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

[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 reason to hold your
> breath waiting for it.

Some research confirms this.  Source [1] says Fedora 16+ uses Grub2, and 
Source [2] says RHEL 7 will be based on Fedora 19.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grub_2
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhel#cite_ref-18

Sorry, Marc.  Better get used to Grub 2.
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Re: [CentOS] died again

[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 does an android phone.

re: $300 desktops, yes you can find them, usually last years consumer 
big-box store crap-quality, on clearance sale...  frankly, those kinds 
of systems really aren't very good quality, although if/when they work, 
they'll do the job

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

[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-deployed" until they fall over dead of natural causes.  Until the
>> last one dies, we need test and build VMs around to service them.)
>>
>> I have the CentOS 3.9 *.iso files plus a local cache of RPMs against 3.9
>> that is probably incomplete relative to the vault[*].
>>
>> 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
>> 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?
>>
>>
>> [*] http://vault.centos.org/3.9/updates/i386/RPMS/
> If I needed to do this, I would mirror the 3.9/os/ and 3.9/updates/
> directory (and others if you need them)
>
> Then I would create my directory as well in the same tree or even put my
> files in 3.9/updates/ as we are no longer putting files there anyway.
>
> Then I would rerun createrepo on the updates/i386 and updates/x86_64
> directories and do network installs and run updates.

I used to do something similar to this, except that in this case I'd 
assume "3.9/os/" and "3.9/updates/" are static, so I'd probably combine 
the RPMS from these 2 trees together (in a subdirectory called "RPMS" 
for instance), and then run:

repomanage -o RPMS | xargs rm -f

so that the outdated/superseded packages would be removed from the 
collection before running createrepo.

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Re: [CentOS] died again

[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 , but until now, not ~/.xsession-errors :
> 
>> (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2815): GLib-CRITICAL **:
>> g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
>> (null):  Warning no default label for /home/hennebry/.gvfs
> 
> WAIT ONE MINUTE: "no default label"? Please give us the results of
> $ getenforce

[hennebry@localhost Desktop]$ getenforce
Enforcing

On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, Louis Lagendijk wrote:

> You may want to check the bios for some settings. I recently fixed some
> issues with my server system here at home (gen 1 i7 920) by turning ACPI
> 2.0 off. I first replaced the power supply but that did improve the
> situation from disk errors once every day or 2 to once every 5 days.
> Make sure you have the latest bios as well.

ACPI, but not ACPI 2.0?
I'll see what the BIOS claims next time I reboot.

Not at all sure how to update the BIOS.
Don't even know whether my machine has a mechanism for updating the BIOS.

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Re: [CentOS] died again

[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.

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Re: [CentOS] died again

[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 current income is zero.
I'm burning what little retirement money I have.
Some expenses I find more annoying than others.
A computer is rather important for a job search these days.

> To the OP: is this a gaming machine, or just what you use? You mentioned
> $200 before install - I've seen refurbed entire desktops for $300.

No.  I've never been into gaming.
I've got a rather high-end video card because that
was the only available AGP card available in a hurry.

The $200 comes from googling D865GBFL price.

$300 desktops? Where?

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

[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.  Until the 
> last one dies, we need test and build VMs around to service them.)
>
> I have the CentOS 3.9 *.iso files plus a local cache of RPMs against 3.9 
> that is probably incomplete relative to the vault[*].
>
> 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 
> 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?
>
>
> [*] http://vault.centos.org/3.9/updates/i386/RPMS/

If I needed to do this, I would mirror the 3.9/os/ and 3.9/updates/
directory (and others if you need them)

Then I would create my directory as well in the same tree or even put my
files in 3.9/updates/ as we are no longer putting files there anyway.

Then I would rerun createrepo on the updates/i386 and updates/x86_64
directories and do network installs and run updates.



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Re: [CentOS] Unsupported Hardware that works fine?

[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 supported by CentOS. 
> For more
>  > information on supported hardware, plesae refer to 
> http://www.centos.org/hardware
>
> Not only does the hardware *seem* to work to expectations, but the url 
> referenced goes to 404!
>
> Having loaded CentOS6 on many systems without ever seeing this message, 
> I have to ask how to determine what might be triggering it and whether 
> or not I should be concerned?

If it works, by all means use it.

CentOS has no "supported hardware" anyway

That is there because something about that hardware trips the RHEL
support flag ... so you can't get support from Red Hat for that hardware :)

As other posts to the list have pointed out ... look at:

http://wiki.centos.org/hardware/

and

http://www.redhat.com/hardware/

for more info



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

[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, but don't remember all the details.

 I merged the updates into the distribution, plus a few yum-related packages
 from centosplus. I *think* I hacked up a comps.xml to create the yum metadata
 with createrepo, but that's only half the story. You also need to update the
 hdlist and hdlist2 files with /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder and
 genhdlist. There are pitfalls. Best thing is to build a 3.9 vm from just
 the base package and then create all the metadata files on it from the
 combined repo.

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Re: [CentOS] Filesystem labeling confusion or mess up

[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 <
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> 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/sdc returns always the same label name
> for both devices.
>
> so I did  "e2label /dev/sdb students" and "e2label /dev/sdc staff" and
> now mounting the devices shows the same filesystem under sdb and sdc!
>
> Looks like sdc (an empty device) is gone...
>
>
> Any suggestions or explanations?
>
> Thanks and best regards . Götz
>
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Re: [CentOS] Most efficient way to create a CentOS 3 test VM

[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 with authentication and such.

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

[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 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?
>
> I'd mirror the vault repository on a local http server, and edit the
> CentOS-Base.repo file to point to it, then you can just run yum update...
>
>
>
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>

It doesn't necessarily have to be on an http server. Just in an
accessible location (e.g. via NFS) and use a file:// URL in the .repo
file.

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

[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
> 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?

I'd mirror the vault repository on a local http server, and edit the 
CentOS-Base.repo file to point to it, then you can just run yum update...



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

[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, we need test and build VMs around to service them.)
>
I, at least, understand. We have one of our researchers who builds stuff
against that, because he's got collaborators around the world, and they
*can't* get newer, at least yet

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Re: [CentOS] Unsupported Hardware that works fine?

[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, I've had these systems torture tested for my needs for
> days without issue.
>
> Just wondering if there's a way to figure out what caused the message,
> and/or if I should expect something to*not*  work?

wild guess...   that CPU is newer than the kernel in use by the 
installer, and it doesn't have any microcode updates for it.

also might be that X doesn't have the HD4600 graphics driver used by 
that chip.   its quite possible a yum update brings in newer stuff that 
resolves this.



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Re: [CentOS] Unsupported Hardware that works fine?

[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 hardware (or a combination thereof) is not supported by CentOS.
>> For more
>>> information on supported hardware, plesae refer to
>> http://www.centos.org/hardware
>>
>> Not only does the hardware*seem*  to work to expectations, but the url
>> referenced goes to 404!
>>
>> Having loaded CentOS6 on many systems without ever seeing this message,
>> I have to ask how to determine what might be triggering it and whether
>> or not I should be concerned?
> what chipset and which core i5 (there's at least 3, maybe 4 generations
> of 'core i5' processors now)
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, I've had these systems torture tested for my needs for 
days without issue.

Just wondering if there's a way to figure out what caused the message, 
and/or if I should expect something to *not* work?

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Re: [CentOS] died again

[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 understand that too, but nothing you can do is going to make it last
forever, and power use is a cost if it is on all the time.  And I'd
recommend something that can virtualize 64-bit OS's (basically
anything since a core-2 duo, I think) if you like to try out different
things.

> To the OP: is this a gaming machine, or just what you use? You mentioned
> $200 before install - I've seen refurbed entire desktops for $300.

I've had relatively good luck with stuff from tigerdirect.com but you
sort of take your chances.

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

[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 around to service them.)

I have the CentOS 3.9 *.iso files plus a local cache of RPMs against 3.9 
that is probably incomplete relative to the vault[*].

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 
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?


[*] http://vault.centos.org/3.9/updates/i386/RPMS/
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Re: [CentOS] died again

[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 too small a sample to draw conclusions  Back
> when computer hardware was expensive compared to human time it was fun
> do debug stuff like that.  Now, replacing it with something new would
> probably save money in the long run just from power usage.   Not to
> mention working 10x faster.
>
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).

To the OP: is this a gaming machine, or just what you use? You mentioned
$200 before install - I've seen refurbed entire desktops for $300.

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Re: [CentOS] died again

[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 conclusions  Back
when computer hardware was expensive compared to human time it was fun
do debug stuff like that.  Now, replacing it with something new would
probably save money in the long run just from power usage.   Not to
mention working 10x faster.

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Re: [CentOS] died again

[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 board and Core I-3
> 
> Yes.  It's the only computer I've owned with
> either a hard drive or more than 8K of memory.
> 
> I've used others.
> 
> > combo at MicroCenter for under $200, I think. "Installation"? Hey, we're
> > sysadmins, we build our own systems! 
> 
> What's this "we"?
> I've opened the case three times and done four things:
> I've installed a new hard drive.  The old one is still working.
> I've zapped the original video card, AGP.
> I've blown dust.
> I've had someone else install new RAM.
> 
> When I get up the nerve to open it again,
> I'll blow dust and look for misplaced intestines.
> 
> In the mean time, I'll boot back to CentOS and see how long it lasts.
> 
You may want to check the bios for some settings. I recently fixed some
issues with my server system here at home (gen 1 i7 920) by turning ACPI
2.0 off. I first replaced the power supply but that did improve the
situation from disk errors once every day or 2 to once every 5 days.
Make sure you have the latest bios as well. 



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Re: [CentOS] died again

[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-authentication-agent-1:2815): GLib-CRITICAL **:
> g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
> (null):  Warning no default label for /home/hennebry/.gvfs

WAIT ONE MINUTE: "no default label"? Please give us the results of
$ getenforce

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Re: [CentOS] died again

[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 does with centos?
>
> F14 crashed once since CentOS started crashing.

Sounds like CentOS hits something somewhere that FC14 hits more rarely.

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Re: [CentOS] died again

[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 like.

E.g. F16.

> Yeah, probably better to get something that is likely to run for 10
> more years than to squeeze another year out of something old.

I think that I've seen used laptops for about as
much and I would not have to pay for installation.

> Are you saying it never crashes with fedora but it does with centos?

F14 crashed once since CentOS started crashing.

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Re: [CentOS] died again

[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 is likely to run for 10
more years than to squeeze another year out of something old.

> On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>> I've seen a machine where it took 3+ days of running memtest86 to
>> catch the error.  And then after replacing the RAM, the machine still
>
> Clean bill from memtest86 running overnight.

Like I said, I had one that ran clean for 3 days, then caught the
intermittent RAM error that was causing the problem.  But, if I hadn't
already had a pile of similar RAM to swap in, I would probably have
been ahead to trash the old box anyway.   It just happened to be the
only large tower case I had with an 8 port SATA controller and room
for a lot of disks and I like using it for backups.

> The memory is the newest part of the computer.
> After rebooting, it crapped out twice in half an hour.
> After that, I went back to F14.

Are you saying it never crashes with fedora but it does with centos?

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Re: [CentOS] died again

[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
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-BWwFtW/socket.ssh
** Message: NumLock remembering disabled because hostname is set to "localhost"
Failed to play sound: File or data not found

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2815): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot 
register existing type `_PolkitError'

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2815): GLib-CRITICAL **: 
g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
(null):  Warning no default label for /home/hennebry/.gvfs
** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
** Message: applet now embedded in the notification area

To be clear this is the one for CentOS.
F14, what I'm running right now, has a different home directory.
Is the "... failed" message crash-worthy?

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Re: [CentOS] died again

[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 hard drive or more than 8K of memory.

I've used others.

> combo at MicroCenter for under $200, I think. "Installation"? Hey, we're
> sysadmins, we build our own systems! 

What's this "we"?
I've opened the case three times and done four things:
I've installed a new hard drive.  The old one is still working.
I've zapped the original video card, AGP.
I've blown dust.
I've had someone else install new RAM.

When I get up the nerve to open it again,
I'll blow dust and look for misplaced intestines.

In the mean time, I'll boot back to CentOS and see how long it lasts.

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Re: [CentOS] died again

[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 and run memtest86 for a few hours (say, when you go to
>>>
>>> I've run the memory test that comes with the Fedora 13 install disk.
>>> My computer's memory got a clean bill of health.
>>
>> I've seen a machine where it took 3+ days of running memtest86 to
>> catch the error.  And then after replacing the RAM, the machine still
>
> Clean bill from memtest86 running overnight.
> The memory is the newest part of the computer.
> After rebooting, it crapped out twice in half an hour.
> After that, I went back to F14.

Oh, right, *just* as I hit , I realized one more thing: you have
checked both ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/Xorg.0.log, right?

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Re: [CentOS] died again

[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 Intel Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz 800FSB
> >>> I got it in 2006.
> >> 
> >> 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.
> 
> Expensive board. Is this at home? I got a Gigabyte board and Core I-3
> combo at MicroCenter for under $200, I think. "Installation"? Hey, we're
> sysadmins, we build our own systems! 
> >
> > 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 and run memtest86 for a few hours (say, when you go to
> >>>
> >>> I've run the memory test that comes with the Fedora 13 install disk.
> >>> My computer's memory got a clean bill of health.
> >>
> >> I've seen a machine where it took 3+ days of running memtest86 to
> >> catch the error.  And then after replacing the RAM, the machine still
> >
> > Clean bill from memtest86 running overnight.
> > The memory is the newest part of the computer.
> > After rebooting, it crapped out twice in half an hour.
> > After that, I went back to F14.
> 
> If the memory looks good, and the disk looks good, the only two things
> left are either the CPU or the m/b. I don't remember from earlier in the

or the power supply...

> thread - do you have a video card, or onboard video? If the former, that's
> the third second thing If that's not a hot card, you might consider
> replacing that first.
> 
> mark

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Re: [CentOS] died again

[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 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.

Expensive board. Is this at home? I got a Gigabyte board and Core I-3
combo at MicroCenter for under $200, I think. "Installation"? Hey, we're
sysadmins, we build our own systems! 
>
> 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 and run memtest86 for a few hours (say, when you go to
>>>
>>> I've run the memory test that comes with the Fedora 13 install disk.
>>> My computer's memory got a clean bill of health.
>>
>> I've seen a machine where it took 3+ days of running memtest86 to
>> catch the error.  And then after replacing the RAM, the machine still
>
> Clean bill from memtest86 running overnight.
> The memory is the newest part of the computer.
> After rebooting, it crapped out twice in half an hour.
> After that, I went back to F14.

If the memory looks good, and the disk looks good, the only two things
left are either the CPU or the m/b. I don't remember from earlier in the
thread - do you have a video card, or onboard video? If the former, that's
the third second thing If that's not a hot card, you might consider
replacing that first.

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Re: [CentOS] died again

[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 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.

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 and run memtest86 for a few hours (say, when you go to
>>
>> I've run the memory test that comes with the Fedora 13 install disk.
>> My computer's memory got a clean bill of health.
>
> I've seen a machine where it took 3+ days of running memtest86 to
> catch the error.  And then after replacing the RAM, the machine still

Clean bill from memtest86 running overnight.
The memory is the newest part of the computer.
After rebooting, it crapped out twice in half an hour.
After that, I went back to F14.

On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Mauricio Tavares wrote:

>  K. Anything interesting from smartctl? Have you used bonnie++
> before? I think if you run it in a window/screen and then keep an eye
> on dmesg you might find issues on the HD.

Hadn't heard of either until now.
Looked up smartctl:
[root@localhost ~]# smartctl -H /dev/sdb
smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Please note the following marginal Attributes:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME  FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE  UPDATED  
WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   068   044   045Old_age   Always   
In_the_past 32 (0 34 33 25)

[root@localhost ~]# smartctl --test=short /dev/sdb
smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION ===
Sending command: "Execute SMART Short self-test routine immediately in off-line 
mode".
Drive command "Execute SMART Short self-test routine immediately in off-line 
mode" successful.
Testing has begun.
Please wait 1 minutes for test to complete.
Test will complete after Tue Nov 26 10:02:10 2013

Use smartctl -X to abort test.
[root@localhost ~]# smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdb
smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_DescriptionStatus  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  
LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline   Completed without error   00% 44279 -
# 2  Short offline   Completed without error   00% 44279 -


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Re: [CentOS] partitionless installation

[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 pointed out).  You can
> boot the kernel directly or boot through something similar to grub, such
> as pvgrub (for Xen, which I know from experience works with this type of
> setup).
>
> I know of two different ways to do it.  The first way is to just do a
> regular install to a partitioned image with anaconda, then you can copy
> the whole thing over to a non-partitioned filesystem.
>
> The second way is to use yum.  You would have to find a yum package that
> runs in ubuntu, then use yum with the --config (for a custom config file
> to point to the CentOS repos) and --installroot (to point to your
> mounted filesystem, instead of the root of the current host system), and
> do something like this:
>
> yum --config=centos6.conf --installroot=/path/to/mountpoint groupinstall
> core
>
> Then you can chroot into the new fs (after bind mounting /proc /sys and
> /dev) and set your root password, edit your network config
> (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts files) yum install any other packages
> you want, and so on.
>
> I recommend that for either method you choose, when yo've tweaked it how
> you like for a basic VM, you tarball all the files up and use it as a
> template for future installs.
>
> For swap you can either pass in a second block device or use a swap file
> (I use a swap file and it works just fine).
>
>
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Re: [CentOS] Machine check events

[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
CONFIG_X86_MCE_AMD=y
CONFIG_X86_MCE_THRESHOLD=y
CONFIG_X86_MCE_INJECT=m

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Re: [CentOS] Machine check events

[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 (like RHEL6 or SLES11-SP1)"
"The kernel has to have CONFIG_X86_MCE enabled. For 32bit kernels you
need at least a 2.6,30 kernel."

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?

Thanks,
-G.

JD writes:

> yum info mcelog
> ...
> Description : mcelog is a daemon that collects and decodes Machine Check
> : Exception data on x86-64 machines.
> 
> So not for 32-bit...

On Nov 26, 2013, at 9:25 AM, 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
> (based on "yum whatprovides '*/mcelog'" and similar queries).
> 
> Thus, I still don't know what to do with these errors.  Ignore them? I am
> running 32-bit CentOS 6.4 (legacy software reasons).
> 
> On Nov 25, 2013, at 11:05 AM, Glenn Eychaner  wrote:
> 
>> On my new Haswell-based machines, I am occasionally seeing entries like the
>> following in /var/log/messages:
>>  kernel: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
>> (I would not have even noticed them, except that they get flagged by 
>> logwatch.)
>> These messages always occur alone, and don't seem to have a corresponding
>> entry in any other log file in /var/log. How can I get more info about these
>> messages?
> 

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[CentOS] Filesystem labeling confusion or mess up

[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/sdc returns always the same label name
for both devices.

so I did  "e2label /dev/sdb students" and "e2label /dev/sdc staff" and
now mounting the devices shows the same filesystem under sdb and sdc!

Looks like sdc (an empty device) is gone...


Any suggestions or explanations?

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Re: [CentOS] Machine check events

[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 '*/mcelog'" and similar queries).
> 
> Thus, I still don't know what to do with these errors.  Ignore them? I am
> running 32-bit CentOS 6.4 (legacy software reasons).

yum info mcelog
...
Description : mcelog is a daemon that collects and decodes Machine Check
    : Exception data on x86-64 machines.

So not for 32-bit...

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Re: [CentOS] Unsupported Hardware that works fine?

[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 supported by CentOS.
> For more
>  > information on supported hardware, plesae refer to
> http://www.centos.org/hardware

There is a bug report with respect to this non-existing link:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6667

And a solution will be to link to http://wiki.centos.org/hardware instead.

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Re: [CentOS] Machine check events

[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
> (based on "yum whatprovides '*/mcelog'" and similar queries).
> 
> Thus, I still don't know what to do with these errors.  Ignore them? I am
> running 32-bit CentOS 6.4 (legacy software reasons).

You should have this package available:

% rpm -qi mcelog 
Name: mcelog   Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 1.0pre3_20120814_2Vendor: CentOS
Release : 0.6.el6   Build Date: Thu Feb 21 20:52:19 2013
Install Date: Sat Mar  9 06:48:53 2013 Build Host: 
c6b8.bsys.dev.centos.org
Group   : System Environment/Base   Source RPM: 
mcelog-1.0pre3_20120814_2-0.6.el6.src.rpm
Size: 116942   License: GPLv2
Signature   : RSA/SHA1, Sat Feb 23 12:38:34 2013, Key ID 0946fca2c105b9de
Packager: CentOS BuildSystem 
URL : http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/cpu/mce/mcelog.git
Summary : Tool to translate x86-64 CPU Machine Check Exception data.
Description :
mcelog is a daemon that collects and decodes Machine Check Exception data
on x86-64 machines.

% rpm -ql mcelog
/etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron
/etc/mcelog/mcelog.conf
/etc/rc.d/init.d/mcelogd
/etc/sysconfig/mcelogd
/usr/sbin/mcelog
/usr/share/doc/mcelog-1.0pre3_20120814_2
/usr/share/doc/mcelog-1.0pre3_20120814_2/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/mcelog-1.0pre3_20120814_2/README
/usr/share/man/man8/mcelog.8.gz


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Re: [CentOS] Machine check events

[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 still don't know what to do with these errors.  Ignore them? I am
running 32-bit CentOS 6.4 (legacy software reasons).

-G.

On Nov 25, 2013, at 11:05 AM, Glenn Eychaner  wrote:

> On my new Haswell-based machines, I am occasionally seeing entries like the
> following in /var/log/messages:
>   kernel: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
> (I would not have even noticed them, except that they get flagged by 
> logwatch.)
> These messages always occur alone, and don't seem to have a corresponding
> entry in any other log file in /var/log. How can I get more info about these
> messages?

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   1. CESA-2013:X013 Important Xen4CentOS xen Security  Update
  (Johnny Hughes)
   2. CESA-2013:X014 Important Xen4CentOS libvirt   Security Update
  (Johnny Hughes)
   3. CEEA-2013:X015 Xen4CentOS kernel Enhancement  Update
  (Johnny Hughes)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 14:27:12 +
From: Johnny Hughes 
Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2013:X013 Important Xen4CentOS xen
SecurityUpdate
To: centos-annou...@centos.org
Message-ID: <20131125142712.ga43...@n04.lon1.karan.org>
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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2013:X013 (Xen4CentOS)

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename )

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X86_64
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f3725f9d29b2fd85d3c9568d979b7ea0f26e1844bb7474b8ef4de2e124bae9ff 
xen-4.2.3-25.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm
b8a518ca3807067471d7397481d9ebcb11f1dda80945bf40a34b8c6fd76cdf6b 
xen-devel-4.2.3-25.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm
71622b65300a17b2bb6d5758e2bbe5ec158a429446b6dff875874641eba585bc 
xen-doc-4.2.3-25.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm
eb4ea62e3455e39df2f468b224a15a30e0f61f5e0ad3e0996244aa1c42c611d3 
xen-hypervisor-4.2.3-25.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm
e0fe32ba2d7012cc69ac0b5c188abe949c2fb222b177be8c980ed83317eccb93 
xen-libs-4.2.3-25.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm
3a566e7a2040f3373285245f7f7c726a597d8de35dec8f601eb2863b432ab3b2 
xen-licenses-4.2.3-25.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm
80571d5031b23f6feca314d6b66838b4ba8e0e5e12845b1f3a69df8fd03ff9d5 
xen-ocaml-4.2.3-25.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm
ef16ee93f197961a3f8fb514816170c23e66a3fa74354c4e78959759b43b19df 
xen-ocaml-devel-4.2.3-25.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm
22692e325f8ab867730e51570b3cc3977f4c64416c9f38ad0897716d8152a739 
xen-runtime-4.2.3-25.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm

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Source:
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d9db3406ff206cd8be106a63712df1c5daacd9d437fc88fb75f523476d60c840 
xen-4.2.3-25.el6.centos.alt.src.rpm

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xen Changelog info from the SPEC file:
* Sat Nov 23 2013 Johnny Hughes  - 4.2.3-25.el6.centos
- Roll in patch 145 and 146 for XSA-75 (CVE-2013-4551), XSA-78 (CVE-2013-6375)

* Mon Nov 04 2013 Johnny Hughes  - 4.2.3-24.el6.centos
- Roll in patches 134 to 141, 143 to 144 for the following XSAs:
- XSA-62 (CVE-2013-1442), XSA-63 (CVE-2013-4355), XSA-72 (CVE-2013-4416)
- XSA-64 (CVE-2013-4356), XSA-66 (CVE-2013-4361), XSA-67 (CVE-2013-4368)
- XSA-68 (CVE-2013-4369), XSA-69 (CVE-2013-4370), XSA-70 (CVE-2013-4371)
- XSA-73 (CVE-2013-4494)


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The following XSA info is available from the Xen site 
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-62.html
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-63.html
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-64.html
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-66.html
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-67.html
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-68.html
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-69.html
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-70.html
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-72.html
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-73.html
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-75.html
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-78.html

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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 14:27:37 +
From: Johnny Hughes 
Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2013:X014 Important Xen4CentOS libvirt
Security Update
To: centos-annou...@centos.org
Message-ID: <20131125142737.ga43...@n04.lon1.karan.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2013:X014 (Xen4CentOS)

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename )

-
X86_64
-

ab3a48f7c3dbd4f47cd4676fff16282f852ccc230653fdc64b1e7ec6864fb04d 
libvirt-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm
780981c95cbe4dd352b8ecbfd23bcd04abacb6f9a522e45f5dd890acb4bab87a 
libvirt-client-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm
bd57d22f0aff2276f3263fb0920614f3fa917a1b5baef37d1e411c131ae480a5 
libvirt-daemon-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm
fbbec7851f73e9fee1d036a080af2c64df42d443452cdf5e9943070bcf4579fc 
libvirt-daemon-config-network-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm
df5b7c70bd4f2fa49

Re: [CentOS] Captive Portal

[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 'net. Other features like  limiting the volume of download
>> and some kind of porn filter would be good.
> squid should be able to do this...
>http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Portal/Splash
>
>

I used to use Coova Chilli http://coova.org/CoovaChilli for that.
But you still have to setup all the AAA (FreeRadius+DAtabase).

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Re: [CentOS] Captive Portal

[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 volume of download 
> and some kind of porn filter would be good.

squid should be able to do this...
  http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Portal/Splash

JD
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Re: [CentOS] Unsupported Hardware that works fine?

[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 CentOS.
> For more
>   > information on supported hardware, plesae refer to
> http://www.centos.org/hardware
>
> Not only does the hardware *seem* to work to expectations, but the url
> referenced goes to 404!
>

For information:

CentOS is a rebuild of Red Hat's RHEL product. CentOS removes references 
to Red Hat, in this case a reference to redhat.com. If you substitute 
'redhat.com' for 'centos.org' you will get the original URL rather than 
a page not found error:

http://www.redhat.com/hardware

> Having loaded CentOS6 on many systems without ever seeing this message,
> I have to ask how to determine what might be triggering it and whether
> or not I should be concerned?
>
> Thanks


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