Re: kernel-2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.x86_64 & Xen DomUs.

2011-06-13 Thread Stephan Wiesand
Hi Steven, On Jun 14, 2011, at 0:04, Steven Haigh wrote: > In the latest batch of updates, I installed kernel-2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.x86_64 > via a 'yum -y update'. > > It seemed all of my 5 Xen DomUs running SL6 failed to boot upon rebooting. It > looks like all of these systems failed at roughly

kernel-2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.x86_64 & Xen DomUs.

2011-06-13 Thread Steven Haigh
Hi all, In the latest batch of updates, I installed kernel-2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.x86_64 via a 'yum -y update'. It seemed all of my 5 Xen DomUs running SL6 failed to boot upon rebooting. It looks like all of these systems failed at roughly where switchroot is called. Interestingly, I could rec

Re: Question about mirroring SL6

2011-06-13 Thread Troy Dawson
On 06/13/2011 03:46 PM, Jon Peatfield wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, J. Ryan Earl wrote: Hello, I'm trying to setup a mirror for Scientific Linux 6 and newer (ie 6.0 and all updates). I'm going off of https://www.scientificlinux.org/download/mirroring/mirror.rsync but it appears to be outdated a

Installing SL6 on VMware player

2011-06-13 Thread Sam Trenholme
Has anyone managed to install Scientific Linux 6 (SL6) on VMware player? I tried installing it today and was unable to get it to work: * SL6 can not see the SCSI virtual disk * While the IDE disk works, SL6 either freezes on install or update. One time, I got a kernel message about a disk I/O er

Re: Question about mirroring SL6

2011-06-13 Thread Jon Peatfield
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, J. Ryan Earl wrote: Hello, I'm trying to setup a mirror for Scientific Linux 6 and newer (ie 6.0 and all updates). I'm going off of https://www.scientificlinux.org/download/mirroring/mirror.rsync but it appears to be outdated and invalid for SL6. There is no "60" director

Question about mirroring SL6

2011-06-13 Thread J. Ryan Earl
Hello, I'm trying to setup a mirror for Scientific Linux 6 and newer (ie 6.0 and all updates). I'm going off of https://www.scientificlinux.org/download/mirroring/mirror.rsync but it appears to be outdated and invalid for SL6. There is no "60" directory. Which directories should be mirrored for

Re: Graphical boot, nvidia, compiz

2011-06-13 Thread Phil Perry
On 13/06/11 17:52, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Misc Things wrote: Hello, Finally got to installing the sl6.its wonderful to see its booting much faster then previous version (centos5.6). Here is the situation and a question : I have an Nvidia video card. by default it us

Re: Graphical boot, nvidia, compiz

2011-06-13 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Misc Things wrote: > Hello, > Finally got to installing the sl6.its wonderful to see its booting > much faster then previous version (centos5.6). > > Here is the situation and a question : > I have an Nvidia video card. by default it uses the nouveau driver. > Unfo

TESTING - kernel update for SL4

2011-06-13 Thread Troy Dawson
Hello, Traditionally the first kernel for a minor update is full of bugs so we generally don't release it in regular security area. Traditionally The Upstream Vendor (TUV) releases a new kernel to fix those bugs fairly quickly. The 2.6.9-100 kernel for SL4 seems to break the tradition. It's

Re: chances of PPC64 build?

2011-06-13 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 09:44:58AM -0500, Troy Dawson wrote: > >Suppose I'm assembling a list of OS candidates to run on a very large > >PPC64 based supercomputer- what are the odds of seeing a SL6 PPC64 version? > > As things stand right now, the odds are very slim that we will make > a ppc64 ver

TESTING - jdk (java) update for SL4 and SL5

2011-06-13 Thread Troy Dawson
Hello, There is a new security update for jdk (the java from oracle). We have put this update into the testing area, so that if people want to install the update by hand they can. This update will go out on Thursday June 16, 2011 Note: jdk-1.6.0_26-fcs.x86_64.rpm is not signed, and we cannot sig

Re: Java 6u26

2011-06-13 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Troy Dawson wrote: On 06/09/2011 11:13 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: Sorry to be a pain, but should I expect Java 6u26 (Sun/Oracle) updates for java-1.6.0-sun-compat and jdk or do I now need to download direct from Oracle ? These would replace java-1.6.0-sun-compat1.6.0

Graphical boot, nvidia, compiz

2011-06-13 Thread Misc Things
Hello, Finally got to installing the sl6.its wonderful to see its booting much faster then previous version (centos5.6). Here is the situation and a question : I have an Nvidia video card. by default it uses the nouveau driver. Unfortunately, I was not able to run compiz. I followed the instructio

Re: value of RAM reported not correct in SLC 5.6

2011-06-13 Thread Troy Dawson
On 06/08/2011 06:49 PM, Aldo F. Saavedra wrote: Hi, I'm having the following problem with an invariant of SL56, the cern flavour. I thought perhaps that someone may have come across this with SL56 Here in Sydney, we installed slc56 x86_64 on a Dell Power Edge R510 with 48Gb of RAM. The problem

Re: value of RAM reported not correct in SLC 5.6

2011-06-13 Thread Troy Dawson
On 06/11/2011 10:53 AM, Alain Péan wrote: Le 10/06/2011 17:03, Stijn De Weirdt a écrit : we are running SL5.6 x86_64 (2.6.18-238.9.1) on a 96GB machine without issues. Hi all, It's a little bit off topic, but I thought that SLC was the CERN variant of Scientific Linux. And SL 5.6 is not yet

Re: chances of PPC64 build?

2011-06-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 17:43, Jeremy Enos wrote: > Hi there- > Suppose I'm assembling a list of OS candidates to run on a very large PPC64 > based supercomputer- what are the odds of seeing a SL6 PPC64 version? > thx- PPC64 seems to be a hard platform to support it would seem. Red Hat has support

Re: chances of PPC64 build?

2011-06-13 Thread Troy Dawson
On 06/09/2011 04:43 PM, Jeremy Enos wrote: Hi there- Suppose I'm assembling a list of OS candidates to run on a very large PPC64 based supercomputer- what are the odds of seeing a SL6 PPC64 version? thx- Jeremy Enos As things stand right now, the odds are very slim that we will make a p

Re: Java 6u26

2011-06-13 Thread Troy Dawson
On 06/09/2011 11:13 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: Sorry to be a pain, but should I expect Java 6u26 (Sun/Oracle) updates for java-1.6.0-sun-compat and jdk or do I now need to download direct from Oracle ? These would replace java-1.6.0-sun-compat1.6.0.24-3.sl5.jpp.i586.rpm jdk1.6.0_24-fcs.i58

Re: Montana Linux interview with Troy Dawson

2011-06-13 Thread Troy Dawson
On 06/08/2011 06:04 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Gerard Lally wrote: Hi everyone just thought I'd mention that Montana Linux have just published an extended and interesting interview with Troy Dawson. Hope you don't mind my linking to it Troy. www.montanalinux.org --