Re: [CentOS] yumex for CentOS 8.3

2021-05-09 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Sun, 2021-05-09 at 08:36 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On May 8, 2021, at 21:57, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS < > centos@centos.org> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2021-05-08 at 13:53 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > > > > On Sat, 08 May 2021 14:46:58 -050

Re: [CentOS] yumex for CentOS 8.3

2021-05-08 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Sat, 2021-05-08 at 13:53 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 08 May 2021 14:46:58 -0500 > Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: > > > CentOS 8.3, > ... > > yumex-3.0.15-1.el7.nux.noarch > > Centos 8.3 is not el7. Frank, Well rats. It seems dnfdragora didn'

[CentOS] yumex for CentOS 8.3

2021-05-08 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
If yumex is no longer available, please advise. A few minutes ago when 'dnfdragora' failed for CentOS 8.3, I tried: # yumex --root bash: yumex: command not found... Install package 'yumex' to provide command 'yumex'? [N/y] y * Waiting in queue... * Loading list of packages Failed to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-dvd-2009.iso is too big for DVD blanks

2021-03-17 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Wed, 2021-03-17 at 20:41 +0100, André Verwijs via CentOS wrote: > > I blueray disk (25GB)?? works great :) André, I'm sure it would, but I thought I made it clear that DL or BluRay have never been options in this case. I'm disappointed that the DVD iso was released without any release notes

[CentOS] Samba config question

2021-03-15 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
After setting up /etc/samba/smb.conf and running "testparm" in CentOS 7.9.2011, I have noticed that the list of parameters echoed back for the [global] section do not match those in the smb.conf file. Is this normal? [global] in /etc/samba/smb.conf: unix charset = UTF-8 dos charset = CP932

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-dvd-2009.iso is too big for DVD blanks

2021-03-14 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Sun, 2021-03-14 at 21:31 -0400, John Plemons wrote: > Sounds like you need to use a dual layer DVD disc, it is double the > capacity. John, Wrong answer. The server's optical drive doesn't support double-layer disks. The CentOS developers made a mistake on their DVD iso, and they need to fix

[CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-dvd-2009.iso is too big for DVD blanks

2021-03-14 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
I need help from someone experienced with the CentOS bug tracking system. I gotta say it is one of the most complicated and imposing front ends I've ever seen. Could anyone familiar with it please file a bug on my behalf? Particulars: "CentOS 7.9.2009 DVD iso image too large" ISO image:

Re: [CentOS] Samba setup

2021-01-31 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Sun, 2021-01-31 at 08:26 +0100, José María Terry Jiménez wrote: > > Do you know guest access to shares is disabled in windows 10? > > https://docs.microsoft.com/troubleshoot/windows-server/networking/guest-access-in-smb2-is-disabled-by-default The error message this link says I should be

Re: [CentOS] Samba setup

2021-01-29 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Fri, 2021-01-29 at 06:32 -0600, Chris Weisiger wrote: > > I’m not exactly sure if this may be the same issue I experienced but > Google smb1 and windows10 . Apparently Microsoft removed support for > Ann version 1 from windows 10 after one of the release updates > >

Re: [CentOS] Samba setup

2021-01-28 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
ng AD/FreeIPA/LDAP. --Robert Savage     Fairview Heights, IL > > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 7:57, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS > > wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-01-19 at 17:18 +0100, Götz Reinicke wrote: > > > > > > Anything in the samba logs? May be SELinux/Fi

Re: [CentOS] Samba setup

2021-01-27 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Tue, 2021-01-19 at 17:18 +0100, Götz Reinicke wrote: > > Anything in the samba logs? May be SELinux/Firewall issues? Götz, Unfortunately, no. The nmbd log verifies that the fileserver's samba service is the local master browser for WORKGROUP on both eth0 and virbr0. [2021/01/17

[CentOS] mcelog service error flagged in Cockpit

2021-01-19 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
Whenever I log into Cockpit, it flags mcelog as a service failure-to- start failure. systemctl confirms this. # systemctl status mcelog * mcelog.service - Machine Check Exception Logging Daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mcelog.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active:

Re: [CentOS] Samba setup

2021-01-19 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Tue, 2021-01-19 at 17:18 +0100, Götz Reinicke wrote: > Hi, > > > Am 18.01.2021 um 20:08 schrieb Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS > > : > > > > I'm > > > following  > https://www.linuxbabe.com/redhat/set-up-samba-server-on-centos-8-rhel-8-for-file-sh

[CentOS] Samba setup

2021-01-18 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
I'm following  https://www.linuxbabe.com/redhat/set-up-samba-server-on-centos-8-rhel-8-for-file-sharing  to set up Samba 4.12.3-12 on my Storinator fileserver running CentOS 8.3. I am trying to share out /tank/Windows/ as a Samba share: # ls -al /tank total 61 drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root 7 Dec 26

[CentOS] Have lost access to ZFS pools with latest CentOS 8 kernels

2020-12-10 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
With the release of the vmlinuz-4.18.0-240.x and vmlinuz- 4.18.0.193.19.x kernels, ZoL cannot connect with a ZFS pool. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe the last CentOS 8 kernel to work with ZFS 0.8.5 was 4.18.0.6.x. Obviously CentOS does not support ZFS, so this means the ZoL folks must find and

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-08 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 11:58 -0500, Satish Patel wrote: > Folks, > > What is going on here > https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/ > > CentOS 8's future is not looking bright. Recently deployed CentOS8 on > my production workload and now hearing this. What do other folks >

Re: [CentOS] /dev/mapper/cl-root filesystem corrupted?

2020-12-06 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Mon, 2020-12-07 at 15:43 +1100, Anthony K wrote: > On 7/12/20 12:20 pm, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: > > A client's (truly ancient) file server running CentOS 7 suddenly > > started misbehaving, and I believe the ext4 filesystem on > > /dev/mapper/cl-root may b

[CentOS] /dev/mapper/cl-root filesystem corrupted?

2020-12-06 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
A client's (truly ancient) file server running CentOS 7 suddenly started misbehaving, and I believe the ext4 filesystem on /dev/mapper/cl-root may be corrupted. A reboot fails with a file system check and drops me into maintenance mode. I tried booting from a live C7 DVD and as root running

Re: [CentOS] Update from 7 to 8

2020-11-23 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Mon, 2020-11-23 at 10:44 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: > I stumbled on this today. > https://www.hostwinds.com/guide/upgrading-from-centos-7-to-8/ > > I understand the best is always a re-install But are these steps > the > next best thing to update from 7 to 8 ? > Jerry, There is a formally

[CentOS] ZFS fails with latest C8 kernel

2020-08-10 Thread Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS
As if last weekend's UEFI debacle wasn't bad enough, it now seems the latest C8 kernel (4.18.0-193.14.2) is incompatible with the current ZFSOnLinux packages (0.8.4-1). When booted to the latest kernel, ZFS is inaccessible on my C8 storage server. When I back off to the prior kernel

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-02 Thread Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS
-Original Message- From: Stephen John Smoogen Reply-To: CentOS mailing list To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 10:57:49 -0400 On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 10:20, david wrote: > > I agree it is a lot of

Re: [CentOS] Ailing MATE desktop [SOLVED]

2020-05-15 Thread Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 16:12 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 05:24:13AM -0500, Robert G (Doc) Savage via > CentOS wrote: > > > > If you look at the listing attached to my last message, you'll > > > > see > > > > three different gro

Re: [CentOS] Ailing MATE desktop

2020-05-14 Thread Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 08:18 +0200, Simon Matter wrote: > > On Wed, 2020-05-06 at 10:26 -0500, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS > > wrote: > > > On Tue, 2020-05-05 at 19:25 -0500, Robert G (Doc) Savage via > > > CentOS > > > wrote: > > > > I

Re: [CentOS] Ailing MATE desktop

2020-05-13 Thread Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Wed, 2020-05-06 at 10:26 -0500, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: > On Tue, 2020-05-05 at 19:25 -0500, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS > wrote: > > I'm about ready to run "dnf erase *mate*" and try re-installing > > MATE > > from scratch from the GNOME3

Re: [CentOS] Ailing MATE desktop

2020-05-06 Thread Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Tue, 2020-05-05 at 19:25 -0500, Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: > > I'm about ready to run "dnf erase *mate*" and try re-installing MATE > from scratch from the GNOME3 desktop. Is that possible without > ripping > the heart out of C8 by deleting other critical

Re: [CentOS] Ailing MATE desktop

2020-05-05 Thread Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Tue, 2020-05-05 at 10:32 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 2020 05:30:26 -0400 > Eddie O'Connor wrote: > > > Are there .conf files for the desktop?what about > > logs?something's > > got to be amiss somewhereand Linux always complains when it > > is.in > > logs. Just

[CentOS] Ailing MATE desktop

2020-05-04 Thread Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS
I need some C8 troubleshooting help with MATE. I'm building a ZFS storage server with a SuperMicro H11SSL motherboard, EPYC 7232 CPU, and 32 GB ECC SDRAM. I installed CentOS 8.1.1911 from the iso as soon as it was released. I'm using the on-board ASPEED VGA video. I installed MATE v1.22 from

[CentOS] C8 network install

2020-02-23 Thread Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS
I'm building a new storage server. I was unable to use the CentOS-8- x86_64-1905-dvd1.iso image written to a 256GB thumb drive. It kept failing the integrity check. I had to use the much smaller CentOS-8- x86_64-1905-boot.iso image and do a network install from a mirror site. That's a first for

Re: [CentOS] Renaming virtio devices names on CentOS 8 VM guest

2020-02-21 Thread Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 13:03 +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:57 AM Chris Card > wrote: > > > I have built a CentOS 8 base image from a kickstart, for use in > > OpenStack. > > This image boots fine but the problem I have is that I can't stop > > udev > > from renaming

[CentOS] Need help modding src.rpms to generate complete SAMBA AD DC binary RPMs for CentOS 8

2019-11-08 Thread Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS
When RHEL8 and CentOS8 were released, I was looking forward to setting up SAMBA as a AD DC server for CentOS8. But when I lifed the hood on the samba.spec file I found the option to build the samba-dc binary rpm has been disabled for rhel family builds. Apparently Red Hat does not want to support

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 Mate?

2019-10-17 Thread Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Thu, 2019-10-17 at 10:59 -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 09:08:28AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > On 9/24/19 2:41 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > > > Without wanting to sound too pushy, I'm wondering if there is any > > > update on the status of Mate now that Centos 8 has been

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 Mate?

2019-10-11 Thread Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Wed, 2019-09-25 at 15:25 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > > As of now, I have a working MATE DM on CentOS 8. It's a hack though, > I > used Fedora repositories. But that means compiling MATE in EPEL > should > be straightforward, just recompile Fedora 28 packages. > > > I used Fedora 28

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 Mate?

2019-10-05 Thread Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Wed, 2019-09-25 at 15:25 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > On 9/24/19 10:55 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 15:41, Frank Cox > > wrote: > > > Without wanting to sound too pushy, I'm wondering if there is any > > > update on the status of Mate now that Centos 8 has

Re: [CentOS] Differences between CentOS 7.x and CentOS 8.x OS

2019-10-05 Thread Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Sat, 2019-10-05 at 10:47 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > On 10/5/19 3:14 AM, David G. Miller wrote: > > On 10/4/19 6:59 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 04:52:28PM -0600, David G. Miller wrote: > > > > On 10/3/19 1:37 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > > > > > On 10/3/19

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 Mate?

2019-09-30 Thread Robert G (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Thu, 2019-09-26 at 08:02 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > > I managed to install F28 MATE packages to CentOS 8, so all is needed > is > to recompile those in EPEL. I too am a solid fan of MATE. F28 had v1.16. F30 has the latest v1.22. Is there any reason I should not try the latest?