Re: [CentOS] Access Problem after update to CentOS 7.1
I should have mentioned that the bug I found was #0007177 in the centos bug tracker ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Access Problem after update to CentOS 7.1
I hope I am not just mudding the water but I ran into a problem in updating to 7.1 and a license accptance, which I solved - for me. I booted into a gui in 7.0, opened a terminal and issued a sudo yum update command. I don't know at this time whether that qualifies as a GUI update or a CLI update. After the update to 7.1, the reboot (in the terminal in X) hung up on a message that said something like license not accepted. Enter y to accept or C to continue I tried both and neither worked. I did some googling and found a bug (in Bugzilla I believe) from several months ago. It was against the initial-setup script. I didn't (and don't ) understand all they were saying about whether they need that block of code in the script. The thing that solved my problem was that it said the right answer is 1, and 2 not Y and C. I am sorry I can't confirm this because I don't know how to run the initial-setup script now that I have managed to boot. I hope this helps someone. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] how to delete a trashed kernel
Message: 8 On Jan 1, 2015, at 3:49 PM, Don Vogt dn...@yahoo.com wrote: when I select the second kernel it boots OK. Now I would like to remove the bad kernel. The only thing that makes this tricky is that you can?t just say ?rpm -e kernel? because there is more than one ?kernel? package installed. You need to know the exact package name. I?m assuming you?re using EL7 and you told it you wanted your user to be a trusted admin during install. Otherwise, you might need to su up to root to do this. Alas, sudo is not universal: I have never noticed a centos-plus in a kernel name before. Does the centos-plus repo deal out kernels? Clearly, the answer is ?yes?. thanks. I would appreciate any advice (except go back to windows?) You asked for it: Get and read some good books on Linux. I had some books on Unix when I started with Slackware. I downloaded it over Ftp from MIT, I believe it was Slackware 0.8. (maybe 1.0). It came on about 25 floppy disks and (with a 300baud modem) I could only do about two a night. I believe I got in trouble this time while building a centos7 partition. I had some problems getting the music to play and I went back and forth between centos6 and centos7 to see what packages I need (Centos6 was working fine). I think my initial problem was that Rpmforge doesn't have centos7. Thanks for the help. Centos6 and centos7 are now working fine (except 7 only boots about every other try- which I am still working on - I think the bios boot my Hard drives in somewhat random order and I haven't been able to come up with the proper system map -- or it may be a mixup with two SATA drives and an IDE. Pulling the power plug on the IDE drive fixes it.) I will go back to lurking. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] how to delete a trashed kernel
I have a screwed up disk arrangement, but I have had no trouble because of it after using it over a year. Recently I did a yum update. After starting the update, which included a new kernel, it seemed to either freeze or loop. It was a long time at the prompt and I got impatient and did a Ctrl C. I then tried to re-boot. The result was a kernel panic. I am keeping 5 kernels and when I select the second kernel it boots OK. Now I would like to remove the bad kernel. One other thing that I don't understand and may be relevant, the name of the bad package is kernel-2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.centos-plus.i386 I have never noticed a centos-plus in a kernel name before. Does the centos-plus repo deal out kernels?I have tried yum remove and gpk application (add and remove software) with no luck.I have tried google, but all the solutions for kernel deletions were to delete old kernels. I don't want to do that because I would be deleting my backups. I am in no hurry because I can still boot and it is possible that if I can wait through several kernel updates yum might delete the bad one after an update. I should have mentioned that I am using grub2 to boot, although I don't think that has anything to do with deleting the kernel package.I would appreciate any advice (except go back to windows) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOs 7.0 and reboot failure
I don't want to hi-jack this but I may have a clew for you. I am troubleshooting a similar problem and have found a trail. I recently installed centos7 on my (improperly complicated system) and sometimes it will boot and sometimes not. My problem is apparently caused by having three hard drives . From boot to boot they get mounted in different orders. The drive with my os7 sometimes is mounted as/dev/sda and sometimes /dev/sdc. In grub.cfg on the os7 partition there is a statement set root=hd0, msdos3 I think that may be the villain but I don't know where it comes from. (The kernel lines use blockid's,) That statement is in centos7, but not in centos6 where I have not had the problem. I intend to search a while, and maybe learn something or take out a couple of drives.Hopefully this helps. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Subject: Re: centos7 livecd yum problem (solved)
Message: 4 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 12:14:52 -0600 From: Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] centos7 livecd yum problem Message-ID: n Mon, 13 Oct 2014 10:35:47 -0700 Don Vogt wrote: I started to install centos7 using a livecd image. After booting the cd I tried a yum install mc which failed. I then tried yum update and got the following output. Are you sure that your newly installed machine is actually online? What does ping google.com get you? Thanks. That is the problem. I never got to the install. I was running from the liveCD. I have booted from quite a few liveCD's and this is the first (that I remember- always a caveat nowadays) that didn't handle the network setup of my ethernet. The problem is probably unique to my setup. I have a built in ethernet on the motherboard which failed about a year after I put the board in about 6 years ago. I put in an old nic I had laying around and have been happy ever since. I tried looking at /var/log/messages to see what NetworkManager had to say, but don't understand it. I know how to get the network going now and will be able to do that after I install and should be OK. So, thanks again. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] centos7 livecd yum problem
I started to install centos7 using a livecd image. After booting the cd I tried a yum install mc which failed. I then tried yum update and got the following output. [liveuser@localhost ~]$ sudo yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=7arch=x86_64repo=os error was 14: curl#6 - Could not resolve host: mirrorlist.centos.org; Unknown error One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown), and yum doesn't have enough cached data to continue. At this point the only safe thing yum can do is fail. There are a few ways to work fix this: 1. Contact the upstream for the repository and get them to fix the problem. 2. Reconfigure the baseurl/etc. for the repository, to point to a working upstream. This is most often useful if you are using a newer distribution release than is supported by the repository (and the packages for the previous distribution release still work). 3. Disable the repository, so yum won't use it by default. Yum will then just ignore the repository until you permanently enable it again or use --enablerepo for temporary usage: yum-config-manager --disable repoid 4. Configure the failing repository to be skipped, if it is unavailable. Note that yum will try to contact the repo. when it runs most commands, so will have to try and fail each time (and thus. yum will be be much slower). If it is a very temporary problem though, this is often a nice compromise: yum-config-manager --save --setopt=repoid.skip_if_unavailable=true Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base/7/x86_64 I looked at thgeCentos-Base. repo from the live cd and it looks the same as the repo in centos6.5. I have no idea what to do next. This is my attempt to do step 1. above because I don't know how to do step 2. Any help would be appreciated on using the liveCD. Thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] authentication request
I am running centos 6.5 on a desktop. I have run it for a couple of years with few problems. Lately I have been getting a request for authentication popup that says something wants to upload software. when I refuse and click on details it says an upload failed for lack of authentication. The only clue I have is an entry in /var/log/secure that says may 19 localhost polkitd (authority=local): operator of unix=session:/org/freedesktop/consolekit/session2 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action.org/freedesktop. packagekit system upgrade for system-bus-name::1.5(gpk-update-icon (owned by unix-user:my user name) ( please don't nit pick the format or spelling. I couldn't figure out how to cut and paste, and my handwriting is atrocious). Everything seems to work OK but it is a pain, and maybe a security problem. I would appreciate any help. I don't have a clue., ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
