Re: [CentOS] Finally.... CentOS on iMac core 2

2013-11-26 Thread Warren Young
On 11/25/2013 09:10, Warren Young wrote: > On 11/25/2013 08:22, Wes James wrote: >> Oh. OK. I didn't realize CentOS wasn't using grub2. Are there any plans >> for CentOS to move to grub2? > > No. Upstream uses grub1, so CentOS uses grub1. > > Presumably RHEL7 will use grub2, but there's no good

Re: [CentOS] died again

2013-11-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/26/2013 3:58 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > The $200 comes from googling D865GBFL price. that board is expensive because its ancient, there's likely very little NOS (new old stock) left in the channel. the 865G chipset was new in May 2003. An Atom based netbook has more horsepower. so d

Re: [CentOS] Most efficient way to create a CentOS 3 test VM

2013-11-26 Thread Greg Bailey
On 11/26/2013 4:38 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 11/26/2013 02:00 PM, Warren Young wrote: >> I'm about to create a new CentOS 3 VM for testing, since we still have a >> bunch of deployed machines running that OS. >> >> (Don't yell at me about using old OSes. These machines won't get >> "un-deploye

Re: [CentOS] died again

2013-11-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Michael Hennebry wrote: >> On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> >>> Oh, right, *just* as I hit , I realized one more thing: you have >>> checked both ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/Xorg.0.log, right? >> >> I'd looked at .../Xorg.0.log , bu

Re: [CentOS] died again

2013-11-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> > The $200 comes from googling D865GBFL price. > > $300 desktops? Where? Search for 'refurbished desktop' on tigerdirect.com. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] died again

2013-11-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Depends on the cost of the system, and the budget... and it sounds to me > as though the OP is working on his own system, and his budget approaches > $1 as a limit I understand that all too well (though it's not an issue > for me these days). My

Re: [CentOS] Most efficient way to create a CentOS 3 test VM

2013-11-26 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 11/26/2013 02:00 PM, Warren Young wrote: > I'm about to create a new CentOS 3 VM for testing, since we still have a > bunch of deployed machines running that OS. > > (Don't yell at me about using old OSes. These machines won't get > "un-deployed" until they fall over dead of natural causes.

Re: [CentOS] Unsupported Hardware that works fine?

2013-11-26 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 11/25/2013 06:42 PM, Lists wrote: > I recently purchased a set of ASRock Intel i5 MB/CPU combos for a budget > compute cluster. Every time we load up a system and try to boot with a > recent EL6/64 ISO, we get a message that reads: > > > This hardware (or a combination thereof) is not support

Re: [CentOS] Most efficient way to create a CentOS 3 test VM

2013-11-26 Thread Lars Hecking
> What I'm hoping for is some way to get a "CentOS 3.10", being 3.9 with > the vault updates directory contents merged in. > > Is there a straightforward way to do that, or is schlepping around > folders full of RPMs actually the best way to go? Yes, it can be done. I did it a while back, bu

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem labeling confusion or mess up

2013-11-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
Looks like you have more than one path to the devices. I would expect to see *4* devices. Cheers, Cliff On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator < goetz.reini...@filmakademie.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I do have an iscsi storage with two raidsets. I'm logged in to the > target

Re: [CentOS] Most efficient way to create a CentOS 3 test VM

2013-11-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/26/2013 1:38 PM, Phelps, Matt wrote: > It doesn't necessarily have to be on an http server. Just in an > accessible location (e.g. via NFS) and use afile:// URL in the .repo > file. true, it doesn't, but thats generally been the easiest to setup for me. NFS has required futzing around wi

Re: [CentOS] Most efficient way to create a CentOS 3 test VM

2013-11-26 Thread Phelps, Matt
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 4:32 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 11/26/2013 12:00 PM, Warren Young wrote: >> It seems wasteful to install the last published version of the OS, then >> scp over my local update RPMs, freshen from those,*then* check with the >> vault for yet more updates. >> >> What I'm h

Re: [CentOS] Most efficient way to create a CentOS 3 test VM

2013-11-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/26/2013 12:00 PM, Warren Young wrote: > It seems wasteful to install the last published version of the OS, then > scp over my local update RPMs, freshen from those,*then* check with the > vault for yet more updates. > > What I'm hoping for is some way to get a "CentOS 3.10", being 3.9 with >

Re: [CentOS] Most efficient way to create a CentOS 3 test VM

2013-11-26 Thread m . roth
Warren Young wrote: > I'm about to create a new CentOS 3 VM for testing, since we still have a > bunch of deployed machines running that OS. > > (Don't yell at me about using old OSes. These machines won't get > "un-deployed" until they fall over dead of natural causes. Until the > last one dies,

Re: [CentOS] Unsupported Hardware that works fine?

2013-11-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/26/2013 12:17 PM, Lists wrote: > Chipset is Intel Q87. i5 4670, 3.4 Ghz, LGA1150 socket. ASROCK Q87 Vpro > MB, 32 GB DDR3/1600 RAM. > >> >do you still get that error after a `yum update -y` and a reboot ? > Error only shows during the install, just before loading X11 for the > setup. Again,

Re: [CentOS] Unsupported Hardware that works fine?

2013-11-26 Thread Lists
On 11/25/2013 05:04 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 11/25/2013 4:42 PM, Lists wrote: >> I recently purchased a set of ASRock Intel i5 MB/CPU combos for a budget >> compute cluster. Every time we load up a system and try to boot with a >> recent EL6/64 ISO, we get a message that reads: >> >>> This

Re: [CentOS] died again

2013-11-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 1:05 PM, wrote: > > Depends on the cost of the system, and the budget... and it sounds to me > as though the OP is working on his own system, and his budget approaches > $1 as a limit I understand that all too well (though it's not an issue > for me these days). I und

[CentOS] Most efficient way to create a CentOS 3 test VM

2013-11-26 Thread Warren Young
I'm about to create a new CentOS 3 VM for testing, since we still have a bunch of deployed machines running that OS. (Don't yell at me about using old OSes. These machines won't get "un-deployed" until they fall over dead of natural causes. Until the last one dies, we need test and build VMs

Re: [CentOS] died again

2013-11-26 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:20 PM, wrote: > Are you saying it never crashes with fedora but it does with centos? >>> >>> F14 crashed once since CentOS started crashing. >> >> Sounds like CentOS hits something somewhere that FC14 hits more rarely. > > Or just random and to

Re: [CentOS] died again

2013-11-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:20 PM, wrote: Are you saying it never crashes with fedora but it does with centos? >> >> F14 crashed once since CentOS started crashing. > > Sounds like CentOS hits something somewhere that FC14 hits more rarely. > Or just random and too small a sample to draw con

Re: [CentOS] died again

2013-11-26 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 11:34 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > > Michael Hennebry wrote: > >> Ouch. > >> $200+ before installation, > >> and I'd still have a computer some Linuxes don't like. > > > > Expensive board. Is this at home? I got a Gigabyte

Re: [CentOS] died again

2013-11-26 Thread m . roth
Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Oh, right, *just* as I hit , I realized one more thing: you have >> checked both ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/Xorg.0.log, right? > > I'd looked at .../Xorg.0.log , but until now, not ~/.xsession-errors : > (polkit-gnome

Re: [CentOS] died again

2013-11-26 Thread m . roth
Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Michael Hennebry >> wrote: > It is getting long in the tooth. (I'm about to replace my m/b of the > same vintage at home.) >> Are you saying it never crashes with fedora but it d

Re: [CentOS] died again

2013-11-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Michael Hennebry > wrote: It is getting long in the tooth. (I'm about to replace my m/b of the same >>> vintage at home.) >> >> Ouch. >> $200+ before installation, >> and I'd still have a computer some Linuxes don't

Re: [CentOS] died again

2013-11-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >>> It is getting long in the tooth. (I'm about to replace my m/b of the same >> vintage at home.) > > Ouch. > $200+ before installation, > and I'd still have a computer some Linuxes don't like. Yeah, probably better to get something that

Re: [CentOS] died again

2013-11-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Oh, right, *just* as I hit , I realized one more thing: you have > checked both ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/Xorg.0.log, right? I'd looked at .../Xorg.0.log , but until now, not ~/.xsession-errors : GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-BWwFtW/socket

Re: [CentOS] died again

2013-11-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Michael Hennebry wrote: >> Ouch. >> $200+ before installation, >> and I'd still have a computer some Linuxes don't like. > > Expensive board. Is this at home? I got a Gigabyte board and Core I-3 Yes. It's the only computer I've owned with either a h

Re: [CentOS] died again

2013-11-26 Thread m . roth
Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Michael Hennebry >> wrote: > Keep an eagle eye on dmesg and the logs. If you can, bring machine down

Re: [CentOS] died again

2013-11-26 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:57:26AM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Michael Hennebry wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Michael Hennebry wrote: > >>> The computer is a DakTEch Freedom 4 P4 DDR System. > >>> The system board is a D865GBFL w/LAN,audio & video > >>> Processor

Re: [CentOS] died again

2013-11-26 Thread m . roth
Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Michael Hennebry wrote: >>> The computer is a DakTEch Freedom 4 P4 DDR System. >>> The system board is a D865GBFL w/LAN,audio & video >>> Processor Intel Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz 800FSB >>> I got it in 2006. >> >> It is getting lon

Re: [CentOS] died again

2013-11-26 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Michael Hennebry wrote: >> The computer is a DakTEch Freedom 4 P4 DDR System. >> The system board is a D865GBFL w/LAN,audio & video >> Processor Intel Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz 800FSB >> I got it in 2006. > > It is getting long in the tooth. (I'm about to re

Re: [CentOS] partitionless installation

2013-11-26 Thread Халезов Иван
On 25.11.2013 23:56, Peter wrote: > On 11/26/2013 05:28 AM, Халезов Иван wrote: >> Is it possible to install CentOS 6 without disk partitioning? > Yes, it is, but there are a couple of caveats: > > 1. You can't use anaconda to do so directly. > > 2. You can't boot through grub (as someone else po

Re: [CentOS] Machine check events

2013-11-26 Thread Patrick Lists
On 11/26/2013 03:11 PM, Glenn Eychaner wrote: [snip] > The current kernel I am running is 2.6.32-358.23.2, but I can't tell whether > it > has CONFIG_X86_MCE enabled. How can I find this out? $ grep CONFIG_X86_MCE /boot/config-2.6.32-358.23.2.el6.x86_64 CONFIG_X86_MCE=y CONFIG_X86_MCE_INTEL=y CO

Re: [CentOS] Machine check events

2013-11-26 Thread Glenn Eychaner
On further, further investigation, it looks like according to the mcelog install guide at http://www.mcelog.org/installation.html, I could "roll my own" for 32-bit CentOS 6: "For bad page offlining you will need a 2.6.33+ kernel or a 2.6.32 kernel with the soft offlining capability backported (li

[CentOS] Filesystem labeling confusion or mess up

2013-11-26 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator
Hi, I do have an iscsi storage with two raidsets. I'm logged in to the target and get two devices: /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc. After formatting the devices with ext4 I realised, that I had used a wrong label, so I tried to relabel the devices. But now I'm confused: doing a e2label /dev/sdb or /dev/s

Re: [CentOS] Machine check events

2013-11-26 Thread John Doe
From: Glenn Eychaner > Further investigation seems to indicate that these events should be handled > by "mcelog" or "mced". However, there is no /var/log/mcelog, > nor do I have a > "mcelog" or "mced" binary, nor does yum seem to contain > anything related > (based on "yum whatprovides '*/mcelo

Re: [CentOS] Unsupported Hardware that works fine?

2013-11-26 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Lists wrote: > I recently purchased a set of ASRock Intel i5 MB/CPU combos for a budget > compute cluster. Every time we load up a system and try to boot with a > recent EL6/64 ISO, we get a message that reads: > > > This hardware (or a combination thereof) is not

Re: [CentOS] Machine check events

2013-11-26 Thread Stephen Harris
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 09:25:55AM -0300, Glenn Eychaner wrote: > Further investigation seems to indicate that these events should be handled > by "mcelog" or "mced". However, there is no /var/log/mcelog, nor do I have a > "mcelog" or "mced" binary, nor does yum seem to contain anything related > (

Re: [CentOS] Machine check events

2013-11-26 Thread Glenn Eychaner
Further investigation seems to indicate that these events should be handled by "mcelog" or "mced". However, there is no /var/log/mcelog, nor do I have a "mcelog" or "mced" binary, nor does yum seem to contain anything related (based on "yum whatprovides '*/mcelog'" and similar queries). Thus, I st

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Re: [CentOS] Captive Portal

2013-11-26 Thread Mihamina RKTMB
On 11/26/2013 01:42 PM, John Doe wrote: > From: Ken Smith > >> What I'm trying to accomplish is a a simple firewall type system for a >> public WiFi, that redirects users to a Web page when they first connect, >> accepts some credentials such as an e-mail address and allows them >> access to the '

Re: [CentOS] Captive Portal

2013-11-26 Thread John Doe
From: Ken Smith > What I'm trying to accomplish is a a simple firewall type system for a > public WiFi, that redirects users to a Web page when they first connect, > accepts some credentials such as an e-mail address and allows them > access to the 'net. Other features like  limiting the volum

Re: [CentOS] Unsupported Hardware that works fine?

2013-11-26 Thread Ned Slider
On 26/11/13 00:42, Lists wrote: > I recently purchased a set of ASRock Intel i5 MB/CPU combos for a budget > compute cluster. Every time we load up a system and try to boot with a > recent EL6/64 ISO, we get a message that reads: > > > This hardware (or a combination thereof) is not supported by