Re: [rhelv5-list] HELP! Server Down! YUM and RPM gone.

Use rpm2tgz to unpack the sqlite RPM on another system, then unpack the resulting tarball on your affected system. This will drop the sqlite binaries into place, should at least get RPM working again. Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A MTS Systems Engineer

Re: [rhelv5-list] HELP! Server Down! YUM and RPM gone.

Sorry that's rpm2cpio... Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A MTS Systems EngineerAustin, TX 78735 Advanced Micro Devices Desk: (512) 602-8775 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Cell: (512) 791-0686 Global IT Infrastructure

Re: [rhelv5-list] REHL 5.7 /var/cache/yum/rhel-x86_64-server-5 filling up

I don't know the ETA for the fix to show up everywhere, but I do know there is a fix (bz 725536), because RH Support was able to get us a test package that fixes it. -Paul On 08/24/11 05:36, Horst Severini wrote: Speaking of known bugs: is there an ETA for the fix to the autofs bug which

Re: [rhelv5-list] Near Real-Time RSYNC with NFS

Sounds like you need a block-level solution like NetApp's SnapMirror. I don't think trying to synchronize this data from the OS layer is going to be a very elegant or efficient solution. Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A MTS Systems Engineer

Re: [rhelv5-list] Seeing different CPU speeds

stepping: 3 cpu MHz : 1000.000 The Opteron 1222 is a 3.0Ghz processor -- it runs at 1.0Ghz when idle. Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A MTS Systems EngineerAustin, TX 78735 Advanced Micro Devices Desk: (512) 602-8775

Re: [rhelv5-list] Seeing different CPU speeds

, it may disable 4 of the cylinders, so your cpu MHz in this example would be V4 3.2L even though the model shows up as a V8 6.4L. Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A MTS Systems EngineerAustin, TX 78735 Advanced Micro Devices Desk: (512

Re: [rhelv5-list] Seeing different CPU speeds

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Re: [rhelv5-list] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 Beta Announcement

performance out of G7's. Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A MTS Systems EngineerAustin, TX 78735 Advanced Micro Devices Desk: (512) 602-8775 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Cell: (512) 791-0686 Global IT Infrastructure

Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL 4, 5, 6 and deployment of HP PSP

are detected (and not just the first 4). HP is pretty good about updating the PSP when new hardware comes out, so I imagine that v8.6 probably supports the 585 G7 just fine. Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A MTS Systems EngineerAustin, TX 78735

Re: [rhelv5-list] Ksplice in production from RHEL4 and RHEL5

We're looking at it in our environment too. Very interested in any experience good/bad. Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A MTS Systems EngineerAustin, TX 78735 Advanced Micro Devices Desk: (512) 602-8775 Linux/Unix Systems

Re: [rhelv5-list] Ksplice in production from RHEL4 and RHEL5

, but in our case it would satisfy our auditing tool, which runs in userland as a script (and thus doesn't make uname() system calls directly). Have you had any experience with the kSplice API? Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A MTS Systems Engineer

Re: [rhelv5-list] Ksplice in production from RHEL4 and RHEL5

Fantastic feedback. Thanks! Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A MTS Systems EngineerAustin, TX 78735 Advanced Micro Devices Desk: (512) 602-8775 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Cell: (512) 791-0686 Global IT Infrastructure

Re: [rhelv5-list] Ksplice in production from RHEL4 and RHEL5

I'm also curious about the PSP since we use it heavily in our infrastructure. Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A MTS Systems EngineerAustin, TX 78735 Advanced Micro Devices Desk: (512) 602-8775 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering

Re: [rhelv5-list] Do 48 core Dell R815's run out of the box?

Yes, you can run them out of the box with RHEL5.5. Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A MTS Systems EngineerAustin, TX 78735 Advanced Micro Devices Desk: (512) 602-8775 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Cell: (512) 791-0686 Global

Re: [rhelv5-list] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta now available

Seconded. I'm only getting 4.5KiB/sec... Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A Senior Systems Engineer Austin, TX 78735 Advanced Micro Devices Desk: (512) 602-8775 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Cell: (512) 791-0686 Global

Re: [rhelv5-list] Impact of Magny-Cours et al

The new 8/12-core Magny-Cours stuff (G34 socket) is going to be under the 6000-series, with the 4/6-core Lisbon stuff (C32 socket) under the 4000-series. Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A Senior Systems Engineer Austin, TX 78735 Advanced Micro

Re: [rhelv5-list] Impact of Magny-Cours et al

Yes, it's the Mentor Calibre, and it's multi-threaded, so it's able to take advantage of lots of cores. I was running a Calibre-based benchmark when I took this screenshot. Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A Senior Systems Engineer Austin, TX 78735

Re: [rhelv5-list] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 GA Announcement

-height/2-socket blade, or 48 cores in a full-height/4-socket blade. Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A Senior Systems Engineer Austin, TX 78735 Advanced Micro Devices Desk: (512) 602-8775 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Cell: (512) 791

Re: [rhelv5-list] Whither RHEL6?

We're still using RHEL4...so RHEL5 is still new for us :-) Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A Senior Systems Engineer Austin, TX 78735 Advanced Micro Devices Desk: (512) 602-8775 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Cell: (512) 791-0686

Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL-v5.3 and Sun Fire-x4240

initrd.img, in pxelinux.cfg, and make sure that the initrd.img is the one from the original ISOs under images/pxeboot. Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A Senior Systems Engineer Austin, TX 78735 Advanced Micro Devices Desk: (512) 602-8775

Re: [rhelv5-list] Need reboot=pci boot parameter in RHEL5.4

At one time, we used to have to put apm=power-off on the kernel command line to get systems to reboot. Not sure if that's still something. You could try it though... Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A Senior Systems Engineer Austin, TX 78735

Re: [rhelv5-list] Re: Re: Boot completely from iSCSI

had to be able to bring up eth1 on a private network to connect to the iSCSI shelf via a different switch. We never tried using the primary interface to do this, since in our environment, SAN traffic is not allowed to share the network with the other traffic. Paul Krizak

Re: [rhelv5-list] Re: Boot completely from iSCSI

a locally-attached disk or a FC SAN or something. Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B400.2B Senior Systems Engineer Austin, TX 78735 Advanced Micro Devices Desk: (512) 602-8775 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Cell: (512) 791-0686 Silicon

Re: [rhelv5-list] Re: Boot completely from iSCSI

is a pretty easy win. Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B400.2B Senior Systems Engineer Austin, TX 78735 Advanced Micro Devices Desk: (512) 602-8775 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Cell: (512) 791-0686 Silicon Design Division Fax

Re: [rhelv5-list] Node interleaving / numa on Opteron server

Our testing shows that RHEL5's kernel finally handles NUMA properly. Leave the ACPI SRAT table enabled, and disable node interleaving for best performance. RHEL3 and RHEL4 (up to U5) still need node interleaving ON for best performance. RHEL4 U6+ seems to be better with NUMA. Paul Krizak

Re: [rhelv5-list] kickstart using ksdevice=link doesn't find the right NIC

, then kickstart can fetch that and use it. The benefit is that you can use any NIC in the system that supports PXE. You configure the BIOS to boot from the NIC you want, and pxelinux and kickstart will take care of the rest. Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B400.2A Advanced Micro

Re: [rhelv5-list] guaranteed cpu power to VMs

provides should be served by domU's, not Dom0. This is because anybody that can gain access to your Dom0 can manipulate your DomU's, which is a huge security problem. Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B400.2A Advanced Micro Devices Austin, TX 78735 Linux/Unix

Re: [rhelv5-list] define network in kickstart pre script

You can specify network info on the kernel boot line, i.e.: linux ks=http://blah/ks.cfg ip=$ip netmask=$netmask gateway=$gateway dns=$dns_server Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B400.2A Advanced Micro Devices Austin, TX 78735 Linux/Unix Systems

Re: [rhelv5-list] define network in kickstart pre script

-to-maintain hands-free installing. If you don't have a DHCP server that you can configure for PXE and TFTP, you may not be able to do this, though. You're already heading in the right direction using a network-accessible kickstart file... Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS

Re: [rhelv5-list] [SOLVED] nVidia display issues after switch from 5.1 to 5.2

In 5.2, it does not. This works instead: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ grep Rgb /etc/X11/xorg.conf RgbPath/usr/share/X11/rgb Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B400.2A Advanced Micro Devices Austin, TX 78735 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Desk: (512) 602

Re: [rhelv5-list] NFS and performance ?

suggest that you play with the clients a bit -- it might not be a problem with your NFS server. Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B400.2A Advanced Micro Devices Austin, TX 78735 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Desk: (512) 602-8775 Silicon Design

Re: [rhelv5-list] NFS and performance ?

Wow! I'm surprised that our TAM did not dig up these bugzilla entries. Both of these definitely look like they could be causing (or at least contributing to) our RHEL5 NFS performance woes. Thanks for the heads-up! Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B400.2A Advanced

Re: [rhelv5-list] Protect my stolen disk

code and data is via the web, which is how you're intending the data to be manipulated anyway. Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B400.2A Advanced Micro Devices Austin, TX 78735 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Desk: (512) 602-8775 Silicon Design Division

Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL5 and missing files using automount and ssh annoing password queries

. But 5.0 was pretty sketchy, IMHO. NFS/autofs problems, Xen problems, etc. I'm avoiding 5.0 and starting out with 5.1 directly (with the updated -53.1.4 kernel). Paul Krizak 5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625 Advanced Micro Devices Austin, TX 78741 Linux

Re: [rhelv5-list] .rhosts / hosts.equiv + netgroup subgroups broken?

mpd.mhdc.trusted_hosts mpd.svdc.trusted_hosts And so on and so on. You sure the problem is with hosts.equiv/.rhosts? You might be facing a PAM issue... Paul Krizak 5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625 Advanced Micro Devices Austin, TX 78741 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering

Re: [rhelv5-list] .rhosts / hosts.equiv + netgroup subgroups broken?

Have you checked /etc/security/access.conf? That's the one that always screws us up... Paul Krizak 5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625 Advanced Micro Devices Austin, TX 78741 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Phone: (512) 602-8775 Silicon Design Division

Re: [rhelv5-list] Migrate existing RHEL4 host to RHEL5 para-virtualized guest

(obviously avoid things like /dev, /proc and /boot). What you really want is a new system that is functionally identical to the old one. No magic migration has to be done -- just make sure that all the apps and config files and startup scripts are copied over to the new system. Paul Krizak

Re: [rhelv5-list] Kickstart package selection takes a Loooong time in RHEL5?!

at it!). I've also noticed that the package *installation* takes much longer than before. In RHEL3, it takes about 10 minutes to install 4GB of packages. In RHEL5, it takes about an hour to install 7GB of packages. That just ain't right. Paul Krizak 5900 E. Ben White

Re: [rhelv5-list] mount/automount/nfs weirdness in RHEL5

You are correct -- I misspoke about this issue -- the permissions as set on the server are unrelated to this issue (i.e. permissions set on the client). Paul Krizak 5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625 Advanced Micro Devices Austin, TX 78741 Linux/Unix Systems

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] RHEL5 B2 installs sssllllooowww?

Yeah these are 8-64GB machines. Paul Krizak 5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625 Advanced Micro Devices Austin, TX 78741 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Phone: (512) 602-8775 Silicon Design Division Cell: (512) 791-0686 Jay Turner wrote: On Thu

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] RHEL5 B2 installs sssllllooowww?

Wow...running with an HTTP-based install cut the time down to 30 minutes (the expected time for 10G of packages) Looks like the NFS code in the PXE kernel is quite b0rked. Paul Krizak 5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625 Advanced Micro Devices Austin, TX 78741

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] RHEL5 B2 installs sssllllooowww?

between 20 and 70% CPU doing *something*, but no installation is actually occurring. Paul Krizak 5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625 Advanced Micro Devices Austin, TX 78741 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Phone: (512) 602-8775 Silicon Design Division

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] RHEL5 B2 installs sssllllooowww?

with the HTTP method and it's hung on this same package each time. How do I forcibly exclude an individual package without messing up the dependency resolution? If it's a bum package, I should submit a bug to redhat. Paul Krizak 5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625 Advanced

[rhelv5-beta-list] /etc/gdm/custom.conf being ignored?

/gdm/defaults.conf as a valid option... -- Paul Krizak 5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625 Advanced Micro Devices Austin, TX 78741 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Phone: (512) 602-8775 Silicon Design Division Cell: (512) 791-0686

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] /etc/gdm/custom.conf being ignored?

I've submitted bug #218133 about this -- looks like the RHEL5 theme is what's broken, not gdm. Paul Krizak 5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625 Advanced Micro Devices Austin, TX 78741 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Phone: (512) 602-8775 Silicon Design

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] Getting serial console output during bootup?

::sigh:: naturally, I succeeded in answering my own question just minutes after getting frustrated enough to send this e-mail. Removing the console=tty0,9600 from the kernel boot line fixed it right up. Paul Krizak 5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625 Advanced Micro Devices