Re: Fermilab/CERN recommendation for Linux distribution

I haven't checked in on this in quite some time.  Has there been a clear preference to Rocky over Alma thus far?  I know I intend to use one or the other, but would be curious to know the direction of the wind among the scientific community. Fax: (608) 831-9591 On 10/26/21 8:18 AM, ~Stack~

Re: google-chrome

On 10/22/21 9:40 AM, Stephen Isard wrote: For the past couple of days, I've been getting -- /etc/cron.daily/0yum-daily.cron: Failed to check for updates with the following error message: Failed to build transaction: google-chrome-stable-95.0.4638.54-1.x86_64 requires

Re: mount -t cifs ... -o username=... file_mode=0777 ignored

On 8/17/21 7:38 AM, Ekkard Gerlach wrote: Hi, options gid=users,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 are ignored in SL 6.10: root@arthur:/home/pc41# /bin/mount -t cifs  //10.0.0.41/public /home/pc41/usb-stick -o username=xxx,password=xxx,gid=users,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

Re: Recent clang & llvm packages for SL7?

SL provides a softwarecollections repo:

Re: [SL-Users] Re: any update on CERN Linux and CentOS-8 situation?

On 5/4/21 3:42 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: You state that there will not be a CentOS 9 and only a CentOS Stream perpetual alpha or beta channel.  I thought that IBM RH would not directly release buildable production EL source, but would channel it under a CentOS moniker.  CentOS Stream is *NOT*

Re: any update on CERN Linux and CentOS-8 situation?

For our use, free is definitely a positive, but not a requirement. We deploy our product's control systems and are really looking for the long term stability and security patches.  I wouldn't have a problem with purchasing licenses, as long as it didn't get in the way.  That meaning, not

Re: [SL-Users] Re: any update on CERN Linux and CentOS-8 situation?

Thanks Konstantin for all of this great information. I'll second the recommendation to watch Troy's video. It makes me feel a bit more comfortable that Alma/Rocky will be able to deliver the 10 years of updates. I still have a sour taste for this new "module" packaging scheme. It seems to

Re: yum info available returns wrong date field

On 10/18/19 6:36 AM, Charles Elsaesser wrote: Hello, yum info available returns wrong date field on SL-7.7 as it was probably on older releases. Is there a special meaning attached to field "Date" or is it an error to be notified? See bash-4.2# yum info available | grep -i -e "Date   

Re: XFS memory allocation deadlock

On 8/21/19 8:10 PM, Bill Maidment wrote: Hi During copying a large file (about 200GB) to a backup hard drive, I am getting a multitude of XFS possible memory allocation deadlock messages. RedHat Portal shows the following: XFS issues "possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc"

Re: Dropbox

On 5/6/19 11:56 AM, Stephen Isard wrote: Hello, I am trying to install dropbox on an up to date SL 7.6 system. caja-dropbox from nux-dextop installs, but when I try to run it, I get a popup saying that it needs to download a proprietary daemon and after a while that fails saying that I need

Re: Qualys agent Scientific Linux

On 3/29/19 10:07 AM, Howard, Chris wrote: Our security guy runs a scanning system called Qualys. He gave me an rpm file to install and a couple of commands to run. It appears to have installed the agent ok. But I see in the log file that it is trying to do a pattern match to determine the OS

Re: Installing Chrome

On 3/18/19 11:22 AM, Boris Goldowsky wrote: Trying to get Google Chrome installed on Scientific Linux 7.3, in order to be able to run Selenium/WebDriver tests. Attempting to install via RPM or Yum, it is unable to find the dependency "liberation-fonts" Error: Package:

Re: unavailable SLU archives? and gom from epel-testing NOT WANTED!

On 01/04/2019 03:27 AM, Winnie Lacesso wrote: Happy New Year! Back in ?Oct?Nov?Dec? was mention of SL7 clients not updating, running into ???libgtop (or was it something else) dependency fails. If I could find SLU archives, who said what when could be quoted, but ATM attempt to access SLU

Re: Config file for SL7.5 in mock

On 10/26/2018 09:07 AM, John Pilkington wrote: I have successfully used mock in Fedora 27 and Fedora 28 to build rpms to run under Scientific Linux (as well as ones to run natively.) At first I used a locally written config file, but more recently /etc/mock/epel-7-x86_64-rpmfusion-free.cfg

Re: systemd tftp xinetd

On 09/11/2018 09:48 AM, Ken Teh wrote: What you described works manually. Basically, the service is not started on reboot even though I've enabled it. So I don't know what 'enabling' a service means. Since tftp-server installs /etc/xinetd.d/tftp, is it hinting that it should be started via

Re: Fwd: Services - Server

On 7/13/2018 7:22 AM, Manuel Sanchez wrote: Greetings to the whole community; I have installed version 6.5 but I need to know how to call the different servers or services and where are the directories of the configuration files; to facilitate the answer I try to simplify the text:

Re: System running SL 7 fails to update certain packages

On 07/10/2018 02:58 PM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 07/10/2018 02:39 PM, Jon Pruente wrote: I've got a server running SL 7.3 and while it has installed many updates including recent ones under the 7.5 update, it is not installing all updates to a full SL 7.5 system. I've tried 'yum clean all

Re: System running SL 7 fails to update certain packages

On 07/10/2018 02:39 PM, Jon Pruente wrote: I've got a server running SL 7.3 and while it has installed many updates including recent ones under the 7.5 update, it is not installing all updates to a full SL 7.5 system. I've tried 'yum clean all' and 'rm -rf /var/cache/yum' and they didn't help.

Re: Trouble with MySQL Server

On 05/15/2018 08:53 PM, Lofgren, Eric wrote: Having failed to fix the ugly partition system, we’re going for reconfiguring mysql to make it elsewhere. I followed this post to try to get the temporary directory to point to another partition:

Re: Loading SL 7.5 from Flash Drive

On 05/15/2018 03:19 PM, Larry Linder wrote: I have a usb 3 - 16 G flash drive. When I try to drag and drop "SL 7.5 everything" it gets to 4.2 G and quits. After about 1 minute it come back and says that it cannot splice file. The crual joke is that when you move the partial file to trash - no

Re: Flash Install of SL 7.5

On 05/11/2018 12:51 PM, Larry Linder wrote: I have been asleep for a wile. Most of our systems are 6.8 or 6.9. Have a new box in pieces ready to put together as a demo. Would like to use a flash drive to install 7.5. A few months ago I noticed a letter about a problem with doing this. ? does

Re: 404 for all default repositories

On 05/01/2018 11:26 AM, Marius Rometsch wrote: Hello dear SL Users, I was directed here from the scientificlinuxforum.org because I seem to have encountered unusual behavior of yum and SL. I switched from OpenSUSE to SL7 yesterday and while setting it up, yum could not install or update any

Re: How to download SL 7.4

On 04/02/2018 07:02 AM, Elio Fabri wrote: Hi all, I want to switch from SL 6.2 to SL 7.4 (fresh install, not upgrade). In http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7x/x86_64/iso/ I see several iso files, but cannot understand which one fits my needs. I would like to keep a bootable DVD

Re: We're into weird and wonderful land... The g_ether kernel module

On 01/18/2018 01:49 AM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: On 01/17/2018 08:11 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: Hi all, I'm on kernel 3.10.108-1 and I've found the "gadget" modules don't seem to be built. make oldconfig in ther kernel source SEEMS to show them selected, Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks in

Re: Upgrading to SL 7.4 not working

On 11/27/2017 09:51 PM, stephen sefick wrote: Hello, I have yum-conf-7x installed, but I am unable to upgrade to 7.4. I can provide anything that may be needed to help. I could change all of the repos to point to 7.4, but I feel like there is a better way to this than that. kindest

Re: development environment for "lowest common denominator"

On 11/08/2017 11:58 AM, Serguei Mokhov wrote: On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: I know at one time that there was a proprietary (licensed for fee) development environment that was native and portable to X11, Mac OS, and MS Win -- that is, using this

Re: HDD power and keyboard settings not retained after reboot

On 11/06/2017 10:18 AM, D Greig wrote: Hi list, SL7.4. The title above says it all. After reboot: [root@mu dg]# hdparm -B /dev/sda /dev/sda:  APM_level    = 128 And the keyboard defaults to US layout rather than the desired 105 key english UK layout. Any help will be very much

Re: Security ERRATA Important: kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64

This particular email was sent to the errata list, but the reply-to header is set to the users lists... On 06/21/2017 02:47 AM, Bill Maidment wrote: Aha. Thanks for that. How many mailing lists do we need??? I got confused (not difficult at my age) as the response came on the User list.

Re: SL6 % SL5 issues

On 04/17/2017 07:49 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 7:19 PM, Franchisseur Robert wrote: Hello, upgrading from SL5 to SL6 I have several problems but mainly: 1) On a Dell Latitude E6500 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family)

Re: SL 7 firewall-cmd erroring

On 04/19/2017 03:55 PM, Kelley Trombly-Freytag wrote: When I tried to add to my ipset, (firewall-cmd --permanent --ipset=groupips --add-entry=XXX.XXX.XX.0/24) I received the following error: Error: IO_Object_XMLGenerator instance has no attribute '_out' This subsequently made my ipset file

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] SL5 initrd.img

of thing. -Mark On 04/18/2017 03:21 PM, Pat Riehecky wrote: I believe that is all generated via the buildinstall script from the anaconda-runtime rpm under /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime. If memory serves it spits out usage information if you don't provide any args. Pat On 04/18/2017 02:48 PM, Mark

SL5 initrd.img

Is there a resource/information/script on generating the initrd.img used in the SL5 installation media? I'm trying to inject kernel-lt from ELrepo in place of the usual one. Replacing vmlinuz is easy, but I'm not sure where to start getting the initrd updated with the appropriate kernel

Re: Copying a system: no login possible

On 03/21/2017 06:49 AM, Lars Behrens wrote: Hi there, After copying a system like I have done a million times before (but only with debianic, suse or arch systems) by * starting a live system on the target * copy the origin to mounted target device * chroot afterwards * adapt /etc/fstab and

Re: Server going to uncommanded sleep or suspend

On 03/09/2017 02:04 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 01:32:39PM -0600, Mark Stodola wrote: What does hostnamectl report for chassis type? Bingo! One desktop is set to laptop. root@daq01:~# hostnamectl Static hostname: daq01 Chassis: laptop Operating

Re: Server going to uncommanded sleep or suspend

On 03/09/2017 12:44 PM, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: Hi, there. I wonder if anybody else is seeing the same problem with el7: The symptoms are: no ping, dead video, dead keyboard. After power cycle, syslog shows that the system has attempted to go

Re: Need help Debuging boot

On 02/16/2017 10:07 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: Greetings, I'm going to keep this "short" because I've just had 6hrs of things I've tried that didn't work. It would take to long to list them all. :-) I have a bunch of new SuperMicro servers. Installed 7.3 on it. Reboot and it hangs at: "Probing EDD

Re: gthumb now giving an error

On 02/13/2017 03:40 PM, MAH Maccallum wrote: I have been using gthumb happily for a while. It has suddenly started to evoke the error message; GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Application does not handle command line arguments This happens even when no argument is given on

Re: 7.3 update problems

On 01/27/2017 01:42 PM, John Pilkington wrote: As I noted, my system seems to have updated happily. I started it from yumex by enabling the rolling repos. But I've just been examining my grandson's, which yesterday 'welcomed' him to emergency mode. I'm afraid he doesn't fit the SL target user

Re: Perl 6 just hit

Seeing as how it is only in EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux), I wouldn't expect any change of support for TUV/SL for currently maintained releases. On 12/28/2016 03:24 PM, Natalia Ratnikova wrote: Hi All, With Perl 6 on the scene, is Perl 5 expected to continue to get full support

Re: SL 7.2 on a HP Zbook

On 10/07/2016 02:09 PM, Bill Askew wrote: Mark The hwclock --systohc worked thanks! :-) Still kind of odd that the date command does not cause the date and time to the hardware clock when shutting down (this is how it works on a Lenovo T61p running SL 6.2) Bill This is probably useful:

Re: Making bootable USB

On 09/30/2016 06:29 AM, MAH Maccallum wrote: I have a new PC without optical drive so I wanted to install from a USB stick. I found neither of the methods listed in the Scientific Linux website worked. However, a read of parts of the script livecd-iso-to-disk led to a working method. The problem

Re: mouse cursor goes missing on an installed SL7.2 system

On 09/27/2016 12:00 PM, Globe Trotter wrote: *From:* Mark Stodola <stod...@pelletron.com> *To:* Scientific Linux <scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov> *Sent:* Monday, September 26, 2016 4:12 PM *Subject:* Re:

Re: how to get kickstart file for making a SL7.2 livecd

On 09/26/2016 12:05 AM, Globe Trotter wrote: Hi, I would like to make a SL7.2 LiveCD using openbox/pekwm. I was wondering if I could get hold of the kickstart file for the SL7.2 livecd so that I can get a reference from where to make changes. I am familiar with creating LiveCDs for the Fedora

Re: Production current mozilla firefox issue

On 09/20/2016 11:02 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: We use current production (not beta / pre-release) releases of x86-64 Linux Mozilla Firefox (as well as Mozilla Thunderbird), not the distro ESR version. There are a number of reasons for this that can be discussed under separate cover. The

KDE customization in SL7

Does anyone have any good documentation or reference on customizing KDE4 as used in SL7 system-wide/default? In SL5 I could drop in static files in /usr/share/config/ to get the job done. They've gone and added more layers of complication (dynamic indices) in their configuration files and

Re: printing a man page

On 06/24/2016 03:30 PM, Ken Teh wrote: Does anyone know enough groff to help me print this man page? # man -t firewall-cmd > /tmp/firewall-cmd.ps :397: warning [p 4, 4.4i]: can't break line :434: warning [p 4, 6.8i]: can't break line :446: warning [p 4, 7.9i]: can't break line error: page 11:

Re: what runs libvirt?

On 06/24/2016 09:48 AM, Ken Teh wrote: I was trying to set up dnsmasq and discovered it's already running. Apparently as part of libvirt. Why is libvirt started? What starts it? I tried looking through systemd output but the only thing about systemd that I can understand are its services.

Re: Installation of 7.1

On 07/17/2015 12:56 PM, Larry Linder wrote: 4. We need a way to gracefully remove SL 7.1 if we can't then we will have to do a low level format on disk. One of the guys suggested that we take the disk out and put it on fence post in south forty and he would loan me his twelve Gage. Just

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

? or should i use one of these, su yum localinstall kaffeine-0.8.7-1.rf.src.rpm yum install kaffeine-0.8.7-1.rf.src.rpm su -c 'yum -y install kaffeine-0.8.7-1.rf.src.rpm' (i'm about ready to give up) --- Original Message --- From: Mark Stodola stod...@pelletron.com To: scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov

Re: how to add packages that are not in the repo?

On 06/02/2015 11:01 AM, Tini wrote: can you make a repo install the version that you want, instead of the latest version? i want this: http://pkgs.repoforge.org/kaffeine/ (ver. 0.8) but instead i keep getting version 1.0 -Tini If you look carefully at that repo, you will notice that 0.8 is

Re: ld-linux.so.2

On 04/27/2015 06:31 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: On 28/04/2015 7:07 AM, Ken Teh wrote: I have a user who has installed an executable built on a other Linux distro. Claims it was built on a 64-bit linux (doubtful). He has no problems running it on a 32-bit SL6.x machine but cannot run it on a

Re: USB point to point computer communications link

On 03/26/2015 06:51 PM, Kevin K wrote: On Mar 26, 2015, at 6:37 PM, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: My desktop workstation (currently X86-64 SL 7) has only one 802.3 physical port. At my university, the IT gestapo will not allow the use of a local 802.3 repeater (switch or hub) but

Re: SL 7.1 schedule? (was Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo)

On 03/27/2015 01:39 PM, Steve Gaarder wrote: It would be very helpful to me if I could have some idea of when SL 7.1 is likely to emerge. That will tell me whether I can just wait or need to come up with some kind of workaround for the EPEL problem. thanks, Steve Gaarder System Administrator,

Re: email on non-standard ports

On 03/16/2015 03:25 PM, Mark Hansel wrote: Hi, I want to use a relay host on port 10025. No matter what firewall rules I use, the port is blocked. I tested this using 2 computers with local connections only. (Isolated from the overall network by unplugging the router and plugging both

Re: About CentOS forces...

On 12/17/2014 04:25 PM, Fernando Andrés Muñoz Bravo wrote: I mean, if SL will become a CentOS variant or not. On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com mailto:smo...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 December 2014 at 14:49, Fernando Andrés Muñoz Bravo

Re: Installing Classic Theme Restorer with SL Firefox 31.x

On 11/06/2014 08:10 AM, Simon Clubley wrote: On 5 November 2014 16:49, Franchisseur Robert rob...@franchisseur.fr wrote: -- Le (On) 2014-11-04 + à (at) 12:14:52 Simon Clubley écrivit (wrote): -- Has anyone had any luck installing Classic Theme Restorer in the SL build of Firefox 31.x on

Re: Installing Classic Theme Restorer with SL Firefox 31.x

On 11/17/2014 12:50 PM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 11/06/2014 08:10 AM, Simon Clubley wrote: On 5 November 2014 16:49, Franchisseur Robert rob...@franchisseur.fr wrote: -- Le (On) 2014-11-04 + à (at) 12:14:52 Simon Clubley écrivit (wrote): -- Has anyone had any luck installing Classic Theme

Re: What is all this AMQP stuff anyhow? Boot Log: Starting VMware AMQP Service: [failed

Google to the rescue... https://www.vmware.com/support/orchestrator/doc/amqp-plugin-102-release-notes.html It stands for Advanced MEssage Queue Protocol, it allows workflow triggering for larger deployments. I doubt you would use this feature in home/desktop environment. -Mark On

Re: sl-fastbugs update

On 12/19/2013 04:12 PM, Paul Hein wrote: I have a several machines running SL 6 and I want to turn on sl-fastbugs repo to update the software for all the non-critical bugs. The problem is the computers originally had SL 6.1 installed on them and updating with sl-fastbugs repo enabled updates

Re: Assistance in tracking a kernel error

On 12/18/2013 6:37 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: Greetings, I have had my work laptop for well over a year now running SL6 and everything has been fantastic. Never once have I had a kernel panic/problem. That is until the latest updates of which the kernel(+ its extras) were the only things that were

Re: No DHCP on boot with a fresh install

On 12/3/2013 10:04 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: I think we are on to something! On 12/03/2013 09:41 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: On 12/03/2013 09:16 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: On 12/03/2013 08:37 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:36 PM, ~Stack~i.am.st...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/01/2013 10:36 AM,

Re: NFTables To Replace iptables In the Linux Kernel

On 10/21/2013 10:34 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: On 10/21/2013 01:07 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: On 21/10/2013 4:09 AM, Henrique C. S. Junior wrote: As reported in Slashdot[1] in the near future iptables is going to be replaced by NFTables in the linux kernel. The project[2] is said to be a new and

Re: Connection

On 09/05/2013 01:56 AM, n00b 101 wrote: Hi, I have two computers running Scientific Linux 6.4. Computer A (used as a server) uses wireless WiFi to connect to a wireless router so that it can surf the Internet. Computer B (used as a client) has no wireless WiFi and needs to be connected to the

Re: Connection

. As to setting up iptables/NAT forward traffic, could you show one or two tutorials on websites? Or, what keywords should be used to search? Thanks a lot. On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Mark Stodola stod...@pelletron.com mailto:stod...@pelletron.com wrote: On 09/05/2013 01:56 AM, n00b

Re: network port issue with Scientific Linux 6.3

On 08/14/2013 08:16 AM, Edison, Arul (GE Healthcare) wrote: Hi , I am using the repacked version of Scientific Linux 6.3 My PC has a mother board , which has 2 Ethernet port eth0 is connected to a device IP configured for eth0 is 192.168.2.1 eth1 is connected to a hub. This is intern

Re: New Install of 6.4 - no Internet

On 08/08/2013 08:59 AM, Larry Linder wrote: On Wednesday 07 August 2013 2:36 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 7 Aug 2013, Larry Linder wrote: Not really the place for this but I need some neural help. New prototype system for SL 6.4 -=20 Installed as a custom install - so we can get disks labeled as we