I would be interested if anyone else with an iwl4965 driver tries
the new driver/firmware and sees their machine lock up from time to time.
In the presence of certain wireless access points (mostly in
Fermilab's Feynman Computing CenteR) my machine locks
up after about 10 minutes, unless I turn
Steven Timm wrote:
I would be interested if anyone else with an iwl4965 driver tries
the new driver/firmware and sees their machine lock up from time to time.
In the presence of certain wireless access points (mostly in
Fermilab's Feynman Computing CenteR) my machine locks
up after about 10 minutes
Now I am up at the latest kernel too, will notify if rogue
wireless points take me down again.
Steve
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Steven Timm wrote:
It's the same firmware but one version less of the kernel, 128 rather
than 128.1, will upgrade to 128.1 and see if it is any better.
Steve Timm
the wireless
at the kill switch and in the OS.
Steve
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Steven Timm wrote:
It's the same firmware but one version less of the kernel, 128 rather
than 128.1, will upgrade to 128.1 and see if it is any better.
Steve Timm
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Troy Dawson wrote:
Hi Steve,
Which
Ricardo--do you have all the correct host names and ip numbers
of the machines entered in /etc/hosts?
Steve Timm
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Ricardo Alzugaray wrote:
Hello,
We are trying to implement ssh passwordless access in a small cluster
running Scientific Linux 5.2 on i386. However, it is
I have logged into one beta machine where someone had it working.
I didn't do the install myself so not sure if any magic was required.
Steve Timm
On Thu, 7 May 2009, Ken Teh wrote:
Does SL5.2 run on the Intel I7 processors? Any magic involved?
Thanks!
--
My iwl4965 driver is OK on the latest (SL5) kernel. haven't had
any trouble. I am running the x86_64 version of the kernel, however.
Steve
On Sun, 10 May 2009, Avetisyan, Aram wrote:
Hi William,
Yes, the same exact thing (it can't see the networks) happens with Intel's
4965AGN card. I
I see the same Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version
21
on a pure Red Hat 5 update 3 machine, so whatever that warning
is coming from, it's not from anything that Troy or the rest of SL
is doing.
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 21 of Wireless
Extension,
Hi Vivek--did you install x86_64 version or i386 version.
A lot of plugins are hard to find for the x86_64 version.
Steve Timm
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, vivek chal wrote:
hello everyone!
i have installed scientific linux 4.5 in my system but i m not able to
install plugins in my firefox browser.i
Try removing the existing kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-78.0.13 with
yum remove kernel-module-openafs.
(you will have to tempoararily stop AFS).
Then install it again afterwards.
(If yum remove doesn't work you could try a rpm -e
kernel-module-openafs---)
Steve Timm
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009,
Does the account that you are trying to ftp into on the
server side have a valid shell? is that shell listed in /etc/shells?
Is ftpd open in the iptables on the server side, and in /etc/hosts.allow,
hosts.deny?
Steve
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Ron Rechenmacher wrote:
Hi,
I'm having trouble
just in case) to server_args in
xinetd.d/gssftp. I just get the additional info of importing the ftp and host
principal info (from the keytab).
In my /etc/krb5.keytab file I do see something a bit strange:
The KVNO for the ftp entry is 3 while the host line has KVNO 6.
--Ron
Steven Timm wrote
Doug--FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF is a reserved MAC address that
is used for interfaces that are bridging. I often see
this on machines that are running the xen kernel with other
interfaces than RealTek. I am not
sure why you would see it in a non-xen kernel though.
Steve Timm
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009,
I have tried this on several test machines yesterday and 6 production
machines today and it is working fine thus far.
(Xen kernel, 32 and 64 bit, plus regular kernel on my laptop, 64 bit).
Steve
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Troy Dawson wrote:
Hello,
The new security update for SL5 has been built and
I believe other announcements have already been made that the above
version of the kernel is only going to be available in SL 5.4 (for which
alpha release is already available) and that they will wait until
SL5.4 is released and the next errata kernel is available from redhat
before back-porting
I have SLF4.7 on my laptop and I don't have the problem you mention.
In the days when I had 4.4 it was OK too.
Steve
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, WILLIAM J LUTTER wrote:
If I install SL4.4 on a laptop and then try to use the /dev/ttyS0 serial port,
I find I can't control the ownership and
Email from Troy yesterday indicated that SL will have this patch available
soon, within the next couple of days.
Steve
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Faye Gibbins wrote:
Hi,
Any comment from the SL5 distro maintainers on this exploit apparently in
recent RHEL releases?
My early testing of kernel-xen 2.6.18-164.6.1 on 3 machines (dom0 and
domU) shows no problems thus far.
Steve
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Troy Dawson wrote:
This has escalated overnight. Luckily I only have one last test, which I
believe the kernel will pass. So test now, because this is kernel
The scenario you are saying might work, but it will be a lot
less maintenance hassle for you if you bite the bullet and
yum upgrade your machines to the latest version of 4.x and 5.x
respectively, then you would only have to maintain 2 directories
rather than five.
Steve
On Tue, 10 Nov
It's part of the yum-utils rpm which is not
installed by default in SL but is available via yum install
If you're running a Red Hat 5 system (as opposed to SL5)
it's indispensable to have yum-complete-transaction; you end
up using it a lot.
Steve
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, P. Larry Nelson wrote:
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, P. Larry Nelson wrote:
Hi Steve, starting a new thread here as this has segued off the
original subject.
Steven Timm wrote on 11/12/2009 1:59 PM:
It's part of the yum-utils rpm which is not
installed by default in SL but is available via yum install
If you're running
Put the output of ssh -v in E-mail, it should say what is allowed.
Steve
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, William Shu wrote:
Hi, Please for help on two [related] problems (I'm probably missing something
glaring!):
1) On my newly installed SL54 on a machine *not* connected to the internet, I
tried to
I don't know about this particular package but a lot of times
there is a separate -devel package that makes the symlinks.
I know there is a separate glib2-devel package listed as available,
you might want to try installing that to see if it makes the symlink.
Steve
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Ron
Andrew--you've got some non-standard yum repository enabled
which is down and thus giving you problems. Look in /etc/yum.repos.d
for the file which contains the address rpm.livna.org
and then do
yum --disablerepo=reponame command
where reponame is the name of the repository.
If that works,
was started or not, and when I
did the yum upgrade to 4.7 I got the standard one again which
started looking and saw that the service was chkconfigged off.
But in any case I saw that it was off and I never remember chkconfigging
it off.
Steve timm
Steven Timm wrote:
Bug, I think
On sl 4.6
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Alan Bartlett wrote:
On 28 April 2010 14:10, Alan Bartlett a...@elrepo.org wrote:
On 27 April 2010 21:54, Mark Stodola stod...@pelletron.com wrote:
Hey everyone,
I currently have deployed a number of SL 5.2 i386 machines.
Mark,
Further to my earlier message, I have
Don't do it!
If you install globus properly there are instructions to
put a couple of lines into /etc/sudoers that give the globus
account the permissions it needs, but no more. and even those
are only needed if you are running Web services GRAM GT4
which is likely to be deprecated soon. I can
Again, the below is very dangerous if the globus account is
to be used in anything grid-related, which is probably the only
reason you would need a globus account.
[r...@fcdf1x1 ~]# more /etc/sudoers
Runas_Alias GLOBUSUSERS = ALL, !root
globus ALL=(GLOBUSUSERS) \
NOPASSWD: \
On Thu, 6 May 2010, Larry Linder wrote:
On Wednesday 05 May 2010 17:03, g wrote:
Larry Linder wrote:
Sometime in the last few weeks I have lost the ability to add new users.
I get an error message that passwd and shadow are different. Ran
pwconv same error mesage and it flages gpasswd and
If you have more than 2TB you can't use fdisk, need to use parted
to see full size of disk. You say it is usb, there could
be issues there too. What does lsusb say?
Steve
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Eve V. E. Kovacs wrote:
We have StarTech external multi-bay hard drive enclosure
( 4x3.5 drives,
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Larry Linder wrote:
When installing SL5.5 over SL5.4 about mid way into the Disk 2 I get an Error
message to REBOOT.
204 Meg on /mnt/sysimage/usr
When I look at /mnt it is empty after reboot.
During an install, the partition that is going to become /
would be mounted
What you want to do, can be done with a combination of parted
and resize2fs. Take good backups first. It would have been
easier if you were using LVM.
basic strategy, resize2fs to shrink /usr/local file system,
then parted to shrink /usr/local partition,
then parted to grow /usr partition.
The
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
Devin--what is the output of the command dmesg
Are there any kernel traces or bugs in that output?
Steve
On Wed, 8 Sep 2010, Devin Bougie wrote:
Hi, All. We are seeing periodic I/O delays on a new large compute node using
two Xeon X5670 CPU's (hyper-threaded for a total of 24 processors)
When Fermilab did our HW evaluation earlier this year we had
Magny-Cours based machines, 12 core processors, available. It did
work but I don't know what if any tunes were done.
Steve
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Esztermann, Ansgar wrote:
Hi everyone,
can someone tell me what the support status of
The nash subprocess is trying to scan all the disks in your system
at that point of the kernel update process. If there is
a disk that is very big or very slow or hung up for some
reason, that could make it hang.
Steve Timm
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, martin.flemm...@desy.de wrote:
Hi !
I've got a
What file system is on /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, /dev/sdd
What kind of partition table did you use?
Are there any software monitoring and diagnostics you
have for the Areca RAID controller?
Steve Timm
On Tue, 28 Dec 2010, Ciprian Pinzaru wrote:
Hello,
I have SL 5.5 with 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 on a
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, LEES, Cooper wrote:
Hi All,
I am mounting NFS from a Sun (Oracle) x4540 using the following options:
plumper.ansto.gov.au:/cesspool/home/home nfs
defaults,bg,intr,hard,noacl 0 0
(Have played with noac as well etc.)
Suggest the book Managing NFS and
Have done SL3-SL4 via anaconda upgrade and SL4-SL5.
But EL3, unlike SL3, did not include Yum in those days and
so the upgrade process might be incompatible, probably is.
Steve
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Chris Tooley wrote:
Small question,
Ok, I just found an OLD machine, which has EL3 on it - has
I've tested it on i386, x86_64 on my laptop, bare metal servers,
and Xen instances, all are OK.
Steve
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Troy Dawson wrote:
Hello,
We have had our first kernel security update following the release of SL 5.6.
We have tested it on a SL5.0 machine. It installs, runs and
I thought this kernel 2.6.18-238.1.1 was going to be released
last week. It doesn't appear to have been released yet. What happened?
Steve Timm
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Steven Timm wrote:
I've tested it on i386, x86_64 on my laptop, bare metal servers,
and Xen instances, all are OK.
Steve
Timm
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Steven Timm wrote:
I thought this kernel 2.6.18-238.1.1 was going to be released
last week. It doesn't appear to have been released yet. What happened?
I see it, eg at
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux
any reason you can't just turn hald off? Most servers don't need it.
Steve Timm
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Faye Gibbins wrote:
Hi,
I've got one very special machine that has about 15,000 - 20,000 automount
entries.
Things are fine until about 5000 mount points are mounted up then any further
vivek, are you running the NetworkManager daemon on your desktop?
Steve Timm
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, vivek chalotra wrote:
Hello all ,
I m getting a very strange problem in SLC 5.3, SLC 5.4 SLC5.5. Whenever
the machines having SLC version 5.3,5.4,5.5 encounter an improper shutdown,
there
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, William Lutter wrote:
basic question...
It's not clear to me from the FAQ
http://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade.5x
Can I skip from SL5.0 to 5.6 or do I need to go through the intermediate minor
updates 5.0-5.1-5.2...?
For instance if I jump from 5.0
How are you booting the xen domU's, with pygrub, pvgrub, or
with external kernel?
Smells like either the mkinitrd failed to run at all, or
ran in such a way that it didn't put some required xen block
device into the ramdisk.
For that matter--what hypervisor host are you using for the SL6 xen
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Randy Evans wrote:
I am in the process of converting a number of CentOS machines to
Scientific Linux.
We have several machines which use Heartbeat and DRBD and these
packages were available for install from the default
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, James Kelly wrote:
Hello SL users,
When I install sl5.6 and sl5.7 64 bit guests on a KVM sl6.1 64 bit host I am
seeing the following errors (when the virtual machine starts or restarts):
Sep 11 20:00:34 kvm-sl6x kernel: kvm: 2022: cpu0 unimplemented perfctr
wrmsr:
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
John--you should note that gcc3.4 (same c compiler as in Sci. Linux 4)
is also available in Sci. Linux 5, there is a compatible g77 as
part of that. That should be able to compile anything that you compiled
before.
Steve
On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, John Schaad wrote:
FORTRAN -- For many years I
Thanks for posting and alerting, John.. there are some systems
at Fermilab which could be affected by this bug.
Steve Timm
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Jon Peatfield wrote:
Having just suffered this when we upgraded one firewall to 2.6.18-274.7.1.el5
I did some searching in TUV's bugzilla and found
This smells like there could be problems with glibc version.. the
lx24 is presuming either a kernel version or a glibc version or both.
Do you have the appropriate compatibility glibc libraries installed?
Steve Timm
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Wil Irwin wrote:
Hi-
It is 64-bit on 64-bit. The
Sorry for the fermi-ized url's below--but if anyone
has been able to make SL6 on SL5 work with the corresponding
vanilla SL, please let me know too.
(SL6 guest on SL6 host works fine with virt-install).
Thanks
Steve Timm
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Steven Timm wrote:
Has anyone yet successfully
On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Jeff Siddall wrote:
On 02/09/2012 12:30 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
Is anyone else seeing machines lockup with kernel-2.6.32-220? On one
machine (Dell PowerEdge SC1435 Dual Opteron 2384) we've seen it lockup
pretty consistently. Moving back to 2.6.32-131.21.1.el6.x86_64
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Niels_Walet wrote:
When moving my virtual machines (libvirt/qemu-kvm) from one server to
another (from amd to intel hardware), I seem to have suddenly hit the
time-out issues that have been discussed in many places (the dreaded
blocked more than 120s message), after which
Does this notebook have an nVidia card? If so there is a driver rpm
you have to download.
Steve
On Wed, 9 May 2012, Larry wrote:
On 05/09/2012 01:20 AM, vivek chalotra wrote:
I am installing SLC 5.8 64 bit in HP Pavilion g6 notebook. It has
installed sucessfully but its giving error in
You have 2 problems, at least.
One--yes, qemu-kvm doesn't exist for 32-bit because
32-bit isn't supported for KVM.
Second--you can't launch any KVM guest within another virtual machine.
You can only have one level deep of KVM virtualization.
With a 64-bit virtual kvm host, you should at least be
A couple of e-mail threads over the weekend mentioned libvirt 0.9.10
having been pushed out as a yum update for SL6. I did not
see any errata notice come out, nor have I seen such an update
available yet in yum? could it be that it was released for SL but
not yet for SLF? If it was released
My understanding is that the main difference between desktop drives
and enterprise raid array drives in this regard is that the drive firmware
is configured to retry errors a lot longer on the desktop drives.
It is also my experience, although it was a few years ago on older
model WD drives, that
What does the output of
ssh -vv hostname
give you?
and what does /var/log/secure say on the server side?
Permission denied could be a number of things (time not in sync,
PAM configuration right, or other stuff. without knowing the
server and client sshd_config and ssh_config respectively it
We have a bunch of new hardware here at Fermilab on which the 2.6.32
series of kernels that come with EL6/SL6 is no longer stable and we are
looking for
an upstream-supported 3.x kernel. that will hopefully be the big win for
us.
Steve Timm
On Thu, 15 May 2014, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
file all along.
Bill
On 8/1/14, 14:51 MDT, Steven Timm t...@fnal.gov wrote:
did you go into the system setup utility and enable NIS authentication?
(or use authconfig from the command line). That's the best way
to ensure that PAM is configured correctly to use NIS and that's likely
the problem
When Fermilab deployed Kerberos 5 on all of our unix and linux,
and simultaneously Windows 2000 on our Windows side, it was the
intent that eventually everything would run off of the windows
Active Directory side. 14 years later that has never happened.
There are others on this list that know in
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