Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 01 Oct, 2019 at 13:57:19 -0400, MAILIST wrote: > After 40 years of upgrading many different operating systems, > Windows (from 3.1 to 10), CentOS 6 to 8, Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, > AT Unix, VAX VMS; I have never observed an upgrade from one major > version to the next to work. The last

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 01/10/2019 à 19:57, MAILIST a écrit : > After 40 years of upgrading many different operating systems, > Windows (from 3.1 to 10), CentOS 6 to 8, Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, > AT Unix, VAX VMS; I have never observed an upgrade from one major > version to the next to work. The last one I tried

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 01.10.2019 um 22:19 schrieb Valeri Galtsev : > > I routinely upgrade FreeBSD. Last time it was 11.3 to 12.0. Always smooth. > Maybe I'm just lucky... No, it works very well. But it’s designed with an eventual upgrade in mind. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On 2019-10-01 12:57, MAILIST wrote: Your answer has nothing to do with the original question which is related to upgrade method and not condition for reinstalling without loosing data. After 40 years of upgrading many different operating systems, Windows (from 3.1 to 10), CentOS 6 to 8,

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread Bob Marcan
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 13:57:19 -0400 "MAILIST" wrote: > > Your answer has nothing to do with the original question which is related > > to upgrade method and not condition for reinstalling without loosing > > data. > > After 40 years of upgrading many different operating systems, > Windows (from

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread Jon Pruente
On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 1:32 PM Elliot wrote: > In my career, I've managed many Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and CentOS > systems, and I found that in-situ upgrading of Debian, Ubuntu, and > Fedora are usually easy and convenient. I'll concur in my experience. I've upgraded a number of Ubuntu

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread Elliot
On 10/1/19 10:57 AM, MAILIST wrote: >> Your answer has nothing to do with the original question which is related >> to upgrade method and not condition for reinstalling without loosing >> data. > > After 40 years of upgrading many different operating systems, > Windows (from 3.1 to 10), CentOS 6

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 14:00, MAILIST wrote: > > > Your answer has nothing to do with the original question which is related > > to upgrade method and not condition for reinstalling without loosing > > data. > > After 40 years of upgrading many different operating systems, > Windows (from 3.1 to

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread MAILIST
> Your answer has nothing to do with the original question which is related > to upgrade method and not condition for reinstalling without loosing > data. After 40 years of upgrading many different operating systems, Windows (from 3.1 to 10), CentOS 6 to 8, Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, AT Unix, VAX

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread LAHAYE Olivier
Your answer has nothing to do with the original question which is related to upgrade method and not condition for reinstalling without loosing data. Sometimes you need to keep your configuration and want to avoid reconfiguring everything, and reimaging your computer keeping /home is not an

Re: [CentOS] Packages not in CentOS 8

2019-10-01 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On 2019-10-01 11:14, Jerry Geis wrote: Hi all, I am using kickstart to install CentOS 8. Course I started with my kickstart from 7. Some packages are not found on the kickstart install (not present on the DVD I guess) like: ImageMagick sox libogg-devel libssh2-devel So again - I know they

[CentOS] Packages not in CentOS 8

2019-10-01 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I am using kickstart to install CentOS 8. Course I started with my kickstart from 7. Some packages are not found on the kickstart install (not present on the DVD I guess) like: ImageMagick sox libogg-devel libssh2-devel So again - I know they are not present on the DVD but they are

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 and Lynx

2019-10-01 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Tue, 2019-10-01 at 09:36 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On 2019-10-01 08:17, david wrote: > > Folks > > > > I find the Lynx browser does not appear in any of the repositories > > used > > during default installation of Centos 8 (x86_64). Is this program > > no > > longer supported? I

Re: [CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread mark
KM via CentOS wrote: > I searched a bit to see if there is a way to upgrade from CentOS 7 > directly to CentOS 8.  I found RHEL instructions but not CentOS.   > Although they probably should be/would be similar, the instructions I > found enable a rhel repository to get the leap command, which I

[CentOS] upgrading from CentOS 7 to 8

2019-10-01 Thread KM via CentOS
I searched a bit to see if there is a way to upgrade from CentOS 7 directly to CentOS 8.  I found RHEL instructions but not CentOS.   Although they probably should be/would be similar, the instructions I found enable a rhel repository to get the leap command, which I can't seem to do in CentOS.

[CentOS] CentOS-6 cannot get kvm guest to start - network error

2019-10-01 Thread James B. Byrne via CentOS
Need to start a virtual machine but missing nic is preventing this: I have need to recover some data from a guest on host which has been shutddown for some time. The host had one of it nic removed at some point. It is not likely to be replaced either. When I try to start the guest in question

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 and Lynx

2019-10-01 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On 2019-10-01 08:17, david wrote: Folks I find the Lynx browser does not appear in any of the repositories used during default installation of Centos 8 (x86_64).  Is this program no longer supported?  I didn't see a reference to it in the notsupported list. Did you try to yum search lynx

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8: Multiple bugs with email/calendar

2019-10-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 10:17, Georgios wrote: > > First of all thanks for your fast reply. > > > Second. > The server im trying to use is https://dav.mailbox.org/caldav I dont > think its a problem with my configuration (although i can always be > wrong). I suspect a bug in evolution because

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8: Multiple bugs with email/calendar

2019-10-01 Thread Georgios
First of all thanks for your fast reply. Second. The server im trying to use is https://dav.mailbox.org/caldav I dont think its a problem with my configuration (although i can always be wrong). I suspect a bug in evolution because sometimes it works. Sometimes i manage to create an event

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 and Lynx

2019-10-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 09:20, david wrote: > > Folks > > I find the Lynx browser does not appear in any of the repositories > used during default installation of Centos 8 (x86_64). Is this > program no longer supported? I didn't see a reference to it in the > notsupported list. > The lynx

[CentOS] Centos 8 and Lynx

2019-10-01 Thread david
Folks I find the Lynx browser does not appear in any of the repositories used during default installation of Centos 8 (x86_64). Is this program no longer supported? I didn't see a reference to it in the notsupported list. David ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] SquidGuard update in EPEL

2019-10-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 05:56, Tony Mountifield wrote: > > In article , > Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > Le 01/10/2019 à 09:05, Liam O'Toole a écrit : > > > [...] > > > > > > FWIW, the current release has squidguard 1.6 > > > https://packages.debian.org/source/stable/squidguard > > > > And this all

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8: Multiple bugs with email/calendar

2019-10-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 03:40, Georgios wrote: > > Hi there! > I recently installed centos 8 on my laptop. > > I have the following problems > > 1. I tried the use the default evolution 3.28. > The problem with 3.28 is that when i try to create an event i get the error > "Failed to create an event

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Re: [CentOS] VirtualBox extensions and the new kernel

2019-10-01 Thread isdtor
Klaus Kolle writes: > I've been running Centos for different purposes in a VirtualBox > environment for quite long now. But the newest kernels miss something so > I can get the VirtualBox Extensions linked in. > > I can see in the virtualbox log file that I shall run maken oldconfig > and make,

[CentOS] VirtualBox extensions and the new kernel

2019-10-01 Thread Klaus Kolle
I've been running Centos for different purposes in a VirtualBox environment for quite long now. But the newest kernels miss something so I can get the VirtualBox Extensions linked in. I can see in the virtualbox log file that I shall run maken oldconfig and make, but I get these errors: # make

Re: [CentOS] SquidGuard update in EPEL

2019-10-01 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article , Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 01/10/2019 à 09:05, Liam O'Toole a écrit : > > [...] > > > > FWIW, the current release has squidguard 1.6 > > https://packages.debian.org/source/stable/squidguard > > And this all begs the question: who's flying this plane? According to that page, the

[CentOS] Centos 8: Multiple bugs with email/calendar

2019-10-01 Thread Georgios
Hi there! I recently installed centos 8 on my laptop. I have the following problems 1. I tried the use the default evolution 3.28. The problem with 3.28 is that when i try to create an event i get the error "Failed to create an event in the calendar “CalDAV : Calendar”" "Cannot create calendar

Re: [CentOS] SquidGuard update in EPEL

2019-10-01 Thread John Pierce
On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 12:00 AM Tru Huynh wrote: > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/squidguard > 1.6.0 as of today :D so where is that coming from ? here's debian changelog on that package, https://sources.debian.org/src/squidguard/1.6.0-1/CHANGELOG/ -- -john r pierce recycling used

Re: [CentOS] SquidGuard update in EPEL

2019-10-01 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 01/10/2019 à 09:05, Liam O'Toole a écrit : > [...] > > FWIW, the current release has squidguard 1.6 > https://packages.debian.org/source/stable/squidguard And this all begs the question: who's flying this plane? According to the official website, SquidGuard is dead in the water. Apparently

Re: [CentOS] SquidGuard update in EPEL

2019-10-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 30 Sep, 2019 at 23:47:02 -0700, John Pierce wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 10:26 PM Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > > Le 30/09/2019 à 17:53, Gwaland a écrit : > > > looks like it was updated due to a segfault. > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1750550 > > >

Re: [CentOS] SquidGuard update in EPEL

2019-10-01 Thread Tru Huynh
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 11:47:02PM -0700, John Pierce wrote: ... > > > > Now when you search for "squidguard", this seems to be the project site: > > > > * http://squidguard.org/index.html > > > > This page hasn't been updated in ages and sports the "NEW" version 1.3. > > > > So apparently the

Re: [CentOS] SquidGuard update in EPEL

2019-10-01 Thread John Pierce
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 10:26 PM Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 30/09/2019 à 17:53, Gwaland a écrit : > > looks like it was updated due to a segfault. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1750550 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253662 > > Now I'm even more puzzled. > >