Marcus wrote: FOLLOW ON: On my box, when it is trying to boot the latest Kernel (2.6.18-92.1.1el5) the last thing I see on the CRT is starting udev and after

Re: [CentOS] No plugin-directory for firefox in CentOS 5.2

2008-06-25 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Bernhard Gschaider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:03:26 +0100 KS == Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KS Bernhard Gschaider wrote: I noticed, that the directory /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/plugins/ is NOT created on CentOS

SOLVED: Re: [CentOS] Desktop: After yum update and power off, cannot boot new Kernel

2008-06-25 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Marko A. Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, June 25, 2008 11:01 am, Lanny Marcus wrote: FOLLOW ON: On my box, when it is trying to boot the latest Kernel (2.6.18-92.1.1el5

Re: SOLVED: Re: [CentOS] Desktop: After yum update and power off, cannot boot new Kernel

2008-06-25 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:29 AM, ne... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 17:14, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which configuration file do I edit, to make that change? TIA! Lanny /etc/grub.conf if you use grub. /etc/lilo.conf if you use lilo. Thanks and you

Re: [CentOS] To upgrade or not

2008-06-25 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My laptop is a Thinkpad T20 running CentOS 5.1 The reason it is running CentOS at all is because Fedora Core 6 was workable on it, but Fedora 8 was a complete dog. Anyway - with all the new desktop stuff in CentOS 5.2

Re: [CentOS] Re: 5.2 blues

2008-06-25 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 6-25-2008 3:29 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake the following: Hi all, Am I the only one to have had a totally trouble-free upgrade to 5.2?? I get the feeling that most everybody seems to have *some* problems... Only a

Re: [CentOS] backup with dd

2008-06-25 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiep Nguyen wrote: hi all, i have a centos box and would like to back up just in case the hard drive fail. one way to do this is duplicate the image of the hard drive, so if the hard drive fail, just remove it and put

Re: [CentOS] To upgrade or not

2008-06-25 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: I upgraded my Desktop yesterday and my daughter's Desktop this morning. If you surf the web, the move from Mozilla Firefox 1.5.x to Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 will be well worth your time. I

Re: [CentOS] To upgrade or not

2008-06-25 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My laptop is a Thinkpad T20 running CentOS 5.1 The reason it is running CentOS at all is because Fedora Core 6 was workable on it, but Fedora 8 was a complete dog. Anyway - with all the new desktop stuff in CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Automatic site selection for dowload

2008-06-27 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:15 PM, tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to ask that more flexibility be built into automatically choosing sites for downloading. I have just upgraded to CentOS 5.2. When I look for a mirror, I get many choices from Taiwan. Since I am in Hong Kong this

Re: [CentOS] Yogunluk

2008-06-27 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Ross S. W. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somebody needs to remove this guy from the list. There is some dumb auto-reply rule either him or one of his sophomoric co-workers setup on his mail client. Amen. All I see are blank messages with his sig file

Re: [CentOS] Yogunluk

2008-06-28 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:16 PM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 22:26 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- If I send him a message directly, and put him in the CC line too, will it start a loop of auto-replies...? How about I set up an

Re: [CentOS] Yogunluk

2008-06-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip What was really bad - I worked at a company that had the bright idea of automagically copying the marketing director with all tech support mail so that he could see the kinds of issues customers were having. I

Re: [CentOS] Yogunluk

2008-06-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:08 AM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Michael: I thought the job of Marketing people (or so they would like to think) is to give the Engineering staff a set of specs, a budget s/specs/incomplete, inaccurate, rapidly changing, and irrelevant /

Re: [CentOS] Yogunluk

2008-07-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:08 PM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip had given away to the customer and we couldn't complete the task within their time frame or budget. Marketing will do anything (usually) to make the sale and then the Engineers try to get it done on time

[CentOS] Desktop: Evolution Bug Buddy issues (GNOME)

2008-07-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
Is this issue in the CentOS Bugzilla or Upstream Bugzilla? I use a fully updated CentOS 5.2 box. Frequently, when I close Evolution, I get a message from Bug Buddy, the Bug Reporting Tool, that Calendar has crashed. I do not use the Calendar Application. I use Evolution for email and contacts.

Re: [CentOS] Desktop: Evolution Bug Buddy issues (GNOME)

2008-07-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 2:32 AM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also have KDE installed (rarely used, but it's there) and during some very brief use, with KDE, the Evolution Calendar Application also crashed, so

Re: [CentOS] Desktop: Evolution Bug Buddy issues (GNOME)

2008-07-05 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 2:32 AM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also have KDE installed (rarely used, but it's there) and during some very brief use

Re: [CentOS] Desktop: Evolution Bug Buddy issues (GNOME)

2008-07-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:31 PM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark: A follow on: I searched in the CentOS Bugzilla and also in the Upstream Bugzilla, for Evolution. There are about 25 things in CentOS and 119

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 upgrade Firefox Migrating Bookmarks

2008-07-08 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Robert Moskowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. Now that I have already upgraded, how do I migrate my bookmarks. Should have exported them before the upgrade, I suspect I agree with Dick Roth. You should not have had to do anything, if Firefox was installed

Re: [CentOS] Re: pm-utils - ATrpms updates a system package on the stable branch

2008-07-08 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Axel Thimm wrote: On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 04:20:30PM -0600, Kenneth Burgener wrote: On 7/7/2008 2:26 PM, Scott Silva wrote: on 7-7-2008 12:45 PM Kenneth Burgener spake the following: The CentOS 5/RHEL 5 repository

Re: [CentOS] Re: pm-utils - ATrpms updates a system package on the stable branch

2008-07-08 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Axel Thimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 12:17:58PM -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Axel Thimm wrote: On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 04:20:30PM -0600, Kenneth Burgener

[CentOS] OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

2008-07-08 Thread Lanny Marcus
I believe this is completely OT, but I want to be positive. I have a fully up to date CentOS 5.2 box. During the past week, when surfing with Firefox (and today, while testing with Konqueror), frequently, especially when DNS is slow, I am seeing references to opendns.com At times, I end up on

Re: [CentOS] OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

2008-07-08 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 7/8/08, Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2008, Lanny Marcus wrote: I believe this is completely OT, but I want to be positive. I have a fully up to date CentOS 5.2 box. During the past week, when surfing with Firefox (and today, while testing with Konqueror

Re: [CentOS] OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

2008-07-08 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Ross Cavanagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: Interesting idea! I will read the IPCop documentation, to see if I can do that on my IPCop box. If not, I'm interested in SME Server, if that will do the job. What I don't like about SME Server

Re: [CentOS] OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

2008-07-08 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 7/8/08, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Ross Cavanagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip As for the SME documentation, you can select to view as one page [the option is at the bottom of the page when you are browse to the specific documentattion]. eg

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