Re: [CentOS] can't create large LVM, even though pvscan shows enough space left

2011-02-25 Thread Simon Matter
I'm trying to create a 500GB lv volume on a 500GB physical volume, but can't: [root@francois-pc ~]# pvscan PV /dev/sdd VG freenas lvm2 [500.00 GB / 500.00 GB free] PV /dev/sdc VG thecus lvm2 [1010.00 GB / 910.00 GB free] PV

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to xen guests

2011-03-04 Thread Simon Matter
Is there any (easy?) way to migrate running standalone CentOS 4 or 5 systems to xen virtual stacks? Rebuilding those systems from scratch on the xen machine would take plenty of work. I did so but it can be a bit tricky. You need to make sure you have the needed kernel installed and also

Re: [CentOS] Xen stack scheme

2011-03-04 Thread Simon Matter
I need to restructure my server farm from tower PC:s to a minimal amount of 1U rack servers. I am going to rely on xen virtualization, as KVM seems not to be very mature yet. My current problem is the mail server, which uses a lot of CPU and I/O. A dedicated machine would be the best option.

Re: [CentOS] kernel NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

2011-03-04 Thread Simon Matter
Hi , all : Sometimes my server network connection on Linux goes down with short message in syslog saying: [localhost kernel] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out (or similar). By the way , I installed the CentOS 5.4 x86_64 bit and the kernel version was 2.6.18-164. Has anyone

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to xen guests

2011-03-04 Thread Simon Matter
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:31:18AM +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote: Is there any (easy?) way to migrate running standalone CentOS 4 or 5 systems to xen virtual stacks? Rebuilding those systems from scratch on the xen machine would take plenty of work. If you're talking about Xen PV domUs, then

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to xen guests

2011-03-04 Thread Simon Matter
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Simon Matter simon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:31:18AM +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote: Is there any (easy?) way to migrate running standalone CentOS 4 or 5 systems to xen virtual stacks? Rebuilding those systems from scratch on the xen

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread Simon Matter
On 3/4/11 5:33 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 03/03/2011 11:44 PM, Jimmy Bradley wrote: I do have one question about Cent OS 6. Sonetimes back, I remember reading that the plan was to spread the iso's over multiple cd's, rather than put it all on 1 dvd. Is that still the plan? As far as

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-04 Thread Simon Matter
On 03/04/2011 08:42 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: robert mena wrote: Well, I am just telling that since there is no actual schedule, no plans to change the way things are handled (lack of communication, treat this as personal project etc) the best way to simply forget about it. The solution

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-04 Thread Simon Matter
On Wed, March 2, 2011 20:43, Johnny Hughes wrote: Do you think we are not trying or damnedest to get it done as fast as we possibly can? What, exactly, is the problem here? The problem here is fear. I am not now asking, nor to the best of my ability to recall have I ever asked, for when

Re: [CentOS] Octet

2011-03-07 Thread Simon Matter
On 06/03/2011 13:44, Always Learning wrote: I also saw Honeywell upgrading a L66 machine so it would run faster. The engineer pulled-out a PCB and took it away. That 'upgrade' cost over 1 million NLG (Dutch guilders). Very annoying those big iron companies. We had two banks of ICL Eagle

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-07 Thread Simon Matter
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Laurence Hurst wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 03:11:52PM +, Digimer wrote: How about the rest of you? What are you looking forward to in CentOS 6 when it is released? For me the big wins with CentOS 6 should be SSSD to simplify and centralise (on the machine)

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-08 Thread Simon Matter
When trying to do a yum update, I am told I need more space in /boot. When I check the contents of /boot (ls -l /boot), there are no files. Hm, that's not good. If I do a df -h, there is no available space yet it shows that it has a lot of used space. Is /boot mounted? Please show as the

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-08 Thread Simon Matter
...correct? Todd On 3/8/2011 3:08 PM, Simon Matter wrote: When trying to do a yum update, I am told I need more space in /boot. When I check the contents of /boot (ls -l /boot), there are no files. Hm, that's not good. If I do a df -h, there is no available space yet it shows that it has a lot

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-08 Thread Simon Matter
Simon - Did I screw up? I deleted what was in /boot! Yes :( Now don't reboot! Wait for the next mail... Simon Todd On 3/8/2011 3:31 PM, Simon Matter wrote: Here is the output of mount: /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /sys

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-08 Thread Simon Matter
to be mounted...correct? Todd On 3/8/2011 3:08 PM, Simon Matter wrote: When trying to do a yum update, I am told I need more space in /boot. When I check the contents of /boot (ls -l /boot), there are no files. Hm, that's not good. If I do a df -h, there is no available space yet it shows

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-09 Thread Simon Matter
Yes...thank you for the suggestion...since that was the cause of my problem in the first place!! I should have known better; all I had to do was remove some of the outdated kernel files. And when I did the dumb thing of deleting the /boot files, they were moved into the protected

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-09 Thread Simon Matter
I inadvertently missed using the list...here are my recent messages. As Nico suggested, download the kernel but also grub and redhat-logos, like so wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.9/updates/i386/RPMS/kernel-2.6.9-100.EL.i686.rpm wget

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-09 Thread Simon Matter
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Simon Matter simon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote: Yes...thank you for the suggestion...since that was the cause of my problem in the first place!!  I should have known better; all I had to do was remove some of the outdated kernel files.  And when I did the dumb

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-09 Thread Simon Matter
at hand so you could boot into rescue mode with 'linux rescue' at the boot prompt if somethings goes wrong. Simon Todd On 3/9/2011 12:23 AM, Simon Matter wrote: I inadvertently missed using the list...here are my recent messages. As Nico suggested, download the kernel but also grub

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-10 Thread Simon Matter
compdoc wrote: According to the man page, it apparently needs a kernel driver named OpenIMPI, which it claims is installed in standard distributions. I don't find it on my system. lm_sensors is another, and I think installs ready to use from the repos. sensors says that the three temp

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-10 Thread Simon Matter
that down, I will use torrent to get all four disks. Hey, guys, many thanks. Any of you live in the SF Bay Area? Love to treat you to a beer. Thanks, but it may be a bit difficult. Just let us know if you have been able to boot successfully. Simon Todd On 3/9/2011 1:03 PM, Simon Matter

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-10 Thread Simon Matter
that first even though I have an ext3 backup of the same data. Preparing to jump as I look for my spare parachute Todd On 3/10/2011 2:15 AM, Simon Matter wrote: Unfortunately, I live out with the cows, so I am using DSL to download the latest - it will take awhile. It has been awhile

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-11 Thread Simon Matter
Am 03/11/2011 03:03 AM, schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 6:49 PM, B.J. McClurekeepert...@bellsouth.net wrote: B.J. McClure keepert...@bellsouth.net Sent from MacBook-Air On Mar 10, 2011, at 5:28 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Michael

Re: [CentOS] UDP Perfomance tuning

2011-03-11 Thread Simon Matter
Hi, We are running on 5.5 on a HP ProLiant DL360 G6. Kernel version is 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5 (we had also tested with the latest available kernel kernel-2.6.18-238.1.1.el5.x86_64) We running some performance tests using the iperf utility. We are seeing very bad and inconsistent performance

Re: [CentOS] wich filesystem to store 250E6 small files in same or hashed dire

2011-03-12 Thread Simon Matter
Hi I need to store about 250.000.000 files. Files are less than 4k. On a ext4 (fedora 14) the system crawl at 10.000.000 in the same directory. I tried to create hash directories, two level of 4096 dir = 16.000.000 but I had to stop the script to create these dir after hours and rm -rf

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-21 Thread Simon Matter
On Mon, March 21, 2011 5:51 am, Dag Wieers wrote: On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Marko A. Jennings wrote: On Sun, March 20, 2011 7:29 pm, William Warren wrote: their changes are really aimed at oracle..the rest is smoke and mirrors..:) oracle is basically(pardon me here) Centos with charges. That's

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-21 Thread Simon Matter
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:34 AM, compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com wrote: RHEL and opensuse are different - defferent kernels, different config files and slightly different locations for some config files. It's not like one is a drop in replacement for the other, so it doesn't make sense to

Re: [CentOS] How does Linux Repair actually work

2011-03-24 Thread Simon Matter
Thanks to the help of folks on this forum, I now have my Centos 4 box up and working, however I do have a question on how the repair actually worked. After starting the Linux Repair, the process found my installed Linux. Some of you will remember that I had accidentally erased the /boot

Re: [CentOS] Intel 82599 driver?

2011-04-06 Thread Simon Matter
Which version of the ixgbe driver is included in 5.6? I went through all the RHEL5 release notes, but they only ever state that the driver was updated, not which devices was added. This device is not supported up to CentOS 5.5 (2.0.44-k2), but the latest driver from the Intel web

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6

2011-04-09 Thread Simon Matter
Just one thing: THANK YOU ALL!!! Ciao, luigi The same from me too! Simon ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] changing column widths in top?

2011-04-12 Thread Simon Matter
Htop looks interesting and I might try it on one of our other servers but on this one I only see the first 60 CPUs. I strongly recommend http://nmon.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php for such things. I have put my current src rpm here http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/nmon/ Simon --Russell

Re: [CentOS] CentOs 5.6 and Time Sync

2011-04-14 Thread Simon Matter
On 4/14/2011 6:47 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: Is it really true that the time is working perfectly with one of the other kernels (the older ones)? Johnny, Yes, As long as I run the older 5.5 kernel my time is perfect. All clients can get from this machine with no issues. As

Re: [CentOS] 40TB File System Recommendations

2011-04-14 Thread Simon Matter
On Thursday, April 14, 2011 09:04 AM, Ross Walker wrote: On Apr 13, 2011, at 7:26 PM, John Jasenjja...@realityfailure.org wrote: On 04/12/2011 08:19 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: On Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:36 PM, John Jasen wrote: On 04/12/2011 10:21 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: On Tue, Apr

Re: [CentOS] How to install binutils-devel on Centos Linux 5.5

2011-04-21 Thread Simon Matter
Good morning, I am trying to install binutils-devel on Centos Linux 5.5 so that we can obtain lib liberty required by the oprofile-0.9.6 Linux profiler. Using root , I enter: yum local install binutils-devel-2.20.51.0.7-6.fc14.i686.rpm. Then I get the message: So, why this package,

Re: [CentOS] CentOs 5.6 and Time Sync

2011-05-12 Thread Simon Matter
On 05/09/2011 06:53 PM, Brandon Ooi wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane todd.dennis...@navy.mil mailto:todd.dennis...@navy.mil wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] kswapd taking 100% cpu with no swap on system

2011-05-12 Thread Simon Matter
I Spoke too early its not fixed.Any one have other options On 05/09/2011 11:37 PM, Ali Ahsan wrote: Things i have done to solve this issue is set swappiness to 0 and i have changed scheduler to anticipatory for better performance .I don't see kswpad process taking 100% CPU now. We had a

Re: [CentOS] SSD for Centos SWAP /tmp /var/ partition

2011-05-26 Thread Simon Matter
On 5/26/11, Kevin K kevi...@fidnet.com wrote: Though thumb drives are flash, they tend to use a slower flash than what is used in hard drive replacement units. No actual industry facts for this, but I think the Flash used in thumb drives are not really any slower by nature/design. This is

Re: [CentOS] the tag Obsoletes: in spec files

2011-05-31 Thread Simon Matter
How exactly to use the tag Obsoletes: in a spec file ? I need to offer texlive to users on Centos-5.6, so I packaged it (based on a Mandriva src.rpm), and that works. But I want rpm to *replace* tetex by texlive, instead of just adding texlive, when users do a : $ yum install texlive (we

Re: [CentOS] the tag Obsoletes: in spec files

2011-06-01 Thread Simon Matter
Le mar 31 mai 2011 19:26:35 CEST, Ljubomir Ljubojevic a écrit: ... Something is obviously wrong, and does not work like it should. I gave up and just removed old version and installed new one. Well, I think you are right : Obsoletes doesn't work, or at least need more documentation about

Re: [CentOS] virt-install hell: how to *force* a local CD-ROM install?

2011-06-01 Thread Simon Matter
The command line I am using is: sudo virt-install --name=fc15guest --ram=1024 --os-type=linux \ --os-variant=fedora12 \ --location=/distrocds/Fedora/Fedora-15-x86_64-DVD.iso \ --disk=path=/dev/sauron/fc15guest I have never used virt-install or Fedora 15 but, maybe you have

Re: [CentOS] what is difference between slow initialize and patrol read on RAID?

2011-06-09 Thread Simon Matter
On Wednesday, June 08, 2011 09:00:48 PM mcclnx mcc wrote: We have DELL server with MD1000 Disk array in it. O.S. is CENTOS 5.5. Recently every time MD1000 patrol read start I will get media error messages on /var/log/message file. I use MD1000 slow initialize to initialize bad disk and NO

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-15 Thread Simon Matter
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 08:52 -0700, Jerry Franz wrote: On 06/14/2011 08:41 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Yeah, but some people appear to think (or at least that was what I got from the post of the guy I was replying to) that fedora is good enough for production. *blink* Absolutely not.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on the HP MicroServer

2011-07-04 Thread Simon Matter
I'm been running two HP MicroServers as home-servers under CentOS-5.6 for 2 months, and have been very happy with their performance. I'm wondering if there are many other MicroServer/CentOS users around? I'm also running it for two days now, eagerly waiting for CentOS 6.0 to be released so it

Re: [CentOS] HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Controller Driver

2011-07-06 Thread Simon Matter
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Please help me understand. If the device requires an additional driver, unless its packaged as a dd for use at install, how can you install and then add a driver? Disable RAID mode, set it to AHCI, then

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on the HP MicroServer

2011-07-06 Thread Simon Matter
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 5:48 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: indeed, it ships with the 4 drive trays.  Note they are not advertised as hot swap, I believe this is probably because there is no SES (enclosure services) and Windows in particular is not happy about hotswapping disks

Re: [CentOS] Is it safe to run tune2fs -c -1 -i 0 /dev/sda2 on mounted file system

2011-07-07 Thread Simon Matter
Hi, Is it safe to run tune2fs -c -1 -i 0 /dev/sda2 on mounted file system Basically, this is a command to disable fsck based on reboot count last fsck time. The RHEL/CentOS installed does exactly this, -c 0 -i 0, so yes it's considered safe. Simon

Re: [CentOS] Changing Host Name

2011-07-08 Thread Simon Matter
Hi John, You have to also change this file /etc/sysconfig/network in the HOSTNAME field change it to your desired name And if you configure interfaces using DHCP, you may also check /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth? for DHCP_HOSTNAME (or something similar) and change it. Simon

Re: [CentOS] EL4 and spamassassin info

2011-07-13 Thread Simon Matter
greetings, have been google foo for week or so. used to be super easy to upgrade spamassassin on CentOS dist. just grab the tarball and put in right spot and rpmbuild -tb spamassassin-3.somethingsomething.tar.gz then rpm or yum install and done would take just a few minutes. Yet...

Re: [CentOS] Centos6 Migration glitch - ZFS-FUSE

2011-08-08 Thread Simon Matter
Folks My experiments with installing ZFS-FUSE in a Centos 6 system reveal behavior different from that observed in Centos 5.6. The version of ZFS-FUSE is that provided on the EPEL repository, and was installed on a 32-bit machine. I use it because of its deduplication facility. In

Re: [CentOS] sieveshell fails to start on CentOS 6.0

2011-08-10 Thread Simon Matter
I don't know if this is the right place to report this or not. I am building a new server on a 64 bit CentOS 6.0 platform. [root@newmick ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final) [root@newmick ~]# uname -a Linux newmick.halshome.net 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP

Re: [CentOS] sieveshell fails to start on CentOS 6.0

2011-08-10 Thread Simon Matter
On 8/10/2011 2:00 PM, Simon Matter wrote: I don't know if this is the right place to report this or not. I am building a new server on a 64 bit CentOS 6.0 platform. [root@newmick ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final) [root@newmick ~]# uname -a Linux

Re: [CentOS] sieveshell fails to start on CentOS 6.0

2011-08-10 Thread Simon Matter
On 8/10/2011 2:28 PM, Simon Matter wrote: On 8/10/2011 2:00 PM, Simon Matter wrote: I don't know if this is the right place to report this or not. I am building a new server on a 64 bit CentOS 6.0 platform. [root@newmick ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final) [root

Re: [CentOS] vmxnet3 patch for CentOS6 kernel?

2011-08-11 Thread Simon Matter
Hi, Could CentOS kernel keepers apply following patch on current kernel? http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/95785/ (Current as: 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64) Maybe it could go into the plus kernel, but I'm quite sure it will not be put into the standard kernel. Did you check if it is in

[CentOS] Wrong directory permissions in RPMs build on CentOS6

2011-08-12 Thread Simon Matter
Hi, I have rebuilt all our source RPMs on CentOS 6 and found they sometimes differ in directory permissions compared to those built on CentOS 3, 4 and 5. The problem is that %defattr overrides %attr on directories. Have a look at this example spec file: --%-

Re: [CentOS] java permission denied

2011-08-13 Thread Simon Matter
Hey guys, I just tried installing jdk 1.0.7 on my centos 5.6 box and I am getting a permission denied error when I try to display the java version. [root@VIRTCENT09:/usr/lib] #ln -s /usr/lib/jdk1.7.0 /etc/alternatives/jdk [root@VIRTCENT09:/usr/lib] #ln -s /usr/lib/jdk1.7.0/bin/java

Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool

2011-08-26 Thread Simon Matter
--On Thursday, August 25, 2011 9:09 PM +0100 Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: The temporary fix is shown on several web sites as this, shown below, added to Apache's conf file:- I try to minimize changes to main files. Presumably putting that code in a separate file (eg.

Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool

2011-08-26 Thread Simon Matter
--On Thursday, August 25, 2011 9:09 PM +0100 Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: The temporary fix is shown on several web sites as this, shown below, added to Apache's conf file:- I try to minimize changes to main files. Presumably putting that code in a separate file (eg.

Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool

2011-08-26 Thread Simon Matter
--On Thursday, August 25, 2011 9:09 PM +0100 Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: The temporary fix is shown on several web sites as this, shown below, added to Apache's conf file:- I try to minimize changes to main files. Presumably putting that code in a separate file (eg.

Re: [CentOS] new memory not getting regonized

2011-08-27 Thread Simon Matter
Thanks Guys really apprecite your quick responses. ( Dennis was right in tellin me about PAE since my system is 64 bit and if I do run yum install kernel-PAE there is nothing found.) actually i found something more as i was figuring my issue out. when I do a top i see the following

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Simon Matter
On 08/31/2011 08:51 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: In the past this was my partition scheme: Root filesystem (/) = 10240MB (10GB) /boot = 200MB swap = 1024MB (1GB) /var = 20480MB (20GB) /tmp = 10240MB (10GB) /usr = 51200MB (50GB) /home = all remaining space on the drive Having /usr

Re: [CentOS] Migration Assistance

2011-09-05 Thread Simon Matter
Good Afternoon, I have been tasked with migrating a machine sitting on RHEL 5.6 off a rackspace cloud server to a local machine. In order to cut costs we would Whatever this cloud thing is, it can mean almost anything these days :) like to utilize Centos 5.6. I have done quite a bit of

[CentOS] rsync -x does not do the same on EL 5.6 and 5.7

2011-09-08 Thread Simon Matter
Hi, We re doing backups of all filesystems to a dedicated server using rsync -x. Now, the latest CentOS versions (5.7/6.x) come with rsync-3.0.6 instead of rsync-2.x. That's nice but unfortunately it doesn't do the same as 2.x in certain situations. The problem is with the -x option, which does

Re: [CentOS] Issues booting centos7 [dracut is failing to enable centos/root, centos/swap LVs]

2018-07-30 Thread Simon Matter
Hi, > Hello, > > I'm having a strange problem booting a new centos7 installation. Below > some > background on this. [I have attached the tech details at the bottom of > this > message] > > I started a new CentOS7 installation on a VM, so far all good, o/s boots > fine. Then I decided to increase

Re: [CentOS] Issues booting centos7 [dracut is failing to enable centos/root, centos/swap LVs]

2018-07-31 Thread Simon Matter
> Yannis Milios wrote: >>> But, what happens if you let the kernel post install scripts do the >>> work or setting up the initrd things? >> >> Initially, I just rebooted from LiveCD and left Grub,kernel and dracut >> do >> their job with the defaults, but unfortunately, boot process stops at >>

Re: [CentOS] SSSD and cache persistence

2018-08-07 Thread Simon Matter
> >> If the cache is invalid SSS will, obviously, go back to the source and >> return the information there, however, bizarrely, if the original >> source doesn't have the information (like when a user is deleted) the >> cached information is still returned. That cached information is >> retained

Re: [CentOS] bad udp cksum

2018-08-10 Thread Simon Matter
> Hi, > > Recently I'm noticing an interesting issue. > My CentOS servers are trying to send logs to a logging server via 514/udp, > however I'm not receiving anything. > > I did the following on CentOS > *tcpdump -vvv -nn udp -i esn160 port 514* > > In another session on the same server: > *nc

Re: [CentOS] Panic with EL7 KVM guest on EL6 host on AMD server with latest kernel

2018-07-18 Thread Simon Matter
> On 07/17/2018 04:48 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 07/17/2018 02:00 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have AMD servers running CentOS 6.10 as KVM host and on it guests >>>> running CentOS 7.5. >>>> >>>&

Re: [CentOS] Panic with EL7 KVM guest on EL6 host on AMD server with latest kernel

2018-07-17 Thread Simon Matter
> Hi, > > I have AMD servers running CentOS 6.10 as KVM host and on it guests > running CentOS 7.5. > > Since the latest kernel update on CentOS 6.10, > kernel-2.6.32-754.2.1.el6.x86_64, I can't boot the CentOS 7.5 guests with > kernel-3.10.0-862.6.3.el7.x86_64 anymore. > > Reverting CentOS 6.10

[CentOS] Panic with EL7 KVM guest on EL6 host on AMD server with latest kernel

2018-07-16 Thread Simon Matter
Hi, I have AMD servers running CentOS 6.10 as KVM host and on it guests running CentOS 7.5. Since the latest kernel update on CentOS 6.10, kernel-2.6.32-754.2.1.el6.x86_64, I can't boot the CentOS 7.5 guests with kernel-3.10.0-862.6.3.el7.x86_64 anymore. Reverting CentOS 6.10 host to

Re: [CentOS] Panic / EL6 / KVM / kernel-2.6.32-754.2.1.el6.x86_64

2018-08-30 Thread Simon Matter
> >> Am 30.08.2018 um 17:24 schrieb Simon Matter : >> >>> Am 30.08.2018 um 06:37 schrieb Simon Matter : >>>> >>>>> Since the update from kernel-2.6.32-754.2.1.el6.x86_64 >>>>> to kernel-2.6.32-754.3.5.el6.x86_64 I can not boo

Re: [CentOS] Panic / EL6 / KVM / kernel-2.6.32-754.2.1.el6.x86_64

2018-08-30 Thread Simon Matter
> Am 30.08.2018 um 06:37 schrieb Simon Matter : >> >>> Since the update from kernel-2.6.32-754.2.1.el6.x86_64 >>> to kernel-2.6.32-754.3.5.el6.x86_64 I can not boot my >>> KVM guests anymore!? The workstation panics immediately! >>> >>> I would

Re: [CentOS] Panic / EL6 / KVM / kernel-2.6.32-754.2.1.el6.x86_64

2018-08-29 Thread Simon Matter
> Since the update from kernel-2.6.32-754.2.1.el6.x86_64 > to kernel-2.6.32-754.3.5.el6.x86_64 I can not boot my > KVM guests anymore!? The workstation panics immediately! > > I would not have expected this behavior now (last phase of OS). > It was very robust until now (Optiplex Workstation). I

Re: [CentOS] Panic / EL6 / KVM / kernel-2.6.32-754.2.1.el6.x86_64

2018-08-30 Thread Simon Matter
> > Am 30.08.2018 um 10:54 schrieb isdtor : > >> >> Leon Fauster via CentOS writes: >>> Since the update from kernel-2.6.32-754.2.1.el6.x86_64 >>> to kernel-2.6.32-754.3.5.el6.x86_64 I can not boot my >>> KVM guests anymore!? The workstation panics immediately! >>> >>> I would not have expected

Re: [CentOS] Frefox update from firefox-60.2.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 to 60.2.1-1.el7.centos.x86_64 lost master password

2018-10-15 Thread Simon Matter
> On 10/12/2018 08:24 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 5:34 AM Rob Kampen >> wrote: >> >>> Hi list, >>> >>> Did an update to firefox last night and rebooted over night. >>> >>> Today I find firefox started without asking for master password - funny >>> me thinks. >>> >>> Try

Re: [CentOS] C 7 installation annoyances

2018-10-15 Thread Simon Matter
> In the disk partitioner, I can't > 1) choose to make the LVM with root and swap be on a RAID 1. Is there > some way to do that, rather than two separate partitions RAIDed? > 2) They don't align, so I can't clone /dev/sda to /dev/sdb as a > failover (for /boot and /boot/efi).

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-29 Thread Simon Matter
> > On Sun, October 28, 2018 6:07 pm, mark wrote: >> On 10/28/18 17:54, Zube wrote: >>> On Sun Oct 28 10:20:31 PM, Alain péan wrote: >>> Le 28/10/2018 à 22:10, Albert McCann a écrit : > Damn, this is bad enough to make one weep. Red Hat would stay as a distinct entity inside

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Simon Matter
> On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >> To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM POWER >> and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the hardware >> market again (and of course don't forget to keep Fedora/CentOS alive)! > >

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Simon Matter
> On 2018-10-30 02:46, Simon Matter wrote: >>> On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >>>> To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM >>>> POWER >>>> and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the >>>

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Simon Matter
> On 30/10/2018 06:46, Simon Matter wrote: >>> On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >>>> To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM >>>> POWER >>>> and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the >>>

Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat

2018-10-30 Thread Simon Matter
> On 30/10/2018 14:40, Simon Matter wrote: >>> On 30/10/2018 06:46, Simon Matter wrote: >>>>> On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >>>>>> To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM >>>>>> POWER

Re: [CentOS] What are the differences between systemd and non-systemd Linux distros?

2018-10-19 Thread Simon Matter
> Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> On 10/17/18 7:55 PM, Warren Young wrote: > >>> Benno Rice is right: Lennart Poettering gets stuff done. > > Because he's funded. And I strongly suspect that a lot of that funding > comes from M$'s interest in Upstream. > >> >> With all due respect, many people just

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 8 Public Beta Released

2018-11-15 Thread Simon Matter
> > > On 11/15/18 11:50 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >>> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/powering-its-future-while-preserving-present-introducing-red-hat-enterprise-linux-8-beta >> >> Just wondering, is there still something like a mailing list where betas >> are d

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 8 Public Beta Released

2018-11-15 Thread Simon Matter
> > > On 11/15/18 12:01 PM, Simon Matter wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 11/15/18 11:50 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >>>>> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/powering-its-future-while-preserving-present-introducing-red-hat-enterprise-linux-8-beta >>>> &g

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 8 Public Beta Released

2018-11-15 Thread Simon Matter
> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/powering-its-future-while-preserving-present-introducing-red-hat-enterprise-linux-8-beta Just wondering, is there still something like a mailing list where betas are discussed? IIRC EL6 beta was the last one I saw but maybe I'm missing something? Regards, Simon

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 8 Public Beta Released

2018-11-15 Thread Simon Matter
> >> Am 15.11.2018 um 21:35 schrieb Simon Matter : >> >>> >>> >>> On 11/15/18 12:01 PM, Simon Matter wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 11/15/18 11:50 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >>>>>>> https://www

Re: [CentOS] Yum through a proxy

2018-11-09 Thread Simon Matter
> I have configured yum to use a proxy via the yum.conf file by adding: > > proxy=http://myproxy.com:8080/ > > What I noticed when running yum check-up date is that some requests are > going through the proxy while the system seems to be trying to resolve the > domains of other hosts in the repo

Re: [CentOS] Running a command at startup

2018-12-13 Thread Simon Matter
> > > On 12/13/18 8:17 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 09:43:56PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> OK >>> >>> I have had problems in the past with crontab parsing a command. Would I >>> use: >>> >>> @reboot root echo none | tee /sys/class/leds/blue\:heartbeat/trigger

Re: [CentOS] determining what depends on a rpm

2018-12-17 Thread Simon Matter
> On 12/17/18 3:50 AM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: >> >> or this one :-) >> rpm -ev --test PACKAGENAME >> will list all packages that require PACKAGENAME > > > True.  I considered that, and then decided that I could never recommend > using "rpm -e" as a test, even with the --test flag, due to

Re: [CentOS] KVM Client NetworkManager Problem

2018-12-16 Thread Simon Matter
> hello Greg, > > thanks for the answer, now I am not so alone ;-) > > this Problem with the third NIC in a KVM Client is from Update to Update > stronger. I mean on start the Installation "CentOS 7.0" we don't have this > Problem! > > > without NetworkManager is run, on my system, I can't start

Re: [CentOS] CR repo update disaster for my desktop.

2018-12-04 Thread Simon Matter
t 11:28 PM, Fabian Arrotin >> wrote: >>> On 03/12/2018 11:14, John Hodrien wrote: >>>> On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, Simon Matter wrote: >>>> >>>>>> Le 03/12/2018 à 06:25, Rob Kampen a écrit : >>>>>>> I enabled the CR repo and

Re: [CentOS] CR repo update disaster for my desktop.

2018-12-03 Thread Simon Matter
> Le 03/12/2018 à 06:25, Rob Kampen a écrit : >> I enabled the CR repo and did the yum update. Some 800+ rpms were >> offered and all seemed to resolve depenancies OK, so yes it was >> started. The updates completed and all looked good, until the reboot. >> > > I got a similar disaster here. I

Re: [CentOS] Weird problems with CentOS 7.6 1810 installer

2018-12-09 Thread Simon Matter
>> >> >> >> Commands line options: > rd.debug rd.udev.debug systems.log_level=debug > > That willl be incredibly verbose, and slows things down a lot, so in the > off chance there's a race, you might get different results. But if not, > the > log should contain something useful. > > I like the

Re: [CentOS] Centos7 broken after update

2018-12-09 Thread Simon Matter
> Le 08/12/2018 à 16:23, Pete Biggs a écrit : >>> thanks for the suggestion. Indeed it seems I have a problem with >>> glibc. Version is different between x86_64 and i386 and I have two >>> glibc-common for x86_64. >>> Trying to remove the old one request removing half of the system >>> packages

Re: [CentOS] LVM failure after CentOS 7.6 upgrade -- possible corruption

2018-12-05 Thread Simon Matter
> I've started updating systems to CentOS 7.6, and so far I have one > failure. > > This system has two peculiarities which might have triggered the > problem. The first is that one of the software RAID arrays on this > system is degraded. While troubleshooting the problem, I saw similar > error

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager and /etc/resolv.conf

2018-11-18 Thread Simon Matter
> On 11/17/18 8:31 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: >> On 11/17/2018 07:01 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: >>> On 11/17/2018 06:43 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: CentOS 7.5 image running on linode. unbound running on localhost. Have to use a cron job once a minute to keep /etc/resolv.conf using

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager and /etc/resolv.conf

2018-11-18 Thread Simon Matter
> > On 11/19/18 6:49 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >>> On 11/17/18 8:31 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: >>>> On 11/17/2018 07:01 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: >>>>> On 11/17/2018 06:43 AM, Alice Wonder wrote: >>>>>> CentOS 7.5 image running on linode. &g

Re: [CentOS] Server entering Emergency Shell, but continues fine after pressing Enter

2020-09-12 Thread Simon Matter
> On 11 Sep 2020 17:23:00, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> Run "systemctl daemon-reload && echo success" and verify that it >> reports success, and not errors. >> >> Check the output of "systemctl status initrd-cleanup" too. > > Those have always reported success (even before I removed the OnFailure >

Re: [CentOS] Invisible files and disk space

2020-10-08 Thread Simon Matter
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 11:12:54AM -0400, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: >> cent...@foxengines.net wrote: >> >> > It's not working, I haven't been able to identify the files. They >> aren't >> > there. All attempts to measure disk usage of / by files shows that the >> > disk usage is only a percentage

Re: [CentOS] Invisible files and disk space

2020-10-08 Thread Simon Matter
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 11:12:54AM -0400, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: >> cent...@foxengines.net wrote: >> >> > It's not working, I haven't been able to identify the files. They >> aren't >> > there. All attempts to measure disk usage of / by files shows that the >> > disk usage is only a percentage

Re: [CentOS] Mail server troubles

2020-10-08 Thread Simon Matter
> Hi, > > This is probably a bit OT, but here goes. > > I've been running our local school's mail server since 2013, with mail > addresses for school staff and some teachers. The server is running CentOS > 7 > with Postfix and Dovecot, and it's a nice no-bullshit configuration with > SPF, > DKIM

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