Re: [CentOS] Kickstarting CentOS 7 VM on CentOS 6 not possible?
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:16:50AM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Does your tree also include the LiveOS structure (the stage2 installer)? Yep. In fact, I tried it with and without that LiveOS/squashfs.img (I was not sure if that was required or just a speed-up). > Using a local install tree isn't required for kickstart. You can > specify the location of the KS file as a boot arg and also use the ISO > installer. But how can the VM then access the kickstart file on the host disk? Now it is injected in the initrd with that special flag, or can that be done in combination with the ISO too? -- --Jos Vos <j...@xos.nl> --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Fax: +31 20 6948204 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Kickstarting CentOS 7 VM on CentOS 6 not possible?
Hi, On CentOS 6.7 (all updates) kickstarting a CentOS 7 VM (in the way it always has worked for other versions, incl. Fedora 22 VM's), does not work for me. I use virt-install with a local copy of the "images/pxeboot" tree. It all stops with: ... [ OK ] Reached target Paths. [ OK ] Reached target Basic System. dracut-initqueue[551]: Warning: Could not boot. dracut-initqueue[551]: Warning: /dev/root does not exist Starting Dracut Emergency Shell... Warning: /dev/root does not exist ... I found zillion references to similar problems, including PXE-related (I do not use PXE, but "-l" with virt-install) and cobbler-related (no Cobbler involved), and I tried some of the suggestions, but none of them worked. Installing CentOS 7 "manually" using virt-install and the netboot ISO works fine, but I want to use kickstart files. Thanks for any suggestion. -- --Jos Vos <j...@xos.nl> --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Fax: +31 20 6948204 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Kickstarting CentOS 7 VM on CentOS 6 not possible?
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:40:54PM +0100, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > I can say that it works for sure, so can you share your virt-install > command / kickstart / extra-args ? It seems that after updating the host to 6.7 some things have changed that I didn't test. Now the install continues, but just after switching to graphical mode, it eats CPU time and doesn't proceed. It once reacted to CTRL-ALT keys (via the VNC menu) and I saw something like "EQ overflow", but the next time it doesnt. Anyway, I'll do some more testing, also with text mode, as I'm not having a clear overview myself anymore on what's happening ;-). > I'm injecting the kickstart directly into the initrd.img > (transparently through --initrd-inject= ) Me too. -- --Jos Vos <j...@xos.nl> --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Fax: +31 20 6948204 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] RasPi 3.x and RH-based Distro (Slightly OT)
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 06:26:24PM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: > join the arm-dev list ( https://lists.centos.org ) CentOS has a great > story across the entire ARMv7 and v8 platform, with every major vendor > in the ARM 64bit platform working with us. We say the rpi3 release this > morning and are going to work on a bringup to match our rpi2 images. > However, we will also be doing a 64bit image, based on CentOS Linux > 7/aarch64 release FWIW, this is what was posted to the Fedora's ARM list about supporting the Pi3 in Fedora by Peter Robinson: No, not currently, and certainly won't be in Fedora 24 unless someone contributes a lot of stuff very quickly. Why? There's no source (yet) for the new SoC, it's not upstream and won't be until at least 4.7 (it has to be queued for inclusion by rc4 of the previous release to land in the next release) it supports a boot process that is nothing like what we currently support for aarch64 so it would need significant work for aarch64 in Fedora, and the wifi firmware (looks similar issues that people have with Apple Mac wifi) isn't currently in linux-firmware so it's not (as far as I'm aware) currently able to be distributed as part of Fedora. -- --Jos Vos <j...@xos.nl> --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Fax: +31 20 6948204 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] RHEL 8 speculation ???
Hi, On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 12:20:22AM -0800, Alice Wonder wrote: > boost in 7 is now too old for some things, in addition to gcc. There are > solutions in 7 to those issues but it's starting to feel like 6 felt > shortly before 7 came out, so I wonder if it is getting near to time. > > I'm working on a major project bitcoin related and it would be > frustrating to deploy a bunch of CentOS 7 virtual machines only to have > 8 come out fairly soon afterwards. Take a look at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/d35cef040ea408360c44950a23d813ed.png Given that, don't count on a release real soon. Furthermore, a RHEL release normally has a public beta period of at least 6 months or so. So, even if a public RHEL 8 beta would be released now (which is very unlikelely), CentOS 8 would not become available in 2017. -- --Jos Vos <j...@xos.nl> --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Mobile: +31 6 26216181 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Using keepass on Centos 6
Hi, On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 09:43:17PM +0200, H wrote: > Is anyone running keepass on C6? I have a rather large password database > under Windows that I want also to use on my Centos systems. It seems that > keepass is not available, it relies on mono and there may be bugs. > > Googling also seems to suggest that I should download the source code and > compile to install. The nux repository seems to have a version for C7, but > not for C6. > > Many suppositions and few facts - perhaps someone knows better? I do not use it myself (yet), but KeepPassX (https://www.keepassx.org/) should be compatible with KeePass and is available in EPEL for C6 and C7. Search for the keepassx and keepassx2 packages. I once tested it to exchange DB's with KeePassDroid (Android) and that worked fine. Hope this helps, -- --Jos Vos <j...@xos.nl> --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Mobile: +31 6 26216181 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: a USB barcode scanner?
Hi, On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 04:02:50PM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >I'm about to go googling, but thought I'd ask here if anyone's using a > barcode scanner with CentOS, and if so, a) what scanner are you using, > and b) what, if any, software are you using to record what it scans? Most USB barcode scanners can operate in so called keyboard wedge mode (either implicitly or explicitly via some physical switch). In that case, you'll just see the scanned codes as keyboard input. I did not yet dig into how I can isolate this scanner input, so that it is only read by one specific process (e.g. after identifying the USB device). I think this is a pure Linux-related question, it is unrelated to the scanners (just as if you would attach 2 keyboards). If you have a recipe for that, just let me know ;-). One of the scanners I tried is this cheap scanner from dx.com: http://www.dx.com/p/xyl-901-handheld-usb-wired-laser-barcode-scanner-black-yellow-286474#.WEvbKnUrI_M It just works out-of-the-box when connected to a Linux-system. Start "cat" and you'll see the scanned codes. -- --Jos Vos <j...@xos.nl> --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Mobile: +31 6 26216181 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 install: closest mirror not supported?
Hi, On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 09:28:03AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Yes but .. closest mirror only gets as detailed as per country. Maybe my question was not clear: the problem is that the install (when doing a virt-install with boot.iso) does not choose a mirror at all. It just requires that you *explicitly* specify an install URL and it shows an error for "Installation Source" till you have done so. It works ok if you add (via virt-install's --extra-args) inst.repo and/or use a kickstart file (inst.ks) with an "url" directive. -- --Jos Vos <j...@xos.nl> --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Mobile: +31 6 26216181 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS 7 install: closest mirror not supported?
Hi, Do CentOS 7 installs not automatically use a closest mirror for installing like Fedora does, or is that due to the way I'm starting the install (virt-install)? Background: I'm trying to find the best way to do installs using basic local media (network install, but *without* the need to download the squashfs.img for every install) but without a full local mirror. On Fedora (25), it works fine using a local boot.iso (virt-install -l), but with CentOS 7 you then have to manually enter a repository URL. I also tried a local kernel/pxeboot tree with LiveOS/squashfs.img (the latter similar to Fedora's install.img?) with no result. Cheers, -- --Jos Vos <j...@xos.nl> --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Mobile: +31 6 26216181 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Which is better? Microsoft Exchange 2016 or Linux-based SMTP Servers?
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 03:04:52PM +, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Microsoft Exchange 2016, Domain Controller, and Active Directory are > relatively easy to install and configure. Linux-based SMTP servers are > extremely difficult to install and configure and of course, extremely > time-consuming. These are extremely subjective statements. For me, I would not be able to set up Microsoft servers in less than 10 or maybe even 100 times the time it costs me to set up similar Linux servers. To refer to an old joke, that is in fact very true: "UNIX/Linux is very user-friendly, it's just very selective about who its friends are" :-). -- --Jos Vos --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Mobile: +31 6 26216181 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat
On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 03:54:06PM -0600, Zube wrote: > > Le 28/10/2018 à 22:10, Albert McCann a écrit : > > > > Red Hat would stay as a distinct entity inside IBM. IBM has also > > contributed to Free software, and especially Linux kernel. > > I don't know how bad it is and the implications for CentOS... > > That old war wound started aching again. > > IBM:Redhat :: Oracle:Sun At least IBM is a far more attractive buyer than the evil Oracle, well known for killing OSS companies as a strategy. Also Microsoft has ben mentioned as possible buyer of Red Hat, that would be much worse too. So, let's not be too pessimistic and give IBM a fair chance. IBM certainly does not have a bad track record on open source and as a technology-driven company, at least a much better track record than most if not all other potential buyers. -- --Jos Vos --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Mobile: +31 6 26216181 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024
On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 04:35:40PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > I one of the few (?) people who use "none of the above" (meaning all of the > "modern" desktop managers). I use fvwm in MWM mode and have a Tcl/Tk coded > "menu manager" program. My screen looks almost like a 1980s vintage > VaxStation 3000 running DECWindows. Right now on C6 and using as little of > Gnome2 as it will let me (one panel). File Manage set to /bin/true. No > "start" menu nonsense, no desktop icons either, just a fvwm iconbox for > running programs and a 10 element Workspace switcher. And yes, I use actual > xterms. Well, I use Xfce, but I understand your approach (as someone used to write just an .xsession file for startup etc.). I have to admit some panel stuff is pretty ok (like battery applet, network applet for switching wifi and vpn's etc.). Terminals with tabs (Xfce terminal) are nice to have too: my desktop is mainly 4-8 terminals with each 4+ tabs and a browser ;-). I was happy with the release of GNOME 3 afterwards, because it forced me to leave GNOME completely and switch to something better, Xfce :-). -- --Jos Vos --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Mobile: +31 6 26216181 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Gantt chart software for CentOS 7 ?
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 03:25:04PM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > I'm looking for a Gantt chart software that I can install easily on > CentOS 7. I prefer EPEL - or some other third party repo - packages than > some obscure installation script for home directories. Take a look at taskjuggler (in Fedora and EPEL). -- -- Jos Vos --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Mobile: +31 6 26216181 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Zoom....
On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 05:17:04PM -0400, mark wrote: > I try to run chome, and first, it wants a kde wallet, and I hit > cancel, never set one up... and google can't work. It won't even go > to google. com. > > Anyone? Will it really not work without the damn wallet? Never have seen such a thing. I use Chrome since many years on Fedora Xfce-only systems (no KDE or GNOME installed) without such issues. -- --Jos Vos --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Mobile: +31 6 26216181 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] RHEL changes
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 05:30:33PM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: Like Valeri, I have a fondness for FreeBSD. Regardless, I think Nicolas is correct. I remember reading a post in an old usenet (I think) discussion of mutt vs. pine (before it became alpine) where someone said words to the effect of, People pull up all sorts of technical reasons to justify what is, in the end, an emotional decision. Don't forget "elm" :-) :-)... And to make it even more complex: the outcome of all those half emotional, half technical decisions vary during the time. Projects may (slowly) die or get a huge momentum, licenses change (!), etc. -- -- Jos Vos --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Mobile: +31 6 26216181 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Telegram on CentOS 7
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 10:52:25AM -0500, H wrote: Is anyone running Telegram on CentOS 7? I see that it seems to be available as a snap and also in the getpagespeed repository. I try to avoid snap apps but am not familiar with the latter repository. FWIW: on Fedora I'm using pidgin for all kinds of messaging: with the purple-telegram package installed it also supports Telegram. Fedora includes purple-telegram and it is also in EPEL for CentOS 8, but AFAICS it is unfortunately not available in CentOS 7 EPEL. -- --Jos Vos --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Mobile: +31 6 26216181 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Problem with chromium 89.0.4389.82
On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 12:29:48PM -0400, H wrote: Where can I find the older release, ie 88.0.4324.150 of chromium? It is no longer in EPEL. Look in koji: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=22672 And the particular version you mentioned: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1704038 -- --Jos Vos --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Mobile: +31 6 26216181 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Certificate Authority (CA) in CentOS 7 to create digital certificates
Hi, On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 11:03:14PM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: I am running CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core). Is there a way to configure a Certificate Authority (CA) in CentOS 7 to create digital certificates for servers on LAN or for VPN clients that need SSL Certificates? FWIW: I use the "easy-rsa" package for that (standard in Fedora, for RHEL/CentOS 7/8 it's in the EPEL 7/8 repository). -- -- Jos Vos --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Mobile: +31 6 26216181 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Httpd
On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 11:23:05AM +0300, Gokan Atmaca wrote: I have a very old server. It's running Centos 6.9. (end of life) "mod_ssl" for httpd is not installed. The package I need is "mod_ssl-2.2.15-69.el6.centos.x86_64.rpm". Or I need a library file that I can load manually. Can you help with this? (Website PHP5.4. We can't migrate it for now. Too many old settings. We can't update it either. ) Look at https://vault.centos.org/ and this seems to be the last version in 6.9 updates: https://vault.centos.org/6.9/updates/x86_64/Packages/mod_ssl-2.2.15-60.el6.centos.6.x86_64.rpm -- --Jos Vos --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Mobile: +31 6 26216181 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Roundcubemail
Hi, On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 09:06:11AM -0500, TE Dukes wrote: Could I get the SRPM for CentOS 7 and re-do it for CentOS 8? I really hate installing a non-RPM package. If not a good idea, what is available for webmail in CentOS 8 Stream? I see a build of roundcubemail for EPEL 9 in koji, so maybe you can create an issue in bugzilla and ask for an EPEL 8 version. I did that in the past for some other packages and that often works. -- --Jos Vos --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Mobile: +31 6 26216181 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Ruby on Cent OS 8
On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 09:25:58AM +0300, Benson Muite wrote: Will Ruby on Cent OS 8 be upgraded, the current version 2.5.9 has reached EOL. There are 2.6 and 2.7 versions available in CentOS 8 AppStream: # dnf module list ruby Last metadata expiration check: 0:16:09 ago on Mon 08 Nov 2021 07:46:28 AM CET. CentOS-8 - AppStream Name Stream ProfilesSummary ruby 2.5 [d] common [d] An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language ruby 2.6 common [d] An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language ruby 2.7 common [d] An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language So "dnf module enable ruby:2.7" would enable you to upgrade to 2.7. -- -- Jos Vos --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Mobile: +31 6 26216181 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Centos Stream 9 module list
Hi, When I do "dnf module list --all" on CentOS Stream 8, I also see the stream versions installed by default, e.g. postgresql 10. But on CentOS Stream 9, I only see the newer stream version, like postgresql 15 and nodejs 18 (and not postgresql 13 and nodejs 16). Can anyone explain what's happening here? Thanks, -- -- Jos Vos --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Mobile: +31 6 26216181 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS 9 Stream mirrorlist url's
Hi, I'm trying to port a CentOS 8 Stream kickstart file to CentOS 9 Stream, but I cannot find what repo mirrorlist url's I now have to use. For CentOS 8 Stream I had: repo --name=centos-baseos --mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=8-stream=x86_64=BaseOS repo --name=centos-appstream --mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=8-stream=x86_64=AppStream repo --name=centos-extras --mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=8-stream=x86_64=Extras repo --name=centos-powertools --mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=8-stream=x86_64=PowerTools Just replacing the 8 by 9 does not work, as those url's produce an "Invalid release/repo/arch combination" error. UNfortunately I couldn't find info about this on the CentOS site so far. Thanks in advance, -- -- Jos Vos --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Mobile: +31 6 26216181 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS Stream 9 virt-install via loop-mounted ISO fails
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 09:45:13PM +0100, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: >I've loop-mounted the latest CentOS Stream 9 DVD ISO and try to do >a virt-install (2.0.x for some reason) as non-root user (libvirt >group member) using --location with the mount path, but then I >come across the problem decribed here: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022630 Does the same happen when using the ISO file directly as location argument? Then I get immediately after the "dracut initqueue hook" message the losetup error because I'm not root. -- --Jos Vos --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Mobile: +31 6 26216181 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS Stream 9 virt-install via loop-mounted ISO fails
Hi, I've loop-mounted the latest CentOS Stream 9 DVD ISO and try to do a virt-install (2.0.x for some reason) as non-root user (libvirt group member) using --location with the mount path, but then I come across the problem decribed here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022630 That is, I see on the console "Starting dracut initqueue hook...", then it stalls for a while, and then I get all the timeouts described in the bug report. Any suggestions for a workaround (with virt-install 2.0.x and as non-root user)? Background: Dor some reason I need to use virt-install 2.0.x as non-root to install CentOS Stream 9. The "normal" way, specifying a URL with --location, does not work because it fails with permission denied for losetup. It looks like virt-install 3.2.x does not have this problem anymore. Thanks, -- --Jos Vos --X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Office: +31 20 6938364 --Amsterdam, The Netherlands| Mobile: +31 6 26216181 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
