Re: [CentOS] NFSv4: Using fsid=0 but *not* exporting the root filesystem [solved]

2019-06-12 Thread Frank Thommen
On 3/29/19 12:56 PM, James Pearson wrote: Frank Thommen wrote: I would like to use the NFSv4 ability to create a "root" filesystem with fsid=0, so that I don't have to refer to the whole path of the exported filesystem when I mount it.  However I do *not* want this root

[CentOS] NFSv4: Using fsid=0 but *not* exporting the root filesystem

2019-03-28 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, I would like to use the NFSv4 ability to create a "root" filesystem with fsid=0, so that I don't have to refer to the whole path of the exported filesystem when I mount it. However I do *not* want this root filesystem to be mountable by any host. Is that possible and how? E.g

Re: [CentOS] Tools/mechanisms for the management of access permissions in big filebased datasets

2018-11-28 Thread Frank Thommen
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[CentOS] Tools/mechanisms for the management of access permissions in big filebased datasets

2018-11-27 Thread Frank Thommen
Hello, we are currently managing access permissions through classical user-group-others permissions on a multi-petabyte directory tree with partially very deep and broad directories. Projects are represented by directory trees and mapped through GIDs. Lately we had lots of "singular"

Re: [CentOS] PostgreSQL port accessible even though it should be blocked by firewall

2018-11-01 Thread Frank Thommen
On 31/10/18 18:32, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 10/30/18 8:31 AM, Frank Thommen wrote: I am still puzzled that it is possible to circumvent firewalld so easily.  Basically it means, that firewalld is not to be trusted as soon as containers with port forwarding are running on a system. It's hard

Re: [CentOS] PostgreSQL port accessible even though it should be blocked by firewall

2018-10-30 Thread Frank Thommen
On 10/29/2018 08:43 PM, Keith Keller wrote: On 2018-10-29, Frank Thommen wrote: PostgreSQL is running in a docker container: $ docker ps CONTAINER IDIMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTSNAMES 6f11fc41d2f0

Re: [CentOS] PostgreSQL port accessible even though it should be blocked by firewall

2018-10-30 Thread Frank Thommen
On 10/29/2018 08:18 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: Am 29.10.2018 um 20:03 schrieb Frank Thommen: PostgreSQL is running in a docker container: $ docker ps CONTAINER ID    IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS  PORTS    NAMES

[CentOS] PostgreSQL port accessible even though it should be blocked by firewall

2018-10-29 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, this puzzles me: On one of our developer workstations, all ports with the exception of SSH are closed: $ firewall-cmd --list-all public (active) target: default icmp-block-inversion: no interfaces: eno1 sources: services: ssh dhcpv6-client ports: 22/tcp protocols:

Re: [CentOS] Firefox and Thunderbird freeze/crash followed by "nfs4_reclaim_open_state: Lock reclaim failed!" syslog messages

2018-06-07 Thread Frank Thommen
. *From:* CentOS on behalf of James Pearson *Sent:* June 6, 2018 2:49 PM *To:* CentOS mailing list; Frank Thommen *Subject:* Re: [CentOS] Firefox and Thunderbird freeze/crash followed by "nfs4_reclaim_open_state: Lock reclaim failed!" syslog messages Frank Thommen w

Re: [CentOS] Firefox and Thunderbird freeze/crash followed by "nfs4_reclaim_open_state: Lock reclaim failed!" syslog messages

2018-06-07 Thread Frank Thommen
On 06/06/18 23:49, James Pearson wrote: Frank Thommen wrote: Hi, since I updated my workstation from CentOS 7.4 to 7.5, Firefox and Thunderbird (both 52.8.0, from CentOS repos) regularly freeze (or crash) and cannot be restarted afterwards.  Trying to start them results in a "Bus error

[CentOS] Firefox and Thunderbird freeze/crash followed by "nfs4_reclaim_open_state: Lock reclaim failed!" syslog messages

2018-06-06 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, since I updated my workstation from CentOS 7.4 to 7.5, Firefox and Thunderbird (both 52.8.0, from CentOS repos) regularly freeze (or crash) and cannot be restarted afterwards. Trying to start them results in a "Bus error (core dumped)" (Firefox) and "Killed" (Thunderbird). The system

[CentOS] Various applications freeze regularly since CentOS 7.5 update

2018-05-28 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, since we have upgraded to CentOS 7.5 (from CentOS 7.4), we experience frequent, but not reproducible, freezes of various applications: Thunderbird, Firefox, LibreOffice. Usually the application process keeps running with PPID 1 w/o being killable (not even with SIGKILL). Freezes of

Re: [CentOS] How to blacklist a device driver (sysemd)

2017-11-16 Thread Frank Thommen
On 11/15/2017 07:50 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 11/15/2017 10:35 AM, Frank Thommen wrote: I tried with the files /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and with entries blacklist mlx5_core blacklist mlx5_ib The "blacklist" entries prevent a module be

[CentOS] How to blacklist a device driver (sysemd)

2017-11-15 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, how can a specific device driver in CentOS 7 be blacklisted, so that it doesn't load at boot time? We have Infiniband adapters which are not completely supported by CentOS and we want to silence the error messages for the time being. I tried with the files /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Re: [CentOS] kickstart: dracut-initqueue fails due to unresolvable hostname even though network config looks perfectly ok

2017-05-16 Thread Frank Thommen
On 05/16/2017 12:25 AM, Darr247 wrote: On Mon, 15 May 2017 at 20:05 zulu, Frank Thommen wrote: lustre driver https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/lustre/latest-feature-release/el7.3.1611/ We have a special appliance attached and get the lustre driver from the appliance vendor to ensure

Re: [CentOS] kickstart: dracut-initqueue fails due to unresolvable hostname even though network config looks perfectly ok

2017-05-15 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi On 15/05/17 19:30, Tru Huynh wrote: Hi, On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 03:04:03PM +0200, Frank Thommen wrote: This problem still bites us. I've tried to play around with DHCP settings (rd.net.timeout.dhcp, rd.net.dhcp.retry) to no avail. I'm happy about /any/ hint. 1) ip route seems ok

[CentOS] How can kickstart be (re)started manually from the dracut emergency shell?

2017-05-15 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, this is a side question to my other thread regarding dracut-initqueue network issues. Once I'm thrown into a dracut emergency shell (PXE booted system): How can I restart the kickstart installation process manually from there? Can I at all? Background is, that I'd like to add some

Re: [CentOS] kickstart: dracut-initqueue fails due to unresolvable hostname even though network config looks perfectly ok

2017-05-15 Thread Frank Thommen
This problem still bites us. I've tried to play around with DHCP settings (rd.net.timeout.dhcp, rd.net.dhcp.retry) to no avail. I'm happy about /any/ hint. Cheers frank On 04/24/2017 11:57 PM, Frank Thommen wrote: Hi, kickstarting fails due to problems with host resolution, even though

[CentOS] Bonding mode balance-alb (6): How to control the assigned MAC address?

2017-04-25 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, we are trying to switch our bonding modes from 1 (active-backup) to 6 (balance-alb). However it seems, that these bond devices are not always getting the MAC address from the same slave. Sometimes the device gets the MAC address of the first and sometimes of the second slave. Since

[CentOS] kickstart: dracut-initqueue fails due to unresolvable hostname even though network config looks perfectly ok

2017-04-24 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, kickstarting fails due to problems with host resolution, even though the network seems to be properly configured through DHCP. eno1 and eno2 are both attached to the network, but only eno1 gets an IP via DHCP. Still `curl` cannot resolve the mirror host and the kickstart host during

Re: [CentOS] How to PXE kickstart hosts with little memory (Error: "Warning: /dev/root does not exist")?

2017-04-24 Thread Frank Thommen
On 04/21/2017 10:25 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 04/21/2017 12:49 PM, Frank Thommen wrote: It seems, that this is not related to local disk space - as I initally thought - but to too small memory. It only happens with VMs with little RAM (1024 MB). As soon as we raise the available memory

[CentOS] How to PXE kickstart hosts with little memory (Error: "Warning: /dev/root does not exist")?

2017-04-21 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, while kickstarting our virtual machines with PXE we often run into kickstart/anaconda failing with [...] [...] dracut-mount[xxx]: Warning: Can't mount root filesystem [...] dracut-mount[xxx]: Warning: /dev/root does not exist [...] dracut-mount[xxx]:/lib/dracut-lib.sh: line 1030: echo

Re: [CentOS] anaconda/kickstart: bonding device not created as expected

2017-04-21 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi Tris, On 04/19/2017 06:07 PM, Tris Hoar wrote: On 18/04/2017 15:54, Frank Thommen wrote: Hi, I am currently struggling with the right way to configure a bonding device via kickstart (via PXE). I am installing servers which have "eno" network interfaces. Instead of the expect

[CentOS] anaconda/kickstart: bonding device not created as expected

2017-04-18 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, I am currently struggling with the right way to configure a bonding device via kickstart (via PXE). I am installing servers which have "eno" network interfaces. Instead of the expected bonding device with two active slaves (bonding mode is balance-alb), I get a bonding device with only

Re: [CentOS] Mounting NFS subdirectories individually or just the parent?

2016-07-28 Thread Frank Thommen
as mounting each individually if it worked at all. Cheers, Sean On 27 July 2016 at 23:21, Paul Heinlein <heinl...@madboa.com> wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2016, Frank Thommen wrote: Hello, does it in any respect (throughput/performance, cpu load, I/O load, resilience, ...) matter, if one mounts subdirec

Re: [CentOS] Mounting NFS subdirectories individually or just the parent?

2016-07-28 Thread Frank Thommen
On 07/28/2016 12:21 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2016, Frank Thommen wrote: Hello, does it in any respect (throughput/performance, cpu load, I/O load, resilience, ...) matter, if one mounts subdirectories of an NFS (v3) export into separate directories or if one just mounts

[CentOS] Mounting NFS subdirectories individually or just the parent?

2016-07-27 Thread Frank Thommen
Hello, does it in any respect (throughput/performance, cpu load, I/O load, resilience, ...) matter, if one mounts subdirectories of an NFS (v3) export into separate directories or if one just mounts the parent directory? I.e. like this: server:/export/base/a -> /mnt/a

[CentOS] TB Top/Bottom posting (was: Re: google chrome future / centos 7)

2015-12-17 Thread Frank Thommen
On 17.12.15 22:19, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Alice Wonder wrote: Oh and sorry for the top posting, is there a way in Thunderbird for CentOS to change that default? That's odd, Alice - my t-bird at work, and at home, both set me for bottom posting. Even in the config editor, I don't seen

Re: [CentOS] Rsync and differential Backups

2015-11-09 Thread Frank Thommen
Ciao Alessandro, On 11/09/2015 05:01 PM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Hi list, how to perform a differential backup using rsync? On web there is a great confusion about diff backup concept when searched with rsync. Users says diff because it copy only differences. For me differential is backup

[CentOS] ldapsearch w. SSL refuses to connect to server with openssl 1.0.1 (worked with openssl 1.0.0)

2013-12-17 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, ldapsearch with an ldaps-URL stopped working recently, probably with the update from openssl 1.0.0 to openssl 1.0.1. On a server with up-to-date packages (openssl-1.0.1e-16.el6_5.x86_64, openldap-clients-2.4.23-32.el6_4.1.x86_64) I get the following errors when issuing an ldapsearch (some

Re: [CentOS] ldapsearch w. SSL refuses to connect to server with openssl 1.0.1 (worked with openssl 1.0.0)

2013-12-17 Thread Frank Thommen
On 17.12.13 20:42, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Frank Thommen wrote: Hi, ldapsearch with an ldaps-URL stopped working recently, probably with the update from openssl 1.0.0 to openssl 1.0.1. snip Question #0: is selinux enforcing? SELinux is disabled. frank

Re: [CentOS] Xorg fills up /var/log/Xorg.0.log with AUDIT messages (up to system crash) [solved]

2013-10-04 Thread Frank Thommen
in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Cheers frank On 03.10.13 17:15, Frank Thommen wrote: Hi, on a CentOS 6.4-workstation we have the problem, that Xorg fills up /var/log/Xorg.0.log with AUDIT messages faster than one can read. Within four hours the logfile grew to 160 MB and usually within 1-2 days

[CentOS] Xorg fills up /var/log/Xorg.0.log with AUDIT messages (up to system crash)

2013-10-03 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, on a CentOS 6.4-workstation we have the problem, that Xorg fills up /var/log/Xorg.0.log with AUDIT messages faster than one can read. Within four hours the logfile grew to 160 MB and usually within 1-2 days applications and sometimes the OS crash because /var becomes full. Here a small

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread Frank Thommen
/. Memtest has been run w/o result. Is there a way to narrow down the problem before posting a bug report? Cheers frank -- Frank Thommen - Structures IT Management and Support - EMBL Heidelberg frank.thom...@embl-heidelberg.de - +49 6221 387 8353

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread Frank Thommen
James Pearson wrote: Frank Thommen wrote: I'm experiencing similar problems on a DELL Optiplex 740 with the same CPU (AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ @ 2.60 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB Hitachi Deskstar 7K80 HD). But in my case the slowness is not restricted to OO, but the whole

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread Frank Thommen
James Pearson wrote: Frank Thommen wrote: Can you post the output of lspci and lsmod ? sorry, forgot to copy-paste these in my original post: [r...@shelley ~]# lspci ... 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2) [r...@shelley ~]# lsmod

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-05 Thread Frank Thommen
Mark wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:35 AM, James Pearson jame...@moving-picture.com wrote: Frank Thommen wrote: Can you post the output of lspci and lsmod ? sorry, forgot to copy-paste these in my original post: [r...@shelley ~]# lspci ... 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51

Re: [CentOS] Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP supported by CentOS 5.x?

2009-11-17 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, this is the OP writing... John R Pierce wrote: Rainer Duffner wrote: Except that nowadays, some cheap desktop-motherboards may not know how to enable booting from such a card. I seriously doubt a SCSI card with a 50 pin (max 10 or 20MB/sec?) external connector is going to be used as

[CentOS] Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP supported by CentOS 5.x?

2009-11-16 Thread Frank Thommen
this card working with a CentOS 5.x machine? Alternatively: Are there any linux-supported low-profile PCI SCSI cards with 50pin connector which are supported by CentOS 5.x and which you can recommend? Thanks in advance frank -- Frank Thommen - Structures IT Management and Support - EMBL

Re: [CentOS] Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP supported by CentOS 5.x?

2009-11-16 Thread Frank Thommen
for a specific application we need a low-profile SCSI card (PCI) with external 50pin connector. I thought about getting an Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP. However I was not able to find any usable information about wether this card is supported by Linux/CentOS 5.x or not. Does anyone have

Re: [CentOS] Newsletter feedback

2009-10-23 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter [...] What newsletter are you referring to? I cannot find any newsletter offer on centos.org. frank ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] scp with tty

2009-10-13 Thread Frank Thommen
Warren Young wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: [...] This requires that the public key for localuser on host1 exists in host2:.ssh/authorized_keys. It also requires PermitRootLogin yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, which is unfortunately the default on CentOS. (I usually turn it off.)

Re: [CentOS] Can't download large files

2009-10-09 Thread Frank Thommen
:( wget? I've tried download using other utilities on my windows pc's, on my desktop [Ubuntu] I using rsync and scp to download, but get same problem :( Btw John, thank You for your advise... Really confused :( This might be either a problem on the server you are downloading from

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-09 Thread Frank Thommen
Dave wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 11:19 -1000, Dave wrote: [r...@lee1 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 [snip] PEERDNS=yes - ^^^ change to PEERDNS=no What man page would tell me what this

Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows

2009-09-29 Thread Frank Thommen
? The installer will handle this perfectly if you select the correct partition for your CentOS installation :-) Cheers frank -- Frank Thommen - Structures IT Management and Support - EMBL Heidelberg frank.thom...@embl-heidelberg.de - +49 6221 387 8353

Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows

2009-09-29 Thread Frank Thommen
within the installer...or just let the installer create a default layout. frank -- Frank Thommen - Structures IT Management and Support - EMBL Heidelberg frank.thom...@embl-heidelberg.de - +49 6221 387 8353 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-20 Thread Frank Thommen
[...] Like a previous poster, I'd also suggest, that you use an other distibution in this case. Ubuntu might be a good choice or maybe SuSE. Both are probably better suited for non-commandline techies :-). That is utter bullshit. The neat thing about CentOS as a Desktop is that the

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-19 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi Anne, [...] he feels very insecure. It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to keep it securely patched. [...] I'd be glad of any advice. Like a previous poster, I'd also suggest, that you use an other distibution in this case. Ubuntu might be a

Re: [CentOS] Calendar server

2009-05-12 Thread Frank Thommen
Scott Silva wrote: on 5-12-2009 4:24 AM Max Hetrick spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: [...] I had looked at Horde some time ago, but brushed it off. I think I'll check it out though again and get it up and running. Thanks! Max Most of my users seem OK with it. I was running it

Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-04-04 Thread Frank Thommen
John Hinton wrote: I seem to be able to get all of the 5.x update except for the kernel. Each attempt results in this... (1/1): kernel-2.6.18-128. 100% |=| 15 MB 00:16 http://centos.mirror.nac.net/5.3/updates/i386/RPMS/kernel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686.rpm:

Re: [CentOS] Newby- New install forgot Login - pwd

2009-04-04 Thread Frank Thommen
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Which is why I should password protect grub on my desktop -- have done so now on my laptop. Don't bother, that's the dumbest feature I ever saw. You can edit the password out of the grub line to... I think that shouldn't be?

Re: [CentOS] need trouble ticket system

2009-03-29 Thread Frank Thommen
Darrin Khan wrote: [...] We make good use of RT by Best Practical, it services an ISP and a NOC. http://www.bestpractical.com/rt [...] I'd support RT, too. I've made some experiences with Kayako and RT and while I find Kayako far too complex (especially if you want to customize it), RT

Re: [CentOS] Getting asciidoc

2009-03-28 Thread Frank Thommen
[somehow my mail hasn't gone through yesterday evening. trying again...] Brian Mathis wrote: You need to set enabled=1 in the config file. Currently you have enabled=0 I don't think you need enabled=1 in the repo file if you are using `yum --enablerepo=dag ...` on the command line, but...

Re: [CentOS] Minimal Install?

2009-03-28 Thread Frank Thommen
2) Is it possible, using yum, to know which packages holds what file? (like dpkg -S in Debian/Ubuntu) yum provides filename rpm -q --whatprovides filename frank ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] manage different profile with a laptop

2009-03-27 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi Rachid, I need to use different profile with some linux CentOS laptops. I'm managing such profiles with a custom init script. The scripts checks what IP address (if any) the machine got and according to this address, I disable/enable some services (NIS, sendmail, automounter, local vs.

Re: [CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with RAMDISK: incomplete write ... after modifiying initrd.img

2009-03-27 Thread Frank Thommen
John Doe wrote: Frank Thommen wrote: To modify the initrd.img, I took the original CentOS 5.2 image, unpacked with cpio/gunzip and replaced modules/2.6.18-92.el5/x86_64/e1000e.ko with a current version. This driver module had been created on a freshly installed CentOS 5.2 host with kernel

Re: [CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with RAMDISK: incomplete write ... after modifiying initrd.img

2009-03-27 Thread Frank Thommen
Tru Huynh wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:27:10PM +0100, Frank Thommen wrote: What cpio options did you use to re-create modules/modules.cgz and then the initrd.img? I used `cpio -ovF file` and `cpio -ov -H crc -F file` (I found the latter on http://sial.org/howto/linux/initrd/). However

Re: [CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with RAMDISK: incomplete write ... after modifiying initrd.img

2009-03-27 Thread Frank Thommen
Tru Huynh wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 04:04:40PM +0100, Frank Thommen wrote: This give a slightly different error message: [...] md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. VFS: Cannot open root device NULL or unknown-block(253,3) Please append a correct root

Re: [CentOS] Getting asciidoc

2009-03-27 Thread Frank Thommen
Brian Mathis wrote: You need to set enabled=1 in the config file. Currently you have enabled=0 I don't think you need enabled=1 in the repo file if you are using `yum --enablerepo=dag ...` on the command line, but... [dag] [...] enabled=0

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-27 Thread Frank Thommen
nate wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: [...] I think it's safe to assume that the majority of CentOS users out there run CentOS on servers, not on desktops/laptops/etc. So I'm one from the minority then :-). CentOS 5 is running on (almost) all servers and (really) all Linux clients here.

Re: [CentOS] USB, AutoMount VNC

2009-03-27 Thread Frank Thommen
Guy Boisvert wrote: MHR wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Guy Boisvert boisvert@videotron.ca wrote: Hi! I'm trying to figure out how to make automount do its job when nobody is logged at the console and the user access the server by VNC. Does anybody knows how to make

[CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with RAMDISK: incomplete write ... after modifiying initrd.img

2009-03-26 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, to install current PC models (with new Intel NICs) via Kickstart/PXE, I wanted to add the newest e1000e-Treiber to initrd.img. With this modified image, the Kickstart kernel crashes with the following error messages: [...] md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun

Re: [CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with RAMDISK: incomplete write ... after modifiying initrd.img

2009-03-26 Thread Frank Thommen
What cpio options did you use to re-create modules/modules.cgz and then the initrd.img? I used `cpio -ovF file` and `cpio -ov -H crc -F file` (I found the latter on http://sial.org/howto/linux/initrd/). However I could not find any officially looking information about how the

Re: [CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with RAMDISK: incomplete write ... after modifiying initrd.img

2009-03-26 Thread Frank Thommen
to install current PC models (with new Intel NICs) via Kickstart/PXE, I wanted to add the newest e1000e-Treiber to initrd.img. With this modified image, the Kickstart kernel crashes with the following error messages: Maybe you need to increase the memory allocated to ramdisk? by default I

Re: [CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with RAMDISK: incomplete write ... after modifiying initrd.img

2009-03-26 Thread Frank Thommen
John Doe wrote: Frank Thommen wrote: [...] The new image is considerably bigger than the old one (12 MB vs. 5.7 MB) which puzzles me, as the driver file itself is 2.8 MB (compared to the old e1000e.ko with ca 170 KB) [...] Just wondering... can you safely strip modules like you would