Re: SL 5.7 Intel Integrated HD Graphics 3000 SandyBridge

2011-10-17 Thread Matthias Schroeder
Hi Yasha, On 10/17/2011 03:37 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: After much searching, I found for my wife a laptop that we could afford given that her Department had no funds to replace her stolen laptop, one that does work under EL including the 802.11 WNIC. It is a Lenovo G570 that uses an Intel

Re: SL6.1 MRG/realtime patch - good and bad news

2011-10-17 Thread Stijn De Weirdt
All three are panicing over the same error: *dracut* throwing errors and warnings, mainly about not finding the swap volumes. I will print some proper error messages later, if anyones interested, but at the moment it's friday afternoon, packing up time, and I've got a beer waiting for me. Would

Re: Samba giving me fits with access denied

2011-10-17 Thread jonathan
Hi have you changed the selinux setting to samba_share_, assuming you are using selinux. see the TUV documentation. set selinux using the following comands, in my example my folder is /home/jon/samba_share. //set the selinux linux property /usr/sbin/semanage fcontext -a -t samba_share_t

Problem with rsync.scientificlinux.org?

2011-10-17 Thread Mark Whidby
Hi, Is there a problem with rsync.scientificlinux.org following the scheduled downtime? I'm getting errors like this:- @ERROR: chroot failed rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1530) [receiver=3.0.6] Thanks, -- Mark Whidby Infrastructure Coordinator (Unix)

Re: Problem with rsync.scientificlinux.org?

2011-10-17 Thread Katherine Lim
Same here and with no files in the /disk directory on ftp.scientificlinux.org/ I didn't see a post saying that the downtime had finished, so there could be ongoing issues. On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Mark Whidby mark.whi...@manchester.ac.ukwrote: Hi, Is there a problem with

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Problem with rsync.scientificlinux.org?

2011-10-17 Thread Pat Riehecky
Hello, Looks like these are all OK again. Apologies for the delay. Pat On 10/17/2011 05:52 AM, Katherine Lim wrote: Same here and with no files in the /disk directory on ftp.scientificlinux.org/ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/ I didn't see a post saying that the downtime had finished, so

Distribution Servers Downtime - 15 hours on October 15th 2011 from 03:00 - 18:00 CDT (Completed)

2011-10-17 Thread Pat Riehecky
Apologies, I apologize for not sending this out on time. I have lots of good sounding excuses, but they are just excuses and avoid the fact that I didn't do it. The downtime is completed and was finished on Saturday. There were a few lingering issues which have since been resolved.

Re: SL 5.7 Intel Integrated HD Graphics 3000 SandyBridge

2011-10-17 Thread Mark Stodola
Matthias Schroeder wrote: Hi Yasha, On 10/17/2011 03:37 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: After much searching, I found for my wife a laptop that we could afford given that her Department had no funds to replace her stolen laptop, one that does work under EL including the 802.11 WNIC. It is a Lenovo

Re: SL6.1 MRG/realtime patch - good and bad news

2011-10-17 Thread Jaroslaw Polok
Hello, Since we are guilty for these MRG builds let me comment on this too.. *However*, all is not perfect. For the majority of the time, everything is rosy - we've got three big dual-Xeon machines all merrily running 24hours/day. Then, one day, a reboot of the machine brought the system

Eric4 : problem with the package

2011-10-17 Thread Yahya Gour
hello all, The package eric4 provided with SL6.1 doesn't work. There is a bug and i don't know how to fix it. Yahya

Re: SL 5.7 Intel Integrated HD Graphics 3000 SandyBridge

2011-10-17 Thread Yasha Karant
On 10/17/2011 06:38 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: Matthias Schroeder wrote: Hi Yasha, On 10/17/2011 03:37 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: After much searching, I found for my wife a laptop that we could afford given that her Department had no funds to replace her stolen laptop, one that does work under EL

Re: SL 5.7 Intel Integrated HD Graphics 3000 SandyBridge

2011-10-17 Thread Christopher Tooley
On 2011-10-17, at 9:20 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: On 10/17/2011 06:38 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: [...] Now I have a decision to make: IA-32 SL 6.1 or X86-64 SL 6.1 . The processor will support X86-64, but the machine only has 4 Mbyte of RAM as delivered (upgradeable to 8 Mbyte -- but this is a

Re: SL 5.7 Intel Integrated HD Graphics 3000 SandyBridge

2011-10-17 Thread Stephan Wiesand
On Oct 17, 2011, at 18:20 , Yasha Karant wrote: [...] Now I have a decision to make: IA-32 SL 6.1 or X86-64 SL 6.1 . The processor will support X86-64, but the machine only has 4 Mbyte of RAM as delivered (upgradeable to 8 Mbyte -- but this is a cost) -- which is only 0.5 Mword in X86-64

Re: SL 5.7 Intel Integrated HD Graphics 3000 SandyBridge

2011-10-17 Thread Yasha Karant
On 10/17/2011 09:50 AM, Stephan Wiesand wrote: On Oct 17, 2011, at 18:20 , Yasha Karant wrote: [...] Now I have a decision to make: IA-32 SL 6.1 or X86-64 SL 6.1 . The processor will support X86-64, but the machine only has 4 Mbyte of RAM as delivered (upgradeable to 8 Mbyte -- but this is

Re: Kickstart auto choosing ARCH

2011-10-17 Thread ~Stack~
On 10/14/2011 08:00 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:51 PM, ~Stack~ i.am.st...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am attempting to build a group of systems that boot off of PXE and auto-install with a kickstart file. I previously used a bundled package that for certain

PXE boot is an infinite reinstall

2011-10-17 Thread ~Stack~
Hello All, I ran into another issue with my PXE build out. I searched the net and found many people with the same issue, but there was either no response or their solution would not work for my needs (requiring access to software I don't have). What I am after with this is a completely unmanaged

Re: DNS/DHCP problems

2011-10-17 Thread ~Stack~
On 10/13/2011 06:37 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: Hello all, I have continued working on these problems this week and I have made decent progress. [snip] The problem I am still working on is that my FQDN does not seem to be working properly and I am not sure why. I still have not found an answer.

Re: Distribution Servers Downtime - 15 hours on October 15th 2011 from 03:00 - 18:00 CDT (Completed)

2011-10-17 Thread jdow
Pat, you did send it out on the 12th. 2011/10/12 14:08 {o.o} On 2011/10/17 06:27, Pat Riehecky wrote: Apologies, I apologize for not sending this out on time. I have lots of good sounding excuses, but they are just excuses and avoid the fact that I didn't do it. The downtime is completed and

Re: Samba giving me fits with access denied

2011-10-17 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 21:30 -0700, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, # rpm -qa \*samba\* samba-client-3.5.6-86.el6_1.4.x86_64 samba-common-3.5.6-86.el6_1.4.x86_64 samba-3.5.6-86.el6_1.4.x86_64 samba-winbind-clients-3.5.6-86.el6_1.4.x86_64 I am trying to migrate my CentOS 5.6 Samba

Re: Samba giving me fits with access denied

2011-10-17 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, # rpm -qa \*samba\* samba-client-3.5.6-86.el6_1.4.x86_64 samba-common-3.5.6-86.el6_1.4.x86_64

Re: PXE boot is an infinite reinstall

2011-10-17 Thread Steven Timm
The trick that Rocks uses is to have a boot order of (hard disk, pxe) and then when you want to reinstall, change two bytes in the boot sector to make the hard disk unbootable and it will fall through to a PXE boot only at that time. What worker node installs at Fermilab do is to have a DHCP

Re: DNS/DHCP problems

2011-10-17 Thread Mike's List
I suggests you look at www.webmin.com and install on a test system to manage DNS. Then review the setup/config by webmin and use the setup files for named on your production, or use Webmin in production. At least this application gives you a setup/config framework and review for errors, etc.

Re: SL 5.7 Intel Integrated HD Graphics 3000 SandyBridge

2011-10-17 Thread Mike's List
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Stephan Wiesand wrote: On Oct 17, 2011, at 18:20 , Yasha Karant wrote: Yes: The 32-bit kernel will leave 25% of your 4 GB RAM unused, I believe. And all processes will be confined to 3 GB of address space (even if purely virtual). Increasingly, new features are only made

Re: SL 5.7 Intel Integrated HD Graphics 3000 SandyBridge

2011-10-17 Thread Mike's List
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Bluejay Adametz wrote: Yes: The 32-bit kernel will leave 25% of your 4 GB RAM unused, I believe. I'm running 32-bit SL6.0 on a 5gb-RAM machine and (unless I'm missing something) it sees and uses all of it. Yes, kernel with PAE allows the OS to address more than 4GB of

Two suggestions for the installation process

2011-10-17 Thread Yasha Karant
I am in the process of installing SL 6.1 from the install DVD. Two suggestions: 1. A workaround that will allow installation without an Internet connection for those who chose the DVD that contains the necessary RPMs, albeit not necessarily the latest and greatest. Once installed, and the

Re: PXE boot is an infinite reinstall

2011-10-17 Thread ~Stack~
On 10/17/2011 06:26 PM, Steven Timm wrote: The trick that Rocks uses is to have a boot order of (hard disk, pxe) and then when you want to reinstall, change two bytes in the boot sector to make the hard disk unbootable and it will fall through to a PXE boot only at that time. That is actually

Re: Kickstart auto choosing ARCH

2011-10-17 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On 2011-10-17 14:45, ~Stack~ wrote: On 10/14/2011 08:00 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:51 PM, ~Stack~i.am.st...@gmail.com wrote: I am attempting to build a group of systems that boot off of PXE and auto-install with a kickstart file. I previously used a bundled package

Re: Two suggestions for the installation process

2011-10-17 Thread Yasha Karant
On 10/17/2011 08:09 PM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: On 2011-10-17 18:48, Yasha Karant wrote: I am in the process of installing SL 6.1 from the install DVD. Two suggestions: 1. A workaround that will allow installation without an Internet connection for those who chose the DVD that contains the