Re: [CentOS] Question about virt-manager Version 9.1

2023-02-11 Thread Robert Nichols
On 2/10/23 11:07, Joshua Kramer wrote: This may provide the answer you are looking for: it's being deprecated in favor of Cockpit. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2030592 Deprecated, yes, rut only in Red Hat. Still fully supported upstream. https://blog.wikichoon.com/2020/06/virt-m

Re: [CentOS] Need fstab-decode for CentOS 8

2022-03-02 Thread Robert Nichols
On 3/1/22 7:07 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 3/1/22 15:36, Robert Nichols wrote: "${cmdline[@]}" The problem there is that the last line is going to get interpreted by a shell before anything is executed, so you now have to escape characters that are special to the shell withi

Re: [CentOS] Need fstab-decode for CentOS 8

2022-03-01 Thread Robert Nichols
On 3/1/22 3:46 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 3/1/22 10:29, Gordon Messmer wrote: Chris Schanzle mentioned off-list that a tab character had been replaced with spaces (I *knew* that should have been an attached file, shame on me).  He also suggested an improvement that removes the tab character,

Re: [CentOS] Need fstab-decode for CentOS 8

2022-03-01 Thread Robert Nichols
On 2/28/22 8:46 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 2/28/22 1:22 AM, cen...@niob.at wrote: Am 28.02.22 um 05:45 schrieb Robert Nichols: On 2/27/22 12:26 PM, cen...@niob.at wrote: Am 27.02.22 um 04:33 schrieb Robert Nichols: Does anything for CentOS 8 provide the function of the fstab-decode utility

Re: [CentOS] Need fstab-decode for CentOS 8

2022-02-28 Thread Robert Nichols
On 2/28/22 1:22 AM, cen...@niob.at wrote: Am 28.02.22 um 05:45 schrieb Robert Nichols: On 2/27/22 12:26 PM, cen...@niob.at wrote: Am 27.02.22 um 04:33 schrieb Robert Nichols: Does anything for CentOS 8 provide the function of the fstab-decode utility? Entries in /proc/mounts and /etc/fstab

Re: [CentOS] Need fstab-decode for CentOS 8

2022-02-27 Thread Robert Nichols
On 2/27/22 12:26 PM, cen...@niob.at wrote: Am 27.02.22 um 04:33 schrieb Robert Nichols: Does anything for CentOS 8 provide the function of the fstab-decode utility? Entries in /proc/mounts and /etc/fstab can have escape sequences for certain special characters, and I need to decode that

[CentOS] Need fstab-decode for CentOS 8

2022-02-26 Thread Robert Nichols
Does anything for CentOS 8 provide the function of the fstab-decode utility? Entries in /proc/mounts and /etc/fstab can have escape sequences for certain special characters, and I need to decode that. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete i

Re: [CentOS] Ping as regular user not allowed (CentOS Stream 8)

2022-01-20 Thread Robert Nichols
On 1/20/22 10:32 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote: On 19/01/2022 15:32, Toralf Lund wrote: Following some update or the other (I think) on my CentOS Stream 8 system, I'm no longer able to use ping as a regular user; I get $ ping www.centos.org ping: socket: Operation not permitted Does anyone else se

Re: [CentOS] Is my ssh private key already unlocked?

2022-01-09 Thread Robert Nichols
t; is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it. On 1/9/22 12:54 PM, cen...@niob.at wrote: Look at ssh-add -T . This will test if the private key for the given public key is available through the agent. Am 07.01.22 um 23:35 schrieb Robert Nichols: When I first ssh to a sy

[CentOS] Is my ssh private key already unlocked?

2022-01-07 Thread Robert Nichols
When I first ssh to a system, I am asked for the password to unlock the private key file. Thereafter, that key file remains unlocked, and subsequent ssh sessions will not prompt for a password. I can always re-lock the key file by running "ssh-add -D". In a script I have that runs sshfs to moun

Re: [CentOS] Automatic clean /tmp folder

2021-04-07 Thread Robert Nichols
On 4/7/21 7:27 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Wednesday, April 07, 2021 9:00 AM + Gestió Servidors wrote: With these files I supposed that a file with more than 10 days in /tmp would be automatically deleted, but today I have found some files/folders with more than 10 days. What I have d

Re: [CentOS] Gnote equivalent in CentOS 8

2020-12-26 Thread Robert Nichols
On 12/25/20 12:42 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: As I can see, Cherytree can be used only on Fedora 32 and above due to dependencies. I personally use Tomboy for years. I install it from Fedora 28 repository I have set up on my CentOS 8 laptop. In general, Fedora 28 packages can be directly inst

Re: [CentOS] Gnote equivalent in CentOS 8

2020-12-24 Thread Robert Nichols
On 12/24/20 12:41 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Thu, 24 Dec 2020 11:04:26 -0600 Robert Nichols wrote: In CentOS 8, is there an equivalent for the gnote application? I personally use vimwiki. Have you tried compiling the Fedora srpm on your Centos box? A lot of stuff that you might want to

[CentOS] Gnote equivalent in CentOS 8

2020-12-24 Thread Robert Nichols
In CentOS 8, is there an equivalent for the gnote application? -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-20 Thread Robert Nichols
On 10/20/20 2:45 PM, Robert Heller wrote: At Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:35:59 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: Jonathan Billings wrote: I'm less concerned with firefox being broken on 32-bit CentOS 6 systems when the platform is only going to live for another month. Frankly, I'm glad to se

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-17 Thread Robert Nichols
On 10/17/20 3:38 PM, Robert Heller wrote: I did a yum update on my CentOS 6 laptop and it upgraded Firefox to 78, and FF stopped seeing my mic and speakers. Is there some magic I need to do? As a short term (?) fix, I downgraded back to Firefox 68. My system is otherwise up-to-date. I'm seei

Re: [CentOS] No sound after latest Firefox update (firefox-78.3.0-1.el6.centos.x86_64)

2020-10-02 Thread Robert Nichols
On 10/1/20 3:24 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 04:01:29PM -0400, mailist wrote: The Ubuntu-derived distros are much better suited to desktop. I run several of them, as well as CentOS 7 and 8. Ubuntu, Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE), Lubuntu, Debian, PopOS, and Zorin. They all

Re: [CentOS] No sound after latest Firefox update (firefox-78.3.0-1.el6.centos.x86_64)

2020-10-01 Thread Robert Nichols
On 9/30/20 8:25 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 9/29/20 9:16 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: With Firefox updated to firefox-78.3.0-1.el6.centos.x86_64, I cannot get sound from Firefox. I've tried restarting pulseaudio, also logging out and logging back in. No help. Other A/V apps work just

[CentOS] No sound after latest Firefox update (firefox-78.3.0-1.el6.centos.x86_64)

2020-09-29 Thread Robert Nichols
With Firefox updated to firefox-78.3.0-1.el6.centos.x86_64, I cannot get sound from Firefox. I've tried restarting pulseaudio, also logging out and logging back in. No help. Other A/V apps work just fine. Downgrading to firefox-68.12.0-1.el6.centos.x86_64 makes sound work again. For now, I've

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 7 to attempt recovery of failed disk

2020-09-26 Thread Robert Nichols
On 9/26/20 12:40 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: Hello I did try the "dd conv=noerror …" The ddrescue - doesnt stop - it just doesnt "continue" past a certain point. Somewhere around the 117G mark - it just doesnt go past that . (same with dd, gets to 117G and just doesnt continue. I have let the dd run a

Re: [CentOS] Recover from an fsck failure

2020-05-28 Thread Robert Nichols
On 5/28/20 1:33 PM, James B. Byrne via CentOS wrote: /dev/mapper/vg_voinet01-lv_log The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is cor

Re: [CentOS] Hard disk activity will not die down

2020-02-03 Thread Robert Nichols
On 2/3/20 3:13 PM, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: Hi, Ext4 is (slowly) initializing group blocks as far as I can remember. Patience should do the trick :) Indeed. See the manpage for mkfs.ext4 and scroll down to the "lazy_itable_init" extended option, which is enabled by default. -- Bob Nichols

Re: [CentOS] Using shared printers in CentOS 8

2020-01-06 Thread Robert Nichols
On 1/6/20 10:00 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 1/6/20 7:52 PM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: Am 06.01.20 um 22:44 schrieb Robert Nichols: How do I let a CentOS 8 client make use of the shared printers advertised by CUPS on the network? In CentOS 6, this was just a matter in a checkbox "

Re: [CentOS] Using shared printers in CentOS 8

2020-01-06 Thread Robert Nichols
On 1/6/20 7:52 PM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: Am 06.01.20 um 22:44 schrieb Robert Nichols: How do I let a CentOS 8 client make use of the shared printers advertised by CUPS on the network? In CentOS 6, this was just a matter in a checkbox "Show printers shared by other systems&qu

[CentOS] Using shared printers in CentOS 8

2020-01-06 Thread Robert Nichols
How do I let a CentOS 8 client make use of the shared printers advertised by CUPS on the network? In CentOS 6, this was just a matter in a checkbox "Show printers shared by other systems" on the CUPS Admin page. Is this function still available somehow? Manually adding all the shared printers o

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 Mate?

2019-09-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 9/25/19 1:46 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Robert Nichols said: the lack of VM snapshot capability is a total deal-breaker for me. The capability is still there and works just the same as before. The only change is that the new preferred tool for graphical VM management

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 Mate?

2019-09-24 Thread Robert Nichols
On 9/24/19 9:12 PM, Fred Smith wrote: OTOH, if I was forced to use Gnome, I may well go shoot myself. I was thinking I might as well go back to Windows, but that's pretty much the same thing. Right now I'm rather dismayed by RHEL/CentOS 8. I was hoping to skip CentOS 7 and go straight from

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 60 crashes when trying to save an image

2018-07-15 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/15/2018 12:49 PM, Matthew Phelps wrote: This is a known issue. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1596852 for a patch to the /usr/bin/firefox wrapper script. On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 1:19 PM Robert Nichols wrote: On any web page with an image, if i right-click on the

[CentOS] Firefox 60 crashes when trying to save an image

2018-07-15 Thread Robert Nichols
On any web page with an image, if i right-click on the image and select "Save Image As...", firefox crashes. Final messages from stderr: (firefox:3401): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: No GSettings schemas are installed on the system [Child 3502, Chrome_ChildThread] WARNING: pipe error (3): Connection reset

[CentOS] In /etc/auto.master, why "+auto.master"?

2018-01-24 Thread Robert Nichols
Why is the line "+auto.master" present in the /etc/auto.master file? Does this not create a loop, and perhaps is the reason why, on every boot, I see the message, "automount[3260]: problem reading master map, maximum wait exceeded"? This is in an unmodified /etc/auto.master from autofs-5.0.5-13

Re: [CentOS] LUKS question

2017-12-12 Thread Robert Nichols
On 12/12/2017 08:41 AM, Wells, Roger K. wrote: I have existing systems with un-encrypted disks. I have tried unsuccessfully to encrypt them using LUKS. Has anyone out there been able to encrypt an existing system (after the fact, so to speak)? You can do that with cryptsetup-reencrypt, but it

Re: [CentOS] Failed attempts

2017-11-29 Thread Robert Nichols
On 11/28/2017 11:04 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:> I was always unimpressed with> persistence of attempts to make more secure (less pickable) cylinder cased> locks (precision, multi-level, pins at a weird locations/angles). Whereas> there exists "disk based design" (should I say Abloy?), which with

Re: [CentOS] skypeforlinux lacks dependencies, won't update

2017-11-20 Thread Robert Nichols
On 11/20/2017 07:13 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: On 11/20/17 03:44, wwp wrote: Hello, On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:58:21 +1300 Peter wrote: On 20/11/17 11:30, milos.blazevic wrote: There's the unstable version that installs and works: https://www.skype.com/en/insider/ Thanks for pointing this out,

Re: [CentOS] Intermittently unresponsive mouse

2017-11-07 Thread Robert Nichols
On 11/07/2017 06:10 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 11/7/2017 3:47 PM, H wrote: I think you were right. I moved the computer a little bit closer and no longer have the problem. It is a Bluetooth mouse, I did not know that they were that sensitive to the distance... Bluetooth in absence of other

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 P2V alternatives?

2017-11-03 Thread Robert Nichols
On 11/03/2017 09:02 AM, hw wrote: Robert Nichols wrote: How would you recover if that server were suddenly destroyed, let's say by a power supply failure that fried the motherboard and all the disks? If you can't bring up a machine on new, bare iron starting with nothing but yo

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 P2V alternatives?

2017-11-03 Thread Robert Nichols
On 11/03/2017 06:09 AM, hw wrote: Sorin Srbu wrote: Hello all, This week I've tested out a few ways to do a P2V on a rather ancient CentOS 6 server, in order to move it to a Hyper-V host. So far my tests have failed rather spectacularly. Initially I was set on doing a simple dd-routine, but wa

Re: [CentOS] NoScript allow scripts globally reversible?

2017-11-01 Thread Robert Nichols
On 11/01/2017 09:51 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: I'm running NoScript because otherwise Firefox freezes up a lot. Recently I've had difficulty accessing a site. I suspect the reason is that it uses redirection in a way that frustrates my efforts to give it permission. To test the notion, I'm cons

Re: [CentOS] [External] /boot partition too small

2017-10-11 Thread Robert Nichols
On 10/11/2017 02:04 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: On 10/10/17 15:55, KM wrote: First off - let me say I am not an administrator.   I need to know if there is an easy way to increase my /boot partition.  When I installed CentOS 6 after running 5, it was my oversight not to increase the /boot size.  it

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-10 Thread Robert Nichols
On 10/10/2017 09:53 AM, KM wrote: Thanks for all of the input, not really sure what if anything I will do.  i was hoping it would be easy and i could just create a /boot in root, and copy the actual boot contents to it and use it.   wishful thinking i guess.  just to give a complete picture

Re: [CentOS] Flush memory on a server?

2017-09-09 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/09/2017 07:55 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 09/09/2017 à 14:41, Phil Perry a écrit : Why were you surprised? Linux systems use the available RAM, surely you understand that? I'm surprised because my system used the available RAM and then it even began to swap. Of course there is the po

Re: [CentOS] Errors on an SSD drive

2017-08-11 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/11/2017 02:32 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Robert Nichols wrote: On 08/11/2017 12:16 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 7:53 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 08/10/2017 11:06 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2017, 6:48 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 08/09/2017 10:46

Re: [CentOS] Errors on an SSD drive

2017-08-11 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/11/2017 12:16 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 7:53 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 08/10/2017 11:06 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2017, 6:48 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 08/09/2017 10:46 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: If it's a bad sector problem, you'

Re: [CentOS] Errors on an SSD drive

2017-08-11 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/10/2017 11:06 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2017, 6:48 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 08/09/2017 10:46 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: If it's a bad sector problem, you'd write to sector 17066160 and see if the drive complies or spits back a write error. It looks like a bad sector

Re: [CentOS] logical volume is unreadable

2017-07-06 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/06/2017 01:31 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 07/06/2017 10:47 AM, Volker wrote: On 06.07.2017 15:35, Robert Nichols wrote: That looks like a snapshot volume that became invalid because it was filled to capacity. Such a snapshot is lost forever. It si your responsibility to monitor snapshot

Re: [CentOS] logical volume is unreadable

2017-07-06 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/06/2017 10:47 AM, Volker wrote: On 06.07.2017 15:35, Robert Nichols wrote: That looks like a snapshot volume that became invalid because it was filled to capacity. Such a snapshot is lost forever. It si your responsibility to monitor snapshot usage to make sure it does not run out of

Re: [CentOS] logical volume is unreadable

2017-07-06 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/06/2017 04:43 AM, Volker wrote: Hi all, one of my lv has become completely unaccessible. Every read access results in a buffer io error: Buffer I/O error on dev dm-13, logical block 0, async page read this goes for every block in the lv. A ddrescue failed on every single block. $ lvdis

Re: [CentOS] sha256sum a dvd

2017-04-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/24/2017 12:39 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 12:53:36PM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: CentOS-6.9 I am trying to verify a locally created dvd. I am using sha256sum in this fashion: sha256sum /dev/sr0 Which gave this result: sha256sum: /dev/sr0: Input/output error

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Mysql 5.0.95

2017-03-19 Thread Robert Nichols
On 03/19/2017 07:32 AM, Mark Weaver wrote: I'm getting things ready to upgrade my aging installation of MySQL 5.0.95 on my CentOS 5 LAMP server. With the impending EOL date of 3.31 fast approaching my sense of doom and urgency is increasing. Packages don't disappear after 3/31. They just get mo

Re: [CentOS] question about directory size in linux..

2017-02-22 Thread Robert Nichols
On 02/22/2017 12:45 PM, Jason Welsh wrote: So its normal behavior.. thanks! Jason On 02/22/2017 01:40 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 02/22/2017 06:34 AM, Jason Welsh wrote: How does the directory *itself* have a size of 2.8 megs? If you write a large number of directory entries in a direct

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, systemd, NetworkMangler, oh, my

2017-02-15 Thread Robert Nichols
On 02/15/2017 07:41 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 02/15/2017 07:34 AM, Leroy Tennison wrote: Too much temptation to resist, I don't know which one of us is older but I have a feeling it's a "horse race". Like you, I still have a land line, WiFi is too slow and "WiFi security" seems to be an oxy

Re: [CentOS] Ghostscript update?

2017-01-10 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/10/2017 11:28 AM, Frank Cox wrote: Has the issue with the last ghostscript update been resolved? I temporarily added ghostcript to the excludes line in my yum.conf to prevent problems and haven't seen any more mention of it here. Nothing yet. You can add yourself to the CC list at

Re: [CentOS] ghostscript update breaks evince

2017-01-04 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/04/2017 04:49 PM, David C. Miller wrote: - Original Message - From: "Robert Nichols" To: centos@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2017 12:21:48 PM Subject: [CentOS] ghostscript update breaks evince Today's ghostscript.x86_64 0:8.70-21.el6_8.1 update c

[CentOS] ghostscript update breaks evince

2017-01-04 Thread Robert Nichols
Today's ghostscript.x86_64 0:8.70-21.el6_8.1 update causes evince to refuse to display any postscript file. Running evince from a terminal session, I see the errors: invalidaccess -7 invalidaccess -7 invalidaccess -7 ** (evince:1252): WARNING **: Error rendering thumbnail Downgrading to ghostsc

Re: [CentOS] Centos OS Crash Recovery, Inquiry.

2016-11-02 Thread Robert Nichols
On 11/02/2016 08:46 PM, Christopher G. Halnin wrote: As I have mentioned in my previous email, is there a way to recover or bring back to life a crashed Centos OS after doing a Hard Driver repartition or resizing? Possibly. It depends on how the disk was previously arranged, what filesystems a

Re: [CentOS] HP CP2025

2016-09-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/25/2016 08:09 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: [mlapier@peach ~]$ rpm -qa | grep hplip hplip-common-3.14.6-3.el6.x86_64 hplip-libs-3.14.6-3.el6.x86_64 [mlapier@peach ~]$ rpm -qa | grep cups cups-1.4.2-74.el6.x86_64 cups-pk-helper-0.0.4-13.el6.x86_64 gutenprint-cups-5.2.5-2.el6.x86_64 cups-libs-1.4

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/25/2016 04:51 PM, J Martin Rushton wrote: On 25/09/16 20:56, Robert Nichols wrote: What I do is have a separate logical volume for /var/lib/libvirt, with /var/lib/libvirt/etc bind-mounted to /etc/libvirt. It keeps all the libvirt stuff together, since the backup requirements there are

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/25/2016 12:23 PM, J Martin Rushton wrote: On 25/09/16 18:03, Robert Nichols wrote: On 09/25/2016 11:47 AM, TE Dukes wrote: Hello, I am getting low on space in my /(root) partition. I have 23GB free. I have 350GB in my /home partition. I am the only user. I was experimenting with

Re: [CentOS] How to move /var to another partition

2016-09-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/25/2016 11:47 AM, TE Dukes wrote: Hello, I am getting low on space in my /(root) partition. I have 23GB free. I have 350GB in my /home partition. I am the only user. I was experimenting with virtualization and it causes the root partition to get very low. I would like to move /var from t

Re: [CentOS] Verifing: CentOS 5 cannot resize a *live* root filesystem

2016-05-17 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/17/2016 02:30 PM, Robert Heller wrote: Just want to verify: CentOS 5's FS utilities are too old to safely resize a *live* (mounted, etc.) root file system (and the CentOS 5 installer/rescue system does not include either resize2fs or fsadm utilities). I don't know of _any_ filesystem that

Re: [CentOS] resize lvm

2016-05-07 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/06/2016 02:15 PM, Wes James wrote: I found this: # lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/myvg/testlv doing a search. What's the difference between 100%VG and 100%FREE? For the special case of "100%" there is no difference. For values less than 100% with a non-empty VG, the two are quite different

Re: [CentOS] resize lvm

2016-05-07 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/06/2016 01:42 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 5/6/2016 11:39 AM, Wes James wrote: file -s /dev/dm-0 and it says XFS So would I use xfs_growfs? bingo!xfs_growfs can be used with the file system online, I'm pretty sure resize2fs requires the file system to be offline (unmounted). O

Re: [CentOS] [OT] disk utility showing message "the partition is misaligned by"

2016-04-23 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/22/2016 10:18 PM, g wrote: after reading replies, i feel easiest way to get a good partition layout was a complete repartitioning and formatting. easiest way to do that is start with a new drive. during install, i will do partitioning and formatting. that is i am presuming that installatio

Re: [CentOS] [OT] disk utility showing message "the partition is misaligned by"

2016-04-22 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/22/2016 09:43 AM, g wrote: ]$ sudo blockdev --getalignoff /dev/sdc1 0 ]$ sudo blockdev --getalignoff /dev/sdc2 0 ]$ sudo blockdev --getalignoff /dev/sdc5 2560 ]$ sudo blockdev --report /dev/sdc1 RORA SSZ BSZ StartSecSize Device rw 256 512 4096 2048 8

Re: [CentOS] Suddenly increased my hard disk

2016-04-18 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/18/2016 03:45 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 04/18/2016 01:18 PM, g wrote: 'lsof', aka, list open files, will list every open file on system, and there are a lot. 'grep deleted' will list_only_ the deleted files that are still open. That's exactly the same thing that "ls -l /proc/*/fd/*

Re: [CentOS] mount bind problem

2016-04-15 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/15/2016 01:05 AM, 望月忠雄 wrote: Dear Robert, Before sending 'grep -r /home /etc' data, I want tell you what happned this morning. In order to solve the /home/home problem, 'umount /home' had been done, system had been running in a normal file system. But suddenly /home has been lost. Key

Re: [CentOS] mount bind problem

2016-04-14 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/13/2016 08:44 PM, 望月忠雄 wrote: # mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root on / type ext4 (rw,usrquota,grpquota) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/vda1 on /boot type ext4 (rw) /dev/vdb

Re: [CentOS] mount bind problem

2016-04-13 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/13/2016 12:02 AM, 望月忠雄 wrote: In /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, there's "mount -a -n -t nonfs,nfs4,smbfs,ncpfs,cifs,gfs,gfs2i,glusterfs -O no_netdev". I have other same type servers. And on other servers with same /etc/fstsb, file system is correct. There's no difference between normal server's rc

Re: [CentOS] mount bind problem

2016-04-12 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/12/2016 05:37 AM, Sylvain CANOINE wrote: - Mail original - De: "望月忠雄" À: "centos" Envoyé: Mardi 12 Avril 2016 08:17:13 Objet: [CentOS] mount bind problem I have set on fstab /home with 'mount bind' but it seems like bind is not effective. Indeed. By default, nothing mounts

Re: [CentOS] SSD disk and SMART errors

2016-04-01 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/01/2016 06:55 PM, Miguel Medalha wrote: Two days ago I installed a brand new SSDNow E50 series (Enterprise) disk on a server. I intend to move the OS there. I just did the physical install and copied a few files to and from it just to see if it was OK. I left it there, waiting for an opp

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, rsync problem

2016-03-31 Thread Robert Nichols
On 03/31/2016 12:23 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 03/31/2016 09:24 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: The only thing I know of that's likely to cause rsync to run out of memory is when there are a huge number of hard links and you are using the "-H" option to preserve them. If you

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, rsync problem

2016-03-31 Thread Robert Nichols
On 03/31/2016 09:53 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Oddity: rsync *should* be recursing, and dealing with very large number of files. It works, going from box a to box b. But when I try to back b up to c, it fails, 100%, complaining of "out of hashtable space [sender]". I've tried adding -r, and chan

Re: [CentOS] heads up: /boot space on kernel upgrade

2016-02-13 Thread Robert Nichols
On 02/13/2016 05:57 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Devin Reade wrote: I have a CentOS 6 machine that was initially installed as CentOS 6.4 in May of 2013. It's /boot filesystem is 200M which, IIRC, was the default /boot size at the time. As a matter of interest, is there any advantage today in ha

Re: [CentOS] Utility to zero unused blocks on disk

2016-02-08 Thread Robert Nichols
On 02/08/2016 07:04 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Greg Bailey said: Wes didn't say the reason he wanted to zero unused blocks, but I always do this in kickstart scripts when constructing VM images as the image size is considerably reduced by doing this... For that purpose, use some

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, man

2016-01-27 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/27/2016 10:31 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: This is... odd. From my workstation, where I'm directly logged in, if I ssh to any CentOS 7 box, as myself, and try to run man, it fails. Example 1: man dd man: cannot write to /var/cache/man/cat1/dd.1.gz in catman mode dd. Example 2: man dd

Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent

2016-01-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/24/2016 10:45 AM, Peter Duffy wrote: It would be very interesting to know how many other users are still on CentOS/Red Hat 6 as a result of reluctance to enjoy all the - erm - improvements in 7. That's were I am, CentOS 6.7 with a 3.18 LTS kernel from the Xen4CentOS repo on machines with

Re: [CentOS] Starting emacs gives "shmget failed: error 28" message

2015-09-03 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/03/2015 01:56 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Robert Nichols wrote: On 09/03/2015 04:00 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: just a shot in the dark, but what do you have in /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni ? According to man shmget: ENOSPC All possible shared memory IDs have been taken (SHMMNI), or

Re: [CentOS] Starting emacs gives "shmget failed: error 28" message

2015-09-03 Thread Robert Nichols
On 09/03/2015 04:00 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: On 09/03/2015 03:04 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: In CentOS 6.7, if I start emacs from a terminal session, I always see a message, "(emacs:{PID}): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on device)" The message is also

[CentOS] Starting emacs gives "shmget failed: error 28" message

2015-09-02 Thread Robert Nichols
In CentOS 6.7, if I start emacs from a terminal session, I always see a message, "(emacs:{PID}): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on device)" The message is also logged to .xsession-errors, and that occurs regardless of how emacs is started. The same thing occurs with SELi

Re: [CentOS] Shutdown hangs on "Unmounting NFS filesystems"

2015-08-31 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/31/2015 10:32 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 08/30/2015 04:32 PM, Frank Cox wrote: Perhaps you could unmount that share when you log off by putting a umount command into the appropriate file. The definition of "appropriate file" varies depending on what DE you're using.

Re: [CentOS] Shutdown hangs on "Unmounting NFS filesystems"

2015-08-31 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/30/2015 04:32 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 16:20:21 -0500 Robert Nichols wrote: Once the system gets into this state, the only remedy is a forced power-off. What seems to be happening is that an NFS filesystem that auto-mounted over a WiFi connection cannot be unmounted

Re: [CentOS] Shutdown hangs on "Unmounting NFS filesystems"

2015-08-31 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/31/2015 05:22 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 08/31/2015 02:15 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 08/30/2015 04:45 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 8/30/2015 2:20 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: Once the system gets into this state, the only remedy is a forced power-off. What seems to be happening

Re: [CentOS] Shutdown hangs on "Unmounting NFS filesystems"

2015-08-30 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/30/2015 04:45 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 8/30/2015 2:20 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: Once the system gets into this state, the only remedy is a forced power-off. What seems to be happening is that an NFS filesystem that auto-mounted over a WiFi connection cannot be unmounted because the

Re: [CentOS] Shutdown hangs on "Unmounting NFS filesystems"

2015-08-30 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/30/2015 04:20 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: Once the system gets into this state, the only remedy is a forced power-off. What seems to be happening is that an NFS filesystem that auto-mounted over a WiFi connection cannot be unmounted because the WiFi connection is enabled only for my login

[CentOS] Shutdown hangs on "Unmounting NFS filesystems"

2015-08-30 Thread Robert Nichols
Once the system gets into this state, the only remedy is a forced power-off. What seems to be happening is that an NFS filesystem that auto-mounted over a WiFi connection cannot be unmounted because the WiFi connection is enabled only for my login and gets torn down when my UID is logged off. An

Re: [CentOS] No firefox 38.1.1 update

2015-08-10 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/10/2015 07:55 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 08/09/2015 10:42 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 08/09/2015 10:21 AM, Peter Q. wrote: On Aug 9, 2015 8:43 AM, "Robert Nichols" wrote: I'm still not getting the firefox-38.1.1-1.el6.centos.x86_64.rpm that was announced yesterday (8

Re: [CentOS] No firefox 38.1.1 update

2015-08-09 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/09/2015 10:21 AM, Peter Q. wrote: On Aug 9, 2015 8:43 AM, "Robert Nichols" wrote: I'm still not getting the firefox-38.1.1-1.el6.centos.x86_64.rpm that was announced yesterday (8 August) morning. I looked at several of the mirror sites I receive, and they all have the

[CentOS] No firefox 38.1.1 update

2015-08-09 Thread Robert Nichols
I'm still not getting the firefox-38.1.1-1.el6.centos.x86_64.rpm that was announced yesterday (8 August) morning. I looked at several of the mirror sites I receive, and they all have the new firefox in their Packages directory, but their repodata is all a day older (7 August), so yum doesn't see

Re: [CentOS] centos 6 and mailman and dmarc

2015-08-01 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/01/2015 02:54 PM, John R Pierce wrote: so...I've got some mailman lists running on centos 6. apparently c6 has mailman 2.1.12, which is far too old to have the dmarc patches (introduced in 2.1.16 and updated in 2.1.??, so of course, I'm having ongoing issues with yahoo/sbc/att/aol/etc s

Re: [CentOS] OT - parted guidance

2015-08-01 Thread Robert Nichols
On 08/01/2015 12:05 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: parted fs resize is deprecated. http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6837 parted fs move can only move a partition into free space https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_node/move.html The thing to do here is use gparted live or Fe

Re: [CentOS] OT - parted guidance

2015-08-01 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/31/2015 09:19 AM, Ken Smith wrote: parted says that the offending partition 5 begins at 512 byte sector no. 462999615. Its the first partition in the extended partition that begins at 462999552. If I just want to move the partition back to the nearest 4096 boundary, which is 462999608, wou

Re: [CentOS] C7: EPEL conflicts with Base and ElRepo?

2015-06-19 Thread Robert Nichols
On 06/19/2015 05:36 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 00:13:25 -0700 Akemi Yagi wrote: One thing people should be aware is that EPEL is built for RHEL and that the package list is not the same between RHEL and CentOS. For example, CentOS adds cloud-related ones to the centos-extras

Re: [CentOS] Two partitions with samd UUID??

2015-06-16 Thread Robert Nichols
On 06/16/2015 09:00 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: LUKS physical volume UUIDs, actually. When you create a LUKS logical volume within that PV, it also has a UUID, and a filesystem within that LUKS LV will have its own UUID. These are all part of the partition's _content_. A GPT partition has it

Re: [CentOS] Two partitions with samd UUID??

2015-06-16 Thread Robert Nichols
On 06/16/2015 06:43 AM, James Hogarth wrote: On 16 Jun 2015 12:12, "Always Learning" wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 11:30 +0100, John Hodrien wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, Always Learning wrote: ON Centos 5, using GPARTED I created partitions for filing systems ext3 and ext4. 4 primary and u

Re: [CentOS] Two partitions with samd UUID??

2015-06-15 Thread Robert Nichols
On 06/15/2015 11:08 AM, jd1008 wrote: Thanx for the update but what about non-gpt and non lvm partitions? What is used as inp nut to create a universally unique id? Non-GPT partitions do not have a UUID. The _content_ (filesystem, LVM physical volume, non-encrypted swap space, etc.) of such a p

Re: [CentOS] Two partitions with samd UUID??

2015-06-15 Thread Robert Nichols
On 06/14/2015 10:08 PM, jd1008 wrote: On 06/14/2015 08:58 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 6/14/2015 6:55 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Maybe I used dd at some point. Would this keep the same UUID? DD just does a blind block by block copy between two devices or files. I thought that uuid had not

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge vs epel

2015-06-09 Thread Robert Nichols
On 06/09/2015 03:42 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: What do you need in rpmforge that isn't available from base, rpmfusion, or epel? Do you happen to know of somewhere other than rpmforge where I can find hexedit and gqview for el6 ? Epel has them for el5, but not el6. Fortunately, installing the

Re: [CentOS] Resize KVM NTFS file system

2015-06-07 Thread Robert Nichols
On 06/06/2015 06:19 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: I resized a partition inside a KVM RAW file system disk image. When I start the Win7 virtual machine it does not report the new partition size. It shows the file system as 15GB instead of the 50GB size of the partition that it lives on. I gather fro

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 and qemu-kvm

2015-05-09 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/09/2015 08:26 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: Still trying to migrate to CentOS 7. I used to use qemu-kvm on centos 6. tried to compile on centos 7 and get error about undefined reference to timer_gettime searching for that says basically use virt-manager so I installed virt-manager - I have file i

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/07/2015 05:04 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: I wonder why nobody has yet mentioned rdiff-backup. It combines browsable directories with multiple versions - the version data is stored in a separate rdiff-backup-data subdirectory (one per backup task). I use rdiff-backup, but I hesitate to recommen

Re: [CentOS] rsync backup to fileserver - mystery

2015-05-01 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/01/2015 12:10 PM, Frank Cox wrote: I have an Intel SS4000E fileserver that I've been using for several years to backup my home directory to. I have a daily cron job that runs the following command: rsync -av --delete /home/frankcox/ /mnt/fileserver/backup I have a directory named misc/s

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