Re: [CentOS] Trying to find gcc 5

2020-12-04 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 12/4/20 1:26 AM, mark wrote: > Hi, folks, > >    It seems I can't run a version of calibre newer than 3.23 without at least > one library from gcc-5 (and the calibre attitude seems to be "screw you, 4's > ancient, move to another distro"). > >    I've added the scl repo - what devtoolset do

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 & HandBrakeCLI

2020-07-13 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 7/13/20 4:04 AM, Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. wrote: > Since I upgraded to CentOS8, I cannot get HandBrakeCLI to work: > > # HandBrakeCLI > HandBrakeCLI: error while loading shared libraries: libass.so.5: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > > Googling this, it appears the

Re: [CentOS] kvm: C8 as guest on C6 host / huge delay while booting

2020-05-16 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 5/16/20 5:09 PM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > Am 11.05.20 um 15:59 schrieb Leon Fauster: >> Since C8.1  kvm guests have a huge delay while booting on a kvm host based >> on C6. This delay was not present with C8.0. The "pause" happend >> direct after the grub step. The VNC session shows

Re: [CentOS] yum update / kernal update failed - remove or repair

2020-01-23 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 1/22/20 3:57 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote: > I have managed to find out what happened in the yum update and it turns out > it was a mess. It looks like the server ran out of memory in the middle and > things then started to fail. Any advice on how to recover from this would be > greatly

Re: [CentOS] nfs causes Centos 7.7 system to hang

2019-12-27 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 12/26/19 11:15 AM, Nikolaos Milas wrote: > Hello, > > MERRY CHRISTMAS to all in list! > > After I upgraded to latest: CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core) I am > facing nfs crashes which cause the system to hang frequently. > > This is caused by cp to nfs-mounted shares. > > Below is dmesg

Re: [CentOS] DebugInfo repo broken on purpose

2019-12-13 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 12/13/19 2:09 AM, Warren Young wrote: > This line in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Debuginfo.repo > > baseurl=http://debuginfo.centos.org/$releasever/$basearch/ > > …causes commands like “yum search --enablerepo=* foo” to fail with the > obscure error > > Error: Failed to synchronize

[CentOS] nextcloud-client currently not installable from EPEL in CentOS7

2019-09-02 Thread Kay Diederichs
Dear all, after enabling the EPEL repository, [root@localhost ~]# yum install nextcloud-client in a freshly installed and updated CentOS 7.6 machine gives Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: centos.bio.lmu.de * epel:

Re: [CentOS] failing to install LibreOffice 6.3.0.4

2019-08-14 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 8/12/19 2:48 AM, Fred Smith wrote: ... > > I removed the distro-provided LO, excluded it so yum won't try > to reinstall it, some time ago. ... > I don't understand why yum refuses to install it, while rpm will. if you exclude it in /etc/yum.conf then yum will not install it when you ask it

Re: [CentOS] Centos installer not detecting hard drive

2019-03-14 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 3/12/19 10:16 PM, Farid Izem wrote: > Hi, > > I have a new labtop and i want to install CentOS 7.6 on it. > My labtop has two hard drives : > - A 256Go SSD > - A standard 1 To hard drive > None of the two hard drives are detected by the Centos installer > consequently i can't proceed with the

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7.6 & ether-wake

2019-02-25 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 2/22/19 11:04 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Everyone, > > I have not been able to get ether-wake to work waking up other centos 7.6 > machines after > the upgrade to Centos 7.6. Has anyone else had this problem, and if so any > luck with a > fix? > > Greg Ennis > we have no problem with

Re: [CentOS] Help with yum

2018-04-12 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 04/12/2018 03:37 PM, Paul R. Ganci wrote: > I just did a fresh minimal install of centos 7 on new hardware. While > playing around with window systems I removed X windows like so: > >>yum remove "X Window system" > > and then tried to re install > >>yum group install "X Window system" > >

Re: [CentOS] Problem with ssh disconnecting

2018-02-15 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 02/13/2018 11:54 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2018-02-13, H wrote: >> On 02/12/2018 07:24 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: >>> On 2018-02-12, H wrote: Running CentOS 7 on workstation and having a problem with ssh disconnects. My ssh_config

Re: [CentOS] Re-enable grub boot in UEFI (Windows took over it)

2018-02-06 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 02/05/2018 09:10 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 8:27 AM, Kay Diederichs > <kay.diederi...@uni-konstanz.de> wrote: > >> grub-install /dev/nvme0n1 > > > Running this on computers with UEFI firmware is not good advice, it's > an obsolete comman

Re: [CentOS] Re-enable grub boot in UEFI (Windows took over it)

2018-02-05 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 02/01/2018 12:15 PM, wwp wrote: > Hello there, > > > Dell XPS-15-9560 laptop (SSD drive, UEFI, secure boot off).. Windows 10 > pre-installed, CentOS7 installed in a separate partition and running > for months w/o issue. Don't know what happened but at reboot yesterday > (not even booted in

[CentOS] devtoolset-4

2016-01-28 Thread Kay Diederichs
Hi, is there any way to get access to devtoolset-4 ? I see alot of stuff at http://cbs.centos.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=2076 . Is this not yet released? thanks, Kay ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] gfortran "static" linking on CentOS 7

2016-01-16 Thread Kay Diederichs
Dear all, on CentOS 6 one could use -static-libgcc -static-libgfortran to obtain a binary which would run on other computers which don't have gfortran installed. On CentOS 7 one can install the libgfortran-static and libquadmath-static RPMs but the resulting binary _still_ requires

Re: [CentOS] How to stagger fsck executions

2015-04-21 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 04/21/2015 06:08 AM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: CentOS 6 Hi All: Over the weekend I had to reboot one of my systems and got hit with fsck runs on all of the filesystems. I would not mind so much except doing them all at once took over an hour. I would like to be able to stagger these,

Re: [CentOS] shutdown -h doesn't

2015-01-16 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 01/16/2015 05:05 AM, Devin Reade wrote: I've got a fresh CentOS 7 test machine, fully patched. The command: shutdown -h now surprisingly does not halt the machine. Instead it reboots it. WTF? I found the following Debian discussion which seems to be the same issue:

Re: [CentOS] shutdown -h doesn't

2015-01-16 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 01/16/2015 09:51 AM, Kay Diederichs wrote: On 01/16/2015 05:05 AM, Devin Reade wrote: I've got a fresh CentOS 7 test machine, fully patched. The command: shutdown -h now surprisingly does not halt the machine. Instead it reboots it. WTF? I found the following Debian discussion

Re: [CentOS] older distro have newer package in base repo

2014-11-21 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 11/20/2014 04:53 PM, Leon Fauster wrote: Just wondering why in EL5's base repo the latest supported mysql package is 5.5 and in EL6's base repo it is 5.1? Seems strange to me. (it is clear that the SCL of EL6 has version 5.5 but that implies a different update policy). -- LF

Re: [CentOS] NFS Mount: files owned by nobody

2014-03-20 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 03/19/2014 08:16 PM, Lists wrote: Alas, this doesn't seem to have resolved the issue. (See results shown below) Your notes closely mirror the results of my google searches. Is there a way to have NFS server/client be very verbose and log where the error is occuring? -Ben On 03/17/2014

Re: [CentOS] xorg updates hose GUI with Nvidia driver

2013-10-16 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 10/16/2013 02:51 AM, Thomas Eriksson wrote: ... Elrepo is not putting any symlink in /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions only in /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia It then adds /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia to the ModulePath in xorg.conf so the Xserver picks up the

Re: [CentOS] chmodding SCP

2012-02-22 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 02/21/2012 07:30 PM, Turnbough, Bradley E. wrote: I have two machines, and I am trying to copy files from one to the other via SCP. Since this machine is accessible from two of our networks, we're trying to restrict the use of SCP to a select few individuals to prevent unauthorized

Re: [CentOS] Identifying physical disks

2011-04-30 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 04/30/2011 11:30 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: I am sure this is really simple. I have a setup of 2 disks (sda, sdb) which are outwardly identical, and are mirrors of each other. Together they form 3 raid1 devices. Both disks can boot. Now sda has bad sectors, and I should replace it. But which

Re: [CentOS] question on software raid

2011-04-04 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 04/01/2011 05:32 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: dmesg is not reporting any issues. The /proc/mdstat looks fine. md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] X blocks [2/2] [UU] however /var/log/messages says: smartd[3392] Device /dev/sda 20 offline uncorrectable sectors The machine is running

Re: [CentOS] Ac1dB1tch3z Vs Linux Kernel x86_64 0day

2010-09-18 Thread Kay Diederichs
Am 18.09.2010 21:11, schrieb Gerhard Schneider: Are there any 64bit CentOS5 kernels available that are immune against the exploit mentioned in the subject? Turning off 32bit support is no option to me.. Gerhard Schneider P.S.: Source code can be found at

Re: [CentOS] Fsck on mdraid array

2010-07-22 Thread Kay Diederichs
Jussi Hirvi schrieb: Something seems to be wrong with my file systems, and I want to fsck everything. But I cannot. The setup consists of 2 hds, carrying 3 raid1 (ext3) file systems (boot, /, swap). OS is up-to-date CentOS 5. So I boot from CentOS 5.3 dvd in rescue mode, do not mount

Re: [CentOS] CentOS with Kernel 2.6.32 built-in

2010-05-30 Thread Kay Diederichs
Adryan Pop wrote: I tried to run it with rpm -ivh but I get this error jme-kmod-1.0.6.1-1.el5.elrepo.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature NOKEY, key ID baadae52 1: jme-kmod warning: user ajb does not exist - using root this is not an error, it's just information and so on until

Re: [CentOS] SATA hotswap

2010-05-25 Thread Kay Diederichs
Jakub Jedelský schrieb: Hi all, I changed a bad disk (automaticly disabled from software raid1 and system for I/O error) in one of our servers and now have problem with adding new one to system without reboot. Does anybody have an experience with this? Or is it possible? :) We're using

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.4 :: linux-2.6.32.2 compile error (via nano l2...@1600)

2010-01-07 Thread Kay Diederichs
Karanbir Singh schrieb: On 01/07/2010 11:36 AM, Ned Slider wrote: Depends what hardware you have. ELRepo has a fixed powernow-k8 driver for AMD processors that allows correct scaling on multicore processors. See here: OP has a VIA nano, the K8 stuff isnt going to work there. I wonder if

Re: [CentOS] software raid1 syncing

2009-07-04 Thread Kay Diederichs
luc...@lastdot.org schrieb: On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Steven Vishootsir_funz...@yahoo.com wrote: hello all, I have a setup that is raid 1 and put the mirrored drive back in and now it is still showing as degraded saying: raid1: raid set md6 active with 1 out of 2 mirrors with this

Re: [CentOS] Installing openmpi lam for use with R

2009-03-27 Thread Kay Diederichs
Rick Bilonick schrieb: I am trying to install the R package Rmpi which needs libmpi. I've installed openmpi and lam in Centos 5.2: [r...@rab45-1 /]# rpm -qv openmpi openmpi-1.2.5-5.el5 openmpi-1.2.5-5.el5 [r...@rab45-1 /]# rpm -qv lam lam-7.1.2-14.el5 lam-7.1.2-14.el5 But I get the

Re: [CentOS] I have a test system that hangs hard...

2009-03-07 Thread Kay Diederichs
Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have a test system: Centos 5.2 on an OQO, that has been hanging hard. I have to unplug it and pull the battery so I can then cold start it. This last time all I did was open a terminal window and SU to root, then start the lastest build of SIP Communicator

Re: [CentOS] Deleting Large Files

2009-03-02 Thread Kay Diederichs
Joseph L. Casale schrieb: I have an issue with a busy CentOS server exporting iSCSI and NFS/SMB shares. Some of the files are very large, and when they get deleted IO climbs to an unacceptable rate. Is there a way to purge a file with little to no IO overhead on ext3? Thanks! jlc Have you

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

2009-02-21 Thread Kay Diederichs
Chan Chung Hang Christopher schrieb: md1 will read from both disk is not true in general. RAID1 md reads from one disk only; it uses the other one in case the first one fails. No performance gain from multiple copies. I beg to differ. I have disks in a raid1 md array and iostat -x 1 will

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

2009-02-21 Thread Kay Diederichs
A good place to start comparing benchmark numbers for different RAID levels is http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Performance in particular the links given in section Other benchmarks from 2007-2008 HTH, Kay ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

2009-02-20 Thread Kay Diederichs
Noob Centos Admin schrieb: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Ray Van Dolson ra...@bludgeon.org mailto:ra...@bludgeon.org wrote: The other side of the coin (as I think you mentioned) is that many are not comfortable having LVM handle the mirroring. Are its mirroring

Re: [CentOS] After electric breaking: HARDWARE ERROR Kernel panic

2009-02-13 Thread Kay Diederichs
Rainer Duffner schrieb: John R Pierce schrieb: you might try booting a memtest86 CD and seeing if that runs. Is there a memory-tester that - isn't i386-only - and goes beyond 4 GB? Rainer In the past I've been testing a 32 GB server mit memtest86+ , and in case of

Re: [CentOS] Security update missing - kernel-2.6.18-128.el5

2009-02-06 Thread Kay Diederichs
Milan Keršláger schrieb: Please, do not delay this Important multiple security update. See https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0225.html for more info. This update is 5.3 kernel but has been released as security update too. RHN pushed this kernel one day ahead of rest of 5.3

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-14 Thread Kay Diederichs
Stewart Williams schrieb: ... ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata1.00: ATA-7: GB0250C8045, HPG1, max UDMA/133 ata1.00: 488397168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata2.00:

Re: [CentOS] CD burning issues questions

2009-01-04 Thread Kay Diederichs
Lanny Marcus wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: On Saturday 03 January 2009 22:22:52 Lanny Marcus wrote: I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 bit), but nothing grave. I cannot erase CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the time. I ran

Re: [CentOS] Problem detecting HP Tape Drive

2009-01-04 Thread Kay Diederichs
Mehdi Sarmadi wrote: Hello I do have problem using Linux with an external HP tape drive. The server platform is also an HP Server; the server is an HP ML350 G4, and the Tape drive is a HP Storage Works Ultrium 448 - 1U Rack-mountable. HP Ultrium documentation says two drivers should be

[CentOS] Re: correct way to set centos 5 amd64 to performance mode

2008-11-08 Thread Kay Diederichs
Jerry Geis schrieb: what is the correct way to set an AMD64 CPU into performance mode at boot time? I have tried doing service network cpuspeed start, then killall -SIGUSR1 cpuspeed and this works but I cant get it working this way at boot. I have set chkconfig cpuspeed on but that didnt

[CentOS] Re: question about software Raid 1

2008-09-21 Thread Kay Diederichs
Nataraj wrote: Does software raid 1 compare checksums or otherwise verify that the same bits are coming from both disks during reads? What I'm interested in, is whether bit errors that were somehow undetected by the hardware would be detected by the raid 1 software. Thanks, Nataraj I've been

[CentOS] R (statistics package) on CentOS-5 ?

2008-05-07 Thread Kay Diederichs
Dear all, the statistics package R (www.r-project.org) was available for CentOS-4, but I need it for CentOS-5 (64bit). RPMforge has R-2.5.1 for CentOS-4, so I thought I'd try to install that on CentOS-5. However, yum complains about missing ggv, and the specfile indeed says that R requires

[CentOS] Re: Wherefore is FUSE?

2008-04-12 Thread Kay Diederichs
Benjamin Smith wrote: Tonight, I tried to roll out fuse on my CentOS 4 production system. (in order to use GlusterFS) I have two identical servers, and one took, the other didn't. How simple could this be? # yum install yum-plugin-priorities # yum install rpmforge-release # yum install

[CentOS] Re: 10Gbit ethernet

2008-03-14 Thread Kay Diederichs
Jake Grimmett schrieb: If I could ask question about 10Gbit ethernet We have a 70 node cluster built on Centos 5.1, using NFS to mount user home areas. At the moment the network is a bottleneck, and it's going to get worse as we add another 112 CPUs in the form of two blade servers. To

[CentOS] Re: sleepy disk drives

2008-02-22 Thread Kay Diederichs
Aleksandar Milivojevic schrieb: Hi, I'm having a grief with Seagate FreeAgent Pro drive connected to CentOS 4 box via USB. The problem is that drive is factory configured to take a nap (spin down) after some 15-20 minutes of inactivity, and there doesn't seem to be a way to disable it. Since

[CentOS] Re: LIMITING NUMBER OF KERNEL VERSIONS RETAINED

2008-01-14 Thread Kay Diederichs
Alfred von Campe schrieb: Some time ago there was a discussion on the above subject. I have scanned the past few month's mailing list archives and cannot find the relevant mail(s). Could somebody please repost the solution or point me at the correct resource. What you want is: # yum

[CentOS] Re: Memory problems with CentOS box

2007-10-20 Thread Kay Diederichs
Miguel Medalha wrote: Hello all I am running CentOS 5 on a small server and I am having very strange memory malfunctions. The computer runs perfectly with no problems whatsoever. From time to time, after a soft reboot, the computer emmits beeps corresponding to a memory fault. It never

[CentOS] Re: too many links error when creating directories

2007-09-28 Thread Kay Diederichs
Andreas Micklei schrieb: Am Freitag, 28. September 2007 schrieb Bill Campbell: I would avoid reiserfs as I've seen far too many cases where there has been massive data loss with it. I've used xfs extensively on SuSE systems without problems, but haven't tried it on centos as it's not supported

[CentOS] Re: NFS filesystem recommendations please (and problems with XFS)

2007-07-23 Thread Kay Diederichs
Johnny Hughes wrote: Patrick - South Valley Internet wrote: I see it just fine. Do I need to install the kernel from the plus repos as well? Patrick Akemi Yagi wrote: I do that, then when I reboot I still get the: mount: fs type xfs not supported by kernel Any ideas what's going on?

[CentOS] Re: NFS filesystem recommendations please (and problems with XFS)

2007-07-23 Thread Kay Diederichs
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Kay Diederichs wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ESRF]# uname -a Linux turn29.biologie.uni-konstanz.de 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jul 10 06:39:17 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- Processing Dependency: kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.centos.plus for package: kmod

[CentOS] openssh with High-Performance patches?

2007-07-12 Thread Kay Diederichs
Hi everyone, has anybody successfully integrated the patches from http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ into openssh, and maybe produced a .spec file for this purpose that s/he is willing to share? thx, Kay ___ CentOS mailing list