Firefox profile in NFSv4 directory

2012-06-22 Thread Devin Bougie
Hi, All. We see periodic file system hangs when a firefox profile is stored in an NFSv4 directory. Both client and server are fully updated SL6.2. We reliably see this when running firefox with the profile stored in an NFSv4 file system, and do not see this when the client switches to NFSv3.

Re: opengl on remote SL6 system when local system uses nvidia

2012-05-16 Thread Devin Bougie
Just incase anyone else runs into this issue, here's a link to the bug report where you can find a patch to Mesa that resolves this issue. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820746 Devin

Re: opengl on remote SL6 system when local system uses nvidia

2012-04-10 Thread Devin Bougie
certainly wasn't needed with SL5. It would also be helpful to know if anyone else with a mixed nvidia / non-nvidia environment can reproduce this proble Thanks again, Devin On Apr 6, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Devin Bougie wrote: > Hi, All. We're seeing a problem running opengl on a remote

opengl on remote SL6 system when local system uses nvidia

2012-04-06 Thread Devin Bougie
Hi, All. We're seeing a problem running opengl on a remote SL6 system when the local system uses the proprietary nvidia drivers. This does not seem to be a problem with remote SL5 systems. The problem seems to only be when sitting at a local system with the nvidia drivers (tested with local S

allow members of group to unlock screen

2012-01-03 Thread Devin Bougie
mmendations for achieving this (or suggestions of a different workflow) in SL6 would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Devin -- Devin Bougie Cornell University Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics devin.bou...@cornell.edu

Re: Intel Corporation 82572EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) on scienfic linux 6.1

2011-08-23 Thread Devin Bougie
eral of them in SL5.6 (using the default e1000e driver provided by SL). Devin On Aug 22, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2011/8/22 Devin Bougie : >> Hi Eero, >> >> Have you tried using the e1000e driver that's provided by SL? We haven't >> ha

Re: Intel Corporation 82572EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) on scienfic linux 6.1

2011-08-22 Thread Devin Bougie
Hi Eero, Have you tried using the e1000e driver that's provided by SL? We haven't had any problems using 82572EI cards in SL5.6 with the e1000e driver. I hope this helps, Devin On Aug 22, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > Hi, > > Any ideas how to get Intel Corporation 82572EI Gigabi

MRG Realtime components for SL5

2011-05-04 Thread Devin Bougie
(C). http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/mrg/slc5X/x86_64/RPMS/repoview/ Any quick comments on how other labs are or are considering using MRG Realtime would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Devin -- Devin Bougie Cornell University Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics devin.bou

Re: KVM on SL5.5 randomly pausing guests

2011-04-28 Thread Devin Bougie
Just to follow-up on this posting, the problem was that the filesystem the KVM guests were on was full. Everything worked properly after clearing up a little space. Devin On Apr 22, 2011, at 10:22 AM, James M Pulver wrote: I’ve noticed on one of my servers that KVM is randomly pausing guests.

End Support Date for SL5

2011-03-28 Thread Devin Bougie
t SL5, and are just beginning to evaluate SL6. Many thanks, Devin ------ Devin Bougie Cornell University Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics devin.bou...@cornell.edu

Re: EVO video with nvidia drivers

2011-01-04 Thread Devin Bougie
On Jan 4, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > The module-init-tools version on your system has a bug as detailed here: > http://elrepo.org/tiki/Update > You need to update module-init-tools to the current version which has > the bug fixed. I've now found this updated version in the sl-fastbugs

Re: EVO video with nvidia drivers

2011-01-04 Thread Devin Bougie
On Jan 4, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Devin Bougie mailto:devin.bou...@cornell.edu>> wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, Akemi and Mark. When I try to use the ELRepo packages, kmod-nvidia conflicts with module-init-tools. The module-init-tools vers

Re: EVO video with nvidia drivers

2011-01-04 Thread Devin Bougie
You could try running: package-cleanup --problems package-cleanup --dupes rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest -- On Jan 3, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Devin Bougie wrote: >> And, here is the reply we

Re: EVO video with nvidia drivers

2011-01-03 Thread Devin Bougie
RPMs are messed up. Please use drivers from nvidia web site, until SLC5 will resolve this issue. -- Thanks again, Devin On Jan 3, 2011, at 11:39 AM, Devin Bougie wrote: > Hi, All. We have several SL5 systems using the proprietary nvidia driver > from sl-contrib. We did not have

EVO video with nvidia drivers

2011-01-03 Thread Devin Bougie
Hi, All. We have several SL5 systems using the proprietary nvidia driver from sl-contrib. We did not have any trouble with these systems until we tried to view video in EVO (ViEVO). We have no problem using EVO with the latest 260.19.29 drivers downloaded and installed from nvidia.com. Howev

Re: Using SAMBA to share CUPS printers to Windows 7 pushed via GPP

2010-11-23 Thread Devin Bougie
Hi, All. Thank you for the suggestions. We were able to fix our problem after upgrading from "samba" to "samba3x" and making some configuration changes on both the Linux and Windows side. On Linux, in order for "cupsaddsmb" to work we needed to map the AD user that runs "cupsaddsmb" to root.

Re: I/O delays

2010-10-20 Thread Devin Bougie
Just incase anyone was interested in the resolution to this problem, it appears that the poor drive performance was caused by vibrations from the chassis fans. After replacing about every component in this system (hard drive, motherboard, SATA cable, memory, and CPU's) to no avail, we discovere

Re: I/O delays

2010-09-09 Thread Devin Bougie
Hi Stijn, Thank you very much for your reply. On Sep 9, 2010, at 2:13 AM, Stijn De Weirdt wrote: > so there is only 1 disk in your system according to dmesg (a 500GB SATA > disk) and dd reports speeds > 1GB/s. you are either the lucky owner of a > wonder SATA disk or you are measuring linux cachi

Re: I/O delays

2010-09-08 Thread Devin Bougie
disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. On Sep 8, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 04:42:43PM -0400, Devin Bougie wrote: >> Hi, All. We are seeing periodic I/O delays on a new large compute node ... >

Re: I/O delays

2010-09-08 Thread Devin Bougie
Hi Steve, On Sep 8, 2010, at 5:03 PM, Steven Timm wrote: > Devin--what is the output of the command "dmesg" > Are there any kernel traces or bugs in that output? Unfortunately I don't see anything unusual in syslog or the output of dmesg. Thanks, Devin dmesg.log Description: dmesg.log

Re: Note - Firefox 3.6 comming today for SL5

2010-06-25 Thread Devin Bougie
Hi David, On Jun 25, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Kinzel, David wrote: >> In our case, home directories are also on NFS shares. The >> problem described above happened when ~/.mozilla/firefox was a >> link to a folder in a different NFS share. Sorry for the confusion. > Out of curiosity, why are people d

Re: Note - Firefox 3.6 comming today for SL5

2010-06-25 Thread Devin Bougie
Hi Chris, On Jun 25, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > On 25 Jun 2010, at 6:05pm, Devin Bougie wrote: >> Just incase it helps, we saw this same problem with the Lazarus extension >> for one of our users. In this case, the problem appears to have been that >> ~/.mozil

Re: Note - Firefox 3.6 comming today for SL5

2010-06-25 Thread Devin Bougie
h Lazarus works fine when ~/.mozilla/firefox is a link to an NFS share, but Firefox 3.6 with Lazarus does not. Devin ------ Devin Bougie Cornell University Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics devin.bou...@cornell.edu

Re: KVM troubles on SL5.4

2010-02-22 Thread Devin Bougie
well for us. The qcow format was slow (and reportedly buggy). Our images are stored on an ext3 filesystem using 15K SAS drives in software RAID5. My host system has all latest kernels and patches. Our host system is also running a fully updated x86_64 SL5.4. I hope this helps, Devin -- D

lam-devel and lam-libs after upgrade from SL4.5 to SL4.8

2010-01-27 Thread Devin Bougie
Hi, All. For what it's worth, our systems appear to have two versions of lam-devel and lam-libs after upgrading from SL4.5 to SL4.8: -- [r...@lnx100 ~]# rpm -qi lam-devel Name: lam-develRelocations: (not relocatable) Version : 7.1.2

Infortrend EonStor iSCSI storage systems

2010-01-26 Thread Devin Bougie
rs to consider. Many thanks, Devin -- Devin Bougie Cornell University Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics devin.bou...@cornell.edu<mailto:devin.bou...@cornell.edu>

unstable XDMCP sessions

2009-08-28 Thread Devin Bougie
using tshark. We have also started a thread in the HP IT Resource Forum: http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1362175 Any suggestions for fixing this problem would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Devin -- Devin Bougie Laboratory for Elementary

apr-devel requires gcc 3.4.5 on SL4

2009-08-18 Thread Devin Bougie
ule Plugin Finished Kernel Module Plugin Error: Missing Dependency: gcc = 3.4.5 is needed by package apr-devel -- It looks like this has been reported in the past, but I'm not sure if there was ever any resolution. Sincerely, Devin -- Devin Bougie Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics Cornell University da...@cornell.edu

quota on ext3 with SL4

2009-07-23 Thread Devin Bougie
is running. As such, Scientific Linux does not plan to fix this issue in Scientific Linux 4, as the modifications required would be too invasive. Note that this issue is not present in Scientific Linux 5. --- Many thanks, Devin -- Devin Bougie Laboratory for Elementary-Particle

Re: samba on SL5

2009-02-04 Thread Devin Bougie
Hi Stephen, On Feb 4, 2009, at 3:36 AM, Stephen J. Gowdy wrote: Wouldn't it be best to run SAMBA on the machines that actually have the disks? Our home disk server is currently running Solaris 10. When we moved the home disks from an Alpha running Tru64 to this new Sun box, our Solaris A

Re: samba on SL5

2009-02-03 Thread Devin Bougie
On Feb 3, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Devin Bougie wrote: Hi, All. We are using samba on an SL5.2 server to share filesystems with our Windows systems. Everything works properly when sharing a filesystem that is local to the samba server. When

samba on SL5

2009-02-03 Thread Devin Bougie
encountered this? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Devin -- Devin Bougie Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics da...@cornell.edu

kernel panic after receiving openafs-1.4.7-68

2008-11-25 Thread Devin Bougie
Hi, All. Just incase anyone else runs into this, we had a handful of SL4.5 machines kernel panic after receiving the openafs-1.4.7-68 update. Here are the relevant entries in syslog, and please let me know if there is any more information I can provide. Many thanks, Devin -- Nov 25

Re: aklog on login (was Re: openssh-server in sl-contrib has Kerberos enabled?)

2008-09-04 Thread Devin Bougie
On Aug 26, 2008, at 6:13 PM, Devin Bougie wrote: On Aug 22, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Troy Dawson wrote: Anyway ... the real problem is that annoying message about doing aklog when you log in isn't it? I remember another lab having that problem and we fixed it for them ... I think. It might

aklog on login (was Re: openssh-server in sl-contrib has Kerberos enabled?)

2008-08-26 Thread Devin Bougie
Hello, All. On Aug 22, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Troy Dawson wrote: ... Anyway ... the real problem is that annoying message about doing aklog when you log in isn't it? I remember another lab having that problem and we fixed it for them ... I think. It might have been changing the aklog stuff in /

Re: SL5 kickstart boot CD

2007-05-22 Thread Devin Bougie
On May 18, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Connie Sieh wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2007, Devin Bougie wrote: The .buildstamp(in initrd) and .discinfo (in top level dir) have to "agree" So you probably need to get the .discinfo file from your "install tree" and put it on your new iso image.

Re: SL5 kickstart boot CD

2007-05-18 Thread Devin Bougie
Hi Connie, On May 18, 2007, at 12:40 PM, Connie Sieh wrote: I assume you are installing from a "mirror" of the ftp.scientificlinux.org site. Yes, we created a local mirror by following your "Mirroring Scientific Linux" documentation. We see the same error regardless of whether we use our

SL5 kickstart boot CD

2007-05-18 Thread Devin Bougie
get the same error regardless of which SL mirror we use. However, we can install from our local mirror by using "linux askmethod" and the normal SL5 installation CD. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Devin -- Devin Bougie Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NFS attribute cache problem in SL4

2007-05-03 Thread Devin Bougie
Hi All, Just to let you know, the 2.6.9-55 kernels released with Update 5 do fix this bug. Regards, Devin

Re: NFS attribute cache problem in SL4

2007-04-16 Thread Devin Bougie
On Apr 12, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Devin Bougie wrote: here's a bugzilla report with TUV: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=236308 This report now contains test kernels that appear to fix this bug. They should be included in 4.5 which will be released "real soon now." Devin

Re: NFS attribute cache problem in SL4

2007-04-13 Thread Devin Bougie
Many thanks for the reply, Miles. On Apr 12, 2007, at 11:16 PM, Miles O'Neal wrote: We've run into serious NFS problems with SL3 with our NetApp filer and NFS. We solved the problem (or at least greatly reduced it) with options like these: foo:/vol/vol1/bar on /export/bar type nfs (rw,vers=3

NFS attribute cache problem in SL4

2007-04-12 Thread Devin Bougie
also posted a message to the Subversion developers mailing list, and here's a bugzilla report with TUV: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=236308 Finally, here are others with the same problem: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4875 Any suggestions or workaround would be greatly appreciated. Devin -- Devin Bougie Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED]