stopping dm-* modules and associated files from loading at boot

2010-08-30 Thread g
greetings, running sl 5.4. i have never used raid drives and i am not using raid, so i want to stop dm-* modules and associated files from loading at boot. i have read 'man modprobe', 'man mdadm', and understand how they work. problem is, man pages do not tell which /etc/rc.d/rc?.d files are

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2010-08-30 Thread Troy Dawson
Fengchu Zhou wrote: Hi expert, I have installed the software of VLC media player. it was sometimes without audio but a clear video. when I reboot the system then audio may run well but sometimes it still mute. this problem also to the audio software player Rhythmbox Music player.

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2010-08-30 Thread William Shu
Dear All, I forwarded this mail back in July buy got no reply. So I can use the machine, does anyone have a workaround that avoids changing/recompiling stock SL software/kernel? (Googling seems to suggest there is a fundamental problem; I lack the needed networking skills.) Many thanks

Re: stopping dm-* modules and associated files from loading at boot

2010-08-30 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 30 August 2010 12:45, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: running sl 5.4. i have never used raid drives and i am not using raid, so i want to stop dm-* modules and associated files from loading at boot. I would suggest that you consider using the boot line parameter nodmraid. To see what that

Re: stopping dm-* modules and associated files from loading at boot

2010-08-30 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 30 August 2010 18:12, Alan Bartlett a...@elrepo.org wrote: On 30 August 2010 12:45, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: running sl 5.4. i have never used raid drives and i am not using raid, so i want to stop dm-* modules and associated files from loading at boot. I would suggest that you

Re: stopping dm-* modules and associated files from loading at boot

2010-08-30 Thread g
alan, i thank you for your help. easy first: On 08/30/2010 06:00 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: snip Also, I forgot to mention creating a noraid file in your /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd/ directory with one line that reads: DMRAID=no created, raid loads. On 08/30/2010 05:12 PM, Alan Bartlett

Re: stopping dm-* modules and associated files from loading at boot

2010-08-30 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 31 August 2010 01:37, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: easy first: On 08/30/2010 06:00 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: snip Also, I forgot to mention creating a noraid file in your /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd/ directory with one line that reads: DMRAID=no created, raid loads. Did you recreate the

Re: stopping dm-* modules and associated files from loading at boot

2010-08-30 Thread g
On 08/31/2010 12:37 AM, g wrote: snip so, to see what is loading modules, i have renamed; /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.11.1.el5/kernel/drivers/md/ to /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.11.1.el5/kernel/drivers/00.md/ this should/may/i hope, give an error message during boot. why me Lord? why

Re: stopping dm-* modules and associated files from loading at boot

2010-08-30 Thread g
On 08/31/2010 01:24 AM, Alan Bartlett wrote: snip Did you recreate the relevant initrd for the kernel? no. you did no mention, and i did not think of it. [see bellow] snip Ah, I've just noticed something. Initially your were referring to dmraid -- the device mapper RAID. Latterly you have

INFO: task blocked for more than 120 seconds.

2010-08-30 Thread Doug Johnson
Greetings, I am seeing the following messsage when an SL5.5 (all of the most recent updates are installed) is under load writing data to an NFS disk: NOTE: It occurs for other processes than kswapd0, so I don't think that has anything to do with the issue. Aug 30 18:25:21 se kernel: INFO: task

Re: INFO: task blocked for more than 120 seconds.

2010-08-30 Thread Steven Timm
Hi Doug--I have seen the same message on some of our machines but so far it hasn't caused any real performance problems up until now. It's not so much if you are running SL5.5 but just as long as you are running some of the latest errata kernels.. we only saw it show up on SL5.3 but with the

Re: stopping dm-* modules and associated files from loading at boot

2010-08-30 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 31 August 2010 03:18, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: big snip in other words, *all* that relates to 'raid' is commented out. only thing i have not done is run 'mkinitrd'. so, should i run 'mkinitrd' or not? As a scientist, I would perform the experiment but now, I suspect, it will not

Re: stopping dm-* modules and associated files from loading at boot

2010-08-30 Thread g
On 08/31/2010 03:01 AM, Alan Bartlett wrote: snip As a scientist, I would perform the experiment but now, I suspect, it will not make any difference. :-/ i am not a scientist, but i do know how to 'swag'. ;) will give mkinitrd a run tomorrow. I right out of ideas. Perhaps someone else may

Re: stopping dm-* modules and associated files from loading at boot

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Stevens
On 8/30/2010 11:14 PM, g wrote: On 08/31/2010 03:01 AM, Alan Bartlett wrote: snip As a scientist, I would perform the experiment but now, I suspect, it will not make any difference. :-/ i am not a scientist, but i do know how to 'swag'. ;) will give mkinitrd a run tomorrow. I right out