Re: [CentOS] Latest 9-Stream ISO fails to boot after install

On 8/1/23 14:06, Robby Callicotte via CentOS wrote: Hello, I was performing a test install of CentOS Stream 9 using the latest[1] available dvd iso from the mirror[2]. I manually select "minimal install" from the selectable packages. The install seems to go smoothly. Upon reboot I am greeted

[CentOS] CentOS cloud images, cloud-init

Hello List, At this link, https://cloud.centos.org/altarch/7/images/ I'm trying to use the latest image CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.qcow2c I cannot log in to the VM because cloud-init did not run.  vSphere says open-vm-tools is not running. After having broken into the VM, I see

[CentOS] rpcbind fails to start with IPv6 disabled

Hello, Does anyone know if this is still an issue? https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2798411 rpcbind fails to start with IPv6 disabled - Red Hat Customer Portal On RHEL7.3 and later with IPv6 disabled, rpcbind fails to start... Thanks, Jack ___

Re: [CentOS] Troubles expanding file system.

On 9/2/2021 10:28 PM, Simon Matter wrote: There is one thing that I couldn't find a solution for no matter what I tried: When the root/boot disk of the guest is being resized, it's not possible to modify and reread the new partition table without reboot. I'm curious to know if this works for

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

I'm just trying to determine whether you were making the argument you intended to, because you are literally suggesting that the majority is silent, and the people who are silent are the ones that are happy with something. Silence doesn't confer anything. People can be displeased,

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade OpenSSH version to the latest stable version on CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core).

On 2020-11-30 21:48, Peter wrote: On 1/12/20 4:04 pm, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: I am running CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core). Is there a way to upgrade OpenSSH version openssh-7.4p1-21.el7.x86_64 to the latest stable version openssh-server 8.4 using yum repositories or rpm binaries? No,

Re: [CentOS] Problems with x2go

On 9/15/2020 4:24 AM, Stefano Simonucci wrote: I have installed x2goserver on a Centos8 server. Yesterday, after the installation I was able to connect by means of x2go. Today I get the following error ( /var/log/messages) /usr/bin/x2gostartagent[2677]: no free display number available, cannot

Re: [CentOS] rsync upgrade

On 2020-08-06 08:45, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: You'll need to upgrade to CentOS8. C7 is at rsync 3.1.2-10, and will not go above 3.1.2 ever. C8.2 is at 3.1.3-7, C8 will always be on 3.1.3 Martin Another option is to build rsync from source, which is what I did to try out the zstd

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8.2 corrupt pxeboot kernel

On 2020-06-17 08:46, isdtor wrote: Attempting to PXE boot from the BaseOS/x86_64/kickstart/images/pxeboot/ files results in repeating messages Invalid or corrupt kernel image eventually changing to Could not find kernel image: centos8.2.x86_64/vmlinuz I downloaded the files again, from a

Re: [CentOS] Future Releases

No, there is no automated way to move from CentOS-6 to CentOS-7 .. and we have no idea what will be in CentOS-8 until Red Hat releases RHEL-8. We have no idea what will be in CentOS-6.11 until Red Hat releases RHEL-6.11 .. and we have no idea what will be in the release of CentOS-7 until Red

Re: [CentOS] Vmware - Slightly off topic

What is the correct way to provide a CentOS 7 - WMware image for ESX ? You are probably looking for VMware Converter which can p2v or v2v. IMO: if you are creating a VM image which is a binary blob or image then you are doing it wrong. Have the VM/server/desktop be a simple next/next/next

[CentOS] centos-7.4 elfutils

Hello, I'm taking 7.4 for a spin.  I did the minimal install, and ran into trouble with groupinstall base.  The trouble seems to stem from elfutils.  One command claims elfutils-libs-0.166-2.el7.x86_64 is missing, and another one claims it's installed.  Not sure what's going on here.

Re: [CentOS] tabs ignored in here document

On 5/5/17 1:52 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 05/05/2017 04:46 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 5/5/2017 1:41 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I just did a test where I created a file, xit, with the here document in it and ran it with ./xit This way, the tabs remained. So the 'problem' is when I am

Re: [CentOS] M.2 PCI-E card

On 4/3/2017 6:17 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Alice Wonder said: I need a low profile PCI-E card that allows for up to 2 M.2 SSD drives that is known to work with the stock kernel in CentOS 7. Can anyone recommend one? I can't recommend a specific one, but

Re: [CentOS] port running but connection refused

On 10/19/16 2:03 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: Hi All, I have a process running on port 5070... I'm using CentOS 7. iptables is running firewalld should be stopped and disabled. When I telnet localhost 5070 I get connection refused. When I stop iptables I still get connection refused. netstat

[CentOS] Bourne shell deprecated?

Hello List, Today someone in a meeting claimed the Bourne shell is deprecated, one of the reasons being it supposedly has security issues. Well that's all news to me, and I cannot find anything online to corroborate the claim. Is this true, is it a bash vs. Bourne FUD, or something else?

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware issue: HP controller to 3rd party RAID

On 10/07/15 10:06, John R Pierce wrote: On 10/7/2015 8:42 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Got an old HP box with a P800 Smart Array controller. The HP RAID box plugged into it's failing, and we got a new JetStor. Anyone know if we can just plug the JetStor in and set it to passthrough, or if

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware issue: HP controller to 3rd party RAID

On 10/07/15 11:13, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Jack Bailey wrote: controller that expects to talk to individual SAS or SATA drives. you can manage it with hpssacli from centos. I have the P822. It has no JBOD or RAID 0. hpacucli works with CentOS 7.0, but is broken on 7.1 -- it cannot find

Re: [CentOS] Real sh? Or other efficient shell for non-interactive scripts

On 04/24/15 05:59, Les Mikesell wrote: The original ksh wasn't open source and might even have been an extra-cost item in ATT unix. And the early emulations weren't always complete so you couldn't count on script portability. I generally thought it was safer to use perl for anything that took

[CentOS] ESXi, CentOS 7 guest, CPU disabled

Hello, Over the last several weeks I've had a couple of CentOS 7 guests running in ESXi freeze because the CentOS halted the CPU. The problem is described here: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=2000542 My CentOS 6 VMs are not

Re: [CentOS] outside ssh connection from two different ISP's

On 11/10/2014 2:11 PM, Frank Cox wrote: I have both cable and dsl service. The router attached to the cable service is 192.168.0.1 and the router attached to the dsl service is 192.168.0.254. I determine which service my computers communicate through by setting the gateway assignment to

[CentOS] systemd and httpd

Hello, On my new CentOS 7 server httpd stops running after about two minutes or so. strace shows me the process is asking for a password, and failing to get one, times out. In reading the docs I see an option to systemd: --no-ask-password. Can anyone tell me where and how to set this? As a

Re: [CentOS] systemd and httpd

On 08/15/14 14:48, Alexander Dalloz wrote: Am 15.08.2014 um 23:29 schrieb Jack Bailey: Hello, On my new CentOS 7 server httpd stops running after about two minutes or so. strace shows me the process is asking for a password, and failing to get one, times out. In reading the docs I see

Re: [CentOS] block level changes at the file system level?

I think the buzzword you want is dedup. dedup works at the file level. Here we're talking about files that are highly similar but not identical. I don't want to rewrite an entire file that's 99% identical to the new file form, I just want to write a small set of changes. I'd use ZFS to keep

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

On 09/05/13 03:56, Scott Robbins wrote: Note that I haven't worked with the free version, this was paid version of ESXi 5.1, which I_think_ is the first one that VMware says should be run entirely from the browser, as opposed to a client. Like another poster, it was the one reason I kept a

[CentOS] Gnome desktop trouble

Hello, I have several CentOS 6.2 hosts (2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.x86_64) that lock up when attempting to use the Gnome desktop from the console. I can always log in, but then all I get is the blue root window, the round initial mouse pointer, and nothing else. The last process associated with the

Re: [CentOS] Gnome desktop trouble

On 03/20/12 11:59, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: snip My first reaction would be to look at /etc/X11/xorg.conf, if there is one - the few that don't might have some odd differences from generic. Should I assume that the ones that hang are USB mice keyboards? How old are the ones that hang? Thanks

Re: [CentOS] Gnome desktop trouble

On 03/20/12 12:19, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: On 20.03.2012 15:11, Jack Bailey wrote: On 03/20/12 11:59, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: snip My first reaction would be to look at /etc/X11/xorg.conf, if there is one - the few that don't might have some odd differences from generic. Should I assume

Re: [CentOS] Gnome desktop trouble

On 03/20/12 14:11, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: On 20.03.2012 17:09, ken wrote: On 03/20/2012 02:21 PM Jack Bailey wrote: snip Also you may want to try invoking startx from runlevel 5. That doesn't make sense to me - runlevel 5, AFAIK, *is* X running. Right. I am running at run level 3 so I can

Re: [CentOS] NSS ldap problems

On 10/31/2011 4:46 PM, Craig White wrote: Here are the ldap related packaged installed on the 6.0 box: [root@vburntest02 ~]# rpm -qa | grep ldap openldap-2.4.19-15.el6_0.2.x86_64 pam_ldap-185-5.el6.x86_64 nss-pam-ldapd-0.7.5-3.el6.x86_64 openldap-clients-2.4.19-15.el6_0.2.x86_64

Re: [CentOS] Sun Fire X4200 M2 / CentOS 5 APIC issues

Ryan Ordway wrote: I had been running CentOS 5 happily on my Sun Fire X4200 M2 systems, then I upgraded the BIOS and iLOM firmware. Now I'm running into what seems to be a fairly common problem with newer motherboards. I cannot boot unless I use the 'noapic' kernel option. If I try to boot the

Re: [CentOS] Xen clock drift

A note by Johnny Hughes in http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2189 (comment 6644): As a side note ... if the clock GAINS (runs to fast) time you should be able to fix it with this: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1591 (by setting the correct host.cpukHz) and vmware tools should adjust a clock that

[CentOS] Xen clock drift

Hello All, Consider a CentOS-5.1 Xen server (2.6.18-53.1.4.el5xen) hosting two domains running CentOS-5.1 (2.6.18-53.1.4.el5). One domain has a fairly accurate clock, the other domain has a clock that gains ungodly amounts of time, roughly one minute every two or three minutes. For a fix,

Re: [CentOS] Xen clock drift

badclock# ksh ./xenclockdrift ntpd: time slew -0.000193s ntpd: time set -57.356377s ntpd: time slew +0.002352s ntpd: time slew +0.003018s ntpd: time set -57.417488s ntpd: time slew +0.012089s ntpd: time slew -0.000985s These domains are fully virtualized and set up identically, except badclock